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This is all pretty unfortunate from People's Vote and Gina Miller. Soon we're going to need a tactical voting site to decide which tactical voting site to vote for. Perhaps they should concentrate more on campaigning and less on scooping up your data.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
If you're interested in what actual independent polling experts have to say about the Best for Britain tactical voting tool, I'd take a look at this.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I have no links with @BestForBritain or its directors or donors: I have not worked with them, I am not aware they have made any donation in money or kind to @GoodLawProject or to me personally, and I don't see them socially.)
The passive aggressive our "recommendations are based 'purely on the data'" is classic Gina. Here's what she was saying to her would be donors during the prorogation case (which of course before we got to the Supreme Court we won and she lost).
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Probably just me, but the BBC's scrutiny of the Government during the general election campaign feels better than its scrutiny of Government thinking on Brexit. The BBC seems still to be able to do scrutiny when it wants to. /1
If this is right, it does raise questions about how different the world might now look had the BBC had not taken the decision in early 2017 that: "The duty we broadcasters had to “broadly balance” the views of the two sides is at an end." (radiotimes.com/news/2017-04-0…). /2
If - as is my strong impression - the world would now look very different had the BBC properly scrutinised Brexit, it raises a series of really important questions about the BBC going forward. /3
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"Tens of thousands of women are reluctant to pursue their alleged attackers when faced with invasive disclosure demands, a lower likelihood of securing a conviction and lengthy delays in seeing their case brought to court."
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Those who have raised the need for reform of the criminal justice system - most notably @VeraBaird but me and others too - to address this profound and widespread scandal have been subject to furious (often personal) criticism by high profile barristers tweeting on criminal law.
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How the Tories are snuffing out the NHS in seven charts. THREAD.
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Two. Targets for cancer patients also collapsing.
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UK media: and of course we've not seen any centrist parties emerge and have any sizeable influence in this country

Scotland: um

UK media: this is in fact the first centrist party ever to have existed

Scotland: wait

UK media: we have nothing to compare it to

Scotland:
The UK's second largest party is a centrist party.

It has 35 seats in Westminster and 62 seats in the Scottish parliament.

It has over 125,000 members.

The success of the SNP is uh, perhaps relevant to discussions of centrism, no?

That is, if you actually *mean* centrism.
Because the SNP is ACTUALLY centrist.

Not neoliberal.
Not Blairite.
Not Tory in all but name.

And I have my criticisms of the SNP because I'm a leftwing voter.

But that also proves that they're centrist tbh.

To not mention the SNP at all in this media storm is ridiculous.
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Went to vote today in the advance polls for #KingTownship today. Hadn't received my registration card in the mail but I went anyhow because #democracy.

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