One consequence of the last week is that it will further gum up the wheels of the state (already on a go slow on many issues because officials think the PM is a goner) with people covering their own backs.
Lovely lady on twitter
RIP
It seems mad to me. Proper Gemini is pretty good, but if I didn't have it as part of our work setup there is no way I'd think of using it.
Yeah, but at least the gradual 'you don't want the pharmacy near your hotel. You want the one a mile away that has paid for adverts' was not I think actively destructive of their brand in the way 'would you like a really bad AI summary?' was.
I think @hern.bsky.social was exactly right that it has been a truly astonishing bit of brand destruction by Google to bundle a free, bad version of their AI into their once incredibly useful search engine. It makes people think Google's AI is much worse than it actually is per its peers!
Some kind of petition, I think?
Sorry to read this: hope it's a swift search that also allows you some time to recharge your batteries.
Well, I can now officially state that the 2 pale horsemen of AI & Private Equity caught up with me, and as such, I was made redundant this month. A solid innings of 7 years.
If you know of anywhere in need of a particularly sarcastic Snr PR Manager, please do cattleprod them in my direction.
This story is not a new one, though. Badenoch is also heading for existentially bad defeat in the elections, too.
(It's completely insane that the Tory party's feeling about Kemi is positive, but that's another issue.)
Yeah, I think ultimately would only matter if the mood music around either leader was going to be transformed by getting the final blow in, and it isn't.
I'm not getting 'things out of proportion', and the 'issue you take' is your repeated claim that I am corrupt. Your response to me doing this is to whine and namecall. If you at any point played the ball not the man you would get a better response.
I do actually ignore many more people than I reply to, in my defence.
Rejoice!
And Wilson spent four years hanging on for grim death in opposition so that he could go out not as a loser.
Yeah, I think this is a fair point, and I do see that Davey clearly thinks what he is doing is making some rising talents more 'rounded', I just think the risk is that the optics now are 'who?'
Yeah, should be on the frontbench by now for similar reasons that Vince was shadowing business within two years of getting elected.
Yeah, and ditto Steve Darling obviously fits that approach for the DWP, Pinkerton for Europe. But in terms of the areas where the party should and could make more of a running week to week.
I think also you can keep the strengths of the current strategy, i.e. I think a team of Chamberlain (shadow home), Miller (Cabinet Office) Martin (Foreign) Maguire (Defence), Wilkinson (DCMS) is a better guarantor against lapsing into wild Kennedyism than what you have now.
Yeah, and would involve shafting at least one of the West London Massive.
To get more Liberal Democrat coverage, particularly on the BBC (the only place that matters really) need to I think lean heavily on 'this person is an expert, who happens to be a Liberal Democrat MP'.
The worked example is Calum Miller this week, but I think it's equally true of 'Max Wilkinson would get more play if you just put the former journalist and comms guy in the culture and media brief, make Wendy Chamberlain, a former police officer, your home affairs spokesperson, etc. etc.'
A oui, that's my worked example but more broadly.
Yeah, he needs to lift them up a bit and let them breathe/speak for themselves more. That's probably a(n inadvertent) solution to all the disquiet!
Indeed.
Relatedly, I see the theory of what Ed Davey was trying to do in his frontbench appointments, of widening the expertise of MPs, but I think this last week has shown that for the third party, should have gone for 'our HMT/Cabinet Office spokesperson is an ex-civil servant who really knows his shit'.
Yeah, agree, I think it also just gave you something distinctive to say.
Think the advantage of where the Liberal Democrats/Calum Miller went on Friday is it just is more of a talker, which is really where an opposition attack always wants to be.
Nah.
I think Kemi has the problem that she has just called for Keir Starmer to resign so often that she doesn't give herself anywhere else to *go*, which is also why she is so often an incidental figure in the news - she has made herself less newsworthy than her opposition rivals.