Jane G
@janeger.bsky.social
Left of centre. I expect equality and am therefore constantly disappointed.
European British. Lives in Sheffield UK.
I will use sweary words when I deem it necessary.
European British. Lives in Sheffield UK.
I will use sweary words when I deem it necessary.
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Labour MPs really need to stop pretending that Mandelson lied to the country—he didn’t. He lied to those tasked with vetting him and to a PM enthralled by his reputation.
Anyone familiar with his career trajectory could have predicted that appointment would be a disaster. #r4today
Anyone familiar with his career trajectory could have predicted that appointment would be a disaster. #r4today
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Labour MPs really need to stop pretending that Mandelson lied to the country—he didn’t. He lied to those tasked with vetting him and to a PM enthralled by his reputation.
Anyone familiar with his career trajectory could have predicted that appointment would be a disaster. #r4today
Anyone familiar with his career trajectory could have predicted that appointment would be a disaster. #r4today
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It was the Home Office that organised taxis for asylum seekers to travel to appointments across the country. It is shameful for the government to suggest, by omission, that this was some sort of encouraging perk.
#r4today
#r4today
February 5, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It was the Home Office that organised taxis for asylum seekers to travel to appointments across the country. It is shameful for the government to suggest, by omission, that this was some sort of encouraging perk.
#r4today
#r4today
Can we have @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tell us how knowing, someone you are going to appoint as US Ambassador, maintained a friendship with a convicted sex offender is consistent with the government's strategy on tackling violence against women and girls?
#R4Today
#R4Today
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Can we have @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tell us how knowing, someone you are going to appoint as US Ambassador, maintained a friendship with a convicted sex offender is consistent with the government's strategy on tackling violence against women and girls?
#R4Today
#R4Today
The PM has said he new about Mandelson's continued friendship with convicted sex offender Epstein. Yet simultaneously he said his government was serious about tackling violence against women and girls. This is at best inconsistent.
#R4Today
#R4Today
February 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
The PM has said he new about Mandelson's continued friendship with convicted sex offender Epstein. Yet simultaneously he said his government was serious about tackling violence against women and girls. This is at best inconsistent.
#R4Today
#R4Today
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The jury refused to convict the 6 who broke into Israel's Elbit factory that makes weapons to kill civilians in Gaza of any crime.
THIS is why the Government wants to get rid of jury trials.
THIS is why the Government wants to get rid of jury trials.
February 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The jury refused to convict the 6 who broke into Israel's Elbit factory that makes weapons to kill civilians in Gaza of any crime.
THIS is why the Government wants to get rid of jury trials.
THIS is why the Government wants to get rid of jury trials.
Did my bit delivering Green Party leaflets today in Gorton and Denton. And I have to say I was surprised the sun shone - not that Iam righteous, but it sort of disproves @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social 'that if rain makes Britain great, then Manchester is greater' - sorry Paul.
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Did my bit delivering Green Party leaflets today in Gorton and Denton. And I have to say I was surprised the sun shone - not that Iam righteous, but it sort of disproves @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social 'that if rain makes Britain great, then Manchester is greater' - sorry Paul.
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Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
February 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
1/n
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Huge news just reported: 6 PA activists cleared or not convicted on all counts in Elbit Systems break-in trial.
#Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Huge news just reported: 6 PA activists cleared or not convicted on all counts in Elbit Systems break-in trial.
#Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Epstein files show it's a thoroughly rotten system that treats people as resources to be owned and used.
This is the ruling class of capitalism as it's always been. It's not just the moral failings of a few individuals who just need replacing with good guys. The system creates these people.
This is the ruling class of capitalism as it's always been. It's not just the moral failings of a few individuals who just need replacing with good guys. The system creates these people.
February 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The Epstein files show it's a thoroughly rotten system that treats people as resources to be owned and used.
This is the ruling class of capitalism as it's always been. It's not just the moral failings of a few individuals who just need replacing with good guys. The system creates these people.
This is the ruling class of capitalism as it's always been. It's not just the moral failings of a few individuals who just need replacing with good guys. The system creates these people.
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It gets worse. Starmer's shortlist for US ambassador.
Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity.
The voters can see it.
In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity.
The voters can see it.
In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century
Mandelson's fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness
www.newstatesman.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
It gets worse. Starmer's shortlist for US ambassador.
Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity.
The voters can see it.
In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity.
The voters can see it.
In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 AM
In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Journalists should be asking the Labour candidate at the Gorton & Denton byelection - and any senior Labour figures who turn up to campaign - whether they support these proposals or not.
If they are genuinely serious about rejecting Goodwin/Reform's racism and bigotry, there's only one answer..
If they are genuinely serious about rejecting Goodwin/Reform's racism and bigotry, there's only one answer..
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Journalists should be asking the Labour candidate at the Gorton & Denton byelection - and any senior Labour figures who turn up to campaign - whether they support these proposals or not.
If they are genuinely serious about rejecting Goodwin/Reform's racism and bigotry, there's only one answer..
If they are genuinely serious about rejecting Goodwin/Reform's racism and bigotry, there's only one answer..
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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How many months did it take Reform to
1. discover the two-child benefit cap?
2. pledge to abolish it?
3. pledge to abolish it for the right colour of people?
4. pledge to reintroduce it?
1. discover the two-child benefit cap?
2. pledge to abolish it?
3. pledge to abolish it for the right colour of people?
4. pledge to reintroduce it?
1. Interesting to see Reform abandon its flirtation with nativism / birth rate boosterism in favour of the policy of the last Tory government
2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).
2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Wtf 'no sense of public money being used' to support Andrew. How does that correspondent think the King got his wealth ? The answer from the public.
#R4Today
#R4Today
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Wtf 'no sense of public money being used' to support Andrew. How does that correspondent think the King got his wealth ? The answer from the public.
#R4Today
#R4Today
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Sorry James, but this is just nonsense. Mandelson freelanced in disgraceful and obnoxious ways. But his role in Gordon Brown's government was to pursue similarly undemocratic and destructive policies, just without the obvious corruption. See bsky.app/profile/geor...
More integrity in his little finger than his detractors have displayed in entire careers.
Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
February 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Sorry James, but this is just nonsense. Mandelson freelanced in disgraceful and obnoxious ways. But his role in Gordon Brown's government was to pursue similarly undemocratic and destructive policies, just without the obvious corruption. See bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Zarah Sultana has endorsed @greenparty.org.uk in Gorton and Denton.
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Zarah Sultana has endorsed @greenparty.org.uk in Gorton and Denton.
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I see the internet was fine with Menelaus being dressed as Batman in prehistoric Greece, but his wife Helen being Black is outrageous apparently.
Racist pricks.
Racist pricks.
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I see the internet was fine with Menelaus being dressed as Batman in prehistoric Greece, but his wife Helen being Black is outrageous apparently.
Racist pricks.
Racist pricks.
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It's amazing what a good case study Jeffrey Epstein is into why one person having billions of pounds is automatically a bad thing.
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
It's amazing what a good case study Jeffrey Epstein is into why one person having billions of pounds is automatically a bad thing.