Owain Sutton
@owainsutton.bsky.social
Former Green Party councillor for Hale, on Trafford Council. My own views. He/him.
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Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
It's incredible that the story in the headlines today, about Wes Streeting is not that he has finally agreed with the treasury how he is going to sack tens of thousands of nurses at massive expense to the NHS.
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
Thousands of NHS staff to be made redundant after funding agreed
The government says the jobs will go in order to slash "unnecessary bureaucracy" and ensure taxpayers' money is being "spent wisely".
news.sky.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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I went to school in Salisbury and I am so proud of our extremley beautiful, completely ludicrous cathedral and its tiny foundations.
My dad: you need deeper foundations to get planning permission for an extension.
Medieval buildings are wild.
My dad: you need deeper foundations to get planning permission for an extension.
Medieval buildings are wild.
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I went to school in Salisbury and I am so proud of our extremley beautiful, completely ludicrous cathedral and its tiny foundations.
My dad: you need deeper foundations to get planning permission for an extension.
Medieval buildings are wild.
My dad: you need deeper foundations to get planning permission for an extension.
Medieval buildings are wild.
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Now why might Alice be against taxing wealth and property do you think? 🤔
![X-ray. Alice along with her husband live at Chevithorne Barton, an estate in Devon, which houses the Plant Heritage National
Oak collection.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Now why might Alice be against taxing wealth and property do you think? 🤔
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
He does know that listeners can switch off, right?
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
He does know that listeners can switch off, right?
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Imagine being so far-right that you think the Today programme is woke
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Imagine being so far-right that you think the Today programme is woke
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amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
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Wait didn’t Keir Starmer just talk about the insidious rise of racist rhetoric in politics?
Labour reinstating a racist councillor in East Bristol because the Greens are one short of an outright majority and would absolutely smash them in in a by-election.
Bristol Labour councillor re-instated after racist comment
Fabian Breckels was suspended in October over a comment he wrote on Facebook.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wait didn’t Keir Starmer just talk about the insidious rise of racist rhetoric in politics?
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In that letter from the lawyers for Farms not Factories, we got the same old tired line that "criticism of Zionism is not the same as antisemitism".
I tell you what. Read the piece & tell me whether you think this is *just* "criticism of Zionism". Go on.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...
I tell you what. Read the piece & tell me whether you think this is *just* "criticism of Zionism". Go on.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In that letter from the lawyers for Farms not Factories, we got the same old tired line that "criticism of Zionism is not the same as antisemitism".
I tell you what. Read the piece & tell me whether you think this is *just* "criticism of Zionism". Go on.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...
I tell you what. Read the piece & tell me whether you think this is *just* "criticism of Zionism". Go on.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the...
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The -extreme- level of right wing media obsession with Zack Polanski and the Green Party gives me hope.
If they’re this worried about clearly articulable, sensible, reasonable and socially responsible polices, maybe Reform Ltd isn’t unstoppable.
If they’re this worried about clearly articulable, sensible, reasonable and socially responsible polices, maybe Reform Ltd isn’t unstoppable.
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The -extreme- level of right wing media obsession with Zack Polanski and the Green Party gives me hope.
If they’re this worried about clearly articulable, sensible, reasonable and socially responsible polices, maybe Reform Ltd isn’t unstoppable.
If they’re this worried about clearly articulable, sensible, reasonable and socially responsible polices, maybe Reform Ltd isn’t unstoppable.
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I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
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Wait, I'm supposed to believe that the convicted child sex trafficker who was inexplicably moved to a minimum security prison after an interview with the president's personal lawyer and who the president's allies have been portraying as a victim has blackmail material on the president?
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wait, I'm supposed to believe that the convicted child sex trafficker who was inexplicably moved to a minimum security prison after an interview with the president's personal lawyer and who the president's allies have been portraying as a victim has blackmail material on the president?
"The UK tech minister has said a mathematics ban is on the table."
It's the same thing. LITERALLY.
(The "AI-powered surveillance" will be some bullshit from a major donor.)
It's the same thing. LITERALLY.
(The "AI-powered surveillance" will be some bullshit from a major donor.)
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"The UK tech minister has said a mathematics ban is on the table."
It's the same thing. LITERALLY.
(The "AI-powered surveillance" will be some bullshit from a major donor.)
It's the same thing. LITERALLY.
(The "AI-powered surveillance" will be some bullshit from a major donor.)
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Wait till he hears about the Electoral College..
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wait till he hears about the Electoral College..
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The Online Safety Act has made going online even more dangerous. Google is now warning that as Britons turn to VPNs to avoid the act, there's been an explosion in scam VPNs that sell data or provide it to state actors.
Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.
Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.
Google issues security alert: Your VPN app could be spyware in disguise
Google's November 2025 fraud advisory identified malicious VPNs as a rising threat
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Online Safety Act has made going online even more dangerous. Google is now warning that as Britons turn to VPNs to avoid the act, there's been an explosion in scam VPNs that sell data or provide it to state actors.
Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.
Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.
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From 1910. One hundred and fifteen years ago.
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
From 1910. One hundred and fifteen years ago.
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People love to talk about not complying in advance and yet whenever there's bad news about Trump those same people are so quick to do, "Ah well, nevertheless."
We'll never get accountability unless we keep fighting for it, no matter how exhausting it may be.
We'll never get accountability unless we keep fighting for it, no matter how exhausting it may be.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
People love to talk about not complying in advance and yet whenever there's bad news about Trump those same people are so quick to do, "Ah well, nevertheless."
We'll never get accountability unless we keep fighting for it, no matter how exhausting it may be.
We'll never get accountability unless we keep fighting for it, no matter how exhausting it may be.
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Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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All other things aside, McSweeney is just bad at politics. He has the political acumen of a brick. That he has remained in post this long says how weak Starmer is, but it still doesn't change that he is just extraordinarily bad at even the most basic aspects of gauging policy and political direction
Why is McSweeney still there. What greater proof would you need that he is incapable of doing the job.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer under pressure over future of Morgan McSweeney amid briefing row
Ministers and Labour MPs point finger at PM’s chief of staff over No 10 operation that targeted Wes Streeting
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
All other things aside, McSweeney is just bad at politics. He has the political acumen of a brick. That he has remained in post this long says how weak Starmer is, but it still doesn't change that he is just extraordinarily bad at even the most basic aspects of gauging policy and political direction
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This isn't inferring anything. It's just outright saying black and brown people are violent.
It is racism.
Hannan is a racist cunt.
It is racism.
Hannan is a racist cunt.
Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This isn't inferring anything. It's just outright saying black and brown people are violent.
It is racism.
Hannan is a racist cunt.
It is racism.
Hannan is a racist cunt.
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Who hates cycling more than Kensington and Chelsea?
1,000 e-bikes seized by London council in pavement clean-up crackdown
Kensington and Chelsea council says release fees from seized Lime, Forest and Voi bikes will fund more enforcement action
www.standard.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Who hates cycling more than Kensington and Chelsea?
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What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.