Salient Koala
@stevenwallful.bsky.social
Democratic Socialist. Too weird to live, too rare to die.
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“A decent man” does not apologise for ripping off Enoch Powell, then rescind the apology and say that he meant it. And that’s before we get into criminalising protests against the genocide you are complicit in.
![Dominic Sandbrook in the @thetimes:
'For me, however, the figure [Keir Starmer] most resembles is Edward Heath — another dogged, decent man utterly overwhelmed by the pace of events, another plodding managerialist who totally failed to capture the public mood...'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hyjbx4hnlxe5il24ydnn4sr/bafkreihqqd7rnbtsowtbfsn7guxyoor4adb7n37shu7izpx5lydp3ydg7y@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
“A decent man” does not apologise for ripping off Enoch Powell, then rescind the apology and say that he meant it. And that’s before we get into criminalising protests against the genocide you are complicit in.
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Can anyone explain why a man who was sacked, just a few months ago, for sending messages like these, is now being treated as some kind of all-seeing political sage?
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Can anyone explain why a man who was sacked, just a few months ago, for sending messages like these, is now being treated as some kind of all-seeing political sage?
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Mamdani really did just describe exactly a guy like him and his job and they can’t process it like Rumpelstiltskin being told his name no issue
this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Mamdani really did just describe exactly a guy like him and his job and they can’t process it like Rumpelstiltskin being told his name no issue
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Another one to help Rentoul understand what it looks like when you use civility to mask a politics of cruelty.
the excessively irate replies to this are if anything proving my point 😜
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Another one to help Rentoul understand what it looks like when you use civility to mask a politics of cruelty.
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We're challenging a broken, failed economic model, and the people defending it have no answer other than just to continue with what is broken.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’
Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Your first shitting yourself in public post of 2026
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Your first shitting yourself in public post of 2026
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Can see the period between now and Starmer's resignation being a constant stream of centrist think pieces explaining how an awful, heartless, self-centred, bubo of a man is deserving of sympathy.
January 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Can see the period between now and Starmer's resignation being a constant stream of centrist think pieces explaining how an awful, heartless, self-centred, bubo of a man is deserving of sympathy.
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Starmer fulfilling his purpose
Poorest have got poorer under Labour while richest are better off
Poorest have got poorer under Labour while richest are better off
Poorest have got poorer under Labour while richest are better off
www.independent.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Starmer fulfilling his purpose
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🙄The PM hopes that
• an increase in the minimum wage (negated because of fiscal drag)
• cuts to energy bills (that have just increased for the 6th time)
• and the freezing of rail fares, fuel duty and prescription charges (already unaffordable) will make people feel better off.
He does not get it
• an increase in the minimum wage (negated because of fiscal drag)
• cuts to energy bills (that have just increased for the 6th time)
• and the freezing of rail fares, fuel duty and prescription charges (already unaffordable) will make people feel better off.
He does not get it
'It's An Utter Mess': Keir Starmer On The Rack As He Faces Make-Or-Break 2026
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/its-an...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/its-an...
'It's An Utter Mess': Keir Starmer On The Rack As He Faces Make-Or-Break 2026
Can the prime minister see off the multitude of challenges he faces in the year ahead?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 1:05 PM
🙄The PM hopes that
• an increase in the minimum wage (negated because of fiscal drag)
• cuts to energy bills (that have just increased for the 6th time)
• and the freezing of rail fares, fuel duty and prescription charges (already unaffordable) will make people feel better off.
He does not get it
• an increase in the minimum wage (negated because of fiscal drag)
• cuts to energy bills (that have just increased for the 6th time)
• and the freezing of rail fares, fuel duty and prescription charges (already unaffordable) will make people feel better off.
He does not get it
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Another Labour centrist "everyone I disagree with is mentally ill" dickhead. They will never understand why 80% of the country despise them.
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Another Labour centrist "everyone I disagree with is mentally ill" dickhead. They will never understand why 80% of the country despise them.
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As someone who has a relative with FLD and supported people with it - go fuck yourself John you absolute gobshite.
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
As someone who has a relative with FLD and supported people with it - go fuck yourself John you absolute gobshite.
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I’d like to remind people that a frontal lobe injury can ruin someone’s life beyond repair. It’s often permanent.
This disgusting ghoul here shows zero regard for the welfare or suffering these people face as he tries to paint Labour critics as brain damaged.
This should be career ending.
This disgusting ghoul here shows zero regard for the welfare or suffering these people face as he tries to paint Labour critics as brain damaged.
This should be career ending.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I’d like to remind people that a frontal lobe injury can ruin someone’s life beyond repair. It’s often permanent.
This disgusting ghoul here shows zero regard for the welfare or suffering these people face as he tries to paint Labour critics as brain damaged.
This should be career ending.
This disgusting ghoul here shows zero regard for the welfare or suffering these people face as he tries to paint Labour critics as brain damaged.
This should be career ending.
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Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed".
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed".
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Imagine arriving in 2026 in a time machine from 1990 to discover America and Russia were allies against those European bastards.
January 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Imagine arriving in 2026 in a time machine from 1990 to discover America and Russia were allies against those European bastards.
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People are not just rejecting Starmer personally. They are rejecting the whole project. The relentless inescapability of These Cunts In Particular. The reason people in the press can't see it is because this is their project, that they sweated and bled to force on us, and they can't admit error.
