Stevie W
@steviestevew.bsky.social
Will read much, post little. Here for politics and to learn things. Maybe quite silly sometimes too.
Slowly sliding here from you know where.
Slowly sliding here from you know where.
This is a wonderful thread.
I'm going to reproduce a saucy thread I did some years ago in the other place. It is divisive and produces many odd statements and flushes out parochial opinions.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is a wonderful thread.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
@tomgordonld.bsky.social
Please act on this
First Brexit, which has been brushed under the carpet, and now Reform and Farage.
There are many questions to be asked about Putins money and where it’s gone.
I am a Harrogate constituent.
@tomgordonld.bsky.social
Please act on this
First Brexit, which has been brushed under the carpet, and now Reform and Farage.
There are many questions to be asked about Putins money and where it’s gone.
I am a Harrogate constituent.
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
@tomgordonld.bsky.social
Please act on this
First Brexit, which has been brushed under the carpet, and now Reform and Farage.
There are many questions to be asked about Putins money and where it’s gone.
I am a Harrogate constituent.
@tomgordonld.bsky.social
Please act on this
First Brexit, which has been brushed under the carpet, and now Reform and Farage.
There are many questions to be asked about Putins money and where it’s gone.
I am a Harrogate constituent.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Today seems an apposite moment to share this from another time and another place. Short🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Today seems an apposite moment to share this from another time and another place. Short🧵
News of the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social latest season has reached Jingdezhen 景德镇, China
Perhaps @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social would care for one (or all) to sit under their watchful gaze whilst they work
I’m sure they would be all very gracious about the latest episodes.
Perhaps @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social would care for one (or all) to sit under their watchful gaze whilst they work
I’m sure they would be all very gracious about the latest episodes.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
News of the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social latest season has reached Jingdezhen 景德镇, China
Perhaps @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social would care for one (or all) to sit under their watchful gaze whilst they work
I’m sure they would be all very gracious about the latest episodes.
Perhaps @dorianlynskey.bsky.social or @iandunt.bsky.social would care for one (or all) to sit under their watchful gaze whilst they work
I’m sure they would be all very gracious about the latest episodes.
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The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
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Poor take by Curtice.
This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum.
"Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.
This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum.
"Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.
Prof John Curtice also calling it a great night for Reform too & focusing on Lab vote collapse instead of the turnout + tactical vote
October 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Poor take by Curtice.
This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum.
"Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.
This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum.
"Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
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I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10
The argument of Lam, Philp and Badenoch would be "tell the net contributors they can stay & tell the others we are v sad to kick them out"
Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans
Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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@wulfhelm.bsky.social
Inspired by the wonder that is #shitbirdphotographs I endeavoured to capture some larger fauna.
Oh deer
Inspired by the wonder that is #shitbirdphotographs I endeavoured to capture some larger fauna.
Oh deer
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@wulfhelm.bsky.social
Inspired by the wonder that is #shitbirdphotographs I endeavoured to capture some larger fauna.
Oh deer
Inspired by the wonder that is #shitbirdphotographs I endeavoured to capture some larger fauna.
Oh deer
I wonder if someone has brought this to your attention @iandunt.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I wonder if someone has brought this to your attention @iandunt.bsky.social
Are you writing under a pseudonym @wulfhelm.bsky.social ?
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Are you writing under a pseudonym @wulfhelm.bsky.social ?
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Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
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There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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"Take a look, Frank, we're testing out my latest invention. It's an escalator that freezes when it detects a sex pest, giving their prey a chance to escape. I call it the Escape-a-rape-alator."
September 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Take a look, Frank, we're testing out my latest invention. It's an escalator that freezes when it detects a sex pest, giving their prey a chance to escape. I call it the Escape-a-rape-alator."
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If reincarnation exists, I'm fairly sure I'll be this crow.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If reincarnation exists, I'm fairly sure I'll be this crow.
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The events of the last week In both the UK and US have filled me with a sense of dread.
Why?
The tyrannical zeal of the US far right?
The madness of Musk?
The menace of Farage?
Yes.
But mainly because Keir Starmer makes me feel as if we're all vulnerable.
THREAD
Why?
The tyrannical zeal of the US far right?
The madness of Musk?
The menace of Farage?
Yes.
But mainly because Keir Starmer makes me feel as if we're all vulnerable.
THREAD
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The events of the last week In both the UK and US have filled me with a sense of dread.
Why?
The tyrannical zeal of the US far right?
The madness of Musk?
The menace of Farage?
Yes.
But mainly because Keir Starmer makes me feel as if we're all vulnerable.
THREAD
Why?
The tyrannical zeal of the US far right?
The madness of Musk?
The menace of Farage?
Yes.
But mainly because Keir Starmer makes me feel as if we're all vulnerable.
THREAD