Mailwatch(ed) Forum

'So here's my idea of why you're so great'
'Oh do tell us, we'd like to know'
'Well, let me count the ways the People love you'
'You're so kind, Matt, really on the ball'

Apparently they are going make an ominous statement… wonder what Matthew Goodwin’s data told them.

Professor Hunch

Lots of people voting for him, a shit opposition leader, and a pass from Fargle? Well duh.

Not sure how he is going to get Corbyn reinstated.

Matt Partridge nearly prompted me to take up active Twitter again, but I just about held off.

The OP calls the report "political not academic" on the basis of what he sees as shoddy methods. He doesn't say to Goodwin that it must be political and not academic because the Legatum Institute are involved. Had he done that, then this would be a fair point of Matty's. Note how Matty doesn't show that the OP's report for these social democrats has shoddy and political methods.

At this point, the OP doubtless loses the will to live and doesn't bother to reply. Matty sticks up the tumbleweeds. Silence speaks volumes, as with Peter Baxendale-Thomas,

Matt's also opined that Johnson needs new advisers. Funnily enough, these advisers will think exactly like Matt. Do that and Johnson romps home again, and even holds Bury South.

I thought the problem was Johnson being obviously caught lying. Apparently not.

I thought the problem was Johnson being obviously caught lying. Apparently not.

People don’t like a culture of lying. The culture war Matt missed. Just kidding Matt, its still the fucking economy, stupid as we’re about to find out.

Goodwin's article here is hilariously bad. Goodwin's policy prescription is, er, thin. And the Red Wall wants more attacks on "the blob".

Does Goodwin genuinely believe Johnson gives a fuck?

The “blob” is equivalent to the “swamp” the problem is the blob doesn’t mean anything to anyone outside a few on Twitter.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:33 pm Goodwin's article here is hilariously bad. Goodwin's policy prescription is, er, thin. And the Red Wall wants more attacks on "the blob".

It's like those here's how Donald Trump can become Presidential articles which ignored the fact that Trump was incapable of growing into the role just like Johnson is incapable of becoming Prime Ministerial.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:33 pm Goodwin's article here is hilariously bad.

Who are these wokes Johnson has spent the last year speaking to; interior designers?

they got an establishment politician who spent much of the last year speaking to the values of metro cosmopolitans who represent neither a majority of the Conservative electorate nor the country.

He doesn’t elaborate much on the metro cosmos influence and widens the net to Southerners. He misses an important point about the Tory blue collar vote, Basildon man doesn’t want to pay to regenerate the north. Neither do gin and Jag stock broker belts. Matt will find support for leveling up the North among Green Party wokes in Lewisham.

more than a few 2019ers who simply do not believe their southern, affluent and typically Oxbridge-educated colleagues are seriously invested in levelling-up the Red Wall, who they say resent the new focus on the north, who look at their party’s new blue-collar voters with a combination of bemusement and snobbery and who, they say, remain much too wedded to the old conservatism of the Eighties.

This is what happens when people elevate certain kinds of stories above, you know, paying attention.

There are some like Lee Anderson who believe the polls shifted because Johnson made a speech at Cop26.

I say a speech because it did little of anything else just a load of hot air which is a bit ironic.

Ha ha ha.

Are liberal economics woke or state planning?

All the north is going to get is a few new town signs saying "Freeport".

They'd better be fucking grateful, or a bunch of public school columnist tossers will print jokes about pies and whippets.

Had a chat with my brother today.

"If they actually wanted to build HS2, it'd be built by now".

Amen to that.