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John Oxley

@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk

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Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck. The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me. Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · Mar 9

And just think, you can read me being right about everything for less than a central London pint a month..

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10m

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 57m

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12m

Guy who's only read GK Chesterton: Getting a lot of GK Chesterton vibes from this.

Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1h

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1h

Yeah, anecdotally loads of the flats in our building are let via council related guaranteed rent schemes which will be below market maximising value but save the landlord a lot of hassle

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 4h

ICYMI: @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk and I talk about the art of knife-fighting in local associations, why the Tories don’t seem to care about the middle class anymore, and how they might take on Reform

linktr.ee/strategyaaron

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Sorry, Cretaceous.

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

You know what gets people active and socialising?

National Service.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Nandos forced to serve bottomless booze by government fiat

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Part of the problem with a lot of discussion of booze policy is it conflated the social problem of people scrapping in the street with the health problem of excessive drinking, which mostly happened at home.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 1d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

"Get Big-Lad-Binned for Britain".

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly: the vibes of moderation and harm reduction are bad.

The government is entirely right to be trying to shift young people's vibes to hedonism and communal fun.

Better vibes for a less boring nation

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 1d

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Learned today that the last stage of the Pleistocene era before the extinction of the dinosaurs is named the Maastrichtian. The Tories should have known.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

I think I need to call 111, mine was foaming with much bl- **gunshot**

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

I suspect it made them a lot more responsible for who they chose and took on, rather than just seeing who sank and who swam.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Yeah, it moved the bottleneck in a way that made things far better for those who made it through, but creates a lot of losers.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

**Taps sign**

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Me, in 1522:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

And in that sphere you get a lot of "health warnings" about the odds of success (1/5ish, iirc) but far less on your *personal* odds

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

I did my bar course at Kaplan when they set up with the express aim of being a hot house and selecting people they thought had an evens or better shot at pupillage. The concept worked but obviously not commercially as it closed after three or four cohorts.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

There is both a social aversion and economic incentives that work massively against telling people "Your other credentials are (probably) not good enough".

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

What if we pay pensioners to round up the migrants?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Had great fun doing this - despite that deeply unfortunate screen capture!

Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 3d

New ep! I talk to @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk about how to save the Conservative Party

linktr.ee/strategyaaron

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Yeah, this has been my "most viable route" for a while now.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Think an underpriced 2029 scenario is "ungovernable mess".

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3d

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

The look on their faces when the NHS access gets put on the British bill of rights will be *priceless*

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

If someone is LOTO you are one recession away from them becoming PM and, well, time to take a big sip of coffee and look at the global economic risks...

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

Regardless of whether you like him this is a silly argument, as a party leader always has a decent chance of becoming Prime Minister and/or deeply shaping the culture of the country

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

**taps mic**

"So, where do you sit?"

"The Rod Hull Courts of Justice."

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