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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

I’d start with things like e.g. not ripping off Enoch Powell speeches or fighting tooth and nail for the unlimited right of foreign football fash to kick in heads on British streets, and work out from there

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.soc... • 4h
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What do people mean when they say Labour should be more left wing? www.independent.co.uk/voices/three...
Of course Labour should be trying to give people something to vote for, but if that means putting up taxes to pay for further increases in public spending, and allowing the small boats to continue to arrive, then that is only going to make it harder to fight off Reform in those Labour-Reform marginal seats.
The left-turners say that Labour isn't going to beat Reform by aping Nigel Farage, but it could equally be said that Labour isn't going to hold onto its voters by aping Zack Polanski, the Corbynite leader of the Greens.
The lesson of Carphilly is that Labour lost a large chunk of its vote to Reform - as well as losing a lot of tactical voters to Plaid.
Labour needs to hold onto as many of those voters as possible in those seats across England where the next general election will be decided, as things currently stand, while at the same time benefiting from anti-Reform tactical voting.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, you made a pact with a repellent, horrible, spiteful demon in exchange for power and influence and now you have nothing, and he is going to drag your souls to Hell.

John Rentoul • @JohnRentoul • 5h
Morgan McSweeney met Labour peers this week. It did not go well, @KevinASchofield reports huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of-t...
One peer said: "It was like a car crash in slow motion. If you're going to come down from No.10 to see us, you need to come out fighting, say this is the mess we inherited, this is what's going wrong and this is how we're going to fix it.
"But there was no energy, no ideas and he didn't have any answers to our questions. It was really very damaging."
Another Lord in the room said: "McSweeney might be a good political campaigner, but he isn't a chief of staff because he's not getting things done.
"He just kept saying he noted our concerns and would report back. It was a really depressing meeting."

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autotuned modem dialing noises @burntofferings.bsky.social · 13h

canonically inaccurate since the suit jacks him off

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Rui Huang @ruihuangart.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Rui Huang @ruihuangart.bsky.social · Jan 25

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 18h

pete hegseth's "sir we have engaged in a tactical kinetic lethal action strikedown on the downrange target" language is heckin doggo speak for chuds

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 20h

ironically the use of the traditional visual language of totalitarian dystopia tends to undercut criticism these days, mostly because everyone thinks "this is bad but hey at least we aren't living in Airstrip One haha so it can't be that bad" <- meta-banality of evil

💗 §care-ibblers 🧡 @scribblersys.bsky.social · 20h

that's the biggest problem with it I think, a lotta people (propagandized westerners) look at and don't see "border control is evil" they see "Soviet Communism is evil"

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 1d

Many fundamentally decent people have had Nazi tattoos they regretted. We mustn't judge too hastily. Many Communists got Nazi tattoos in the mid-20th century, alongside a truly staggering number of Jews.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h

Shaping up to be a real How It Started/How It Ended type year, isn’t it

Tony Blair and William Hague:
Our focus on Al must be relentless
The AI Action Plan suggests that a 20-fold increase in AI capacity is needed in Britain and we urge the government to act decisively and overcome bureaucratic obstacles
Tony Blair | William Hague
Sunday January 12 2025, 6.00pm, The Times

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 20h

Went to an art gallery and saw an original Sonic (1925)

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21h

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering raising income tax next month.

Of course Labour are planning on going after working people while conveniently ignoring the super-rich who are hoarding this country's wealth.

The Green Party is clear - time to tax wealth, not work.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
TAX WEALTH - with image of Nigel Farage
NOT WORK - with image of a hospital cleaner
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 22h

Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. She was murdered in cold blood with knives by two 15-year-old kids who grew up in the toxic hate-filled atmosphere of British society, hatred fed by the corporate media and government far more than social media.

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Most of us have pathologically useless parents who don't care to learn about protecting us properly, but this dogshit really takes the cake.

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 21h

A really excellent photo

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday on Canal St. in Chinatown.

(Photo by the superb www.instagram.com/nigrotime?ig...)

