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5 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"I just went through the whole thing"

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Clark County Means Business
US press corps not covering itself in glory here.
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Chaminda Jayanetti Profile picture
6 Nov
Trump apologists 🤝 Jacobin left

'Biden's victory is a disastrous failure for Biden'
It's just so fucking transparent
I dont want to talk too much about this cos I'm very much not american.

But a lot of the reaction is through the frame of pre-election polls that turned out to be off.

For the Dems to win the Senate, in the states that were being run, they'd have needed a big poll lead.
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4 Nov
Nothing says ‘the left’ quite like the left treating a very possible victory like an abject defeat
ngl I spent all night watching CNN and frankly that seems to have left me in a much better mood than everyone who spent the night doomscrolling through this pit of mutual despair
Obv if Trump does win, that is an unmitigated disaster
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29 Oct
The sheer shock of actions actually having consequences for members of the political class.
There is, I suppose, a question of the precise grounds on which he has been suspended, and whether they can form grounds for a more permanent severance.

After all, Starmer would look ridiculous if he had to back down. Having alienated the left, he’d just alienate everyone else.
As @jamesjohnson252 says, this will define Starmer in the eyes of the public, mostly favourably (‘strong’, ‘decisive’).

You’d have to think there’ll be a left wing breakaway party. But the history of the Socialist Labour Party and Respect bodes very badly for it.
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Chaminda Jayanetti Profile picture
28 Oct
"Labour is making ground where it needs to. The Tories are losing ground where they can't afford to."

I looked under the bonnet of the polling data, and found growing doubts about the government among Tory voters. politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
What you see in headline polling data is the views of those saying they would vote for a particular party.

But to get a fuller picture of public opinion, look at the figures for people who don't know who they'd vote for.

That's what I did.

politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
This is the overall picture over the course of this year, from the Opinium polling series - YouGov and other pollsters have similar.

The big Tory lead opens up further and then slams shut post-Cummingsgate

You know this already.

politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
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7 Jun
I've been thinking through how a Corbyn government would have handled the coronavirus pandemic, and whether he would have done a better job of it than Boris Johnson.

TLDR: Almost certainly yes - but with caveats /1
First, it's important to consider the circumstances of a Corbyn government after GE19 - almost certainly a minority government, with some loose arrangement with the SNP and/or LDs, and with a great deal of wariness from many Labour MPs.

That imposes certain constraints /2
In addition, much of the right wing press would remain completely hostile, and other sections of the media would remain suspicious. There would be outright communists likely occupying positions of power as advisors. This would not be quietly accepted b opponents /3
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25 May
The government’s problem so far in its handling of Cummings - apart from the obvious refusal to sack him - is they still think their Brexit ‘culture war’ strategy is operative. It isn’t. It hasn’t been at any stage in this pandemic. This, is, not, America.
First, this isn’t Brexit, which has happened anyway. Brexit itself has been detoxified somewhat - hence many Leavers say they’d accept an extension. Leavers’ trust in Boris has kept his ratings afloat during corona BUT that bond of trust isn’t as strong as Trump and the Trumpists
The American culture wars are founded heavily on religious fundamentalism and a view of ‘freedom’ that is deep rooted and frankly bonkers (gun nuts). Abortion, gay rights, seen as murder and hellfire. And Fox News making the Sun look like the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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