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Rishi is already polling higher than Starmer in at least two "best pm" polls. It is a completely inane thing to poll like, but nevertheless I think we can safely say Bastani is much more interested in having a career and profile rather than seriously thinking bout what is really going on in UK politics.

I don't think I can predict whether the Tories will explode or implode at the next GE but it seems unlikely that anything Labour do will determine the outcome

Isn't that true of all UK elections? That they are lost by the incumbent party rather than won by the opposition, though its still on the opposition to some extent to be able take advantage of those mistakes

The thing about the tories is their gaslighting ability to always pretend they've somehow only just got in. I don't know if the constant leadership changes are necessarily perceived as negative when it comes down to it

tories have this legitimacy bias that seems to persist regardless of all unpopularity and incompetence and corruption and brutality it's like even if you hate them they feel like the sort of people who'd be in charge you know

tories have this legitimacy bias that seems to persist regardless of all unpopularity and incompetence and corruption and brutality it's like even if you hate them they feel like the sort of people who'd be in charge you know

I was thinking this a while ago when they went out on the street to interview Steve from Mansfield (64) every day for months on end, and one of the things that kept cropping up was 'Labour hadn't done this that and the other I'll never vote for them again'. And you could kind of read it as 'oh they didn't do that years ago when they were in power'. And you could also read it as referring to Labour councils too, both of these things are more than viable

But tying in to what you just said, I also got the feeling of Labour as CURRENTLY in power, as part of the government, as a kind of a Department of Opposition. And that you're not supposed to actually vote them in, they exist to keep the Tories in check and they had been failing at doing that.

I don't mean in a 'controlled opposition' sense, more a kind of conflating of they're part of parliament with they're part of government, and in more of a subconscious way

I don't know if the constant leadership changes are necessarily perceived as negative when it comes down to it

Reminds me of the model of management turnover that has been very successful for Chelsea FC.

It's entirely true about "legitimacy bias".

A while ago someone posted a Perry Anderson analysis from 60 years ago that showed the same thing.

This is also a factor in why the Con party will probably not emerge very badly from the next GE, contra Bastani.

I shouldn't say "probably". Truth is I don't know, but I think his predictions are oddly incautious this far out.

This is a much better assessment of the situation than "It'll go higher/lower".

https://newsocialist.org.uk/centrism-suppression-politics/

This person's gonna be on Novara next week pic.twitter.com/7TYW1HdkOC

— Hywel (@hywelroberts12) October 28, 2022

I know you want to cultivate that UnHerd “thoughtful” anti-liberal make you think world, with various the left wing case for something conservative, but come the fuck on. https://t.co/09egAVrnzW pic.twitter.com/tnUDOWCPBK

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) November 1, 2022

bastani is only really useful as a sort of ideological weather vane but if this is the way the wind is blowing on the anglo left we are extremely fucked

Another case of green room poisoning…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgkVqvfXgAEDk17?format=jpg&name=small

corgi registered hot takes

If you don't like noise don't live in a city centre. And if you can afford to buy in a nice location you can afford to buy secondary glazing and a white noise machine. This stuff does my head in. They've already destroyed Brick Lane at night. https://t.co/az7csjPDZl

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 2, 2022

I am not sure I have ever heard of 'secondary glazing' before.

And ... a white noise machine ?!

you can buy white noise machines for £20-30

I've never heard of secondary glazing but have heard of double glazed windows, which I assume is the same thing.

there is actually such a thing as secondary glazing, you can have it installed additional to your double glazing for extra insulation.

it cuts out noise as well

Well I say I never learn anything new from Novara but!

It gets used a fair amount for listed properties (because you don't need to remove the windows) - so it's sometimes instead of double glazing.

This is useful stat on Paul Mason if becomes a Lab MP: “He has proposed an increase in military spending by Britain from the present two per cent to “between 3 and 5 per cent of our GDP”, an increase of around £65 billion a year.”

£65 billion! A year! https://t.co/B8c65pRPps

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 3, 2022

there is nothing useful to be learned from lazy grifters commenting on Paul Mason, he's never going to be a Labour MP and nobody takes him seriously in the PLP these days, despite him rim jobbing Kieth in 2019. He's a marginal joke figure. Bastani should take another holiday or maybe just spend the money on some secondary glazing rather than posting, at least then he might not notice when kids throw conkers at his window!

Amusing!

Bastani is a lot more like Mason than he would like to think.

Am I on drugs? The guy who was the face of ‘stop Brexit’ now says ‘we had a vote on it’.

If he’d said that after 2017 we could well have had no hard Brexit, and dare I say no Tory government.

Personal ambitions within Labour trumped what mattered. pic.twitter.com/Uhn6nDumiA

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 6, 2022

Am I on drugs?

Good, perceptive tweet.

Updated branch nominations in the race to be Labour’s next candidate in Sheffield Central:

Abtisam Mohammed: Broomhill & Sharrow Vale, Walkley, Manor

Rizwana Lala: Broomhill & Sharrow Vale, City, Walkley

Mike Buckley: City

Eddie Izzard: Manor

Jayne Dunn: 0

Paul Mason: 0

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 7, 2022

Obsessed.

