ruffneck23
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Re shuffle confirmed and I'll add Williamson to the list, however it may be moved sideways.
The New Tories - Ruthlessly Incompetent. Post Examples of Tory Stupidity Here
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Artaxerxes
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
That article describes Liz Truss as 'media savvy'.
ruffneck23
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IK am sorry but am I still alseep ? 
He’s got no chance of producing something that can pin down what this means without dictating something so narrow that it destroys the very thing he is trying to protect, but I can sympathise with this statement:
”Broadcasters should make programmes for British audiences primarily rather than for global sales, Mr Whittingdale said…. By contrast many of the shows on streaming platforms appear “generic” because they are designed by algorithm to appeal to a global audience.”
”Broadcasters should make programmes for British audiences primarily rather than for global sales, Mr Whittingdale said…. By contrast many of the shows on streaming platforms appear “generic” because they are designed by algorithm to appeal to a global audience.”
Yossarian
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"The people behind the biggest and most exciting productions - Bond, the new Lord of the Rings - have their pick of any country in the world to make their films and TV shows. And they are choosing to make them here," boasts minister announcing plans to demand more Britishness.
Looking forward to the scene where Bilbo Baggins falls through the bar.
Looking forward to the scene where Bilbo Baggins falls through the bar.
elbows
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That shrill, deluded bollocks is just another indicator that the Thatcherite version of conservatism is incompatible with the realities of this century. And that an ideological vacuum opened up visibly since the financial crisis, and that there would eventually need to be a shift to fill that void. In theory the conservative party will eventually adapt to this, but it will be a long and messy process because the party and the tory press are full of complete nuts who are totally wedded to the Thatcherite version of conservatism. And they are not reacting well to the fact their side are no longer going to be able to dominate, they are out of step and will end up howling at the moon for a long time. Those who are more flexible should be looking for tips from the pre-Thatcher era of conservatism for how they can re-adopt some of that in order to adapt to modern realities.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
TBF it might be a bit of a stretch to describe what this shower believe in as "Thatcherite"; like so many other things that is probably just a word they wrap around themselves to make it appear that they have an ideology.
If this lot have a belief, it is probably best described as being similar to the big boy at a private school lording it over the smaller boys - the bullying, trolling, incompetence, daft rules and finally the tears when someone has a pop back are all well established nowadays.
elbows
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Yeah I'm just searching for a shorthand way to describe it. I've tried using neoliberal in the past and people were quick to point out inaccurate use of the term.
I'll still keep trying though because there are specific ideological aspects, or at least aspects of rhetoric, that did change at various points in the last 100 years, beyond the constants you describe to do with power and privilege and shit establishment attitudes.
Could try picking from the following terms to try to pin down what exactly I am on about in terms of the tories being capable of more than one flavour of political and economic thinking in the past.
Post-war consensus
Butskellism
One-nation conservatism.
I think its totally fair enough that we could argue how much those things really existed at the time, especially given how oeverused such concepts were in their day. They are bound to be part myth, but I'm more interested in the real underlying differences, and at the very least the different sets of compromises on offer. Because I'm sure there were some real differences between the likes of Heath and Thatcher, and attitudes towards taxation and spending, which forces should manage the economy, ownership of certain key things, and what sort of rhetoric all that is dressed up in.
And I'd say that things like 'levelling up' are an attempt to start to fill the ideological and rhetorical void, to actually come up with something that might resemble a vision they could actually sell to people. Because for example even though the privatisation agenda is not over, the period where such things could be used as central pillars of a sales pitch to the electorate were rather short lived. And there is some awareness that they are supposed to at least pretend to have something on offer that might improve peoples lives.
Isn't this down to the UK waving costs for filming?
I think that photo might be faked. That Arcuri woman, who definitely wasn't shagging Johnson, was photographed in exactly the same get-up, and the UK-US thing makes more sense for her.
ska invita
back on the other side
that, coupled with this from her majestys opposition
Labour “nothing to say on racial justice”
Labour’s most senior black politician quit after falling out with Keir Starmer over race equality...
www.voice-online.co.uk
sums up the UK neatly
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This lot aren’t quite familiar with how viruses work. Strangely they don’t cohere to libertarian sovereignty
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