Thread 13 Starmer - facts are for lefties

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Labour should tackle rogue parking firms. That should generate some positive headlines.

As I said, 5 years is a long time. But trying to get some quick win headlines that should "please the people" can't hurt.

Incidentally, have you popped in on the private school VAT thread(s) of late.

Asking for a friend 😀

I have been enjoying your contributions

conservative with a small c! That is, not easily persuaded of benefits that seem abstract to their own immediate circumstances

I've been reading a really interesting book called "How minds change"

All about how you talk to people, engage them, and some of the techniques people can use.

Some examples include how people leave cults, how people change their views on LGBT rights, even their belief in God.

Well worth reading.

https://streetepistemology.com/

Deep Canvass Institute – People's Action | New Conversation Initiative

Fascinating stuff

I did a module on changing perceptions in the workplace as part of my degree.

Was really interesting.

Oh but we had the wrong type of Brexit.

No point in asking Fartage about Brexshit, he'll do what he did on QT and just keep spewing nonsense about "freedom", and a "collapsing EU", and other equally stupid shit. His supporters will lap it up.

Not platforming him is the best way.

According to The Telegraph Mince pie prices jump by 40pc in Christmas shopping blow. I guess it’s the government’s fault. 🙄

That @cakeorwine is an excellent idea but will they? i doubt it.

Even the Mail couldn't object to getting rid of these cowboys and whilst they are at it, deal with rail companies who are also acting very harshly against people who have made genuine ticketing mistakes.

Low hanging fruit, positive headlines that no one could object to.

Sounds like even Trump has worked out Fartage as well...

He's a useful idiot to Trump who, in turn, is a useful idiot to Putin.

Another 'man of the people' here, billionaire property tycoon and Holly Valance's husband, Nick Candy, has become Reform's treasurer.

Good to see that billionaires have the man on the street interest's at heart.

I think the fall of Syria is an indication that now Putin has succeeded in putting his man in the Whitehouse, all other projects are expendable.

I doubt Trump and Farage were a package deal.

We live in interesting times.

Bit of a random post but this is interesting from the IFS. No surprise to me that my local area spends less than the national average.

ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-do-special-educational-needs-vary-across-areas

Imagine being a Daily Mail journalist and confronted with the shit you write

interesting thank you - I am a school SEN governor.

County council ( conservative led) is locally heavily publishing the extra grants they are giving to pensioners to replace lost the heating allowance, despite being in wealthy south east but has higher than average SEN and significantly lower than average spend.

Focusing on their key voting audience! 😡

NYC Republicans do not invite Tories to a gala Farage is addressing as "they don't associate with losers"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-republican-fundaraiser-tories-new-york-b2661276.html

That’s quite funny on one level @SerendipityJane
Very worrying on another.

"NYYRC executive secretary Vish Burra told The Independent: “The NYYRC Gala is a party for winners, not globalist losers. MAGA Republicans are not interested in working with parties in the death throes of their moral integrity and electoral viability.”

"Globalist losers" - hhhhhmmm, wonder what they meant by that exactly.

The same article suggests the Conservatives are cosying up with Stephen 'true Americans' Miller - appreciate we will have to - or chose to - break bread with a lot of the rabid MAGA goons over the next few years but Miller seems particularly unpleasant. certainly have no interest in seeing his kind of rhetoric employed in the UK any more than it already has been.

"County council ( conservative led) is locally heavily publishing the extra grants they are giving to pensioners to replace lost the heating allowance, despite being in wealthy south east but has higher than average SEN and significantly lower than average spend."

I think pensioners manage to be much more vocal than SN parents or are perhaps better able to coalesce around particular issues and are backed by the media (do more pensioners buy/subscribe to newspapers I wonder?).
Speaking from my own experience parenting SN children/young adults is pretty lonely and it is often difficult to make the right sort of contacts to compare and complain together.
But then I suppose, according to Badenoch, I should be grateful for my child's financial advantages. Yes, I am rolling my eyes.

I think pensioners manage to be much more vocal than SN parents or are perhaps better able to coalesce around particular issues

Also - if you can be bothered - old age means you have learned a lot. Certainly enough to deal with the Byzantine ways of the world.