Michael Bell
@mbellcoop.bsky.social
Used to be a bigwig in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
What the actual fuck Nick Pope
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What the actual fuck Nick Pope
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The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Inheritance tax is good! Tax income and people might earn less. Tax consumption and people might spend less. Tax death, and they're not going to *die* less and also, y'know what, if they did, that would *also* be good. It's one of the best taxes!
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Inheritance tax is good! Tax income and people might earn less. Tax consumption and people might spend less. Tax death, and they're not going to *die* less and also, y'know what, if they did, that would *also* be good. It's one of the best taxes!
I don't see how this is a gotcha tbh. Everyone knows who he is, he's been forced down our throats since about 2013. Same as the stuff about him not being in and around Clacton. The people in Clacton who voted for him don't want a constituency MP. They want someone who'll be racist at PMQs
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't see how this is a gotcha tbh. Everyone knows who he is, he's been forced down our throats since about 2013. Same as the stuff about him not being in and around Clacton. The people in Clacton who voted for him don't want a constituency MP. They want someone who'll be racist at PMQs
Just heard my god daughter's Christmas present is being delivered by Evri. Such a shame, she'd have really liked it too.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just heard my god daughter's Christmas present is being delivered by Evri. Such a shame, she'd have really liked it too.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don't think (successive) governments who ignore the financial crisis in universities really realise what it will look like in cities, including northern cities like mine, if the higher education sector collapses. Newcastle's economy is *really fucking really* propped up by students
Holy fuck, just realised that "No way, José" and "Not tonight, Josephine" are essentially the same phrase.
🤯🤯🤯
🤯🤯🤯
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Holy fuck, just realised that "No way, José" and "Not tonight, Josephine" are essentially the same phrase.
🤯🤯🤯
🤯🤯🤯
It's all kicking off in the group chat
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's all kicking off in the group chat
The Holy Trinity
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Holy Trinity
Beginning to think that Golden Boot 2025/26 award is slipping away from Alexander Isak
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Beginning to think that Golden Boot 2025/26 award is slipping away from Alexander Isak
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God I adore it, absolutely adore it when he saws off the branches his sycophants have climbed out on. It’s the one thing he does I can appreciate.
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
God I adore it, absolutely adore it when he saws off the branches his sycophants have climbed out on. It’s the one thing he does I can appreciate.
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Dwellbeing Shieldfield are hiring!
We are looking for a part time Organisational Development Worker Member. For more information visit www.dwellbeingshieldfield.org.uk/news/job
#Vacancies #Jobs #SocialChange #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #CooperativeWorking #Newcastle #Tyneside
We are looking for a part time Organisational Development Worker Member. For more information visit www.dwellbeingshieldfield.org.uk/news/job
#Vacancies #Jobs #SocialChange #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #CooperativeWorking #Newcastle #Tyneside
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dwellbeing Shieldfield are hiring!
We are looking for a part time Organisational Development Worker Member. For more information visit www.dwellbeingshieldfield.org.uk/news/job
#Vacancies #Jobs #SocialChange #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #CooperativeWorking #Newcastle #Tyneside
We are looking for a part time Organisational Development Worker Member. For more information visit www.dwellbeingshieldfield.org.uk/news/job
#Vacancies #Jobs #SocialChange #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #CooperativeWorking #Newcastle #Tyneside
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tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
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laughing again because during a quiz there was a question about a famous pirate and I said to my friend just name any pirate and he panicked and said long bon jovi
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
laughing again because during a quiz there was a question about a famous pirate and I said to my friend just name any pirate and he panicked and said long bon jovi
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A queen
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A queen
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One of the many things that really depresses me about Labour’s current theory of racism is that it treats it as people simply wanting more of their own group and fewer of the Others around and so they believe there’s a formula where n= the number of deportations that will end racism.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One of the many things that really depresses me about Labour’s current theory of racism is that it treats it as people simply wanting more of their own group and fewer of the Others around and so they believe there’s a formula where n= the number of deportations that will end racism.
This was very much me the night that Truss really properly collapsed
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This was very much me the night that Truss really properly collapsed
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So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So the solution is… to join in?
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
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Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
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I feel now about Starmer as I did about Blair after the Iraq War: that such a fundamental line has been crossed that I will never vote for the party while he or the people who surround him are still in charge.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I feel now about Starmer as I did about Blair after the Iraq War: that such a fundamental line has been crossed that I will never vote for the party while he or the people who surround him are still in charge.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
Nothing else they might do, no matter how important or progressive, could redeem them.
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
I used to feel frustration and betrayal that I worked so hard for so long as a volunteer activist to help get this party into government for them to turn out like they did. Now I feel shame about it.
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I used to feel frustration and betrayal that I worked so hard for so long as a volunteer activist to help get this party into government for them to turn out like they did. Now I feel shame about it.
The Die Hard Christmas movie engagement bait discourse is pretty old and tired now, but I will absolutely go all guns blazing for Gremlins as a Christmas film. Gizmo is a Christmas present, the Gremlins be carolers, one hides in a Christmas tree. It's interwoven through the whole film
Share a Christmas movie.
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Die Hard Christmas movie engagement bait discourse is pretty old and tired now, but I will absolutely go all guns blazing for Gremlins as a Christmas film. Gizmo is a Christmas present, the Gremlins be carolers, one hides in a Christmas tree. It's interwoven through the whole film