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Pete Marchetto

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1m

Fine. You think most of the electorate is that stupid.

I do not.

Neither does Corbyn.

Neither does Polanski.

They're already talking about working together.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4m

I agree.

But here we are.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 5m

... think for one moment that people that stupid exist in significant numbers?

No.

I think the impact of vote-splitting with them BOTH on the ballot paper would be far, far worse.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 5m

No. Enough.

If the Greens and YP formed an electoral alliance would there be some people so stupid in their Corbyn hangup that they wouldn't vote for them if that were the option?

Yes.

Would there equally be some people on the YP side who would be so stupid as to not vote Green?

Yes.

Do I...

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 15m

With the Green Party currently polling at around 11%, an additional 17% could prove quite useful.

Look, bugger this. Most people, including both Polanski and Corbyn, can see the sense in two parties fighting on pretty much the same territory forming an alliance.

You either get that or you don't.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 29m

... Palestinians?' for the reasons stated.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 29m

Did he conflate them?

Don't get me wrong, I sincerely hope there's similar legislation going through when it comes to Islamophobia and any other form of hateful discrimination, but taken in isolation, I really don't think 'Let's stop antisemitism' should be followed up with 'What about the...

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

What I'm saying is it's invidious to say 'Therefore, Corbyn.' It says very little.

You may as well draw a conclusion about someone from the fact they're holding a losing lottery ticket instead of a winning one.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

To be fair, they need to ban both.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

No. The only circumstance under which we would leave NATO would be if there were a replacement organisation. Probably European based. It would hardly be a radical move to leave NATO if France, Germany, and everyone else left it as well. It would then be idiotic to stay in.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

How do you think Starmer would have fared against Johnson in 2019?

Do you really believe Corbyn would have lost to Sunak in 2024?

This is such a lame argument. Elections are very idiosyncratic. They're not like pictures of apples in a children's book teaching them how to count.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

What was nutty about his policy?
www.ft.com/content/d29b...

Economists and academics back Labour spending plans

163 signatories to letter say party ‘deserves to form the next government’

www.ft.com

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... him having found yet another way to wreck the country.

I don't know what's wrong with the bloke. He's either quite mad, or he's getting big promises when it comes to having a second-class ticket on the gravy train in exchange for cooperation now and political retirement in 2029.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

The one thing I've complimented Starmer for was his handling of Trump as we navigate away from the American sphere.

Only it's looking increasingly as if he's getting us deeper in.

What I'd taken as Starmer showing himself a brilliant player in the international arena now starts to look like...

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

I don't get why they're not already jumping ship in their droves. I'd have expected the LibDems to have picked up a few extra MPs by now.

They know the membership is going to pick another nutjob even if they get shot of Badenoch.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... to the Anglo Saxons. He was a bit upset when I pointed out to him his own surname came from the Normans, so perhaps he should get himself back to France.

Some of these people really are dummies.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

I've had one of these dorks call me out for having an Italian surname.

That makes me not British, apparently. (I can count from one to ten in Italian, but beyond that my heritage sees me pretty limited were I to be deported to my supposed homeland).

The poor sap insisted his ancestry went back...

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

Badenochery?

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

... was, they just obsess over the man.

They're the useful idiots of the gutter press.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if they realise how MAGA, Brexit, Farage they sound? It's the left-wing version of 'I have no idea what the policy is or whether it's good for me, this is my vibe'.

I find those who give Corbyn a pass are interested in policy. Those who don't probably don't even know what his policy...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

We're back to the gutter press demonising the left with random words that have no real meaning being strung together. God knows how they made an article out of whatever that headline is supposed to be saying.

I guess that's a skill in itself.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

Well, she's no great loss. These 2019 antiCorbyn demonology revivalists are a bit of a bore.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

... nonsense is a kind of diffuse grumbling and sniping that doesn't have much strength behind it.

Polanski and whoever the leader of YP would be, including Corbyn, have the sense to work well together, that's already been made clear.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

I think you'll find most people do policy.

There are those still stuck in 2019 for sure, but the main thing that did for Corbyn then was the fake antisemitism slander, and that no longer sticks. It's notable in its near absence in the 2019 revival.

These days most of the anticorbyn demonology...