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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

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ChuffMeister @chuffmeister.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social the only reason pond shop hitler would get in is if enough people believe he can! He’s an insignificant nappy rash

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Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The entire mainstream media's role cannot be played down in this

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Georgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴 @georgeous.one · 07/09/2025

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Natasha Devon@natashadevon.bsky.social

This is how populist politicians are working in the attention economy 1. Say and do outrageous things so that any appearance by you is guaranteed to get eyeballs 2. Gain power by being endlessly platformed by the mainstream media in this way 3. When the media start asking you tough questions…

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Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦 @francaqc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Nigel Farage is a long time supporter & prominent member of IDU, global chairman being Canada's ex-PM Harper, an organisation helping RW govt. get elected & turning countries into autocracies. Beware, there's nothing democratic in IDU: using the term like East Germany did.

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Michael Radical Left Scum. @engineerchap.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Oh piss off, he's doing a great job playing the hand he has dealt. Farage has no intention of being prime minister, if can't see that you are blind. Farage is just a grifter on the ultimate grift. £££££££

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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "Trump’s US is not ‘some other place’. His contempt for the global rules-based order and his normalisation of cruelty, hatred and the othering of vulnerable groups, have deeply impressed proto-fascists everywhere and been energetically adopted in the UK" -

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Alice in Trumpland: the unhinging of politics

Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’

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Gibbie 🇨🇦 @gibbie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He’s turned out to be quite a disappointment.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer's not stupid. Why doesn't he see it? All the polls, every analysis says this. I'm so angry with him.

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dannysdad @dannysdad.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

100%. He's a tory cunt

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FabibskySolidarity @fabibskysolidarity.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I said as much when Starmer was under Corbyn. He was someone like Tom W, Corbyn's deputy bk then. A creature you could not trust. More than that, I can't help thinking the Right placed Starmer purposely here 'as if' to plan this whole 'Reform' Situ. And if so, along with RW Media. It has not failed.

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1marky.bsky.social @1marky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I’m sad to say I agree with this. The next election will be my 50th year of voting and every time it has gone in the Labour box. Just joined the Greens but, if Starmer introduces PR, stops the horrible ‘me too’ Farage politics I will happily revert.

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Lewis @ltmd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

People are skint and desperate for change. Farage will promise the world, people will (understandably) fall for it and nothing will change because the system is baked in. Farage is just another symptom, not a cure, and he'll be PM before the masses figure this out.

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Un-American @bennevis.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

bsky.app/profile/benn... Clacton: Labour 'block own candidate' from campaigning against Reform www.thenational.scot/news/2441613...

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24416139.clacton-labour-not-putting-fight-nigel-farage/

Un-American@bennevis.bsky.social

UK PM Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social do not represent the British people Starmer is an agent of a foreign power GOV🟢UK are war criminals

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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You don’t think it would be down to each individual knuckleheaded thick c*nt that votes for Farage’s outfit….? 🤪😂🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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alexgj.bsky.social @alexgj.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Once elected as leader of the party he betrayed Corbyn and shifted Labour back toward the political centre. He dropped many of Corbyn’s left-wing policies so we have now a new Tory Government in power.

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Steve (he/him) @stairy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Do you think it's stupidity, the lack of any ideology or that he is really this rightwing?

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Jon Bromwich @jonbromwich.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

What would a Starmer/Farage government look like?

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helenopinion.bsky.social @helenopinion.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This is infantilising the electorate. Not liking Starmer doesn't excuse putting Farage in power.

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Matt O”Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @easterising.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer looks and acts like a middle manager of a furniture chain , he’s out of his depth in politics let alone being the leader of a country.

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Mark Hazelwood @palliativescot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Parties of the right are on the rise in most liberal democracies so your analysis is massively over simplistic. And if the situation is not seriously analysed and presented by people such as yourself with profile and reach then you may have a degree of culpability for the outcome too.

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I think we can credit the BBC too for decades of fawning over him.

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a1957.bsky.social @a1957.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I actually coined the phrase “continuity govt” way way before it became short hand for this govt. In August last year I said this govt are not doing anything differently from the last in continuing austerity. And no it’s not just Starmer but the whole rw edifice -the press and bbc.

