Cruiskeen Lawn
pault00.bsky.social
Cruiskeen Lawn
@pault00.bsky.social
Paul. Dog owner, lover of ancient languages, bibliophile. Unsolicited DMs are likely to lead to a block.
A lifetime's practice!
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
<evil laugh emoji>
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Cruiskeen Lawn
That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yes quite
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
That's a shame, I would have liked to take a gander at that.
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yeah, trying to take a breath and wait until the actual policies are announced, but I don't recognise my values in this Labour Party and my initial reaction wasn't very polite.
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Look, it's totally unfair to make politicians have to answer questions like that. They didn't know what they were signing up to when they took the job, the poor dears.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
They get set up on pedestals and then when ppl find out their all too human flaws, knocked off again. And so it goes on.
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I certainly hope so.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Being a 63 yo home care worker with hips that are disintegrating who still cycles everywhere for work, I would be over the moon to get a free bus pass. It would improve my life in so many ways.
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Welcome to the American Empire. Ave Caesar!
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Obviously they've not run a focus group on that issue yet and are therefore unable to answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
to the same clubs, they work at the same types of jobs at the same set of firms, they've known each other since youth and they work on a basis of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A friend and I were once discussing the state of the world and we were agreeing with each other about the symptoms when he explained it was because of a coven of wizards in Geneva. I said I thought it was much more mundane: the rich and powerful went to the same schools and universities, they go ...
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
And Poles, and African Americans.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Your opponents would never have and will not ever write what you have just written. It is too self aware.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm a care worker and there's plenty of ppl who have lost teeth through no fault of their own.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM