NEW: how might the UK prevent backlash on the switch to Electric Vehicles? Trump has just made hay with the anti-EV cause in the US. What are the prospects of that here and how might it be avoided? Some new @Persuasion_UK @IPPR polling & message testing out this morning 👇🧵

Thanks for this. I still stay in touch a bit with a personal trainer I used to have in Belgrade and he’s always been avowedly apolitical (to the point of nihilism, in a v Serb way) - never votes, ignored every protest going for years. Was shocked to find out recently that he not only supports these ones but has actively started going to them ! As you say, maybe this time really is different.

Good overview here on long-running mass protests in Serbia, which have the regime there teetering for the first time

@s8mb The nice thing about speaking English is you can go and follow debates in US, Australia & Canada where climate denialists use exactly the same language (“oh we’d love to, honest, but nobody else is”). This kind of weakness in the face of threat becomes a bit self-perpetuating.

@twlldun Can’t even call someone a poof on the tele anymore, I hear

@ettingermentum It’s just normie name recognition at this point surely? Not sure it’s super deep

This place has become too insane even for the Russians

@sweetxpalma happy birthday

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@RyanMatthewsFP that one people might care more about !

@AaronBastani I agree anything that leaves people confused, or with a general sense of govt being crap, is bad. The risk of this is it’s just another thing that isn’t fixing public services or cost of living (what people elected Lab for) but I don’t buy it as that potent on its own terms.

@TomMauchline Basically nobody has followed it, partly because it’s not got their attention. Suggests it’d need a huge amount of coverage, relentlessly over a v long time, to move people

@steverayson Yeh maybe - but if they are not engaged with the underlying issue much all it’s going to do is reaffirm what people think (a general sense of crapness or confusion re govt) rather than be rocket fuel for it.

@WarGit I disagree on the substance (and I’m neither a dad nor centrist !) but on the politics, what is going to make this more proximate to people’s lives in the way Russian invasion of Ukraine was for some Germans?

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Con 2024 vote; Still Con 65% Reform 20% Don’t know 9% Labour 2% Lib Dem 1% Would not vote 1% Tables: