#4238

Saw an MP tweet a version of this yesterday (much closer to the original ad in style) and it got me thinking about an inbuilt advantage in messaging that comes from how we talk about the two biggest parties.

Labour IS something
Tories ARE something.

Labour is spoken about as a single entity that represents everyone while we always talk about the Conservative party in the plural, as a group of people with different thoughts and opinions.

The Labour ISN’T working message is just so much more powerful psychologically than the Tories AREN’T testing one.

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#4239

Is that not just because the word ‘labour’ is a hard to pluralise in the same way as ‘Tories’ or ‘Conservatives’?

#4240

Also don’t forget that, most importantly of all, Labour rhymes with Danger.

#4241

… yes? I don’t know what you’re getting at here. I’m talking about effect, not cause.

#4242

That’s not entirely what’s going on here. The Scottish Government also have a poor record on coronavirus, even if they clear the low bar set by the UK govt, and at least one massive cockup/scandal that he’d be right to hold them to account for. He’d be foolish and negligent not to highlight this with Scottish Parliament elections coming up.

#4243

Without having followed things north of the border, so not knowing the truth I think hit the line of attack really to take nicely there. It’s “you’ve only stepped over a woefully low bar set by the Conservatives and Scotland deserves better. This isn’t a record to be proud of in context of the worldwide responses.”

Obviously people can argue the toss over whether that’s unfair to the SNP and without the wider context I’m not sure if that’s what Starmer’s saying, but I think it’s the right direction for a Labour challenge to go in.

#4244

Tom Watson campaigned for stricter rules on gambling and now works Paddy Power the sly twat

#4245

Is this real?

#4246

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#4249

Oh it’s maybe just framed in a ridiculous way. I dunno

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#4250

The shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, will accuse the Conservatives of wasting billions of pounds of public money through botched outsourcing

:+1:

She will claim that Rishi Sunak’s “job retention bonus,” the £1,000-a-head payout that firms will be able to claim in January for staff they have brought back from furlough and kept on the payroll, could mean £2.6bn being paid to firms that would have retained staff anyway.

:-1: (I think?)

#4251

I think that they should be saying ‘corrupt’ rather than ‘cavalier’.

Maybe the former leaves them open to a legal challenge, but the latter will too easily get beaten into policies of yet more austerity.

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#4252

trollol

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#4253

Cool cool cool.

Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC there had been a “real change in tone and approach” under Sir Keir’s leadership, with the party focused on “listening to what people have to say and acting on the very real problems they have in their lives”.

Pressed during an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today about what substance there was behind the rhetoric, she suggested in foreign affairs the party was prioritising “standing up for British interests” and was determined to bring the country together after years of bitter divisions over Brexit.

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#4254

really good innit. on his knees kissing the boots of racists while the press will merrily just keep painting him as a ‘trot’ anyway

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#4255

Shitting all over your core demographics of BAME and young people, is it. What could possibly go wrong.

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