Josh Constable 🌹🐝
@joshconstable.bsky.social
Leader of Eastleigh Town Council Labour group.
Working in NHS data analytics and commissioning. Trade union rep and Lab Link Officer with Hampshire Unison.
Politics, economics, gaming, and history fan.
Working in NHS data analytics and commissioning. Trade union rep and Lab Link Officer with Hampshire Unison.
Politics, economics, gaming, and history fan.
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These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
I look forward to the day we have to 'cope' with the loss of all of them...
2029 manifesto must follow up on our commitment to an elected revising chamber, with a date for the abolition and reference to using the parliament act to stop pointless filibustering.
2029 manifesto must follow up on our commitment to an elected revising chamber, with a date for the abolition and reference to using the parliament act to stop pointless filibustering.
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I look forward to the day we have to 'cope' with the loss of all of them...
2029 manifesto must follow up on our commitment to an elected revising chamber, with a date for the abolition and reference to using the parliament act to stop pointless filibustering.
2029 manifesto must follow up on our commitment to an elected revising chamber, with a date for the abolition and reference to using the parliament act to stop pointless filibustering.
Bringing this energy into 2026
December 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Bringing this energy into 2026
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Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
Gorgeous Kestrel hovering over the common today.
Never seen one down waiting for the tide to go out.
Never seen one down waiting for the tide to go out.
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Gorgeous Kestrel hovering over the common today.
Never seen one down waiting for the tide to go out.
Never seen one down waiting for the tide to go out.
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For me, in WAKE UP DEAD MAN, this scene is the *heart* of the movie.
I still think about it two weeks later.
It has no role in the plot nor mystery.
Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.
I still think about it two weeks later.
It has no role in the plot nor mystery.
Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For me, in WAKE UP DEAD MAN, this scene is the *heart* of the movie.
I still think about it two weeks later.
It has no role in the plot nor mystery.
Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.
I still think about it two weeks later.
It has no role in the plot nor mystery.
Rian simply reminds us all to have grace, and find time, to be there for one another.
Socialists need recognise that you're hard pressed to find better examples of world leading productive British industry which employs high wage high skill workers; than you find in defence.
Liberals/centrists need to recognise the need for far more spending today. Not tomorrow.
Liberals/centrists need to recognise the need for far more spending today. Not tomorrow.
In 2025 the Labour government helped deliver £20billion in military exports.
Deals with our allies have secured thousands of jobs across the UK, keep Britain strong and help prove that defence is an engine for growth 🇬🇧
www.thetimes.com/article/50e2...
Deals with our allies have secured thousands of jobs across the UK, keep Britain strong and help prove that defence is an engine for growth 🇬🇧
www.thetimes.com/article/50e2...
UK sells £20bn of defence exports amid threat of Russian war
More than 25,000 British jobs have been supported through deals with Norway, Turkey and other European partners
www.thetimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Socialists need recognise that you're hard pressed to find better examples of world leading productive British industry which employs high wage high skill workers; than you find in defence.
Liberals/centrists need to recognise the need for far more spending today. Not tomorrow.
Liberals/centrists need to recognise the need for far more spending today. Not tomorrow.
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Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
So we take the flak for a year; for means testing winter fuel, for closing the multi million inheritance tax loop-holes on farmland.
We send our MPs, Councillors and Activists out to defend these policies for a year on the door.
Then we just drop them. Without ever raising any revenue.
We send our MPs, Councillors and Activists out to defend these policies for a year on the door.
Then we just drop them. Without ever raising any revenue.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So we take the flak for a year; for means testing winter fuel, for closing the multi million inheritance tax loop-holes on farmland.
We send our MPs, Councillors and Activists out to defend these policies for a year on the door.
Then we just drop them. Without ever raising any revenue.
We send our MPs, Councillors and Activists out to defend these policies for a year on the door.
Then we just drop them. Without ever raising any revenue.
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Your reminder that Axel Springer, the Fox News of Germany owns Politico. This is why their coverage is so pro Trump.
December 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Your reminder that Axel Springer, the Fox News of Germany owns Politico. This is why their coverage is so pro Trump.
The argument government should have been making since last year is simple: It is cheaper for all to pay more now to stop aggression. Than the cost of economic shocks of service outages in key economic sectors or at the worst; the transatlantic internet stopping working.
www.ft.com/content/3518...
www.ft.com/content/3518...
