Eddie Clarke
@hedgiecc.bsky.social
Londoner, arts & politics interests, reader
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Labour's fascism is now so overt that all the liberal pundits have had to switch from "tHeY'rE sO bAd At CoMms!" to pretending to be upset about it.
But they've worked for a decade to get this outcome and prevent even the mildest social democracy and they'd do it again if given the chance.
But they've worked for a decade to get this outcome and prevent even the mildest social democracy and they'd do it again if given the chance.
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Labour's fascism is now so overt that all the liberal pundits have had to switch from "tHeY'rE sO bAd At CoMms!" to pretending to be upset about it.
But they've worked for a decade to get this outcome and prevent even the mildest social democracy and they'd do it again if given the chance.
But they've worked for a decade to get this outcome and prevent even the mildest social democracy and they'd do it again if given the chance.
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Her rhetoric and actions are not only legitimising division, they are enabling more of it, creating even more of a 'them and us' divide, with the "them" camp becoming evermore crowded
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Her rhetoric and actions are not only legitimising division, they are enabling more of it, creating even more of a 'them and us' divide, with the "them" camp becoming evermore crowded
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Good morning ☀️
Starting the day with this powerful Nelson Mandela quote:
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Isn’t that what it’s all about? The choices we have to make. And what moves us to make them.
Starting the day with this powerful Nelson Mandela quote:
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Isn’t that what it’s all about? The choices we have to make. And what moves us to make them.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good morning ☀️
Starting the day with this powerful Nelson Mandela quote:
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Isn’t that what it’s all about? The choices we have to make. And what moves us to make them.
Starting the day with this powerful Nelson Mandela quote:
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Isn’t that what it’s all about? The choices we have to make. And what moves us to make them.
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Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart
Really enjoyable & informative tour around Seven Dials with @tricksterprince.bsky.social & @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. As a Londoner fascinating to overlay my personal history & memories of the area with the deeper past. Great cake & coffee & new book! @zefrog.eu
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Really enjoyable & informative tour around Seven Dials with @tricksterprince.bsky.social & @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. As a Londoner fascinating to overlay my personal history & memories of the area with the deeper past. Great cake & coffee & new book! @zefrog.eu
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Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Every time I think Labour have put the last nail in the coffin, they go and find more.
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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A late medieval altarpiece in St Johns' Almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset, has been identified as produced in Brussels in the 1480s. Traditionally belonging to the almshouse since before the Reformation, then concealed, & re-hung in the C19th.
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A late medieval altarpiece in St Johns' Almshouse, Sherborne, Dorset, has been identified as produced in Brussels in the 1480s. Traditionally belonging to the almshouse since before the Reformation, then concealed, & re-hung in the C19th.
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now to be sold at Sotheby's.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Here's what your @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social Councillors have been busy doing this week.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Here's what your @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social Councillors have been busy doing this week.
@greenpartyscott.bsky.social @paulvalentineactor.bsky.social
@greenpartyscott.bsky.social @paulvalentineactor.bsky.social
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why Labour's cruel Reform-style refugee policies will backfire for the Government www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Why Labour's cruel Reform-style refugee policies will backfire for the Government www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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"A recent study by Imperial College London and the ECIU found that UK wind power has saved £104 billion in energy costs since 2010 by reducing dependence on expensive imported gas."
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November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"A recent study by Imperial College London and the ECIU found that UK wind power has saved £104 billion in energy costs since 2010 by reducing dependence on expensive imported gas."
www.facebook.com/ViralTechPag...
www.facebook.com/ViralTechPag...
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The Reformification of Labour continues at a rocket rate.
They seem determined to ensure they will poll in the teens come the 2029 GE.
There is no way that the kind of voters attracted by this sort of performative cruelty will choose Cruelty-light Labour over Full-fat Cruelty Reform. Not a chance.
They seem determined to ensure they will poll in the teens come the 2029 GE.
There is no way that the kind of voters attracted by this sort of performative cruelty will choose Cruelty-light Labour over Full-fat Cruelty Reform. Not a chance.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Reformification of Labour continues at a rocket rate.
They seem determined to ensure they will poll in the teens come the 2029 GE.
There is no way that the kind of voters attracted by this sort of performative cruelty will choose Cruelty-light Labour over Full-fat Cruelty Reform. Not a chance.
They seem determined to ensure they will poll in the teens come the 2029 GE.
There is no way that the kind of voters attracted by this sort of performative cruelty will choose Cruelty-light Labour over Full-fat Cruelty Reform. Not a chance.
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Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
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It’s a typical losing Labour strategy. For them to try and use blackmail on you “if you don’t vote for us, Reform will be worse”.
Never listen to those people. Piss them off instead by doing this:
join.greenparty.org.uk
Never listen to those people. Piss them off instead by doing this:
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It’s a typical losing Labour strategy. For them to try and use blackmail on you “if you don’t vote for us, Reform will be worse”.
Never listen to those people. Piss them off instead by doing this:
join.greenparty.org.uk
Never listen to those people. Piss them off instead by doing this:
join.greenparty.org.uk
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The saddest, most depressing aspect of the Labour apologists who still plague BlueSky is that many were ardent and vocal Remainers up until the day Labour took power, at which point they switched instantly to "Brexit is Brexit and there's nothing to be done" without even drawing breath in between.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The saddest, most depressing aspect of the Labour apologists who still plague BlueSky is that many were ardent and vocal Remainers up until the day Labour took power, at which point they switched instantly to "Brexit is Brexit and there's nothing to be done" without even drawing breath in between.
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Raising interest rates and cutting NICs would have taxed unearned income more and earned income less. Freezing or cutting income tax thresholds brings more income into tax, and hits lower and middle income taxpayers hardest. So the change is regressive.
Have they? BBC said this morning Rachel Reeves had decided not to increase the rates on income tax.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Raising interest rates and cutting NICs would have taxed unearned income more and earned income less. Freezing or cutting income tax thresholds brings more income into tax, and hits lower and middle income taxpayers hardest. So the change is regressive.
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Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
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Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
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The BBC has kowtowed to and attempted to appease its RW detractors for years. But they forever ask more bending over, and it's now paying the price of its submission.
Is there a lesson there for Starmer and co who also likes to appease their opponents, I wonder?
Is there a lesson there for Starmer and co who also likes to appease their opponents, I wonder?
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The BBC has kowtowed to and attempted to appease its RW detractors for years. But they forever ask more bending over, and it's now paying the price of its submission.
Is there a lesson there for Starmer and co who also likes to appease their opponents, I wonder?
Is there a lesson there for Starmer and co who also likes to appease their opponents, I wonder?