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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 1h

Those Rabelaisian Tory conferences when Therese Coffey led the faithful in what was supposed to be karaoke, but which in her performance resembled an obscure form of martial arts.’

@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social on the week’s doings.

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 1h

That is how it has been explained by Green organizers to me.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4h

Every benefit cut is a cut to a high street, a care worker, a council service.

You can’t “balance the books” by burning the foundations.

That’s how you hollow out a nation.

Prof Richard Murphy reports

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 2h

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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 2h

"Mel Stride is a name more suited to a haulage contractor from Biggleswade than shadow chancellor of the exchequer. He wears the avuncular expression of a man promoting a brand of cigarettes."
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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 2h

* Kemi Badenoch (NW Essex) shrugs off 14 years of Tory chaos at conference – where even the party’s chocolate can’t spell “Britain”.
* Mel Stride plays to an empty hall.
* The One Nation caucus quietly dies, taking 200 years of pragmatism with it.

Pecksniff writes his weekly diary

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 2h

* Kemi Badenoch (NW Essex) shrugs off 14 years of Tory chaos at conference – where even the party’s chocolate can’t spell “Britain”.
* Mel Stride plays to an empty hall.
* The One Nation caucus quietly dies, taking 200 years of pragmatism with it.

Pecksniff writes his weekly diary

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 2h

www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Reform, Farage and Tice: it’s all about the money

The leaders of the hard right party are raking it in. Do any of them have any time left over for the boring stuff in life – like representing their constituents?

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 2h

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

The Tory party faces an existential threat, which may reduce ‘Britain’s natural party of government’ potentially to mere walk-on parts, like the Monster Raving Loony Party.
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Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

"The Conservative Party which has been the dominant thread in British politics for nearly two hundred years is no more. This week the One Nation caucus was dissolved."

Read this and other wry political observations in this week’s Pecksniff’s Diary.

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Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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celinawords.bsky.social @celinawords.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social for including prawn crackers, pig's rectums & #Tacitus in yr diary. Some excellent #political nuggets. Vital reading for any who wish to make sense of the #UK political landscape.

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

The Tory party faces an existential threat, which may reduce ‘Britain’s natural party of government’ potentially to mere walk-on parts, like the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Pecksniff’s Diary

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 2h

substack.com/@writesbrigh...

Sam Bright (@writesbright)

Nigel Farage a few years ago calling Nathan Gill “honest, decent and honourable” 😳

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 2h

* Kemi Badenoch (NW Essex) shrugs off 14 years of Tory chaos at conference – where even the party’s chocolate can’t spell “Britain”.
* Mel Stride plays to an empty hall.
* The One Nation caucus quietly dies, taking 200 years of pragmatism with it.

Pecksniff writes his weekly diary

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 10h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 7h

So how’s it working out so far Mr Davis?

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 2d

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

The genius of McSweeney and Glasman

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Seat Projection:

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Reform leader Ryan Coogan's 'false' Astrea principal claims

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough branch of Reform, has made "false, malicious and defamatory" claims that a school's principal is leaving amidst misconduct allegations.

www.huntspost.co.uk/news/2552458...

School trust responds to Reform leader's 'malicious and defamatory' allegations

Reform Cambridgeshire and Peterborough leader Ryan Coogan' has made "false, malicious and defamatory" allegations against the outgoing…

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fred @fdtate.bsky.social · 3d

#Howl-A-Ween
pain

Little Anthony and the Imperials - Tears on My Pillow

Tears on my pillow,
Pain in my heart
Caused by you

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Tears On My Pillow

YouTube video by Little Anthony - Topic

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.

The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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