Jonn Elledge

UK polling here genuinely quite promising

Pretty much every political scientist who could do maths said "not much of one" long before election day. Matt G picked a pretty terrible seat for Reform. But naturally, Goodwin is making that everyone's fault but his own.

The most seductive thing about a social media platform is its ability to create an immersive world that mimics but is different from the ‘actual’ world and in so doing teach its participants to act as if that created world is indeed the real world.

telling that these guys used to *know* it was not a good gauge of public opinion, right up until the point ot started agreeing with their priors

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

Plausible! suspect local factors the big thing though

Non-protest vote.

Family voting

...anyone?

dumb joke, ignore x

...is this not the burner account? huh

mine is a name actually it is just stupidly spelt thank you

okay but "Markwayne" isn't a name though

delightfully this resulted in my all time best monthly income from this thing. thank you, Matt Goodwin! thank you!!

Mine went as Schrodinger's Cat once. At least I think they did.

If your political strategy is to alienate your entire voter base and pave the way for a hard-right government, sure

The Eleventh Plague This week: I am begging my government to just once try to be normal. Also: a new (old) way of dividing Europe, thanks to the Knights of St John; and Charley says here’s some more public information.

oh I've actually written about him too jonn.substack.com/p/the-eleven...

yes

No, it is the children who are wrong This week: Keir Starmer has decided that he blames the voters. Also: some golden age anti-car propaganda; and some new maps of British living standards.

Halas & Batchelor, the British animation studio which produced the "Charley" public information films for the Attlee government, won a nomination at the 1964 Oscars for a short satire of US car culture called Automania 2000. It's absolutely delightful

jonn.substack.com/i/189868301/...

"Spotted at last week’s Sirplus sample sale: Michael Gove. He bought jumpers (but did stop to consider the posh boxers) and was left slightly red-faced when the cashier asked him for his name, and then “how to spell Gove”."

from today's popbitch, a lesson in how to politely remove any dignity from any of these asshats you might encounter. love this. imagine the joy of "and how do you spell Cameron?" and still getting it wrong. no managers can tell you off, is the joy of it

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

almost certainly true

this is useful thank you

nm, got it

bsky.app/profile/robf...

I don't think that was it, but thank you!

You guys like splaining, help a guy out - there was some polling showing that Britons are not liberal on immigration but are more concerned about fairness than the rhetoric allows for, and didn't just want to screw over those who'd been here for years already. Does anyone remember it?

There is a pervasive attitude that the only voters that matter are people who have aged out of supporting a centre left party, but who may have at one point in their lives voted Labour. Voters who are still part of our coalition, who have heard they aren't wanted by us, are instead to be patronised.

I have on other occasions been a bouncer (same logic). Oh, and in our teens, two other friends, @manueky.bsky.social and I were meant to be going to a party as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but due to a catastrophic communications breakdown ended up going as Death, Famine, Del Boy and Rodney.

I have been to more than one party, Frankie

No this was when I was an undergrad, my friend Beccy wanted to throw a party in our set, I did not. I self-plagiarised at your house many, many years later.