@politicaliverpool.bsky.social
Like I’m sympathetic but life was fucked for most people in the EU and it’s fucked for them outside, and no party in the UK wants to fix that so you’ll forgive me for not seeing the EU as a more important problem than eg homelessness which could be solved without the EU
I know many people are still angry about Brexit and think there has to be a process of repentance before rejoining the EU. But I think the most important thing is just to rejoin as soon as possible so people can put the whole affair into the past and forget about it.
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Like I’m sympathetic but life was fucked for most people in the EU and it’s fucked for them outside, and no party in the UK wants to fix that so you’ll forgive me for not seeing the EU as a more important problem than eg homelessness which could be solved without the EU
Jam tomorrow forever
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Jam tomorrow forever
When I was a kid, my dad got pulled over late at night as we headed to Cornwall on holiday, dragged us all out, searched etc, after 20 minutes back on our way. When we got home there was a ticket for running a red light, challenged because there were no traffic lights on the road we got pulled over
"Jury trials to be ditched except for the most serious crimes"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
When I was a kid, my dad got pulled over late at night as we headed to Cornwall on holiday, dragged us all out, searched etc, after 20 minutes back on our way. When we got home there was a ticket for running a red light, challenged because there were no traffic lights on the road we got pulled over
That time of the political cycle again…
Leveson
Leveson
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
That time of the political cycle again…
Leveson
Leveson
Another one here for @flyingrodent.bsky.social in the genre of “lifting the rock on any national institution”
London zoo boss quits amid claims of ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’
London zoo boss quits amid claims of ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’
Exclusive: Matthew Gould, close friend of George Osborne and former envoy, resigns before investigation concludes
A former high-flying diplomat who is a close friend of George Osborne has quit as the head of London zoo after the launch of an investigation into his “unacceptable workplace behaviour”.
Matthew Gould, who previously worked in Downing Street and as ambassador to Israel, resigned as chief executive of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) last week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Another one here for @flyingrodent.bsky.social in the genre of “lifting the rock on any national institution”
Interesting way to frame working migration has fallen off a cliff
Asylum seekers now make up nearly half of net migration to the UK and the number housed in hotels has increased despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to end their use ⬇️
Asylum seekers account for almost half of net migration
New statistics showed a fall in net migration as British citizens and non-EU migrants left the UK, but the number of asylum seekers in hotels has grown
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Interesting way to frame working migration has fallen off a cliff
Even an imbecile knows that an aggregate attack by one person, once, doesn’t mean everyone in their group is a terrorist. That’s not how terrorist organisations work, they would all have to be doing it, and have it as the actual method of the organisation
A sergeant was left unable to work for three months after the alleged attack fractured her lumbar spine
Palestine Action activist ‘hit police with sledgehammer’ at factory
A sergeant was left unable to work for three months after the alleged attack fractured her lumbar spine
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Even an imbecile knows that an aggregate attack by one person, once, doesn’t mean everyone in their group is a terrorist. That’s not how terrorist organisations work, they would all have to be doing it, and have it as the actual method of the organisation
Looking forward to the inevitable cottage industry of evading dynamic pricing strategies
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Looking forward to the inevitable cottage industry of evading dynamic pricing strategies
The entire uk establishment orchestrated a campaign that forced Johnson into government killing thousands in COVID mismanagement after the hundreds of thousands killed during austerity, but it’s ok aquatoll has a reasonable reaction to being upset at it
Cucks
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The entire uk establishment orchestrated a campaign that forced Johnson into government killing thousands in COVID mismanagement after the hundreds of thousands killed during austerity, but it’s ok aquatoll has a reasonable reaction to being upset at it
They’re banning starmer?
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They’re banning starmer?
If the only thing you have to show somebody on a wage that isn’t a living wage, trapped in insecure work and housing that takes 50% of their wage, is a chart to indicate their life is better contrary to their actual experience, that better be some charming fucking chart
Americans are currently experiencing the consequences of not articulating policy wins. If you’re waiting on constituents to read the chart, you aren’t doing the necessary politics.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If the only thing you have to show somebody on a wage that isn’t a living wage, trapped in insecure work and housing that takes 50% of their wage, is a chart to indicate their life is better contrary to their actual experience, that better be some charming fucking chart
It would be better if Alex was AI rather than just writing about it, because not understanding why people on a wage so low as to not be able to be classed as a living wage, while rent takes 50% of it, aren’t in the streets rejoicing is fucking embarrassing
Weird thing: the UK minimum wage has risen against inflation for years. It's now really high. Millions of people are earning more than they were as a direct result of this policy. And the impact on the vibes of the country is… entirely absent?
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It would be better if Alex was AI rather than just writing about it, because not understanding why people on a wage so low as to not be able to be classed as a living wage, while rent takes 50% of it, aren’t in the streets rejoicing is fucking embarrassing
Can I get more buses please?
