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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

perhaps we should deport the Normans, and Angles and the Saxons and give all the land, and wealth, back to the Celts.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Nevermind that, they still don't sell decent chocolate

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the UK we've been doing this since 1776

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The neighbour being, of course, Cambuslang

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You'd need one of those "trigger warnings" before it, and a counselling hotline at the end. Meanwhile GBNews are demanding government ban it

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm confused: ‘Sometimes there is good reason for people to be prejudiced against certain groups’. If there is "good reason" to disfavour x, is it "prejudice". I thought the hallmark of prejudice was you exercised bigotry not reason. If I have "good reason" to disfavour MAGA loyalists...?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

But we can always blame Burnham* *Brexit/GERS/Scottish Weather

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As I once said "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As I once said "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

But even those who may not share all your aims can still defend your right to march without violent disruption, and demand that freedom from violence, and for speech and for protest, are non-negotiable.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you've got that story, and want to at the same time go radical on one of the other areas, that can work. But otherwise: "it's the economy, stupid."

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What Labour need is a credible economic policy. I'm not sure that jiggling with constitution, foreign policy, or social/environmental issues, whatever their merits, can substitute for that. A story is needed: how we deal with low growth, high tax, debt, underinvestment, and demographic timebombs?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"From Birnham he would go to Downing Street" - Shakespeare

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I still think Count Binface should have run for the Labour leadership.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So, how are people marking the 250th tomorrow?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And the ghost of Salmon says...

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Indeed, congratulations to you're daughter

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So, which member of Reform gets to be Mayor of Manchester now?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Perhaps Farage can be bought off with the mayoralty of Manchester?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Assuming he doesn't lose to Reform in the byelection

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Angela Rayner in Health, and Lord Birnham in the Home Office? Job done.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Or give it to Lord Burnham of Manchester

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

His letter is a rhetorical and grammatical mess. I'm just glad he's not positioning to be Education Secretary.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What have we learned about the Labour leadership today? Wes Streeting really can't write decent prose. His letter is a grammatical and rhetorical mess. Good job he isn't positioning to be education secretary.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I can't help but feeling that it's pronounced Russ-ell To-vey

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Well, that initial prime ministerial press release went well. I think you'll last less than a Scaramucci

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We need a Prime Minister who will spend like Brown, tax cut like Thatcher, have the optimism of Callaghan, the charisma of Johnston, the modesty of Major, build the navy of Churchill with the fiscal prudence of Gladstone and the foreign policy Palmerston. So we're caught between a rock and a lettuce

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It's your choice. But, people voted for them. You need to consider those people. How do you convince them to change their mind, or to realise what they voted for? (And all parties need to look at themselves too - I almost didn't vote)

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Debate it, fight it, show it for what it is, but if the mainstream media repress it, it will simply go elsewhere. And we know, sadly, where that leads.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

When someone is elected to a representative parliament, I'd say any impartial media do now have to platform them. The mistake was platforming quixotic views from the margins when they weren't democratically representative (ie Farage in the past), but that ship has sailed. This is the new normal.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm not sure who wrote her commentary on Genesis. Dan Brown? David Icke?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Well, at least he's unlikely to be in those files.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm not sure about a wrecking ball, I suspect more like a wave that comes in with sound and fury, underperforms, and then dissipates, leaving more disappointment than damage. I suspect this tide is already in retreat.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's not a PR system, it's D'Hondt (more FPTP than PR). If it were proper PR, the SNP would have around 45 MPs..

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sadly, this is also true of Reform-UKIP-Brexit-Nige-Party

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

unfortunately, we were issued with Independent Green Pens for some reason...

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Scottish Elections: caption competition

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Is it time to abolish FPTP for Holyrood?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Shouldn't that be "from the Lib Dems"?

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The UK General Election are only afforded because the BBC STV Sky etc all share the costs. I doubt that the Herald, Scotsman and the National could afford it.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No. A combination of the fact they are hugely expensive, and that national swing wouldn't tell us much with the complexities of the electoral system (and number of parties)

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I challenged her, she said otherwise. (The rosette was, I regret to tell you, red)

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Obviously, you can still vote against the Heath Government at this Scottish Parliamentary election if you want? :/

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was surprised, when entering the polling station, that I was greeted by a woman with a party rosette, asking me my address, so she could direct me to the correct room. I didn't think that was allowed. At least she wasn't an ICE agent, I suppose.

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Alistair May @alistairmay.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Our election system incentivises stupid, unaffordable, pledges. There's little disincentive, particularly if you won't be in power. If I were running, I'd double pensions, remove all duty on whisky, abolish Council tax, and outlaw chewing gum, and listening to youtube in public without headphones.

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