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Previously on "Bad branding or genius?"

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  • Lance
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    I read a thing that suggested that this whole conference, and the TikTok videos that go with it are all about
    • social media and reach. Lots of video content that gets quite tweeted or re-tweeted
    • Normalising this sort of language for a USA audience
    • Trump/MAGA/2024 election
    Now that all sounds a bit daft, but makes more sense than trying to appeal the British public, who on the whole, aren't a massive set of twats.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    They had a psychiatrist there scoring everyone on "sane-ness". THey all got a print-out at the end to show people.
    What a plonker.
    I was making a point. But you knew that.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

    Is that a fact or just your opinion?
    They had a psychiatrist there scoring everyone on "sane-ness". THey all got a print-out at the end to show people.
    What a plonker.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Gove was a highlight because he was the most sane speaker at the "conference"
    Is that a fact or just your opinion?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    My degree was in NAtural Sciences, typically written NatSci.
    Oh Dear

    at least one hopes you wouldn't describe a political party with such a name.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    say NAT-C out loud (clue sounds like NAZI).

    The National socialist party was the official name.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
    My degree was in NAtural Sciences, typically written NatSci.

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  • vetran
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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Gove was a highlight because he was the most sane speaker at the "conference"
    not the usual state. Mad, Mad I tell you!

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)
    say NAT-C out loud (clue sounds like NAZI).

    The National socialist party was the official name.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

    Now they could have suggested similar offensive branding in some cases, but this was pretty crass.

    Taliban Tories
    The conservative comfort girls.
    The Stalin programs.

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  • SueEllen
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    Gove was a highlight because he was the most sane speaker at the "conference"

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)
    Yes, The NAT-C meeting is where all the important people are - Gove, Farage, Braverman, Rees-Mogg, etc

    In fact one of today's highlights was Douglas Murray who received laughter and applause for summarising WWI and WWII as
    "the Germans mucked up twice in a century."

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    Hard to find one, maybe that's because JRM said the Tory party had tried gerrymandering the local elections with Voter ID and it had backfired on them.
    Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Link?
    Hard to find one, maybe that's because JRM said the Tory party had tried gerrymandering the local elections with Voter ID and it had backfired on them.
    ""Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections."

    But there's here:
    ​​​​​​​https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...itional-roots/
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ce/ar-AA1bd3Cd
    https://www.indy100.com/politics/nat...ees-mogg-frost

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  • d000hg
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    Link?

    I did find a nice train company though

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65599302
    Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board.

    Instead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil" over the train's speaker system.

    The operator said there had been several such incidents in recent days.

    One passenger on the Bregenz-Vienna service told the BBC that everyone on the train was "completely shocked".

    David Stoegmueller, a Green Party MP, said the speech by the Nazi German leader was played over the intercom shortly before the train, an ÖBB Railjet 661, arrived in Vienna.

    "We heard two episodes," he said. "First there was 30 seconds of a Hitler speech, and then I heard 'Sieg Heil'."

    Mr Stoegmueller said the train staff were unable to stop the recording and were unable to make their own announcements. "One crew member was really upset," he added.

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  • vetran
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    OMG!

    what a shower!

    Bring back Corbyn to give the Tories a chance!

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