u/sarniebird

https://www.dosac.uk/

I looked up "hounded out by the press" and it took me to the above website.

Has anyone else looked up their new Ref councillors? I looked up the one who won where my mum lives and got a stonking win btw, but she doesn't seem to exist online.

No FB account, no picture, no information at all, no LinkdIn profile - nothing.

Reform UK

Reform have just 5 MPs but clocked up 353,660 mentions, which means 70,732 mentions per MP, the highest of any party. Against their 14.3% vote share in 2024, they stand at 24,731 per point, again inflated. Measured against today’s 28% polling, they record 12,631 per point, which looks closer to proportional.

Reform win on broadcast impact per MP and per historic vote share but look more balanced when compared to current voter support.

My ward has gone to fucking Refraud.

I'll start by saying, this book had some problematic language undoubtedly.

That said - it follows various people and families on the east coast of the US when a highly virulent strain of bubonic plague hits and the presumption is that its been caught through sewage washing up from the sea.

Its pretty bleak tbh however, there are some interesting elements around politics with future echos of politics and the use of a phrase "Face The Truth" / Truth Social (?) and utilising a washed up film star to spread racist rhetoric about the plague's origins.

It was engaging to a degree. Is it the best of Masterton's I've read - no - because of the racism its pretty distasteful tbh. I'm not a snowflake by any means but yeah, not my fav read this year, but once I started reading it, I wanted to find out how it ended.

Has anyone else started to listen on Audible?

I HAVE to vote this time at the local election - To negate the Refraud vote my brother will cast.