Bill McIntyre

Communications & PR type. Fan of books, media and a G&T. Views mine, except for the borrowed ones.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@FunkoEurope hi ordered in early December, well ahead of your Christmas delivery cut off date. Currently says one part of order will arrive after Christmas, no update on rest. Can’t get hold of your customer service team - can you get back to me please.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@TorrianoJuniorS @ParcAsterix Brilliant - great music choices as ever Justin!

[London Marathon Events @LDNMEvents]

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[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

Quite the purchase from Tortoise (assuming it happens)

[Mark Kleinman @MarkKleinmanSky]

EXCLUSIVE: Guardian Media Group is in exclusive talks to sell The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media, a news start-up founded five years ago, in a deal which would further reshape the British national newspaper market. Full story on @SkyNews soon.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@jimrobottom @BBCr4today Actually think it was when I was going into station so maybe try just after 8 if you haven’t found it.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar Could you point me to an article about where number of votes, rather than MPs, is taken into account for make up of committees. I’ve not heard of that before so interested to read more.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

Just finished the Price of Life by @jennykleeman . Great read. The chapters on the market price of ransom demands and effective altruism are particularly enlightening (and disturbing).

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar Important context: Virtually no UK government gets over 30% of the registered electorate voting for them (Blair in 1997 the last one).
In terms of seats, 411 is only beaten by Blair and Baldwin in the last 200 years.
There is zero legitimacy issue.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar The normal measure of turnout is votes counted as a proportion of adults who have registered to vote.
This implies the previous government set up for people registering to vote has significant issues rather than any legitimacy issue with the current government.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

Great quote about Jimmy Anderson from Kraigg Brathwaite:
"He is a legend of the game. I won't miss him at all!"

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar There is zero legitimacy issue. Labour has 411 seats - that is the third most seats in the last 200 years (only beaten by Baldwin in 31 and Blair in 97).
It's very rare a party gets over 30% of the registered electorate voting for them.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@WisdenCricket Poor Tim. He's just never going to get over Headingley 2019.

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar Strange that graph is only done on percentage of votes case not on percentage of the registered electorate voting. You'd see then that pretty much every government is down at 30% or less.
Still one of the advantages of FPTP is it produces a clear legitimate winner

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@SBarrettBar Blair in 97 was the last leader to get more than 30% of registered electorate voting (just).
In the last 200 years Starmer has won the most seats aside from Blair in 1997 and Baldwin in 1931. So I assume you think every government outside of those has no legitmacy.

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet.

This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

The other way of looking at this is since 1835, two governments have won more seats:
- Blair in 1997 (418 seats)
- Baldwin in 1931 (470 seats)

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Prime Ministers who have won a higher share of the vote than Keir Starmer:

Johnson (2019)
May (2017)
Cameron (2015)
Cameron (2010)
Blair (2005)
Blair (2001)
Blair (1997)
Major (1992)
Thatcher (1987)
Thatcher (1983)
Thatcher (1979)
Wilson (1974)
Wilson (1974)
Heath (1970)

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

Election campaign called in the rain, and looks like the result will be called in the rain. Tomorrow we shall see if Starmer has a better plan for doing a speech when it's hammering it down - than just standing there getting wet. #GeneralElection2024

[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

Such a weird attack ad. Basically saying the Tories are going to lose so badly they’ll be out for at least 10 years. It’s probably bang on factually, but strange choice of attack ad to say you’re utterly hopeless. #GeneralElection24

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

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[Bill McIntyre @billmcintyre]

@JamesCleverly James, it’s easy to get confused by all the lies about tax tonight that have been pushed out by @CCHQPress pretending to be a tax checking organisation. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s shameful behaviour.