Sean Kemp
@seankemp.bsky.social
Advised the Lib Dems during coalition. Somehow still able to get work
Badenoch has missed a trick not doing her sacking Jenrick video like his fare dodging one. Chasing him through Portcullis House saying 'you're bang to rights'.
January 15, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Badenoch has missed a trick not doing her sacking Jenrick video like his fare dodging one. Chasing him through Portcullis House saying 'you're bang to rights'.
If the government genuinely believes this stat then boy am I confused about what they think the next election is going to look like for them
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
If the government genuinely believes this stat then boy am I confused about what they think the next election is going to look like for them
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this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
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Five RTs. Six Likes. It would be more cost effective for Defra comms officials to dial random phone numbers and launch into a spiel about otters or whatever.
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Five RTs. Six Likes. It would be more cost effective for Defra comms officials to dial random phone numbers and launch into a spiel about otters or whatever.
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Not saying there's unconscious racial bias in this country but...
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Not saying there's unconscious racial bias in this country but...
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
These are all boring dad choices?
Farage, Polanski and Corbyn's choices are all good, Davey's is a typical boring dad choice, and Badenoch's response is characteristically unhinged
December 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
These are all boring dad choices?
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not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
My gut instinct on this is that so much of the Reform surge is down to the power of Farage's personality that there are maybe three or four Tories where this is actually a risk. For the rest I just think it adds to their sense of momentum
There is a risk to Reform that if they take too many Tories they just start to resemble the 14-year government that the public resoundingly rejected last year. Not sure they’re really thinking through these defections…
Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My gut instinct on this is that so much of the Reform surge is down to the power of Farage's personality that there are maybe three or four Tories where this is actually a risk. For the rest I just think it adds to their sense of momentum
As this great thread is doing the rounds again, for me it will always be this
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
As this great thread is doing the rounds again, for me it will always be this
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Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.
What exactly is the end game here? Fail at banking, fail at being a business guru, try to become fixture of right wing think tank set?
Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break.
My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"
Me: "Bitcoin."
My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"
Me: "Bitcoin."
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.
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Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
This, from the FT, is almost the perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening about this government. ‘If a convenient thing had happened we wouldn’t have had to agree to do something which we actually think is stupid.’
Does he also believe in the Tooth Fairy? That, and other questions raised by this excellent piece: www.ft.com/content/cc83...
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This, from the FT, is almost the perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening about this government. ‘If a convenient thing had happened we wouldn’t have had to agree to do something which we actually think is stupid.’
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Your boyfriend tells Susie Dent that she absolutely nailed her word of the day
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Your boyfriend tells Susie Dent that she absolutely nailed her word of the day
Introduce a tax on parliamentary speeches that have a call and response bit
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Introduce a tax on parliamentary speeches that have a call and response bit
Definitely gives me more confidence in the OBR’s numbers to know they can’t tell the time
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Definitely gives me more confidence in the OBR’s numbers to know they can’t tell the time
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OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
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Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Professor Will See You Now: Island of strangers
Lessons in political science. This week: island of strangers
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Latest piece for the @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the island of strangers speech and similar. Also ft Bob Hawke.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
I have had to pop over to X to stop you posting that bloody Guardian screenshot about Starmer
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I have had to pop over to X to stop you posting that bloody Guardian screenshot about Starmer
Not sure if there’s ever been a list of ‘worst political briefings of all time’ but what has come out of No10 this evening is a high new entry
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not sure if there’s ever been a list of ‘worst political briefings of all time’ but what has come out of No10 this evening is a high new entry
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
Man, this person in No10 really wants to get something off their chest about a career bureaucrat who takes ages to make decisions for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Man, this person in No10 really wants to get something off their chest about a career bureaucrat who takes ages to make decisions for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on
If you’re going to post a supposedly unhinged literary opinion. Please make it unhinged, I’m just getting quote tweets with stuff like ‘EM Forster was a bit overrated’.
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If you’re going to post a supposedly unhinged literary opinion. Please make it unhinged, I’m just getting quote tweets with stuff like ‘EM Forster was a bit overrated’.
Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’
Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...