Again: Starmer is less popular than Truss and Johnson because he was supposed to not be this, he was the lifeline people desperately reached out for. But the job of the Labour right is to say, no, fuck you, whoever you vote for, it's just us again. Be grateful, peasants.
In today's episode of Everything Is America Now, here's Starmer's disgraced ex-director of political strategy blaming Labour's failures on a Brit version of the US Deep State, made up of NGOs, activists, lawyers & regulators.
If this sounds like far rightism à la Cummings, that's because it 100% is
If this sounds like far rightism à la Cummings, that's because it 100% is
January 2, 2026 at 2:31 PM
People are not just rejecting Starmer personally. They are rejecting the whole project. The relentless inescapability of These Cunts In Particular. The reason people in the press can't see it is because this is their project, that they sweated and bled to force on us, and they can't admit error.
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Yikes. This is some pretty shocking ableism. This is how the Labour government thinks too: they hate the unwell and people who can’t fight back
January 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Yikes. This is some pretty shocking ableism. This is how the Labour government thinks too: they hate the unwell and people who can’t fight back
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Unlike others who've quoted this, I don't think John's so stupid that he doesn't know of the ignoble history of "all my political opponents are mentally ill" statements. He knows what he's doing. This is malicious, not stupid.
January 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Unlike others who've quoted this, I don't think John's so stupid that he doesn't know of the ignoble history of "all my political opponents are mentally ill" statements. He knows what he's doing. This is malicious, not stupid.
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It's lines like this, from Labour defenders and Labour politicans, that's one of many reasons why Labour will lose the next election. These horrible people just hate the vulnerable, they can't hide their disdain for the weak in our society
January 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It's lines like this, from Labour defenders and Labour politicans, that's one of many reasons why Labour will lose the next election. These horrible people just hate the vulnerable, they can't hide their disdain for the weak in our society
Wow. This is one of the most appalling things I've seen in a while on here. Is it a trait that all Labour outriders despise the sick and unwell like this monster?
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Wow. This is one of the most appalling things I've seen in a while on here. Is it a trait that all Labour outriders despise the sick and unwell like this monster?
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Labour have attacked vulnerable people with their policies, those with brain injuries will have been badly affected by Labour (I have a family member affected).
John, you either remove this disgusting and bigoted post of yours or I’m contacting your employer.
Enjoy employment while it lasts.
John, you either remove this disgusting and bigoted post of yours or I’m contacting your employer.
Enjoy employment while it lasts.
January 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Labour have attacked vulnerable people with their policies, those with brain injuries will have been badly affected by Labour (I have a family member affected).
John, you either remove this disgusting and bigoted post of yours or I’m contacting your employer.
Enjoy employment while it lasts.
John, you either remove this disgusting and bigoted post of yours or I’m contacting your employer.
Enjoy employment while it lasts.
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Someone who appears very privileged and not effected by Starmer's policies and betrayal on vunerable people and minorities......🥱
the excessively irate replies to this are if anything proving my point 😜
January 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Someone who appears very privileged and not effected by Starmer's policies and betrayal on vunerable people and minorities......🥱
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It's not an apology when it's auto-generated. Fuck this shite.
It was also not a 'failure in safeguards', it's one of the things it was designed to do because it's built by a team of cunts who should never be allowed without 500 yards of women or children.
It was also not a 'failure in safeguards', it's one of the things it was designed to do because it's built by a team of cunts who should never be allowed without 500 yards of women or children.
January 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
It's not an apology when it's auto-generated. Fuck this shite.
It was also not a 'failure in safeguards', it's one of the things it was designed to do because it's built by a team of cunts who should never be allowed without 500 yards of women or children.
It was also not a 'failure in safeguards', it's one of the things it was designed to do because it's built by a team of cunts who should never be allowed without 500 yards of women or children.
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Just in case you missed this during your New Year celebrations, a highly anticipated episode of Bold Politics is now available to watch! "We deserve better in 2026" with guest Gary Lineker, available on YouTube or your usual podcast directory.
youtu.be/4tSm2YnkW00?...
youtu.be/4tSm2YnkW00?...
January 2, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Just in case you missed this during your New Year celebrations, a highly anticipated episode of Bold Politics is now available to watch! "We deserve better in 2026" with guest Gary Lineker, available on YouTube or your usual podcast directory.
youtu.be/4tSm2YnkW00?...
youtu.be/4tSm2YnkW00?...
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The "excessively irate replies" are just people calmly explaining how this Labour government is taking active steps to make their lives harder.
I find it incredibly callous that those concerns are mocked as inconsequential.
It's not about impatience. It's about extra damage being inflicted now.
I find it incredibly callous that those concerns are mocked as inconsequential.
It's not about impatience. It's about extra damage being inflicted now.
the excessively irate replies to this are if anything proving my point 😜
January 2, 2026 at 1:17 PM
The "excessively irate replies" are just people calmly explaining how this Labour government is taking active steps to make their lives harder.
I find it incredibly callous that those concerns are mocked as inconsequential.
It's not about impatience. It's about extra damage being inflicted now.
I find it incredibly callous that those concerns are mocked as inconsequential.
It's not about impatience. It's about extra damage being inflicted now.
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Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.