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not sure that these are good developments; but they seem irreversible and labour/the libdems want to catch up asap if they want to stay relevant.
[0] as mentioned by Cummings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDbRxH9Kiy4
My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
He was talking about buses on the radio again this morning, as was Sajid Javid, the chancellor, yesterday.
[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-kippers...
My respect level for Boris actually went up a few notches after reading about this :)
Indeed. The "lovable bumbling fool" image he puts across is a very conscious choice on his part. Despite what you think about his politics (and I'm personally not a fan) you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.
I'm skeptical. (a)When I search "Boris Johnson model," I still get the Jennifer Arcuri results and (b) even if working perfectly, this kind of SEO spamming would be pretty marginal. People are exposed to the "model" story via so many avenues: TV, radio, news sites, FB feed, other search terms... It just doesn't seem worth it. At best it takes like 10% of the heat off him for a day. Null hypothesis is that Boris just…
At first I read it backwards, I thought he had had sex with a model just to hide a scandal about a "model of restraint" and thought " wow, that guy is really doing all he can to hide the scandal". And then I remembered it was not France and having an affair could be a scandal, and I'm a little disappointed because I preferred my version.
This is up there with "I was talking about X with my friend, and half an hour later I saw a Google ad for X. Ergo, Google are listening in on my phone's microphone."
They talked about this on John Olliver. They had a bizarre interview where he brought up a story about a bus and people think it is to salt the keywords of Google search to not show a campaign bus that highlighted something like free health care or something like that. Edit: user "sincerely" has a better description and links
Thing that got me was the bus thing was "spiritually" true. The UK does send a fortune to the EU, and the EU will not spend it on the NHS. At best they may use it to resurface a road in the UK in some town no one has ever heard of along with a "eu project" propoganda badge. But the spirit of the message held water, even if it wasnt technically true during tuesday of the second easter of a red moon.
I wish I had your casual nonchalance about how these regions will be affected post-Brexit.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/mapped-where-in-...