Dear David Attenborough,
Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!
Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.
Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!
With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise
@doktordunc@JoMicheII @AnnPettifor The other was seeming bland and safe so people who were never going to vote for them were happy to vote Reform etc rather than voting Tory to keep the scary Socialists out. That, thanks to Farage, worked better than they had any right to expect at the start of the campaign.
@doktordunc@JoMicheII @AnnPettifor I think there were two things going on. One was very deliberate - going after Tory voters by sounding tough and patriotic, while realising that would come at a cost of some of the core vote protesting by voting Green Libdem or independent.
@doktordunc@JoMicheII @AnnPettifor Winning votes from the Tories at the cost of loosing a similar number of votes to the Green, Libdems and independents is very efficient though, even if it's not targeted.
"All parts of the Labour party think this is a terrible policy, and all parts of the Labour party will want to see it abolished".
Economist and Labour candidate @TorstenBell on Keir Starmer's plan to keep the two-child benefit cap.
The Tories want to cut stamp duty for first time buyers. Fair enough - stamp duty is a terrible tax. But the evidence shows that cutting stamp duty *increases* house prices. It's pointless.
There is a better way.
@d5_rss@TerryC800@benonwine The Lascelles principles don't require the King to have any reasons to authorise an early GE, they just say he'd have to have reasons to refuse. "no wise Sovereign ... would deny a dissolution to his Prime Minister unless he were satisfied that: ..."