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Lloyd Shepherd
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Going to go out and buy newspapers. Yeah baby yeah
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Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Going to go out and buy newspapers. Yeah baby yeah
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Simon Threadgold
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‘Starmer scraps Rwanda policy’ But I was told Starmer’s Labour and the Tories are the same. It’s almost as if anyone saying that is some kind of cretinous buffoon, so emotionally hung up on not getting their precisely exact perfect version of Labour, they dismiss anything else as being Tory. Huh.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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I’ve only just realised: Fabricant lost his seat! Oh happy, happy day. His presence in the Commons was a daily affront to everything we hold decent. Jog on, you malignant ridiculous gnome.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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The new government’s attitude to the slow-burn destruction of the BBC is going to be really interesting. As is the position of the avowedly right-wing DG.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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And - isn't this what *Ofcom* is for?
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Potential use for AI which might be actually beneficial - generating a real-time number for 'media coverage' of politicians that everyone can see and can be used to hold to account those who book interviews and commission features. The algorithm would be complicated but isn't that what AI is for?
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Yep. Still think this is the high watermark of the Farage grift. But those poor folk in Clacton, Gt Yarmouth, Boston and Ashfield are still living through the con.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Also, enough with this 'rise of the populists' bollocks. That 'around 4 million people will always vote for the anti-immigration party' looks pretty solid to me. And it's well under 10% of the electorate.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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UKIP votes 2015: 3.8 million, 0 seats Reform votes 2024: 4.1 million, 4 seats Green votes 2015: 1.2 million, 1 seat Green votes 2024: 1.9 million, 4 seats Still two seats to report - but one of these blocs is up 8%, one is up 58%. Can we be a bit more grown up about where the story is?
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Having a bit of a cry if I’m honest.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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That was a cracking speech.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Markets in absolute turmoil
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Why are they in a fucking Audi?
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Twlldun
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Jon Dennis
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Farage and Reform will soon be pushing for proportional representation. For that to happen, there will have to be a referendum. But we had a referendum in 2011 and PR was rejected. If he wants another referendum on the voting system, why can't we have another one on Brexit?
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Amazing night of course but I’m afraid the image that will stay with me is of Richard Tice, in his expensive suit, standing among the oddly sad-looking candidates of Boston, enjoying the fact that his grift continues. All those poor people - Boston, Gt Yarmouth, Clayton, Ashfield. Played again.
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Moongolfer
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Very happy to say that Greens in my area won pretty much as many votes as all the other parties put together (apart from Labour) #ukelection #spin
#votegreen
www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Hey! That’s really cool. Well done to all.
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Stephen Bush
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Everything we’ve seen suggests the exit poll is underestimating the scale of Labour and Liberal Democrat gains and electoral efficiency, and overestimating Reform and the Conservatives.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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She’s certainly putting on a show. Dying to see how it plays out.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Always!
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Yep. Bit of a paradox right?
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David Quantick
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Best replies today from the people who confuse an internal leadership election with a general election.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Can’t believe no one’s built an app that squawks loudly every time a seat is announced for those of us who will inevitably fall asleep amidst all the blah blah blah punditry tonight.
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Ian Martin
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Just voted. Walking back, felt a stone lighter and a foot taller.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Well the size of the chance surely depends on the constituency, right?
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Lloyd Shepherd
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I've seen a few posts shouting 'last days of the Tories!' alongside 'we voted Green!' and I really hope the people posting them understand FPTP and the voting picture in their constituency 🫣
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Mark Chadbourn
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For those watching C4 election coverage tonight - no commercial breaks!
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Just voted in my 12th general election. If Labour win they’ll only have won a third of them. Still optimism and all that.
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Twlldun
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All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Oh oh and this is why we need critics. Pay the critics.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Oh and fuck all the streaming services for not showing it.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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So @andrewmale.bsky.social was waxing lyrical about a show called Evil which I’d never heard of so I bought the first episode and was loving it and then the title sequence came up 15 mins in and it’s by MICHELLE AND ROBERT KING. So of COURSE it’s amazing. Thank you Andrew.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Ocado is Russian for ‘Death To Waitrose’
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Ocado checkout is down. Can’t believe Labour aren’t addressing this.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Lido Letter 41: It’s a cloudy General Election Eve with the rain as reliable as a politician’s promise - maybe it will, maybe it won’t. The Lido is almost empty at … lloydshepherd.com/2024/07/03/l...
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Mark Chadbourn
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Reform.
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Ian Martin
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TORIES SEND ONE LAST HEARTFELT MESSAGE TO THE NATION
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Miro makes me feel old, in that I know how powerful it is and should be but I've never found the time to put in and learn it properly, so it always feels alien to me. Totally my fault, of course.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Lido Letter 40: With Beryl blowing up in Barbados it’s not surprising to go outside under a cloudy sky. The park is quiet, the Lido even quieter. There are perhaps a… lloydshepherd.com/2024/07/01/l...
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Oh and
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Lloyd Shepherd
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Make a band bready Sourdoughasis
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drow zelensky
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Realistically I think you should probably expect that a third of the parliament of any European country are likely to be insane people from now on. The goal is to keep that the ceiling. This may be pessimistic but this is linked to that being the proportion of our citizens which are insane
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Twlldun
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“Where no-one is homeless or hungry”* *unless they are one of - charitably - several former members of Primal Scream that you fucked over.
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Moongolfer
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Fifteen years ago today I was getting lost on the island of Mull, as part of my attempt to map out in real time the trail of RL Stephenson’s ‘Kidnapped’.
You might say this is where the idea for the Curiously Specific Book Club came from. timwright.typepad.com/kidmapper/20...
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Lloyd Shepherd
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If the cap fits
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Christina, mother of spiders
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Me: Why does my phone keep changing campus to Camus? Phone: There is no higher purpose in life. Me: You could at least stop misspelling words. Phone: *long drag on cigarette* There is no meaning. Duck yoor speeling. Me: Is that a beret? Phone: Oui.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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I think he’s living (if he is alive) proof that some of our newspapers are insane.
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Lloyd Shepherd
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I don’t know what offends me more about Letts: his bilious poisoning of discourse, or his banal lack of anything approaching talent. It’s a heady mix. And thanks to loony right newspaper editors and owners it’s made him a fortune.
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