So what we can determine is that far too many of the people that want to be MPs are in fact people that should not be allowed anywhere near positions of power, regardless of political leaning.
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Yeah, I think this is absolutely true and it's a major problem for governance generally.Originally posted by charlesr View Post
There is a really good book called Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by a political scientist called Brian Klass. I saw him give a talk a couple of years ago on the themes of the book and one of his first gambits was to ask the room - a self-selecting group in the sense that all attendees were people who regularly devote a Tuesday evening to a 'Skeptics in the Pub' talk - who among us would want to be an MP.
Very few hands were raised, and his point was basically that most people don't want power. The people who are most motivated to get it are the ones that usually end up with it, whether they are the most suitable to have it or not.
His wider point over the course of the talk was that in many cases, the commonalities between the people who most actively seek power actually do not to tend to predispose them to be what we might consider suitable leaders.
It's not a big, shocking point - it's kind of obvious when you think about it - but it's really interesting to see it laid out and examined, and I recommend the book very much.Comment
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Although I can understand his frustration at a resident in his constituency complaining about the bins when she didn't even vote for him, sadly that's part of the deal of being an MP.
He rightly shout be fired/resign.
I will state that I find it frustrating that The Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday will happily go through Labour WhatsApp messages, but in the Covid enquiry, the Tories were fine to delete everything.
Rather than petitioning Apple to let them access data, just get the Daily Mail to dig up the info?
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The problem is that Labour can't really just straight-up lie. Or I mean, they can, but the press will eviscerate them.Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View Post
Reform, being populist, will just say whatever everyone in the room wants at the given time, and even if the press does complain, it'll be The Guardian and most will just dismiss that as lefty nonsense.
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Like I just saidOriginally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
I once read a joke that in the UK, you can get into anywhere if you appear out-the-shower, damp, half-naked, and walk in wearing a wet towel, politely and apologetically saying "excuse me" as you make your way through any establishment or checkpoint.
You're dealing with people who have no shame, that have discovered the ultimate politics life-hack - that you can basically lie all you want, provided you make sure that, in any given room, you tell the lies the people around you want to hear. You've also got to be a sociopath, i.e. you're totally okay with throwing the whole world under the bus for your benefit.
But if you do these things, people will clap for you, vote for you, and even defend you against your detractors.
It's like that press conference last year where one of Trump's mates got uppity and said "I was told there would be no fact-checking". It's a wonder no-one jumped out of the audience and proceeded to beat him to death with his own shoes, because what he really said was "I was told I could lie with impunity and I dislike it when I can't".Comment
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Guess what? Labour have every chance to thwart Reform's populism by actually making proper changes to improve things to immediately benefit working people. They currently are not doing that. They are just enforcing a milquetoast status quo and therefore it is they who are giving Reform the ammunition they need.Originally posted by Asura View Post
It's a problem of their own making and a problem that will lead to them being one-termers unless they change course.Comment
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I disagree with this, in that Reform (well Tice and Farage and primary shareholders of Reform) don't really have to do anything except make big claims and keep in the news, which the press are more than willing to do. Like Asura says, they just have to say something salacious to keep in the public eye.
WTF has Farage done for Clacton? He's cancelled the MP clinics.
The press are supposed to be balanced, so they always get Farage on. Where are the Lib Dems and Greens that have more MPs than Reform?
It doesn't fill the clickbait requirements that Farage ticks.
Awful interview with Green co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP on The News Agents. He was fine, but the hosts were really bad (when they're normally ace), just saying stuff like "You don't want to do it like this, you want to do it like this."
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There's 100% not any attempt to mask who they are - The Deputy Leader of Reform was on LBC yesterday and put it very literally that they are a Populist party and if in power fully intend to create their own version of DOGE to gut all Government Departments and servicesComment
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More public services to be butchered with cuts.
No doubt Ukraine and Israel will receive more money while we're lied to with we're told "ThErE's nO MoNeY LeFt!1!1!!"
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Well if trumple threw Ukraine under the bus before he just backed it up, then chucked the twitching body infront of a train that’s on fire.
The EU nato countries need to forcibly stop these two fascist dictators from deciding Ukraines fate, f Russia and f trump.
F*****g disgusting
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