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Everyone is understandably focused on the Reform stuff but the part where she calls Andrew Mountbatten “a bit of a lad” who should come to her next event to “keep him out of trouble” is equally eyebrow-raising. Just a thoroughly weird person
New - Bonnie Blue nails her colours to the mast, writing in The Spectator:
“Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax, so I stand with Nigel Farage.”
“Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax, so I stand with Nigel Farage.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Everyone is understandably focused on the Reform stuff but the part where she calls Andrew Mountbatten “a bit of a lad” who should come to her next event to “keep him out of trouble” is equally eyebrow-raising. Just a thoroughly weird person
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Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
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Reposting this in light of the Lords once again blocking the ERB, even post compromise
Wrote my take on the retreat on day one rights against unfair dismissal, for Renewal. Basically Labour made a promise it turned out it couldn't deliver, a small group of serious trade unions then decided to try to salvage this, but this isn't without severe trade offs renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...
Pragmatism’s limits?
Following secret negotiations between business confederations and GMB, CWU, Prospect, Unite, USDAW, UNISON, and the TUC, the government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to introduce day-one ri...
renewal.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Reposting this in light of the Lords once again blocking the ERB, even post compromise
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Once again @heartinamber.bsky.social's 'a big boy made me do it' theory of this government raises its head.
Initial post here: bsky.app/profile/hear..., screenshotting so it displays correctly.
Initial post here: bsky.app/profile/hear..., screenshotting so it displays correctly.
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again @heartinamber.bsky.social's 'a big boy made me do it' theory of this government raises its head.
Initial post here: bsky.app/profile/hear..., screenshotting so it displays correctly.
Initial post here: bsky.app/profile/hear..., screenshotting so it displays correctly.
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this isn’t very free speech-y of the free speech champs
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this isn’t very free speech-y of the free speech champs
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One reason why Britain’s debate over education and the economy is so bad is there is so much snobbery about what the course provider is *called*: a high quality vocational course is…not that different, in cost terms, to a degree with a placement year, and only our snobbery means we don’t notice this
Dear god, man, you came back for another round of this? You do realize that the skills base that high-productivity production relies on is now heavily college-based. right? American manufacturing output *has* gone up while employment goes down. You are not getting back the Fordist compact...
December 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One reason why Britain’s debate over education and the economy is so bad is there is so much snobbery about what the course provider is *called*: a high quality vocational course is…not that different, in cost terms, to a degree with a placement year, and only our snobbery means we don’t notice this
It’s amazing and funny that Blue Labourites have the same mindset as a Soviet central planner.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It’s amazing and funny that Blue Labourites have the same mindset as a Soviet central planner.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
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it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
Over 50% of the UK goes to uni. 50% of our economy doesn’t require this, and we are misallocating high value human capital, this is the problem that you for some reason, are pretending not to grasp.
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
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We should probably IMV do something to keep chemical production but agreed our specialism is precision engineering. IMV we should also look to really bolster services by attacking NYC/US as destination of choice given how erratic the courts there are getting
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We should probably IMV do something to keep chemical production but agreed our specialism is precision engineering. IMV we should also look to really bolster services by attacking NYC/US as destination of choice given how erratic the courts there are getting
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Also it's just a comparative advantage thing. High-end manufacturing – apart from a small set of industries – is not where our comparative advantage lies, so it doesn't make sense to specialise in it.
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Also it's just a comparative advantage thing. High-end manufacturing – apart from a small set of industries – is not where our comparative advantage lies, so it doesn't make sense to specialise in it.
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'We're sorry but we need you to consume less to make our manufacturing exports go up' is just about viable as an electoral proposition in 2000s Germany.
It would be utter madness in 2020s Britain.
It would be utter madness in 2020s Britain.
Try proposing German-style wage restraint to the British electorate and see how they react!
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
'We're sorry but we need you to consume less to make our manufacturing exports go up' is just about viable as an electoral proposition in 2000s Germany.
It would be utter madness in 2020s Britain.
It would be utter madness in 2020s Britain.
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...We have most of that. The UK has a highly educated workforce who can do this stuff. The issue is energy costs and CapEx to get the automation in place
Reindustrialisation needs both capital flows and a domestic skills base. High-skill automation still relies on technicians, engineers, and vocational training. Use your own logic instead of insecure appeals to authority. No country has rebuilt industry without rebuilding its skills pipeline.
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
...We have most of that. The UK has a highly educated workforce who can do this stuff. The issue is energy costs and CapEx to get the automation in place
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Whomp-whomp
📉🇭🇺 INVESTIGATION: Viktor Orbán vowed to boost Hungary’s population without immigrants. But births keep falling—and emigration is soaring. Direkt36's investigation shows many young people are leaving, posing serious risks for the country’s future.
Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org
The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has also soared.
vsquare.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Whomp-whomp
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Again, I am just asking what you think the problem with a Reform government actually IS if you don’t want to defend our multi-ethnic democracy just as a matter of principle.
Yeah I do actually go door knocking. I haven't seen many people saying they want more social liberalism.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Again, I am just asking what you think the problem with a Reform government actually IS if you don’t want to defend our multi-ethnic democracy just as a matter of principle.