A sweaty ICE agent looking into the camera as a woman next to him gleefully flips him off with both hands.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 21h

The problem with this narrative is that it frames Labour's changes as positive, and the electoral as impatient, ungrateful hogs.

In reality, everyone can see Labour are deepening long-failed neoliberal policy, plus their own brand of technocratic fascism-lite - which pleases literally nobody m.

No 10 accepts people are ‘disappointed with the pace of change’ as Plaid Cymru celebrates Caerphilly byelection win – UK politics live

Lindsay Whittle seized the Senedd constituency from Labour and resisted a fierce challenge from Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 21h

Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It

amzn.eu/d/3fZN0ev

Approximately one year on from since publication, in the wake of the 'Adolescence' drama series, proposed phone/social media bans, my latest book has only got MORE relevant, if anything.

#Book #Phones

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 21h

communist games twitter meeting ends in chaos today as they debate whether the cosy tsa papers please is more or less bad than actual papers please being a game about post 9/11 american immigration with faux soviet aesthetic

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 21h

Tangential, I knew Labour won by default and therefore had feet of clay, but I have to say I never anticipated how quickly they'd fuck it. They could have staved this off if they hadn't telegraphed how willing to do bigotry and austerity they were. Turbo fucked themselves. Losers and good riddance.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

Labour MPs are getting battered at karaoke and WhatsApping each other shit emojis "to bond over how grim it all is."

They won 411 of the UK's 650 electoral seats just 15 months ago.

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king ned blood 🇨🇦 @grumble.social · 22h

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

more like no thoughts to declare

blog.giovanh.com

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 4d

@greenparty.org.uk has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social
@rachelmillward.bsky.social
greenparty.org.uk/2024/09/08/g...

Greens vote to oppose introduction of Freeports in the UK - Green Party

The Green Party has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester. Commenting Green Party Co-Leader A...

greenparty.org.uk

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.myatproto.social · 22h

One of the things that’s been coming to mind is how her mother is getting support because she doesn’t centre or even confront that transphobia and transphobes killed her daughter, but Caroline Litman doesn’t even get a quarter of this support (vocal trans ally shaken by her child’s suicide).

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 22h

many left wingers invest their energy in trying to win a proletariat they imagine (sweaty racist men making loud noises) as opposed to what the working class actually is in Britain today (call centre workers and baristas): the SNP/Greens' success has been in engaging with the reality of the latter.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

When this is done, and our lives have been ruined and the majority of the public look back at the horrors caused with disgust and anger, still none of these people will face a single consequence and will be welcomed back to every room and chummy talk to do it all over again

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Feb 9

"Hence the urgency of implementing now the second part of the Conservatives policy - the encouragement of re-emigration."

Wait - that's not @rcolvile.bsky.social below (though it's what he's arguing).

It's Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

It’s mad to give migrants leave to remain when we’ve no idea if they contribute

Britain cannot afford to give a route to long-term residency and citizenship to thousands or eventually millions of new arrivals who will cost the country

www.thetimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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autotuned modem dialing noises @burntofferings.bsky.social · 22h

would you like to?

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Th'Omen @mrmoth.bsky.social · 18d

Incredible, incredible stuff. Literally hang this in the actual Louvre.

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says?

NYCNAFOFELLA
(Joined Nov '24)
How has he shown himself to be unfit?

Conor Smith
By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters

NYCNAFOFELLA
3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about?

banjogall.bsky.social

Think.

NYCNAFOFELLA.

Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion? You filthy motherfucking Russian troll.

banjogall.bsky.social

You seem upset. Who's Gavin Newsom?

We're discussing Jim Gavin.

NYCNAFOFELLA

Looks like this fight against international Putin loving fascists is going international. And who the fuck is Jim Gavin?

banjogall.bsky.social

Jim Gavin was a nominee in the Irish presidential race, until he pulled out at the weekend due to a scandal whereby he owed a former tenant €3,300. Not sure what Putin and fascists have to do with this.

NYCNAFOFELLA

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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