Christabel Cooper
@ChristabelCoops
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Director of Research at @labourtogether. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
London, England
Joined May 2016
Very excited to officially join the brilliant team at @LabourTogether, as Director of Research. I've been a political nerd since aged 9, and I've been a data analyst for the last 17 years. Finally the two strands come together! 1/.
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RT @LabourTogether: 🗳️Labour Together's General Election Review (Monday 13:00-14:00) 🗳️. Discuss Labour Together's review of the General El….
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More positive for the new government - there's also a predictable divide in the views of those who voted Labour in 2024 and those who voted Tory. Labour's voters are younger and more likely to rent, and consequently more open to housebuilding.
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The principal worry for MIMBYs is around adequate provision of local health services for any new housing development - hardly surprising given the state of the NHS at the moment. An improvement in public services could therefore lead to increased support for housebuilding. 3/.
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Instead, it's a new group the "MIMBYs" (Maybe In My Back Yard) who are a significant majority, and who are the largest group in every GB constituency. These are people who will support local housebuilding under *some* circumstances. 2/.
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This is an excellent and honest thread about the problems with polling at the last election and what @Moreincommon_ have done to look into the overstatement of Labour's vote. Highly recommended read.
🧵 Two months ago today, we released our final voting intention poll of the General Election. Today we are releasing the findings of our early investigations into where we think our polls did well, and where we want to improve for next time.
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Women are not allowed to "talk too loudly"? I would last approximately 45 seconds under that godawful regime.
Taliban passes new lifestyle laws in Afghanistan banning Afghan women from looking at men they are not related to, talking too loudly, singing or reading the Koran in public
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Honestly I imagine Kemi wakes up every morning and tries to start a culture war with her soft furnishings.
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Oh good grief. I'm mixed race. I found the BLM protests inspiring - empowering me to celebrate a part of my identity I had been reticent about. It didn't impact the connection I have to my white family. Because most people can hold more than one thought in their heads at once.
Labour capitulate every time a union or trendy mob turns up with demands. But worse, they have no idea how to deal with the crisis of identity that was a big factor that lead to the riots. l spent my career in govt fighting sectionalism and identity politics. And so will the
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RT @campaignlab_: Huge thanks to @ChristabelCoops and.@p_surridge for their insights at our Election Results Review evening yesterday. 📊🗳️….
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So the far right riots which are deliberately trying to terrorise selected communities the rioters don't like, are the fault of. *checks notes*. the liberal elite because they suggested the 2011 riots might be linked to (tho not justified by) austerity. Right. Got it.
Leftists and liberals have spent far too long celebrating street violence as virtuous and progressive, writes Tim Black.
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For some on the mainstream right to implicitly blame ethnic minorities and their failure to integrate, for the racism directed at them - in a country which is something of a success story on integration - is actually pretty upsetting.
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The far-right thugs started rioting because their inherent racism led them to falsely conclude that a foreign-born Muslim was responsible for murdering kids. That they have gone on attacking Muslim targets despite this being disproved says everything you need to know. 3/.
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Though as Sam acknowledges, the situation in Britain is not perfect. Re-upping a piece I co-wrote at @LabourTogether on how we might do even better, which e.g. shows high levels of public support for encouraging migrants to take UK citizenship. 2/
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In this paper, we explore three pillars which could underpin an effective and popular migration system, showing where Labour is already addressing them and where there are further opportunities to do...
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Those on the right seeking to excuse the violence of extremist thugs by claiming there is a failure of integration in the UK, need to revisit @samfr excellent post showing that Britain has - by international standards - done a good job on integration. 1/ .
New post just out. With the PM talking of "mob rule" and columnists saying we're too diverse - I thought I'd take a look at what the data said. "The truth about integration". (Free to read).
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RT @jessphillips: I have legitimate concerns about crime in our country, I feel let down by various state failures, like almost all Brits.….
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Followed by an acceptance that other people may experience the expression of views you consider perfectly reasonable, as offensive. But in a liberal democracy, this must be balanced against freedom of expression and right to protest. And to repeat, violence is always wrong.
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Protest and free speech will inevitably cause offence, we need consistent and even handed rules to govern these competing tensions,applying across the board, including to the authoritarian left. This must start with actual violence always being unequivocally condemned. 5/.
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Sensible debates about where boundaries should be drawn, aren't being had. It is true that the Gaza protests and have caused offence and upset to some people. But equally, the Tommy Robinson rally at the weekend, will have been worrying for many Londoners of colour. 4/.
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There is an obvious double standard. People that the right approves of, have a near absolute right to protest and to cause offence (in the name of free speech). People they don't approve of, have a near absolute absence of those rights. 3/.
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Some prominent right wing commentators, have caveated their condemnation of the recent attacks on the police with ". but they have legitimate grievances. their voices are ignored. No you can't label them far-right. " Such caveats were not available to Gaza protestors. 2/.
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