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Simon Riley
@oldnewtownabbeian.bsky.social
Quinquagenarian indie kid, social democrat, gender realist, Ulster self-exile, Manchester United fan since 1973. “What would life be without music and comedy?” AI may not end well.
I would choose Mainoo over both Fernandes and Amorim.
September 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
pronouns are so 2018 soft-headed performativity
September 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You sound a bit mad tbh
September 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ludicrous and below the belt
September 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yeah I’m for PR
September 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You’re not reading. I am putting forward pro-immigration arguments and want to see big numbers of immigrants coming in. Just not insanely, unsustainably high numbers all at once, that causes chaos and breaks trust in government to handle immigration responsibly and carefully. This is what’s happened
September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
No, they fear people on the moderate left who can take them on, and they rub their hands in glee at the hard left, who play into their hands with cloud cuckoo land politics.
If swing voters come to see the left as standing for open doors immigration, we lose - simple as - and with it immigrants lose
September 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The way FPTP works, govt is led by the largest party. As it stands, Reform
are on course to be that in 2029. Personally, I’m making it a big priority to stop that and trying to be pragmatic about doing whatever works. I can’t see a big vote for a Corbyn or Sultana or Polanski party helping tbh
September 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Seems a waste of time, or worse, to pick on a stranger and insinuate they have right wing views they don’t actually have … what really is the point you’re trying to make?
September 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
you’re not responsible for this country’s ills - far from it. Labour though is the only hope for keeping the right out. I know people are disappointed in them, I am too, but in 2029 there will be a pretty stark choice between voting Labour and having the hardest right government in British history.
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We warned before Brexit that you’d be swapping one kind of immigration for another, so claims that Brexit would bring immigration down were bogus. Proved right. And of course if you put Boris Johnson in charge of anything it goes haywire.
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Would Burnham bring you back?
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What we need to do is counter the misinformation with a barrage of facts about the actual truth of things. No need to pretend immigration didn’t shoot up, indeed it is counterproductive to do that. Pin it on the right and show Labour as getting it down. That is the way to win.
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Which is why that chart can actually work for us (I’m a Labour voter) - shows immigration peaking under hard Brexit Tories and coming down now
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
So if you’re trying to dispel the impression of being a PIRA apologist, you’re making a right hash of it
September 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
And it sounds like you’re OK with PIRA having killed civilians in bombs because they weren’t “targets” …

Very familiar with the PIRA forms of words and you’ve fallen completely into using them
September 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
So you support PIRA murdering cops and soldiers by the sound of it?
September 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM