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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 8h

Robert Jenrick got me thinking about violence.

In more ways than one...

Hatred Babylon brings...

Birmingham, culture wars and violence.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 11h

We've not met, mate, but for what it's worth i'm very glad you're here. X

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15h

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 22h

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’

The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 19h

So refreshing to see someone calling these shitrags what they are.

A$AP Choppy @chops8592.bsky.social · 1d

Any leader on the left needs the spine to fight back against the rags as they ramp up the smear machine. Zack has it, together with a solid media strategy that can counter their nonsense

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

No, Corbyn was an example. And yes, as with Johnson, they'd have found a way to protect their asset, just as they did with Farage. Until he becomes *too* embarrassing and must be kicked to death, as, again, with Johnson.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

Let's imagine for a second what might have happened if, say, Jeremy Corbyn had been discovered getting paid an 80 quid fee for sending some lad a birthday message saying 'up the RA'. Do you think we would *ever* be allowed to forget?

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

I don't recall suggesting that anyone knew nothing about any of those things, but cheers.

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

He could act the clown. Otherwise, meh. 🤷‍♀️

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

I deny it. It's essentially what happened with Johnson. Everyone with the microphones decided to tell us he was the most hilarious, epochal, maverick in the history, even though they knew it was bollocks, and that we've all met, and subsequently avoided, 100 identical rugger bugger bellends.

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Joseph Evans @josephevans.bsky.social · 1d

The politics of migration have shifted so far to the extreme right, the Conservatives and Reform now have a more hardline policy on deporting legal British residents than... the British National Party did in 2005

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

Terrorist attacks happen because black people ask Robert Jenrick to explain himself.

Seriously. In any decent political culture, he'd be stripped of his post.

Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

The most pathetic figure in British politics.

That is the closest to a balanced, scientific description of Robert Jenrick there is.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly think if I was Robert Jenrick, I'd regard every time I stepped out of the house without getting punched in the face as a gift from God, never mind all this kvetching about the complexions of the people ignoring me.

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to bring everything back to what I heard in the pub 15-20 years ago, but what Jenrick said is exactly what I'd hear in the pub 15-20 years ago. You couldn't mention Bradford without someone saying "Bradistan", or "Spot the white man". None of this is new, it's an orchestrated dropping of masks

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking tuuuune!

This came on when I was walking to Centrala t'other day: had to rewind it three times.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

Can you even imagine, living in this squalor while crowds of people are outside, screeching threats at you? How are you supposed to cope?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Firms running hotels make vast profits, while often providing appalling conditions.
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

>chef's kiss<

Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in awe at the absurdity of this woman.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

A work of art

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

"Along with Labour, Badenoch is using the small media opening she has to reinforce racist and anti-immigration politics. Their rhetoric is the background to increased racist attacks, the justification of more state violence, and an authoritarian charge to the gutter that only Reform can win."

Kemi Badenoch's Attention Seeking

Do you remember the Conservative Party? For much of this year, they hung around like a half-remembered memory. It's difficult to recall when...

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

Ghouls walk among us.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly this remark should follow Van Jones wherever he goes. It‘s scary how someone with such a platform can be so detached from reality. Another example of “if it’s happening abroad they’re not human“.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2d

Why is it, do we think, that a large number of people in the UK believe local government is stuffed full of wasteful spending on woke nonsense that left wing bureaucrats refuse to cut? Is this an organic belief they came up with by themselves, or did people tell them that was what was happening?

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

www.theguardian.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

Ta Nehisi Coates called this absolutely right: people who refuse to draw the line at genocide are unlikely to draw the line at democracy. I would add that everything they say and do should be considered with that in mind.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

"We've had repeated marches week after week with slogans and chants and placards that have left our community feeling intimidated and threatened"

Tracy-Ann Oberman smearing protests in support of the Palestinian people and against our govts complicity in Israels genocide.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 4d

I have so much i want to say about this but I’m instead I’m just going to shamelessly self-promote and say listen to @bloodwork.show coming 07/10/25

HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 4d

Fairly easy to see current anti-immigration politics as a right wing phenomenon mostly pertaining to refugees. But it’s also worth remembering that this is taking place in a context in which the very idea of being a citizen is being dismantled even from people who live in the west

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 4d

Fairly easy to see current anti-immigration politics as a right wing phenomenon mostly pertaining to refugees. But it’s also worth remembering that this is taking place in a context in which the very idea of being a citizen is being dismantled even from people who live in the west

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