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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5h

Thatcher notably criticised the SDP breakaway because "they'll always be a Labour Party" which shows that she had some insight into Labour's appeal.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5h

Worth noting that even back then we didn't have the required subsidy because our economy is structured so differently i.e. small agriculture sector, lots of non-European imports, high nominal incomes, etc

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5h

Hah!

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5h

I'm pretty sure Remain would have won if Britain was a net reciepent of EU aid to the tune of about 10% of our GDP each and every year.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5h

Not that I'm terribly uncultured, my version of this is April O'Neil used the internet in later seasons of the original TNMT cartoon

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h

One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?

Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office

Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration

www.ft.com

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 6h

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... To paraphrase the famous Co-Operative Branch story, this government has committed to have globalisation, but only bad globalisation.

Starmer insists India trade deal will not affect UK visas as he heads to Mumbai

British PM likely to face questions over closeness of Narendra Modi to Vladimir Putin during two-day India visit

www.theguardian.com

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 20h

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 9h

One of my issues with Politico is that its jaunty, gossipy tone jars with the dangerous turn in UK politics.

A "mostly clanger free conference"? A recording of the Shadow Justice Secretary complaining about seeing "no white faces" surfaced and was the talking point in interviews and coverage...

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 17h

Buncha dudes from rural counties who are terrified of America cities who are shitting their pants because a 5’4” lady took a video of them are definitely going to end up massacring a bunch of innocent Americans. It’s just a matter of when.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 21h

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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19h

I agree. He is what, in football, is known as a "confidence player". If at any point his polling drops, and journos start questioning him about the loss of momentum, he will fall apart like a comedy automobile in a Laurel & Hardy short.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 1d

A point about Jenrick's comments that may be missed as are so obnoxious. Handsworth, the place he talks of is majority "BAME" (the term in the stats, soz). But is a mix! It's around a 25% split of Indian/Pakistani background. 10% Bangladeshi, 10% white, 10% Afro-Caribbean.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant article. An incredibly poignant read.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

My column this week: on a world in which your lifeboat seems ever more necessary- but ever more unappealing:

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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ghose.bsky.social @ghose.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like we've found the man who can keep up with Nicole Kidman

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

www.thetimes.com

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 1d

Plus some of the ones they did, they'd immediately seemed to have regretted i.e. higher pay increases for public sector workers immediately followed with demands for jobs cuts and tighter pay settlements this year

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Handsworth is that it demonstrably is not badly integrated - it is a mixture of multiple ethnicities, mostly living in harmony with each other. Jenrick just doesn't notice that because he puts everybody who isn't white in the same box marked "outsider".

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 1d

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... We shouldn't normalise politicians using their fellow citizens as zoo animals, especially when they pick on their Black and Asian citizens exclusively!

It Could Be Said #75 Robert Jenrick Is Not Britain

I Know Britain, Britain Is A Friend Of Mind, You Are No Briton

itcouldbesaid.substack.com

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