Les Tudor
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Just a day-dreaming, guitar-picking, nothing-doing pint of milk.
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It’s worth pausing to consider just how much work was put into ensuring that Reform would have more members than the Labour Party, a thing that was done to Britain deliberately by identifiable individuals.
December 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It’s worth pausing to consider just how much work was put into ensuring that Reform would have more members than the Labour Party, a thing that was done to Britain deliberately by identifiable individuals.
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
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If a PR agency did get a story that obviously crooked planted and *ministers then played along with it*, then that raises big questions not just about the reliability of the paper’s reporting but the extent to which all kinds of stuff is just press and politicians backing up each other’s bullshit.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If a PR agency did get a story that obviously crooked planted and *ministers then played along with it*, then that raises big questions not just about the reliability of the paper’s reporting but the extent to which all kinds of stuff is just press and politicians backing up each other’s bullshit.
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Are there any agreed rules on who can just phone up that paper, tell them a load of made up shite and then have it reported as a terrifying scandal? I don’t think there is, but the precise people you can always defame and abuse seems to be highly consistent.
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Are there any agreed rules on who can just phone up that paper, tell them a load of made up shite and then have it reported as a terrifying scandal? I don’t think there is, but the precise people you can always defame and abuse seems to be highly consistent.
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Well, sure. You don’t want to house them in a barracks that’s half a mile from town. You want to house them somewhere more appropriate and secure than that. Somewhere more… concentrated.
Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Well, sure. You don’t want to house them in a barracks that’s half a mile from town. You want to house them somewhere more appropriate and secure than that. Somewhere more… concentrated.
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Child benefit payments stopped based on incomplete data - people who went on holiday for short periods had payments stopped because travel data seemed to show they had left the country permanently, but they had done no such thing.
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
HMRC cuts child benefit for 35,000 families based on incomplete travel data
UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Child benefit payments stopped based on incomplete data - people who went on holiday for short periods had payments stopped because travel data seemed to show they had left the country permanently, but they had done no such thing.
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
Tell me again how automation is seamless and efficient?
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Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
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Starmer isn't anything. He knows that transphobia and racism are popular right now, so that becomes his opinion. It's like the most cowardly, literal definition of populism.
September 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Starmer isn't anything. He knows that transphobia and racism are popular right now, so that becomes his opinion. It's like the most cowardly, literal definition of populism.
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It is peak UK that a transphobe being arrested for inciting violence is the Free Speech Issue Of The Moment, rather than the suppression of anti-genocide campaigners.
September 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It is peak UK that a transphobe being arrested for inciting violence is the Free Speech Issue Of The Moment, rather than the suppression of anti-genocide campaigners.
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A key thing here is that “blame migrants” was imposed on the public from above by successive governments and the national press working very hard, hand in hand over decades, while “blame the rich” seems to be largely organic, arising despite committed efforts to stamp it out.
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A key thing here is that “blame migrants” was imposed on the public from above by successive governments and the national press working very hard, hand in hand over decades, while “blame the rich” seems to be largely organic, arising despite committed efforts to stamp it out.
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They *are* setting the political agenda.
Yvette Cooper has spent more than a decade making it clear that she is an anti-immigrant racist. Liz Kendall has always been clear about her disdain for those in poverty and her wish for disabled people to have more difficult lives. 1/2
Yvette Cooper has spent more than a decade making it clear that she is an anti-immigrant racist. Liz Kendall has always been clear about her disdain for those in poverty and her wish for disabled people to have more difficult lives. 1/2
September 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
They *are* setting the political agenda.
Yvette Cooper has spent more than a decade making it clear that she is an anti-immigrant racist. Liz Kendall has always been clear about her disdain for those in poverty and her wish for disabled people to have more difficult lives. 1/2
Yvette Cooper has spent more than a decade making it clear that she is an anti-immigrant racist. Liz Kendall has always been clear about her disdain for those in poverty and her wish for disabled people to have more difficult lives. 1/2
Gonna be a long season for this shower
August 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Gonna be a long season for this shower
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There won’t be anything that resembles justice for this. Our countries will be forced to warp and stretch to accommodate this, as it always has been forced to do, and if that requires everyone forever ignoring what they did amid perpetual intensified crackdowns, then that’s what will happen.
Ash Sarkar: "this genocidal war is an international project"
Absolutely. This genocide isn't just Israels & the politicians & pundits from the US, UK & others who think the world will go back to 'normal' once its over are deluded. You actively participated in genocide.
Absolutely. This genocide isn't just Israels & the politicians & pundits from the US, UK & others who think the world will go back to 'normal' once its over are deluded. You actively participated in genocide.
August 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
There won’t be anything that resembles justice for this. Our countries will be forced to warp and stretch to accommodate this, as it always has been forced to do, and if that requires everyone forever ignoring what they did amid perpetual intensified crackdowns, then that’s what will happen.
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Seriously though, the responses from mainstream parties are truly appalling
Not one will actually dare standing against the far right and racism as a matter of democratic principle
If ever we needed more proof the liberal mainstream is no bulwark against fascism...
Not one will actually dare standing against the far right and racism as a matter of democratic principle
If ever we needed more proof the liberal mainstream is no bulwark against fascism...
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seriously though, the responses from mainstream parties are truly appalling
Not one will actually dare standing against the far right and racism as a matter of democratic principle
If ever we needed more proof the liberal mainstream is no bulwark against fascism...
Not one will actually dare standing against the far right and racism as a matter of democratic principle
If ever we needed more proof the liberal mainstream is no bulwark against fascism...
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The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news
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Times columnist Melanie Phillips being quoted in the manifesto of one mass-murdering terrorist may be regarded as a misfortune. To be cited in two looks like carelessness.
Cited by Breivik *and* the Christchurch Mosque Shooter
August 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Times columnist Melanie Phillips being quoted in the manifesto of one mass-murdering terrorist may be regarded as a misfortune. To be cited in two looks like carelessness.
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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The real problem with Nigel Farage's plan for mass deportations is that he hasn't planned it out properly, suggests Labour
August 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The real problem with Nigel Farage's plan for mass deportations is that he hasn't planned it out properly, suggests Labour
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Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers
Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs - BBC News
Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs
Companies are using AI to do basic coding tasks instead of hiring junior staff.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers