Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "A Different Bias"
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I don’t think you’re right about this. Ultimately, all businesses need to expand. Twitter will become a dead zone to companies who are already preaching to the converted. In order to grow they will have to reach new people and they will set up a presence wherever the potential new markets are. Sure, the Tory press aren’t moving right now, whilst the, “crisis,” occurs, since they need to show solidarity and back each other whilst the lines are being drawn and people are showing, “who,” they are by stepping to one side or the other. But ultimately, they will have to go where the market takes them. Especially if Bluesky becomes a serious rival to Twitter.
I too follow both the right and left wing press as well as those attempting to be genuinely unbiased, such as TLDR on Nebula, for instance. But I haven’t used Twitter for many years now because I think I am probably still banned for saying things about Elon that his moderators didn’t like. His was the only account I ever responded to.
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@ : I must confess to being pretty ignorant about the detailed workings of social media, and I hadn’t even heard of BlueSky until the last few days. So, you’re probably right. I just know that right wing outlets (like all outlets; businesses) have to reach the potential customer to expand.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that they would behave in the same manner that they do on Twitter. They won’t necessarily be alienating and hostile to different views on BlueSky. It will start will respectable outlets, like The Times and Telegraph getting a foothold, and their international equivalents. Better moderation will see lots of accounts being banned, presumably. But there will soon be, “inducements,” to follow on Twitter, inserted with the revenue producing adverts for BlueSky. The larger the platform grows, the more people seeking to expand their businesses or, “influence groups,” will be attracted. No business ever says, “We prefer one platform over another,” after all. They just want a presence wherever they think they can expand.
I’m probably missing an awful lot, not knowing how BlueSky works, or what their business model is, so please correct me where I’m wrong?
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@songsofloveresistance8549 I won’t bore you with the details of my dad’s death but, suffice it to say, if I were to encounter Boris Johnson, or any of his acolytes, campaigning in the streets, I would genuinely attempt to kick him hard in the nads, explaining each point of contention as to why I will never vote Tory again with each blow, until someone overpowered me.
I would then look forward to telling my story in court, and I actually think I might well be able to parley my case into being dismissed by arguing, “Justifiable Bollockaside,” on behalf of the nation. Regardless, I’d serve my sentence with a smile and write a book called, “I Bollocked Johnson In The Johnson For Britain,” or something. 😉✌️
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That’s true. Labour could have, and should have, squashed the false claim that the Winter Fuel Allowance was being, “stopped,” “ended,” or otherwise, “breaking their manifesto promises.” They could have made such a VIRTUE out of necessity by using the term, “MEANS TESTED,” as a way of telling the public they were no longer throwing money at the rich and only giving the allowance to those who NEED IT, due to Tory greed, incompetence and fraud!
Then they could have debated over the barrier to access to the allowance, which is too low. More people need to be entitled to it. But each time the Tories made THAT point, Starmer can point to the 22 billion pound hole they left by the Tories that was covered up, as well as their record breaking loss of £26 billion to fraud, incompetence and waste, which was the number that the Tories came up with themselves!
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It really should be a crime for people like Johnson to lie so blatantly. Any politician at Cabinet level should have a legal responsibility to tell the truth and face criminal liability for disinformation. By all means, allow them to express their warped opinions all the live long day, but NOT their facts.
The vaccine issue is clearly shown in the history books. Anthony Seldon’s books, Johnson At 10, and Truss At 10, both show the receipts. We were able to use the European mechanism to get our vaccines, because that had not yet expired! It was a benefit of being IN Europe, that we would not get again!
If there is a, “hero,” in this story, it’s Doctor June Raine, the CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency, who oversaw the entire vaccination program. It is because of her that we were, “first,” to begin a rollout of vaccinations but she too confirms that we were the slowest to complete it. And that was due to conflicting political agendas in Cabinet, and Johnson’s continual flip flopping on decisions, leaving the right hand never knowing what the left hand was doing, frequently legging up the NHS in mid step.
Johnson’s lies are not just craven, blatant and reliant on the ignorance of the average voter, but cynical to the point of threatening genuine harm in the future! This should not be tolerated in a modern democracy!
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I would support national service if it was for two years and each conscript was allowed to choose between one of three options: 1) The armed services, obviously. And you can learn a skill or two that can go on your CV, as well as shore up our shrinking armed services’ numbers, which is an issue that needs attention as well as money.
2) Health and Social Services. Again, these services are desperate for staff and meaningful skills could be taught to young people for their CV’s, whilst they prop up the services by doing all the grunt work, while the NHS can redirect some of their real money to be spent on doctors, nurses and other skilled professionals, along with the equipment and premises they need. Just DON’T allow any, “friends and family,” contracts with people who are married to MP’s providing equipment that is unfit for purpose!
