Simon Huddlestone
@huddy99.bsky.social
Interested in all sorts.
You have my deepest sympathy
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
You have my deepest sympathy
Ah, so 45 year old Patel’s girlfriend is 26, huh.
I see.
Why am I unsurprised.
I see.
Why am I unsurprised.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ah, so 45 year old Patel’s girlfriend is 26, huh.
I see.
Why am I unsurprised.
I see.
Why am I unsurprised.
Reposted by Simon Huddlestone
This is what is so frustrating- this is an excellent sensible policy, that I’d expect from a Labour government. But the immigration policies and announcements are so horrific I can’t support them or vote for them in the future.
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is what is so frustrating- this is an excellent sensible policy, that I’d expect from a Labour government. But the immigration policies and announcements are so horrific I can’t support them or vote for them in the future.
Seems initially an astonishingly unlikely fact… until, incumbents wanting to bow out on their own terms combined with desperate MPs forcing PMs out to save own skins. And of course there’s always someone v happy to step in no matter out dire it looks.
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Seems initially an astonishingly unlikely fact… until, incumbents wanting to bow out on their own terms combined with desperate MPs forcing PMs out to save own skins. And of course there’s always someone v happy to step in no matter out dire it looks.
Reposted by Simon Huddlestone
Labour MPs waking up this morning ...
a man in a military uniform is talking to another man in a dark room .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is talking to another man in a dark room .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Labour MPs waking up this morning ...
A great podcast, well worth listening to
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A great podcast, well worth listening to
I hardly ever go to London but was there with with wife and teenage children 3 weeks ago and it was fabulous in every way (well except the crowds in the Nat History Museum!).
There again for work on Wednesday… probably be less fabulous.
There again for work on Wednesday… probably be less fabulous.
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I hardly ever go to London but was there with with wife and teenage children 3 weeks ago and it was fabulous in every way (well except the crowds in the Nat History Museum!).
There again for work on Wednesday… probably be less fabulous.
There again for work on Wednesday… probably be less fabulous.
A colleague’s children were at primary school with Truss’s brother’s children around the time she was PM… and it does make me think how odd a person she must be to have in your family. I mean, does she buy them MAGA hats for Christmas?
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A colleague’s children were at primary school with Truss’s brother’s children around the time she was PM… and it does make me think how odd a person she must be to have in your family. I mean, does she buy them MAGA hats for Christmas?
Oh God yes.
What on earth is the point of BBC paying specialist journalists £200k / year for their knowledge & contacts etc and then instead sharing the views of 5 random people.
What on earth is the point of BBC paying specialist journalists £200k / year for their knowledge & contacts etc and then instead sharing the views of 5 random people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Oh God yes.
What on earth is the point of BBC paying specialist journalists £200k / year for their knowledge & contacts etc and then instead sharing the views of 5 random people.
What on earth is the point of BBC paying specialist journalists £200k / year for their knowledge & contacts etc and then instead sharing the views of 5 random people.
It’s going to end up with Starmer caving in to something egregious after Trump threatens to hit UK with 100% tariffs unless the BBC give him $B, unless we have robust political leadership 😂 or MI5 have access to the full Trump links with Epstein.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It’s going to end up with Starmer caving in to something egregious after Trump threatens to hit UK with 100% tariffs unless the BBC give him $B, unless we have robust political leadership 😂 or MI5 have access to the full Trump links with Epstein.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
Speeding is one of the few dangerous crimes boasted about by many people.
Also, 1992 was definitely the best year to pass a driving test!
Also, 1992 was definitely the best year to pass a driving test!
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Speeding is one of the few dangerous crimes boasted about by many people.
Also, 1992 was definitely the best year to pass a driving test!
Also, 1992 was definitely the best year to pass a driving test!
All those warning, 3 years ago, that Starmer’s refusal to commit to anything was a mistake, have certainly been proved right. Those who flew the flag for Starmer as sensible brainy steward carrying a ming vase have been proven utterly wrong, after initial elation last year.
(I leaned to latter 🤦)
(I leaned to latter 🤦)
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
All those warning, 3 years ago, that Starmer’s refusal to commit to anything was a mistake, have certainly been proved right. Those who flew the flag for Starmer as sensible brainy steward carrying a ming vase have been proven utterly wrong, after initial elation last year.
(I leaned to latter 🤦)
(I leaned to latter 🤦)
Somehow I have managed to drive 10k miles a year for 33 years without incurring a speeding ticket. Now it’s always possible to make a mistake but if you pay attention and always at least intend to drive within what you think is the limit I really can’t see how anyone could end up with 12 points.
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Somehow I have managed to drive 10k miles a year for 33 years without incurring a speeding ticket. Now it’s always possible to make a mistake but if you pay attention and always at least intend to drive within what you think is the limit I really can’t see how anyone could end up with 12 points.
Can I be that guy just to point out that Clarke was Chancellor under John Major….
He was a Minister throughout the Thatcher government, however, originally very junior and rising to Sec of State for both Health & Education.
Also my MP 25 years ago… in his ‘hawking cigs ’ phase.
He was a Minister throughout the Thatcher government, however, originally very junior and rising to Sec of State for both Health & Education.
Also my MP 25 years ago… in his ‘hawking cigs ’ phase.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can I be that guy just to point out that Clarke was Chancellor under John Major….
He was a Minister throughout the Thatcher government, however, originally very junior and rising to Sec of State for both Health & Education.
Also my MP 25 years ago… in his ‘hawking cigs ’ phase.
He was a Minister throughout the Thatcher government, however, originally very junior and rising to Sec of State for both Health & Education.
Also my MP 25 years ago… in his ‘hawking cigs ’ phase.
Excellent as usual.
I used to look at the Sunak government & think how can he and they be just so inept they in such obvious ways.
Starmer & Reeves watched that from a much closer seat than a casual politics observer with a FT job elsewhere…. and yet? They learned absolutely nothing.
I used to look at the Sunak government & think how can he and they be just so inept they in such obvious ways.
Starmer & Reeves watched that from a much closer seat than a casual politics observer with a FT job elsewhere…. and yet? They learned absolutely nothing.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Excellent as usual.
I used to look at the Sunak government & think how can he and they be just so inept they in such obvious ways.
Starmer & Reeves watched that from a much closer seat than a casual politics observer with a FT job elsewhere…. and yet? They learned absolutely nothing.
I used to look at the Sunak government & think how can he and they be just so inept they in such obvious ways.
Starmer & Reeves watched that from a much closer seat than a casual politics observer with a FT job elsewhere…. and yet? They learned absolutely nothing.
Clearly the 70’s was fantastic as we see from the reelection of the Tories in 1974 and of the fabulously well remembered Labour government in 1979….
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Clearly the 70’s was fantastic as we see from the reelection of the Tories in 1974 and of the fabulously well remembered Labour government in 1979….