Caroline Jackson
@cejax74cj.bsky.social
UK Baby Boomer, living in hope for a world gone mad. Left leaning🌹 Interested in Politics 🇪🇺 The Arts, Drawing & Painting, Food,Travel,Culture + whatever takes my fancy..in no particular order.
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Whether they benefit *enough* is where the 'can they get better at governing?' becomes so important:
‘Their credibility has been shot to pieces’: Labour MPs turn on Starmer and Reeves
Income tax U-turn adds to mood of despair among party’s backbenchers
www.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Whether they benefit *enough* is where the 'can they get better at governing?' becomes so important:
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For the basic reason that: 1) a lot of people fear Farage 2) most people understand how our electoral system works 3) turnout will be up, both by people inspired by Farage and by people who fear him 4) Labour will benefit from that a bit.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
For the basic reason that: 1) a lot of people fear Farage 2) most people understand how our electoral system works 3) turnout will be up, both by people inspired by Farage and by people who fear him 4) Labour will benefit from that a bit.
💥THIS💥 @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social is such a fascinating thread from Stephen..Most won't be aware off, l certainly wasn't!
Hadn't clocked until this tweet that this is true of every defeated Labour government other than New Labour: more votes in defeat in 1951 than in victory in 1945, more in 1970 than in 1964. And frankly, whether they win or lose next time, would bet large amounts will get more votes than 2024.
Labour got more votes in 1979 then they did in Oct 1974.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
💥THIS💥 @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social is such a fascinating thread from Stephen..Most won't be aware off, l certainly wasn't!
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Brexit was an op. It's all coming out now.
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Brexit was an op. It's all coming out now.
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That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.
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Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
READ IN FULL: The full transcript from Bev Turner's interview with Donald Trump
The President sat down with Bev for GB News's US programme The Late Show Live
www.gbnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...
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Just added “cancel Labour membership” to my to do list.
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just added “cancel Labour membership” to my to do list.
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"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The real threat to BBC impartiality
The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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This is an element of the migration/asylum plans I suspect quite a few Labour MPs will find hardest to sign up to: if you come to the UK as a refugee you can never make your life here, but only ever exist in a state of limbo.
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is an element of the migration/asylum plans I suspect quite a few Labour MPs will find hardest to sign up to: if you come to the UK as a refugee you can never make your life here, but only ever exist in a state of limbo.
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology
Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology
US president tells reporters he will sue the corporation for ‘anywhere between a billion and $5bn’
Donald Trump has told reporters he will still take legal action against the BBC next week, despite the British broadcaster apologising for a misleading edit of one of his speeches.
On Friday evening, the US president told reporters aboard Air Force One “we’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5bn, probably sometime next week. We have to do it.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology
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Sad but true. We needed hope. We got despair.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sad but true. We needed hope. We got despair.
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Donald Trump refuses to rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Trump won't rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell despite Epstein bombshells
The US President said: ""I haven't even thought about it. I haven't thought about for months. Maybe I haven't thought about it at all"
www.mirror.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Donald Trump refuses to rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Why all the talk about leadership challenges misses the point that the biggest problem facing this Government is not just a lack of leadership but a lack of clear ideas about what a Labour Government is actually for
Until that changes, the question of who sits in No 10 will remain a hollow one.
Until that changes, the question of who sits in No 10 will remain a hollow one.
Labour's Biggest Problem Is Not a Lack of Leadership but a Lack of Ideas
Until Keir Starmer's party decides what it really stands for, the question of who leads them will remain a hollow one, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Why all the talk about leadership challenges misses the point that the biggest problem facing this Government is not just a lack of leadership but a lack of clear ideas about what a Labour Government is actually for
Until that changes, the question of who sits in No 10 will remain a hollow one.
Until that changes, the question of who sits in No 10 will remain a hollow one.
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.
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The rot really set in when the woke brigade cancelled Spangles.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The rot really set in when the woke brigade cancelled Spangles.
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It's bad enough having a soggy Labour government returning to its pre-1994 ideas, badly. But the people who believe that they are actually supporting some kind of 'moderate' government really do tick it up a notch.
Starmtroopers are like performance art by the dullest boomers you've ever seen
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's bad enough having a soggy Labour government returning to its pre-1994 ideas, badly. But the people who believe that they are actually supporting some kind of 'moderate' government really do tick it up a notch.
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NEW: Redbird withdraws £500m Telegraph bid after six months
Redbird said it will "work hard to help secure a solution which is in the best interests of employees and readers"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/redbird...
Redbird said it will "work hard to help secure a solution which is in the best interests of employees and readers"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/redbird...
Redbird withdraws £500m Telegraph bid after six months
Redbird Capital Partners has dropped its £500m bid to take control of The Telegraph six months saying it had struck a deal to do so.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
NEW: Redbird withdraws £500m Telegraph bid after six months
Redbird said it will "work hard to help secure a solution which is in the best interests of employees and readers"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/redbird...
Redbird said it will "work hard to help secure a solution which is in the best interests of employees and readers"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/redbird...
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It's really bad for our politics that depending on where you live, you basically will have at best two parties that have any serious ideas for how to improve things.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It's really bad for our politics that depending on where you live, you basically will have at best two parties that have any serious ideas for how to improve things.
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The assignment of 'you are Rachel Reeves. You have this terrible inheritance, but your electoral coalition is actually, every pensioner from someone on the basic state pension, still working, in the private rented sector all the way to a DB pensioner in a huge house'. Suddenly it's all easy.
I think that 'it is structural' is a way that people in Labour self-soothe about this government's failures, but one thing that *is* structural is 'a lot of British politicians would have an easier life if young people voted Tory and old people voted Labour'.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The assignment of 'you are Rachel Reeves. You have this terrible inheritance, but your electoral coalition is actually, every pensioner from someone on the basic state pension, still working, in the private rented sector all the way to a DB pensioner in a huge house'. Suddenly it's all easy.
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The Telegraph columnist, rumoured to be on her way out, spread fake news about crime figures on GB News
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Allison Pearson and some very dodgy maths
The Telegraph columnist, rumoured to be on her way out, spread fake news about crime figures on GB News
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Telegraph columnist, rumoured to be on her way out, spread fake news about crime figures on GB News
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