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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 21h

OTOH, what a genius way to “own the Libs” by inciting their opprobrium of a particular minority? Interesting how this President appears to combine boundless positivity about himself with deep cynicism about everyone else.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They got what they wanted. How is that not success? 🤷🏽

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@t0nyyates.bsky.social can you let me have the venue and time for the 5 November Brexit drinks? Thanks.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think Harry Frankfurt might have categorised this as performative bullshit (as distinct from verbal bullshit): Mr Trump does not care about the morality of his actions, only whether he might obtain some financial or other advantage.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alternatively, a nicely tailored, big, green cloak?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Surely worth a “Benedict”*? *The “Benedicts” (named after the great Benedict Arnold and made from 24 carat iron pyrite) are awards handed out “for outstanding betrayal of the USA and the principles on which it was founded”.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🤷🏽 because that’s the inevitable logic of the personality-driven party political electoral system that we’re stuck with?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

West Hampstead and Fortune Green and now Belsize. Hampstead’s a Tory/Libdem split. Basically, Northwest Camden.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our current political system is a process in which voters get to signal identity and those looking for votes focus on manipulating expressions of identity.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@stephenkb.bsky.social «ή γυναίκα είναι το ποδήλατο» ? Are you sure about that? 🤔

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yet another indictment of the current party political voting system (and this is a non-partisan point).

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since recent polling has about 2/3 in favour of FoM, I would put that article in the “attention-seeking” box, where quite a large proportion of press articles can be filled these days, given the economic imperative.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our NHS data in his hands. What could possibly go wrong? 🤷🏽

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That said, it would be necessary to have at least a clear and sustained presentation of what the EU is and how it works by both the politicians and the media, something that was almost completely lacking in 2016 (which suggested neither of those organs understood it either).

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That’s a council of perfection? Why should the average UK citizen be expected to have a greater knowledge of the EU than the average EU citizen? In our inadequate version of democracy, people don’t vote on knowledge but feelings. 1/2

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it’s even more basic and subjective, emotional even, than that. Most people who would now vote to join the EU would probably struggle to name the four freedoms. However, they likely strongly believe EU membership gives them greater freedom at no great moral, political or financial cost.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Given the complexity of the EU, what any given population, both inside and outside the EU, understands about it is essentially subjective. What matters is a settled political will and the tone, quality and extent of media coverage.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think you’re just highlighting the deficiencies of our current party political electoral system.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Party politics is an inappropriate proxy for chaos rather than responsible democratic representation.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, no! (I shall be forever grateful to her for reminding of what Britishness really means. May her wise soul commune with the great and the good that have gone before her.)

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is the logic of our current electoral system.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Absolutely. Until they get serious about the Norman invaders, I’m not taking them seriously.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No. Polski sklep and Polish people and brown people more noticeable than the policies that reduced house building to less than 40% of its pre-1979 level:

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks. I think so. I also think that the stigmatisation (by politicians and media) of people who look and sound different has coincided with increased precarity because it’s easier to see that difference than the real underlying causes of the precarity in less visible government policies.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wasn’t there some research that showed ‘rate of increase of immigrant population in a given location’ might contribute to anti- migrant sentiments? However, it seems the propaganda has labelled easily identifiable ‘others’ as responsible for precarity instead of ‘invisible’ effects of govt policies.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If they’re deluded about the RNLI, what else are they deluded about?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Il est canadien mais le sentiment est bon.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tell me you don’t know how to use military force without telling me you’re clueless.”

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This raises the question of where the money for the Brexit campaign came from too. If a certain section of American political opinion with very wealthy backers wanted to separate the UK off from the rest of Europe, why would it not have clandestinely funded the campaign?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Only in the sense that it’s scared of losing more voters to Reform and of having a debate that it knows is freighted with emotions that both Reform and the media will exploit (and which they both currently strive to maintain), opting instead to try to address the underlying problems.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are seeds of truth in the critique of majoritarianism, which may be why many are attracted to it, but to what grows from those tiny seeds Orr has grafted on a jungle of deeply foreign and self-contradictory branches.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whilst this is an excellent idea (that admittedly won’t be adopted), my quibble is that it doesn’t address the party political FPTP electoral system which is a poor replication of democracy. A different voting system might make this funding system unnecessary.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Or an electoral system that better replicates democracy?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Promises” not “threatens”?

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes. Because our “democratic” debate in this country takes place at the level of identity politics rather than a serious review of economic data. We elect people to argue with each other in a way they hope impresses us.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes. But they know that support for Farage can, like Brexit, only be maintained at a high enough level for a very short period of time on the back of high spending a Nd merciless targeting of voters. That’s only going to happen during an election campaign.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yes, but it’s also important to understand what lies beneath that decision in order to know how to respond to it. So, if (Kahneman) people were voting for ulterior motives, those motives need to be addressed.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Compare and contrast with the amount of attention the BBC has historically given to US politics, a country of which we have never been a part and in which we have never had a vote…

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And that’s where we are, identity politics fuelled by attention-seeking media and politicians who largely really don’t appear to care or know much about the EU. 2/2

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Only if you believe that each national vote following the referendum was primarily about the EU. Also fair to say that Daniel Kahneman was right about the referendum at the time: it was reduced to an emotional choice for most people. That also fed into identity (not only about the EU) politics. 1/

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Snowball effect? Years of conditioning? Some misplaced and ahistorical identity issues? The economy. The result of 40+ years of an open economy that abandoned whole areas of the country and, on the back of the GFC, scrabbled around for someone to blame.

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Easily caricatured as “I want more, badly repaired, polluting cars on your already packed roads” which won’t appeal to most drivers in London either…

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On reflection, it’s just another example of how our electoral system promotes party political petty (but ultimately unproductive and even damaging) rivalry rather than democratically supported sensible solutions.

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