Edward
@fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social
Nobody very important. Ferrets, greyhounds, poorly thought-through opinions. Englishman living in rural Northern Ireland. he/him
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It's not going to lead to horrid places but actually the disillusionment in our ruling classes is very often justified.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's not going to lead to horrid places but actually the disillusionment in our ruling classes is very often justified.
When trying to figure out what Trump's game is with the Epstein files, it probably helps not to think if his administration as a single entity. You've got the frontman, but he lacks object permanence and likely forgets what's in there from day to day. But outside the DoJ most of the administration
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
When trying to figure out what Trump's game is with the Epstein files, it probably helps not to think if his administration as a single entity. You've got the frontman, but he lacks object permanence and likely forgets what's in there from day to day. But outside the DoJ most of the administration
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“I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises You start with far- fetched resolutions They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government”
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises You start with far- fetched resolutions They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government”
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Most people in this country actually eat a decent variety of food and it's like the Blue Labour sorts get all their information about British culinary habits from Americans on here.
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Most people in this country actually eat a decent variety of food and it's like the Blue Labour sorts get all their information about British culinary habits from Americans on here.
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just one more road group bro, just one more road group will solve it I swear, just one more road group
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
just one more road group bro, just one more road group will solve it I swear, just one more road group
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You are doing this. You are allowing this country's enemies (americans online) to gloat about our decay. You are shaming us. Get rid of him so we can tell them to fuck off
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You are doing this. You are allowing this country's enemies (americans online) to gloat about our decay. You are shaming us. Get rid of him so we can tell them to fuck off
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Referring the Home Office to Prevent as it's clearly a radicalising group with an extremist far-right agenda.
Mahmood understandably attracting flak for hypocrisy, I think it also demonstrates the toxic culture of the Home Office. Minister after Minister goes into that job and in short order becomes radicalised. They are clearly quickly infected by HO anti-immigrant groupthink. Dismantle the Home Office.
"... it goes after those of us who look like we could be immigrants. We have talked a lot about illegal immigration sitting at the heart of this debate, but what we are not talking about so much is race"
Shabana Mahmood condemning the hostile environment back in 2018
Shabana Mahmood condemning the hostile environment back in 2018
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Referring the Home Office to Prevent as it's clearly a radicalising group with an extremist far-right agenda.
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
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I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
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Being a labour person is a lifetime condition. "I am not in the labour party!" Still has labour person behaviour. "I am making an alternative to labour" labour person behaviour. "I hate them" thats DEFINETELY labour person behaviour
I mean this is both *chef’s kiss* in itself and frankly applies beautifully to the Labour Party itself following the factional wars of the last ten years
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Being a labour person is a lifetime condition. "I am not in the labour party!" Still has labour person behaviour. "I am making an alternative to labour" labour person behaviour. "I hate them" thats DEFINETELY labour person behaviour
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I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
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So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:
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You, a political reactionary: Suggesting current ministers who should resign today to improve their political standing.
Me, a political visionary: All in on Anneliese Dodds
😉
Me, a political visionary: All in on Anneliese Dodds
😉
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
You, a political reactionary: Suggesting current ministers who should resign today to improve their political standing.
Me, a political visionary: All in on Anneliese Dodds
😉
Me, a political visionary: All in on Anneliese Dodds
😉
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If Lisa Nandy is awake today, she has an opportunity to both revitalise her leadership hopes and improve morale and confidence in the UK's cultural industries by resigning.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If Lisa Nandy is awake today, she has an opportunity to both revitalise her leadership hopes and improve morale and confidence in the UK's cultural industries by resigning.
Thought I was finally getting over the cough I've had for more than a month and the antibiotics were working.
Turns out they were working by loosening up everything that's been clogging my lungs so I was up all night coughing. Please can I have a normal immune system instead?
Turns out they were working by loosening up everything that's been clogging my lungs so I was up all night coughing. Please can I have a normal immune system instead?
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thought I was finally getting over the cough I've had for more than a month and the antibiotics were working.
Turns out they were working by loosening up everything that's been clogging my lungs so I was up all night coughing. Please can I have a normal immune system instead?
Turns out they were working by loosening up everything that's been clogging my lungs so I was up all night coughing. Please can I have a normal immune system instead?
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People made fun of liberals who wanted "peace and quiet" from starmer but like, why should an average person have to keep up if refugees will have their belongings stolen or not
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
People made fun of liberals who wanted "peace and quiet" from starmer but like, why should an average person have to keep up if refugees will have their belongings stolen or not
It would still be a hateful policy either way, but it is fucking cheeky to justify seizing family heirlooms to pay for asylum costs when foreigners seeking citizenship are charged 1000%+ of the administrative cost at every step of the way.
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It would still be a hateful policy either way, but it is fucking cheeky to justify seizing family heirlooms to pay for asylum costs when foreigners seeking citizenship are charged 1000%+ of the administrative cost at every step of the way.
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
Can we not copy the bit where the Danes sent their Home Secretary to prison instead?
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Can we not copy the bit where the Danes sent their Home Secretary to prison instead?
I am just not convinced that the way to endear yourself to the British public is to talk about your admiration for somebody who shot a dog.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am just not convinced that the way to endear yourself to the British public is to talk about your admiration for somebody who shot a dog.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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We’re probably lucky Epstein didn’t happen today so at least we don’t have to sit through his pieces about “My CANCELLATION by the WOKE Child Protection Squad”
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We’re probably lucky Epstein didn’t happen today so at least we don’t have to sit through his pieces about “My CANCELLATION by the WOKE Child Protection Squad”
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DHS told me their agents keep crashing out so I asked how many agents they have & they said they just go to the job fair & pay a big hiring bonus to new agents so I said it sounds like they're just paying for people to buy drugs & then Kristi Noem started crying.
Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says
Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says
www.independent.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DHS told me their agents keep crashing out so I asked how many agents they have & they said they just go to the job fair & pay a big hiring bonus to new agents so I said it sounds like they're just paying for people to buy drugs & then Kristi Noem started crying.