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I love how mortified these people are, finally
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I love how mortified these people are, finally
"If you don't vote for Nigel, you'll get Tommy instead."
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"If you don't vote for Nigel, you'll get Tommy instead."
do any of the sweaty young men interviewing him ever ask him if he thinks they should abolish the House of Lords? Does he see any contradiction in his position as pleb-whisperer-philosopher-king and the fact he's spent most of his life doing what most people wouldn't describe as real work?
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
do any of the sweaty young men interviewing him ever ask him if he thinks they should abolish the House of Lords? Does he see any contradiction in his position as pleb-whisperer-philosopher-king and the fact he's spent most of his life doing what most people wouldn't describe as real work?
Stephen is currently busy writing his "11 billion reasons why the gold-from-refugees Labour front bench should resign in disgrace" piece, which will earn him a huge pat on the back from his employer, the intrepidly independent "The Financial Times"
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
There are 45,000 reasons for Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension: one for each Jewish voter to abandon Labour
The estimated 60,000 British Jews who voted for Labour in 2015, most of whom did not do so in 2019, were never given a loud enough voice in political discourse.
www.newstatesman.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Stephen is currently busy writing his "11 billion reasons why the gold-from-refugees Labour front bench should resign in disgrace" piece, which will earn him a huge pat on the back from his employer, the intrepidly independent "The Financial Times"
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Stephen here in the heady days of 2017, waiting for something to turn up, I suppose.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Stephen here in the heady days of 2017, waiting for something to turn up, I suppose.
we can agree on one thing: that's a nice photo of London. Thanks for your contribution, too - don't work too many Sundays.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
we can agree on one thing: that's a nice photo of London. Thanks for your contribution, too - don't work too many Sundays.
'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.' - less of the caps, they make you look mad.
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.' - less of the caps, they make you look mad.
agree to disagree, and when the Meeting Chairer is turfed out, enjoy holding your wallet out to get inspected by another racist ghoul from the Labour right who wants to extract gold from refugees :)
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
agree to disagree, and when the Meeting Chairer is turfed out, enjoy holding your wallet out to get inspected by another racist ghoul from the Labour right who wants to extract gold from refugees :)
You got what you deserve - agree to disagree :)
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You got what you deserve - agree to disagree :)
Yes, which is why I won't have to delete or lock comments like your: 'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital' -you got the govt you deserve.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Yes, which is why I won't have to delete or lock comments like your: 'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital' -you got the govt you deserve.
'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.' Sometimes, people get what they deserve.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
'Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.' Sometimes, people get what they deserve.
I agree it would have to involve serious shenanigans, but look: Angela Rayner's tax affairs just emailed themselves to journos.
We shall see! They've been right about most other things, whereas centrist dads have been, shall we say, less reliable.
We shall see! They've been right about most other things, whereas centrist dads have been, shall we say, less reliable.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I agree it would have to involve serious shenanigans, but look: Angela Rayner's tax affairs just emailed themselves to journos.
We shall see! They've been right about most other things, whereas centrist dads have been, shall we say, less reliable.
We shall see! They've been right about most other things, whereas centrist dads have been, shall we say, less reliable.
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/o...
Stephen Bush here in 2018.
Is there a 2025 companion piece to this, I wonder? "Why Labour's most self-interested cnts colluded with the actual far right to inflict fascism on us all?"
Surely Threadneedle's wisest young man is on the case?
Stephen Bush here in 2018.
Is there a 2025 companion piece to this, I wonder? "Why Labour's most self-interested cnts colluded with the actual far right to inflict fascism on us all?"
Surely Threadneedle's wisest young man is on the case?
Opinion | Why Won’t the Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Scandal Go Away? (Published 2018)
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/o...
Stephen Bush here in 2018.
Is there a 2025 companion piece to this, I wonder? "Why Labour's most self-interested cnts colluded with the actual far right to inflict fascism on us all?"
Surely Threadneedle's wisest young man is on the case?
Stephen Bush here in 2018.
Is there a 2025 companion piece to this, I wonder? "Why Labour's most self-interested cnts colluded with the actual far right to inflict fascism on us all?"
Surely Threadneedle's wisest young man is on the case?
It's what fellow leftists are saying, and they've been right about everything else that's happened since Starmer was elected.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's what fellow leftists are saying, and they've been right about everything else that's happened since Starmer was elected.
it's so Morgan can run Wes as a face denouncing the evils of Mahmoodism and lots of the same marks who voted for Starmer will vote for him.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
it's so Morgan can run Wes as a face denouncing the evils of Mahmoodism and lots of the same marks who voted for Starmer will vote for him.
happy to work for war criminals, what a magnanimous chap.
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
happy to work for war criminals, what a magnanimous chap.
give me a shout when you find him saying something like this, or getting himself on the hook for war crimes against children 👍
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
give me a shout when you find him saying something like this, or getting himself on the hook for war crimes against children 👍
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“There would be European workers working in Britain and British workers working in Europe as there are the moment. “What there wouldn’t be is the wholesale importation of UNDERPAID workers from central Europe in order to destroy conditions, particularly in the construction industry.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“There would be European workers working in Britain and British workers working in Europe as there are the moment. “What there wouldn’t be is the wholesale importation of UNDERPAID workers from central Europe in order to destroy conditions, particularly in the construction industry.”
As Rodent pointed out, helpful to have the fascists spell it all out for everyone, doing donuts round the entire vexatious bonfire of politics 2015-2020
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As Rodent pointed out, helpful to have the fascists spell it all out for everyone, doing donuts round the entire vexatious bonfire of politics 2015-2020
wake me up when Stephen's bosses at the Financial Times allow him to run a '11 million reasons for the Prime Minister's suspension from the Labour party- one for each BAME voter"
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
There are 45,000 reasons for Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension: one for each Jewish voter to abandon Labour
The estimated 60,000 British Jews who voted for Labour in 2015, most of whom did not do so in 2019, were never given a loud enough voice in political discourse.
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
wake me up when Stephen's bosses at the Financial Times allow him to run a '11 million reasons for the Prime Minister's suspension from the Labour party- one for each BAME voter"
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...