Sunak - created by AI? Thread 36

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I’ve taken the liberty again.

Old thread here..

Rattled like JRM on the News Agents

https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1754877980642296245?s=20

The GC extremists are not going to swing the election. They are hardly going to make a dent in the Labour vote. They are very vocal on social media and in their own groups but it really doesn’t stretch to the general population. certainly Not enough to change their vote anyway. Not while literally everything in this country is broken.

Even the Tories don’t bring it up as a gotcha on TV anywhere near as much as they used to.

Very apposite - it's just like that

Eton must be so proud of those debating/argument skills.

somebody asked for this earlier. I’m guessing ONS have the actual report on their website somewhere.

https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1754518991941579038

I’m sorry some of you have been upset by the ‘Usual Suspects’ I take my hat off to you for trying on those threads, I’m not brave enough unfortunately.

Wow

Hi folks

Can we bear in mind that we don't allow personal attacks, or discussion of other posters who are not on this thread. We'll need to take this thread down if it continues.

Thanks Rafa, that is shocking

@LilyMumsnet could you please extend your disapproval of personal attacks to the thread on which I was actually personally attacked?

Interesting lurking happening.

@LilyMumsnet , the poster named was on this thread just this morning.

But we will play nice as these threads are too important

We don't want these threads pulled. Not after all this time.

Agreed. It's wearying though.

Thanks Lily. Is that a rule? As in, should we report it if its happening elsewhere on the site?

I would like to say that I am an ordinary person.

Liz Truss claims ‘left-wing extremists’ have taken over UK institutions as she launches Popular Conservatives | Evening Standard

"She warned there was a “damaging divide” between politicians and ordinary people who “think the wokery is nonsense”

I am ordinary person. I am part of the people. And I belong to a hard working family.

I consider myself an ordinary person and I'm as woke as fuck!

I am also an ordinary person. And woke. I don't think woke means what Liz Truss thinks it means, to paraphrase Inigo Montoya.

Its so "reds under the bed".
I often think about this from Harari (heard him talk about it on a podcast) when I see PopCon type madness
https://insightfultroll.com/blog/2023/12/05/yuval-noah-harari-on-conservatives-vs-liberals/

Woke just means not being a nasty bigot. It is not some sinister movement, unlike the PopTarts or whatever they are.

I'm half expecting the PopCorn lot to suggest an 'Un-British Activities Commitee'.

It’s only a small step forward from Minister for common sense to there.

Pop tarts! .. lol
I heard about the pop cons on lbc today
A new 'quango ' apparently. Mind boggles

I'm sure the majority of Conservatives MPs know they've lost the election. They've shredded their credibility with Brexit, levelling up, 40 new hospitals, Truss, HS2 etc.

Now it's all about wrangling to get control post election. Those 5 families (6 now?) aren't fighting for their party to win, they are fighting for their seat (and donors) so they can stay in the game.

The Newsagents podcast was very interesting this evening - the Pop Cons as an off shoot of the US Heritage Foundation (via Tufton Street). They follow quite a pattern - lay the blame for the state of the country on external institutions. Claim significant voter fraud. Claim leftists have taken over internal institutions. (And in America oppose abortion). Pretend they haven't been in government.

And it's not just Truss - Dowden, Fox, Paterson (remember him), Badenoch, Gove, Farage, Johnson, etc have all spoken at Heritage Foundation events.

But there is a whole hinterland of rich donors pulling strings.
This is an old article (2019) and a long read but it's very interesting at shining a light on the honing of right wing thinking in the US, UK and beyond.

amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/29/rightwing-thinktank-conservative-boris-johnson-brexit-atlas-network

What have you lot been up to this evening? Don't often see deleted posts on here!

Hope you're all ok.

That is brilliantly bonkers 😝