David Beech
@davidbeech.bsky.social
Yorkshire based. Interested in politics. Labour member but not a cultist.
I've lived in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and a few big towns in between but this is what I always come back home for.
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've lived in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and a few big towns in between but this is what I always come back home for.
I would really like to see a joint Sultana / Corbyn leadership as feel like this could develop into a spectacular pairing that would surpass even my high expectations of what they are both capable of delivering.
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I would really like to see a joint Sultana / Corbyn leadership as feel like this could develop into a spectacular pairing that would surpass even my high expectations of what they are both capable of delivering.
Speaking to female friends at the time the reason a lot were 'interested' in Badenoch was her take no prisoners, no I won't apologise for being supremely confident approach. Traits often admired in men, of course. The problem is - like many of those men - she can't back it up with actual ability
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Speaking to female friends at the time the reason a lot were 'interested' in Badenoch was her take no prisoners, no I won't apologise for being supremely confident approach. Traits often admired in men, of course. The problem is - like many of those men - she can't back it up with actual ability
I've been interested in politics long enough to know Chancellor's will always get stick from the media.Often unfairly and often harsh, but what's happening with Reeves is on a different level. It's vicious and it's because she's a woman. If they get her it'll be Bridget Phillipson next without doubt
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I've been interested in politics long enough to know Chancellor's will always get stick from the media.Often unfairly and often harsh, but what's happening with Reeves is on a different level. It's vicious and it's because she's a woman. If they get her it'll be Bridget Phillipson next without doubt
Very good piece, this. My view is the absolutist approach of some trans rights activists- if a 6 year old child says they are trans, they are - no shades of grey, over policing of language has lost a lot of public support that would naturally be there. Which actively works against trans people...
OK, here we go....
New Substack post from me trying (bravely/foolishly) to unpick the trans debate between Dr Helen Webberley and Julie Bindel.
rolandmcs.substack.com/p/trans-deba...
New Substack post from me trying (bravely/foolishly) to unpick the trans debate between Dr Helen Webberley and Julie Bindel.
rolandmcs.substack.com/p/trans-deba...
Trans Debate: Helen Webberley vs Julie Bindel
A head-to-head debate lasting over ninety minutes crystallised a few things
rolandmcs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Very good piece, this. My view is the absolutist approach of some trans rights activists- if a 6 year old child says they are trans, they are - no shades of grey, over policing of language has lost a lot of public support that would naturally be there. Which actively works against trans people...
This is really good and especially on Blair and New Labour. Both him and Brown had ideas, knew what they wanted to achieve, who their voters were and what they wanted the government to deliver. My impression of Starmer is he does believe in stuff but that it's none of our or his cabinet's business
I say this as someone who is very much anti-intellectual - few politicians in this country did more to make anti-intellectualism central to political communication than Tony Blair
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is really good and especially on Blair and New Labour. Both him and Brown had ideas, knew what they wanted to achieve, who their voters were and what they wanted the government to deliver. My impression of Starmer is he does believe in stuff but that it's none of our or his cabinet's business
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If you look back at the Beeb's political editors in Thatcher's days or compare Brian Walden's interviews to Laura K's now there's just no comparison in the depth and curiosity of the interviewers. We are literally left with a few tweets on a screen where the politician is asked to respond. Woeful.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you look back at the Beeb's political editors in Thatcher's days or compare Brian Walden's interviews to Laura K's now there's just no comparison in the depth and curiosity of the interviewers. We are literally left with a few tweets on a screen where the politician is asked to respond. Woeful.
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Such a shame to see this prime solar farm land blighted by such low-yield agriculture.
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Such a shame to see this prime solar farm land blighted by such low-yield agriculture.
If they do keep her until the GE it's going to be very interesting watching Kemi Badenoch's performance during the campaign.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If they do keep her until the GE it's going to be very interesting watching Kemi Badenoch's performance during the campaign.
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Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
Not that she cares, but this stuff filters down to the kids, eventually. In my day 'you're not a proper family in a single parent household, why are we paying for your dinners' and now "why is this child even here if you can't afford it and it's unchristian for the state to help'.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not that she cares, but this stuff filters down to the kids, eventually. In my day 'you're not a proper family in a single parent household, why are we paying for your dinners' and now "why is this child even here if you can't afford it and it's unchristian for the state to help'.
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I disagree very profoundly with Mrs Thatcher, as did many of the members of the General Assembly, but she had actually thought her position out (and she was speaking from her own, genuine, faith, rather than rather oddly denouncing things as “unchristian” when you don’t believe in God).
Kemi Badenoch - one of the many, many politicians since Margaret Thatcher to talk about learning from Margaret Thatcher who, IDK, maybe they saw a meme about her one time?
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I disagree very profoundly with Mrs Thatcher, as did many of the members of the General Assembly, but she had actually thought her position out (and she was speaking from her own, genuine, faith, rather than rather oddly denouncing things as “unchristian” when you don’t believe in God).
Sun leading with exclusive that Reeves' uncle is a c*nt.
(Imagine doing this shit to your family)
(Imagine doing this shit to your family)
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sun leading with exclusive that Reeves' uncle is a c*nt.
(Imagine doing this shit to your family)
(Imagine doing this shit to your family)
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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
These people won't be happy until we've closed our borders and the country is left in smouldering ruins but at least we got "immigration under control ".
Asylum seekers now make up nearly half of net migration to the UK and the number housed in hotels has increased despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to end their use ⬇️
Asylum seekers account for almost half of net migration
New statistics showed a fall in net migration as British citizens and non-EU migrants left the UK, but the number of asylum seekers in hotels has grown
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
These people won't be happy until we've closed our borders and the country is left in smouldering ruins but at least we got "immigration under control ".
BBC News - Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign - BBC News
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
BBC News - Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This really does lift the spirits when there are bad days in Labour.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This really does lift the spirits when there are bad days in Labour.
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It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
Not to come across as a rabid right winger this morning, but if Kyle is trying to mend some fences with businesses - good. I do think we need to face the reality that we've just stiffed them for billions in extra costs and *day 1* claims for unfair dismissal will sound ridiculous to most ppl.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Not to come across as a rabid right winger this morning, but if Kyle is trying to mend some fences with businesses - good. I do think we need to face the reality that we've just stiffed them for billions in extra costs and *day 1* claims for unfair dismissal will sound ridiculous to most ppl.
Of course the hard left are outraged thst labour are taking 450k children out of poverty....because it didn't happen last year. By that logic if you hadn't taken us to our worst defeat since the 30s we could have done it in 2019. Honestly, just f*ck off.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Of course the hard left are outraged thst labour are taking 450k children out of poverty....because it didn't happen last year. By that logic if you hadn't taken us to our worst defeat since the 30s we could have done it in 2019. Honestly, just f*ck off.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
My god cat's really do fuck with you, don't they? Mine is refusing to eat her food in a bowl on the floor it must be placed on the kitchen work surface by the window. So obviously that's what I'm doing 🙄
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My god cat's really do fuck with you, don't they? Mine is refusing to eat her food in a bowl on the floor it must be placed on the kitchen work surface by the window. So obviously that's what I'm doing 🙄
I'm sorry but this really did make me laugh. I do love a good overreaction on here, I have to say.
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I'm sorry but this really did make me laugh. I do love a good overreaction on here, I have to say.
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Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.