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Wow…also congrats on your phd! They must be jealous about how much smarter you are.
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wow…also congrats on your phd! They must be jealous about how much smarter you are.
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"really nice derek"
I think you've got him with the Trades Description Act.
I think you've got him with the Trades Description Act.
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"really nice derek"
I think you've got him with the Trades Description Act.
I think you've got him with the Trades Description Act.
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Maybe don’t use ChatGPT to write your headlines? Target has done everything wrong: demoted Pride Month, ended DEI, dirty stores, no staff in stores, self check out instead of people, degraded product selection, blaming shoplifting instead of their own bad decisions, just completely out of touch.
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Maybe don’t use ChatGPT to write your headlines? Target has done everything wrong: demoted Pride Month, ended DEI, dirty stores, no staff in stores, self check out instead of people, degraded product selection, blaming shoplifting instead of their own bad decisions, just completely out of touch.
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Rejecting your customer base and prioritizing bigots will do that. I actually stopped shopping there the year before the DEI boycott, when they pulled Pride merch. Haven’t missed it at all. In fact, all it did was make me buy things I didn’t need, so I’ve actually saved money.
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Rejecting your customer base and prioritizing bigots will do that. I actually stopped shopping there the year before the DEI boycott, when they pulled Pride merch. Haven’t missed it at all. In fact, all it did was make me buy things I didn’t need, so I’ve actually saved money.
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So… alienating your customer base isn’t a winning business strategy after all?
Nobody could possibly have predicted this. /s
Nobody could possibly have predicted this. /s
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So… alienating your customer base isn’t a winning business strategy after all?
Nobody could possibly have predicted this. /s
Nobody could possibly have predicted this. /s
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Hasn't Labour seen this before (the 80s)? The problem is that once you sell your soul for approval, the auction never stops until you do.
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hasn't Labour seen this before (the 80s)? The problem is that once you sell your soul for approval, the auction never stops until you do.
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I wonder how long it will take Shabana Mahmood to realise that every time she tries to outflank Reform on the right, Nigel Farage will just respond by escalating with more and more radical policies.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wonder how long it will take Shabana Mahmood to realise that every time she tries to outflank Reform on the right, Nigel Farage will just respond by escalating with more and more radical policies.
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The same unfairness angers me here with Mahmood (and previously Priti Patel, Suella Braverman etc) whose families in recent generations benefitted from UK policies welcoming economic/political migrants… yet they now want ensure new migrants can’t have the same opportunities their families received
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The same unfairness angers me here with Mahmood (and previously Priti Patel, Suella Braverman etc) whose families in recent generations benefitted from UK policies welcoming economic/political migrants… yet they now want ensure new migrants can’t have the same opportunities their families received
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Sad and pathetic to see them chasing the distant hope of applause from the right wing media. As New Labour discovered under Blair, they always bite the hand that tries to feed them.
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sad and pathetic to see them chasing the distant hope of applause from the right wing media. As New Labour discovered under Blair, they always bite the hand that tries to feed them.
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More and more looks like Starmer and his ilk were planted in to destroy the party from within, and what a great job they have done for the billionaires
Some terrible decisions have been made since 2016 and this is another one of them
The money men have done an incredible job on the public though
Some terrible decisions have been made since 2016 and this is another one of them
The money men have done an incredible job on the public though
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
More and more looks like Starmer and his ilk were planted in to destroy the party from within, and what a great job they have done for the billionaires
Some terrible decisions have been made since 2016 and this is another one of them
The money men have done an incredible job on the public though
Some terrible decisions have been made since 2016 and this is another one of them
The money men have done an incredible job on the public though
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The piece below gives credence to the view that it is indeed who they are now.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...
Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood
A key supporter of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is also an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager – one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest confidantes
bylinetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The piece below gives credence to the view that it is indeed who they are now.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...
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Maybe they're not doing it just to chase the Reform vote. Maybe they're doing it because that's who they are now.
In any case, they're either very stupid or very evil. Or both
In any case, they're either very stupid or very evil. Or both
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Maybe they're not doing it just to chase the Reform vote. Maybe they're doing it because that's who they are now.
In any case, they're either very stupid or very evil. Or both
In any case, they're either very stupid or very evil. Or both
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Exactly, there’s no point trying to out deform deform, their supporters/voters will never vote Labour anyway. It’s pissing off their own supporters and people who voted for them in 2024 that are leaving the party.
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Exactly, there’s no point trying to out deform deform, their supporters/voters will never vote Labour anyway. It’s pissing off their own supporters and people who voted for them in 2024 that are leaving the party.
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Suggested plan for non-right UK parties:
1: Try making decisions / polices based on what is ‘morally right’ NOT what advisors say might win votes at the next election
2: Don’t be cunts. You won’t out-cunt Reform/Tories. Cunt voters won’t believe you and you will lose non-cunt voter trust.
1: Try making decisions / polices based on what is ‘morally right’ NOT what advisors say might win votes at the next election
2: Don’t be cunts. You won’t out-cunt Reform/Tories. Cunt voters won’t believe you and you will lose non-cunt voter trust.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Tbh, Labour’s strings are being pulled by Blue Labour, who are very comfortable with the idea of a Reform government.
So I don’t think what Labour are doing is in any way an accident; this is as designed.
So I don’t think what Labour are doing is in any way an accident; this is as designed.
![In April 2011, Glasman called on the Labour Party to establish a dialogue with sympathisers of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) in order to challenge their views and "to build a party that brokers a
common good, that involves those people who support the EDL within our party. Not dominant in the party, not setting the tone of the party, but just a reconnection with those people that we can represent a better life for them, because that's what they want". 36]
In July 2011, Glasman called for some immigration to be temporarily halted and for the right of free movement of labour, a key provision of the Treaty of Rome, to be abrogated, 371[38. dividing opinion among Labour commentators. 391[40]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:crb4c6ysxowbdjkjkchkwk6k/bafkreigim24ntkrvwfyatdgt6nw4yhulmr3642m4vmpt3fdrzdgrop33ay@jpeg)
![Speaking at the Postliberalism Conference in December 2024, Glasman celebrated the victory of Donald Trump, which he said was "world historical", and described it as "a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, interfaith, working-class coalition against progressives - that's the enormity of what we're talking about. Kamala Harris was for they/them, President Trump is for you. That's all you really need to know about the American election". [45] Glasman also declared that "the only place to build a house now is on the left side of MAGA square", (461 which he understands as the faction represented by Steve Bannon. 471 Morgan Jones and David Klemperer, co-editors of Renewal, said that by choosing to align with the MAGA movement, Glasman sided with forces which threaten social democracy, and which today represent its primary antagonist. 48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:crb4c6ysxowbdjkjkchkwk6k/bafkreieixemdbren273d55ozdh2amny5ffxegjk2pndh3dwsmbzuuti3sa@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Tbh, Labour’s strings are being pulled by Blue Labour, who are very comfortable with the idea of a Reform government.
So I don’t think what Labour are doing is in any way an accident; this is as designed.
So I don’t think what Labour are doing is in any way an accident; this is as designed.