UK cannot ignore deep-sea threat from Russia, head of Navy warns
Gwyn Jenkins tells FT that Moscow is poised to deploy submersibles to damage critical cables and pipelines
www.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The argument government should have been making since last year is simple: It is cheaper for all to pay more now to stop aggression. Than the cost of economic shocks of service outages in key economic sectors or at the worst; the transatlantic internet stopping working.
www.ft.com/content/3518...
www.ft.com/content/3518...
Anyone else remember Kendall's leadership bid...?
Tell me you’re positioning for a leadership bid without telling me :….Taxes too high as opposed to poorly structured?
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Anyone else remember Kendall's leadership bid...?
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NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
The thing that kills me about European responses to Putin is that hes so transparent in his aims. And yet at every point we find new collective ways to do absolutely nothing about it.
Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power - www.ft.com/content/52c0... via @FT
Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power - www.ft.com/content/52c0... via @FT
Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power
Russian president vows to liberate ‘historic lands’ in hardline speech, showing no signs of compromise on invasion goals
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The thing that kills me about European responses to Putin is that hes so transparent in his aims. And yet at every point we find new collective ways to do absolutely nothing about it.
Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power - www.ft.com/content/52c0... via @FT
Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power - www.ft.com/content/52c0... via @FT
Hi 👋 Unison rep, member and branch officer here.
Helpful checklist below for analysing today's Gen Sec result:
If you're starting your analysis of today's result with any reference to the Labour Party, or if it features as more than a footnote, your analysis is wrong.
Hope this helps!
Helpful checklist below for analysing today's Gen Sec result:
If you're starting your analysis of today's result with any reference to the Labour Party, or if it features as more than a footnote, your analysis is wrong.
Hope this helps!
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hi 👋 Unison rep, member and branch officer here.
Helpful checklist below for analysing today's Gen Sec result:
If you're starting your analysis of today's result with any reference to the Labour Party, or if it features as more than a footnote, your analysis is wrong.
Hope this helps!
Helpful checklist below for analysing today's Gen Sec result:
If you're starting your analysis of today's result with any reference to the Labour Party, or if it features as more than a footnote, your analysis is wrong.
Hope this helps!
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BREAKING: Labour's landmark Employment Rights Bill has PASSED both Houses of Parliament. Its new rights will be transformational.
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
BREAKING: Labour's landmark Employment Rights Bill has PASSED both Houses of Parliament. Its new rights will be transformational.
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
This is a massive step forward in delivering Labour's New Deal for Working People - passed by a Labour Government, delivered with the labour movement. Let's celebrate 🎉
Munich conference shaping up nicely I see.
Ukraine and US claim progress towards peace deal but divisions persist on.ft.com/3MCtgxQ
Ukraine and US claim progress towards peace deal but divisions persist
Germany says Americans will provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues
on.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Munich conference shaping up nicely I see.
You can't complain about this while through inaction making it clear this isn't the totemic problem it really should be for this parliament.
If you want MPs to take it as seriously as they should. If you want the country do. Treat it with the seriousness it needs. Not 0.0X% over the next 10 yrs...
If you want MPs to take it as seriously as they should. If you want the country do. Treat it with the seriousness it needs. Not 0.0X% over the next 10 yrs...
This sounds like defensive briefing straight from a Morgan McSweeney Whatsapp group in denial about how an ineffective leader unwilling to face the breakdown of US-Europe relations might not be the best figure to lead the UK into a post-American order
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
You can't complain about this while through inaction making it clear this isn't the totemic problem it really should be for this parliament.
If you want MPs to take it as seriously as they should. If you want the country do. Treat it with the seriousness it needs. Not 0.0X% over the next 10 yrs...
If you want MPs to take it as seriously as they should. If you want the country do. Treat it with the seriousness it needs. Not 0.0X% over the next 10 yrs...
If only there were a way to convince the public, international markets and buisnesses to pay more into a domestic industrial strategy.
