EXC: Shocking video footage behind the scenes at A&E in the UK, showing rows of bed-bound elderly patients filling up hospital corridors. In today's @TheSun with @samblanchard9
https://t.co/YOzjgr2hjW
@katharinehorgan Hi Katharine, this is amazing news. I'm a reporter at the Sun newspaper - would you be up for chatting about your story? Feel free to drop me a DM. Cheers!
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20 years ago almost exactly to the day me, J Frayne and a tiny team won the North East referendum. We had almost no money. My girlfriend answered the phone. My dad did accounts. My uncle Phil - more famous for double or quits at KLUTE nightclub [watch the Jane Fonda movie], the best in Europe outside Moscow - drove the legendary elephant.
How did we win?
We argued that the political-bureaucratic-media elites in London were delusional & pathological - vote No to tell them so.
Our slogan: POLITICIANS TALK, WE PAY
We started off 30 points behind. We won 80-20. Nobody wins significant elections by that much.
Westminster totally ignored the result.
An MP asked me to talk to MPs about why it happened.
I said ok and went.
One MP turned up. He’d come to the wrong room, apologised and left.
We did the campaign partly as a training exercise. A decade later we did Brexit and SW1 was stunned.
These three facts are the core of politics in the last 20 years.
1/ The *rational* collapse of voters’ trust in, and the calibre & performance of, political-bureaucratic-media elites.
2/ The total lack of self awareness of these elites to face the collapse in their quality and why voters don’t trust them — no updating, always doubling down, now to the extent of screaming 'fascist' at more than half the voters because they think it's barbaric to let men beat up women in a boxing ring as 'women's sport'.
3/ The old media reinforces the blindness and uselessness of the political-bureaucratic elites and the latter orient their activity entirely to the former, NOT the voters or *reality* - a huge shift from when we were a serious country. (And objectively mad given the collapse of trust in and size of audiences for the old political media & politicians are theoretically rational actors trying to win elections.)
This triple whammy was central in the Brexit referendum where I replayed identical concepts and stunts from 2004.
And Trump.
And our 2019 victory.
And the covid and Ukraine shitshows.
And Trump 2.
The crucial lesson for all those who want change and keep voting for it?
The old regime will NOT learn however many disasters it suffers, it’s been defeated repeatedly, it’s had pandemics and wars on a scale outside living memory yet it ploughs on blind and mad and pathological. I thought it would change after Brexit. I was totally wrong. They doubled down. And they'll keep doubling down. Being humiliated by Trump again will not change them, at the New York Times or in SW1.
We’re going through the normal historical process of regime change & this is normally chaotic and violent.
If we want change we must *retire* these elites: no violence but no compromise.
Hopefully @elonmusk and network will show a new network in Britain how to capture and use power, then do what started to happen in 2019-20 but was destroyed by the rotten-to-its core Tory Party, which preferred to babble to journalists about each other instead of use power to improve the world...
Was a pleasure to speak to @HarrisonForOBP about his historic election, youth in politics and his subsequent media presence. Fantastic ambassador for @Conservatives.
Thanks @SamCreed18 for this article of being the youngest elected UK politician. I’ve really enjoyed the platforms that I’ve been able to appear on these past 18 months despite having no media training. I look forward to continuing to be a voice of reason!
https://t.co/OSBF7ly3oM
It was a pleasure to go and speak to prospective Sixth Form students at Kennet School to talk about my own academic journey and where it has taken me. I also got an opportunity to discuss my own magazine, Proper Gander!
Esteemed alumnus Sam Creed came to speak to our Rising Year 12 English Language students about his pathway into journalism since graduating from the @uochester. Sam starts his internship at @TheSun newspaper today. From Kennet School to The Sun and beyond! #GoodLuck