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Steve Wood @steve-wood.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I'm disappointed. I voted for him as leader, but feel let down. I thought he wasn't perfect, but better than this. His approach to Gaza/Israel caused me to leave the Labour Party .... and I'm glad I did. They're better than the last lot, but nowhere near as good as they should be.

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

OfCom, Charity Commission, BBC all Tories at the Top. Why Labour have done nothing about them is surprising. Media reform is also necessary, why they have done nothing is shocking. I guess BlueLabour aka Policy Exchange is calling the shots. That Monster Glasman isn't helping.

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Fin @finyank.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Fortunately despite what the media and far right are telling you. Racists are in the minority. They've hijacked the Union and England flag and convinced the stupid people that it's about patriotism. Just take those flags down and repaint the roundabouts then put a "whites only" signs up.

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hogsen.bsky.social @hogsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

How as a country do we continue to spend beyond our means? Why should honest hard-working continue to pay for people who choose not to work post-Covid? I am by no means a Conservative and believe in supporting those who need it, but we do need to be honest with those who are just taking advantage.

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It’s due to the belief that technical competence is all you need. Blair was ‘new managerialist’ and partly neoliberal obsessed but in Starmer that is left to Reeves but he is very much about one dimensional administration and management without any moral or visionary vision. It’s bizarrely nothing.

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Matt @thefleeb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He is a venal, spineless ghoul

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M'art @mhart2025.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No, no it won't. It'll be like Brexit where those against were grossly ineffectual in countering it. You didn't work together to ensure the result was different. Don't f*** it up again. PR may be the only way you feckers might actually work together for the good of all for a change.

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BigJimOnBluesky @bigjimonbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer is our Biden. This is the opportunity to stop Farage destroying the country. Starmer will do nothing, and if Farage gets in, we’re as screwed as the US is now.

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Cat 🐈‍⬛ @bluesea13.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Ludicrous. In the meantime, Labour have done quite a bit. Just not quick enough in the things you want. I’m unfollowing you George. I can’t be arsed with a blame one man culture as if we hadn’t had 14 years of Tory and are living in unprecedented rise in fascism - globally

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Dr Negrin's Victory Pills @dr-negrin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I reckon he'll be replaced by the end of next year.

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patrickcherry @patrickcherry.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yes. I've not totally given up on starmer....but...

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Tobyh @tobyh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

His cowardice over the EU is dragging like an ⚓️. The £185 billion+ #Brexit has drained & continues to do so is a legacy he could address. But he’s so scared he won’t. Rejoining just the Customs Union would unlock vital funds & Reeves wouldn’t be running around trying to scrape £ from other budgets🤦

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curiouskittyk.bsky.social @curiouskittyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer in courting the so called red wall lost to Brexit, then, Johnson and now Farage. Is losing those who against their better judgement but hoping he would stand up for Labour values voted for him. Starmer will fragment the progressive vote and hand Farage the country due to indeed FPTP.

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cb24resident.bsky.social @cb24resident.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Britain voted to oust the Tories but got a treasonous Blue Labour. Starmer has shit the bed with this. We rejected the right but got more right. It’s a betrayal. It’s vile. #FuckBlueLabour Also #Brexshit and #PR. The #ToryScum steering of the #BBC is an act of violence. Stop hosting Farage!!

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MarkNew @marknew15.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

1].it seem's to me Politicians and PM's get power then just toe the line,and continue the same shit over and over again. they then only get a spine or start listening to voters when an election roll's round or forced into one.......

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baldybane.bsky.social @baldybane.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Whilst Starmer is the figurehead, he is by no means the power driving it. The current Kingmaker is McSweeney and his Unholy Cabal. Allied with the MSM and the Corporate interests (BlackRock et al) are responsible for the calculated course taken. 🤔😡🤬🤑

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nickpchurch.bsky.social @nickpchurch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The strongest point in all of that is the replacing the BBC top brass. The narrative needs to change, the crackpots need to be called out for what they are, not given a platform to express their complete falsehoods and lies as "an alternative view" from the other side.

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Jason X @djjasonx.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Saying it is down to one person invites the conclusion that getting rid of him would solve the problem, which is rubbish.

