John Montague
@johnmontague.bsky.social
“Sauce is the true litmus test of civilisation”
Head of Comms. Fmr political adviser.
Head of Comms. Fmr political adviser.
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Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
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November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looks like I'll have to add two grand to my pre-election poll crowdfunder because I certainly won't be working with this rag again. Absolutely disgraceful, awarding a hate campaign that is out to destroy my community and kill my best friend like this. Shame on you.
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"Labour must fix the asylum system - but I have two very real concerns with Mahmood's plans"
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/labour-fix-asylum-system-real-concerns-opinion-5HjdN4X_2
t.co
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Labour must fix the asylum system - but I have two very real concerns with Mahmood's plans"
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
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A big lesson from Denmark, regarding the substance of the policies now being pursued by the Home Secretary, is that making the status of asylum seekers so precarious directly harms integration, something we've actually been historically very good at in Britain.
Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?
My column:
My column:
Labour has given up on integration
Shabana Mahmood's latest asylum plans prioritise return at the expense of integrating newcomers
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A big lesson from Denmark, regarding the substance of the policies now being pursued by the Home Secretary, is that making the status of asylum seekers so precarious directly harms integration, something we've actually been historically very good at in Britain.
How exactly do you determine what is and is not sentimental?
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How exactly do you determine what is and is not sentimental?
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Wes is Bianca del Rio. Morgan is Trinity K Bonet. Keir is Adore Delano. Ed Miliband is BenDeLaCreme. Lucy Powell is Joslyn Fox. Angela Rayner is Laganja Estranja.
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Wes is Bianca del Rio. Morgan is Trinity K Bonet. Keir is Adore Delano. Ed Miliband is BenDeLaCreme. Lucy Powell is Joslyn Fox. Angela Rayner is Laganja Estranja.
This preemptive briefing operation against cabinet ministers is giving… “Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Velma Kelly, in an act of desperation “ m.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4z...
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This preemptive briefing operation against cabinet ministers is giving… “Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Velma Kelly, in an act of desperation “ m.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4z...
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EXC: JK Rowling and Elon Musk are funding transphobia which is seeing equality in Britain go backwards, a Labour MP has warned. Nadia Whittome said the public had far bigger concerns than trans people, but those concerns were drowned out on social media
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JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says
Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community
www.mirror.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
EXC: JK Rowling and Elon Musk are funding transphobia which is seeing equality in Britain go backwards, a Labour MP has warned. Nadia Whittome said the public had far bigger concerns than trans people, but those concerns were drowned out on social media
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Husband has just accused me of being the most “eat the marshmallow child” who has ever existed.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Husband has just accused me of being the most “eat the marshmallow child” who has ever existed.
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When I've asked this directly to journalists, I've been pointed to Scottish subsamples in UK polls. To whom I say, are you actually serious?
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When I've asked this directly to journalists, I've been pointed to Scottish subsamples in UK polls. To whom I say, are you actually serious?
This one is legitimately funny, I kinda want to stoke it
Even the conspiracy theories are getting dumber.
Just had lunch with a great friend and colleague who told me solemnly that the Labour Party is now controlled by the Fabians and that Fabians are radical communists. This is my first real world sighting of this amazing idea.
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This one is legitimately funny, I kinda want to stoke it
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> trying to find news about Sudan
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
> trying to find news about Sudan
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
> go to BBC News homepage: nothing
> click through to "World": still nothing
> click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"
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imagine how much the person who chose the picture here must dislike Kevin McKenna
'When the SNP, the Greens, the trade unions and a significant number of senior Labour personnel so obviously loathe the people they purport to represent, the Royal Family are regarded as a bulwark against their duplicity and bad faith' || Kevin McKenna 👇
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
imagine how much the person who chose the picture here must dislike Kevin McKenna
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Terrific piece this. Continue to find it bizarre how little “food inflation is off the chain” and “core inflation is above target” featured as topics at Labour conference or more broadly as “theories to why the government is unpopular”.
“I think politicians are ignoring prices and bills and hoping we’ll forget about them and find something else to complain about…”
My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over:
My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over:
Energy bills rise while Westminster talks immigration
Why have our politicians forgotten about the cost-of-living crisis?
www.newstatesman.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Terrific piece this. Continue to find it bizarre how little “food inflation is off the chain” and “core inflation is above target” featured as topics at Labour conference or more broadly as “theories to why the government is unpopular”.
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This is what Reform does: it identifies a wedge issue, it spreads disinformation until people are no longer able to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t, it polarises communities, politicians get scared and potentially positive schemes are jettisoned. It’s 100% its MO.
How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan
How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan
Party accused of stoking divisions in Weston-super-Mare over scheme to improve support for asylum seekers
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This is what Reform does: it identifies a wedge issue, it spreads disinformation until people are no longer able to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t, it polarises communities, politicians get scared and potentially positive schemes are jettisoned. It’s 100% its MO.
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I love that there is an insane group of radical furries on this site that you don’t see except once every few months when their world collides with the FT columnists, Lib Dem councillors and gay people with a favourite electoral system who make up the rest of the user base.
Are you paying us? Where?
October 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I love that there is an insane group of radical furries on this site that you don’t see except once every few months when their world collides with the FT columnists, Lib Dem councillors and gay people with a favourite electoral system who make up the rest of the user base.
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but they were, all of them, deceived, for another Membership Portal was made..............
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
but they were, all of them, deceived, for another Membership Portal was made..............
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Two Your Party membership portals stand before you. One can only lie, and one can only tell the truth. One will take only your payment, and not your data. The other will take only your data, and not your payment. You can submit only one response to the membership portal………
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Two Your Party membership portals stand before you. One can only lie, and one can only tell the truth. One will take only your payment, and not your data. The other will take only your data, and not your payment. You can submit only one response to the membership portal………
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why is this news how is this news why is he being interviewed I'm losing my MIND
Graham Linehan says satire is 'dying' and that he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today
Graham Linehan says satire is 'dying' and that he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today
Graham Linehan has told Sky News he believes satire is "dying" and that it would be "impossible" to make his hit shows Father Ted or The IT Crowd today.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
why is this news how is this news why is he being interviewed I'm losing my MIND
My most right wing view is that the people loudly playing their tik tok next to me on the train should face the electric chair.
September 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My most right wing view is that the people loudly playing their tik tok next to me on the train should face the electric chair.
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"Your biological sex is something that exists independently of any human perception of it" and "Women are oppressed solely due to their biological sex" are patently contradictory claims that cannot both be true at once.
September 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Your biological sex is something that exists independently of any human perception of it" and "Women are oppressed solely due to their biological sex" are patently contradictory claims that cannot both be true at once.
“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
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September 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.
September 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.
Sue Gray right now:
a drag queen is holding a microphone in her hands and drinking from a glass .
ALT: a drag queen is holding a microphone in her hands and drinking from a glass .
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September 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Sue Gray right now:
People can make points about regional representation all day, and that’s important, but what Labour actually needs now Rayner is gone is someone *interesting* who can land blows on Farage.
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
People can make points about regional representation all day, and that’s important, but what Labour actually needs now Rayner is gone is someone *interesting* who can land blows on Farage.