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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 8h

remaining centre-left liberals is like part of the liberal democrats and you can argue the toss about progressive slovakia (also the governing party of slovenia)

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no not less ability to object! It's not as if there are 50,000 other ways to do this

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, Bennet is centre-right. The only non-Arab party that could be considered centre-left even is polling at 10/120 seats

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 9h

Reasoning matters? Next you'll be telling me conservatives are different from liberals despite both supporting capitalism

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 12h

I ask people to ponder- what would me saying "That guy who cut me off in traffic is spiritually Chinese" communicate about what I believe about that state and the ethnicities that make it up?

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 14h

I remember it took me until chapter 7 to start being invested in the hi3rd part 1 story. Their writing does tend to start slowly

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 15h

It is sad when I see so many people quit after part 2’s first couple of chapters

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe it’s the Total War player in me but I really don’t mind loading screens

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 17h

I used the apparatus in my school a few times. Was pretty fun, a Big Event for an 8-year-old

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 18h

The entire Israeli government is also making this mistake

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 19h

Anglo "live & let live" integration is demonstrably more successful than French style "aggressive assimilationism" at producing integrated societies, and has been proven to do so in multiple Anglo jurisdictions in (literally) multiple hemispheres! But these people want the thing with worse outcomes!

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember that it was super-low interest rates causing the housing crisis by making mortgages really cheap, now it seems to have flipped?

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch’s weird inability to remember the war in Ukraine, the biggest issue on which a) she has a wedge with Farage and b) the country thinks the Tories did a good job is, well, weird.

Kemi Badenoch repeatedly refuses to say whether she admires Nigel Farage

The Tory leader says she believes her party's fortunes "always would get worse before they got better" as she rejects suggestions of a Reform pact.

news.sky.com

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Having to drive everywhere, especially with American drivers and road design, is a vision of dystopia

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

I think natural interest rates are -10%

thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Not saying this thread confirms all my preexisting biases but it does confirm a lot of them

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. Lmao.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

While the young wouldn't impose 1yr of "mandatory social service" on new retirees, the reverse isn't true

Support for new retirees
18-24: 16%
25-49: 13%
50-64: 11%
65+: 19%

Support for young
18-24: 16%
25-49: 24%
50-64: 42%
65+: 50%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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מיידלבאָס ↙️↙️↙️ @pharisee.bsky.social · 1d

great marshal respected comrade ed davey, leader of the liberal democrats, and willie rennie, former scotland party committee chairman, gave on-the-spot guidance to the cairnie pumpkin farm in fife district, exhorting the revolutionary chŏllima spirit of scottish people to exceed production quotas

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

Also includes photo op og @willierennie.bsky.social

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooo remembers anti-Trump Taylor

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, though, this is the problem with lists of the government's achievements. They're by-and-large secondary concerns, often that haven't been implemented yet, that don't deliver on substantive improvements on cost of living or public services, i.e. what Labour voters felt they were promised.

Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 1d

From Peter Kellner's latest substack:

Of 560 Labour voters present and recent past (switched since '24), *not one* said any of the following when asked about gov's best achievements

Some obv will be conscious of these things, but Labour still has a big problem, he writes: "voters aren’t hearing"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

The Bluesky anti-semitism problem is a little bit more serious than the “getting into fights with the CEO” problem.

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 2d

Long way to go. I think a majority is a stretch but accidentally ending up with the most seats is not impossible?

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

A quarter of Conservative members think the party's best realistic outcome for the next election is third place, or worse

Winning a majority: 14%
Winning most seats: 21%
Avoid falling to third place: 34%
Avoid falling to fourth place: 20%
Not being wiped out: 6%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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thepig993🇬🇧🇺🇦🔸 @thepig993.bsky.social · 2d

WEF conspiracies always take me back to the parody music video

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