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Olivia (she/her) ⚢🏳️‍⚧️ @oliviaag9.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

putin's refuk are guaranteed to win now. Labour is just so fucking shit, it's unreal. A human rights lawyer genociding trans people.

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Glazers Out. Tories Gone @xbonemalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No it won't. It'll be down to Cameron who set this all off by allowing crackpot knobs in his party to fuck the country over by allowing them a vote on a thing that had already been settled in the 70s. That, after already making the country poorer through austerity (wealth transfer).

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LinesOnMyFace @linesonmyface.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No. It's because many British White people are racists.

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S Emmo @semmo28.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

That is all very well but what evidence is there that Starmer is doing this against his will / judgement? It could be he really is a right winger, a genocide supporting Zionist and a very good liar. Is there any decision he has made that proved he isn't hard right?

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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

PR is an absolute must, but Starmer and Labour cannot see think of anything more than their own party. In doing so, not only will the lose their party but also the country. I fear the future

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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You've lost the plot, and are now actively contributing to the problem.

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Wes @bluemonkey2025.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You are describing the Democrats in the US. They are more interested in protecting the wealthy than protecting democracy.

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

4 fucking seats! If the influence operations British Yellow Press, would stop platforming him he would be flushed down the toilet of mediocrity along with his dribble party.

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pavian20271428.bsky.social @pavian20271428.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The BBC are helping too

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Sara Martín @saramartin.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025

Sorry, no, when any potential dictators wins an election it's down to the millions voting him (or her). Voters have a choice. It's not automatic.

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Shippie - Fan of Red-Roses Rugby Team @sugus47.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer:"shamefully beholden to economic power...." and Nethenyahu

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Conrad The NoToryous 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶️🏴‍☠️ @conraddb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I fear a Farage government will be Starmer's only major legacy. The Tories have totally self destructed and been replaced by Reform (National Front) and will not rise again for a century.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Disagree. It’s the fault of the Labour Party to keep the guy there. They can replace him tomorrow if they want. Or at the upcoming Liverpool Labour conference in 3 weeks. Why are Labour voters and members so hapless? What’s wrong with them?

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bellriots30.bsky.social @bellriots30.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Of course he will win. The Labour Party, The Liberal party in Canada and the Democrats all embrace neoliberalism and as long as they do them there is no reason not to vote for tyrants. Life can't get much worse for workers.

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Julie Bygraves @juliebygraves.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It’s not over yet. bsky.app/profile/juli...

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Julie Bygraves @juliebygraves.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

5. Failing to change the funding model in the water industry which is using customer bills as collateral for accumulating ever more debt bsky.app/profile/juli...

Julie Bygraves@juliebygraves.bsky.social

The thing no-one talks about: the regulatory funding model remains intact. It’s called RAB. £104bn is total cost on bills, not investment. That sum also includes operational costs, new debt interest, repaying past debt, inflation protections, incentives, tax. What’s left fixes a few leaky pipes.

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Colin Boden @colinbags.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Agreed

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Nothing is down to one person. You know that.

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Viscount Pontypandy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @viscountpontypandy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

💯% The guy is clueless. A complete liability to the party that he leads but certainly doesn’t serve!

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Anianegwr @anianegwr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

More folk than Starmer alone but he is doing a very good job as handmaiden to a Farage premiership. All your points I agree with. Makes me wonder if he is a bought man.

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I was in the UK in 2024 when Labour won the GE. It was a breath of fresh air - very hopeful. But now it's caution, caution, caution. What's the vision? What are the ideas to excite people? Leadership means engaging emotionally with your constituents. Not seeing much of that.

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Courtmouse @courtmouse.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If Farage wins, UK will join America as a dictatorship. Cause Farage is your tRump.

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Ian Fraser @ianafraser.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Is there a route to power for the Liberal Democrats, George? Or at least having enough seats that Labour relies on the Lib Dems to form a government?

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ala8.bsky.social @ala8.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Destroyed Labour that fella, need a real caring leader

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Ever get the feeling Labour was ‘allowed’ to govern on condition they stick to the Establishment shopping list?

