@mikeinsdevon.bsky.social
Still trying to make sense of everything and avoid getting too confused!
Slightly unhinged, wide range of interests.
RIP Boo Boo 2009-2024
Slightly unhinged, wide range of interests.
RIP Boo Boo 2009-2024
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Pay attention Labour Party / Starmer. This is how you protect democracy. 👇🏻Grow a pair and stand up to the vile billionaire bullies! Go France! 🇫🇷
France is about to prosecute them; Europe is about to investigate them; United States says there will be no investigations or prosecutions... Just 'Thinks' On It...! 🙄
#FuggahMAGA #MAGAIsFascism #FuggOrangeTACO #RealTauk
#FuggahMAGA #MAGAIsFascism #FuggOrangeTACO #RealTauk
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Pay attention Labour Party / Starmer. This is how you protect democracy. 👇🏻Grow a pair and stand up to the vile billionaire bullies! Go France! 🇫🇷
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£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by student loans.
Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.
At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.
Loan increases, if not repaid.
Grads can't buy home, start family/business.
Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.
Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.
At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.
Loan increases, if not repaid.
Grads can't buy home, start family/business.
Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.
£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans
As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
£99987 and counting: graduates trapped by student loans.
Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.
At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.
Loan increases, if not repaid.
Grads can't buy home, start family/business.
Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.
Govt froze repayment threshold. By 2030, be at minimum wage.
At the margin grads pay 20% inc tax + 8%NIC +9% repayment. Insane.
Loan increases, if not repaid.
Grads can't buy home, start family/business.
Abolish Uni fees. Write-off debt.
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Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...
Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton
People across the constituency thought they were getting a letter from a concerned pensioner, they didn’t know she was working for Reform
manchestermill.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...
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so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office!
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."
February 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
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I love how Liz Truss has recognised her thankfully short stint as UK Prime Minister is below running some dodgy YouTube channel.
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I love how Liz Truss has recognised her thankfully short stint as UK Prime Minister is below running some dodgy YouTube channel.
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“Among all natural predators, and even before sea level rise could decimate the endangered species of the flora and fauna of Little St James, in the end it was the pedophiles who managed to get to them first”
February 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
“Among all natural predators, and even before sea level rise could decimate the endangered species of the flora and fauna of Little St James, in the end it was the pedophiles who managed to get to them first”
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Like so many on the right (including Farage), the Telegraph were not as outraged by Mandelson's appointment as they now like to think they were.
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Like so many on the right (including Farage), the Telegraph were not as outraged by Mandelson's appointment as they now like to think they were.
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This ought to be terminal for both Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons.
Sinister and unacceptable.
Sinister and unacceptable.
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted
*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it
Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 AM
This ought to be terminal for both Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons.
Sinister and unacceptable.
Sinister and unacceptable.
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It has been revealed that our chief reporter, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social, was among journalists investigated by a PR firm paid by Labour Together.
Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:57 AM
It has been revealed that our chief reporter, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social, was among journalists investigated by a PR firm paid by Labour Together.
Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
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Cumberland elections have not been delayed - my letter in the Cumberland News today
(The daily telegraph has been rabble rousing implicating that local elections across the entire country should have been scheduled course this was not the case)
Full letter text? Click in the alt text below
(The daily telegraph has been rabble rousing implicating that local elections across the entire country should have been scheduled course this was not the case)
Full letter text? Click in the alt text below
February 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Cumberland elections have not been delayed - my letter in the Cumberland News today
(The daily telegraph has been rabble rousing implicating that local elections across the entire country should have been scheduled course this was not the case)
Full letter text? Click in the alt text below
(The daily telegraph has been rabble rousing implicating that local elections across the entire country should have been scheduled course this was not the case)
Full letter text? Click in the alt text below
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This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
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We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...
EXC:
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
www.ft.com/content/584a...
Keir Starmer apologises to victims of Jeffrey Epstein
UK prime minister faces criticism from Labour MPs but insists he is not about to quit
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:53 PM
We've reached the "Maurice Glasman showed better judgement than the PM" stage of this crisis. Not sure there's any way back from that...
