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A.V. Deggar

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 5h
I'm very surprised that the rightist parties here in the UK haven't yet gone down the road of their reactionary cousins in the Americas and demanded that dozens of privatised megaprisons be rolled out across the land. Yet.
bbc.com
How the new prison release scheme will work - and how many inmates will be set free
Hundreds of eligible offenders will leave jails in England and Wales on 1 October, under the government's early prison release plan.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 9h
Vape tax and energy bill hike dropping on the same day—Labour really is committed to a jihad on millennials.
Vape tax hitsEnergy price hike
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 11h
This interview is *very* Badenoch: 1) She's still a consummate bullshitter: she says a lot without adding anything concrete or true. E.g.: she baselessly claims she's good at dealing with 'black sawn events' 2) She, almost immediately, takes the interview towards what people are saying online
conservativehome.com
Kemi Badenoch tells ConHome - 'It's a new team to face a new opponent. We're ready, you'll see it at Conference, but prepare for hard work' | Conservative Home
Kemi Badenochs talks to our Editor about Conference, her 'new generation, new team, new party' vibe, and tackling Burnham not Starmer. She takes on criticisms from our readers, both Conservative and R...
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Moschops 🦕🦖 @moschops.bsky.social · 14h
When you're Ian Dunt, I guess everybody is "impressive". bsky.app/profile/mick...
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s absolutely mad how low the bar has fallen for centrists. All it took was a few vague platitudes and promises of change at some nebulous point in the future to convince them that they were back—AGAIN.
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Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did. 2/2
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People say that wine-o’clock mums and centrist dads have been searching for a moderate messiah for years, but damn—the Christ the Redeemer image they've gone with here is wild.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This can’t be just be moronic—it’s Trump, so surely there must also be some kind of comically corrupt underpinning to it as well?
Trump signs super intelligence EO
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, Burnham's conference speech: A lot of tofu for the FBPE crowd Labour lost to the Lib Dems or the couch during the Sir Keira: renationalising water, electoral reform, pensions overhaul, rejoining the EU. All of which lies safely in the distant future & is therefore fictional until delivered.
Burnham speech at labour conference
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"My father was a toolmaker" has become "my father is dead but he was nice."
Burnham conference speech
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fuck me, they really are going to town with the HOPE AGAIN slogan. What happened the first time, amigo? WHAT HAPPENED?
Hope Again Labour
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Jane A. @jane-in-progress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do wish they'd get an editor to review their speeches. What does "wins in the AI revolution" mean? A revolution to remove/overturn what? Who is revolting? A win over who? What does this win look like? You're the fucking Chancellor – use your words properly. Your speech should make sense.
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These guys are losers. Utter losers. Did they really think we wouldn't notice that they shuffled their deck chairs around while activating their standby captain? See that ice berg over there? It's still there lads.
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plan for winning the AI revolution, in full
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Sophia Jetta @werkoderko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah but clearly the money is there to build data centers noone wants. Paying commercial banks interest to the tune of 150bn over 5 years is apparently also fine. But remember, there's no money.
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People who’d still vote Labour are being conned. There is little to no difference between the current government and the Starmer project. It’s just better PR. Their policies and politics is still to the right of Theresa May. Labour are just neoliberals who are in love with austerity.
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FatGayFriend @fatgayfriend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Simpsons Flanders: We're All Out of Ideas
ALT: Simpsons Flanders: We're All Out of Ideas
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I presume he's going to announce it will been replaced by the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸.
Triple lock to be reviewed
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMFG they tried to spin this as a thwarted terror attack by the Iranians, but it was actually just a bunch of grifters from London trying to pike red diesel off yokels. Wild shit.
Looks like the Fairford five were fuel thieves
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey: "The money New Labour had in the 90s is simply not there now." "It is not progressive to allow a bigger & bigger benefits bill." "We will make sure that Britain wins in the AI revolution." TRANSLATION: expect continuity austerity & steering the UK into the AI hurricane.
John Healey at Labour conference
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One useful function of the fleeting Starmer era was hammering home that when a politician says "We hear you" or "I get it," they actually mean "Shut up" and "shut the fuck up."
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Weird how the whole "Never Again" crowd is actually perfectly fine with 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 happening 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄.
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Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We know that their jobs are to do nothing, but it's painfully clear they don't know how to do anything either, so they prefer to be perpetually campaigning instead.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The next election? Motherfucker, you are the prime minister NOW.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A reminder that neurodivergence only exists in Britain if you are right-wing and/or rich.
Ben Delo supports Farage because of autism
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With intensifying speculation about whether Burnham will call a snap election, the answer is almost certainly “yes”—and potentially much earlier than you might think. Given recent history, there are no guarantees he'd even still be in office by 2029.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of UK aid to Gaza: £88 million Cost of UK running intelligence flights over Gaza to aid the Isræli genocide: Priceless
UK gives 88 million pounds of aid to Gaza
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I will always be filled with fury when I think of the opportunity and massive goodwill Your Party had to become a real Left Alternative—and they absolutely, irredeemably fucked it.
Lib Dems 71
Lab 242
Con 130
Ref UK 123
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
[TRANSLATION] A new digital spy agency is to be established for the purpose of weeding out enemies of the status quo—both foreign and, especially, domestic.
theguardian.com
New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Only democracy in the MIddle East latest
Isræl to ban all Arab parties
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just reading Burnham's UN General Assembly address, and one of his key themes is that evildoers are spreading disinfo about how shit life in the UK has become. My brother, the Russians did not shut down all the shops on the high street, the political class you represent did that.
The Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion each year on manipulating information.

