Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My favourite BlueSky genre is old left wing people who get offended when you say that all the data shows older voters are more right wing. 020
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A key point in a good thread- the debates and the claim that social issues are distracting from ‘socialism’ has been a claim the party has always faced. 010
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m sick. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/toys.jamesomalley.co.ukMP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain. 030
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is no different to what crusty old Labour right wingers were saying in the 1960s and 1970s! 040
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I like to think LBJ is smiling up at these results from down below. 0514
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A sign of how brainworms damage you is that Syed is claiming the AFD is a sister party to reform- it isn’t! The AFD is a far right party with a lot of neo Nazis- Reform is not! 0192
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Once again it is very clear that in 2023 Keir Starmer did not know what he was talking about. 010
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A result that wasn’t a surprise but I hope we remember how awfully the no side acted- they blocked it when the commons passed it and threw a tantrum; and then used a lot of well being advocacy groups to give them cover for their own deeply religious reasons. 072
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The telling part of this is Lammy is admitting that he’s going to have to be a bog standard marginal MP for the first time! 040
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A ridiculous attack by a Government minister on parliamentary scrutiny. He should ask how many written questions Labour opposition ministers tabled? (It was a lot!) 000
Reposted by AltreikJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excellent by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on Mahmood's settlement proposals “You end up with Reform claiming a woman born in Somalia who's lived here most of her life, worked hard and contributed to our society,somehow isn’t fit to hold elected office.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 421882
Reposted by AltreikPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Alternative for Deutschland is formally classified as ‘far right extremist organization’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service So why is BBC news calling alternative AfD ‘hard right’? 56728187
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A really good interview and telling that Cleverly talks in a way about London that Tories basically stopped doing in 2022- he will be a strong candidate and the race could easily be 2008 all over again. 000
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is mad when you remember that we haven’t even know the month of the last 3 elections ahead of schedule! 010
Reposted by AltreikNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it. 11955991356
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A nice touch was Ghent used the phrase ‘human dignity’- a phrase often used in Germany when talking about human rights and equalities. 000
Reposted by AltreikThe Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Just another shoutout to @navalairhistory.com - our publisher (without our knowledge) used AI to generate an ad for Breaking Rommel and placed it in Storia Militare. When we found out we asked Matt to produce something similar but utilising his artist's skills. We are all very happy with the result. 26612
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Much like exempting an item from VAT or adding a random topic to the curriculum, we now have a new thing for useless politicians and campaign groups to call for which will have no real impact. 060
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026What is funny is that you think the public have odd views on tax and then you realise it really just extends to the whole economy. People do not understand money in this country 020
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Government really need to reform SLAPP. For so many wealthy people you can still essentially buy silence. 030
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Brilliant news. Gambling shops on the high street are horrible places that are no different to opium dens. 040
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It is very darkly funny these comments are being made by someone with the Berlin Wall in their profile picture. 030
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I am still scarred from my efforts to cancel a New Statesman sub about three years ago- multiple emails and phone calls after they mistakenly charged me on top of my existing sub. 390
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A key point the right forget is that in the U.K. we lock up more people than average, treat them terribly and then act shocked when no one wants to work in our prisons and re-offending is high- Michael Howard’s model has failed 27921
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The problem with the populism that both Keir and Andy dabble in is that on immigration it leads you down to a path like this. A racist pogrom is a pogrom and it should be loudly renounced as the alternative is ending up in a place like we did in Belfast where racist mobs search targets 150
Reposted by AltreikMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026he feels a sense of solidarity with a fellow leader who’s way too online and doesn’t do her homework before wading in 312117
Reposted by AltreikJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi... 441334543
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Another ‘we know how badly we crashed the car’. What are they going to do? Vote down the budget? Oppose bus travel? 140
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Like the Bene Gesserit labours devolution plans are taking so long that they’ll be measured in centuries; and without proper devolution you can’t get good coverage on a bus network! 120
Reposted by AltreikChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You fool! You rube! We hadn't even funded that policy! 1625439
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The way that some of BlueSky is reacting to this is as if Andy has appointed Peter Thiel to the cabinet… 130
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A serious letter from someone who who is serious about politics and power. 230
Reposted by AltreikJennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Excl: Burnham’s northern No 10 would be the PM’s national growth unit as.ft.com/r/d3a8d635-8...as.ft.comHow would Andy Burnham’s ‘Number 10 North’ work?Downing Street’s Manchester base is expected to focus on the UK’s long-term economic strategy 4349
Reposted by AltreikLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 29/06/2026Amusing to see so many commentators lose their minds about Burnham before he’s even done anything. Many have been used to being able to bore nebulously about liberal metropolitan elites. Doesn’t work so well against the MP for Makerfield who anchors his politics in the north. 5855665
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A bad trend since 2019 has been using the removal of the whip (and lesser sanctions) to make parliamentary scrutiny worse- if Labour MPs were not as terrified in the first 12 months fewer stupid things would have happened. 010
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 28/06/2026If only Jeremy Hunt could have a word with the Chancellor who cost the UK £20 billion by doing a gimmicky cut to National insurance. He should be laughed out of interviews. 040
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Hilarious as Mike Tapp will no doubt discover what collective responsibility is! Who on earth thought it was good to appoint him in the first place? 010
Reposted by AltreikJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Appointing Ed Miliband as Chancellor may or may not be a good call, but it’s worth noting that if Burnham went for someone else it would not buy him a single iota of goodwill with those lobbying against Miliband. 29218
Reposted by Altreikmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/06/2026(while being killed) stay alert everyone this is just a trial balloon for them killing someone more important 03663583
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This is key- Labour have pumped out so much messaging about removals, new agreements, ending hotels etc but it makes no difference for single issue voters who broadly hate Labour and modern social democracy. You can’t win on a hardline message of ‘reform is right, vote Labour’ 010
Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The problem was that Keir did stand up to Trump but did it in such a low key quiet way that no one noticed- his entire problem is he appears to have a dimmer switch on the whole time. 110
Reposted by AltreikMetJam @metjam.co.uk · 21/06/2026Two historic heatwaves in two consecutive months, with monthly records broken in both, something not achieved since 1911 and not something achieved by such a margin either. May's record was broken by over 2ºC, and June's record is likely to go by perhaps 3ºC, extraordinary. 511148
Reposted by AltreikDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Quite how did we end up with European and North American politics dominated by unrealistic promises to bring back manufacturing jobs? Just a huge failure to adjust to reality on so many levels. 65786128
Reposted by AltreikSteve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026What happened in Makerfield? Some new constituency polling between @persuasionuk.bsky.social & Convergent (most accurate pollster in the race!), covering among other things: - Burnham assembling a coalition Lab needs nationally - 'Get Starmer out' + 'public ownership' at the centre of it. 🧵👇 15623
Reposted by AltreikJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Sharon said I should do a Groundnut scheme thread So, in the spirit of Mr. @garius.bsky.social of this parish, I shall embark on a short history of THE TANGANYIKA GROUNDNUT SCHEME, or the time the Attlee government tried to turn the worst land in east Africa in the world's largest peanut farm. 832390