Alas, we have no viable path. Better just tinker around the edges instead.
www.ft.com/content/f122... via @FT
Alas, we have no viable path. Better just tinker around the edges instead.
www.ft.com/content/f122... via @FT
UK military figures urge Keir Starmer to commit to higher defence spending
Prime minister told the country needs to ‘step up’ or its advantage in the Atlantic is at risk
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If only there were a way to convince the public, international markets and buisnesses to pay more into a domestic industrial strategy.
Alas, we have no viable path. Better just tinker around the edges instead.
www.ft.com/content/f122... via @FT
Alas, we have no viable path. Better just tinker around the edges instead.
www.ft.com/content/f122... via @FT
If the west viewed Authoritarianism with the same concern it did communism in the cold war we might just be able to get our political class's heads around the threat to our way of life currently being pushed at us from Moscow, now seemingly via Washington as well.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If the west viewed Authoritarianism with the same concern it did communism in the cold war we might just be able to get our political class's heads around the threat to our way of life currently being pushed at us from Moscow, now seemingly via Washington as well.
All the data screams positivity at the employment rights bill.
The idea this isn't worth making into a political fight, against the Lords is total crap politics.
The idea this isn't worth making into a political fight, against the Lords is total crap politics.
With Labour's Employment Rights Bill set to require employers to inform staff of their right to join a union, Britons tend to feel the positives of membership outweigh the negatives
More positive than negative: 39%
More negative than positive: 12%
About the same: 26%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
More positive than negative: 39%
More negative than positive: 12%
About the same: 26%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
All the data screams positivity at the employment rights bill.
The idea this isn't worth making into a political fight, against the Lords is total crap politics.
The idea this isn't worth making into a political fight, against the Lords is total crap politics.
How insecure do you have to be to have such a pathological hatred of LGBT people...?
Banning individuals who have done nothing wrong from conference, on the marching orders of a millionaire funded hate campaign is a grim decision in Labour history. And one we will look back on with utter shame.
Banning individuals who have done nothing wrong from conference, on the marching orders of a millionaire funded hate campaign is a grim decision in Labour history. And one we will look back on with utter shame.
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
How insecure do you have to be to have such a pathological hatred of LGBT people...?
Banning individuals who have done nothing wrong from conference, on the marching orders of a millionaire funded hate campaign is a grim decision in Labour history. And one we will look back on with utter shame.
Banning individuals who have done nothing wrong from conference, on the marching orders of a millionaire funded hate campaign is a grim decision in Labour history. And one we will look back on with utter shame.
Ah yes the universally popular within the party Rayner, would rather be the junior of the divisive streeting (allies of whom were probs behind the vicious breifings against her).
Perhaps reprinting verbatim the quotes of leakers with their own clear agenda isnt the most reliable way to get news.
Perhaps reprinting verbatim the quotes of leakers with their own clear agenda isnt the most reliable way to get news.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Ah yes the universally popular within the party Rayner, would rather be the junior of the divisive streeting (allies of whom were probs behind the vicious breifings against her).
Perhaps reprinting verbatim the quotes of leakers with their own clear agenda isnt the most reliable way to get news.
Perhaps reprinting verbatim the quotes of leakers with their own clear agenda isnt the most reliable way to get news.
It's astonishing really, how tone deaf his current approach is.
For someone constantly billed as a canny operator hes doing the worst thing possible.
Why? Because he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
For someone constantly billed as a canny operator hes doing the worst thing possible.
Why? Because he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's astonishing really, how tone deaf his current approach is.
For someone constantly billed as a canny operator hes doing the worst thing possible.
Why? Because he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
For someone constantly billed as a canny operator hes doing the worst thing possible.
Why? Because he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
Mayoral elections breifings perfectly sums up everything I hate about politics and why our system is so fucked.
Everyone knows these mayoralties aren't ready to launch. Every party would have taken the same decision were they in power.
The press are aware of this, and print the 'outrage' anyway.
Everyone knows these mayoralties aren't ready to launch. Every party would have taken the same decision were they in power.
The press are aware of this, and print the 'outrage' anyway.
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Mayoral elections breifings perfectly sums up everything I hate about politics and why our system is so fucked.
Everyone knows these mayoralties aren't ready to launch. Every party would have taken the same decision were they in power.
The press are aware of this, and print the 'outrage' anyway.
Everyone knows these mayoralties aren't ready to launch. Every party would have taken the same decision were they in power.
The press are aware of this, and print the 'outrage' anyway.