Oi Kiko, get Lee to give us an NHS update.
Oi Kiko, get Lee to give us an NHS update.
It's all fucked.
If only Boris had become PM instead of SkeleWitch, it would (genuinely) have an extra £100 million a week. Although I'm not sure money will actually solve much.
More classic Melvyn Bragg And That thinking. If I like something, it's because it's right; if you like something, it's because it's populist. If I don't like something, I'm standing up for my principles; if you don't like something, you're being divisive.
Also, all this talk about 'plans' is absolutely stupid. No one has ever had a 'plan' about anything. You can't 'plan' a country. You steer it.
The best (and obviously most under-reported) bit of that endlessly quotable Dominic Cummings blog was the extent to which collective gayness powered the remain vote.
Generally the better educated are more prone to irrational political opinions and political hysteria than the worse educated far from power. Why? In the field of political opinion they are more driven by fashion, a gang mentality, and the desire to pose about moral and political questions all of which exacerbate cognitive biases, encourage groupthink, and reduce accuracy. Those on average incomes are less likely to express political views to send signals; political views are much less important for signalling to one’s immediate in-group when you are on 20k a year. The former tend to see such questions in more general and abstract terms, and are more insulated from immediate worries about money. The latter tend to see such questions in more concrete and specific terms and ask ‘how does this affect me?’. The former live amid the emotional waves that ripple around powerful and tightly linked self-reinforcing networks. These waves rarely permeate the barrier around insiders and touch others.
It's the gift that keeps on giving, and it's almost worth having it sabotaged just to see what sort of SEETHE Nigel Farage can mobilise.
I'm not sure you can really argue that leave voters were asking 'how will this affect me?' in terms of money.
Thus is quite good on why remainers and leavers don't really get each other, I think: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad....-politics.html
I would like to have been there when he came to that startling realisation. I bet it was prompted by somebody turning down a glass of wine.
'I spent forty-five minutes picking this out. The man in the shop said...'
*sulks on it all weekend*
'Consequentialist' is an even worse way of declaring yourself the superior being than 'progressive'.
Short version here-
https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/st...40154545680384
I saw that earlier, and it's the David Brentesque 'Well' at 5:22 that sets it apart.
Tristram Hunt quitting to become director of the V&A. How perfect is that. Stoke by-election incoming.
Remember that brief period where all of our cultural institutions being in Labour hands was seen as a big deal (until the coalition came into being and started taking it up the arse)? Hopefully once the Brexit Revolution gets underway, and we start catapulting foreigners out, UKIP activists will break into museums and universities and batter remain supporters to death.
Prominent Remainers having to barricade themselves into crap London museums on £200,000 a year is too good to be true, really.
It's easy to see how Team Jezza gets paranoid when ITV News makes out that they have lost a future Prime Minister. Who ever thought that other than himself? The story should be how a middling academic with ten minutes of wholly-ineffectual political experience is qualified to run one of the biggest museums in the world.
For quite a long time I thought Tristram Hunt was a made up satirical figure and short of a high ranking role at the bbc this seems to fit that imagined narrative quite well.
You're thinking of Tristram Shandy, which what I do every time I hear his name.
I don't think Mrs Brown's Boys is as bad as people say it is, so I must be a true Briton.
It's alright. But then I could just be making myself like it because that's what Clement Attlee would have done.
Stop lying to yourselves.
Leaving the single market, leaving the customs union and leaving the ECJ
We are donning it so hard.
Brexit means Brexit. In other news...
And bear in mind that there is still the £350 million a week to come.
I wish there was someone in the Labour Party who was similarly-minded to Corbyn but had some charisma and a sense of humour. Is that really too much to ask?
John McDonnell?
Or Diane Abbott.
The communist sense of humour died with Tito.
Hammond has an interview in the German press today where he's tacitly threatening to turn us into a European Singapore to ensure our competitiveness if the EU seek to limit access. Barnier has also acknowledged privately that the Eurozone will require some sort of the deal with the City to ensure the stability of the financial markets.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Leaving the single market, leaving the customs union and leaving the ECJ
We are donning it so hard.
Heavy pro-Brexit votes in these by-elections would be timely to continue the generally positive narrative.
Bit rich complaining about his incompetence when you voted for him. It's not as if this wasn't always going to be what happened.
He's still better than any of the other useless twats who stood.
I imagine long term it'll involve them morphing into a shit version of the French Socialist Party, which is itself fucking shit and at the point of death. Well done, Miliband.
It's quite interesting reading the reaction to the pre-released quotes of May's speech tomorrow - it's as if they haven't paid any attention whatever to what she's said over the last few months.
This is also an interesting poll, somewhat torpedoing the myth that the people are incredibly worked up about 'inequality' and the 'gap between rich and poor'. They're not, because they're more interested in the absolute as opposed to the relative. Another win for the Corbyn camp, there.
That seems an extremely narrow range of questions. Something like 'Trying to raise the income of the poorest at the expense of the richest' is closer to the purported consensus?
It's an either/or question, they're not trying to nail down the nuances of what people think, but seeing which they prefer of two polarised options.
Also 'at the expense of the richest' is a fudge.
Can't believe people chose a 'Would you like a massive pay increase' over 'Would you like a smaller pay increase'.
I'm flabbergasted. The gap between a Yes/No vote in some poll (Scottish ref IIRC) was about 500 quid a year. THEY'RE ALL COMPLETE BOLLOCKS.
I would understand it as a question over which metric is the appropriate one to focus on i.e. whether you care about the relative gap or the absolute level of the bottom X%. The latter is clearly the only sensible metric upon which to base policy. The former, to paraphrase Thatcher, suggests you'd accept the poor being poorer if it meant the rich were less rich.
@Raoul.
If we all just keep working at making the rich richer it'll trickle down eventually.
More people might have jobs if you encouraged business and innovation, which wouldn't be a bad starting point.
Encourage business and innovationDo they send you the PR booklet for the week? Do you realise how devoid of meaning that phrase sounds?
It's like Steve Hilton is in the building.
edit: Unless you'd like to give me a few Tory policies that ENCOURAGE INNOVATION, of course.
It's still true (for the most part), and hopefully Tax Haven Brexit goes some way towards proving it.
How?
edit: Specifically this conservative government encouraging business and innovation?
Only as meaningless as all the tat Ed Miliband wrote on his policy obelisk.
That obelisk has a lot to answer for actually.
The remain tears on twitter are pretty spectacular tonight. The scenes when Pret a Manger starts closing outlets.
Oh, right. I didn't mean to defend the current bunch of communists (or the last bunch of communists), who I don't suppose really did all that much for it. But 'trickle down economics' is a meme based on nothing, and innovation is clearly more likely to emerge with proper incentives.
And that guy is rightfully thought of as a punchline. How is the high bar of Government fucking Ed Miliband?
I've no problem whatsoever with people earning silly money, but when they're paying their staff peanuts while creaming in it then they're taking the fucking piss and we really shouldn't be standing for it as a civilised society.
Cant wait for you to hear GS' answer to this. It's an absolute cracker.
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