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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7h

Indeed - Lucy Powell (winner) got slightly more first pref votes today than Richard Burgon (3rd place) got in 2020 - and less than half the total Angela Rayner got then.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 7h

Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.

Turn out was just 16%

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 8h

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 7h

Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.

Turn out was just 16%

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

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Tickets still available for Reform Caerphilly victory event
24 Oct 2025 2 minute read

Reform UK’s candidate in the Caerphilly by-election Llyr Powell – Image: Andrew Matthews / PA Media
Emily Price

Tickets for Reform’s UK’s Welsh victory event are still available to buy online with Caerphilly by-election candidate Llŷr Powell booked as a guest speaker along with Lee Anderson who was active throughout the party’s failed campaign.

Reform members will have reserved seating in the front rows and eat a three-course meal in the company of the former Conservative Party deputy chairman if they buy VIP tickets for £75 each.

Details of the “exclusive” Countdown to Victory event on Saturday (October 25) at Bryn Meadows in Caerphilly were sent out to Reform members several weeks before the by-election took place on October 23.

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Gareth Evans @ghevs.bsky.social · 10h

Diddorol iawn

Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · 18h

With a new election system for the Senedd in May 2026, what does the Caerffili by-election tell us about the state of the parties in Cymru? | Neil Schofield-Hughes

Signposts from Caerffili

With a new election system for the Senedd in May 2026, what does the Caerffili by-election tell us about the state of the parties in Cymru?

bylines.cymru

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 5d

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 6d

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 21h

Sunder, one of the good guys, being singled out for hate attacks…😩😡🤬🤬

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X

In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

x.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

Grok - which belongs to the platform - has now told users that the fake defamatory clip appears to be authentic, thereby amplifying the dangerous fake material being used for harassment, intimidation and threat.

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 21h

Nigel Farage has gone "on strike" from PMQs, saying he won't return until he next gets a question

There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.

His next question is on Nov 12

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Nigel Farage stages ‘strike’ despite date for next PMQs q...

Reform party leader has moved to the public gallery after claiming he is excluded from process in the chamber

observer.co.uk

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 22h

Latest Guardian column looking at the result im Caerphilly is availble here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store | Will Hayward

Predictions of a Reform win were wide of the mark. But Labour’s crushing byelection defeat offers important lessons too, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

www.theguardian.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22h

From the extracts in this thread, this was a very good speech by Mamdani.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 23h

STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx

LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY

www.youtube.com

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Gareth Evans @ghevs.bsky.social · 21h

Absolute hero 💪💯

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22h

Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22h

Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."

Screenshot of live video feed from the end of Mamdani's press conference. Mamdani stands before microphone in dark suit and tie, lips pursed, with heartfelt expression.

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 22h

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 23h

X is not only completely out of control, it is also increasingly dangerous.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X

In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

x.com

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 23h

It happened again last night.

Right wing media before polls closed: Reform will win 7/7 byelections!

Right wing media after LibDems won 4/7 by-elections & Reform won 1: 🤐

bsky.app/profile/edda...

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

womp womp

Screenshot of GB News - photo of Nigel Farage - "Reform UK looks to snatch seats in seven crucial by-elections across the UK - Voters will be hitting the polls in seven key by-elections on Thursday"

Lib Dems winning - Liberal Democrats have won 4 of 7 local by-elections held this week.

Barchart showing the winning parties from the local government by-elections held on 23 October 2025 - LD 4, Con 1, Lab 1, Ref 1.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 23h

I would hope that one of the many MPs who benefits from Sunder's tireless work would take up this case - the defamatory video needs removing urgently, and the person responsible needs to be found and held accountable

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X

In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

x.com

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 1d

Oh look.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 1d

this is utterly hilarious, turns out that it was the Tories who took the word "enemy" out of the crucial witness statement in the collapsed China spy case

over to you, Kemi Badenoch?

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Adviser removed ‘enemy’ from China spy case witness statement

Matthew Collins says he deleted the word from the final draft in 2023 because it did not reflect the Conservative government’s view

www.thetimes.com

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Gareth Evans @ghevs.bsky.social · 1d

Llongyfarchiadau

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating that both of these people were considered on the "soft" centre-right of the Tory Party not so long ago.

Tom Tugendhat
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How am I out of pocket when I feed my kids? Isn't feeding my children the basic purpose of a parent?

Sure, some need help, but for most of us, feeding our kids is our responsibility.
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Parents shouldn’t be out of pocket by setting their children up for school.

That’s why we are rolling out free breakfast clubs and from next September, schools will be required to limit branded items of uniform.

Saving families £500 and giving kids the best start in life.
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Kevin Hollinrake MP
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Try telling Marcus Rashford that 🤷‍♂️
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Gareth Evans @ghevs.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds more like a Radnorshire accent, definitely not a valleys accent.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1d

From this graph, looks like the combined r-wing vote in 2025 is almost exactly the same as in 2016 (purple blob UKIP). Two pole British politics has been with us for a while.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Neat #Caerphilly graphic from the @financialtimes.com (Source: www.ft.com/content/d997...)

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

For those keeping track, it's now three days since I asked the Conservatives for (fairly basic) details of their policy on revoking indefinite leave to remain, eg whether it would include separating families and if it would work as per Chris Philp's draft bill. Despite several reminders: nothing.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 1d

There's roubles at t'mill

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