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Doctrinaire of Chances.
Interesting in anything and everything. Tend to tweet about policy and politics.
Internationalism, pluralism, socialism.
Pinning this comment to state categorically that I did not know what the term "otter" meant for gay men when I first made this username. It doesn't mean that!
Just a cool animal I liked so I chose it.
I am neither gay, nor a man!
Since there is nothing going on in British politics I went to Germany to watch England play and wrote this to justify it: A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
@GraphCrimes
This has been edited, I think. Certainly a false chart, support (or opposition) to independence has never been 70-30 on any YouGov poll I've ever seen
@bokoen1
Could be a fun idea to actually have a "scripted" video for April Fools' one year and have everyone act it out really badly, constantly messing up their lines and shit
@ahabstanaccount
Hundreds of MIT professors currently studying how to transplant centuries of cultural heritage, history, and importance across the atlantic
@cablauw
@dkulchar
I'd disagree. For a criminal lawyer, they are defending people who have potentially not committed a crime or, if they have, may not deserve the law's sentence. It can be good.
Defending these companies is inherently bad, even if they have acted within the law.
Just imo, though
Update :)
After two applications, two offers and three sets of exams, I am going to be doing the degree I want at the university I've wanted to go to for most of my life.
Feeling very pleased with myself!
@HopelessSpastic
i was aware. I assumed that would make it a big rallying point for indian hindu fascists but apparently they actually actively deny the existence of the aryan race
@DeadFishCapital
Lib dem occupies a similar mental space even if they don't actually resemble the FDP that much. You couldn't start a liberal centre right party in the UK, people would say it's too similar to the lib dems
in just 2 working days, Keir Starmer has:
Scrapped the Rwanda Scheme
Begun solving the prisons crisis
Scrapped the ban on onshore wind
Deleted the Conservative party twitter account
@notkavi
I mean don't a lot of black separatist movements stem from the left? Not sure it's accurate to describe them as Far Right.
Malcolm X and his legacy is the first example that springs to mind.
I think you're correct on the first three tho.
Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Afghanistan because I grew up with a drug-addicted, psychologically abusive grandfather in constant state of distress and anxiety.
Scenting the charred turtle blood at the door every evening was my own "Afghanistan" for
almost 20 years.
i dont think people should find mario funny. my grandfather jumped on turtles for a living. he would come home at night, boots smelling of mushrooms and turtle blood. most nights he would be nine feet tall, tripping balls. sometimes breathed fire. my dad has nightmares.
It's also generational.
The Tories were (just about) saved this time by people who will still bring up the winter of discontent and the trade unions in the 70s. These things stick hurt your brand for a long time.
I am so tired of telling people that *it's just one poll.*
StatsForLefties continues their frankly disingenuous framing of leads changing in a single pollster, amplified by WT (who I quite like!)
Left twitter need to accept that Starmer's Labour is, actually, doing quite well!
RT🔒
its crazy how i was born at the exact right time to have a normal level of exposure to the internet, and how everyone older than me is past it and everyone younger than me is fucked
I think this is the most shameless twisting of statistics I've seen from this account.
This is a poll distributed by a link on twitter with self-selected respondents.
About as reliable as measuring public opinion by the people who sign petitions to parliament.
@TLDRNewsUK
Please do not use the Guido spreadsheet, it has a bunch of anonymous backings and is already a pretty dodgy source.
The spreadsheet linked here is more reliable and only counts public endorsements:
I'm using this spreadsheet to track nominations rather than the Guido one because it's got more useful info and Guido is padding Johnson's numbers by adding loads of unnamed whips and 22 execs
@TrueSlazac
Alcohol should be sold only by a public monopoly that increases the buying limit from 21-25
Voting should be legal & mandatory for everyone with a middle-school diploma
Age of consent at ~19 with Romeo & Juliet seems to work fine, but marriage should be barred until ~21 as well
For Tony Benn, it was an opportunity for Labour to shift to the left
‘I think the quality of the debate will be raised because the Tory Party will be driven to the right and there will be a real choice offered to the electorate’
this spreadsheet is so totally insane lol. Some of the stuff labelled as Zionist or both-sidesing is completely reasonable and there are some great examples of classic twitter "please label all bad things with a big sign saying this is bad."
People aren’t frozen in amber ideologically, and it’s pretty clear that since the start of the campaign reform has gained votes at the expense of both parties.
@thomasforth
Yeah it does get re-used, the panic about water-use from data centres is completely unfounded - it's a pretty small amount relatively and it gets re-used.
A Tory MP WhatsApps me five ways to fix his party's electoral woes:
1. Stop the boats
2. Clamp down on legal migration
3. Ditch policies like Conversion therapy ban that will cause public splits in party
4. Help SMEs to grow with targeted tax cuts
5. Reduce tax burden on families
Really insane clip this. Wes Streeting left speechless by how insanely divisive the framing is.
Imagine doing this with other minority groups:
"By self-identification, Jews make up 0.5% of Britons and Christians almost half. Which is more important?"
Awful stuff.
For a quick reminder of where the debate over trans rights is at the moment and how media contributes to the most toxic framing possible, here is Sky's Matt Barbet with a 10-second summary. 😡
@DmitryOpines
Question 11 is insane:
Q: I do not want to live in Russia
A: You are simply afraid. Russia is a country of great opportunities, it has a great history.
Notes: Notify the military police or other law enforcement agencies.
"average man thinks about Yugoslavia every 6 seconds" factoid actualy just statistical error. average man never thinks about it. Yugoslavia
@_night_brain__
, who lives in cave & thinks about it over 10,000 times a millisecond, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
No it wouldn't lmao. Maybe 5% of 17-year old boys think the NHS functioning is feminine, this is a terrible nonsensical argument completely out of touch with the realities of young people today.
From the perspective of a 17 year old boy that’s how it would be interpreted, yes.
If you are going to try and cancel me, and misrepresent my words, at least quote tweet me so I can respond!
Woman goes to doctor. Says she's lonely, dating seems harsh, she feels all alone in a world where what lies ahead is uncertain.
Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. This great guy is in town. Kind, smart, handsome, he doesn't like drama."
Woman bursts into tears: "But doctor
🌹Exclusive: Starmer's
@UKLabour
has drafted its most comprehensive policy package yet as part of its National Policy Forum.
The blueprint will "inform" party proposals ahead of an election, though hurdles remain to reach the manifesto. Full summary 👇
I think this is the position of a lot of people not very engaged with the debate. They don't know Rowling's views in detail. I've had (trans-positive) family members who read her original (relatively moderate) essay and haven't engaged further make a v v similar point.
@bengrossbg
It's about reducing the likelihood of recidivism, and I think the state has the right to take reasonable (i.e. talking to people, not like mind torture) measures to try and do that, whilst fulfilling the other purposes of imprisonment as deterrent and as protection for society.
This is just a lie, based on old data (2015) of less than 200 actual Londoners that keeps rearing its head.
A much larger, much more recent subsample found most regions pretty equal, with London if anything a bit more positive on attitudes to same sex marriage and relations.
London is probably the most socially regressive part of the United Kingdom. It’s statistically the most homophobic and transphobic, by quite a margin. Londoners are the most likely to support draconian measures for LGBT people, and they’re the least likely to accept an LGBT child
@JamesDAustin
They turn into super-councillor-social-workers and campaigners on local issues (which politicians concerned with national governance shouldn't be.)
There is 0 way to communicate this effectively to people, especially when MPs are incentivised to go against it.
This is both:
a) not "🚨NEW", it's from September
and
b) misleading. Charitable status is different from VAT exemption which they're still going ahead with. As he says in the clip, they don't need to remove the prior to remove the latter. Arguably they never pledged to do the 1st
🚨 NEW: Labour has dumped its pledge to withdraw charitable status from private schools.
Confirming that the pledge had been scrapped, Starmer told LBC today that "I understand why parents work hard to send their children to private schools".
@jwhandley17
I think I've tunnel-visioned but I'm convinced a non-trivial amount of this is due to the popularity of Stats for Lefties among US leftists here.
Is Reform manifesto because is truly insane.
> 50bn savings across public services by cutting waste.
> 30-40bn by stopping QT and interest on QE reserves
> They get 10bn by assuming their tax cuts lead to +1.5% GDP growth.
> 20% tax relief on private healthcare and education
@metakuna
Honestly I disagree. 99% of graphs that are shown with a truncated y-axis are not fit for public consumption - humans are really bad at figuring this out. Even if for you or I it's fine, people in general aren't good at looking at graphs
Reading
@Samfr
's seat previews and the average Tory candidate has been an MP for 25 years, a minister for just 2, cumulatively, and has been reprimanded for inappropriate behaviour towards his staff. Average Labour candidate is a councillor, social campaigner, and charity CEO.
@PopulismUpdates
Do we know who funded this group?
Language feels off, seems like something you'd try distribute if your name rhymed with John The Mantis
A little girl sings a "communist song" for a TV talent show in Kerala, in the background Brahmins are being portrayed as Evil overlords beating up lower caste women. This is supposed to be a light hearted family show, yet feels more like creepy North Korean propaganda
Incredibly funny to see hundreds of people attempting to explain something that defies logic and stumbling into various heresies as established by councils centuries ago.
Council control in (most) major English cities since 1950.
I'd like to expand it to all ex-County Boroughs, but only have the ward-level data, which isn't easy to fully extrapolate composition and control from.
Ah yes, the British state has definitely been trending towards extreme generosity to disabled people and people living in social housing, I'm always saying that.
A take on this that isn’t just “benefits r bad” is that there is a disturbing trend of the British state being very generous with anyone in its official systems (disability, social housing, social care) but psychopathically negligent to those left out(rent squeezed, working poor)
I think if A-Level history students were asked to study these periods snd taught appropriately, they'd be perfectly capable of answering these questions tbh. Some of them are not dissimilar from the essay questions I answered for 6th form.
Had to read this tweet about three times before I realised the reason I didn't understand it was that I had assumed shadow ministers referred to Labour MPs 😭😭
@bengrossbg
It doesn't have to be moral education, it is more accurately described as legal education - persuading and helping the criminal to avoid crime in the future, according to democratically decided laws.
This is old data and less than 200 actual Londoners.
A much larger, much more recent subsample found most regions pretty equal, with London if anything a bit more positive on attitudes to same sex marriage and relations.
A 2015 YouGov poll found that nearly twice as many Londonders believed homosexuality to be "morally wrong" compared to the rest of the UK (29% compared to 15-17%), making London by some margin the most homophobic part of the country