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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is what bugs me the most about the willingness of swathes of politicos to swallow a random r-wing internet conspiracy theory - that accepting this particular theory requires you to have paid zero attention to how outsourcing / privatisation / cronyism actually happens

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 3d

Did it not occur to you that this was clear bullshit? It was a line in a speech, not a worked-through plan, never mind a bill or legislation. How likely was it really that a company that doesn't even make software would have won a contract that was nowhere near being put out to tender? FuckSAKE.

Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 2d

So flipping true 😞

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Bolder. Effective.And surging!

Come on @greenparty.org.uk team.

Let's go!

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The party is louder and more left wing than ever.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 4d

I fear too much of the political class who have spent 15 years sneeringly referring to people outside the Westminster village as “keyboard warriors” have now become little more than keyboard warriors themselves

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 5d

To be honest I think their muted reaction suggested they suspected a massive error

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 5d

It can simultaneously be true that
A) ID cards are a terrible idea
B) The Blair family are greedy chancers
and
C) There is no evidence of this claim, it stems from far right social media accounts & amplifying it is a lazy failure of basic fact checking, political nous and common sense by #hignify

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5d

Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

cc @henrymance.ft.com who brought this to my (and many others’) attention

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

Why exactly the BBC judges hate speech laws to be relevant to debates about free speech, but public order and so-called terrorism laws not to be, is a highly ideological position that I want the BBC to justify, to Ofcom if necessary - or just admit they made a mistake with this one.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

So I wrote a hasty and rambly reply which is all their lazy arse response merits, but im quite minded to follow up with ofcom if necessary, the bbc shouldn’t be easing our slide into fascism quite as willingly as they are

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

The BBC’s complaints department seems to think it’s entirely ok to 100% elide “hate speech” with “free speech” (as Nick Robinson did)

and that incidents of *actual* attacks on free speech, are an entirely separate debate, presumably for some other broadcaster to talk about

Nick Robinson: How the simmering row over freedom of speech reached
boiling point

Many people also asked why we did not mention in the article the arrests of people who expressed support for Palestine Action and the prosecutions of Just Stop Oil
protestors. Nick Robinson was looking specifically at how hate speech
laws are applied to posts on social media in the UK. Supporters of Palestine Action have been arrested under the Terrorism Act. Just Stop Oil protestors were prosecuted
for public order offences. We would say that these cases were beyond the scope of Nick Robinson's article, and that there are separate
debates to be had over how the terrorism and public order
laws should be applied.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

It will save you all of, like, 4p a month, and you’ll lose your right to choose between dull and uninspiring Labour Party leadership / deputy contenders sufficiently friendly to capitalism to not offend the corporate party donors… but you’ll send a message to your union!

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

Wes Streeting‘s quote yesterday was “if it‘s good enough for Southampton why isn’t it happening everywhere”,

which struck me at the time as an utterly inane thing to say about a pilot project, turns out I was right….

👇

(“Online hospitals” 🙄)

Debbie Kennedy @whysocialmedia.bsky.social · 7d

The pilot that this is based on at Southampton is really small and specific (IBS). Everytime my elderly mother has rung 111 and been triaged, ambulance service tells her to physically go to that very hospital. A&E always full. I can't see how we get from there to an online hospital by 2027?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re a union member & fed up with Labour then call your union (assuming it’s affiliated, most are) & tell them you want to keep paying into the political fund (this is important, it allows unions to do good stuff) but that you want to exercise your right to opt out of the bit that funds Labour

Richard @rickwookie.bsky.social · 8d

This is such a good idea Caroline. If unions won’t disaffiliate from a party that hasn’t represented “labour” for decades now, it’s up to union members to insist that they won’t have their subs fund an entity that undermines them on a daily basis.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

How exacfly does this shrink waiting lists? in other words, how does it save doctors time? What exactly are they not doing in an online appointment, that they would do in person? if the appointment isn’t shorter in length, how does this plan shrink waiting lists?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

How exactly does this free up any nurse time? What are they not doing virtually, that they would do in person?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

I fear rebranding “online consultant follow up” as “online hospital” is really about making the idea of a hospital as *somewhere you go to receive care*, out of date - and getting friends & relatives to do (even more of) the actual job of caring for often very sick people.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

My money’s on the Boots app nicking doctors from the NHS in exchange for that nice endorsement the Boots CEO gave Starmer before the election, but what do I know?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

a) this is not a hospital, please don’t insult our intelligence

b) seeing patients virtually isn’t any faster for doctors (unless corners are cut), so the only way it delivers faster care is if there are additional doctors. Where are they coming from, then?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NHS ‘online hospital’ plan announced to help cut waiting lists in England

NHS experts welcome ambition of scheme due to launch in 2027 but some raise questions about how it will work

www.theguardian.com

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

I know 😢😢

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

Ah me too! We did Party Piece at school and that was it, hooked!

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

**

I remember being taught this particular poem at school aged 16 and it opened my eyes to what poetry could be - I went straight out to buy his collected Love Poems, my battered copy of which has sustained me in moments both lovelorn and joyful, from adolescence through to middle age.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

Let us not hesitate
Over what we know
Or over how cold this place has become,
But let's unclip our minds
& let tumble free
The mad mangled crocodile of love'

So they did,
There among the woodbines & Guinness stains,
And later he caught a bus & she a train
& all there was between them
Was rain

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, RIP, Brian Patten 😢

***
Party Piece

He said:

'Let's stay here
Now this place has emptied
And make gentle pornography with one another,
While the party-goers go out
And the dawn creeps in,
Like a stranger. /

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