3) Community Projects. I started out in Community Resource work, in a previous life, and there is mountains of stuff to do and an awful lot that could be done if we got enough bodies to do the liaison work and build relationships in these communities. Everything from play-schemes during the school holiday periods, to needle exchanges, and countless other outreach projects which strengthen communities, build relationships between people in those communities and foster positive relations between local government and those communities.
If all of them lasted for two years, they would be long enough for the participants to gain meaningful skills and qualifications. AND they would be long enough for participants to make a meaningful difference. And with their new qualifications and the knowledge of their contribution to society, each draftee will emerge with a sense of ownership over their contribution and a sense of responsibility toward their country and communities, making them better informed and responsible, contributing members of society.
Of course, informed, educated and responsible members of society is the last thing that Tories want, so they wouldn’t dream of running it like that. Especially if National Service could result in the extended longevity of Health, Social and Community services, which they want to privatise by running them into the ground.
But, if Labour were to pick up their ball and run with it? Doing it properly, in the manner I suggested? . . .
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I must question one early assumption there? I’ve been asking around. I cannot find a single person who supports the, “Stop The Boats,” alleged, “policy.” Not one! If I were to make an assumption of my own, I would have to guess that fifth pledge is only aimed at the type of people who join pro-Nazi groups secretly? Which this government is contributing toward creating by telling people they ought to be more racist and in-your-face divisive.
Even among those who sound a bit like the BBC, saying, “Well it is going to be a growing problem that we will have to do something about,” (yeah, like every other country on the planet) don’t think it should be in the government’s top 10, let alone top 5 actual, “pledges.”
Btw, you cannot make a pledge that is fundamentally illegal and will not survive legal scrutiny. That’s a, “We will try this, knowing we will be told off by a judge’s panel.”
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Isn’t it obvious to everyone, what actually happened? . . . “Brexit changed left wing voting habits,” for the simple reason that the general public were more worried about the possibility of a government overturning a democratic referendum and the UK no longer being a democracy, than they were about which party was in power. The Tories were promising to honour the Brexit vote, and that won them the election.
The fact that we did not get the Brexit that was advertised came as a surprise to precisely no one, except for those right wing voters who were naive enough to actually believe in people like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
I, and many people I know, voted Tory at the last general election, not for any ideological reasons. I simply believed that overturning a national referendum was such an egregious mistake that we would no longer even be a democracy anymore and we could easily wind up with governments that refuse to accept election defeats, as we later saw the Republicans attempt in America.
What we actually DO about this seems pretty obvious to me too. We simply have to seek terms with Europe that closely align us on trade, human rights, strategic military goals and justice, without surrendering our sovereignty and without sacrificing our right to make policies on a case by case basis, when it comes to new crises affecting the world.
And that’s something that the Tories have been fighting against since Margaret Thatcher. So, we have no alternative but to change government, if for no other reason than getting friendly faces into power that the Europeans will find acceptable, in order that we can iron out new deals without the baggage of the Euro-Skeptic politicians round our necks.
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@jackrabbitism : OMG . . . You said that out loud, son . . . The investment media has bought and sold your mind and you don’t even know it. Did you know that critical thinking is a skill that you have to learn and is not innate? No matter how appealing the thought, “Well, I’m a smart person who doesn’t take everything at face value,” is, that doesn’t make you a smart person. Please stop proving it. Musk is not even (technically) qualified as an engineer, and his intellectual credentials collapse when he talks! Listen, CAREFULLY, when he talks. Set your pride aside and REALLY LISTEN. Then read Critical Thinking For Dummies (not making that up, it is a thing) and see what you did wrong. For your own sake. And always remember, NASA likes his MONEY, not him.
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@martianunlimited : Underrated comment, there, my friend. That’s all there is to it. Be born with money and make a, “career,” out of paying to have your name slapped onto every pack and warehouse of the most successful projects, and let each company’s own publicity department get going on the myth making, with bonuses for those who raise your profile in a positive way and by a measurable metric. Sit back and look for more stuff to buy.
The only way that plan ever goes wrong is when you fall for your own myth and start buying controlling shares in your investments, so you can, “make decisions.” Then, if your ego is really fragile, you’ll be spending the rest of your days looking for none-specific groups who cannot sue you for scapegoating them for your every mistake, like, “the woke,” or, “the left,” or, “bleeding heart liberals.”
You think you’re getting away with it, but now people have started actually scrutinising your, “decisions.” And the smarter ones out there having started doing their homework and delineating the line between the point where there was a thriving, growing, future focussed business, and when YOU started making decisions, and realising that this is where things started to go wrong, each and every time.
With the exception of SpaceX of course . . . Because NASA and the American government have never allowed you to fuck around with the science or the budgets and retained the last word on every decision of importance. But, you still get to pick the colour of the cockpit, so . . . Well done you . . . 🤭✌️
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By the way, I must challenge that assumption that it was, “complacency,” that caused people to vote for other parties, rather than the Labour Party, since they knew they would win anyway. You can only tag those who don’t bother to vote with, “complacency.”
I wanted Labour to win, but I didn’t vote for them, since they stood no chance in my constituency. Most of all I cast a TACTICAL vote, because it was between the Tories or the SNP in my constituency. I voted SNP to stop the Tories. And it worked.
I think the use of that term in this context will be taken very negatively by people like me, who voted according to the advice of the tactical voting campaign, since it overlooks the very fierce opposition so many voters had for the Tories. Lots of different political persuasions followed the tactical campaign on the web and took advice on how to vote in order to STOP THE TORIES.
That was NOT complacency, but political activism writ large across the land! And, as so many pundits seem so worryingly quick to forget, the tactical vote goes a long way to explaining why Labour won so many seats, yet did so rather narrowly in so many constituencies.
The tactical voting campaign was far, far bigger than most news outlets either comprehend or are willing to give credit for. Largely, I believe, because they don’t want to encourage a trend by acknowledging its power to create meaningful changes in the political landscape. It is being treated like British politics’ dirty little secret. I wish someone would commission an independent study into how many people were aware of the campaign, versus how many voters cast their vote not, “for,” any particular party, but just to STOP the Tories? I think the answers would be game changing.
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It would be a tragedy for us all if we lost any representation of moderate conservatism as a party ideology completely. We would see Labour claiming more and more centrist ground, which would drive them away from more fair, left of centre, policies. And we, the electorate, would be stuck between moderates and extremists.
As far as the, “infighting,” is concerned, the Tories have already fired the first few shots in their civil war, but just never had the honesty, decency or self awareness to accept that they should be fighting it out between themselves whilst in opposition, as is the norm. Now they’re likely to be fighting over any scraps left up for grabs after seeing total annihilation.
We need to see a call to arms of the old guard conservatives, to take on these extremists. At the moment they are being extorted by their own saboteurs!
And in a landscape like that, we have never needed PR more! It might be our only hope of avoiding a totalitarian breakdown of democracy, which will (as it always has historically) come upon us far quicker than any of us are ready for.
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Stair lifts are expensive, but they’re common in the homes of vulnerable people, as are carers, special rails, even moving to a bungalow. All measures that people who aware of a vulnerability will take. Johnson’s argument can, therefore, be used to argue that extreme and expensive measures should be taken, using his, “logic.”
But, what’s striking is not that he is clueless about risk management. It is that he doesn’t know he’s not an expert in risk management, despite the fact that he will have been surrounded by experts, trying to tell him these things. A good leader would say, “I don’t have the expertise, so we will be guided by the specialists.” Not give way to every Dunning Kruger impulse that pops into my head! During a crisis! 🤦♂️ . . . Glad you’re making these videos. ✌️
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I’m starting to feel like a psychic. The last time I commented I suggested that Wallace should cross the House over to Labour? This sounds like the build up to that? He’s talented, well liked and respected internationally (despite his one gaff recently, for which he should apologise) yet he’s been neglected within his own party, as they’ve done nothing to help him out with the coming boundary change and loss of his seat. Being in no, “camp,” within the Tories and untainted by scandals, he’s got a real potential within Labour. He was, “loyal,” to his PM, when it was Johnson, as he’s been to Sunack. And he’s being left to twist in the wind by a bunch of infighters who can’t tell who’s side he’s on.
He could still be offered something sweet within Labour’s government, in the way Chris Patton was, when Blair was still new and popular, and the people loved his inclusive politics of poaching Ex-Tories for important jobs-cum-sinecures, like chair of the BBC or being Governor of Hong Kong, as was Patton’s package.
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P.S. This video is a good example of your analysis being so insightful. The topic is perhaps a bit abstruse for younger viewers, even though it does affect them directly, in the roundabout way that you explained.
The weird thing, for me, that I’ve noticed is that, if I were to list all of the YouTubers that I spend the most time watching or listening to, (which represents a pretty broad spectrum of topics) the one thing they all have in common is that they have teaching experience in one way or another.
I feel like the knowledge that former teachers, trainers, scientists, etc, have the best presentation styles for YouTube growth should be worth something to analysts . . . perhaps?
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