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Alex Andreou
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Let me offer two small pearls of hope in this clusterfuck:

1. "Genius electoral strategists" like Cummings always end up overconfident and overreaching. Remember Lynton Crosby? He was an "unbeatable genius" right up until Goldsmith's mayoral campaign and May losing her majority.
2. Cummings has only ever proved himself in referenda, where choice is binary. That is the only context in which his half-arsed game-theory strategies work. In situations with multiple moving parts, where he can lose voters to multiple directions, he is proving at best mediocre.
3. Incidentally, the reason Johnson is refusing to back down from the word "surrender", despite overwhelming pressure, and why it's been fully polled and tested might be, because they're already decided on the election campaign tagline "NO SURRENDER". So, he must protect it.
Not to toot my own horn, but...
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I say this with real affection for the BBC and the thousands who do amazing work there. I do not subscribe to conspiracies; I just think a bit of laziness has crept into weekend reporting

BUT

This is how the top story is being reported today. It is a big, big problem. [thread]
2. Objectively, the factual rump of the story is that the PM has been referred for investigation. It is NOT some anonymous unsubstantiated Trumpian response from Downing St. I see this happen far too much now: The No.10 narrative is adopted in the *framing* of the story itself.
3. Nothing that follows can fix this. No amount of reportage and nuanced discussion can dislodge the fact that the entire hour's bulletin opens with the words "A politically motivated attack". It is the equivalent of the big capital letters on a front page. It colours everything.
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Interesting how “Losers’ Consent” is recently Brexiters’ new favourite chewing gum flavour. “Losers’ Consent” in political theory relies on two absolute preconditions: a) the vote is seen as legitimate; and b) the “victors” accept any mandate is limited by the Rule of Law. #bbcqt
So, yeah, @MarkReckless. If you really wonder why “Losers’ Consent” is not forthcoming, maybe a certain level of introspection is also needed, into how the “victors” have tried to overreach at every possible level. #bbcqt
What “Losers’ Consent” DOES NOT mean, is: sure, you won 52-48, so I acquiesce to you doing whatever you want in perpetuity. #bbcqt
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Alex Andreou
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On SkyNews, Brendan O'Neill: "Something very odd happened today, which calls into question who is the supreme authority in this country. It no longer looks like it's the gov't."

"You don't know the first thing", is usually a figure of speech. With O'Neill, it's quite literal.
You'd find "who is the supreme authority" in a Parliamentary Democracy in the first para of the Wiki page, Brendan. It would be the back cover synopsis of Parliamentary Democracy for Dummies.The first page of a UK Constitution for Toddlers pop-up book. IT'S IN THE FUCKING NAME.
Why do @SkyNews and @BBCNews give a platform to these Spiked Online morons? I mean, seriously? If, on the biggest cocking news day in living memory, all you can rustle up is Brendan O'CockingNeill, just DON'T DO THE COCKING SEGMENT.
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