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2 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It’s beyond hilarious that the press are compelling the government to disown a report that is essentially ten years of Times, Mail, Sun, Guardian and Telegraph columns with footnotes, because they were annoyed it was issued in a manner that took the piss just that bit too much.
What’s in it that you wouldn’t see every week in the Times under the byline of one of their horrible Phillipses? Nothing. It’s their government that they installed, parroting their politics and their language, in a way that’s offended them. Awesome to see.
The hacks: We must never give in to the race hustlers. Migration has changed Britain forever, coddling migrants is anti-patriotic treason. Multiculturalism has failed and its crimes are a shocking indictment of liberalism. The government must act now
Also the hacks: Not like that
This is the perfect outcome of course: The Tories get their brain-deranging headlines and the people who wrote them get to feel like they’ve triumphed over the government and the system works. Meanwhile, every day’s news makes the public even angrier and more ignorant.

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3 Apr
Dave and the editorial writer consider the problem and conclude that things will surely improve once the pandemic ends and the Conservative Party’s terrible malfeasance becomes clear, and, well maybe, but you expect the same old shite then as well, don’t you. ImageImage
Just you wait, once the pandemic is over we’ll stopping getting this drivel at roaring volume all day every day and start focusing on real problems. Any day now. Image
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2 Apr
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Helpful to remember here that the whole point of culture war horseshit is to 1) make everyone really angry and get them to argue in bad temper about 2) things you don’t actually care about that much and are quite happy to lose on because 1) is you winning.
If the Tories come out tomorrow and say sorry, actually this report was bullshit, what do they lose? Nothing - they already got their big headlines and now they gain another news cycle about how you can’t say racism isn’t real without being cancelled by the wokes, or whatever.
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2 Apr
I’ll keep repeating this til it sinks in: Labour, the Tories and the SNP all had huge spikes in populist support since 2015 and only one party chose to fight it in a suicidal death drive to the bitter death, and when you look at the map, you can guess easily which one it was.
A look at the electoral map doesn’t make it difficult to work out which party massively prioritised the egos of their most stupid and selfish MPs above every other consideration.
The totally unnecessary stupidly of it is almost incomprehensible, just to reward the egos of some of the most idiotic and unpleasant people in the country. An appalling waste.
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1 Apr
Aside from noting again the smart Centrists do not possess any particular great wisdom or insight, I’d also say - as I have done for years - that it’ll be really difficult to dislodge an intentionally vicious Tory Party that has the press fully onside.
My guess in 2017 was the Tories would keep +/-40% for as long as they could ensure they’re the most vicious and needlessly cruel option on the ballot, and the press is willing to ensure the public are kept riled up with excuses to be angry about bullshit, and nothing has changed.
This analysis didn’t go over particularly well in 2017/19, when a lot of people seemed desperately keen to believe there’s a large cohort of sensible Tories out there choking to stop voting for stupidity and cruelty. And I’d say the evidence for that is looking pretty thin now.
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31 Mar
This is the first of these reports released after flooding the public sphere with idiotic, intentionally inflammatory horseshit intended to infuriate the old 24/7 became an urgent main priority of the British government, and not just the business model of the national press. Image
This is what all the pundits are skirting round, declining to say explicitly: it doesn’t just *look like* the government are intentionally filling the airwaves and news stands with vexatious, intentionally meaningless drivel. That is what it is, what they strive for every day.
I’ve lived through several incidents like this now, being old as fuck, but this isn’t anything like the worst. Some hacks and MPs are at least making pissy comments about the stuff they’re being invited to treat with respect today, which didn’t happen so much in 2003 or 2019.
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31 Mar
This is no different to either the Brexit drivel, the absurd election or Corona shenanigans: the bullshit headlines go on the front page and up top on broadcast, and then doubts, objections and finally admissions that it’s all bullshit go on Twitter, for an audience of 10,000. Image
Everyone is happy: the government’s idiotic headline gets beamed straight to the public via editors who see a shared interest in boosting the Conservative Party, and the hacks get to tell themselves they’re the good guys because they debunk it to fifty dorks eight hours later.
And then we all stand around asking why the public are furiously angry about made up bullshit again, how the Conservative Party can get away with openly lying and why nobody resigns for corruption. The type of very deep mystery that could be instantly solved by phoning your boss.
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