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Mandelson is caught bang to rights, resigns from the Lords, investigated by police, Starmer rightly scrutinised, etc.
In America, Epstein cronies go Scot-free and felon Trump still breaks laws daily.
So when BadEnoch and the Tory rags now pile onto Labour it's sheer hypocrisy
#ukpolitics #wato
In America, Epstein cronies go Scot-free and felon Trump still breaks laws daily.
So when BadEnoch and the Tory rags now pile onto Labour it's sheer hypocrisy
#ukpolitics #wato
February 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Mandelson is caught bang to rights, resigns from the Lords, investigated by police, Starmer rightly scrutinised, etc.
In America, Epstein cronies go Scot-free and felon Trump still breaks laws daily.
So when BadEnoch and the Tory rags now pile onto Labour it's sheer hypocrisy
#ukpolitics #wato
In America, Epstein cronies go Scot-free and felon Trump still breaks laws daily.
So when BadEnoch and the Tory rags now pile onto Labour it's sheer hypocrisy
#ukpolitics #wato
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Doesn't seem like the best day for Starmer to reheat "you lefties [on the backbenches/in the Labour membership/in the Labour electorate] just don't get it" Blue Labour type arguments?
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Doesn't seem like the best day for Starmer to reheat "you lefties [on the backbenches/in the Labour membership/in the Labour electorate] just don't get it" Blue Labour type arguments?
He should've been fired multiple times already
Pressure grows on Starmer’s chief of staff over Mandelson ambassador appointment ft.trib.al/AYWOoLJ
Pressure grows on Starmer’s chief of staff over Mandelson ambassador appointment
Multiple MPs in Labour Party question Morgan McSweeney’s judgment as revelations shake Westminster
ft.trib.al
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
He should've been fired multiple times already
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Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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For those keeping score at home:
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
For those keeping score at home:
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"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."
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And being done only to court favourable coverage from newspapers that will never provide it. Moral bankruptcy, political stupidity, economic suicide. Very, very this government.
Labour's changes to immigration rules, including potentially applying them retroactively, would be some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies in decades. They're the hostile environment on speed.
This is pure cruelty as policy, with absolutely no merit to them
archive.today/2026.02.03-2...
This is pure cruelty as policy, with absolutely no merit to them
archive.today/2026.02.03-2...
February 4, 2026 at 7:45 AM
And being done only to court favourable coverage from newspapers that will never provide it. Moral bankruptcy, political stupidity, economic suicide. Very, very this government.
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Obviously you’d be as surprised as I am that no U.K. media outlet carried this story.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
Steve Bannon tells Epstein he can get Boris Johnson elected as Prime Minister
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Obviously you’d be as surprised as I am that no U.K. media outlet carried this story.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
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Another new low for Matt Goodwin and Reform UK
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Another new low for Matt Goodwin and Reform UK
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Just putting a few pieces of "new" info together, but if Mandelson was:
1) Persuading Gordon Brown to resign in 2010
2) Masterminding Sir Keir's cabinet reshuffles in 2025
3) Someone Starmer didn't like, yet was elevated to that position
Wtf was actually going on here & why was it unreported?
1) Persuading Gordon Brown to resign in 2010
2) Masterminding Sir Keir's cabinet reshuffles in 2025
3) Someone Starmer didn't like, yet was elevated to that position
Wtf was actually going on here & why was it unreported?
February 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Just putting a few pieces of "new" info together, but if Mandelson was:
1) Persuading Gordon Brown to resign in 2010
2) Masterminding Sir Keir's cabinet reshuffles in 2025
3) Someone Starmer didn't like, yet was elevated to that position
Wtf was actually going on here & why was it unreported?
1) Persuading Gordon Brown to resign in 2010
2) Masterminding Sir Keir's cabinet reshuffles in 2025
3) Someone Starmer didn't like, yet was elevated to that position
Wtf was actually going on here & why was it unreported?