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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: morgan mcsweeney has started briefing against lucy powell

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1h

16% turnout lol. Everyone has ceased to give a shit.

Powell received 87,407 votes, while Bridget Phillipson got 73,536 votes. The turnout was 16.6%.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something

our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13h

*monkey's paw curls

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17h

So fun fact before 1930 people used Dominion to mean the same thing as it did after 1930 but it didn't exactly mean the same thing, and that's before getting into 'dominion'.

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 17h

the current Imperial War Museum exhibit on (three) colonial "emergencies" of the 50s has a handy guide to all the countries and which were colonies, which were protectorates, and which were 'territories' that could be anything

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 14h

broke: being an anti-fascist

woke: supporting a guy with a nazi tattoo because you want to own the libs and appear edgy

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14h

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”

But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

jacobin.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

oh no, NCD is spreading

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 14h

Today in unexpected texts from the college kid

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 17h

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 19h

bsky.app/profile/jayz...
Literally we are gonna spend half a year talking around why is the party with the most unpopular pm ever and no political plan is doing badly/how to magically stop reform instead of just doing the basics

Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

What if we have a constitution. What if a party replaced labour and won an election in a move that basically hasnt happened in centuries. What if we control the wind and stopped the boats.

What if you replace starmer and raised taxes to invest in public services

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21h

also frankly stop doing this "i'm not seeing it but i do hope Your Party manages to become a solid vehicle for the left :) i wish the defectors all the best :)" nonsense. i do not and you shouldn't. the Yorps aren't incidentally flawed, they are /fundamentally/ flawed

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21h

Lessons of Caerphilly by-election IMV:

1) UK has become a country with bloc politics
2) enough voters don't want Reform that they are very vulnerable to being on the wrong side of it
3) but Labour, an essential component of that anti-Reform bloc being able to win, are too unattractive at present.

Labour’s Caerphilly humiliation is a bad omen

Result shows how Reform’s polarising nature may also be its weakness

www.ft.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.

Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud

Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.

www.politico.eu

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

There's nothing better than, when you're voting in a preferential election, that feeling of glee in your last preference.

Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 22h

I get the feeling 'tactical voting' (i.e. voting to express negative preferences) is seen by some UK commentators as, if not quite cheating, somewhat disreputable.

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 21h

I’m a Zoomer with a humanities (History) degree lol

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22h

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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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 23h

If there's one thing we know about constitutions, it's that illiberal parties scrupulously observe them, and if there's another thing we know about constitutions, it's that they're best drafted at times of severe polarisation.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22h

"The financial sector is a vital sector for UK growth, we must pursue deregulation, but also, we have created an enormously expensive requirement to repay all fraud losses regardless of fault."

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22h

Fraud is up 24% in 2025, having been up 31% in 2024, and it is effectively legal (less than 1% of cases ever result in a charge!) It is the only kind of crime rising, so you might expect the government to at least pretend to take it seriously.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.

Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud

Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.

www.politico.eu

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23h

The Labour Party are aggressively pursuing Lee Anderson.

Reform are firmly targeting Lucy Connolly.

The Tories median voter is now Idi Amin.

If you are anywhere to the left of these people, you do not actually factor into the discourse at all.

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 23h

The current Labour Party's contempt *for people who actually voted Labour* does not bode well here.

Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 1d

This was such a problem in 2010 - an arrogant assumption that *obviously* the Lib Dems would bail them out, despite the disdain the party was shown. There does need to be some wooing.

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 1d

This was such a problem in 2010 - an arrogant assumption that *obviously* the Lib Dems would bail them out, despite the disdain the party was shown. There does need to be some wooing.

Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 1d

Like, if Labour want LD and Green voters to like them and be willing to vote tactically for them, that has to be an active process, and a worryingly large number of Labour people's entitlement around such voters hardly helps that.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 1d

Like, if Labour want LD and Green voters to like them and be willing to vote tactically for them, that has to be an active process, and a worryingly large number of Labour people's entitlement around such voters hardly helps that.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. People vote tactically for parties they broadly like. Welsh LD and Green voters like Plaid Cymru. Many Welsh Tories like Reform UK. That's why you get a tactical squeeze.

Increasing numbers of LD and particularly Green voters simply don't like Labour.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

The UK would be in a much better place if the major parties remembered who their traditional base is and that it's not, specifically, Lee Anderson.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Useful for the double bind Labour has blundered into, where they can't secure the votes they want (proper voters, you know, Reform types) and are losing their own voters (middle class, centre left, don't much like Reform) to other parties.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 1d

YOUR SUPPORT WENT TO PLAID - THE LEFT OF CENTRE OPTION - YOU ABSOLUTE DING DONGS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT STANDING UP *AGAINST* FARAGE. You’ve just been handed proof you have more to lose from losing your base than to gain from pursuing Reform voters!!

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