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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 5h

I think it’s about time politicians properly integrated into the communities they purportedly serve.

Get off X and talk to your constituents.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 20h

The drain this hostile political propaganda is putting on our mental health must not be underestimated. We're constantly bombarded with division & hatred headlines. We're supposed to keep calm & carry on but we're only human & it's so hurtful. We've got to up the kindness & solidarity. No other way.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7h

Kemi Badenoch again recruits Martin Luther King as her anti-woke ally

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 7h

Oh gosh, Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives are actually properly evil aren’t they? Not just stupid but evil.

Transphobic, elitist, clueless bunch of bastards.

May they never darken the doorstep of number 10 again.

#toryconference #bbc #politicslive

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 7h

A wrestling with pigs analogy?

Groundbreaking.

#toryconference

a woman is sitting in front of a wall of pictures and says groundbreaking .

Alt: a woman is sitting in front of a wall of pictures and says groundbreaking .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

😂😭

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

Not sure she’d pass the Turing Test tbh

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

Same. Watching the delegates smirking and nodding at all her BS is particularly challenging.

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

She’s talking as though she and her party had nothing to do with the problems she’s describing.

You were in power forever and you made this mess!

#toryconference #bbc #politicslive

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi’s speech is already excruciatingly shit.

My eyes have rolled so hard they almost popped right out of my head.

Also, she sits on a throne of lies. A boring-ass throne of lies.

#ToryConference #bbc #politicslive

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 8h

What kind of future are they imagining for young people?

I honestly can’t see it.

What problems are they trying to solve?

It just looks like random flailing for attention with a sprinkling of wannabe-maga bigotry.

You want votes? Actually fix something!

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10h

Brain dead economic illiteracy with no understanding of the modern world as the Conservative Party have demonstrated all conference.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 21h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 9h

What has Britian come to smh

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 9h

What has Britian come to smh

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 9h

There is also quite a large student population in the belgrave road area of Leicester.

I can’t imagine they’re too happy about what they’re hearing and seeing from our political parties either.

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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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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

How did I miss this? Trump thinks Portland is on fire and is justified in sending in the troops because he watched a five-year-old clip on Fox? Are you kidding me? We are so in 25th Amendment territory. Biden never did anything close to this:

How Trump gets and processes information

How Trump is making potentially lethal decisions

robertreich.substack.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 1d

Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

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