Grown-up politics means being honest about trade-offs, focused on evidence, and serious about delivery. I’ll always put outcomes for North East Midshire ahead of slogans or dogma.
@NikBoyle@tom_watson Why should rich pensioners be paid for by the taxpayer? Means testing exists to ensure that those who CAN afford things pay for them, especially when they're insensitive enough to call for hungry children to get nothing.
Snowflake.
@Chasetherabbit@politicalwilde1@beverleyturner Watching people describe officials who leak operational details into Signal chats and spend half their careers podcasting as towering statesmen because they say “civilisation” a lot has been a genuinely fascinating development.
@Chasetherabbit@beverleyturner One administration accidentally added a journalist to a war-planning Signal chat and routinely announces policy like a man live-tweeting from the queue at a steakhouse, but yes, let’s discuss “quality”.
@beverleyturner We really won’t. Britain already has more than enough politicians and other assorted sycophants whose entire worldview was assembled from cable news, grievance podcasts and airport lounge books.
@elonmusk Coming from a man who spent much of the last decade posting through divorces, k-holes, custody disputes, and self-inflicted reputational collapse in real time on his own website, “restoration of dignity” is a genuinely extraordinary phrase.
British political commentary increasingly resembles an elderly prep school master marking down a pupil for incorrect sock length while the building quietly catches fire around him.
Well done, @DailyMail, you just can't get it right.
@toryboypierce British political commentary increasingly resembles an elderly prep school master marking down a pupil for incorrect sock length while the building quietly catches fire around him.