Jax
Jax
@virago1.bsky.social
Everythin is broken, change is needed
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Not even 24 hours and 180,000 of you have now signed up.

Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.

Join us: yourparty.uk
July 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who read banned books.
December 13, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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It might be fleetingly satisfying to see Badenoch bested, but PMQs no longer serves any purpose beyond providing playground soundbites.
Time for a rethink.
December 11, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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Let the lesson be learned, a bird can turn into a butterfly, but not into an X.
November 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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Media reform is becoming increasingly urgent. The lies and hatred pedalled are detrimental to the whole country. It damages the national psyche and distracts people from real issues and there’s plenty of those!
After failing to dent Labour’s election campaign, Conservative-supporting newspapers have found the new government an easier target | Nicholas Jones
Labour’s post-election media challenge
After failing to dent Labour’s election campaign, Conservative-supporting newspapers have found the new government an easier target
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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I can’t help feeling how utterly miserable it must be to work in NHS with Streeting continuing to make these comments. Time for Wes to have an honest conversation and maybe convene a citizens assembly so the issues can be properly considered rather than a prescription of more private vultures.
September 25, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Child poverty is rising faster in the UK than elsewhere, with worsening hunger, shorter heights, and increased deaths | Prof Danny Dorling
Children are now getting shorter and going hungrier
Child poverty is rising faster in the UK than elsewhere, with worsening hunger, shorter heights, and increased deaths
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that the requirement to bring photo identification to vote in the general election "discouraged some people" from casting their ballot

news.sky.com/story/voter-...
Voter ID rules 'discouraged' some people from voting in general election, watchdog finds
The Electoral Commission said around 16,000 people could not vote, with those from poorer backgrounds impacted the most.
news.sky.com
September 10, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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53 Labour MPs didn't vote to support the Government's plans to cut winter fuel payment support
September 10, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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🔥 "Brexit failed and led to mass immigration" says Blair.

Yup. The *one thing* that most people thought Brexit was guaranteed to achieve - reduction of immigration - backfired hugely. Here's why.
Tony Blair: ‘Brexit failed – and it triggered mass immigration’
Exclusive interview: Former prime minister lambasts Boris Johnson for promising to ‘take back control’ of migration but instead ‘replacing young Europeans with older immigrants from Africa and Asia’ –...
www.independent.co.uk
September 9, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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The Tory leadership hopefuls all say that the party must change but we’ve got the same dismal people pledging the same things that didn’t work last time, telling the same lies, whipping up the same division, making the same threats.
We binned that. Why would we want it back?
September 2, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Paracycling - Brits in the gold medal races later! World records falling left and right. Fantastic atmosphere!
August 31, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Our last three deputy Prime Ministers have been Dominic Raab, Therese Coffey and Oliver Dowden so please forgive me for really not giving a crap if Angela Rayner likes dancing when she’s on holiday.
August 30, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Ah yes... the famously "green fields" of Agincourt.... which course through our veins
August 31, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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The world has the right to defend Palestine.
August 30, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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“The essence of the Starmer paradox is he’s saying we need expansion whilst practising the politics & policy of contraction. Of talking big but thinking sometimes small. Being more sensible, less populist, better managers of the state will help but it won’t get to where Labour says they want to go”
August 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Helloooooo
I’ve changed my bios on Insta and X to show that this account you’re following now is actually me - heck social media nowadays
Please report the @carolvorders.bsky.social account as false
Thank you x
August 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM