Not a good look for our PM

[Citizen's Nephew]

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I can’t say he did anything wrong here other than being socially awkward. He didn’t connect in any way at all, he lacks the charisma to engage off the cuff. He doesn’t expect to be questioned and doesn’t deal with it well when he is.

For all his incredibly long list of faults, Boris was far better at this side of things than him

Agree with you. He's not very good at this stuff. He's certainly not a natural. Good summary of him.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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The usual suspects on twitter earlier (and a few Labour MPs shamefully) were working themselves up into a rage about some edited clip that purported to show him laughing at the woman and then storming off.

Complete nonsense of course, as the full video shows. It's that kind of absolute rubbish online that ruins political debate and also results in MPs being less likely to meet the public face to face, which we all want don't we?

Can't for the life of me see what he did wrong, but no doubt he is Hitler to some

I can't unsee that now!

[the other bob wilson]

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Here we go the truth : Labour left red-faced as full video reveals Rishi Sunak was NOT laughing at ex-NHS worker who confr… https://mol.im/a/12984587 via https://dailym.ai/android

From the paper Wikipedia refused to accept as truthful enough to use on their site.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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I have a new man crush! https://x.com/MarieAnnUK/status/1748366129653805179

...always new Simon Pegg was a good egg.

[ninian opinian]

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Of course the Tory’s never play dirty tricks.

[JamesWales]

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From the paper Wikipedia refused to accept as truthful enough to use on their site.

Depressing isnt it. It should be in the guardian too. How many people believed that video they saw on twitter but then because of self-censorship will never realise what they saw was entirely edited to mislead.

Great example of how things work nowadays, unfortunately

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Depressing isnt it. It should be in the guardian too. How many people believed that video they saw on twitter but then because of self-censorship will never realise what they saw was entirely edited to mislead.

Great example of how things work nowadays, unfortunately

Aren’t we very close to not being able to believe anything? Especially with ai (and I’m not anti it). It’ll be misused, depressingly.

[JamesWales]

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Aren’t we very close to not being able to believe anything? Especially with ai (and I’m not anti it). It’ll be misused, depressingly.

I think so yeah, it's really poor to see media like Sky news and MPs painting a completely alternative reality.

And that absolutely happens across the spectrum.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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I have a new man crush! https://x.com/MarieAnnUK/status/1748366129653805179

...always new Simon Pegg was a good egg.

Off topic: Just to be serious for a moment. Mathematics to 18 imo is total overkill. If the gov announced 'coding' as an option then I'd be all for it. There are so many great apps being developed by kids from all over the world and mathematics (as is being proposed and taught) isn't part of the equation (ha!). We're so old-fashioned. What's the point of this with ai too? I haven't done long division since the pocket calculator. Sure we need people to be amazing at this stuff. But politicians aren't really best-suited to coming up with solutions.

Oh yeah, and I'm mortified because I missed the 5 min window to edit and knew new was the wrong knew.

[superfeathers]

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I think so yeah, it's really poor to see media like Sky news and MPs painting a completely alternative reality.

And that absolutely happens across the spectrum.

Agreed.
There is nothing worse than the media painting an alternative reality for a political agenda