The difference is there will be pushback and consequences this time, because you can’t treat real people who matter the same way you treat people who don’t. They get angry about it, especially if you’re making it clear they’ll face negative career consequences for upsetting you.
Watching an industrial digital trawl for problematic likes and nasty comments covering a decade, targeting thousands of politicians, councillors and members of the public: This is wise, sane and good
Watching the same thing happen to one pal: Where did this country go so wrong
It is incredibly stupid to target in-group journos for exclusion BTW. The traitor-sniffing, treason-pointing horrors of recent years are about as stark a demonstration as you’ll get of what happens if you threaten the interests & career prospects of our management/media/PR class.
I think the Tories believe, since centrist hacks were delighted and enthusiastic to join in the traitor-baiting and red-screeching at the left, they will be at least open to receiving the same treatment themselves and LOL this is a galactic misjudgement of who these people are.

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They all knew this full well during the general election campaign and it remains a deep mystery why all of those respected and disrespected national titles fully endorsed it, and ran propaganda selling it to the public every day for six weeks, despite knowing it was all shit. Image
It remains a deep mystery in part because nobody has piped up on the topic of “How come we pretended that we believed these obvious lies and stridently told our readers that they were all legit”, nor will they until they retire.
What word would we usually use to describe the behaviour of people who see their superiors acting unethically in quite flagrant ways, and keep quiet about it?
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James is confused here, so I’ll add: Cummings can’t land a punch because he’s telling the people who are paid to explain what he’s saying to the public that he could not do what he does if he didn’t have their full connivance and/or their hilarious stupidity. Image
The wizard is Cummings, a cheap and shit fraudster. Dorothy and pals are the hacks, point blank refusing to believe it’s just a machine that makes lots of noise and belches smoke, because then it wouldn’t be magical. Image
I find it easier to respect the Telegraph - they know they are straight up lying to discourage people from putting two and two together - than the flailing liberals, who don’t have a clue what they’re defending or what they’re arguing against. Image
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Feels like only last week we were saying the culture war drivel would definitely continue, because the press would just put big anti-racist messages on their front pages about those England players for two days, then rake through their bins for whatever dirt they can find. Image
What did we say? We said the progressive patriotism stuff is as weak as a kitten, no matter how hard our most clueless politicians and pundits feed it, and putting it in the arena to fight the most vicious, highly-evolved spite and resentment machine in the world is pure insanity ImageImage
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It’s great how people like this can just straightforwardly explain that Brexit and the 2019 were one great absurd idiotic heist, made possible by the bottomless credulity of the British press, and these people will just stare blankly and say, So we narrowly avoided a coup? Wow ImageImageImageImage
Cummings isn’t even saying he’s a smart politics ninja. He’s saying the right kind of Tory can just tell the British press literally anything and they will either vacantly repeat it or join in and embellish it, and commentators are interpreting this as a fiendish new ploy.
This is, I think, because the story of 2016-19 is set in stone with them cast as valiant resistance, and so they don’t much want to see the main villains shooting them finger-pistols and winking Thanks lads, we couldn’t have done it without you, the dumbest people in the world.
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He surely thought he could do this because a “network” of fringe Conservative Party weirdos, allied to some very odd Tory MPs and maybe two media oligarchs, literally did turn politics upside down and bulldoze through one of the most absurd democratic hoaxes in world history. Image
I mean, Cummings isn’t describing a wacky theory there. He’s telling you what actually happened then saying they thought about doing a much less insane version of the same thing they’d already done soon afterwards. Image
Wow, imagine if one - or even two! - Tory Prime Ministers had been turfed out of office in an absolutely brazen scam orchestrated by a few right wing cranks and maybe four newspapers, shocking really, thank god Johnson was here to protect us, the dumbest mothetfuckers in Britain Image
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Remember in early 2020 when Number 10 PRs tried to line up the lobby hacks into special good dogs who would get nice treats and very bad dogs who would get No Biscuit. And then Cummings blew the gig by revealing the system was already in place, and it had been for months.
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