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step111.bsky.social @step111.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Have to disagree. It will be down to the millions of fuckwits voting for Farage. There's lots of reasons to be dissatisfied with mainstream parties, there's lots of misinformation, but it's not very hard to understand the consequences of voting for Farage.

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Hot Knife Digital Media @hotknifedigital.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No. It’ll be down to the stupidity of this nation and possibly the people who continually rank Farage to win the next election and keep him in the running.

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smudgeswife.bsky.social @smudgeswife.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Every single thing you say I agree with. It’s just awful thinking about the future for so many reasons not least how dreadful Starmer is.

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Sir Mal Reed #FBPE @malreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I think the right wing media and his chums at the BBC are playing a huge part as well. Also the foul US billionaires, along with Russia that managed to get a rapist and criminal into the White House. Whilst Starmer should be doing more he's one man against a relentless tsunami of incoming shit.

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Redhen🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸 @nancy1910.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If Farage becomes PM, it'll be like Liz Truss on Steroids. You're quite correct though - Starmer is the warm-up act for Reform #ScottishIndependence

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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He was complacent in thinking people voted Labour other than to oust the Tories. Scotland has seen both for what they are. Two cheeks of the same arse. At one point there was only 1🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Labour MP. Scotland hasn’t fallen in love with Labour. It just hated them less than the Tories. #DissolveTheUnion

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leceawford.bsky.social @leceawford.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Totally

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slippers7429.bsky.social @slippers7429.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

PR is a must for this country no more press influenced policies centric government for all

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Give it a bloody rest. I'm sure he's to blame for the traffic on the M25, the inability of people to think for themselves and your own ingrowing toenails. Who are you helping , posting this?

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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Keirs quiet quitting is damaging our future selves. Bigtime.

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tonycrash.bsky.social @tonycrash.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I am not the strongest advocate of Starmer but anything less than total Utopia is good for you. Those bashing Starmer now with fresh vigour seem to be absolved from the criminal way they governed the UK before.Politics in 2025, (media) focus only on the immediate and vile. Enduring change cannot be

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tonycrash.bsky.social @tonycrash.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I strongly disagree. Aren't the people who are massively voting on These New (Dumb) Right movements responsible for the chaos and amateurism they voted in ? Look what happened in Holland with Wilders .And they won't learn. Why are you not pointing your finger at our idiotic media and electorate?

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Mike Bovril @mikebovril.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I don’t feel he ever really communicates authentically with the public. His interviews are just a brick wall of sound bites with that carefully crafted haughty nasal tone. I can’t see him ever getting the public back on side

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer now stands in relation to Reform as Corbyn did to Brexit.

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Andrew Quinn🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🤘🏻😸 @andrewharlequinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Starmer IS an idiot, but the media who have been platforming Farage & Reform constantly for months are very much guilty too.

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chris-in-normandie.bsky.social @chris-in-normandie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

So Starmer will be punished by voters, allowing really far right politics;- anti-union laws, discriminatory welfare cuts, more anti-EU rhetoric and selling off anything left that is profitable or of any value? He is well off enough not to suffer at all. How very MAGA.

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Steve @steviecaws.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

As soon as he said MP's should still be allowed to receive gifts, i knew then he was a dud.

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BlueSkyBen @benreon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You’re also doing your bit to help them as well!

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Michelle Frantenauk @michellefrantenauk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Boggles my mind that UK voters look at the States and mayhem bought on by Trump and go, yeah I think I’ll have some of that please😵‍💫🙄

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cbomg.bsky.social @cbomg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I don’t believe starmer is a poor pm compared to the previous 5 incumbents. He needs bbc restructuring first. Tax wealth next. Instead of pandering to the right wing call them out on their constant lies and hypocrisy every single time he is interviewed. It’s got to be relentless and constan.

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Judith Sawyer @judsawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Mr Monbiot, I like you but if Fartage wins the next general election it will be down to media reports giving him excessive and positive coverage and to the first past the post voting system. You're way off the mark. I'm underwhelmed by Starmer, but develop some perspective.

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Felix O'Kelly @callidusdominus.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sadly I can't disagree with this thread. Starmer has failed. In a year he has basically made Farage becoming PM inevitable. Labour only had to break with the past and stand up to the far-right, pretty obvious stuff. Instead they governed for the far-right.

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stephena77.bsky.social @stephena77.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Had Starmer not taken over when he did and Corbyn had remained in charge, a Reform (or Reform like) government would already have been in charge. He's not perfect by any stretch, but to lay all of this at his door is fallacious, and, may I say, a cop out for your own actions.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He's 1 year into a 4-ish year mandate. He has a huge majority. It's normal for this type of government to ram home the unpopular crap early, and then hand out the popular goodies in the latter part of the mandate. The electorate has a shockingly short memory.

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azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer is an Establishment plant to rig the election for Farage. They're promoting Farage just like they funded Mussolini's political career. bsky.app/profile/azur...

@azurevista.bsky.social@azurevista.bsky.social

Starmer isn't doing this out of ignorance. He's doing it because he's a plant. He's in the Labour Party to destroy it and elevate Farage to PM. The Orwellian BBC for decades has promoted Farage despite his *eight* electoral defeats. There's a reason Orwell based Big Brother on the BBC.

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azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Just like the Establishment funded Mussolini's career to destroy the Italian trade unions, so they've been behind Starmer & Farage. bsky.app/profile/azur...

@azurevista.bsky.social@azurevista.bsky.social

Starmer isn't doing this out of ignorance. He's doing it because he's a plant. He's in the Labour Party to destroy it and elevate Farage to PM. The Orwellian BBC for decades has promoted Farage despite his *eight* electoral defeats. There's a reason Orwell based Big Brother on the BBC.

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The other parties need to come together to create a sizeable opposition coalition, to stop fascism.

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Ballroom Jam @ballroomjam.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

. . . and shamefully beholden to genocide, apartheid and terrorism for his Israeli masters.

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PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸 @prefersdogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It’s not Starmers fault if Reform win an election It’s not that binary, facism wormed it’s way in due to the Tories and poverty Starmer is Major boring and dull, let’s see who becomes Deputy Leader It should not be about personality Labour will grow into government

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Carl Lee @drcarllee.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It really will not be down to one person. The media environment (something you are part of) framing of on-going political discourse will have a huge part to play. Let alone what economic circumstances unfold over the next 4 years.

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Svanstroll @svanstroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

George - isnt it time to call for a GLOBAL EVALUATION OF NEOLIB/CON/NPM POLITICS? In Sweden 60 000 people have died because of it. This must up on the agenda now. The spirit level was totally sidetracked by bin Ladin, and rumsfeldt and cheeney who gladly took his pass to drop that debate. :p

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@imagespending.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Strongly agree. Wrote something similar the other day. Despite experience, it still astounds me people are claiming it is those pointing out how bad Starmer is who will be to blame for a Reform government, rather than the PM who seems intent on doing Reform's job for them. bsky.app/profile/dani...

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social

Long thread: There are two main "defences" I see put forward of Labour which crop up: 1) If you don't vote for Labour you'll get Reform 2) It's all the fault of right wing media painting Labour in a bad light. The thing is that neither of these are actually a defence of what Labour is doing. 1/23

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ccc333-05.bsky.social @ccc333-05.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

So just like in the US right wing or radical right. WHATS GOING ON!

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Robert Foxon @robertfoxon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sums up my thoughts exactly.

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Alan Sheridan @apshe1.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It will be down to the right wing media

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Blimple @blimple.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

He ran on Boris’ platform and unlike Boris he meant it. The anger Labour voters feel is more than justified. They resoundingly supported change and all they got was a police state

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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Don't talk ridiculous. You're sounding absolutely unhinged. Have you attacked Farage and the MSM yet, if not, why not? Are you cozying up to Reform and trying to deflect. Go and have a bath and calm down!

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Maz Moore @mazzymoore.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If farage gets anywhere it's down to dodgy money and the media... that and the racist, uninformed easily led. Where the US goes the UK blindly follows a few years later.

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Ger D @rardeenus.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yes all of it. Especially electoral reform. He still plays by the old rules of Tory/Labour. He’s about to evaporate the Labour Party. Yet he’s too obtuse and ‘establishment’ to act. He’s a fool, a Shakespearean level fool. Doesn’t smell what’s happening around him.