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Honestly I do really wonder what the Starmtroopers’ own understanding of “what the problem with a Reform government would actually be” IS.
If we get Farage as PM Bush will be saying ok he's bad but at least he has a vision, knows who's governing for and doesn't impose social costs on business.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Honestly I do really wonder what the Starmtroopers’ own understanding of “what the problem with a Reform government would actually be” IS.
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Likely as a result, the Labour right really do seem unable to conceive of the possibility that a decent number of us do actually mean it when we say "no, this stuff, especially from a centre left-party that's not meant to be like this, is a dealbreaker for me", so even the polling is ignored.
“We can take left/centre voters for granted but bigots need to be pandered to” does not sound like a good-faith statement.
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Likely as a result, the Labour right really do seem unable to conceive of the possibility that a decent number of us do actually mean it when we say "no, this stuff, especially from a centre left-party that's not meant to be like this, is a dealbreaker for me", so even the polling is ignored.
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“We can take left/centre voters for granted but bigots need to be pandered to” does not sound like a good-faith statement.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“We can take left/centre voters for granted but bigots need to be pandered to” does not sound like a good-faith statement.
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Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
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Sharron Davies gets a seat in the Lord's for being such a vile transphobe, love this country
Lib Dems announce 5 peers including ex-MP Sarah Teather, Tories announce 3 including Olympic swimmer/ women's rights activist Sharon Davies, historian Simon Heffer and former cabinet minister John Redwood. Reform UK don't get any.
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sharron Davies gets a seat in the Lord's for being such a vile transphobe, love this country
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There's something absolutely fascinating to me in that none of these people can actually point to a nation where such a policy programme has revitalized high-productivity manufacturing when the on-going story of modern economic production comes down to skills-biased technological change.
You’re arguing as if every degree creates productive capacity. It doesn’t. Most strategic industries rely on a mix of engineers, technicians, and skilled trades.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
I know people who work in those sectors in the US and Canada: the vast majority of them working on the frontier *require* college degrees. It is utter madness to think that the UK has somehow found a way to opt out of the fact that modern innovation is built on a strong HE sector.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There's something absolutely fascinating to me in that none of these people can actually point to a nation where such a policy programme has revitalized high-productivity manufacturing when the on-going story of modern economic production comes down to skills-biased technological change.
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Is my (soon to be twice) published research into the British Empire low-value? Does it "weaken innovation"? Does it not "actually produce".
Fucking late Soviet steel mill tonnage maximiser here.
Fucking late Soviet steel mill tonnage maximiser here.
You’re arguing as if every degree creates productive capacity. It doesn’t. Most strategic industries rely on a mix of engineers, technicians, and skilled trades.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
I know people who work in those sectors in the US and Canada: the vast majority of them working on the frontier *require* college degrees. It is utter madness to think that the UK has somehow found a way to opt out of the fact that modern innovation is built on a strong HE sector.
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Is my (soon to be twice) published research into the British Empire low-value? Does it "weaken innovation"? Does it not "actually produce".
Fucking late Soviet steel mill tonnage maximiser here.
Fucking late Soviet steel mill tonnage maximiser here.
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Dear god, man, you came back for another round of this? You do realize that the skills base that high-productivity production relies on is now heavily college-based. right? American manufacturing output *has* gone up while employment goes down. You are not getting back the Fordist compact...
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Dear god, man, you came back for another round of this? You do realize that the skills base that high-productivity production relies on is now heavily college-based. right? American manufacturing output *has* gone up while employment goes down. You are not getting back the Fordist compact...
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the "Polanski's snobbery" line would land if it wasn't for the fucking Labour Party being
y'know
y'know
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
Polanski’s snobbery exposes the Greens’ hollow populism - Labour’s Uma Kumaran
The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
www.standard.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the "Polanski's snobbery" line would land if it wasn't for the fucking Labour Party being
y'know
y'know
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“Labour values” are defined by what you do not a platonic ideal.
On issues around immigration, racism, transphobia, civil liberties, Gaza, welfare those actions show as more about “Labour values” than an oped.
Zack’s comments re carers were poor - not sure Labour can get on a high horse right now
On issues around immigration, racism, transphobia, civil liberties, Gaza, welfare those actions show as more about “Labour values” than an oped.
Zack’s comments re carers were poor - not sure Labour can get on a high horse right now
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Labour values” are defined by what you do not a platonic ideal.
On issues around immigration, racism, transphobia, civil liberties, Gaza, welfare those actions show as more about “Labour values” than an oped.
Zack’s comments re carers were poor - not sure Labour can get on a high horse right now
On issues around immigration, racism, transphobia, civil liberties, Gaza, welfare those actions show as more about “Labour values” than an oped.
Zack’s comments re carers were poor - not sure Labour can get on a high horse right now
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Polanski’s line on “bums” was, among other things, a terrible message the two-thirds of people who work in social care who are *from* the UK. But to the people on the sharp end of the ugly turn in British politics since Labour came to office, “crass” is better than “at best equivocal on race hate”.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Polanski’s line on “bums” was, among other things, a terrible message the two-thirds of people who work in social care who are *from* the UK. But to the people on the sharp end of the ugly turn in British politics since Labour came to office, “crass” is better than “at best equivocal on race hate”.