James Elsender
@jameselsender.bsky.social
30-something. Enjoy running 🏃♂️ & cooking 👨🍳. Getting married in 2025. Apparently, I'm now a cat 🐈 & a dog 🐕 person. Nerd 🤓.
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Quite a journey we’ve been on in the last couple of decades haven’t we?
From bankers too big to fail
To billionaires too rich to jail
From bankers too big to fail
To billionaires too rich to jail
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Quite a journey we’ve been on in the last couple of decades haven’t we?
From bankers too big to fail
To billionaires too rich to jail
From bankers too big to fail
To billionaires too rich to jail
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Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
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🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
Sooo.... these people are really important and you will give them better pay and conditions then Wes...?
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sooo.... these people are really important and you will give them better pay and conditions then Wes...?
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Some of us like the Greens best, some prefer Your Party, and others the Libdems and Labour (caveat being the good MPs left in the party!)
How about we team up to get as many of them elected as possible, to keep out Reform, and select better MPs than we have today.
Deal?
Or argue and purity test?
How about we team up to get as many of them elected as possible, to keep out Reform, and select better MPs than we have today.
Deal?
Or argue and purity test?
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Some of us like the Greens best, some prefer Your Party, and others the Libdems and Labour (caveat being the good MPs left in the party!)
How about we team up to get as many of them elected as possible, to keep out Reform, and select better MPs than we have today.
Deal?
Or argue and purity test?
How about we team up to get as many of them elected as possible, to keep out Reform, and select better MPs than we have today.
Deal?
Or argue and purity test?
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Great.
We all knew that.
Now what?
Any chance of our 40 Billion quid back?
We all knew that.
Now what?
Any chance of our 40 Billion quid back?
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great.
We all knew that.
Now what?
Any chance of our 40 Billion quid back?
We all knew that.
Now what?
Any chance of our 40 Billion quid back?
Evergreen thread...
Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼
16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
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16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”
With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees
2.2Million views to date🙄
🧵1/26
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Evergreen thread...
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration”
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration”
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.
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Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget
Wealth hoarding is a pandemic.
Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋
📍 Brixton
Wealth hoarding is a pandemic.
Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋
📍 Brixton
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget
Wealth hoarding is a pandemic.
Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋
📍 Brixton
Wealth hoarding is a pandemic.
Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋
📍 Brixton
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Or even better - 'this issue has been massively misrepresented and is not and never has been the cause of all our problems'
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Or even better - 'this issue has been massively misrepresented and is not and never has been the cause of all our problems'
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A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A response to Matt Goodwin on small boat refugees (with record of crime in Germany) committing crime (rape) in the UK.
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
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Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
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Violence baguettes violence.
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Violence baguettes violence.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Climate crisis latest!
More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night.
They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up.
Hope you're all dry!
More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night.
They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up.
Hope you're all dry!
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Climate crisis latest!
More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night.
They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up.
Hope you're all dry!
More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night.
They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up.
Hope you're all dry!
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🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Click for more:
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Click for more:
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Samir Zoutini, a heroic GNER staff member whose incredible bravery saved lives during the mass stabbing on Saturday, has confounded racists by being a Muslim.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim
Click for more:
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Click for more:
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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5m Britons live in poverty while 10% take over half of all flights…...
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
5m Britons live in poverty while 10% take over half of all flights…...
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As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
Who the f- would describe Farage and Reform as "fiscally responsible" I hear you ask...
That's right, the Centre for Policy Studies; a centre-right think tank and advocacy group with principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence.
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That's right, the Centre for Policy Studies; a centre-right think tank and advocacy group with principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence.
🙃🫠
Farage accused of betraying pensioners, but praised for 'fiscal discipline', after hinting he might ditch pensions triple lock - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Who the f- would describe Farage and Reform as "fiscally responsible" I hear you ask...
That's right, the Centre for Policy Studies; a centre-right think tank and advocacy group with principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence.
🙃🫠
That's right, the Centre for Policy Studies; a centre-right think tank and advocacy group with principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence.
🙃🫠
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Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
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THREAD
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THREAD
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.