rainbowdAsh

31 and teaching geek wisdom with the bestest gremlins.

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@TicketmasterUK scalpers and those reselling @coldplay tickets; I hope you have the day you deserve! My baby brother is gutted :(

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@PJPWv2 Using a personal hotspot on another device just worked for me!!

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@xAnnaleigh @wembleystadium Then it’s one woman called Norma with a clip board cos this is ridiculous. I’ve known better organisation at a school sports day…

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@wembleystadium Seriously!!! Disability fail @wembleystadium

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

Absolutely cracking. The perfect end 💕💕 #gavinandstaceythefinale

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@jk_rowling Ew. I could just about deal with everything you’ve said, or done, but being a Tory?!? That I cannot get over

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

Go on @celinedion 💕💕 literal tears

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@trussliz Liz; I don’t think you’re the one to talk about the change we need love; thanks to you, millions of people are the worst off they’ve ever been. So on behalf of the nation; off you fuck.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

JUST BEEN LEAKED NOTE BY HEAD OF TORY CAMPAIGN (the one standing in for the one on leave of absence courtesy of William Hill) MEMO ALL CANDIDATES … THE REALITY. 1. We cannot campaign on our record because nothing has improved since we took office. 2. The biggest change we made last Parliament was Brexit and we can’t campaign on that because the people who hated it hate it more and the people who liked it know we have ballsed it up. 3. We can’t campaign on our leaders because we have had five in eight years which suggests none of them were very good. 4. We can’t campaign on Labour being a risk to security and the economy because nobody can do worse than we have and anyway people seem to think @Keir_Starmer is pretty decent and he is for sure not Corbyn. 5. So LADS, all we have left is this … behave like we have lost, it’s all over bar the shouting, towel thrown in, and hope to God millions of people don’t bother to vote us out because they think somebody else will do it. I know it’s desperate and a bit anti-democratic but needs must. We’re shit and we know we are and so this is it!!! Fuck everything up. Crash the car. Make ourselves look even more unelectable and useless at campaigns. Willie Whitelaw used to talk about travelling the country stirring up apathy. That is all we have left. Do it. Talk up supermajority. I know it is meaningless but it is the only way to stop the superdefeat we all know we deserve. Cheers. Btw we’re having Sunday drinks 1pm. BYOB 🍾 🥂 ps new slogan. STAY AT HOME. DON’T VOTE. KEEP THE TORIES haha!!

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

X is so biased, I am left leaning. I hate the tories with a passion, yet I’m being shown nothing but Tory propaganda and Tory sympathisers fuck off elon. #ToriesAreEvil #toriesout

[John Stevens @johnestevens]

🚨 Leaked Tory briefing note doesn't rule out arresting youngsters who don't do National Service https://t.co/YLRsOb4y0E

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@RishiSunak Keep your hands off our kids!

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

Why am I being shown Tory political propaganda all over my
X 🤢🤢 well we know who the x owners want to win… #votelabour #StopTheTories #toriesout

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

This story is so delicious, it's unbelievable. It spanks the Tories so, so hard, albeit inadvertently.

But it will take a little explaining, so please have patience and bear with me while I walk you through it.

The Telegraph tonight is running a big splash about the first Tory pledge of the GE campaign, namely bringing back compulsory national service.

Yes, they want to force all 18-year olds to spend a year in the Army, or devote a weekend a month for a year doing community service chores.

(Related aside: they plan to get £1.5 billion of the £2.5 billion a year cost of the programme by gutting the post-Brexit shared prosperity fund, which was meant to replace the loss of EU structural funding. The diametric opposite of levelling up.)

Now here's where things get FUN!

The Telegraph embeds links within their articles to other "related" Telegraph stories to direct more traffic around their website. (I believe these links are likely inserted automatically, for SEO purposes.)

So they have this big piece about national service by Camilla Turner, their Sunday Political Editor.

And in it they've linked prominently to the older article that I've screenshot below...

Yes. They really have chosen as a representative related story an opinion piece that spells out in no uncertain terms what an utterly idiotic idea bringing back national service would be. ("Yet once again the reintroduction of National Service is being mooted by think tanks, this time as a thinly veiled mechanism for enslaving the young.")

It's like a boat-builder deliberately drilling a large hole in their new craft below the waterline, and then launching it. Sunk before it had a chance.

But the fun doesn't stop there. There's a second sneaky link lurking in tonight's article too. That one leads to an older piece entitled "Why conscription would leave Britain fighting a losing battle". This second article digs into the economics and jobs aspects of a programme such as national service, and concludes that it's a non-starter.

And if the Telegraph weren't so greedy for clicks, we'd never even have seen the articles that blow holes straight through the grand Tory plan!

Begin long, slow clap.

Link to this evening's article
https://t.co/luFZtNSFOu

Link to the article explaining why it's a terrible, terrible idea
https://t.co/TCLK6qoV9d

Link to the article about constriction being a losing battle
https://t.co/kJO14pA4dh

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@DanielBerke1 @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour Boo fucking hoo. It should have had VAT anyway. If period products (genuine necessity) have vat applied, so should none essential education. You don’t have to go to private school. So pay for it properly.

[4th July - Tory wipe Out @snb19692]

A man that tells you he has a plan!
1/ Doesn't know how to use a debit card
2/Borrows a car for a fake fuel shoot
3/Can't buy trousers that fit
4/Asks the Homeless if they're in Finance
5/Stands at Titanic ship yard
6/Gets soaked in showers
7/Can't Stop Steve Bray!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[rainbowdAsh @Lil_Ash]

@SkyNews Yeah and he can think again.

[Tony Kent @TonyKent_Writes]

What a load of absolute bollocks. Who is this idiot?

I am no fan of Starmer. Having studied his human rights text for my degree dissertation and having then encountered him professionally some years later - albeit it from the peripheral position of being a very junior junior in a case where he was leading for a co-defendant - I had very high hopes for him when he went into politics. So far he has not lived up to them, and I still have very significant fears about how his government will approach some issues on which I have strong opinions.

BUT…

To suggest he is of the same coin as Sunak is absurd. And to suggest his first career was ‘easy’ is a f**king insult, from an imbecile who doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

Starmer was a working class boy who was bright enough to qualify for a decent grammar school, as opposed to being sent to a major fee paying private school where the contacts and the school tie guarantee smooth passage through at least early life. He went to a run of the mill university and yet he still managed to forge a career at the Bar - a resoundingly nepotistic profession at the time - with no school or family or social links to help him. Once there he absolutely excelled through talent, intellect and prodigious hard work, going on to be one of the youngest QCs in the country and eventually being sufficiently respected to be appointed the Director of Public Prosecutions.

None of this is ‘easy’. None of this is a cakewalk. It is quite the opposite, in fact; as someone who works hard in the same profession and who will never come close to Starmer’s achievements, I can vouch for how incredibly hard it must have been to become Sir Keir Starmer KC.

To compare that to an over-privileged little public school snob who just happened to be in the right place to bet against the British economy in 2008 and so make himself richer than the King - all the while using other people’s money - is the absolute height of ignorance.