John FP Lane
LightNews LightNews
banner
jfplane.bsky.social
John FP Lane
@jfplane.bsky.social
1.1K followers 1.4K following 2.5K posts
Narrative designer, writer, atheist, left-leaning and fast tipping into Green, lifelong Doctor Who fan. Husband and father.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
jfplane.bsky.social
John FP Lane @jfplane.bsky.social · Jan 17
I’ll usually follow back, but if you have zero posts and you almost immediately DM me, I’ll be ignoring you.
jfplane.bsky.social
Can you believe this is what Labour is now? Pandering to the worst nativist bullshit and ruining lives because it can’t bear to tax the rich. Just fuck off. Fuck the fuck off! Fuck. Off.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Mahmood’s new asylum plan: when home is ‘safe’, we’ll send you back | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Reposted by John FP Lane
eunicegoes.bsky.social
Shocking stuff. 👇🏼
As per usual, the allegedly non-ideological nature of the Starmer project means that it follows the most batshxx and fascist trends in vogue around the world.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h
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/...
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 8:42 PM
Reposted by John FP Lane
wokeinter.bsky.social
Starmer's Labour really are becoming the perfect far-right clone, down to the duplicitous double-speak. They are completely beyond redemption. Vote @greenparty.org.uk!
crookedfootball.bsky.social Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 15h
"Mahmood said a raft of tough immigration controls were designed to unlock “the inherent openness, tolerance and generosity” of the British people."

Such nauseating shamelessness.
Mahmood’s new asylum plan: when home is ‘safe’, we’ll send you back | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
The only progressive, left option is the Greens
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by John FP Lane
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
The best summary of how I feel about Starmer too
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h
It makes me angry to the bone for somebody to be given the responsibility of leader of a party with a noble history and to betray every value it should stand for - not even for something he believes in himself, but for a false and cynical vision of his own electorate.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
Fuck Labour.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14h
“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
Tory cosplay in the privacy of your own bedroom, you rancid fuck.
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 1:24 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
Oh, and there was me thinking it was a rigged economic system that ensures all the money flows to the wealthy while immiserising the poor and decimating any means the working class has to fight that imbalance or bargain collectively. Turns out it was some traumatised refugees. Thanks Shabana!
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
My glutes are so strong I can use them to crack walnuts that no one will ever want to eat.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
Another government crumbling because of its leadership’s fatal combination of arrogance and ineptitude.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
After the week No 10 lost control, warning that chaos is ‘probably fatal’ for Starmer | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
This was inevitable.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
Labour making racists happy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
Oh fuck, MAGA, go back far enough and it looks like Epstein created YOU! How’s that for some deep conspiracy shit, ya fucking knuckleheads?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First Thing: Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign
Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging. Plus, readers’ favourite photo booth moments 100 years after its invention
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
You don’t even need to finish the question. The answer is always yes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Have Reeves and Starmer missed the chance to ditch stealth taxes? | Phillip Inman
Retreat from plans to increase income tax means Labour is unlikely to make system fairer and more coherent
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
Another MAGA hero representing everything they are supposed to hate. It’s almost as if the entire movement is based on nothing but bullshit.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show
Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
A useful listen for raw milk nut jobs.
podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/m...
Raw Milk
Episodio de podcast · Maintenance Phase · 13/11/2025 · 1 h 6 min
podcasts.apple.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
If there’s a decision, Starmer’s Labour is on the wrong side of it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born
Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end, says CEO of Electrify Britain Ca...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
😂 These fuckers!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump ends support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid growing Epstein feud
President turns on ‘Wacky Marjorie’ after congresswoman criticizes effort to block release of key Epstein documents
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
Labour literally shit their briefs this week.
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
Another nail in the coffin of ‘Nobody’s Party’.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’
Blackburn MP criticises ‘struggle for power’ amid tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
I think the Labour leadership can expect to fuck off.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
They’re a fucking shambles.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
jfplane.bsky.social
Specificity is important. The Democratic Party didn't cave. Eight fucking Democrats caved. The whole thing should forever and always be put on the shoulders of these eight fucks.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
jfplane.bsky.social
How the fuck was Starmer so successful as a lawyer? He’s an absolute fucking disaster area. Every step is a misstep, every read of the room is a misread, every decision wrong. Nature abhors a vacuum and Keir Starmer, both a moral and character vacuum, is naturally abhorred. I wish him all the worst.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM