Michael H
@michaelh14.bsky.social
Left Politics Ex Labour
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UK & 🇫🇷 citoyen
#Arsenal STH
#OneDayataTime
Travel, Scandi & Crime Noir 🕵️
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
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A terrible price to pay…
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A terrible price to pay…
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The UK does not have a refugee problem
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The UK does not have a refugee problem
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Disappointing but not surprising. The manifesto was thin gruel. Labour assumed all they had to do was basically carry on as before, maintaining a neoliberal economic and political model which was clearly broken. Quite how that was going to work was never clear.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank
Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymaking
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Disappointing but not surprising. The manifesto was thin gruel. Labour assumed all they had to do was basically carry on as before, maintaining a neoliberal economic and political model which was clearly broken. Quite how that was going to work was never clear.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Morgan McSweeney: We keep moving further and further to the right. Why don't voters like us?
Progressive Voters: Because your politics are abhorrent.
Progressive Voters: Because your politics are abhorrent.
📊 NEW | As Labour announces fresh crackdown on refugees, their approval falls to an all-time low.
✅ Satisfied – 11% (-1)
❌ Dissatisfied – 82% (-)
Via @IpsosUK, 30 Oct - 5 Nov (+/- vs 11-17 Sep)
✅ Satisfied – 11% (-1)
❌ Dissatisfied – 82% (-)
Via @IpsosUK, 30 Oct - 5 Nov (+/- vs 11-17 Sep)
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Morgan McSweeney: We keep moving further and further to the right. Why don't voters like us?
Progressive Voters: Because your politics are abhorrent.
Progressive Voters: Because your politics are abhorrent.
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Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for?
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Is this what Labour politicians came into politics for?
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
To get cheered on by Tommy Robinson as they kick some of the most vulnerable people on earth?
How are they not all dying of shame
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He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
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Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group.
U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.
They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.
They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group.
U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.
They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.
They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
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63% of Kent voters didn’t want Reform to run Kent County Council but our ridiculous voting system gave them a huge majority anyway. Time to make our votes count!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK expels Kent councillor after alleged video leak
Isabella Kemp said she "strongly" denied accusations that she had been involved with the leak.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
63% of Kent voters didn’t want Reform to run Kent County Council but our ridiculous voting system gave them a huge majority anyway. Time to make our votes count!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.
You absolute moron.
You absolute moron.
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
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I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
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It’s actually a very good thing to not be willing to work with a self-confessed Zionist, an ‘island of strangers’ racist, a transphobe, an imperialist, someone who hates ‘tree-huggers’, pensioners, the longterm sick and disabled, children… list goes on
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s actually a very good thing to not be willing to work with a self-confessed Zionist, an ‘island of strangers’ racist, a transphobe, an imperialist, someone who hates ‘tree-huggers’, pensioners, the longterm sick and disabled, children… list goes on
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“The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists”, the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Venezuela’s oil, US-led regime change and America’s gangster politics
The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If thi...
johnmenadue.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists”, the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil.”
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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”Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing, nothing”
Another sordid tale of state capture as Labour commodifies the policy-making process.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another sordid tale of state capture as Labour commodifies the policy-making process.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
”Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing, nothing”
Another sordid tale of state capture as Labour commodifies the policy-making process.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another sordid tale of state capture as Labour commodifies the policy-making process.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"We've got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their voice doesn't count. That's got to be addressed by electoral reform. We will never get full participation in our electoral system until we do that at every level." Starmer when he wanted to be Labour leader
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"We've got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their voice doesn't count. That's got to be addressed by electoral reform. We will never get full participation in our electoral system until we do that at every level." Starmer when he wanted to be Labour leader
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
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Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so
I’m told Labour MPs have been told by whips to *abstain* in the vote on Nigel Farage’s ten-min rule bill on leaving the ECHR, which has left some furious. Whips’ arguments seems to be to just ignore it. Labour MPs worry it leaves Lib Dems/Greens looking like only they care on this.
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so
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This attempt to both-sides obvious undeniable racism is a truly grim way to report this
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Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
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October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This attempt to both-sides obvious undeniable racism is a truly grim way to report this
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France jails its politicians for corruption.
Why can't we?
Why can't we?
October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
France jails its politicians for corruption.
Why can't we?
Why can't we?
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'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument