Big effort launching tonight by @ukonward to help the Conservatives reach out across generational divides & broaden appeal to ethnic minorities
Meanwhile in Bedfordshire ...https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/998442691435401217 …
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Au contraire. Indifference to the ballot box seems a perfectly rational *tactic* given that a very mutual indifference towards you. The idea that you would shun the ballot box for reasons of "strategy" if your ideas were as popular as you try to spin seems rather risible.
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We’re not a political party, our aim is to shift public opinion and frame debates through our activism. Party politics rarely influences public opinion - maybe UKIP are the only contemporary exception
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V.unconvincing claim indeed about party politics. So many counter-examples. SNP. Thatcher. Trump. Some social issues, eg transformation of attitudes to gay rights about govts, parties & civil society.
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Would Trump have been possible without the Tea Party, the kamikaze campaigns by Ron Paul and other libertarians, (more controversially) the alt-right etc? Political activism made that possible. Ditto controlling language around immigration “aliens” etc. Not led by politicians
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Still, we all know that the main reason you will not stand is that you would fail miserably & expose your unpopularity. I can not blame you for weaving an elaborate Theory of Change to distract from that basic problem.
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Why did opinions change on gay rights in the period 85 - 05 in your view? Certainly wasn’t the governments of the period...
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The very rapid change in UK median opinion mostly happened after 1999 if you were to check the BSA data series. Certainly Stonewall and Eastenders and some elected politicians (eg GLC) played an important role prior to that when it was a more contentious issue.
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I guess you are probably much too young to recall or know that the 1997 govt, including first gay Cabinet minister (first out gay MP back in 1985), certainly played a significant role well before 2005.
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