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John Berry he/him @thejohnberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Not just one person: it's down to Labour voters and supporters who keep on supporting this shambles. And we all know how they love to tell Green voters they will bring in a Reform government by voting Green. Simply not the case, when Starmer could prevent a Green government with PR.

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AnnE @tblisi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It will be down to the media who have been supporting Farage all through the year.They continually peddle his lies and hate, exaggerate any protests,and fail to scrutise his divisive policies.

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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

ATTENTION, FOLK ARE NORMALISING #Farage and #Reform IF YOU DO NOT MENTION THEY ARE BRITAIN'S FAR RIGHT PARTY !!!! There is every need to do this. Britain's Population associate WW2 with Nazism, Hitler and the struggle against Fascism. Now that is the Spitfire Spirit, remind them!!

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Toni Camberone @dymonde.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It’s down to the voters? Labour will effectively be crushed by a pencil.

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a Finch @hep12245.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No it will be the electorate the same who gullibly believed Farage and Brexit lies, I see another UKIP has been imprisoned, Anthony Styles a right wing u tuber 🙄😔

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Cyril @cyrillatham71.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It's not just a continuation of conservatism, it's a betrayal of all Labour voters. Who voted to attack the disabled, less well off and pensioners. Who voted for arresting peaceful demonstrators because they oppose genocide. I consider Starmer a traitor to true Labour supporters.

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BNL @lambath.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Robin-DeBowler @robin-debowler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I feel Labour have basically been a replacement of the same capitalist government we had with identical ethic drive and approach. Isn't this proof that our political class are identical to each other and have forsaken the peoples of the UK with preference for the wealthy. They are the shitelites?

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Robin-DeBowler @robin-debowler.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Looking for the reasoning with the circumstances from Mr Starmer's pov. Its hard not to come to the conclusion. 1) He knows 2) Its not a problem 3) He is just doing his job! We need an opposition George a materially capable one or there will be no common vote and it will be a very 'right' outcome.

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Eddie Climate 🇺🇦 @eddieclimate.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We have a faux democracy. Governments of whatever colour are controlled by the powerful establishment order which ensured business as usual. Plus ca change etc.

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The Teasel @theteasel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Shows the Labour Party were potentially infiltrated and now governed - by the same think tanks as the tories . Which , they were. If there’s a pattern/ follow the pattern … and the pattern will reveal the source . Those of us who follow patterns - have seen links since 2016

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al-fadaddy.bsky.social @al-fadaddy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Could it, in fact, not be Kier Starmer, but internecine struggles on the liberal left? Allowing the right back in power by dividing itself, as it always does. But that would require a quick look in the mirror, and sod that for a game of soldiers, eh George?

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Nick (The Angry Cat) @ntse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It's your electoral system. Some countries in the EU also has fascist parties issues but they cannot get 51% to make a govt, even if it means coalitions between unlikely parties.

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standaman60.bsky.social @standaman60.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Can't help but agree. The one barrier might be FPTP, which can push out some really perverse results with multiple parties polling in the 15 to 35 percent range. And that is a somewhat desperate straw to be clinging to.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

2. Empowering and legitimising the far right by echoing its themes, threats, cruelty and nastiness. Even if you set aside the moral implications, it’s an utterly baffling policy, as all the evidence shows that this gifts voters to the far right. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired

Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.

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Tonksey @johntonks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Succinctly echoing the views of many. It’s beyond me how zealots in politics get away with pushing the least able into power to manipulate them.

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concreterod.bsky.social @concreterod.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it seems Starmerite Labour's only function is to facilitate a future Reform government. It must be this - because the only other answer is that they think it will somehow be a winning strategy for the next election, surely no-one is that politically foolish.

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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's increasingly clear that Keir Starmer sees himself as a modern-day John the Baptist, only in his case, preparing the way for Nigel.

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ReMona Lisa - News Reader - @thebookwormturns.co.uk · 07/09/2025

Starmer only ever wanted one thing IMO. To kill off the Labour Party by removing all its credibility. Well he did that and now he'll get his fat bastard pension for life and a peerage from the Israeli lobbyists. I hate what a traitor to the nation he is, with every fibre of my soul.

