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It’s incredibly dangerous, obviously malicious stuff. It’s only a hop, skip and a jump from this, to: “extremist” ethnic populations protesting is intimidating and threatening Britons; “extremists” voting is threatening democracy; “extremists” being here at all is a threat to all white people.
December 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It’s incredibly dangerous, obviously malicious stuff. It’s only a hop, skip and a jump from this, to: “extremist” ethnic populations protesting is intimidating and threatening Britons; “extremists” voting is threatening democracy; “extremists” being here at all is a threat to all white people.
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LOL they have finally got their British Macron, deliberately flying the plane into the mountain while giving the finger with both hands. They fought for *years* to get him! And now they have one, they think he’s shite and they want a different one. Never change lads, never change.
December 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
LOL they have finally got their British Macron, deliberately flying the plane into the mountain while giving the finger with both hands. They fought for *years* to get him! And now they have one, they think he’s shite and they want a different one. Never change lads, never change.
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Again: “we’ve tried all the versions of crackdowns Thatcherism we find acceptable and none of it works, Britain is ungovernable” is the same thing as saying “Well, I guess it’s time for Farage and fascism”.
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Again: “we’ve tried all the versions of crackdowns Thatcherism we find acceptable and none of it works, Britain is ungovernable” is the same thing as saying “Well, I guess it’s time for Farage and fascism”.
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One thing you get out of this is that this project has been being foisted on the public for 47 years now, and at no point has the fact that people fucking hate it ever made any of the important people think maybe it's time to stop.
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
One thing you get out of this is that this project has been being foisted on the public for 47 years now, and at no point has the fact that people fucking hate it ever made any of the important people think maybe it's time to stop.
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The deepest analysis of Labour’s woes Chris Mason can offer involves poring over polling %ages, wibbling about comms & halfhearted gestures at y’know, social media & stuff. If you’re after anything about its wildly unpopular policies or strategy of wooing people who hate it, sorry, he’s not your man
Why 2026 is Keir Starmer's make or break year
With devolved elections coming up, questions over Labour’s direction and internal 'campaigning' already underway according to some insiders, where does this all leave the prime minister?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The deepest analysis of Labour’s woes Chris Mason can offer involves poring over polling %ages, wibbling about comms & halfhearted gestures at y’know, social media & stuff. If you’re after anything about its wildly unpopular policies or strategy of wooing people who hate it, sorry, he’s not your man
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Part of Starmer's problem is he filled govt with Ministers who are both right wing headbangers and totally disloyal. Here (Times) a Minister (anonymously, the creep) calls Keir "ridiculous", but worse, backs the mad, Trump style idea el Fattah lose citizenship/be deported over bad old tweets.
December 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Part of Starmer's problem is he filled govt with Ministers who are both right wing headbangers and totally disloyal. Here (Times) a Minister (anonymously, the creep) calls Keir "ridiculous", but worse, backs the mad, Trump style idea el Fattah lose citizenship/be deported over bad old tweets.
