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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati)

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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 33m
As soon as you have 1 or more MPs your party leader must be one of them. If you’ve no MPs then you’re not a political party in Parliament, so who cares who your leader is (or whether you’re a wannabe political party or a chess club)?
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 41m
“art”?
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 53m
It’s a bit farcical to have a political party led by someone who isn’t actually an MP.
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 2h
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
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Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Rishi Sunak’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue * Business live – latest updates Tax cuts for big banks have deprived the UK government of £6bn in revenues, according to campaigners, who are calling on the chancellor, John Healey, to increase taxes and force lenders to pay their “fair share” in the upcoming budget. Calculations by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents unions with more than 5.3 million members across England and Wales, shows that the public purse is billions of pounds worse off as a result of tax cuts introduced under the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak in 2023. Continue reading...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 6h
"before the referendum we were all told our place in the single market wasn't under threat" Many of the promises made were, on examination, implausible and contradictory. Sadly so many fell for "there are simple solutions to complex problems" schtick. I'm not sure many have learned the lesson.
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Martin Johnson @martinpjohnsonbass.bsky.social · 6h
100% agree but before the referendum we were all told our place in the single market wasn't under threat and we'd have the exact same benefits. The whole country was lied to, unfortunately some people were taken in.
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HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social · 6h
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9h
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10h
via Anti Reform Hub
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 8h
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 21h
Trump says the Kennedy Center is too dangerous to walk into Unless you play in the National Symphony, which rehearses there most weekdays @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG are still in court w/ @repbeatty.bsky.social. Say one thing, do another, as we told @nytimes.com👇 -TN
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If the Kennedy Center Is ‘Dangerous,’ Why Is the Symphony Rehearsing There?
The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that President Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 8h
Just goes to show that Reform, are just the same old failed Tories, wrapped in different branding.
12 Reform UK councils led by former Conservatives
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 8h
To be fair to AI every mushroom is edible … once.
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 11h
What The Actual Fuck America? These people are Barbarians, Devils in Human Form. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 10h
“Questions remain for Green Party Leader Zack Polanski” says Chris Mason but he has no questions whatsoever for Reform leader Farage, thrashed by Greens with only 1,612 votes vs 8,928 🤷‍♂️ Are voters turned off by #FaragesFishyFiveMillion by all the sleaze & corruption Nah that’s not important to BBC
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h
Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h
This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 9h
Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 9h
Oh look, another Tory spreadsheet error that leads to disaster. I wrote a thing about that. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 9h
Right now in an asylum, sorry I mean oval office: “THEY GAVE MY PRIZE TO A BROWN SKINNED WOMAN, WTF”
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Tantrum Kid on Golf Course
ALT: Tantrum Kid on Golf Course
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 9h
Trump right about now
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Little Girl's Autumn Tantrum
ALT: Little Girl's Autumn Tantrum
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 10h
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 17h
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Conservative proposal relies on modelling from Oxford Economics. For reasons that completely escape me, they didn't take account of this effect.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13h
This is absolutely damning. A must-read.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
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How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? 

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h
Another resounding victory for Kemi Badenoch. They’ll have to extend the tapestry now…
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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 17h
‼️ Labour HOLD Holborn and St Pancras Labour: 45.0% (-3.9) Green: 32.7% (+22.3) Conservative: 7.0% (-0.2) Reform: 5.9% (-0.2) Liberal Democrats: 3.4% (-2.4) Restore: 2.5% (+2.5) Workers: 1.1% (+1.1)
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peterkellner.bsky.social @peterkellner.bsky.social · 16h
Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski, and a remarkable victory for Sagal Absi-Wali kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-figure...
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The figures that make Sagal Abdi-Wali’s victory remarkable
Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 12h
We really need a rule that if you lose three elections to become an MP in a row you’re barred for life from standing again.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 15h
Obviously not helped by the fact he is in self imposed exile. But Holborn was George Galloway’s worst ever result in a Westminster election.
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“At a fringe event at their conference Sir Bernard Jenkin, a veteran MP who helped to lead the Leave campaign, warned them: “Do not defend Brexit; Brexit is toxic with the voters.”” economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
Kemi Badenoch's pitch for power is incoherent
But Britain’s Tories still have a shot at reuniting the right
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only in America will kids be denied a free school lunch, then handed a Bible story about Jesus feeding the hungry
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Adjusted for population the equivalent rate would be 87 mass shootings in the UK. In reality the UK has had only one so far this year. It’s amazing how strict gun controls make you safer (but mean less profit for the arms and ammunition manufacturers)
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Artificial Intelligence" is a bad name someone coined back in the early days of IT and it stuck. "Superior Intelligence" is just stupid. Superior to what, the intelligence of a potato? AI is vastly more accurate than SI, even though AI is bad.
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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TAX POLICY ASSOCIATES Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £11bn – almost twice the advertised price. Dan Neidle 8 October 2026 taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/08/c...
taxpolicy.org.uk
Tory IHT cut could cost £11bn - almost twice the advertised price
Our modelling suggests Badenoch’s inheritance tax cut could cost £7.7bn-£10.9bn a year and shift £60bn-£110bn from savings and investments into housing.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨🚨 Breaking: #EU, #Canada and #Lithuania withdraws from disinformation conference due to pressure from the #UnitedStates. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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🇬🇧 Jon (of the Tofu eating Wokerati) @antaboga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No. Those two things are literally not part of socialism. Not even remotely.
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