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Cosmoiselle
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Slightly painful viewing last night 👇 ⚽
New from us on our Substack this morning ✍️

Lessons to be learned for the Lionesses after a 2-1 defeat yesterday evening to the Copa América Femenina champions Brazil.

Check out our thoughts ⬇️
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England’s defensive fragilities showed again after defeat against Brazil
A 2-1 defeat to Brazil at the Etihad Stadium leaves lessons to be learned for Sarina Wiegman and the Lionesses.
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If Reform UK are happy to have an overt racist on their benches then what does that tell you about the party?

Pochin should have had the whip removed 24 hours ago.

Or are Reform condoning it by their silence?

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform MP Sarah Pochin's comments about adverts were 'racist', Wes Streeting says
Sarah Pochin apologises for saying "it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people".
www.bbc.com
It's like they can't report on it unless someone else has made a point about it 🤷‍♂️
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
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And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.
A reminder that this is the same Rishi Sunak who when he was Prime Minister raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years
Making his way slowly southwards, is he? 😉
Is there a picture? I can't find one 😔
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That's racism. Plain and simple.

No other word for it.

It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Maybe the 'good for the soul' part mitigates the 'not so great for the longevity of the body' aspect 🙂
Although, now I'm confused as to the difference between nitrites and nitrates (probably very similar 💀)
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Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.

Turn out was just 16%
BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader
Just looking at this rogues' gallery of attendees on George Osborne's invite is enough to make one's blood boil, let alone if you're watching it all being flagrantly played out in front of your stolen national treasures 🤷‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Greece accuses British Museum of ‘provocative indifference’ over pink ball
Event seated guests near Parthenon marbles, which Greece wants returned, and raised £2.5m for museum
www.theguardian.com
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What I don’t understand is why the British press don’t hang Brexit around Nigel Farage’s neck like a stockade.

It was the single worst act of economic self harm in modern British history.

Why doesn’t the British media force him to own that?
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Oh look... that's two weeks in a row GB News has done that, with similar results :)
That's not strictly true though. And a lot of Plaid support apparently came as a response to them standing up to Reform ideology.
bsky.app/profile/casm...
While socio-cultural issues and socio-economic issues are connected, it is not so clear how. BUT, while far-right voters are often less educated, they are not so much economically excluded. They also tend to be less concerned with economic inequality. 2/2
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The current Labour Party's contempt *for people who actually voted Labour* does not bode well here.
This was such a problem in 2010 - an arrogant assumption that *obviously* the Lib Dems would bail them out, despite the disdain the party was shown. There does need to be some wooing.
Like, if Labour want LD and Green voters to like them and be willing to vote tactically for them, that has to be an active process, and a worryingly large number of Labour people's entitlement around such voters hardly helps that.
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It's far too early to be writing off Reform based on potential for tactical voting, but it's hugely uncertain what the electorate's mood will be in 2029. Labour could fight back to ~30% or it could be polling worse than now. Very obviously the state of the economy and public services matters a lot.
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Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?
🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
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