On the day the election date was announced last week the Conservatives made an interesting claim, stuck down at the bottom of a graphic they put out on Twitter: they have “ensured” (note the past tense) that “the next generation grows up smoke free”.
The Lord Farquhar post is now (1 day later) on 2.5 million views on TikTok. The Cilla post is on 2 million views. Given that the UK Labour account has (only) 75k followers it’s definitely getting traction on the fun stuff. The serious posts see to settle at 100k views. Love the writing by the way.
also that graphic is just horrific. it's not even that supposed charmingly naive boomer meme thing, it looks like it's been done by designers but....incompetent ones.
It seems dangerous, for the Conservatives, to move onto Reform's territory in such a half-arsed way. What do they say if Reform calls for "proper national service" with short haircuts, square-bashing and screaming sergeant-majors - which is what "bring back National Service" types actually want?
The Lord Farquhar post is now (1 day later) on 2.5 million views on TikTok. The Cilla post is on 2 million views. Given that the UK Labour account has (only) 75k followers it’s definitely getting traction on the fun stuff. The serious posts see to settle at 100k views. Love the writing by the way.
also that graphic is just horrific. it's not even that supposed charmingly naive boomer meme thing, it looks like it's been done by designers but....incompetent ones.
On the NMW point it is the NLW that is £11.44. NMW for apprentices and 20 under is below £10 and by quite a bit
It seems dangerous, for the Conservatives, to move onto Reform's territory in such a half-arsed way. What do they say if Reform calls for "proper national service" with short haircuts, square-bashing and screaming sergeant-majors - which is what "bring back National Service" types actually want?
Plan-less, clueless, useless. He was a crap Chancellor, a crap PM and is a completely crap campaigner. Actually, it’s almost funny