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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 5h

Since Covid most pubs are empty round here. Can't see how this will help one bit.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 9h

You have stated the online safety act doesn't work and the UK is somehow rubbish. Your evidence being a pixelated TikTok video, but report the content to TikTok. The major change for this act is the blocking of adult web sites, which is a big change and is largely effective.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 11h

This is just bollocks Gyles.

The UK online safety act works - there are some minor tweaks around VPNs to look at but age verification is a thing. You are conflating that with the issue of social media regulation. What action has the EU taken over TikTok or X, they have had far longer than the UK.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 11h

Head of Ofcom should have been fired the second Labour came in. But the fundamental issue is Lisa Nandy is useless. She could fix this but is bone idle.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 11h

That is the EUs fault for not regulating social media nothing to do with UK age verification. The UK can't move first.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 12h

Legislating for social media like TikTok and X is different and the EU is far more culpable on doing nothing about this than the UK. They all the legislation and just refuse to enforce it despite being a trade superpower. If they moved others would.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 12h

People say this stuff, but it is mostly wrong. VPNs are the work around but most reputable ones you have to pay for which is age verification one step removed and government could just legislate to require all free VPN providers (nobody should ever use such a thing) have to provide age verification.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 15h

It brilliantly illustrated your point. But Thatchers Tories were also pretty racist (although nothing like as racist as Jenrick) so this a hugely misleading advert.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 18h

If you are going to do it then it has to be now. But I see no realistic way of it happening unless all parties agree.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 19h

To win elections in all those seats they are the opposition to the Tory Party. Opinion polls hide very significant geographical splits.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 19h

This is because the Tory Party is the opposition in most areas the Lib Dems compete. In a given seat they ruthlessly squeeze Labour as the third party but they still need to beat the Tories and they can't do that unless they can shift some of their vote.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Masterful set of statements, can't argue with any of them.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Surely the only problem she should have had answering the question was picking a word to describe him that wouldn't get her banned from pre-watershed TV permanently

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

The reality is tactical voting is key. Those polls don't reflect constituency votes, if the anti reform tactical vote stacks up they could lose everywhere, but if they can cannibalise more of the Tory vote than Labour/Lib/Green get from their bloc they could win everywhere. It is not predictable.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Drives me mad as well, I think the media and social media are mostly responsible. You have snake oil salesmen on the right and left promising ludicrous things and instead of the media just laughing at them they report it as though it was serious. Also way too many racists are tolerated.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

That was not controversial, it was a very mild mannered and considered statement.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

I think that is very harsh. A bigger issue is how you enjoy Pratchett while having a personality that opposes the basic goodness of all his characters.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

The nudge stuff was ethically unacceptable. I come back to the undeniable basic point. If we had voted for Chaos with Ed Miliband in 2015 we would all be 20% richer and a shed load less racist. Also loads less people would have died from COVID.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Pin it, enhanced spell check working well.

Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Insert angry goose meme here. In fact you could limit to every Tory and Reform policy announcement.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

I do not understand why Badenoch didn't sack him and withdraw the whip. He is coming for her anyway and she could save the Tory Party by ditching him. Farage wouldn't tolerate him in Reform.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't a bigger issue a majority of 1 gives absolute power in the UK?

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point, the argument FPTP is highly problematic if polling stays as is valid. If you go for say the AMS version of PR (probably the closest match to UK) will it help? Probably if we have that sort of freakish result, but we probably won't. You will get further fragmentation, Ref/Con/Nazi govt?

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Ipsos. Opinion poll Sept 1981

Con 28

Lab 42

Lib 11

Other 17

How did Michael Foot do in the subsequent GE ?

Big events can happen, and almost certainly will before 2029.

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Chris Gallon @chrisgallon.bsky.social · 1d

The UK media clutches it's pearls over donkey fields but happily ignores or justifies behaviour from the right that is either corrupt or in this case straight up fascism. Same dynamic with Trump. Keep pointing it out Ian, although you give Jenrick too much credit he knows it is rubbish.

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