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Salfordcityguy @salfordcityguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I used to stand by him . Now I deplore him . Such Weakness when we need hope and change.

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Frank #FBPE @thelastcenturion.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He’s a barrister, not a politician. Making sure of every step, and because you can’t be sure in politics, he never takes a step. He needs to go quickly before he surrenders the country to Farage, who would loot it and flee.

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No individual wins a UK election. In the unlikely event that Reform UK wins the next general election it will be because they achieve a majority of seats in the UK parliament.

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Zena Marks @zenamarks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

George, you were marvellous on the Moral Maze re: media's role in inflaming the public, but calling this government 'Continuity Tory' is both deluded and harmful. Workers' rights... Massive improvements of the NHS and education... Actual accountability...

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geoffh1995.bsky.social @geoffh1995.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Bullshit, George. If Farage wins, it’s down to 50 years of neo-liberal economics, a press media that has become increasingly partisan and now rabidly crazed, which has resulted in an electorate that is ripe for fascism. If you want blame, look at the Labour Party of 80-83 which was unelectable

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Lynne @goldenchild.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This is a Country of people becoming increasingly disengaged with successive governments that are run by people who don’t truly represent the populace. Facism appears on the rise as the right wing press, inc the BBC, stoke those fires. I feel for kids growing up today, what are their futures?

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amateurebutter.bsky.social @amateurebutter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

in this time of crisis let rip the fatuous bandwaggon

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steve--taylor.bsky.social @steve--taylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

He was selected to run Labour with Morgan McSweeney by the shame shadowy money behind Reform and the Tories, he's doing a job for them, not for the electorate. Democracy has been dead for years, any attempt to elect a centre left govt will result in lies and smears before or a real coup after.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Interesting to see both the parties in a traditionally two party system marching headlong into irrelevance. The US failed to find an answer to Trump, let’s hope the left finds an answer to Reform.

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Ian B @benedziktau.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Not at all. It’s because Farage and his growing support base. And you all do nothing… Change electoral system before not too late, or start to organize tactical voting. It’s fascism vs. Everyone moment

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whiffler.bsky.social @whiffler.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Moron McSweeney has a lot to answer for. Like Cummings he believes he is a genius, and like Cummings he is in reality a delusional narcissist.

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Halvyg @halvyg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

electoral politics won't work (meaning it will continue to concentrate power and wealth) until our diseased culture is at least somewhat healed, but of course those politics also spread the disease

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Yrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Tbh I think it will be primarily down to the right wing main stream media & BBC who give Farage 24/7 exposure. Starmer’s main problem is that he is moving further right, chasing votes that he is never going to get.

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while true; echo idleness; sleep 2; done @midnight418.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

He needs Ariana Grande to go sing that song to him and make people like him.

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jmc123.bsky.social @jmc123.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I can't argue with this!

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Diana @ditotts.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Sorry Mr M I disagree. If Reform win the next election it will be down to, 1. the press being complicit in Reform lies. 2. People in positions of influence remaining silent about the dangerous nonsense spouted by Reform & its supporters. 3. BBC’s apparent love affair with Reform.

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janet45w.bsky.social @janet45w.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It's so disappointing..I hesitated to vote for them..I feared this. I cannot ever vote for them again - the way they are. Such a big opportunity to be bold thrown away.

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Captain Peter Quinn @captainpeterquinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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I prefer cats @dhp8p1h.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It seems to me, that all the politicians with any 'power', in all the western governments, sold their votes to their sponsors. It's been happening for about 50 years! Down hill for voters since Maggie T. The mulitimillionaires became billionaires and more politicians became millionaires...

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Sounds familiar #auspol

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ÓLiatháin ☘️💚 @oliathain.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yes indeed, the Dems demonstrated a mountain of failures under Biden’s Administration that enabled the Orange Pedophile to be in the position he is in now, King of Murica.

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Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Glassman’s puppet imho, Starmer I mean and I think there’s several Blue Labour appointees in this latest cabinet reshuffle, Shabana Mahmood for example.

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Seeing how divided the left is makes me worry that Farage will win the next election

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Steven Chalk @bead70.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It will be down to millions voting for him. Adults, registered voters, United Kingdom citizens. People who put their mark on pieces of paper in a secret ballot. I’m a member of the Labour Party. Things aren’t going well but I don’t believe this diatribe is helping.

