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Iain Johnstone
@ianactor.bsky.social
Actor, musician & gardener.
Electoral reform is the only hope!
Well done Plaid!
Great to see both cheeks of the same arse got a splendid Welsh spanking!
Lab & Tory combined an embarrassing 13% of the vote!
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
@felicityhannah.bsky.social
So lovely to go to bed with you last night tbh I’m more used to waking up with you!

Still the usual brilliant presentation (& perfect diction!)
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Can someone suggest to Bridget Phillipson that if the “poles are just a snapshot in time” that also applies to the 23/6/2016 Brexit disaster!
October 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Does Labour really think that having a “we-can-wave-more-flags-than-you” contest with Reform is right?
How about explaining that only 5% of immigration is illegal & is NOT screwing up our economy & also explaining it’s Brexit doing the screwing, costing us £32 billion every year!
October 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social 💥💥💥 on Any Questions!
Love it!
October 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
December 21, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Delighted that the 10 minute bill for PR passed today in the Commons by 138:136
However by my maths that means 376 MPs didn’t vote!
I’m sure some were doing important Government jobs but what were the others doing? Golfing, Barristering, Boozing? I’d love to know…
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Much as I disagree with Biden being able to pardon his son, Trump having the nerve in describing it a ‘miscarriage of justice’ is world champion level pot, kettle & black!
December 2, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Listening to Andy Burnham on any questions, Labour (twice!) lost a good leader there. Maybe his time will come again? Then and only then (as PR is my red line) if Labour were really interested in representative democracy would I tick their box.
November 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Well done MPs, my faith is slightly restored in Parliament after today’s debate, vote & result!
November 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Come on MPs, tomorrow is NOT a choice between better palliative care & shortening awful, painful, inevitable deaths. We should be able to have both.

Please remember you are representing your constituents (63% in favour in England & Wales) and NOT your own personal/ religious beliefs.
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Iain Johnstone
"The UK’s First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system is one of the least representative in the democratic world."

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/25/a...
A Broken Contract: Why Britain's Democracy No Longer Works for You
Journalist and campaigner Gavin Esler on why Britain's entire political and democratic system is now failing and what we can all now do about it
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Iain Johnstone
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Of course none of the above will have been news to you if you've already read Material World. If you haven't, well, bear in mind Christmas is approaching and the paperback is now available. Just saying... www.penguin.co.uk/books/446267...
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Material World
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year* Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the Britis...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Snowing in N London
November 19, 2024 at 8:12 AM
A thought. Can political commentators (Mr Campbell being particularly guilty) stop describing Starmer & Trump’s wins as ‘landslides’, both of their respective opponents votes collapsed while theirs stayed essentially stable. I don’t know the best description but ‘landslide’? No.
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM