George Potter
@georgepotter.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat politician. Local councillor in Guildford. Working in software engineering. My views are my own and aren't on behalf on anyone else.
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George Potter
@georgepotter.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Eli Port, 29, has been ostracised for being against all the “isms” equally, and not just whichever ones happen to serve them personally in that moment.
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Last hour to go to vote in federal elections, please give me your #1 if you
A - like the cut of my jib
B - Are big into collective voice and power sharing
C - Are PISSED off with Terfs and generally want more to be done in how we are being held hostage by cruel, illiberal ideologues
Ta x
A - like the cut of my jib
B - Are big into collective voice and power sharing
C - Are PISSED off with Terfs and generally want more to be done in how we are being held hostage by cruel, illiberal ideologues
Ta x
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Last hour to go to vote in federal elections, please give me your #1 if you
A - like the cut of my jib
B - Are big into collective voice and power sharing
C - Are PISSED off with Terfs and generally want more to be done in how we are being held hostage by cruel, illiberal ideologues
Ta x
A - like the cut of my jib
B - Are big into collective voice and power sharing
C - Are PISSED off with Terfs and generally want more to be done in how we are being held hostage by cruel, illiberal ideologues
Ta x
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I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
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Of course, using claims of systematic bias as a means to drive systematic bias is also of a very old playbook. None of this is new, but the tactic of claiming conservatives are marginalised has been the modus operandi of the alt-right since the 2010s. They will destroy the BBC if they can.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Of course, using claims of systematic bias as a means to drive systematic bias is also of a very old playbook. None of this is new, but the tactic of claiming conservatives are marginalised has been the modus operandi of the alt-right since the 2010s. They will destroy the BBC if they can.
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As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
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Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
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I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
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Do politically-charged groups handing out weapons get proscribed, or is that just for inconvenient groups who’ve put paint on your aeroplanes?
‘Women & children to the front’ is a paramilitary and far-right strategy of legitimisation. Paramilitary backed far-right violence, intimidation & pogroms August 2024, Ballymena 2025 etc - same modus operandi. It was common knowledge that these weapons were to be handed out by this far-right group.
All-female far-right group give out pink knuckledusters at anti-migrant protest
An all-female far right group founded in England has started a branch in Northern Ireland, handing out pink knuckledusters to crowds gathered at a protest over the weekend.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Do politically-charged groups handing out weapons get proscribed, or is that just for inconvenient groups who’ve put paint on your aeroplanes?
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interesting to note that the only ppl desperate to save the bbc are 'centrists' and absolutely nobody else cares bcos they made this bed themselves
it's the same with the labour party. both abandoned the left to pander to the right and now the right is eating them they have very few supporters left
it's the same with the labour party. both abandoned the left to pander to the right and now the right is eating them they have very few supporters left
our BBC analysis:
“Insiders admit the BBC has often been at fault. But the scandals have been amplified by a hostile cohort of rightwing politicians and media allies”
www.ft.com/content/28b4...
“Insiders admit the BBC has often been at fault. But the scandals have been amplified by a hostile cohort of rightwing politicians and media allies”
www.ft.com/content/28b4...
BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
interesting to note that the only ppl desperate to save the bbc are 'centrists' and absolutely nobody else cares bcos they made this bed themselves
it's the same with the labour party. both abandoned the left to pander to the right and now the right is eating them they have very few supporters left
it's the same with the labour party. both abandoned the left to pander to the right and now the right is eating them they have very few supporters left
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It's wild how there's never any money in the budget to do stuff like this right up until they take a hit in the polls at which point there's suddenly totally enough money in the budget to do stuff like this.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's wild how there's never any money in the budget to do stuff like this right up until they take a hit in the polls at which point there's suddenly totally enough money in the budget to do stuff like this.
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It’s absurd for anyone to pretend the BBC isn’t institutionally anti-Trans+
In January 2022, hundreds of people protested outside BBC Broadcasting House over its harmful, biased coverage of Trans+ lives
The BBC’s response to a large protest outside its own building?
Absolute silence
📷: Aliza Adi
In January 2022, hundreds of people protested outside BBC Broadcasting House over its harmful, biased coverage of Trans+ lives
The BBC’s response to a large protest outside its own building?
Absolute silence
📷: Aliza Adi
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It’s absurd for anyone to pretend the BBC isn’t institutionally anti-Trans+
In January 2022, hundreds of people protested outside BBC Broadcasting House over its harmful, biased coverage of Trans+ lives
The BBC’s response to a large protest outside its own building?
