Floating Voter
@floatingvoter.bsky.social
Former political activist, party staffer, local and parliamentary candidate. Now politically uncommitted and somewhat disillusioned 🇬🇧
I know people who went to comprehensives and got into Oxford, Cambridge, the LSE etc. I also know people who were privately educated from prep school to sixth form but didn’t get into any university. That’s as it should be. Not about money but merit and opportunity.
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I know people who went to comprehensives and got into Oxford, Cambridge, the LSE etc. I also know people who were privately educated from prep school to sixth form but didn’t get into any university. That’s as it should be. Not about money but merit and opportunity.
She’s not wrong
“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
She’s not wrong
Typical of this government. They’re actually doing good stuff, that will help improve people lives, but they’re too scared of the right wing bogeyman they’d rather piss off their natural supporters than risk being called woke.
Via No 10 today (obviously overshadowed by the asylum announcement): "Schools across England will save millions on energy bills as Great British Energy installs solar panels on over 250 sites, cutting costs and reinvesting into education while powering classrooms with clean, homegrown energy."
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Typical of this government. They’re actually doing good stuff, that will help improve people lives, but they’re too scared of the right wing bogeyman they’d rather piss off their natural supporters than risk being called woke.
It’s a strange morality that sides with the kind of people who were excited by the prospect of the Huntingdon train attacker being an immigrant.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s a strange morality that sides with the kind of people who were excited by the prospect of the Huntingdon train attacker being an immigrant.
I don’t understand Labour’s strategy here. They’re trying to appeal to people who are never going to vote for them. Meanwhile they’re driving away those who would be inclined to vote for them www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Laura Kuenssberg: Illegal migration 'dividing our country', home secretary says ahead of asylum policy shake-up
Shabana Mahmood says the government
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I don’t understand Labour’s strategy here. They’re trying to appeal to people who are never going to vote for them. Meanwhile they’re driving away those who would be inclined to vote for them www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
As always an informative post from dag.
“Words are defamatory under Florida law when “they tend to subject one to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt or disgrace or tend to injure one in one’s business or profession.”
I recall that Trump said he could shoot someone and wouldn’t lose any votes.
“Words are defamatory under Florida law when “they tend to subject one to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt or disgrace or tend to injure one in one’s business or profession.”
I recall that Trump said he could shoot someone and wouldn’t lose any votes.
Personal blog non-substack: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/a-cl...
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
As always an informative post from dag.
“Words are defamatory under Florida law when “they tend to subject one to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt or disgrace or tend to injure one in one’s business or profession.”
I recall that Trump said he could shoot someone and wouldn’t lose any votes.
“Words are defamatory under Florida law when “they tend to subject one to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt or disgrace or tend to injure one in one’s business or profession.”
I recall that Trump said he could shoot someone and wouldn’t lose any votes.
They turned voters against the EU. They’re turning voters against the BBC. God help us when they set their sights on the NHS (and they will).
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
They turned voters against the EU. They’re turning voters against the BBC. God help us when they set their sights on the NHS (and they will).
Searching for someone on here I just came across someone berating a Brit for not having a (written) constitution. I’m struck by the irony of the UK Supreme Court holding a PM and government to account for unlawfully proroguing Parliament while the US written constitution seems powerless to stop the
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Searching for someone on here I just came across someone berating a Brit for not having a (written) constitution. I’m struck by the irony of the UK Supreme Court holding a PM and government to account for unlawfully proroguing Parliament while the US written constitution seems powerless to stop the
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If editing speeches is not allowed now, I look forward to broadcasters not including politician’s carefully crafted sound bites in their bulletins.
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If editing speeches is not allowed now, I look forward to broadcasters not including politician’s carefully crafted sound bites in their bulletins.
Adam Boulton talking sensibly now. This is (another) attempt by competitors to diminish the BBC.
Kelvin MacKenzie on BBC News pontificating about the BBC “doctoring” the Trump speech. This is a former editor of the Sun talking about “doctoring”. Talk about hypocrisy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Adam Boulton talking sensibly now. This is (another) attempt by competitors to diminish the BBC.
Kelvin MacKenzie on BBC News pontificating about the BBC “doctoring” the Trump speech. This is a former editor of the Sun talking about “doctoring”. Talk about hypocrisy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Kelvin MacKenzie on BBC News pontificating about the BBC “doctoring” the Trump speech. This is a former editor of the Sun talking about “doctoring”. Talk about hypocrisy.
The thing to remember about Rachel Reeves’ speech yesterday is that, in a similar situation, the Conservatives wouldn’t hesitate to break manifesto promises. Only they’d cut spending they said they wouldn’t.
We know this for a fact because it’s what they did in 2010.
We know this for a fact because it’s what they did in 2010.
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The thing to remember about Rachel Reeves’ speech yesterday is that, in a similar situation, the Conservatives wouldn’t hesitate to break manifesto promises. Only they’d cut spending they said they wouldn’t.
We know this for a fact because it’s what they did in 2010.
We know this for a fact because it’s what they did in 2010.
I’d vote for a party, any party, whose leader stood up and said: “the UK isn’t a super power and hasn’t been for about 100 years. We’ve not been the world’s workshop for a long time. We can’t compete with countries where pay is low and conditions are brutal. We will only prosper by working in
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I’d vote for a party, any party, whose leader stood up and said: “the UK isn’t a super power and hasn’t been for about 100 years. We’ve not been the world’s workshop for a long time. We can’t compete with countries where pay is low and conditions are brutal. We will only prosper by working in
1) He deserves a medal.
2) Those who’ve been blatantly racist all yesterday need to make grovelling apologies to all the good people in the Uk of different heritages. Then they need to crawl back under a rock.
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named www.bbc.com/news/article...