We're talking about an insidious campaign that reaches into people's homes and twists what they feel about their own country and community -creating a narrative of decline, stoking division and sowing despair.Over the last decade we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality.

Well, no more.

We are going to face the new decade in a different way - with our eyes wide open.

We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law.

And we are going to help our people to strengthen their resilience - because faced with this information warfare, security starts in every home.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From the Southern Daily Echo's live coverage of a fascist protest in Gosport against small boat landings. This is what radicalisation looks like.
8:02 pm

22/09/26

Hundreds of people are out in Gosport facing a police line.

Crowds of masked protesters are now confronting a police line to chants of "let them drown" sung by a child over a megaphone.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An incomparable moron—a generational pillar of fucking stupidity. A Leonardo da Vinci of dumbassery.
Trump renames artificial intelligence "super intelligence"
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a few days ago this Brexit-supporting, tax-evading bigot was decrying the descent of the UK into international obscurity. Today he's helping to fast-track that decline. The worst kind of bastard on Earth, honestly.
Ratcliffe decries the decline of the UK
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now, imagine the response to a column asking why a Premier League team has a Jewish supporters group.
Michael Deacon
Why do Man Utd have a Muslim supporters’ group?
Sir Jim Ratcliffe must go, declares an organisation for the team’s Islamic fans. There’s just one thing puzzling
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminder that it isn't just Reform and the Tories doing this. Labour rescinded Owen Jones and Rivkah Brown's press passes in 2025, and banned Declassified UK from coming for the second year in a row.
Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass.

Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour.

They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue".

This is clearly insane.Weird, same here.

At the same time as Owen, I received a similar email rescinding my media pass, due to an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

Is Labour purging journalists it doesn't like?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This wouldn't happen in the UK. Reform and the Conservatives have been banning journalists and news organisations they don't approve of for years now and the lobby has done absolutely nothing about it
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the face of another battering at the polls in Germany, Merz has affirmed that his answer to the threat of the far right is to stoically stay the course—the Teutonic version of Keep Calm and Carry On™. This negligence—or willful ignorance—is how the centre loses to extremism every single time.
Merz wants backone, steadfastness and patience to defeat the AfD
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only reason I am skeptical about this, is because the next country to benefit from this kind of partnership begins with an "I" and ends in genocide.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I mean, if he is selflessly doing tech support for pensioners, no need to beatify this man in the future, he's already a saint.
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Ben @gridlock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"the immigration debate"
fascists march in Dover
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Face Eating Leopard I Fed Should Not Eat My Face
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can’t tell you how fucking disgusting this is, coming from the poisonous dork who invented “STOP THE BOATS”—currently being chanted by balaclava-clad racists at a pogrom near you.
Britishness must not be a DNA test—Sunak
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 20/09/2026
It is incredibly well evidenced that Reform are a threat to democracy and yet they continue to be covered in most mainstream media as if they are a legitimate democratic actor plagued by blunders Mainstream coverage is where their strength comes from bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Significant that Trump is going to be speaking at the UN general assembly in the coming week. Will he be using his speech to declare "mission accomplished" or deliver a warning to Iran/Yemen not fuck with Uncle Sam or any of his favourites in the Middle East?
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just to reiterate, if the United States or Isræl were to ever use nuclear weapons against another country, the international community wouldn't denounce them as rogue states and cast them out, they'd call for restraint from both parties and demand that the targeted nation deëscalate.
BREAKING: Iran has issued "Code 100," its

highest alert level, for all armed forces in the past hour, covering the IRGC, the Army and security forces, per initial reports.

Trump cut short his weekend at Camp

David to return to the White House tonight

citing the potential for significant

escalation, Netanyahu cut short his US trip

to return to Israel the same day, and every

US embassy in the Middle East has issued

a security alert in the past hours.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm shocked—crater-faced Dickensian-convict-looking billionaire who doesn't live in the UK because he hates the poor and ethnics, says the UK is garbage. In other news, the night is dark and Hell is hot.
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HAHAHAHA
CNN, MSNOW and Politico banned from White House
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holy fucking dogshit, man. I bet these two-bit knuckle-draggers thought the “B” stood for “boats.”
independent.co.uk
Blindness charity targeted by anti-migrant protesters after being mistaken for RNLI
One person accused the blind people’s charity of ‘deliberately overfilling our great country with illegals’
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely correct, calling these people settlers is a disgrace—they are terrorist land grabbers and grave robbers.
Danon says calling terrorists settlers is a disgrace
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