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My gut feeling is that this has probably also indirectly harmed the SGP's chances at Westminster though that's based on vibes. John Swinney continues to be a lucky general.

A lot can happen between now and the polls, whenever they may be, but between this and Burnham's left turn on economics, I think it's fairly solid that Labour will still lead the left-liberal bloc in 2029-34, even if they don't deserve it

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That said, the party has a nice easy mechanism to get rid of leaders and it has two more than adequate successors (Denyer and Spencer)

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Structurally, the Greens are still favoured to pick up seats but nowhere near the level we previously assumed was possible. Think 20-25 is a fairly solid plateau they'll lie at rather than 50-100 range.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 22h

It is genuinely impressive how badly Polanski has fumbled a generational moment for the GPEW (that he helped create)

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adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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There's also the question of who's scariest to squishy English liberals and lefties (sorry bluesky) the collection of guys who want to break up the country, the greens in the city or the polite orange Tories in the south. It's a whole new ball game.

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Thing is we have the example of 2015 with Miliband and the SNP but that was still at the tail end of the old party system so who knows how English voters interact with it under a five-party system

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We make jam with them and it's incredibly jarring, I swear it was like 1.99 for a big bag the other day

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The above is an extreme example and this will be regionally variant (I imagine Scotland differs significantly to the South-East or East of England) but man alive, it's bad

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There's a meme online that Irish people are obsessed with independence and have a persecution complex and my only answer to that is "have you met the average Brit?"

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 12h

We put unqualified eejits in charge of it, we refuse to investigate potential war crimes there, we routinely describe them as "an economic burden" yet refuse to let them go. God you could write a book on NI as a colony even from 1998 onwards.

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In true UK fashion we repackage this through our bonkers class system which is why someone with a Glaswegian or Aberdonian accent codes as working class even if they own like, a boat

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Rancid have been the vibes of late - Bluesky Theoden

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 23h

While I’ve made my feelings about this more than clear, I’m quite upset seeing some centre left people use this an excuse to somehow suggest now Labour is some kind of moral bulwark against bigotry by comparison.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.

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Aye but the vast majority of leftish voters do back Labour, that's just the political reality

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I said centre-left and left, not "socially embarassed Tories and nimbys"

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To state the obvious, the actual resolution being discussed and voted on wasn't "Ethnostates are bad", was it?

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Between Labour MPs letting their party walk down the transphobia and anti-immigrant pipeline, GPEW MPs letting their party walk down the anti-semitism pipeline it would be nice if *one* major party on the english centre-left and left got its shit together

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It is quite simply demented to demand someone depart from their ethnoreligious community *when they already agree with you*

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is easy to understand even if you're unfamiliar with Jewish communal life. I'm not a religious Catholic in part due to the Church's views. To demand I prove my anti-Clericalism/social liberalism by not interacting "true" Catholics means I can't go to baptisms or like, visit my granny.

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it's not actually reasonable to demand that other people don't speak to their kin who they disagree with

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

since time immemorial there has been a fringe of the English left (and the Scottish left too, but they're so ineffectual they can't even muster a party anymore) that basically believes reading to the end of a sentence is bourgeois. they have now infected GPEW

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why are the GPEW unable to do what the SGP- be normal and consistent

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Oh god the 3rd amendment explicitly protecting Jewish members who attend synagogue has fallen. I’m absolutely heartbroken.

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

GPEW what the hell is wrong with you

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An absolute classic of the "I only want to see the pretty things, not the stories behind them"

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One thing that should stick in folks heads is the "vote SNP for Indy, for Green for policies" that was popular on TikTok/insta. Indy is the default position for you if you're under 40, and there's not much evidence that it shifts majorly as you age either. It is a very cultural way of understanding.

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It is remarkable that the majority of both unionists and secessionists view Indyref 2 as "a guarantee that it happens" and have adjusted their strategies accordingly

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Wes Streeting's interview where he says "they're not having one" should be shown in universities about how not to deal with secessionist movements.

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It's amazing to me that this is beyond so many unionist politicians. It's really easy to make a compelling case against it without resorting to procedural nonsense!

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Canada has been dealing with secessionist issues since the 1960s and each time has hoped that it'll just "go away" but it never does, not in a democracy. There is no quick fix, there is no final victory. In a multi-national polity, you must fight the same battle again and again.

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Something I think we've learned in the 2010s and 20s is that identity *is* important. You can't paper over it forever and the longer you leave it, the less arguments you leave yourself

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The calculation is that if you move closer to the EU/rejoin then support for secession declines. Not a ludicrous hypothesis and a safe bet to make, but it misses a couple of key points 1) NI's likely eventual departure 2) The cratering of Britishness outside of English cities and NI

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not even saying that it's necessarily baffling for English progressives to take this line- they clearly have some attachment to the UK, that's fine! Make that case. Say you think Brexit destroyed a part of the UK's soul in the same way you think Indy would which is why you have a different view

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There are a lot of criticisms that could be levelled at that Desmond statement, but the most damning is that it’s the kind of nonsense you’d have expected from Rangers in 2017

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