2) Those who’ve been blatantly racist all yesterday need to make grovelling apologies to all the good people in the Uk of different heritages. Then they need to crawl back under a rock.
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named www.bbc.com/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
1) He deserves a medal.
2) Those who’ve been blatantly racist all yesterday need to make grovelling apologies to all the good people in the Uk of different heritages. Then they need to crawl back under a rock.
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named www.bbc.com/news/article...
2) Those who’ve been blatantly racist all yesterday need to make grovelling apologies to all the good people in the Uk of different heritages. Then they need to crawl back under a rock.
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named www.bbc.com/news/article...
Eventually it’ll dawn on people that, like Trump’s America, the aim is to reduce employee rights and remove benefits creating a deregulated, low wage economy. Brexit was the first step in enabling this. It’ll disproportionately affect the section of the population being targeted to vote Reform.
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Eventually it’ll dawn on people that, like Trump’s America, the aim is to reduce employee rights and remove benefits creating a deregulated, low wage economy. Brexit was the first step in enabling this. It’ll disproportionately affect the section of the population being targeted to vote Reform.
The only time in my 56 years I’ve ever felt in fear of life threatening violence is when a drunk white male, who claimed to a soldier, accosted me outside Folkestone ferry terminal one evening and accused me of being in the IRA. I was born and grew up in Surrey!
“I was in the SAS I’m super tough and that’s why I’m too scared to live in a country with one of the world’s lowest homicide rates”
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The only time in my 56 years I’ve ever felt in fear of life threatening violence is when a drunk white male, who claimed to a soldier, accosted me outside Folkestone ferry terminal one evening and accused me of being in the IRA. I was born and grew up in Surrey!
I see similar complaints in the local media here in Blackpool. The people complaining seem to think the council (or “clowncil” as they prefer to call it) can tell businesses to open shops in the town (although there are quite a few chains and independents already).
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I see similar complaints in the local media here in Blackpool. The people complaining seem to think the council (or “clowncil” as they prefer to call it) can tell businesses to open shops in the town (although there are quite a few chains and independents already).
Where are all the voices that warned us AV would be the end of civilisation as we know it? Silent. Presumably because the closed list puts all the power in the hands of the parties and their financial backers.
Not sure many people have clocked just how big a deal Wales' new voting system is.
It's a 'pure' PR, closed party list - which means no one will be able to pick candidates. Except party HQs. It's a grim fudge few wanted
Caerphilly will have been the last ever Senedd by-election too, if it sticks.
It's a 'pure' PR, closed party list - which means no one will be able to pick candidates. Except party HQs. It's a grim fudge few wanted
Caerphilly will have been the last ever Senedd by-election too, if it sticks.
Closed Lists were a misstep, cross-party STV bill would put the Senedd back on track
Wales stands at an important crossroads in its democratic journey. ERS Cymru has developed a proposal to change the way we elect members of the Senedd, replacing the planned closed-list
electoral-reform.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Where are all the voices that warned us AV would be the end of civilisation as we know it? Silent. Presumably because the closed list puts all the power in the hands of the parties and their financial backers.
So much daft comment about Andrew being stripped of his princely title. No, it doesn’t mean the King knows incriminating details about Andrew and Epstein. He’s trying to protect his own position. Remember what the royal family did to Edward VIII and Princess Margaret to ‘protect’ the monarchy.
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So much daft comment about Andrew being stripped of his princely title. No, it doesn’t mean the King knows incriminating details about Andrew and Epstein. He’s trying to protect his own position. Remember what the royal family did to Edward VIII and Princess Margaret to ‘protect’ the monarchy.
The hypocrisy of Badenoch telling the Prime Minister to sack the Chancellor for “breaking the law” when she admitted to committing a crime that was punishable by a five year prison sentence. Badenoch’s crime was deliberate. Reeves’ transgression, it seems, was unintentional.
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The hypocrisy of Badenoch telling the Prime Minister to sack the Chancellor for “breaking the law” when she admitted to committing a crime that was punishable by a five year prison sentence. Badenoch’s crime was deliberate. Reeves’ transgression, it seems, was unintentional.
If I were still in Kent you can bet I’d be filling leaflets with how Kent’s new Reform council is putting up council tax by the maximum, asked other parties for ideas to save money, asked the government to ease immigration restrictions and how its councillors are fighting among themselves.
You want to beat Reform? At a grassroots level you do it the old way. You organise. Get local candidates in place and do things to improve people’s lives. Then you publicise that, and Reform’s record in local government, on social media, in the local paper and on leaflets through people’s doors.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If I were still in Kent you can bet I’d be filling leaflets with how Kent’s new Reform council is putting up council tax by the maximum, asked other parties for ideas to save money, asked the government to ease immigration restrictions and how its councillors are fighting among themselves.
You want to beat Reform? At a grassroots level you do it the old way. You organise. Get local candidates in place and do things to improve people’s lives. Then you publicise that, and Reform’s record in local government, on social media, in the local paper and on leaflets through people’s doors.
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
You want to beat Reform? At a grassroots level you do it the old way. You organise. Get local candidates in place and do things to improve people’s lives. Then you publicise that, and Reform’s record in local government, on social media, in the local paper and on leaflets through people’s doors.
“Another intriguing finding of the research, though, is that despite their economic costs, these leaders tend to be good at holding on to power, lasting on average eight years, compared with four for their more moderate equivalents.”
Because they are willing to lie, to blame anyone but themselves.
Because they are willing to lie, to blame anyone but themselves.
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Another intriguing finding of the research, though, is that despite their economic costs, these leaders tend to be good at holding on to power, lasting on average eight years, compared with four for their more moderate equivalents.”
Because they are willing to lie, to blame anyone but themselves.
Because they are willing to lie, to blame anyone but themselves.