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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 8m

A self defeating one. If the small boats stop, there is no one to return, so no one will be admitted via the safe route, so the boats have to start up again. It’s not a policy to stop the boats. It’s a perpetual motion machine.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 19m

Nah. What’s clear is that TERFS dgaf about women. If they did, they would focus on the things that actually harm women, not something that is responsible for statistically 0% of the harm they suffer. As for the environment, QT failed to get to that questions. That’s not on Zack.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 21m

Why on EARTH would he want to coach a right wing politician who opposes the majority of what he believes in? If Starmer wants to look and learn, that is a different thing.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 3h

This would work for a lot of professions: “But Chat GPT said”.

Or “Government run IT project”.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 5h

As well as the other explanations others have provided, he addresses it head on here on video. bsky.app/profile/pods...

Pod Save the UK @podsavetheuk.crooked.com · 14d

You know the old saying about journalists who work for the Sun?

If you missed our interview with Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social, catch up with the latest PSUK now. Link in bio.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #News #GreenParty

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed. Unfortunately, this government, like so many of its predecessors, knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If you can't put a robust cash figure on value, it doesn't exist in their mind.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 6h

And is it poor teaching, or is it good teaching of a slightly less able, or less expensively school-educated, cohort. You need to measure the value added, not just the absolute finishing point. If you start from the premise that every 18 year old has identical potential, that’s just stupid.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 6h

There will be a core of voters who won’t care and will vote Reform whatever. Around them there will be voters who could be tempted, but for whom being a paid shill for Putin would be a red line. The more we can discourage the “Reform-curious” and isolate the core to a pariah minority the better.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

Beyond being a below average note taker, a somewhat above average but sometimes lying search engine, and a time sink for doing mildly amusing but pointless stuff, no one has shown me anything useful it can do for me.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

Here’s how you know the hype around AI is catastrophically overblown. The sales pitch is, “everyone’s using AI, you’ll get left behind if you don’t, but it is down to you to work out what you can use it FOR.” If it was real, the pitch would be “you have this problem, here is how AI can solve it.”

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

I think the correct response to that would be to take the redundancy payout, and then when it all goes horribly wrong six weeks later, offer to fix it on a much higher paid consultancy contract.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. He is worse. Because he is starting from where the Tories left us and going even further in the wrong direction.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry to hear that. Have you been listening to Starmer speeches again? Hope you are feeling better soon.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 7h

You would have thought that a political journalist would understand that there is more than one place from which Labour could increase its vote, and that current Reform voters is the absolute least plausible.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 11h

In the first year after taking office, the new governing party generally tends to do pretty well in the local elections. There is a dampening effect because usually they have done well against the previous incumbent gov when the seats were last fought. Lab's results this year were unusually bad.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 11h

It's a changed dynamic in the current political environment which doesn't feature in Ford's analysis. It's too early to know whether this is a blip or a trend, but the fact that the LDs haven't managed to increase vote share in the polls at all, and the Greens seem to be doing so, feels significant.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 11h

The Lib Dems would be better than what we currently have, but are still wedded to the same failed economic model. If they were actually going to get any real traction, they wouldn't now be slipping below the Greens in some polls.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 12h

Reed used to be shadow Justice minister a few years ago. At the time I thought he was just a vacuous and ignorant Tory scumbag, and nothing I have seen since has changed my mind. Seems I was not wrong.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 12h

This is another classic example of setting up conflict between different groups of people in need so that they don't unite against the common enemy.

Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 12h

There are 2 problems with the death penalty. First, we will never have a consensus on who deserves it and who doesn't. Secondly, it is 100% guaranteed we will execute some innocent people. That's why although I agree that some people like Watkins deserve to die, I strongly oppose the death penalty.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, part of me wants to respond to that question with, "Well, thank God we live in such a perfect world that THAT is one of the most important issues for you to raise with me."

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 1d

That was one of the things that really impressed me about Zack there. Many people would have just accepted the interview was over and been upset they didn't get a chance to respond. Zack insisted on responding, and making his point very clearly.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 1d

I don't believe in the death penalty, but there are some people I don't feel that bothered when someone else chooses to exact it. I suspect his killer was already in for life and therefore there is effectively no punishment for it.

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Purple Electric @purpleelectric.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. There is no good faith reason for this to be so important to them, so it is clearly a pretended belief for bad faith reasons.

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