Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
@politicanimal.bsky.social
politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Thanks for the tip!
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
They've had plenty of chances before I called in the tough guys.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Interesting. I guess Bristol's seagulls commute inland to Bath to terrorise the tourists.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Knew it. Bet it went on several Focus leaflets. Much good it did them.
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Starmer/Streeting plan for getting NHS waiting lists down: one part extra spending, two parts threats of physical violence.
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I think it is more likely there was someone in the Lib Dems who was adept at pushing this issue, who just didn't matter any more after the election...

Ah, I can only imagine the joy of writing frontbench speeches on deterrent in the 2015-19 period.
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
No, they want weddings where you exchange lanyards rather than rings.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
(In Glasman world, on the other hand, progressives want to stop your wife lying back and thinking of England, and they need to do that less.)
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Oh yes, it is absolute ‘spend on prevention’ 101, something we’re never great at.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
And coming into effect in Scotland very shortly.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is in the Reform manifesto!
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Real boon for brick manufacturers.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Off to try to explain to the myself of this morning why this is actually a very funny post.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
The thing I hate about actually-existing hotel taxes is that because they're so micro-level, booking websites can't account for them, so you turn up at your prepaid hotel in bumfuck nowhere with credit cards and a EUR100 bill and they get mad at you for paying them EUR2.10 with those
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Absolutely this. About the last thing I am still paying by cash is European tourist taxes.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM