Jack
@jhol95.bsky.social
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Devon boy, bisexual mess. 📍Manchester
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jhol95.bsky.social
Licence fee secured for the next 50 years. Daily Mail journos fucking cryin
jhol95.bsky.social
HOOTED AND HOLLERED
jhol95.bsky.social
Want you to know that every time you have marital relations with your husband, Lynne Featherstone is looking down upon your blessed union, watching, smiling x
jhol95.bsky.social
I wonder what was unique to the government that introduced same-sex marriage that did not feature in the governments that preceded or succeeded it!
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samfr.bsky.social
All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
sundersays.bsky.social
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
jhol95.bsky.social
But they won't. So they'll keep shouting about vague and meaningless achievements that haven't even materialised, whilst every single brit watches their town centre crumble into decay and ruin because everyone's council tax goes on what should be a central government responsibility.
jhol95.bsky.social
The *best* thing Labour could do right now is chuck £10-20bn at councils to spend on the public realm - roads, district centres, parks etc, etc. Instant and visible impact across all of society and a direct combatting of the "everything around us is going to shit" vibe of the last 10 years.
robfordmancs.bsky.social
It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”
stephenkb.bsky.social
Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!
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jordanpfot.bsky.social
This is a crisis. Twinks are a keystone species in the Tory party ecosystem.
jhol95.bsky.social
Love elections me
jhol95.bsky.social
I'll be happy when we're in second
jhol95.bsky.social
Weak effort lads
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electionmaps.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
jhol95.bsky.social
You gotta speak to people where they're at. Millions want to alleviate housing costs, but radical notions scare them because we're British. This is messaging that makes existing Greens feel good but puts potential new ones off
jhol95.bsky.social
There was some great polling by yougov on Green members and it threw up some fascinating things such as only 1 in 3 thinks the economy is a top issue, Green members have a more favourable view of Corbyn than any major Green figure including ZP and their favoured coalition partner is the Lib Dems
jhol95.bsky.social
Think the fact that the BBC article about it has changed headline from "abolish landlords" to "end private letting" over the course of the day would suggest that even the Green Party itself saw the issue and requested the clarification
jhol95.bsky.social
On here we might! But the vast majority of people will have just seen the "Abolish landlords" headline and gone "Well, that's just silly" and never delved any further
jhol95.bsky.social
Maybe if that policy package wouldn't have been approved by the membership otherwise. But this is literally the only thing I've seen come out of Bournemouth for them. It's an article on the BBC politics page. Conferences are a huge opportunity to break containment and be seen by others.
jhol95.bsky.social
I know some people never, ever got over being told that "defund the police" was an unbelievably shit slogan, but I really thought people on the left would eventually start thinking about how they presented progressive ideas to the public.
jhol95.bsky.social
Do think the Green's "abolish landlords" motion is another prime example of packaging good progressive policy in the absolute most fucking stupid of ways, so that you can ensure putting off swathes of people that may have otherwise supported it, for a few hundred extra likes on social media.
jhol95.bsky.social
Actually dropped my phone on the desk after reading that