Steven Watson
@stegw.bsky.social
Green Party Councillor for Hertfordshire County Council, East Herts District and Hertford Town.
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Promoted by A Daar on behalf of Steven Watson, East Herts Green Party, c/o 55 High Street, Ware, SG12 9BA
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Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
Great read as always.
* No.10’s phantom panic leaves PM looking powerless
* BBC’s Trump saga flips on its authors
* Ed Davey says what Starmer won’t
* Farage, shocked to find corruption in Reform, declares he knew nothing
These stories and more from Pecksniff”s political diary ⤵️
* BBC’s Trump saga flips on its authors
* Ed Davey says what Starmer won’t
* Farage, shocked to find corruption in Reform, declares he knew nothing
These stories and more from Pecksniff”s political diary ⤵️
Pecksniff: Coup shock as Starmer bids to become prime minister
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Great read as always.
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1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
Wow! Are Labour trying to get their polling down to single figures?
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Wow! Are Labour trying to get their polling down to single figures?
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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More cities will follow in time as they realise they are poisoning their citizens
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
More cities will follow in time as they realise they are poisoning their citizens
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
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Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here
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A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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One of the most important political messages on the internet.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One of the most important political messages on the internet.
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We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman
We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite
We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite
the Biggest criticism of Polanski seems to be that his politics are utopian and unrealisable in practice - these same people saying this are voting for parties who are all arguing about who can ethnically cleansed Britain the fastest, so you know… pinch of salt pinch of salt
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman
We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite
We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite
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Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.
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Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?
Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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Another extraordinarily stupid & gratuitously nasty policy from Labour, sold under the entirely false pretence that it will promote "integration". Who do they think they're kidding with this nonsense?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Another extraordinarily stupid & gratuitously nasty policy from Labour, sold under the entirely false pretence that it will promote "integration". Who do they think they're kidding with this nonsense?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Keir Starmer says he’s “taking on Reform” in today’s speech.
But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them.
#LabourConference #StarmerSpeech
But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them.
#LabourConference #StarmerSpeech
September 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Keir Starmer says he’s “taking on Reform” in today’s speech.
But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them.
#LabourConference #StarmerSpeech
But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them.
#LabourConference #StarmerSpeech
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Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society
The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".
news.sky.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
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This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.
September 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.
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Could Labour MPs just....stop doing this, cheers? It's not tactically advantageous coz literally nobody goes "hey that's cool, they really admire Thatcher", I know Shabana n chums really do think Maggie rocked, but could they keep it to themselves?
Shabana Mahmood listing Mrs T as one of her political heroes in today's Sun on Sunday.
September 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Could Labour MPs just....stop doing this, cheers? It's not tactically advantageous coz literally nobody goes "hey that's cool, they really admire Thatcher", I know Shabana n chums really do think Maggie rocked, but could they keep it to themselves?
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I repeat, and will keep repeating, the question: why is anyone listening to this lobbyist for tech billionaires and dodgy oil regimes? He's been that far longer than PM
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?
www.newstatesman.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I repeat, and will keep repeating, the question: why is anyone listening to this lobbyist for tech billionaires and dodgy oil regimes? He's been that far longer than PM
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
September 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
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I did not realise it was possible to hammer nails into your own coffin from within it.
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I did not realise it was possible to hammer nails into your own coffin from within it.