RDCK98
@comradekenobi.bsky.social
Sometime writer interested in
-Devolution and Celtic nationalism
-Empire and anti-colonialism
-International Relations
-Climate change and biodiversity
-Gàidhlig
-Palaeontology
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-Devolution and Celtic nationalism
-Empire and anti-colonialism
-International Relations
-Climate change and biodiversity
-Gàidhlig
-Palaeontology
All views are my own | he/him 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
Wes, this is your lawyer. I am advising you to keep posting this stuff.
BREAKING: Wes Streeting publishes his private WhatsApp messages with Peter Mandelson in apparent attempt to draw a line under their friendship. They reveal:
:: He feared being “toast at the next election” in his Ilford North seat, adding: “There isn’t a clear answer to the question: why Labour?”.
:: He feared being “toast at the next election” in his Ilford North seat, adding: “There isn’t a clear answer to the question: why Labour?”.
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Wes, this is your lawyer. I am advising you to keep posting this stuff.
Educational polarisation goes weeeeeeeee
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Educational polarisation goes weeeeeeeee
This is going to be absoutley delightful
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This is going to be absoutley delightful
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It is darkly amusing, for all its seriousness, that this is maybe the one time Sarwar has been right about anything, and he's been shanked for it so hard that Labour are going to lose in Holyrood even more than they already were.
ANAS COULDN'T EVEN GET IAN MURRAY - THE MAN WHO WAS SACKED UNCEREMONIOUSLY IN THE MANDELSON RESHUFFLE - TO TAKE HIS SIDE?
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And Alexander's predecessor:
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It is darkly amusing, for all its seriousness, that this is maybe the one time Sarwar has been right about anything, and he's been shanked for it so hard that Labour are going to lose in Holyrood even more than they already were.
This actually tracks with Scottish Labour's desire to run a presidential campaign. They're so focused on brand Sarwar, they've missed the wood from the trees and forgotten they're in operating within a parliamentary democracy where you do very much need support from your colleagues.
Absoutley remarkable move, betray the leader of your party, fail to notify your own key stakeholders to see what support you have for this.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hammer...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hammer...
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This actually tracks with Scottish Labour's desire to run a presidential campaign. They're so focused on brand Sarwar, they've missed the wood from the trees and forgotten they're in operating within a parliamentary democracy where you do very much need support from your colleagues.
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Sorry, just to be clear, given Anas Sarwar is campaigning to be First Minister of Scotland: the position of Douglas Alexander, Ian Murray and all the other Starmer supporters is that it would be fine to have a Labour First Minister who actively thinks the Labour PM should resign. Cool!
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Sorry, just to be clear, given Anas Sarwar is campaigning to be First Minister of Scotland: the position of Douglas Alexander, Ian Murray and all the other Starmer supporters is that it would be fine to have a Labour First Minister who actively thinks the Labour PM should resign. Cool!
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still nothing from Jackie Baillie in support of Sarwar lmao
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
still nothing from Jackie Baillie in support of Sarwar lmao
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Douglas Alexander is both a cabinet member and *co-chair of the Scottish Labour election campaign*.
How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?
How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Douglas Alexander is both a cabinet member and *co-chair of the Scottish Labour election campaign*.
How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?
How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?
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I love living in non-independent Scotland, where a UK Labour spokesperson responds to a Scottish Labour leader's criticism with "nonsense. look at the great things we are doing in England"
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I love living in non-independent Scotland, where a UK Labour spokesperson responds to a Scottish Labour leader's criticism with "nonsense. look at the great things we are doing in England"
I am no longer shitposting when I say this, Sarwar might actually be in trouble here if he bungled this.
Where are all the messages of support from Sarwar's shadow cabinet? Did he plan this at all?
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I am no longer shitposting when I say this, Sarwar might actually be in trouble here if he bungled this.
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I do think that the Anas Sarwar press conference was just too nakedly cynical to be effective, frankly.
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I do think that the Anas Sarwar press conference was just too nakedly cynical to be effective, frankly.
