Tom Hamilton
@thhamilton
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Social policy at Public First. Former Labour staffer and serial election loser. I co-wrote a book about PMQs, and now write a newsletter about political attack.
Joined May 2010
New post on Dividing Lines: on what the next Tory leader can do, and what they can't
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(I think "imagine if the other side had done this" is an annoying argument and I wrote about it here.)
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More here, including Kemi Badenoch making this kind of argument in a completely incoherent and silly way.
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@Kariann59589585 Futile though it may be to suggest this, if you read the whole piece you’ll see that it’s a self-aware joke about why “imagine if the other side did that” is always a rubbish complaint. Don’t know why I bother, to be honest.
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I wrote about Kemi Badenoch’s temperament, and her inability to ignore questions and criticisms and even jokes she doesn’t like, and why that’s a bad sign for her leadership.
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New post on Dividing Lines: on Kemi Badenoch’s inability to let it go
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@msloobylou Intrigued by the idea of a pre-woke Vicar of Dibley, given that it was premised on there being women priests.
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@ellegist I don’t think it’s wise to hope that so many people have made an elementary logical error that it’s safe to join them in it. Also I don’t think the mechanism makes any pharmacological sense.
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@ellegist You shouldn’t pick blue to save the people who haven’t understood it, you should just explain it to them.
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@GeorgeBevis One of my university friends lived there when she moved to London after graduating (no parental connection I think). She’s not there any more.
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@JustRowena Disability and mental illness don't need to be eligibility criteria - disabled people and people with mental illnesses can also be terminally ill.
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RT @Cox_A_R: There is something extremely dystopian about the choices made in this advert, making out assisted suicide as some sort of cons…
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RT @almurray: The idea that assisted dying objections around how it's done and the safeguards around it should be waved away because the pr…
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This thread is very good.
As indicated in various tweets, I think the House of Commons should vote against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday, & am going to do one thread to summarise why. I'm a Labour member & councillor, & just did a year as an adviser, chiefly in Opposition, (1/18)
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Also: make absolutely clear that there is no safe way to consume it.
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