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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 4h

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is

The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 3h

Please be patient with your Glaswegian posters, the Glasgow Greens/Your Party Glasgow branch debacle is achieving levels of patter we simply haven't seen since the pink peacock crisis 🙏

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 5h

IS there a career in YP though? This is the bit that's really baffling me about the whole thing.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 6h

Who's this, the NZ Greens?

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 6h

They're definitely not. They're pretty to the left of the Green group in the council so I think this is factionalism coming to a head more than anything.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 6h

You could have it in such a way that if you yourself leave you cause a by-election but if you're expelled or suspended you don't, to get around that.
It causes a bigger issue for parties who are then stuck with headaches who might otherwise have walked, but might make their vetting more careful!

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 8h

Caerphilly, three defections in Glasgow, and Alba under investigation and it’s not even ten in the morning WHAT A DAY to be a scotpol enthusiast

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 15h

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly the people on my timeline I would expect to still be up watching this by election.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 15h

Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:

🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)

Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 15h

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 15h

Rub it in :(

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 16h

Adjusting my alarm to the last possible minute that will allow me to still make it to work tomorrow at this point 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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spooky boolantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social · 21h

Max Dubler
@maxdubler • 2/8/25
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
Jason C &
@jasonc_nc・2/8/25
I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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Max Dubler
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

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Kaukab Stewart MSP @kaukabstewart.bsky.social · 23h

I know it's hard when people in power are drawing a target on your back, but I'm fighting for you.

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 1d

One of those slightly back to back days but drawing strength from this jacket

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

A Scottish charity has opened the first of its walk-in hubs aimed at supporting people experiencing mental health issues

'No waiting list, no stigma': Scottish charity opens first walk-in mental health hub

A SCOTTISH charity has opened the first of its walk-in hubs aimed at supporting people experiencing mental health issues ...

www.thenational.scot

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral

The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

jonn.substack.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d

I am old enough to remember people arguing that Starmer‘s speech at conference was the big turning point and that Labour would now stand up against far-right rhetoric. But spineless politicians rarely grow a spine over night…

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 3d

Devolution: Westminster claiming credit for the things that Holyrood controls and does well, whilst blaming them for the things that Westminster controls and does badly.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

We've gone from "legitimate concerns about the pace of change in communities" to this absolutely chilling juncture in the space of ten years. The trajectory of norm erosion, and the consequences of that for minorities, were entirely predictable. So where will we be in a decade's time?

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3d

The SNP has officially lodged a parliamentary motion that would force the Labour Govt to introduce legislation to remove Prince Andrew’s dukedom immediately.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster Leader, has said that ‘power and privilege has protected those in the Epstein scandal for far too long'.

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 3d

where's the bit where they say it's bad, instead of just repeating what the policy is?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

Labour spokesman

“The Tories want to retrospectively change the rules to deport people who have been in this country and contributed to our society for decades. They would separate British children from their parents and expel doctors and nurses who have been serving patients in the NHS for years."

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 3d

Eighteen years #vegan today 🌱

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