Absolute silence
📷: Aliza Adi
In January 2022, hundreds of people protested outside BBC Broadcasting House over its harmful, biased coverage of Trans+ lives
The BBC’s response to a large protest outside its own building?
Absolute silence
📷: Aliza Adi
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People are very squeamish when it comes to criticising the BBC, because it’s been very successful in presenting itself as this rock in a storm, bastion of integrity and non bias. But it’s all marketing.
“What replaces the bbc could be worse” but what replaces it will be the same.
“What replaces the bbc could be worse” but what replaces it will be the same.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
People are very squeamish when it comes to criticising the BBC, because it’s been very successful in presenting itself as this rock in a storm, bastion of integrity and non bias. But it’s all marketing.
“What replaces the bbc could be worse” but what replaces it will be the same.
“What replaces the bbc could be worse” but what replaces it will be the same.
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Deb Cohen - while working at Newsnight to push her anti-trans ideological agenda - was also an editor of the British Medical Association (BMA) magazine, the BMJ - using her privileged position to platform transphobic talking points to give credibility.
She then reported on those points as facts! 😣
She then reported on those points as facts! 😣
Emily Maitlis & Jon Sopel on The News Agents podcast taking credit for getting the GIDS Tavistock clinic closed down.
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
Puffed-up journalists with their sense of self-importance think they can’t be radicalised & biased!
History will not be kind to them! 😖
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Deb Cohen - while working at Newsnight to push her anti-trans ideological agenda - was also an editor of the British Medical Association (BMA) magazine, the BMJ - using her privileged position to platform transphobic talking points to give credibility.
She then reported on those points as facts! 😣
She then reported on those points as facts! 😣
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"Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights? Or would they be more likely to champion someone who was clearly gender critical?"
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights? Or would they be more likely to champion someone who was clearly gender critical?"
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So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
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By reading the news and watching the BBC, by listening to the Prime Minister and his cabinet...
Social media helps children like Brianna find community and somewhere they can be themselves. One of her classmates killed her.
This does not help children, it isolates them from support.
Social media helps children like Brianna find community and somewhere they can be themselves. One of her classmates killed her.
This does not help children, it isolates them from support.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
By reading the news and watching the BBC, by listening to the Prime Minister and his cabinet...
Social media helps children like Brianna find community and somewhere they can be themselves. One of her classmates killed her.
This does not help children, it isolates them from support.
Social media helps children like Brianna find community and somewhere they can be themselves. One of her classmates killed her.
This does not help children, it isolates them from support.
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They loved her. She loved them.
and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.
If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.
But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social
and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.
If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.
But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
They loved her. She loved them.
and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.
If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.
But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social
and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.
If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.
But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social
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@charlotte2153.bsky.social they talked about everything, all day every day. She helped some of them access transition support and healthcare - a thing which your government is banning from trans youth in her country now.
They even risked contempt of court by posting her killers names before trial.
They even risked contempt of court by posting her killers names before trial.
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
@charlotte2153.bsky.social they talked about everything, all day every day. She helped some of them access transition support and healthcare - a thing which your government is banning from trans youth in her country now.
They even risked contempt of court by posting her killers names before trial.
They even risked contempt of court by posting her killers names before trial.
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i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
Do you not think it's bizarre to have strangers on the internet decide they know better than Brianna's own loved ones on what is or isn't insulting to her memory?
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
i think the most sick thing about govt going all in on Esther's phone shit after her daughter was murdered in a crime which had not nothing to do with phones
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
... is that I spoke to Brianna's friends. On Tiktok. They were everything to her - you want to take that away from other kids like Brianna?
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Robert Hapworth, 40, commented: “Finley’s our miracle child. Way better than the last one. I mean, what’s the point in my wife taking all that Tylenol if our kid’s not gonna be dunking on all the other toddlers?”
Autistic child prodigy absolutely dunking on his talentless sister
An autistic child prodigy has successfully learned six languages, commenced his studies at NASA and inspired middle-aged Facebook aunts everywhere – and totally owned his comparatively mediocre…
thedailytism.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Robert Hapworth, 40, commented: “Finley’s our miracle child. Way better than the last one. I mean, what’s the point in my wife taking all that Tylenol if our kid’s not gonna be dunking on all the other toddlers?”
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I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
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The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.
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Knuckledusters, but pink - feminism far-right style
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Knuckledusters, but pink - feminism far-right style
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.