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(3) But the simple 'MPs-pundits-polls-think tanks' model of power actually has very shallow roots in the country, it keeps reproducing shallow, unpopular technocratic centrism, where the old model of party -unions-campaigners is better rooted , even now
December 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
(3) But the simple 'MPs-pundits-polls-think tanks' model of power actually has very shallow roots in the country, it keeps reproducing shallow, unpopular technocratic centrism, where the old model of party -unions-campaigners is better rooted , even now
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(2) Powell could have gone for 'critics should get behind Starmer for the May elections, but Starmer must give us more to get behind ' type messages, but instead just 'put a sock in it' ..appropriately she also turned of any replies. Soft Left MPs to Left members :" shut up and do as your told"
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
(2) Powell could have gone for 'critics should get behind Starmer for the May elections, but Starmer must give us more to get behind ' type messages, but instead just 'put a sock in it' ..appropriately she also turned of any replies. Soft Left MPs to Left members :" shut up and do as your told"
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They are quite literally cheering Shabana Mahmood and anyone who tells you different is lying to you
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
They are quite literally cheering Shabana Mahmood and anyone who tells you different is lying to you
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New Statesman interview readying Streeting's leadership campaign . Key themes -Labour's problem is all about "communicating" (it isn't, its about them doing v little reform) - Streeting wants to embrace Labour's left ( he doesn't).Streeting will be "liberal" on migration unlike Starmer (doubt that)
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
New Statesman interview readying Streeting's leadership campaign . Key themes -Labour's problem is all about "communicating" (it isn't, its about them doing v little reform) - Streeting wants to embrace Labour's left ( he doesn't).Streeting will be "liberal" on migration unlike Starmer (doubt that)
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(1)Lewis Goodall is one of the sharpest, so him on why Starmer is hated(New Statesman)truly shows the limits of professional-politics-understandersders.He says Starmer was "well qualified", but plainly his failure shows he wasn't: Empty admin experience isn't a 'qualification '
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
(1)Lewis Goodall is one of the sharpest, so him on why Starmer is hated(New Statesman)truly shows the limits of professional-politics-understandersders.He says Starmer was "well qualified", but plainly his failure shows he wasn't: Empty admin experience isn't a 'qualification '
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(1)Renewal, the Journal of key Soft Left group Compass is pushing an article by Paul Mason saying Shabana Mahmood's ugly immigration bill and Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech are really good- Mason often writes bizarre stuff, but it is more bizarre for Compass to promote this.
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
(1)Renewal, the Journal of key Soft Left group Compass is pushing an article by Paul Mason saying Shabana Mahmood's ugly immigration bill and Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech are really good- Mason often writes bizarre stuff, but it is more bizarre for Compass to promote this.
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(2) observer.co.uk/news/opinion... Instead Phil Collins says the budget should have included 'what not to do '(cuts) - and then comes up with this uninspiring list of the 'bold' plans Keir could pick. By ruling out redistribution of £ and power, every attempt to give Labour a cause is more blandness
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
(2) observer.co.uk/news/opinion... Instead Phil Collins says the budget should have included 'what not to do '(cuts) - and then comes up with this uninspiring list of the 'bold' plans Keir could pick. By ruling out redistribution of £ and power, every attempt to give Labour a cause is more blandness
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(1)Many pundits now asking "Why is Starmer so unpopular?": None will say 'because we told him to be': V.strong media call as Starmer rose was "He must do a 'Clause 4 Moment'" ie take positions Labour members hate. He did, but the public don't like his shift right either, leaving him Billy Nomates..
December 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
(1)Many pundits now asking "Why is Starmer so unpopular?": None will say 'because we told him to be': V.strong media call as Starmer rose was "He must do a 'Clause 4 Moment'" ie take positions Labour members hate. He did, but the public don't like his shift right either, leaving him Billy Nomates..
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Is it hard to understand ? Starmer suffers the same problems that led to to 'Pasokification' across Europe, claiming to offer 'change' but doing continuity centrism instead , and because he did so by lying +attacking his own party , doesn't even have a base of his own to counterbalance attacks
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Is it hard to understand ? Starmer suffers the same problems that led to to 'Pasokification' across Europe, claiming to offer 'change' but doing continuity centrism instead , and because he did so by lying +attacking his own party , doesn't even have a base of his own to counterbalance attacks
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Clegg really forged the modern ideal of “appearing prime ministerial”: a moderately telegenic deer in the headlights who’d happily fuck over every party member he ever met if a Times editorial told him to
The return of Clegg provides an opportunity to re-share this beautiful anecdote, from David Runciman's review of Cameron's memoir
August 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Clegg really forged the modern ideal of “appearing prime ministerial”: a moderately telegenic deer in the headlights who’d happily fuck over every party member he ever met if a Times editorial told him to
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It ought to go without saying but in case it doesn't - one of these things matters a lot more than the other:
March 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It ought to go without saying but in case it doesn't - one of these things matters a lot more than the other:
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Re scrapping the WCA and basing everything on the PIP assessment:
These days 69% of WCA applicants are found eligible for additional benefit (plus a further 16% who are protected from full conditionality).
By contrast, the PIP assessment *currently* finds about 54% of applicants eligible
These days 69% of WCA applicants are found eligible for additional benefit (plus a further 16% who are protected from full conditionality).
By contrast, the PIP assessment *currently* finds about 54% of applicants eligible
March 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Re scrapping the WCA and basing everything on the PIP assessment:
These days 69% of WCA applicants are found eligible for additional benefit (plus a further 16% who are protected from full conditionality).
By contrast, the PIP assessment *currently* finds about 54% of applicants eligible
These days 69% of WCA applicants are found eligible for additional benefit (plus a further 16% who are protected from full conditionality).
By contrast, the PIP assessment *currently* finds about 54% of applicants eligible
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Tory MP Caroline Johnson listed a set of criteria that currently scores below four points in the PIP assessment, and said someone matching all those criteria would now no longer qualify for PIP.
Liz Kendall said that isn't true. I'm not clear how it isn't true, and nor is Caroline Johnson
Liz Kendall said that isn't true. I'm not clear how it isn't true, and nor is Caroline Johnson
March 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Tory MP Caroline Johnson listed a set of criteria that currently scores below four points in the PIP assessment, and said someone matching all those criteria would now no longer qualify for PIP.
Liz Kendall said that isn't true. I'm not clear how it isn't true, and nor is Caroline Johnson
Liz Kendall said that isn't true. I'm not clear how it isn't true, and nor is Caroline Johnson
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Not sure about this from the IFS. In the real world, I'm not convinced that changing an incredibly miserly income of £4,732 per year to a still-miserly £5,096 per year is going to persuade people, who would otherwise have got a job, that they're now so financially comfortable, they're not going to.
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Not sure about this from the IFS. In the real world, I'm not convinced that changing an incredibly miserly income of £4,732 per year to a still-miserly £5,096 per year is going to persuade people, who would otherwise have got a job, that they're now so financially comfortable, they're not going to.
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This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat
The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's really welcome that some liberals are now realising that Starmerism is a poisonous political project with no moral core.
But the left currently identified what this government would be like, so rather than listen to liberals angry they had their wallets inspected, you should listen to us.
But the left currently identified what this government would be like, so rather than listen to liberals angry they had their wallets inspected, you should listen to us.
February 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It's really welcome that some liberals are now realising that Starmerism is a poisonous political project with no moral core.
But the left currently identified what this government would be like, so rather than listen to liberals angry they had their wallets inspected, you should listen to us.
But the left currently identified what this government would be like, so rather than listen to liberals angry they had their wallets inspected, you should listen to us.
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great investigation here from the londoner once again exposing the insanity of a system where MPs, councillors etc are allowed to be landlords - in this case @bayoalaba.bsky.social evicting a mother of two whilst waxing lyrical online about the dangers of homelessness…
Exclusive: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two
The MP, Bayo Alaba tweeted "Nobody should have to spend the night on the streets," before evicting a mother of two young children
We met the woman turfed out by one of parliament’s biggest landlords
www.the-londoner.co.uk/labour-bayo-...
The MP, Bayo Alaba tweeted "Nobody should have to spend the night on the streets," before evicting a mother of two young children
We met the woman turfed out by one of parliament’s biggest landlords
www.the-londoner.co.uk/labour-bayo-...
Exclusive: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two
"I don't even know what is going to happen to me. They could move me to Birmingham."
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 5:09 PM
great investigation here from the londoner once again exposing the insanity of a system where MPs, councillors etc are allowed to be landlords - in this case @bayoalaba.bsky.social evicting a mother of two whilst waxing lyrical online about the dangers of homelessness…
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"a strategy of starvation was always going to be indefensible" is somewhere of an understatement.
#Genocide
#Genocide
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame | Jonathan Freedland
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame | Jonathan Freedland
A strategy of starvation would always be indefensible. After this week’s ICC decision, he risks turning Israel into a pariah state
Thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, which once dreamed of being a light unto the nations, has taken a step closer to…
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:26 PM
"a strategy of starvation was always going to be indefensible" is somewhere of an understatement.
#Genocide
#Genocide
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Who's going to understand farming and farmland better - Treasury civil servants or Defra civil servants? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Who's going to understand farming and farmland better - Treasury civil servants or Defra civil servants? www.theguardian.com/environment/...