Steve Akehurst
@SteveAkehurst
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Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director of @Persuasion_UK. ex- @Shelter & civil service. š³ļøāš
Deptford, London
Joined April 2009
This from @AsteadWH is the whole ballgame: āA candidate in todayās day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.ā Canāt do all 3? Canāt hang in 2025.
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This may change of course, the UK is an international outlier in some respects. But right now itās just another area where US politics - or highly online sub-cultures - is being read across to the UK in a way that doesnāt fit the data.
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Introducing XRPR: The first U.S. ETF giving you spot exposure to XRP via a traditional ETF.
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Some very useful stuff here on a topic where thereās a lot of froth and bad research. Basic truth is Gen Z men in the UK are simply not more right wing - in attitudes or voting behaviour - than older generations. If anything theyāre less.
Gen Z men are less likely than older generations to think women have it better than men in society... Gen Z men: 18% Millennial men: 28% Gen X men: 26% Boomer men: 22% https://t.co/i5Bojk7Hn7
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Best predictor is a personās occupation. People in most elite jobs more likely to hold pro-growth views Skilled manual workers (rather than semi-skilled or unskilled) are most anti-growth.
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Yanks try to talk about British politics better challenge. Tables:
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Fun fact: Nigel Farage's favourables (-31) are about the same as Kemi Badenoch's (-36). He is not the most popular politician in the country. (That dubious honour goes to Andy Burnham on net 0, and even then w/ a large chunk of don't knows. We basically hate everyone)
According to polls, Nigel Farageāonce nicknamed Mr. Brexit by his friend Donald Trumpāis the most popular politician in the U.K., and his right-wing, anti-immigrant Reform Party has a good shot at jolting the countryās ruling duopoly off the rails.
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who would have thought
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
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Transplanted American lunacy. What this *actually* entails is a bunch of crackpot fundamentalists blocking the street in the historic centre of London's gay community, which is really what the 'immoral culture' refers to. They certainly look like they need to unclench.
Activists from the āKingās Armyā block traffic in Soho in protest of the immoral culture in the āsex districtā.
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We are past āthings I donāt like are racistā, and āthings I donāt like are wokeā. Welcome to the āthings I donāt like are terrorismā era.
A Green government would proscribe the Israel Defense Forces as a terrorist organisation. The forces currently actioning war crimes and genocide upon the people of Gaza on behalf of the Israeli government. This must not be allowed to continue. Free Palestine šµšø
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Pew Research showing Democratic approval of their Congressional leadership now resembles Republican approval of their Congressional leadership in 2014, which historians might remember as the year before Donald Trump took over that party https://t.co/jG8pHtSJfQ
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NEW Former Tory PM Theresa May calls Kemi Badenoch's plan to scrap the Climate Change Act "a catastrophic mistake" "I am deeply disappointed by this retrograde step which upends 17 years of consensus between our main political parties and the scientific community."
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Iām horrified by the violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester. I have been in contact with the Mayor of Greater Manchester and the Home Secretary, and would like to reassure Londoners that the Met Police are stepping up patrols in Jewish communities and synagogues across
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Great commentary here from Steve on how to couch recent declines in Net Zero support. We've seen ~15 points or so wiped off aggregate support for Net Zero in the past ~18 months. But it's almost exclusively among (new) Reform voters. It's now a wedge issue on the right.
All years of anti-climate/environment invective on Conservative right has achieved so far is create a wedge within their own electoral coalition. Those switching from Con to Reform are anti NZ, those that have remained are pro. Labour coalition meanwhile is basically unscathed.
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East Surrey - the birthplace of the UKās renewable energy movement!
š£ļøMaiden speech: From Britain's oldest working windmill to our world-leading #offshorewind sector, new CEN MP @ClaireCoutinho champions #renewables. "Not only are we the world leader in offshore wind, 7 of the 10 biggest wind farms in Europe are right here in the UK."
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All years of anti-climate/environment invective on Conservative right has achieved so far is create a wedge within their own electoral coalition. Those switching from Con to Reform are anti NZ, those that have remained are pro. Labour coalition meanwhile is basically unscathed.
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Not insignificantly these two dividing lines (economic populism + Trump) are also consistently Reformās biggest brand weaknesses in message testing experiments, as I found here:
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