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Jonn Elledge

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writer and shouter. New Statesman, Paper Cuts, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Conspiracy: A History of Bollocks Theories & How Not To Fall For Them, etc.

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Janine Gibson's avatar Janine Gibson @janinegibson.bsky.social
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no no no no miriam cates LOST! We don't need to hear her on the radio now, you see. Because she didn't get elected! I know it's a reflex, but she's just another citizen with bad fearmongering opinions! This is how democracy works.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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No: switch us to a zoning system so development is permitted within certain limits. Everywhere else manages. No reason at all it wouldn't work here

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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none, but by creating a planning system that's not so easily gummed up by objections you can render such campaigns irrelevant

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it started pissing out down when I was in a beer garden last night and someone* did genuinely yell "KEIR STARMER'S BRITAIN" at the sky *me

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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this may be above my paygrade I'm already baffled

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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If Labour are doing really well (1997, 2024), fewer people vote Labour, because a lot of them are doing it to get the Tories out. If Labour are doing badly (2010, 2017), they get sympathy votes drifting back.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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Okay, so this thing where whatever the polling industry does, it seems, they never quite get Labour's voteshare right: Is it possible there's a sort of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle thing? The very act of measuring Labour's vote share moves the polls?

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do you worry she might vote differently to you? I've always assumed Henry Scampi to be a LibDem :/

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"What there is, though, is a vibe, of being in a club, chatting to someone you’ve only just met, convinced through chemical assistance that you are having the most profound meeting of minds that anyone has ever had in the entire history of the world."

jonn.substack.com/p/a-close-re...

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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Are you American? We have very different rules about political funding here, with much tighter spending limits. It's pretty unusual for candidates to fund stuff, it all comes from the central party.

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Ross McKay's avatar Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social
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I think by saying it's the last day you can justify it you're underselling a talent for finding a way to justify things.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UNHAPPEN BY JUST IGNORING IT, GUYS. IT'S STILL THERE, WAITING FOR YOU

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"staffers griping that they have not been paid for six weeks because of the lack of funds" feels like the right ending for this government, dramatically speaking

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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This will almost certainly be the last day I can ever justify doing this, so: A close reading of the lyrics to D:Ream’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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well for a start, he's actually listed two parties there

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.

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yeah I ... don't think it's gonna happen

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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Why if the Tories won the election? Spent lunchtime recording this deeply traumatic episode of Oh God, What Now?

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"In almost every realm of government activity, this lot have made life worse. The policies referred to in every sentence in this article have damaged untold thousands of lives. The party has created the broken Britain it claimed its mission was to repair."

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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I had actually missed that - christ. But there are many omissions alas. I already ran about 20% over my word count

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ændra.'s avatar ændra. @aendra.com
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I feel the UK dropping from 1st to 17th in the ILGA Rainbow Europe rankings is a bit of an omission in this...

rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

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Charlie Matthews's avatar Charlie Matthews @charliematthews.bsky.social
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Featuring more of the work I’ve been supporting NatCen with, looking at the trends and demographics that underlie the electoral shifts we are seeing - take a look!

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She's almost certain to hang on though. It would be incredible if she didn't but I don't see it

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Stephen Bush's avatar Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
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I don’t like first past the post and in general prefer minority governments or coalitions. But I think it would be very bad for everyone if Sunak’s Conservative party didn’t get a notably worse result than Major’s, because the cynical and lazy approach of the last two years would appear validated.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"In almost every realm of government activity, this lot have made life worse. The policies referred to in every sentence in this article have damaged untold thousands of lives. The party has created the broken Britain it claimed its mission was to repair."

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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one of the many disservice the Tory press has done to its party and to itself is convincing each other that, just because the public think the left are weirdos, that means they haven't noticed how fucking weird the right are.

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James Cooray Smith's avatar James Cooray Smith @cooraysmith.bsky.social
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“Starmer didn’t cause that election and start the intra Tory wars…”

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Dave Owen's avatar Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social
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This very much describes my social life in the eighties, at Sheffield Poly.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"I thought the woo about how 'we need buildings to have subserviant relationships with rivers for our mental health' was a nice touch." This week's Nimby Watch concerns a nimby campaign leaflet which feels suspiciously similar to, er, Nimby Watch.

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kim's avatar kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social
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don’t get sad if someone doesn't text you back. people only check their phones all day every day until they fall asleep or die.

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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"I thought the woo about how 'we need buildings to have subserviant relationships with rivers for our mental health' was a nice touch." This week's Nimby Watch concerns a nimby campaign leaflet which feels suspiciously similar to, er, Nimby Watch.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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If you’re wondering if Ed Davey’s antics pay off in terms of positive media coverage for the Lib Dems, Sky News just cut away from a discussion of England’s Euros prep to show Ed bungee-jumping.

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"All Mail splashes are capped up, like a WhatsApp from your nan." ICYMI, Saturday's column

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Jerry Chen's avatar Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social
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i have a new thing to say when people ask me how bluesky is

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Jonn Elledge 's avatar Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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no no I definitely meant the Labour party

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