I don’t know what is happening and I don’t dare ask
Tomas Hirst
@tomashirstecon.bsky.social
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Strategy & Asset Allocation. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” - @t0nyyates
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September jobs day will be Nov 20
Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations
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The impact of this on mortgage rates would’ve given the housing market and housebuilding a boost heading into the new year.
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I mean, exactly! Things that also poll well “fund the NHS properly”, “fix social care”, “unclog the justice system” but umm it is not entirely helpful to build a platform this way.
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Right. “We’ve chronically underinvested in our buildings, equipment and staff but we’re mostly focused on the bad reviews we’re getting on the vending machine snacks”
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It's also grimly funny that the consensus of Bluesky policy wonks has been "there's way too much focus on whether policies poll well and too little on whether the constellation actually makes sense" and people are coming back with "but just look at how this one policy polls!"
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It's true. If Labour raise income taxes, the party might slump to around a quarter of the vote, and its PM and Chancellor might be even more unpopular than Rishi Sunak in 2024 or Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 - wait, sorry, just got an email from Ipsos with some new polling, I'm sure it's nothing important.
Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
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"[T]he [dividing] lines it is drawing are not challenges it can meet in reality,...the campaigns it is running are against its own, & that far from providing the government with...direction, all it does is accelerate the demise of a directionless & paranoid administration" @stephenkb.bsky.social
Brain-dead Labour retreats to its comfort zone: campaigning
Downing Street’s bizarre war on itself is a symptom of a government whose ideas dissolve on contact with reality
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Has anyone tried turning the government off and back on again?
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To be fair, there are oil traders there as well. And they really are the worst ones.
