Yukon born, former ocean sailor now decarbonising the built environment. Always curious. Also may be at https://xitter.cf/t.co/vjY1ryiIfz
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Sam Carson retweeted
The extreme Right are very loud rather than very popular. But as long as the media mistake loudness for popularity, the extreme Right will keep getting more airtime than their rivals. That’s not to underestimate the very real frustrations with politics that many of their supporters feel, but it does give us the first very real sign that the march of the Far Right is not as relentless and unstoppable as they would browbeat us into believing. It’ll be hard work and demand full attention, but they CAN be stopped. And that gives me hope.
Sam Carson retweeted
🆕 Barely more than a third of people who voted Reform yesterday said they might have voted Conservative. Our new poll conducted since 10pm yesterday finds the assumption simply adding up Tory & Reform UK votes would make a single combined block is likely to be wrong.
Sam Carson retweeted
UKIP 2015: 3.8m votes - 12.6%
Reform 2024: 4m votes - 14.3%
The media narrative could easily be: why hasn’t the hard-right made more progress in the last ten years? But it isn’t.
Sam Carson retweeted
Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).
Sam Carson retweeted
Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat:
The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others.
They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.
Sam Carson retweeted
Looks like there were three big transfers of seats on the night
🔵🔴 179 Con -> Lab
🟡🔴 35 SNP -> Lab
🔵🟠 57 Con -> Lib
(kudos to @narottammedhora for this brilliant sankey chart) @thetimes #ge24 thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Sam Carson retweeted
PM Cameron in Witney - no longer a Conservative seat
PM May in Maidenhead - no longer a Conservative seat
PM Johnson in Uxbridge & Ruislip - no longer a Conservative seat
PM Truss in SW Norfolk - no longer a Conservative seat
Astonishing. The most telling stat of the night
Sam Carson retweeted
I hate the fact that I have to produce id to vote. Between 2019 and 2013 there were just 11 convictions and 4 cautions for voter fraud. It's not a problem. Yet here we are - demanding proof the young and poor are less likely to have. It's Windrush at the polls.
Sam Carson retweeted
It doesn't feel like it, but Reform barely improve on UKIP's 2015 election. 14.3% of the vote vs 12.6%. 4 or 5 seats vs 1 seat. 98 2nd places vs 120. Not exactly a sea change. Yet seen as very significant given how close they pushed the Tories nationally in the polls.
Sam Carson retweeted
So @TheGreenParty now have 4 seats - as many as the revolting Reform party are forecast to get. So why in god’s name is @BBCNews rabbiting on about Reform still and not talking about extraordinary Green performance??
Sam Carson retweeted
Congratulations @Keir_Starmer, @RachelReevesMP & colleagues. Voters rejected culture wars over net zero, and business is here to help deliver green growth
Stability will be good for investment
Be bold in tackling planning, grid and outdated energy market. People will thank you
Sam Carson retweeted
This was one of our most shared images of the last 4 years so we've updated it for this Thursday's election.
In *most* seats across the country, Labour is the vote to stop the Tories winning, however in these seats a Labour vote won't actually help...
#GE2024 #TacticalVoting
Sam Carson retweeted
They'll tell you voting doesn't make a difference.
But it was a Labour Government that changed my life.
If you want change, vote for it on Thursday.
Sam Carson retweeted
apropos of nothing, one of the best political cartoons of our era - by @stephen_collins
Sam Carson retweeted
In total now the Conservatives are saying they'll raise £6 billion a year from cutting tax avoidance.
So they are acknowledging they've left tens of billions on the table over the last 14 years while cutting public services. Or they're making it up.
Has to be one or the other
Sam Carson retweeted
If the reasoning behind the Conservatives mandatory National Service is - as they say- to ‘ignite a passion for a future career in healthcare, public service, charity & armed forces’ they cld start w decent wages & conditions for ppl in those careers now! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdd…
Sam Carson retweeted
UK household energy bills remain well above pre-crisis levels – and that's overwhelmingly due to high wholesale gas prices and network costs
("green levies" – which pay for homegrown low-carbon power – only make up 7% of avg bills, with another 5% for social policy inc insulation / fuel poverty support)
@ClaireCoutinho @Ed_Miliband
Sam Carson retweeted
They're not even quitting because they're scared they'll lose. They're quitting because they don't even know what they'd do if they won. They've spent eight years driving all sense and moderation out of their party and now even they don't want to be a part of what's left.
Sam Carson retweeted
The deluge launch drowned out by D:Ream.
A brewery visit with a teetotal PM, so no chance of a piss up.
Now a site visit to something famous for sinking.
Is there a double agent in CCHQ, and were they a headline writer in a previous life? 🤦♀️
Our candidates deserve better.
On a visit to the Titanic Quarter today, I asked the Prime Minister if he is captaining a sinking ship going into this election
@BelfastLive
Sam Carson retweeted
Bye bye, Dominic Raab.
Time for a #FreshStart in #EsherAndWalton with @monicabeharding
#MakeItMonica
