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Chris Faux's avatar

That's a much more sophisticated version of exactly what I've been saying to anyone who would listen, including writing to my MP, Dan Tomlinson when I explained why I might not vote Labour for only the 2nd time in 55 years if there were a GE soon. Oh. He replied but not sure he listened

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Peter Lambri's avatar

Your latest newsletter is predicated on the Nuffield College British Election Survey data. Seems august enough not to query? Yet why is it, I wonder, that the clear perception exists, especially in media reporting, that much of Labour’s leak has been to Reform? Indeed, a week scarcely passes on the idiosyncratic Peston programme, when Pippa (and Anoushka before) does not present graphics to illustrate just this apparent (?) misconception.

Are the media misleading, either consciously or unconsciously?

Will they one day say, “it’s the media wot done it”, were Reform to win? Look, for the life of me, Nuffield shows that more votes have leaked since the election to the Lib Dems, yet the Forage party gets all the coverage and potential misreporting? How does that work?

Has the media over here become transfixed by him, just as à la Trumpian USA.

I’m afraid I perceive that currently, governance is based on the principle that all roads lead to the offices of the OBR. If Labour were to do some lefty things, it might just be smoke and mirrors. They seem transfixed by Tory experience. Is it wildly ridiculous to say that the governing party today is the CcP? No, nothing to do with the former USSR! “Competent conservative Party.” (Lower case advisedly.)

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