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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · Nov 26

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

The Labour party are such a crop of headmasters, methodists and petty authoritarians. Always looking to help the landowner classes manage the peasants.

The punchline to the classic joke about Labour is the 'labour spokesman' saying "don't be silly, comrade, the bosses will never agree to that."

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

Go Greens.

The mainstream parties often boast of having to make "difficult choices" when what they mean is choices that make life harder for us all.

Wrest the land back from the 1% and share its bounty among the people of the country.

That's a real hard choice. Hard to achieve, but just.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think the richest man in the world would be more smiley, huh?

Maybe money and power just aren't the route to happiness.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 1d

Treason doth never prosper.

What's the reason?

Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

The whole Tory philosophy is the pursuit of the idea of obedient workers and a solution to the servant problem.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

The Tory perspective of the world is so impoverished by spite, hate, greed and ignorance, you could be forgiven for thinking it was invented by a bunch of graceless, arrogant, dissolute toffs...

which of course it was.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 2d

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

Just a quick reminder of what a toxic bunch of poison-mongers the Tories are.

All that's changed is they've forgotten to decorate it all with public school accents.

A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them

www.theguardian.com

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 3d

It should be law that the corections occupy the same provenance and space as the original sleazy lie.

Otherwise they're just getting away with "the conservative game".

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 3d

If anything's "destroying this country" it's the toxic desperation of the right to find new things to hate and keep their f-wit base angry about.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 3d

The Tories' racism is all they have left of their identity.

And let's face it, all their other "values" were derived from the same toxic source of snotty delusion that informed their racism in the first place.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, Ive had this previously when I was doing so much extra stuff to support researchers and then when I left they just stopped doing it and ... no-one really cared.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

It's a head-scratcher, isn't it?

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

Being a disinformation spreader is a prerequisite of being a right wing politician now. It's easier if you're a moron, because it helps if you seem to completely believe the BS you're fire-hosing into the public sphere.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNc...

Politics of lies

YouTube video by Abradacamera2

www.youtube.com

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

There's a more important principle at stake - we should not accept being policed by robots.

Because face recognition and gait recognition is coming, and robots are becoming mobile and more sophisticated.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn...

Everyone needs to know about and have listened to Gary Stevenson.

Everyone.

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

www.youtube.com

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 4d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn...

Everyone needs to know about and have listened to Gary Stevenson.

Everyone.

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

www.youtube.com

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 5d

A cartoon from 1975...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6d

History repeats.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 6d

Because they want to believe it.

Worse still, they're afraid if they doubt it they won't know who they are anymore.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 7d

As with Trump you can tell Tice is a completely unhinged,deluded and inadequate man just with a quick glance at the way he chooses to wear his hair.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, that was fun.

He didn't even know it was only 35 pages long, the moron.

He assumed it would be like the terms and conditions of his mobile phone contract.

GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 7d

Must be an uncomfortable truth to confront for the Telegraph, that one of their fellow fascists might not exactly be a "patriot".

Let's face it, the only loyalty Farage and The Telegraph have is to anyone with loadsamoney.

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