{"id":687,"date":"2024-09-27T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:29:58","slug":"doom-and-gloom-tom-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/doom-and-gloom-tom-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDoom and Gloom\u201d &#8211; Tom Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThey really are angry that the Conservatives have the brass neck to attack them for the early release of prisoners, a decision whose alternatives were, broadly speaking, \u201cinvent a time machine\u201d or \u201clegalise crime\u201d. They might be wrong. But they do mean it. The best &#8211; the true &#8211; answer to \u201cwhy is your messaging so gloomy?\u201d is \u201cWe really are gloomy\u201d. Sometimes, it\u2019s not about tactics at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starmer\u2019s genuine anger about the state of the nation was behind what was, for me, the most effective part of his Conference speech: a dividing line about populism as \u201cthe politics of easy answers\u201d and the need to be honest about trade-offs: providing more prison places means building prisons, cheaper electricity means overground pylons, having more houses means putting them in actual places, processing asylum seekers means granting asylum, and so on\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dividinglines.substack.com\/p\/doom-and-gloom\">https:\/\/dividinglines.substack.com\/p\/doom-and-gloom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey really are angry that the Conservatives have the brass neck to attack them for the early release of prisoners, a decision whose alternatives were, broadly speaking, \u201cinvent a time machine\u201d or \u201clegalise crime\u201d. They might be wrong. But they do mean it. The best &#8211; the true &#8211; answer to \u201cwhy is your messaging&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}