Now-a-days the winning strategy for any politicians seems to be as follows
a) attempt to control the news cycle by issuing daily or more frequent posts
b) posts that accuse your opponents of what they accuse you of seem to work really well
c) attention to what happens next on what plans you announce doesn't really matter as the debate will have moved on
d) focus your messages on threats from outsiders or the hidden elite.
Faced with all of the above it sometimes seems what we thought were sophisticated fourth estate print (and other) media seem to be destracted.
They seem to be unable to examine the latest announcements because:
a) that comes across as really boring;
b) the news focus has moved on so reporting such gets no eyeballs;
c) long form journalism requires spend without immediate clicks;
So what might we citizens and our fourth estate media do about all of this?
How about this as a set of questions to the modern no detail politicians?
1) That is a great idea, what, by when, is going to be achieved when you implement it?
2) Those statistics are really challenging - if we investigate their factual basis are you willing to apologise if your statistics are wrong or not fully accurate?
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LibDems have 72.
Independents have 21
SNP have 9
Sinn Féin have 7 seats.
The Green Party and Plaid Cymru have 4 seats each, the same as Reform.
— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) August 27, 2025
Why is every media channel constantly blasting out Reform propaganda? @BBCNews? @SkyNews @ITVNewsPolitics @Channel4News ?
