Dave Rickard

Freelance writer and researcher, particularly interested in questions of English nationhood, British politics and myth, and constitutional and electoral reform.

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@UKLabour Correction: not 'Britain', but England. Housing is devolved. #sayEngland

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@Arron_banks Man of the people.

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@MLJHaynes There's nothing apostate about that. We do only have one God - so it's a statement of truth. And most Christians believe that the God of Islam or the God of Judaism is the one true God. Doesn't mean we don't believe different things about him, i.e. "different religions".

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@elonmusk Is that one of your much vaunted, sophisticated analyses?

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@Mrundervalued @TheSpursExpress We shouldn't accept it.

[David Morton @DavidMorton359]

Hopefully now the election is out of the way - and it's being proposed by a Labour government - the opposition might be more probing about what adding tobacco to the illegal drugs market will do to our communities. But I won't bet on it.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Labour has officially won fewer votes than Corbyn managed in 2019.

Quite legitimately, many will respond 'what matters in our electoral system is seats'.

But the argument made was 2019 (2017 being erased) showed that the left were fringe lunatics in public opinion.

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@davesumnersmith @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty Good!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

John Curtice: "Actually, but for the rise of the Labour Party in Scotland... we would be reporting that basically Labours vote has not changed from what it was in 2019"

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Conservatives will have

0 seats in Wales
1 seat in the North East
1 seat in the North West

Four of the five of the Tories' Prime Ministers' seats of the last 14 years have been lost (Witney, Maidenhead, Uxbridge and South West Norfolk).

The Conservatives have never been so marginal or unimportant to British politics as they are right now.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

An important moment in our democracy with our next Prime Minister shaking hands with his arch political opponent, Elmo.

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Is you agree that our FPTP isn't up to scratch, ads your name to the growing demand for #ProportionalRepresentation!

https://t.co/OAOM6dg2MU

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

Surely, this has got to be the most disproportionate election in history: @UKLabour win a huge landslide on 34% of the vote, versus 32% last time, counted as their worst election ever! @reformparty_uk on four seats with 14.3% of the vote! Really, really bad.

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@bo66ie29 Oh, the good old days: everything in their place, even the pansies.

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I know England won IN THE END last night. But why, oh why, oh why did Southgate wait so long to make those substitutions? Talk of the Great Escape! Next time, can we play it safe by bringing on fresh legs and ideas FROM THE START, Gareth?!

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@SkyFootball That's all very well, but Italy - who England could face in the quarter final - played brilliantly in the second half against Croatia. You can never write them off, and I wouldn't fancy England's chances against them the way England have been playing!

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@spikedonline Maybe he just doesn't want to. Maybe he's genuinely not as transphobic as many in his party and beyond. #transphobia

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@paulmasonnews How do you figure that out? A massive, disproportionate @UKLabour majority would be very bad for democracy!

[Dave Rickard @britologywatch]

@TommyTaylo16729 @JuliaHB1 I don't think that was her point.