Dorset Man 💚
@philw12.bsky.social
Old socialist geezer who now wonders What the F*ck is Going On?
YES 👇
Labour faced an exhausted Government, surprised by the vigour of the attack from Reform, with the stench of corruption hanging over it, one which ran an unlucky campaign, and won 33.7% of the popular vote. Selling that to the media as a glorious success is McSweeney's sole political achievement.
And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
YES 👇
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Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
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For children around the world, this time of year should mean family, warmth, and safety. For thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred into Russia, it means something very different.
Sign our petition to help bring them back where they belong: https://bit.ly/4m6LB2b
Sign our petition to help bring them back where they belong: https://bit.ly/4m6LB2b
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For children around the world, this time of year should mean family, warmth, and safety. For thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred into Russia, it means something very different.
Sign our petition to help bring them back where they belong: https://bit.ly/4m6LB2b
Sign our petition to help bring them back where they belong: https://bit.ly/4m6LB2b
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Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities.
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities.
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
- 800,000 consultations
- 22,700 surgical operations
- 700 million litres of water
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The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The language being used for people seeking refuge abroad is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
Asylum seekers must be allowed to work, not demonised.
Starmer’s decision to move people in need to military sites in the new year is unacceptable.
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He claims that charges of genocide against Israel are "antisemitic blood libels" which kill Jews.
So a question to Andrew Fox.
Does that means millions of Jews, and the world's leading genocide scholars, believe in murderous antisemitic blood libels?
So a question to Andrew Fox.
Does that means millions of Jews, and the world's leading genocide scholars, believe in murderous antisemitic blood libels?
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
He claims that charges of genocide against Israel are "antisemitic blood libels" which kill Jews.
So a question to Andrew Fox.
Does that means millions of Jews, and the world's leading genocide scholars, believe in murderous antisemitic blood libels?
So a question to Andrew Fox.
Does that means millions of Jews, and the world's leading genocide scholars, believe in murderous antisemitic blood libels?
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Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls.
Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year.
We're all just getting started.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year.
We're all just getting started.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
🚨 NEW | Poll shows Greens ahead of Labour
➡️ REF: 25% (-1)
🔵 CON: 22% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 19% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 18% (=)
🟠 LD: 10% (-1)
Via @LordAPolls, 11-15 Dec (+/- vs 17 Nov)
➡️ REF: 25% (-1)
🔵 CON: 22% (+2)
🟢 GRN: 19% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 18% (=)
🟠 LD: 10% (-1)
Via @LordAPolls, 11-15 Dec (+/- vs 17 Nov)
December 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls.
Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year.
We're all just getting started.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year.
We're all just getting started.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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ISRAEL ILLEGALLY APPROVES NEW SETTLEMENTS
Yet Starmer is willing to put his own British citizens in jail to silence them, even falsely calling them terrorists.
The very definition of political prisoners. Despicable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet Starmer is willing to put his own British citizens in jail to silence them, even falsely calling them terrorists.
The very definition of political prisoners. Despicable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
ISRAEL ILLEGALLY APPROVES NEW SETTLEMENTS
Yet Starmer is willing to put his own British citizens in jail to silence them, even falsely calling them terrorists.
The very definition of political prisoners. Despicable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet Starmer is willing to put his own British citizens in jail to silence them, even falsely calling them terrorists.
The very definition of political prisoners. Despicable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today is Day 50 of the Palestine prisoners’ hunger strike.
This Labour government must release all remand prisoners on bail immediately.
If they die, more blood will be on the hands of David Lammy and Keir Starmer.
This Labour government must release all remand prisoners on bail immediately.
If they die, more blood will be on the hands of David Lammy and Keir Starmer.
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today is Day 50 of the Palestine prisoners’ hunger strike.
This Labour government must release all remand prisoners on bail immediately.
If they die, more blood will be on the hands of David Lammy and Keir Starmer.
This Labour government must release all remand prisoners on bail immediately.
If they die, more blood will be on the hands of David Lammy and Keir Starmer.
FFS how have we, as a nation, fallen so far? Shameful Labour Government and Labour Party.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It feels like being suffocated’: Palestine Action activist in HMP Peterborough vows to continue hunger strike
Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
FFS how have we, as a nation, fallen so far? Shameful Labour Government and Labour Party.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Our energy security, lower bills and secure jobs depend upon clean renewable power
So today I've written to Ed Miliband, calling on him to:
❌ #StopRosebank and Jackdaw oil fields
❌ End tax breaks for fossil fuel companies
✅ Fund a Jobs Guarantee for oil and gas workers
…
So today I've written to Ed Miliband, calling on him to:
❌ #StopRosebank and Jackdaw oil fields
❌ End tax breaks for fossil fuel companies
✅ Fund a Jobs Guarantee for oil and gas workers
…
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our energy security, lower bills and secure jobs depend upon clean renewable power
So today I've written to Ed Miliband, calling on him to:
❌ #StopRosebank and Jackdaw oil fields
❌ End tax breaks for fossil fuel companies
✅ Fund a Jobs Guarantee for oil and gas workers
…
So today I've written to Ed Miliband, calling on him to:
❌ #StopRosebank and Jackdaw oil fields
❌ End tax breaks for fossil fuel companies
✅ Fund a Jobs Guarantee for oil and gas workers
…
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#SriLanka In response to #CycloneDitwah Doctors Without Borders delivered 1,000 winterized family tents and 1,500 heavy-duty plastic sheets to the Disaster Management Centre yesterday. https://ow.ly/gUg550XJJjJ
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#SriLanka In response to #CycloneDitwah Doctors Without Borders delivered 1,000 winterized family tents and 1,500 heavy-duty plastic sheets to the Disaster Management Centre yesterday. https://ow.ly/gUg550XJJjJ
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I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
December 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss.
We stand with you.
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Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
Wherever in the world it happens.
You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
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"The boy who the Israeli terrorist forces murdered yesterday in Jabalia before a tank advanced to run over him was named Zaher Shamiyya. He was 16 years old."
via CAIR
via CAIR
December 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"The boy who the Israeli terrorist forces murdered yesterday in Jabalia before a tank advanced to run over him was named Zaher Shamiyya. He was 16 years old."
via CAIR
via CAIR
Baby killing, wholesale slaughter, starvation and torture! What’s not to admire from our Zionist chums! My disgust with the Current Labour leadership is beyond description!
And there lies the problem. Her speech only this last Monday at the annual Labour Friends of Israel dinner. Labour have conflicted interests and will never be impartial on Gaza.
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Baby killing, wholesale slaughter, starvation and torture! What’s not to admire from our Zionist chums! My disgust with the Current Labour leadership is beyond description!
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Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
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The Palestine hunger strikers are going to die if there is no intervention from this Labour government.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Palestine hunger strikers are going to die if there is no intervention from this Labour government.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.
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They're in prison without trial - on hunger strike for Palestine.
The media has been suppressing this story.
Their lives are at risk.
Listen here to their loved ones.
Let them be released on bail, close Israeli arms makers, reverse the ban on Palestine Action.
The media has been suppressing this story.
Their lives are at risk.
Listen here to their loved ones.
Let them be released on bail, close Israeli arms makers, reverse the ban on Palestine Action.
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They're in prison without trial - on hunger strike for Palestine.
The media has been suppressing this story.
Their lives are at risk.
Listen here to their loved ones.
Let them be released on bail, close Israeli arms makers, reverse the ban on Palestine Action.
The media has been suppressing this story.
Their lives are at risk.
Listen here to their loved ones.
Let them be released on bail, close Israeli arms makers, reverse the ban on Palestine Action.
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In October 2025, Palestinians in the #WestBank faced over 260 attacks by settlers. This is the highest number of attacks recorded in one month in 20 years.
The violence is not only physical but also causing deep psychological harm.
Watch Abu Sari, a patient, share his account.
The violence is not only physical but also causing deep psychological harm.
Watch Abu Sari, a patient, share his account.
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In October 2025, Palestinians in the #WestBank faced over 260 attacks by settlers. This is the highest number of attacks recorded in one month in 20 years.
The violence is not only physical but also causing deep psychological harm.
Watch Abu Sari, a patient, share his account.
The violence is not only physical but also causing deep psychological harm.
Watch Abu Sari, a patient, share his account.
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Fair trade principles like decent pay and working conditions, environmental protection, and respect for human rights should be normal business practice, not an optional add-on.
I pressed the Minister to legislate for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.
I pressed the Minister to legislate for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Fair trade principles like decent pay and working conditions, environmental protection, and respect for human rights should be normal business practice, not an optional add-on.
I pressed the Minister to legislate for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.
I pressed the Minister to legislate for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence.
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"The European Convention on Human Rights safeguards all of us"
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The European Convention on Human Rights safeguards all of us"
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Yesterday, the UN confirmed that over 9,000 children in Gaza were hospitalised for malnutrition in October alone - the latest figures available.
Call on the UK Government to act now. Demand sufficient aid is allowed in immediately.✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/3MAgWOw
Call on the UK Government to act now. Demand sufficient aid is allowed in immediately.✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/3MAgWOw
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yesterday, the UN confirmed that over 9,000 children in Gaza were hospitalised for malnutrition in October alone - the latest figures available.
Call on the UK Government to act now. Demand sufficient aid is allowed in immediately.✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/3MAgWOw
Call on the UK Government to act now. Demand sufficient aid is allowed in immediately.✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/3MAgWOw
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This far right Labour government will be responsible for these young people’s lives. Down with Starmer and his ilk! Free Fulton 5
news.sky.com/story/five-p...
news.sky.com/story/five-p...
Five Palestine Action prisoners taken to hospital as hunger strike continues
A letter describes the deteriorating health of prisoners Kamran Ahmed, Qesser Zuhrah, and Amy Gardiner-Gibson as their hunger strike continues.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This far right Labour government will be responsible for these young people’s lives. Down with Starmer and his ilk! Free Fulton 5
news.sky.com/story/five-p...
news.sky.com/story/five-p...
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On International Human Rights Day, amidst a wave of global human rights crises, the UK Govt's commitment to foreign aid is crucial.
The govt must urgently restore the foreign aid budget and strengthen our commitment to defending human rights at home and abroad.
The govt must urgently restore the foreign aid budget and strengthen our commitment to defending human rights at home and abroad.
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
On International Human Rights Day, amidst a wave of global human rights crises, the UK Govt's commitment to foreign aid is crucial.
The govt must urgently restore the foreign aid budget and strengthen our commitment to defending human rights at home and abroad.
The govt must urgently restore the foreign aid budget and strengthen our commitment to defending human rights at home and abroad.