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Unfortunately too many mainstream *journalists* seem to have incredibly short memories 😔. Even my pet fish Goldie can remember what happened the last time we had a charlatan (masquerading as a man of the people) as our Prime Minister, because he was a …. *character*🤨.

AdyBee 🐝@adybee.bsky.social

Exhibit A #Johnson

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Casia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @czajac.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Don’t you think the right wing media is playing a role in its over exposure of Farage without scrutiny? Since the election they have hounded the government. If Starmer is the sole culprit why aren’t the LibDems and Greens higher in the polls? Why Farage if not for his much higher visibility?

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bwoc.bsky.social @bwoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Absolutely, couldn't be more right.

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Paul Stenton @paulstenton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Let's not let the worshipping media off the hook.

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Dr Susi Arnott @susiarnott.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social #LINO

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Monty Dodge @montyofdodgington.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Farage is an unelected worm, but it seems to be working for him, remember David Cameron? Looks like Starmer didn't learn a thing from Cameron's massive mistake!.. or is there something going on that?

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rob @robinprague.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

No it won't - it will be down to the idiots who voted Reform. Simple as.

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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmers big mistake (before the election) was pretending Tory tax plans weren’t bonkers He should have made it clear. Elect me and life must be hard for years, as we try to fix things. Now that (entirely predictably) life is very hard, he is taking the blame for ten years of post brexit mayhem.

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Ernesto @ernesto666.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Unfortunately most of our media don’t see him as ‘continuity Tory’. I see the Mail on Sunday think that Farage+Boris is the dream ticket. Isn’t that just a rerun of 2016?

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Andrew Crompton @andrewcrompton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I can only imagine Starmer is paid by the same people behind Reform.

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KarenFrancoK @karenfrancok.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You are right, but point 3. BBC is the most important point: if you do not have a reliable source of news, people will be misled. Again.

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Keeping Down 🍁 @keepingdown.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Canada is drifting down the same path, our centrist party shifting to the right, having not brought in proportional representation when they had the chance, and supporting Israel while only taking performative measures that the left see thru. Things are getting worse before they will get better ❤️‍🩹

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Starmer's government was a triumph for Israel and the English ruling class.

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GreenerFutures @greenerfutures.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

At some near point the PLP are going to realise they’re likely done in 2029 and start plotting individual survival. This’ll bring less inclination to toe the line as there’s less to lose. So we will see rebellions, defections and a party tacking back left or destroying itself. Or so I hope.

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Hnrk Hstbch @hnrkhstbch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Pretty sure there was a bit of "keep immigration down" among the reasons too.

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Paul Davies @docdave.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

That’s worth an unfollow. Almost a block. It’s far-left tripe.

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Tim @timfathers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Spot on, on all accounts.

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wazerk103.bsky.social @wazerk103.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Sorry George your wrong,the biggest single issue the uk is the Right wing mddia

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No Tern Unstoned @noternunstoned.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Beautiful summary.

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Matthew Wilcoxson @akademy.uk · 07/09/2025

If Farage wins the next election, it's all our fault. Stop looking for other people to blame. (And maybe even support the current government.) (I'm sick of all this bullshit. Decades of backstabbing and whiners, and we're still bickering about bollocks as the Far Right kicks down the doors)

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D Mac @donmac.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You also have to consider that the Labour party as an actual organisation and the conditions put on it by the Unions makes it impossible for it to exist without first past the post. It would splinter apart under a PR system and split union funding.

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James Alexander @jmsalxdr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

What the… Destroying democracy? Seriously? Get a grip.

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Bob @bobgrif.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I would wholeheartedly agree with points 2 to 4 but I think it is wrong to blame Starmer for the loss of faith in democracy. This has been building for several years and is partly evidenced by the fall in participation in voting at elections....

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wnjeffers.bsky.social @wnjeffers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I do not closely follow UK politics, but from what I see there seem many similarities with US politics and between your Labour party and out Dems, both being reactionary-center and eschewing anything truly progressive. But if you are even discussing PR, you are ahead of us.

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Kirth Gersen @obbitz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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