Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)

sᴉɹɹɐH ǝǝ˥ 🇪🇺 @leeharris.xyz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:57 UTC

This is such a fun book!

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

The first of his name, mother of dragons

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Quaso!

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

Keir Starmer is a Commander of the Bath and a Privy Counseller so he can order you to bathe but only advise you to shit

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

Starmer is a Commander of the Bath and a Privy Counseller so he can order you to bathe but only advise you to shit

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

Yep. Historically they're both middling performances for Labour in terms of votes and vote share

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

"Please, please, he's not Christ. He was quite a scruffy man"

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

*The Right Hon Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, King's Counsel, Member of Parliament, the Prime Minister to you

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

Mengelepropisms more like

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

Undoubtedly, and a lot of people will have forgotten or never been aware of his enthusiastic contribution to the coalition and its austerity agenda, being very much part of the Orange Book wing of the party. But 99% of UK politics is vibes so few people care, apparently

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:03 UTC

I can't believe I actually prefer that to some of the alternatives! Believe me, I want to see all Tories cast into the outer darkness but that will never happen with the political makeup of the country so I find myself hoping for someone like Hunt in preference to a cold eyed killer like Badenoch

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

Big surge in Green maybe. Not remembering the coalition, they mightn't feel the violent mistrust of the LibDems that many Millennial and Gen X progressives do

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

I can't stand him but I'm actually fairly pleased he survived to slightly offset the really dangerous ones

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

There's a BBC article about the abuse directed at two women Labour MPs during the campaign, drawing equivalence between people shouting Free Palestine at Phillips, and masked men harassing Shabana Mahmood and threatened her family

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

In October 1941, Admiral Somerville, CO of Force H, was made a Knight Commander of the British Empire. He was already a Knight Commander of the Bath, and when his counterpart in the Mediterranean Fleet, Admiral Cunningham heard the news, he signalled Somerville: "What, twice a knight at your age?"

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:21 UTC

Whom I also tawt da classics

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

Very good point

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:18 UTC

My sense of it is that the Tories won't get any support from the media, business or large donors if they elect a headbanger. Capital is quite happy with Labour for the time being. They'll need to find another Cameron before they come back

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:16 UTC

Braverman survived but she had a 20,000 majority to play with. Badenoch similarly saw her vote halved but was so far ahead she still won

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

Is he practising for Tardi Grade 8?

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:12 UTC

They will, they always do, but it will be interesting to see. I wonder if anyone in the parliamentary party is capable of leading them out of this? I thought the one real possibility was Mordaunt, but she's gone

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:10 UTC

My sense of it is that the Labour vote is dangerously soft, and really not that high. There isn't a great deal of goodwill like there was in 1997, and I don't think it would take much to see the Tories recovering very quickly. If they find the right leader (big if) they could overturn this in a term

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Hahahahaha

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Yes, but my point is that it's about the vagaries of an unrepresentative system more than parties playing that system. The results hide the amount of support a party has in the country which, even given tactical voting and campaigning, is broadly reflected in the number/proportion of votes cast

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:01 UTC

I just realised that - we could have a leadership challenge with no challengers 😆

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

Good grief! That's horrendous

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:58 UTC

I'm actually surprised he didn't defect to Labour

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:57 UTC

I'll give it a go but when it comes to matters of the US, he regards me as an agent of King George

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

On the other hand, they'll need the backing of 100 MPs to stand, so we might have the interesting scenario of a leadership challenge with no MPs having enough support to run

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

I don't really know where to start when people bring it up. A friend on Facebook was posting about how tyranny ended in the US in 1776 and might come back only now, and I just could not

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:30 UTC

True. I fear they won't let go of it that easily though, and the only way Labour will change its position is if it's pressured relentlessly to support trans rights even to the level of existing equalities law. Hope I'm wrong

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