Mr Starmer, the Scottish people will respond to a show of strength if you remove Sarwar as leader.
NEW: No10 bat away Anas Sarwar’s calls for Starmer to go.
“Keir Starmer is one of only four Labour leaders ever to have won a general election.
“He has a clear five-year mandate from the British people to deliver change, and that is what he will do.”
“Keir Starmer is one of only four Labour leaders ever to have won a general election.
“He has a clear five-year mandate from the British people to deliver change, and that is what he will do.”
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Mr Starmer, the Scottish people will respond to a show of strength if you remove Sarwar as leader.
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A Scottish Labour election campaign happening with a Prime Minister the Scottish Labour leader has called to resign
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
A Scottish Labour election campaign happening with a Prime Minister the Scottish Labour leader has called to resign
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If Anas Sarwar and the Scottish Labour party have an issue with being bound to a UK wide political union, I have a solution for them but I don't think they'll like it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If Anas Sarwar and the Scottish Labour party have an issue with being bound to a UK wide political union, I have a solution for them but I don't think they'll like it.
Exceptionally funny that this probably doesn't happen if Ian Murray is still in the cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland.
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Exceptionally funny that this probably doesn't happen if Ian Murray is still in the cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland.
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quite funny that the entire Labour party has been spending months saying "let's wait for our Welsh and Scottish colleagues to be massacred before doing anything hasty" without really thinking through if anyone outside of England could hear them
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
quite funny that the entire Labour party has been spending months saying "let's wait for our Welsh and Scottish colleagues to be massacred before doing anything hasty" without really thinking through if anyone outside of England could hear them
Aye he might be gone the day.
BREAKING | Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan is set to follow Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar in calling for Keir Starmer to resign
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Starmer latest: Scottish Labour leader to demand PM resign over Mandelson scandal
A major intervention from Anas Sarwar could be the tipping point for Keir Starmer’s premiership
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February 9, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Aye he might be gone the day.
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they’re calling it the most immediately effective political poster of all time
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
they’re calling it the most immediately effective political poster of all time
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The Government's consultation on its proposed changes to immigration policy closes on Thursday. Anyone wishing to fill it out should carefully read the questions and the parts of the consultation that they refer to. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
February 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The Government's consultation on its proposed changes to immigration policy closes on Thursday. Anyone wishing to fill it out should carefully read the questions and the parts of the consultation that they refer to. www.gov.uk/government/c...
No.10 advisors if you're listening you have the chance to do the funniest thing.
Some No.10 advisor is going to recommend supporting a Marra coup against Sarwar and they are absoutley right. That is the correct course of action to save Scottish Labour.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
No.10 advisors if you're listening you have the chance to do the funniest thing.
This has the potential to be *exceptionally funny*.
Huge breaking news. Anas Sarwar is going to call for Sir Keir Starmer to quit. Emergency press conference at 2.30pm. Follow @heraldscotland.bsky.social live blog here www.heraldscotland.com/news/2583840...
Anas Sarwar to call for Keir Starmer to stand down as Prime Minister
Anas Sarwar is set to address reporters in Glasgow city centre this afternoon.
www.heraldscotland.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
This has the potential to be *exceptionally funny*.
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*Anas Sarwar* being the one to stick the knife in you……..the indignity of it all
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
*Anas Sarwar* being the one to stick the knife in you……..the indignity of it all
Excluding stuff that is largely ministerial driven (ERB and Great British Energy) Starmer has literally just nationalised some train companies and abolished hereditary peerages. Thats the only long-term positive structural things he's done. Thats the sum of 18 months work with a massive majority.
You know it's actually sort of impressive how Labour managed to waste all their post-election momentum on literally doing nothing whatsoever. It really is as comical as "they had no idea what they want to do with power, so they're doing basically nothing and advertising it even less"
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Excluding stuff that is largely ministerial driven (ERB and Great British Energy) Starmer has literally just nationalised some train companies and abolished hereditary peerages. Thats the only long-term positive structural things he's done. Thats the sum of 18 months work with a massive majority.