[Watchman]

Of course it’s never going to work with 2 dummies

[Tubby Isaacs]

Matt here, leaning on his extensive business experience, to tell other people how to do it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[mattomac]

I did like how he said that on the same day Starmer said that all jobs offered to migrant workers had to meet the UK working standards.

Which I whole heartedly agree and which Goodwin completely ignores.

[Tubby Isaacs]

You remember that "left on economics" stuff, which Matt never fleshed out? Well, it turns out that it doesn't involve left stuff like redistribution.

But it does involve attacking international elites, rhetorically and via protectionism. Proven route to economic success that is.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I see he wants to compensate firms adversely affected by the move to protectionism. So free money for woke elites then, by his own logic. Where does the money for this come from? Or the money to spend much more on training British workers. Not from tax on higher earners?

As Sunder says, this only really makes sense in terms of a Farage political party, where nobody cares about contradictions. That's the next step, isn't it?

[Andy McDandy]

Who'd have thought it? The BLM protester, the food bank volunteer, the sensitive art student and the corporate raider? All woke elites.

[mattomac]

The man who openly suggests the positives of Eugenics is however not part of the elite.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Jimmy Hill.

[Andy McDandy]

Sounds better than "I asked a bunch of people at the NatC conference".

[Crabcakes]

Jimmy Hill.

To give him the benefit of the doubt, I do feel under-represented on those issues in the media and in government. In that I think we need to grow immigration not blindly slash at it to hit arbitrary numbers oblivious to the harm we’re doing to the UK, that complaints about wokery are at best a feeble distraction from genuine issues and at best a gossamer-thin cover for outright bigotry, and that institutions and people that only promote a dated, narrow and usually bigoted expression of what it means to be British aren’t attacked nearly enough. And I’m sick of clueless MPs and columnists (usually ex-MPs or advisors who resigned in disgrace) telling me what I should be worried about.

So year, he could be right - but in true Goodwin fashion he has it totally arse about face.

[Tubby Isaacs]

To give him the benefit of the doubt, I do feel under-represented on those issues in the media and in government. In that I think we need to grow immigration not blindly slash at it to hit arbitrary numbers oblivious to the harm we’re doing to the UK, that complaints about wokery are at best a feeble distraction from genuine issues and at best a gossamer-thin cover for outright bigotry, and that institutions and people that only promote a dated, narrow and usually bigoted expression of what it means to be British aren’t attacked nearly enough. And I’m sick of clueless MPs and columnists (usually ex-MPs or advisors who resigned in disgrace) telling me what I should be worried about.

So year, he could be right - but in true Goodwin fashion he has it totally arse about face.

Very well put Sir.

And who's he talking about in number 3 there? The Government? Most of the moaning is about universities on that score. Is he suggesting doing an Orban/ De Santis on them? He probably is.

[mattomac]

Probably will if they stay in power.

Even Trump was dismissing the word “woke”, probably more due to De Santis using it as every second word and him not inventing it.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha. The liberal globalizing trend? What was Bozo supposed to do? Collectivise farming?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Been caught lying again.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm guessing he's using "scrutinise" in the "complain about" sense. Less "not sure if some of these terms are suitable for their reading age" and more "WOSSA QUEEEAH DOIN IN A SCIENCE BOOK?"

[Youngian]

An interesting episode on how Mary Whitehouse’s long running crusade against Matt’s new elite came crashing down when she rubbed up against the real elite. Thatcher’s relationship with Whitehouse was proving useful for keeping middle England onside and by the mid 80s they’d concocted an unprecedented draconian censorship proposal to impose on broadcasters. The problem was the real elite wanted to launch Sky TV to put Page 3 stunners up in lights. Thatcher soon came round to Mr Murdoch’s way of thinking (do as I say or my papers will stop being nice to you) and ditched the clause. That was the end of Mary.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He knows very well about the Good Friday Agreement. But this is where he's got himself.

[Bones McCoy]

He's just a grubby little activist isn't he.