"I cannot BELIEVE Zack Polanski said he didn't want to wipe people's bums has he no respect for these people and no we won't pay them properly are you kidding, bond markets won't like that, and by the way we're literally banning their families from the country."

So we're putting in a mass digital id database immediately before a potential Reform government that will use it to deport and brutalise millions of people?

Your local supermarket refusing to let you buy food without your id card in 2030 cos right to work checks morphed into right to eat checks.

Starmer is endlessly fascinating. A live-action character from Yes, Minister. A too-on-the-nose parody of someone who believes in absolutely nothing. A man who seems capable of starving to death in a busy pizzeria while waiting for someone to tell him which toppings poll well.

Generational talent.

How long before so-called Blue Labour MPs start turning up at these *far right* organised protests?

There's a lot of pressure on the Greens to form an electoral alliance with a new left party. And I strongly support one.

That cause is not made easier by the seeming inability of leading lights of the new left party to even acknowledge the Greens' existence.

Fascists are at the gates and he's suspending popular MPs for disagreeing over welfare policy. Is he stupid, evil or incompetent? He's obviously all three, and if MPs want to have any chance of keeping their seats, they're going to have to get rid of him.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ukania ✅ Original New Left critique of the peculiarities of British capitalism.

Yookay ❌ Boorish far right mantra of surface level gripes, real or imagined.

Tom Nairn had your number.

Brilliant post from @labourlewis.bsky.social - couldn't have put it better.

Brilliant article by @adamramsay.bsky.social in @novaramedia.com on the prospects for Welsh independence. Do consider supporting the excellent @yes.cymru - they are a fantastic organisation!!

'British politics is shackled to a corpse.' Brilliant, spot on column from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...