The memes tailed off towards the end of last week as Karl was on holiday. He'd already prepared at least one meme for each of the most likely outcomes in Makerfield, but beyond Burnham's victory they dried up and Richey turned his hand with a rare effort come Sunday. Karl is currently shifting through a backlog of work, which is why our regular articles are appearing very late in the day. Normal service will resume shortly.
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| Mon 15 Jun - 381 shares. Bluesky was completely omitted when the government began listing proposed sites that could be subject to the ban, leading to consternation among those on the right. When minister Liz Kendall was confronted about Bluesky the following day during an LBC phone-in, she gave a conflicted response: "So in Australia, Bluesky is included in the ban and we plan to use their model". The problem with this response is that Bluesky was not included in the Australia ban, so this may not be the u-turn that Kendall was alluding to |
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| Tue 16 Jun - 208 shares |
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| Tue 16 Jun - 426 shares |
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| Tue 16 Jun - 24 shares |
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| Tue 16 Jun - 14 shares. The result of this emoji poll was as follows: Yes = 4 No = 139 |
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| Wed 17 Jun - 9 shares. Five days later Wes u-turned yet again, backing out altogether and endorsing Burnham. Come on Wes, we wanted a damaging drawn out leadership battle! |
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| Wed 17 Jun - 5 shares |
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| Wed 17 Jun - 22 shares. The Burnham camp clearly knew that the Labour brand is so toxic in working class communities that they went to great lengths to omit it from the campaign. The top left photo features the rare sight of a Labour 'moderate' (Stella Creasy) and an SCG lefty (Rachael Maskell) posing together |
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| Thu 17 Jun - 110 shares. The result of this emoji poll was as follows: Yes = 8,112 No = 538 Wishful thinking? We both called it for Labour in Thursday's election preview, but very much hoped we were wrong! |
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| Fri 19 Jun - 79 shares |
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| Sat 20 Jun - 398 shares |
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| Sat 20 Jun - 171 shares. One of Richey's rare efforts |
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| Sun 21 Jun - 82 shares |
Five Facebook Stories were published last week, as follows.
