Pete Marchetto
@petemarchetto.bsky.social
Boomer postpatriot Englishman, freelance writer in expat recovery (from China), of the social-democratic centre now deemed 'far left', Green Party member. Free sample ebook of short stories at:
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Wow!
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wow!
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
Okay, I thought last week was a one-off, but it appears that the Kuenssberg team has decided the discomfort of having two people obviously antagonistic towards one another sat face-to-face in silence while Kuenssberg burbles on proved so uncomfortable for everyone that now it's a feature.
I wonder if Starmer might have a reason to do a pact with the Greens and the LibDems. Seats in Cabinet. Power. Otherwise Labour has no hope of power and will remain a fringe party.
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I wonder if Starmer might have a reason to do a pact with the Greens and the LibDems. Seats in Cabinet. Power. Otherwise Labour has no hope of power and will remain a fringe party.
So much focus on The Trump Show - falling asleep, gaffes, MRI scans, Epstein - the Heritage Foundation et al. are loving it... and us for falling for it.
We forget in our distraction that distraction is Trump's job. I don't see enough about what he and his performance troupe distract us from.
We forget in our distraction that distraction is Trump's job. I don't see enough about what he and his performance troupe distract us from.
!['The Donald Trump Show' caption on an image of Trump. [Illustrative only]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbpumlrltt5nfegclzdsvcjy/bafkreic27ihzoo43qqgnwrsoa3mhgpqrvv7lwd3grhdxycx3slzrxz5rbq@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So much focus on The Trump Show - falling asleep, gaffes, MRI scans, Epstein - the Heritage Foundation et al. are loving it... and us for falling for it.
We forget in our distraction that distraction is Trump's job. I don't see enough about what he and his performance troupe distract us from.
We forget in our distraction that distraction is Trump's job. I don't see enough about what he and his performance troupe distract us from.
Voting intention across all pollsters. It's starting to look, at last, as if Reform has peaked. Labour's trajectory is consistent, and third place behind Reform and the Tories seems inevitable. If the Greens maintain their trajectory, perhaps Labour will fall to fourth.
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Voting intention across all pollsters. It's starting to look, at last, as if Reform has peaked. Labour's trajectory is consistent, and third place behind Reform and the Tories seems inevitable. If the Greens maintain their trajectory, perhaps Labour will fall to fourth.
One of the most telling polls I've seen is the support among Green Party members for joining with YP in an electoral pact. The poll, taken in August, shows overwhelming support for doing so including among Chowns/Ramsay supporters in the leadership election, the ostensibly conservative wing of...
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
One of the most telling polls I've seen is the support among Green Party members for joining with YP in an electoral pact. The poll, taken in August, shows overwhelming support for doing so including among Chowns/Ramsay supporters in the leadership election, the ostensibly conservative wing of...
I've tried - I really have tried - to be supportive of the YP project albeit that I had no intention of leaving the Green Party to join them.
With 55,000 members, I had hoped they would emerge as a passably strong and coherent force with which we could have an electoral pact, thereby boosting...
With 55,000 members, I had hoped they would emerge as a passably strong and coherent force with which we could have an electoral pact, thereby boosting...
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I've tried - I really have tried - to be supportive of the YP project albeit that I had no intention of leaving the Green Party to join them.
With 55,000 members, I had hoped they would emerge as a passably strong and coherent force with which we could have an electoral pact, thereby boosting...
With 55,000 members, I had hoped they would emerge as a passably strong and coherent force with which we could have an electoral pact, thereby boosting...
I guess this?
search.electoralcommission.org.uk//Search/Regi...
search.electoralcommission.org.uk//Search/Regi...
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I guess this?
search.electoralcommission.org.uk//Search/Regi...
search.electoralcommission.org.uk//Search/Regi...
Just announced. Make of it what thou wilt.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just announced. Make of it what thou wilt.
Sultana bemoans YP's exclusionary actions from the platform.
Somewhere between her own impulsiveness ('Let's do it yesterday!') and Corbyn's hesitancy ('Let's do it in 2096!') lurks a lost year or so which should have been spent ironing everything out before this conference.
Somewhere between her own impulsiveness ('Let's do it yesterday!') and Corbyn's hesitancy ('Let's do it in 2096!') lurks a lost year or so which should have been spent ironing everything out before this conference.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sultana bemoans YP's exclusionary actions from the platform.
Somewhere between her own impulsiveness ('Let's do it yesterday!') and Corbyn's hesitancy ('Let's do it in 2096!') lurks a lost year or so which should have been spent ironing everything out before this conference.
Somewhere between her own impulsiveness ('Let's do it yesterday!') and Corbyn's hesitancy ('Let's do it in 2096!') lurks a lost year or so which should have been spent ironing everything out before this conference.
Greens poll highest of all the parties in terms of the number of people who would consider voting for them.
However, it's within the margin of error that has them tying with the Tories, the LibDems and Reform with Labour not far behind.
However, it's within the margin of error that has them tying with the Tories, the LibDems and Reform with Labour not far behind.
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Greens poll highest of all the parties in terms of the number of people who would consider voting for them.
However, it's within the margin of error that has them tying with the Tories, the LibDems and Reform with Labour not far behind.
However, it's within the margin of error that has them tying with the Tories, the LibDems and Reform with Labour not far behind.
I have so had enough of the 'high flyers' in political journalism.
I just watched the intro to see if there would be anything of interest in the Kuennsberg programme today, (there wasn't), but this face-to-face placing of Reeves and Badenoch for artificial discomfort before introducing an...
I just watched the intro to see if there would be anything of interest in the Kuennsberg programme today, (there wasn't), but this face-to-face placing of Reeves and Badenoch for artificial discomfort before introducing an...
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I have so had enough of the 'high flyers' in political journalism.
I just watched the intro to see if there would be anything of interest in the Kuennsberg programme today, (there wasn't), but this face-to-face placing of Reeves and Badenoch for artificial discomfort before introducing an...
I just watched the intro to see if there would be anything of interest in the Kuennsberg programme today, (there wasn't), but this face-to-face placing of Reeves and Badenoch for artificial discomfort before introducing an...
RIP Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
They see the Greens as allies. Most of us see them as allies. Why would anyone cheer against their allies?
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
They see the Greens as allies. Most of us see them as allies. Why would anyone cheer against their allies?
I get why people are taking the mickey out of Your Party. It's been a shitshow up to now.
What I DON'T get is why they would do that with such blatant joy rather than with regret.
What I DON'T get is why they would do that with such blatant joy rather than with regret.
![Your Party banner [illustrative only]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbpumlrltt5nfegclzdsvcjy/bafkreieseewfdhxlvjfdamsujt7axuzoodc5fc4y4vmhymzn4sj3vqusq4@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I get why people are taking the mickey out of Your Party. It's been a shitshow up to now.
What I DON'T get is why they would do that with such blatant joy rather than with regret.
What I DON'T get is why they would do that with such blatant joy rather than with regret.
Puzzling. In the confused world of @telegraph.co.uk, isn't this a party of communists anyway? In the word salad that now makes up much of the Telegraph's reporting, the 'communists' taking over are the socialist caucus, so a party self-defining as a socialist...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Puzzling. In the confused world of @telegraph.co.uk, isn't this a party of communists anyway? In the word salad that now makes up much of the Telegraph's reporting, the 'communists' taking over are the socialist caucus, so a party self-defining as a socialist...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
I've been on Facebook for years.
I have 479 friends.
One or two of those I can actually recognise.
However, I've barely used it of late, so is the platform now trolling me?
I have 479 friends.
One or two of those I can actually recognise.
However, I've barely used it of late, so is the platform now trolling me?
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I've been on Facebook for years.
I have 479 friends.
One or two of those I can actually recognise.
However, I've barely used it of late, so is the platform now trolling me?
I have 479 friends.
One or two of those I can actually recognise.
However, I've barely used it of late, so is the platform now trolling me?
As a @politicsjoe.bsky.social PoliticsJOE podcast subscriber, I'm starting to wonder. These cast-recorded ads for financial services; are bankers trolling us? How many of their subscribers are worrying about how best to manage their wealth?
And why are the PJ crew aiding them in their trolling?
And why are the PJ crew aiding them in their trolling?
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As a @politicsjoe.bsky.social PoliticsJOE podcast subscriber, I'm starting to wonder. These cast-recorded ads for financial services; are bankers trolling us? How many of their subscribers are worrying about how best to manage their wealth?
And why are the PJ crew aiding them in their trolling?
And why are the PJ crew aiding them in their trolling?
... overwhelmingly supportive of the idea.
The problem the two parties face is how to divvy up the seats. With one new party, the other having doubled its polling percentages since the last election, there's no precedent to work on.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
The problem the two parties face is how to divvy up the seats. With one new party, the other having doubled its polling percentages since the last election, there's no precedent to work on.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
... overwhelmingly supportive of the idea.
The problem the two parties face is how to divvy up the seats. With one new party, the other having doubled its polling percentages since the last election, there's no precedent to work on.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
The problem the two parties face is how to divvy up the seats. With one new party, the other having doubled its polling percentages since the last election, there's no precedent to work on.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
![Chart showing Davey, Polanski and Sultana with better favorability ratings than Keir Starmer among 2024 Labour voters [YouGov, details in link in the first comment]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbpumlrltt5nfegclzdsvcjy/bafkreihmdjxcgkyilfbo6qab6snkkowpmakskw7xqqi4ocsxoo2tohi4pu@jpeg)
Gravity can be bloody annoying sometimes.
![Earth, moon and gravity [illustrative only]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbpumlrltt5nfegclzdsvcjy/bafkreibhpvipjmg5cv4res2vctmuf4mr5omosa2thpw2ef4mnortjk3m7a@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Gravity can be bloody annoying sometimes.
Oh, okay, they don't appear to have noticed.
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Oh, okay, they don't appear to have noticed.
Watching those three lines come into closer and closer proximity is one of my few political delights these days.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Watching those three lines come into closer and closer proximity is one of my few political delights these days.
He is seriously losing it.
![Trump 'Truth' posts. First, responding to an article headlined with 'Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders' [Washington Examiner] with 'This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT' followed, an hour later, by 'SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbpumlrltt5nfegclzdsvcjy/bafkreiat55e56a5ufxshozha3jjpcq6coq6y7snxyqidd7yrzebmgaimva@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
He is seriously losing it.