Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 20hThat particular excerpt aside, I think I'll refer to Watson as the Nugget of Horror from now on, thank you. 081
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 20hI feel Tom Watson has found his spiritual home and calling. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He's not stupid he's 100% contrived, it's all performance. I'm sick of the tone he uses to suggest that whatever he's about to say is just boringly obvious to anyone who knows anything (when in fact it's BS). He's so dismissive of the questions, so fluent with his trite flicking away of concerns. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yet another sideways swipe at Burnham's Peruvian heritage. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Handmaid's Tale. Good early seasons but later on the acting got so hammy, the lead character so dislikeable and my completist self was so glad when I finally reached the end and could stop. 050
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I brought the plot...Mike was supposed to bring the bombs FFS!" 011
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026PE seems rampant and represents a race to the bottom in everything. With short term profit seeming the only driver, cutting costs, staffing, quality, protections, authenticity, it's hollowing out sector after sector. They have no soul, no creativity, no ideas. Just money. And they want more of it. 033
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And I'm told climate change protesters want to destroy our way of life, disrupt hard working people's lives and bring this country to a standstill :\ I can't compute any of this. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's a poor cartoon though. Any visual that has to literally label its components seems pretty heavy handed and hard work on the viewer. 300
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had to look twice at the thumbnail as it looked as though Rayner was old-style selling choc ices at a cinema! 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The documentary doesn't 'paint', the documentary 'reflects'. He is what he is, he hasn't tried to hide it, it's patently obvious to anyone who's been looking. 🤷 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I didn't think what you were saying was ridiculous, but I thought it implied that the leadership changes were because 'people' (the public) demanded it. Whereas I think it's egos, power games and opportunism. And I do think the grandees see opportunity in the creep of fascism. 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's not 'people' changing PMs and party leaders though, is it? Anyone would think the grandees of the Labour and Conservative parties had an interest in 'playing right into fascist hands'. 3180
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 02/09/2026He's an unpleasant, dishonest and duplicitous piece of work who tried to brand himself as a 'man of integrity'. His few allies still try to parrot it, but his every action has shouted the opposite, from his pre-PM days to now. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Absolutely. Imagining these young people jumping at the chance to head off to Sainsbury's unpaid to 'supervise' customers doing the self-serve that replaced all the cashier jobs. 020
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When you read his own words he comes off as so stupid and basic and...just lacking in any argument that isn't 'everyone just knows we're better, deal with it'. He doesn't come across as an academic at all, just some idiot with a massive chip on his shoulder. Baffled he found employment tbh. 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's the most mealy mouthed 'tribute' of all the ones I've read since the news yesterday. Definitely an editorial choice. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It does sound really snarky. Dolly Parton was no 'celebrity'. Star, icon, legend... I guess those words would catch in the throat for some people. 020
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It always baffles me why families working multiple jobs to try and make ends meet, ferrying kids to and from multiple schools outside of their catchment area, traveling to the nearest NHS dentist 50 miles away etc. etc. don't spend more time working on their gardens 🙄. 000
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Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's rude of me to say, but Richard Tice always looks to me like one of the Dead President rubber masks the gang wear in Point Break. I think I'm remembering that correctly. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Heartbreaking that a man so full of life and passion and care for others, was hounded to death by the trashiest, most hate-filled people. 'Questions were asked' is gutter journalism at its worst. One bad actor claims a fact is not true, and voila, 'questions were asked'. Shame on the BBC. 030
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 24/08/2026'Flatulant assurance' is the best thing I've read all day, and describes his demeanor perfectly. 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Wrong question. The public salivation for a 'who' is the reason for such an unsound conviction. From Private Eye's reporting, 'What', seems to be the more appropriate question, but risks unearthing unpalatable truths for the health care trust and managers involved. 050
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's so tiring. My whole adult life (I'm 50), anyone demanding or positing something better for the majority, has been dismissed as idealistic, unrealistic, immature, inexperienced, naive, incapable of understanding that the ways that benefit those with the most are in fact the only 'sensible' ways. 140
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yes, the both-sides-ing of bigotry and racism has become normal in reporting and editorial of significant media, and has hugely contributed to normalising the far right. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 07/08/2026But these guys *love* to be a hard-done-by minority, you'd think they'd be putting the flags out (not those flags) at the findings of that study! 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Willing a timeline where Burnham responds to the accusation but through having seen it in your post... 'Doesn't *seem* like a pressing issue, but if that's what the people want addressed...' 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Both Fox and Yaxley Lennon appear as though they've just arrived at a wedding having fallen out of a cab direct from the stag do that started the night before. They make me feel grubby. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 31/07/2026But he's so smart and articulate, how could this happen??? And with Lozza Fox as a wingman, too? Two intellectual heavyweights for the price of one? Surely they would have triumphed. 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The idea that it is somehow easy to claim benefits is a total scam, and for Labour to perpetuate it is unforgivable. It's one of the many reasons they will never again have my vote. 050
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Well it's not 'Tell Us Once' then, is it?? If they're not using it for every government function after all. That's a bit of a shocker really, they they're not using it and no plans to. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm only just watching The Handmaid's Tale and it's chilling how much these guys are testing the water and seem to view that book as a blueprint/aspiration...trans, gay, women, non-white, we all should be very alarmed. Although I'm alarmed and I don't know wtf to do about it. 020
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 13/07/2026If Mahmood remains in the Home Office, as seems likely, I think we will have our wish at the next GE, Burnham or no Burnham. 100
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Heard this at the time, a very good and important listen. I hadn't heard Carole speak before, she's phenomenal (not to mention brave). 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Absolutely, disgusting how he treated Corbyn, who he knows is not the monster he's painted him. We could say 'some good was done on his watch'. The Employment rights bill was watered down to the extent that unions were appalled, and like you say, dragged kicking & screaming to lift the CBC 010
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There's no implication of conspiracy in the OP. You literally said "Yes, the rich get away with it but that's because they can afford top lawyers and accountants advising them". Sounds like a 'system constructed to purposely favour the rich and powerful' to me. Inequality isn't a conspiracy. 020
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We didn't have the guardrails to prevent political influence being bought, or political 'service' mis-used to bring individuals power, influence and financial reward. 000
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Member here (so not taking the P), but this photo really looks like a still from Coronation Street, and I love it! 020
Being Florence @beingflorence.bsky.social · 09/07/2026He wasn't 'boring', he was insincere, dishonest, malleable, cruel, inept. He was a dreadful leader and a worse communicator and tried to govern on vibes of 'change' while offering more of the same and supporting further erosion of civil liberties at home and a genocide abroad. 130
