David Costa
@drc1649.bsky.social
Retired Labour Party political operative, now WEC member and Branch Secretary - all views here entirely my own.
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Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...
'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...
Survation polls for Labour List are polls of members who read Labour List (a small minority) who choose to reply to their survey. There’s some retrospective balancing of the sample but it can’t remedy this basic flaw. Remember this when you next see a headline “X% of Labour Party members believe A”
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Survation polls for Labour List are polls of members who read Labour List (a small minority) who choose to reply to their survey. There’s some retrospective balancing of the sample but it can’t remedy this basic flaw. Remember this when you next see a headline “X% of Labour Party members believe A”
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The printers are can't be telling the truth. The imprint wasn’t trimmed off. It wasn’t on the proof. If it was, the letter would be shorter, or the imprint was outside the print area. It’s a cover-up.
This is what happened in 5 posts:
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In order to make the ‘neighbour-to-neighbour’ letter...
This is what happened in 5 posts:
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In order to make the ‘neighbour-to-neighbour’ letter...
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The printers are can't be telling the truth. The imprint wasn’t trimmed off. It wasn’t on the proof. If it was, the letter would be shorter, or the imprint was outside the print area. It’s a cover-up.
This is what happened in 5 posts:
1.
In order to make the ‘neighbour-to-neighbour’ letter...
This is what happened in 5 posts:
1.
In order to make the ‘neighbour-to-neighbour’ letter...
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Here’s what our two Labour Governments delivered for Wales this week 🏴
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Here’s what our two Labour Governments delivered for Wales this week 🏴
My politics have changed since the 1980s but I can never read Polly Toynbee pontificating about the Labour Party in the Guardian without remembering that she was a founder member of the SDP which tried and failed to destroy us.
February 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
My politics have changed since the 1980s but I can never read Polly Toynbee pontificating about the Labour Party in the Guardian without remembering that she was a founder member of the SDP which tried and failed to destroy us.
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Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
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It will get a mention in my next Substack update on the seat, and not a complimentary one. Here, for the avoidance of doubt, is my assessment of the race given yesterday
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
It will get a mention in my next Substack update on the seat, and not a complimentary one. Here, for the avoidance of doubt, is my assessment of the race given yesterday
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Read the comment below, printed in the Sun 31st January 2026, where JEREMY CLARKSON critiques REFORM UK and Farage's appeal to voters.
February 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Read the comment below, printed in the Sun 31st January 2026, where JEREMY CLARKSON critiques REFORM UK and Farage's appeal to voters.
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Re Gorton & Denton, I once again note how subdued the formerly vocal "We must vote for the candidate best placed to defeat Reform" voices are, while "Voting Green could give Labour a kicking and who really cares if Reform wins as a result it's just a by-election" seems to be their unspoken reality.
January 31, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Re Gorton & Denton, I once again note how subdued the formerly vocal "We must vote for the candidate best placed to defeat Reform" voices are, while "Voting Green could give Labour a kicking and who really cares if Reform wins as a result it's just a by-election" seems to be their unspoken reality.
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Big countries should be allowed to conquer small countries to their west, actually, say Sinn Féin
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Big countries should be allowed to conquer small countries to their west, actually, say Sinn Féin
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Very pleased that Andy Burnham will not be allowed to stand in the upcoming bi election - in my view he should finish his mayoral term before thinking about a new job. Leaving early demonstrates opportunism and consideration of self before duty. Manchester deserves better!
January 25, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Very pleased that Andy Burnham will not be allowed to stand in the upcoming bi election - in my view he should finish his mayoral term before thinking about a new job. Leaving early demonstrates opportunism and consideration of self before duty. Manchester deserves better!
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Much of the media will be very disappointed by this decision to deny Andy Burnham special dispensation to fight a by-election. Those parts of the media are bored and restless unless we’re changing PM every couple of years. But it looks nuts to the rest of the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Much of the media will be very disappointed by this decision to deny Andy Burnham special dispensation to fight a by-election. Those parts of the media are bored and restless unless we’re changing PM every couple of years. But it looks nuts to the rest of the world.
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Burnham has a job. A good job. He should concentrate on that and not plunge Manchester into an unwanted election. Manchester can elect a Mayor in May 2028. Burnham can stand down and seek a consituency seat then.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Burnham has a job. A good job. He should concentrate on that and not plunge Manchester into an unwanted election. Manchester can elect a Mayor in May 2028. Burnham can stand down and seek a consituency seat then.