How about if the bus is more expensive, prevents you interacting with other humans, scrapes every bit of data it can, forces you a diet of adverts you didn’t ask for, shovels profits at the insanely wealthy, with a massively increased risk of an RTA?
How about if the bus is more expensive, prevents you interacting with other humans, scrapes every bit of data it can, forces you a diet of adverts you didn’t ask for, shovels profits at the insanely wealthy, with a massively increased risk of an RTA?
Zoox isn’t yet charging for rides in its electric vehicles, which don’t have steering wheels, mirrors or pedals. But cofounder Jesse Levinson thinks regulatory approval is close.
Amazon’s Robotaxi Unit Launches In San Francisco Without Steering Wheels—Or Fees
Zoox isn’t yet charging for rides in its electric vehicles, which don’t have steering wheels, mirrors or pedals. But cofounder Jesse Levinson thinks regulatory approval is close.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Can I get more buses please?
How about if the bus is more expensive, prevents you interacting with other humans, scrapes every bit of data it can, forces you a diet of adverts you didn’t ask for, shovels profits at the insanely wealthy, with a massively increased risk of an RTA?
How about if the bus is more expensive, prevents you interacting with other humans, scrapes every bit of data it can, forces you a diet of adverts you didn’t ask for, shovels profits at the insanely wealthy, with a massively increased risk of an RTA?
If you join a movement because you believe in it, and another political party in power enacts policies that your movement wants, most people feel vindicated and believe in their movement more, they don’t suddenly decide their movements pointless. Unless you’re a centrist with no moral compass
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
If you join a movement because you believe in it, and another political party in power enacts policies that your movement wants, most people feel vindicated and believe in their movement more, they don’t suddenly decide their movements pointless. Unless you’re a centrist with no moral compass
Piers Morgan ( slack jawed and swivel eyes, spittle flecking his lips) Can a woman have a penis?!?!?!
Any normal person: if she wants?
Any normal person: if she wants?
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Piers Morgan ( slack jawed and swivel eyes, spittle flecking his lips) Can a woman have a penis?!?!?!
Any normal person: if she wants?
Any normal person: if she wants?
Not just bait, stale bait
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Not just bait, stale bait
Just on a train back from London and “revenue protection officers” is the worst fucking development on public transportation. Free public transport, stop making minimum wage pricks make people cry for failing to navigate a stupid fucking system , we owned it once, let’s do it again
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just on a train back from London and “revenue protection officers” is the worst fucking development on public transportation. Free public transport, stop making minimum wage pricks make people cry for failing to navigate a stupid fucking system , we owned it once, let’s do it again
Putting money together for a Starmer memorial to honour all his work for the Labour Party
a cartoon of a robot with the words remember me below him
Alt: a cartoon of a giant effigy of the robot bender from futurama where he forced a planet to make a giant effigy of him one foot leaning on a huge pyramid, his body ascending far into space , flames jetting from his eyes whilst deafeningly shouting “remember me” into space, playfully saying Starmer should get something so great to mark all his achievements
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Putting money together for a Starmer memorial to honour all his work for the Labour Party
Just in case anybody has decided to defend the editing row at the BBC on the grounds it is isolated I remember all the apologies or refusals to apologise for similar issues over the last 10 years. At best they’re sloppy and this time picked on the wrong target, at worst this is self-sabotage
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just in case anybody has decided to defend the editing row at the BBC on the grounds it is isolated I remember all the apologies or refusals to apologise for similar issues over the last 10 years. At best they’re sloppy and this time picked on the wrong target, at worst this is self-sabotage
The Labour Party is finally making me understand the fate of the Mensheviks or that Mai thought there was only way change would come
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Labour Party is finally making me understand the fate of the Mensheviks or that Mai thought there was only way change would come
Showing only half of people think tv news is accurate and thinking it’s good
Finally, a bit of a reality check from our 2024 election book (out soon!) for everyone hyperventilating about collapsing public trust in the BBC - free to air TV (mostly the BBC) is still the most widely consumed and widely trusted source of news - blows print, online & social media out of the water
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Showing only half of people think tv news is accurate and thinking it’s good
Old enough to remember when “growth” was going to sort it and our entire press just foghorned that into the public’s faces. Increasing regressive tax policies to continue reducing government services, after promising not to, is going to be fucking toxic, regardless of who shills for it
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Old enough to remember when “growth” was going to sort it and our entire press just foghorned that into the public’s faces. Increasing regressive tax policies to continue reducing government services, after promising not to, is going to be fucking toxic, regardless of who shills for it
This is what pandering to the far right has got the BBC, they still hate it but nobody on the left cares about it, it fucking vilified us
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt come after allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is what pandering to the far right has got the BBC, they still hate it but nobody on the left cares about it, it fucking vilified us
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...