eh? eh?
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And the fact you can absolutely straightforwardly tell which party each of those descriptions refers to should tell you a lot.
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Next Election's choice between the malevolent fools, the incompetent self-hating fools, the absolute clowns, the mendacious snake-oil salesmen, & the unserious unready shambles-crew is going to be a real doozy.
ali@ali__samson
@andrew_lilico They’re not serious people Andrew
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@andrew_lilico @DoomSpiralpod Which is what less privileged working class folk have had to do for generations so they won’t have much sympathy for you
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@DoomSpiralpod Alcohol. And chocolate. Preferably with some sex thrown into the mix. That feels more like the way forward.
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I should probably stop thinking about domestic politics. The gap between what should be & what is is so huge that the difference between the plausible should-not-bes is probably not worth the sadness in me, & depressing sense of opportunity lost, created by pondering them.
Andrew Lilico@andrew_lilico
It's all so depressing.
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@mansfieldrv6 @afneil Yeah lots of people shared their suggestion to put gp receptionists in charge of border control and then no one would ever get in. Almost everyone thought “yep there’s a grain of truth in that. Why can’t we try to make one of these things more convenient and one less!”
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I am baffled as to why consistently behaving like a total prat is regarded as a sensible election strategy. I’ve never seen the thinking behind it explained The Lib Dems have more MPs than they’ve had for a long time. It’s a solid base on which to build, especially given Labour’s woes. But this is not the way to do it.
je@eastwood8_je
It is recognised that a minimum of 13 Post Masters committed suicide as a result of the Post Office scandal. This man has no shame and should not be in public office
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@mansfieldrv6 @afneil I thought Liz truss and her “cheese” speech was the biggest clown show I’d ever see in British politics. Then her actual premiership rivalled it.
But Ed Davey is doing his best to win the title.
The Monster Raving Looney party must be thinking “why do we even bother anymore?”
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The one thing that Andrew has always
been completely consistent about
is his disdain for the unserious.
And I believe it's for very good reason.
Andrew's seen lived through so many
national, international and global
crises that he understands...
Without a shadow of a doubt...
We live in a serious world where
the consequences of being
wrong are very serious too.
We deserve and need leaders
who treat the office they
hold like actual adults.
We don't need a clown show like this.
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@andrew_lilico 4. They also may have noticed that you enjoy interacting with lay people more than experts who disagree with you such as Neil Ferguson, or even people on similar level such as Dominic Cummings. He and you have opposing views on most things yet never debate, why? /4
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@andrew_lilico 3. Keith Joseph or yourself might provide more original ideas and more penetrating analysis than, say: Barack Obama. But the likes of him would still beat you electorally. /3
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In the late '90s I applied for a party's candidates' list. I did their away-day weekend & was told I passed all their tests but I was being rejected anyway. I'm pretty sure the reason was that I told an interviewer I was in it to be a Cabinet Minister not a local backbencher.+
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Spot on. We’ve come to fetishise “local representatives” far too much, a symptom of our politics becoming smaller and more parochial. What we need is quality national politicians. If they have to be “parachuted” in, and they spend more time in SW1 than the constituency, so be it.
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@JMPSimor @peterjukes @ShippersUnbound @Infrared_44 @carolecadwalla If Corbyn or Miliband were the PM and trying to take a doveish war policy, but a more centrist cabinet changed policy to make it hawkish, I bet you wouldn’t say that. And I bet there’s no evidence of you ever having done so
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@peterjukes @ShippersUnbound @Infrared_44 @carolecadwalla It’s also not a story. Collective cabinet responsibility and a PM willing to listen, reflect and change his mind is a good thing!
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It’s genuinely weird that an ex-cabinet minister can be bothered to troll me. I investigated you & found you oversaw the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history & got away with it. You won. Move on. Get a hobby or something.
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@AllanMoore12 @afneil That gold would be worth a few quid now. Thankfully I bought some at the time and more since.
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So you price young people out of the labour market with huge rises in the minimum wage and national insurance.
Then you subsidise employers to employ young people.
Government is brilliant. Simply brilliant.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
🔴 The Telegraph understands that Pat McFadden will announce on Monday that employers will receive a £3,000 taxpayer subsidy for hiring under-25s who have been on Universal Credit for more than six months Find out more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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It’s a very good question. Obviously we should pay young folk with no experience, still learning on the job and gaining qualifications exactly the same, if not more, than someone fully qualified and with years of experience. I dunno why I didn’t think of that earlier.
Anthammer@AntWadebridge
@afneil Why are young people worth less of a wage Andrew?
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@DAlperovitch Oh ok, thank you. No surprise that this is where I come if I want to be informed, keep up the good work.
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@pdboxer The first Israel-Iran war 👇
Dmitri Alperovitch@DAlperovitch
In early January of this year, I had made another prediction that my friend @auren memorialized here: “Israel initiates sustained bombing (more than one consecutive day) of Iran nuclear facility (80% confidence with average bet: +6.92)” auren.substack.com/p/crazy-bets-o…
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At the risk of jeopardizing my thus-far successful track record of predicting war commencements (regretfully, I am three for three so far), I will venture into much harder territory: predicting war terminations.
This war likely ends within two weeks, perhaps as soon as next week
Dmitri Alperovitch@DAlperovitch
I think the window for strikes against Iran opens tonight, with a very high probability of them taking place this week
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These figures are nonsense. The USA has 11 aircraft carriers.
A Great American! 🇺🇸 & 🔥@FlagAndFire
Only a few countries operate aircraft carriers. Most have one. The United States has twenty. That’s not a navy. That’s a floating air force that can show up anywhere on earth.
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Well there’s a surprise! Of course it can’t head into a theatre of war. The Royal Navy has zero surface ships to escort and protect it. We are incapable of forming a carrier group. It’s proving enough of a struggle to dispatch one destroyer to Cyprus!
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
HMS Prince of Wales unlikely to head to the Middle East bbc.in/3NszUaH
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