{"id":86251,"date":"2016-03-08T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=86251"},"modified":"2016-11-10T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:51:09","slug":"last-week-in-politics-what-got-the-public-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/last-week-in-politics-what-got-the-public-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Last week in politics- what got the public talking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every day the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/political-services\/\">Vuelio Political Services team<\/a> sends out the Westminster Daily, a preview of the day\u2019s debates, speeches and legislation taking place in Parliament that keeps public affairs professionals on top of the political agenda. But how does this daily\u00a0activity translate to the wider public? There were a few stand-out moments last week, notably the FCO\u2019s report on life after Brexit and Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson\u2019s speech on ESA cuts in the House of Lords. So what got the public talking on social media?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blockquoteclass=twitter-tweetdata-lang=enplang=endir=ltrWehavetoaskourselveswhyistheTorypartyblockingattemptstoassessimpactofcutstoESAandalldisabilitycutsahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Toryspin?src=hash#Toryspin\/a\/p\u2014michellemaher(@mmaher70)ahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmaher70\/status\/705703205984927744March4,2016\/a\/blockquotescriptasyncsrc=\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.jscharset=utf-8\/script\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" type=\"mce-mce-no\/type\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86289\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Social-Media-Mentions-Politics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Social-Media-Mentions-Politics.png\" alt=\"Social Media Mentions- Politics\" width=\"700\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social Media Mentions by Issue<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The EU<\/strong> Parliament was full of debates, questions and committee meetings\u00a0on the upcoming referendum\u00a0and unsurprisingly, Brexit chat also dominated social media. Mentions stayed high and constant at around 10 million throughout the week, and\u00a0the topic&#8217;s global importance puts it far\u00a0above any other issue\u00a0terms of numbers. This was largely unchanged by the FCO\u2019s report on the process of withdrawing from the EU; the biggest spike came on Sunday, coinciding with British Chamber of Commerce boss John Longworth\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\">@guardian<\/a> Stay camp is guilty of dumbing down their campaign treating us like children scared of the monsters lurking underneath the EU bed \u2014 Neil Wayne Smith (@NeilWayneSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilWayneSmith\/status\/704298393913462784\">February 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blockquoteclass=twitter-tweetdata-conversation=nonedata-lang=enplang=endir=ltrahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian@guardian\/aStaycampisguiltyofdumbingdowntheircampaigntreatinguslikechildrenscaredofthemonsterslurkingunderneaththeEUbed\/p\u2014NeilWayneSmith(@NeilWayneSmith)ahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilWayneSmith\/status\/704298393913462784February29,2016\/a\/blockquotescriptasyncsrc=\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.jscharset=utf-8\/script\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Tax free childcare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During PMQs David Cameron came under attack from Jeremy Corbyn on the \u2018hold up\u2019 on tax-free childcare, which Cameron now says\u00a0will be fully implemented by 2017. \u00a0Social media mentions peaked on Wednesday before plummeting, though the issue remained on Twitter&#8217;s radar for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Jeremy Corbyn says Cameron has broken a promise made 3 years ago to introduce tax free child care. New meaning to &#8220;long term economic plan&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 Luke James (@LEJ88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEJ88\/status\/705001628991135749\">March 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>English National Anthem Bill<\/strong> On Friday, MPs gathered for the second reading of the English national anthem bill which proposes that England should have an alternative anthem to God Save the Queen. The issue achieved a fair amount of traction on social media, peaking on Friday. The odds are out on whether the bill will pass, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooNewsUK\/status\/705792489064677376\" target=\"_blank\">polls suggest that God Save the Queen remains a favourite either way.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A gospel choir will sing Jerusalem outside parly 2mrw- in a different style every 1\/2hr- as MPs debate an English national anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prayforus?src=hash\">#prayforus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Devlin (@_katedevlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_katedevlin\/status\/705498891572146176\">March 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blockquoteclass=twitter-tweetdata-lang=enplang=endir=ltrAgospelchoirwillsingJerusalemoutsideparly2mrw-inadifferentstyleevery1\/2hr-asMPsdebateanEnglishnationalanthemahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prayforus?src=hash#prayforus\/a\/p\u2014KateDevlin(@_katedevlin)ahref=https:\/\/twitter.com\/_katedevlin\/status\/705498891572146176March3,2016\/a\/blockquotescriptasyncsrc=\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.jscharset=utf-8\/script\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welfare Reform and Work Bill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday the House of Lords voted to block government plans to reduce some disability benefits by \u00a330 per week. Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson gave a brilliant speech on the effect of cutting ESA for disabled recipients, which gathered publicity as the week progressed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>We have to ask ourselves why is the Tory party blocking attempts to assess impact of cuts to ESA and all disability cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Toryspin?src=hash\">#Toryspin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 michelle maher (@mmaher70) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmaher70\/status\/705703205984927744\">March 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public affairs professionals need to stay on top of what happens in Westminster, but how does daily political activity translate to the wider public? Social media tells us what the hot topics have been in the last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":86267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95635,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86251\/revisions\/95635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}