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Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops

Director of Research at @labourtogether. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.

Joined May 2016
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Christabel Cooper@ChristabelCoops
10 Feb 2023
Very excited to officially join the brilliant team at @LabourTogether, as Director of Research. I've been a political nerd since aged 9, and I've been a data analyst for the last 17 years. Finally the two strands come together! 1/
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ThinkLabour@ThinkLabour
18 Sep 2024
🗳️Labour Together's General Election Review (Monday 13:00-14:00) 🗳️ Discuss Labour Together's review of the General Election with @ShabanaMahmood, @ChristabelCoops, @Samfr, @AnushkaAsthana, & @matthewrupton eventbrite.co.uk/e/labour-to…
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@LabourTogether research on housing covered in the Guardian today. The housing debate is characterised as a binary conflict between NIMBYs and YIMBYs - we show that NIMBYs opposed under nearly all circumstances to local housing - are in a minority. 1/ theguardian.com/politics/202…

Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

Pro-building Labour group hopes study will spur on major planning reform and government drive to build 1.5m homes

theguardian.com
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The principal worry for MIMBYs is around adequate provision of local health services for any new housing development - hardly surprising given the state of the NHS at the moment. An improvement in public services could therefore lead to increased support for housebuilding. 3/
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More positive for the new government - there's also a predictable divide in the views of those who voted Labour in 2024 and those who voted Tory. Labour's voters are younger and more likely to rent, and consequently more open to housebuilding.
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This is an excellent and honest thread about the problems with polling at the last election and what @Moreincommon_ have done to look into the overstatement of Labour's vote. Highly recommended read.
Ed Hodgson@edhodgsoned
31 Aug 2024
🧵 Two months ago today, we released our final voting intention poll of the General Election. Today we are releasing the findings of our early investigations into where we think our polls did well, and where we want to improve for next time...
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Women are not allowed to "talk too loudly"? I would last approximately 45 seconds under that godawful regime.
Daily Mail
@DailyMail
22 Aug 2024
Taliban passes new lifestyle laws in Afghanistan banning Afghan women from looking at men they are not related to, talking too loudly, singing or reading the Koran in public trib.al/uHJDAEN
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Oh good grief. I'm mixed race. I found the BLM protests inspiring - empowering me to celebrate a part of my identity I had been reticent about. It didn't impact the connection I have to my white family. Because most people can hold more than one thought in their heads at once.
Kemi Badenoch
@KemiBadenoch
18 Aug 2024
Labour capitulate every time a union or trendy mob turns up with demands. But worse, they have no idea how to deal with the crisis of identity that was a big factor that lead to the riots. l spent my career in govt fighting sectionalism and identity politics. And so will the Conservative Party if I’m elected leader. (1/2) dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Honestly I imagine Kemi wakes up every morning and tries to start a culture war with her soft furnishings.
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Campaign Lab@campaignlab_
16 Aug 2024
Huge thanks to @ChristabelCoops and @p_surridge for their insights at our Election Results Review evening yesterday. 📊🗳️ Big thank you also to the audience for such an interesting Q&A, we look forward to seeing you again at at one of our upcoming events! 👋#ElectionAnalysis
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So the far right riots which are deliberately trying to terrorise selected communities the rioters don't like, are the fault of... *checks notes*... the liberal elite because they suggested the 2011 riots might be linked to (tho not justified by) austerity. Right. Got it.
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@spikedonline
7 Aug 2024
Leftists and liberals have spent far too long celebrating street violence as virtuous and progressive, writes Tim Black buff.ly/3yjf6el
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Those on the right seeking to excuse the violence of extremist thugs by claiming there is a failure of integration in the UK, need to revisit @samfr excellent post showing that Britain has - by international standards - done a good job on integration. 1/ x.com/Samfr/status/176783151…

Sam Freedman@Samfr
13 Mar 2024
New post just out With the PM talking of "mob rule" and columnists saying we're too diverse - I thought I'd take a look at what the data said... "The truth about integration" (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p…
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The far-right thugs started rioting because their inherent racism led them to falsely conclude that a foreign-born Muslim was responsible for murdering kids. That they have gone on attacking Muslim targets despite this being disproved says everything you need to know. 3/
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For some on the mainstream right to implicitly blame ethnic minorities and their failure to integrate, for the racism directed at them - in a country which is something of a success story on integration - is actually pretty upsetting.
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Jess Phillips
@jessphillips
2 Aug 2024
I have legitimate concerns about crime in our country, I feel let down by various state failures, like almost all Brits. To conflate this with rioting thugs being violent to police and setting fire to our streets is total misdirection. Don't fall for it.
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Depressing how the right has debased what should be a robust, but nuanced debate about the right to protest and freedom of speech. The current far right violence puts them in a dilemma, after labelling the almost entirely peaceful Gaza protests unequivocally as "hate marches". 1/
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Protest and free speech will inevitably cause offence, we need consistent and even handed rules to govern these competing tensions,applying across the board, including to the authoritarian left. This must start with actual violence always being unequivocally condemned. 5/
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Followed by an acceptance that other people may experience the expression of views you consider perfectly reasonable, as offensive. But in a liberal democracy, this must be balanced against freedom of expression and right to protest. And to repeat, violence is always wrong.
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