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A matter of policy

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There is currently a bit of a kerfuffle going on on the platform formally known as twitter. Oddly the source of this is someone asking that a party they might naturally support do a better job of things, now whilst their town might rub some people up the wrong way it’s hardly an unreasonable demand. However this has caused some people who are more strongly aligned with the party in question to declare that asking a party to do better, and pointing out it’s flaws is unhelpful bordering on treasonous. These people could of course just mute, block and generally … Continue reading →

By their supporters shall you know them

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There is a theory going around amongst people of my acquaintance that the best way to judge a political party is by looking at who supports them. Now I think this is nonsense as political parties don’t really have that much control over their membership let alone their supporters, plus of course if someones political allegiance gets reported or not is rather dependent on the media’s agenda. So this theory is actually more “you can judge what a party is like by who the media tell you their supporters are” – which is even sillier. Despite this theory being really … Continue reading →