@bedfordtwo.bsky.social
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Does this sound silly? Well, I haven’t heard a better explanation for how such proudly ignorant and clueless people came to win power without ever being at all popular, with very little to offer the public that anyone actually wants. And I don’t expect to ever hear one, either.
January 8, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Does this sound silly? Well, I haven’t heard a better explanation for how such proudly ignorant and clueless people came to win power without ever being at all popular, with very little to offer the public that anyone actually wants. And I don’t expect to ever hear one, either.
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It was a little over three years ago that Keir Starmer promised to do away with the House of Lords altogether as part of his plans to restore trust in politics. Now, he's nominating his own (less than stellar) allies, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social
The PM vowed to abolish the Lords. Why is he stuffing it with allies?
In Matthew Doyle, we are about to get another less than stellar peer. Now is the time for change
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM
It was a little over three years ago that Keir Starmer promised to do away with the House of Lords altogether as part of his plans to restore trust in politics. Now, he's nominating his own (less than stellar) allies, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social
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#BBCLauraK to Keir Starmer: "You've been incredibly clear, that Putins attack on a sovereign country, Ukraine, was wrong & ought to be condemned. What about Trumps attack on a sovereign country of Venezuela.. will you condemn that action against a sovereign state?"
January 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
#BBCLauraK to Keir Starmer: "You've been incredibly clear, that Putins attack on a sovereign country, Ukraine, was wrong & ought to be condemned. What about Trumps attack on a sovereign country of Venezuela.. will you condemn that action against a sovereign state?"
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Did nobody notice that Liz Kendall was horrendous in 2015? Did nobody see that Yvette Cooper was not much better, and that this probably was the best they could do? This really, really was not hard to spot, and it’s not like nobody was pointing this out.
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Did nobody notice that Liz Kendall was horrendous in 2015? Did nobody see that Yvette Cooper was not much better, and that this probably was the best they could do? This really, really was not hard to spot, and it’s not like nobody was pointing this out.
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Fun as it is to see the Libs finally realising they’ve been diddled, it’s also deeply aggravating. We all love a sinner who repenteth etc but it was absolutely crystal clear ten years ago that they were exactly like this, that they had no ideas except for crackdowns, cruelty and flag-fucking.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Fun as it is to see the Libs finally realising they’ve been diddled, it’s also deeply aggravating. We all love a sinner who repenteth etc but it was absolutely crystal clear ten years ago that they were exactly like this, that they had no ideas except for crackdowns, cruelty and flag-fucking.
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It’s been answered but you hid it, might want to look into how that happened?
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January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It’s been answered but you hid it, might want to look into how that happened?
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Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.
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The Times is the worst. People reading the Sun and the Mail do on some level understand they are the Beano and the Dandy, for bigoted cunts. The Times is the British ruling class talking to itself in increasingly Mein Kampfy terms, and readers believe they’re getting the unvarnished truth.
January 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The Times is the worst. People reading the Sun and the Mail do on some level understand they are the Beano and the Dandy, for bigoted cunts. The Times is the British ruling class talking to itself in increasingly Mein Kampfy terms, and readers believe they’re getting the unvarnished truth.
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This is the guy who had to resign as Keir Starmer's Chief of Political Strategy only three months ago after he was exposed having made racist and sexually explicit jokes about Diane Abbott. His author photo is the same one that was widely used by papers when reporting that very story.
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
This is the guy who had to resign as Keir Starmer's Chief of Political Strategy only three months ago after he was exposed having made racist and sexually explicit jokes about Diane Abbott. His author photo is the same one that was widely used by papers when reporting that very story.
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That’ll be it Jim: it’s not that they’re just bad at their jobs, it’s that Twitter dot com has eaten their homework.
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
That’ll be it Jim: it’s not that they’re just bad at their jobs, it’s that Twitter dot com has eaten their homework.
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you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists
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Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.
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Ludicrous IMO but what the hell: does Starmer *not* deserve to get an avalanche of bad faith screeching, for failing to check what a guy he’s never met was saying on Twitter dot com in 2014? Of course he does, it was him that very stridently made this stuff the cornerstone of his public persona.
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ludicrous IMO but what the hell: does Starmer *not* deserve to get an avalanche of bad faith screeching, for failing to check what a guy he’s never met was saying on Twitter dot com in 2014? Of course he does, it was him that very stridently made this stuff the cornerstone of his public persona.
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Compare that single instance of suddenly noticing things to, say, the damning evidence uncovered by the cranks at the national equality body in months of free access to the Labour Party’s internal systems, with the power to compel evidence and compliance. It’s comical, isn’t it. It’s a bad joke.
December 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Compare that single instance of suddenly noticing things to, say, the damning evidence uncovered by the cranks at the national equality body in months of free access to the Labour Party’s internal systems, with the power to compel evidence and compliance. It’s comical, isn’t it. It’s a bad joke.
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A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack
Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
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If you’re frightened by the new hateful bullshit but you loudly welcomed the old version because it wasn’t hurled at you personally and helped you to get things you wanted, congratulations! These are the consequences of your self-indulgent idiocy, now right in all of our faces for everyone to enjoy.
December 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you’re frightened by the new hateful bullshit but you loudly welcomed the old version because it wasn’t hurled at you personally and helped you to get things you wanted, congratulations! These are the consequences of your self-indulgent idiocy, now right in all of our faces for everyone to enjoy.
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Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
Reginald D Hunter: Summons against comic by Campaign Against Antisemitism quashed for seeking to have him 'cancelled'
The judge said the CAA "misled" him over comments Hunter made to Heidi Bachram on X, and failed to inform him of a previous compliance probe.
news.sky.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
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Yes, this is precisely why the Labour Racism terror had to be kept as far away from courtrooms as possible, and every expulsion and other piece of backroom shenanigans had to be lawyered to fuck to ensure it wouldn’t be subject to judicial review. I recall this being explained, openly, at the time.
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yes, this is precisely why the Labour Racism terror had to be kept as far away from courtrooms as possible, and every expulsion and other piece of backroom shenanigans had to be lawyered to fuck to ensure it wouldn’t be subject to judicial review. I recall this being explained, openly, at the time.
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Keir Starmer (2020) dropping some truth bombs, so time for the annual count of PM u-turns. Please put your favourites below.
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Keir Starmer (2020) dropping some truth bombs, so time for the annual count of PM u-turns. Please put your favourites below.
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Does it seem to you that these are good, well meaning people whom are doing their best to improve our society somewhat? Or does it look like they are something quite different entirely.
December 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Does it seem to you that these are good, well meaning people whom are doing their best to improve our society somewhat? Or does it look like they are something quite different entirely.
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It’d probably help their cause in general if they at least *pretended* there was anything real or consistent about all that cancel culture drivel. But they can’t, because they are first and foremost malignant arseholes and so the urge to behave like a wanker takes precedence over everything else.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It’d probably help their cause in general if they at least *pretended* there was anything real or consistent about all that cancel culture drivel. But they can’t, because they are first and foremost malignant arseholes and so the urge to behave like a wanker takes precedence over everything else.
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You know full well that if a presenter of a BBC program claimed that they'd been forced out for their anti-trans opinions then Keir Starmer and several other ministers would have takes printed on front pages about it the next day.
But @robinince.bsky.social will not get that treatment.
But @robinince.bsky.social will not get that treatment.
December 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
You know full well that if a presenter of a BBC program claimed that they'd been forced out for their anti-trans opinions then Keir Starmer and several other ministers would have takes printed on front pages about it the next day.
But @robinince.bsky.social will not get that treatment.
But @robinince.bsky.social will not get that treatment.
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Britain does not punish crimes by its elite, including genocide. Britain arms up and punishes the fuck out of *people who oppose genocide*, because the state is 100% behind that and, via proxies, it makes very sure that celebrities know their careers will be forfeit if they open their mouths.
The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
December 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Britain does not punish crimes by its elite, including genocide. Britain arms up and punishes the fuck out of *people who oppose genocide*, because the state is 100% behind that and, via proxies, it makes very sure that celebrities know their careers will be forfeit if they open their mouths.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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My constituent, Amu, is on Day 40 of their hunger strike in prison.
Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.
He has now officially declined my request.
What an absolute disgrace.
Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.
He has now officially declined my request.
What an absolute disgrace.
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My constituent, Amu, is on Day 40 of their hunger strike in prison.
Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.
He has now officially declined my request.
What an absolute disgrace.
Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.
He has now officially declined my request.
What an absolute disgrace.