Pure alternative world here but I reckon Bastani would've stood for Lab MP under a functioning left wing Lab party. And lost like this.

He can't help himself.

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy fires back at bizarre speech by journalist Paul Mason trouncing the town. https://t.co/CVkBuOsYOw

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 7, 2022

“When you get off the train in Wigan the streets are dead and the only drinking places are standing places and the only people drinking are young men,”

is he concerned there are not enough old people drinking? He should check out one of the 'spoons in the north. The old boys are usually in there before 9am and they don't start on coffee.

AB is literally

a) posting early results from PM's attempt to be an MP in Sheffield
b) reviving old videos of PM, from years ago, that most of his followers have seen before
c) then posting the outraged response to the revival.

PM must feel like he is "living rent-free in AB's head". But also that AB is sabotaging his - seemingly already unsuccessful - attempt at a new career.

Last month Labour MPs clapped @ApsanaBegumMP after she spoke about the domestic violence she's endured and which she says the party has enabled.

Tonight she can't attend her local Labour fundraiser bc the party won't provide the necessary safeguards.

Claps don't protect women.

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) November 9, 2022

Its a great loss to comedy that Paul Mason probably won't be a Labour MP (unless Starmer stitches something up for him).

"The constituents are blaming councillors for pot holes & late bin collections? Don't they know that's a Moscow talking point?" pic.twitter.com/dFRuHBKFPH

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 11, 2022

His constituency selection is seemingly based on throwing darts at a map of the UK, with a blindfold, pissed. Maybe he'll go for the Isle of Wight next?

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 11, 2022

Forgot the existence of this riff.

my personal favourite take from an all-time Twitter takemaster. the big lad's brain became pure worms by the end. pic.twitter.com/qyxFTQ6fB8

— michael richmond (@Sisyphusa) November 18, 2022

Novara watches the WC

Souness and Keane have wildly different political views. Souness hung the Queen's portrait up in the Rangers dressing room, Keane sung rebel songs playing for Ireland.

But they get on because each knows the other was a 'good pro'. We could all learn from that!

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 22, 2022

That's quite a contortion.

There's a problem when the question of "Should there be a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar?" only properly takes off in the fortnight running up to the tournament. The sporting boycott against South Africa took years of organising – there isn't a shortcut to this stuff!

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) November 20, 2022

This is why the World Cup is amazing. pic.twitter.com/2K5VvcJDe4

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 22, 2022

I was glad for Saudi Arabia, but unsure why fans celebrating a win is amazing.

Theft & assault have largely been decriminalised in London, because the police don't do much beyond giving you a crime reference number.

But don't worry, instead of responding to crime the MET decided to create a fake record shop and recording studio. https://t.co/EYupGO1Mlh

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 22, 2022

"Theft & assault have largely been decriminalised in London"

Interesting statement.

he's already transforming into a grumpy old bourgeoisie reactionary and he hasn't even hit 40 yet... predictable.

4 years coffee free! Think I’ll have to quit tea soon though, smallest caffeine now really impacts my sleep. No more hair gel, lamb or black tea, my Iranian ancestors would be bereft.

Any tips for completely quitting caffeine?

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 23, 2022

Novara would say yes to oil money

This is why the World Cup is amazing. pic.twitter.com/2K5VvcJDe4

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 22, 2022

AB and Sutton both correct. (Though resting Bale might have helped.)

Weirder still was Eni Aluko saying Wales might rest Bale against Iran? 🤣 https://t.co/uKTHJ8hZMW

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 25, 2022

Just bizarre to have two Welshmen and a German on this game? If not an Iranian at least get a pro with experience of football in the Middle East? Klinsmann has played and managed in Europe & the US. If Iran ‘worked’ ref it’s because Queiroz coached them to. No need for racism! https://t.co/JI7VI5vIFc

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 25, 2022

Agree, though I usually like Klinsmann.

It’s happening again for Jordan Henderson tonight. pic.twitter.com/BgpTX4ZN2q

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) November 29, 2022

Dog goes the weasel.

Meanwhile ‘left wingers’ who criticised Corbyn of ‘Stalinism’ (because they didn’t get jobs or seats) like @paulmasonnews - stay silent during a process which borders on outright corruption.

If you want a friend in politics, get a dog, but my goodness what a weasel.

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) December 2, 2022

how many dogs are there that are currently active in UK politics? I'm afraid he's talking out of his pawsterrier again

Viva hate.

Get in loser we’re joining a renters union. pic.twitter.com/SRGPJ2p8sc

— Gary McQuiggin (@ggaaarrryyyy) December 3, 2022

I had zero idea of why Saka started ahead of Rashford before kick off and I have even less now. It’s like watching a team on sedatives.

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) December 4, 2022

As someone who has also done it here and there, I feel that this isn't quite the strong qualification she seems to think it is.

I used to teach Victorian literature at university level lmao https://t.co/ZRsy3ia4hC

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) December 5, 2022