Mum had a fall last night. 9 hours for an ambulance, 9 hours on a cold tiled bathroom floor with a broken hip. 1/
Paula Surridge
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Paula Surridge
@p_surridge
Deputy Director @ukandeu, Professor of Political Sociology @spaisbristol
Lurking X posting @ PS: Polling Snippets
Joined May 2013
- Thought these front pages from the start and end of the last campaign worth sharing as tomorrows papers start coming in.
- A 'staycation' is time off *at home* with possibly some daytrips and maybe camping in the garden. A holiday in the UK is a holiday, lots of people do that as their summer holiday every year.
- I suspect the Conservatives are quickly going to learn you cant tackle an economic crisis with a 'culture war' response.Asked whether he supports a windfall tax, Boris Johnson responds by accusing Keir Starmer of not being able to define what a woman is #PMQs
- Replying to @p_surridgeFor the patient it isn't a terrible thing, it is one to one care in a quiet place, nicer than A & E but for the next person lying for 9 hours on a cold floor it is a devastating wait and they may not make it
- This is extraordinary (again!). In @YouGov latest Conservatives are in 5th place with the under 50's. Behind Labour, LibDems, Greens and Reform UK.
- A taster from new analysis for tomorrow. Labour 2017 voters unlikely to vote Conservative regardless of their Brexit identity. Those Labour leavers are unlikely to be Conservative converts.
- So happy to have been promoted to Professor of Political Sociology (from 1st August). Academia hasn't always been a comfortable home for me, as a first gen student I haven't always understood the rules of the game but despite its reputation twitter helped me find the good bits.
- At this stage, I can imagine hearing the exit poll at 10pm on 4th July saying Conservatives on anything from 35 to 180 seats and not feeling surprised. It is simultaneously the most and least predictable election.
- What if, having lost the most vulnerable votes to the Greens and Independents already, the remaining voter coalition for Labour is actually quite strong?
- Replying to @p_surridgeBut there are no beds so they are using ambulances as single patient wards. The failure is in hospital capacity and it's a shocking waste of such a precious resource/4
- Many people are very tired and worked under extreme pressure of one kind or another the last 2 years. Strongly recommend not using how hard people in No 10 were working as an excuse.
- You're trying to win back voters heading to Reform UK, many of whom are fiercely defensive of the role of the UK in WW2, and you leave the world wide remembrance event for D Day early. Are you trying to test the Conservative vote floor?
- A much nicer version of my chart from yesterday made by @Aron_Cheung Non-voting needs to be taken more seriously in conversations about class and politics. This is just one example. Especially keen to think about those who move from voting to non-voting between elections.