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"We aren't petty - he is being selfish and irresponsible in trying to walk out on this important job and we won't stand for that." Regardless of how important this really is as a factor in any decision to block Burnham it is a plausible - because accurate - argument to justify doing so.
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 AM
"We aren't petty - he is being selfish and irresponsible in trying to walk out on this important job and we won't stand for that." Regardless of how important this really is as a factor in any decision to block Burnham it is a plausible - because accurate - argument to justify doing so.
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Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
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Or, indeed, at all.
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Or, indeed, at all.
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Even, er contextier
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Even, er contextier
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Reform: the home for failed Tories. In this case failed in the sense of failed to pay HMRC loads of tax he owed
NEW: Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform.
Most senior member of the last Conservative govt yet to join the party.
Most senior member of the last Conservative govt yet to join the party.
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Reform: the home for failed Tories. In this case failed in the sense of failed to pay HMRC loads of tax he owed
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Nigel Farage has just said Reform will vote AGAINST lifting the 2 child cap, despite promising to lift it in May.
Reform doesn’t care about working class kids - or their families.
Reform doesn’t care about working class kids - or their families.
January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Nigel Farage has just said Reform will vote AGAINST lifting the 2 child cap, despite promising to lift it in May.
Reform doesn’t care about working class kids - or their families.
Reform doesn’t care about working class kids - or their families.
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Go round the outside.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Go round the outside.
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This was the government's position on "human rights defender" Abd El-Fattah in 2023, while Robert Jenrick sat in cabinet, Cleverly was Foreign Sec, and Sunak was PM - a position confirmed no fewer than ten times on the floor of both the Commons and the Lords.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
December 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This was the government's position on "human rights defender" Abd El-Fattah in 2023, while Robert Jenrick sat in cabinet, Cleverly was Foreign Sec, and Sunak was PM - a position confirmed no fewer than ten times on the floor of both the Commons and the Lords.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
Did Bob object back then? Thought not.
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Once again landowners getting preferential treatment. The rest of us pay for their pampering.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Once again landowners getting preferential treatment. The rest of us pay for their pampering.
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Pubs can’t be doing that badly if they think they can afford to alienate a chunk of potential customers who support Labour. Personally I’ll be boycotting any establishment displaying these signs.
Pubs can’t be doing that badly if they think they can afford to alienate a chunk of potential customers who support Labour. Personally I’ll be boycotting any establishment displaying these signs.
‘You’re barred!’: Labour’s battle with pubs promises a new year headache
A protest barring MPs from pubs is exposing deeper tensions between politicians and the communities they represent
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December 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Pubs can’t be doing that badly if they think they can afford to alienate a chunk of potential customers who support Labour. Personally I’ll be boycotting any establishment displaying these signs.
Pubs can’t be doing that badly if they think they can afford to alienate a chunk of potential customers who support Labour. Personally I’ll be boycotting any establishment displaying these signs.
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Opposition Lords are STILL voting to water down key measures in the Employment Rights Bill - risking delaying rights like access to Sick Pay from Day 1.
The Lords must get out of the way and let the Bill pass, so we can deliver the new rights working people need.
www.labourunions.org.uk/stoptheblock
The Lords must get out of the way and let the Bill pass, so we can deliver the new rights working people need.
www.labourunions.org.uk/stoptheblock
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Opposition Lords are STILL voting to water down key measures in the Employment Rights Bill - risking delaying rights like access to Sick Pay from Day 1.
The Lords must get out of the way and let the Bill pass, so we can deliver the new rights working people need.
www.labourunions.org.uk/stoptheblock
The Lords must get out of the way and let the Bill pass, so we can deliver the new rights working people need.
www.labourunions.org.uk/stoptheblock
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To be fair these people told us for five years ‘Why don’t you f*** off and join the Torys’ - so they are only following their own advice.
Zarah Sultana voted with the Tories in every vote on the Employment Rights Bill last night.
That includes voting to keep the Lords' wrecking amendments on strike ballot thresholds and to keep the 2016 Trade Union Act's restrictions on unions' political funds.
That includes voting to keep the Lords' wrecking amendments on strike ballot thresholds and to keep the 2016 Trade Union Act's restrictions on unions' political funds.
December 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
To be fair these people told us for five years ‘Why don’t you f*** off and join the Torys’ - so they are only following their own advice.