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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 6h
Ask any dalek what they think about the Green Party and they will respond: ''Out of control! Out of control!''
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It looks like the people who left Labour for the Greens have taken their issues with them. There could be trouble ahead.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reform may be taking conviction politics a bit too literally.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jenrick's vigilante stunts are asking for trouble.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We can't afford to run an effective prison system so let's just build more. The problem is that we imprison too many people for too long. We could learn a lot from Europe.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Patience has gone right out of fashion. Speculation is king.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perhaps the Conservatives should finish building their '40 new hospitals' before promising 50,000 new prison places. We have more prisoners and spend much more on prisons than other European countries do. Every time a government wants to look tough on crime it means less money for the NHS.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a pleasant change for Reform to have a rather wholesome scandal rather than the usual criminality, violence, misogyny or racism.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Defining ethnicity was very popular with the Nazis. I don't think it should matter. We live in a multicultural, multi-ethnicity world now; gone are the days when people never left the village that they were born in and everyone looked then same.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has given my optimism level a boost. I hope that other people are feeling it too.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dr Frankenstein's monster was fairly easy to control with pitchforks and torches. Out of control AI is a much trickier business. Trying to out-fox a super fox could be beyond our intelligence.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm still waiting for an evidence-based, workable proposal from Kemi Badenoch. The Conservatives seem to have been playing fantasy politics for a long time now. They would do so much better if they left the nonsense to Reform and came up with some serious ideas.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many times have you heard the Conservatives complaining about 'the nanny state'? Now they plan to prevent long-term unemployed people from spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes. It's prohibition for the poor.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The world's most dangerous child is 80 years old.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So Calvin Robertson is an anti-Semitic fake black priest now. His adventures in Bigotland continue.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I cannot be bothered with the futile badgering of government ministers by interviewers prior to a budget. It's lazy journalism and such a waste of everyone's time. They're like children who can't wait for Christmas.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump tells us that his curiously named 'Triumphal Arch' will be used to store weapons. “There will be no facility like this anywhere in the world''. That's probably because no other nation is stupid enough to advertise where it's weapons are stored.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Davey is a bit like Kier Starmer; competent but rather uninspiring. I think that the LibDems could do better and they would definitely benefit from the media coverage that a new leader would get.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I will be surprised if Reform ever propose something that would work in the real world. That's just not their style.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When people got cars they stopped walking so much. When they get AI they will stop thinking so much.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Flags are out, balaclavas are in this year's summer fashion collection for the overt racist.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks to Trump's idiotic war inflation is rising everywhere around the world and we are all getting poorer. It's a long time since the actions of one individual have caused so much harm to so many people.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In a game of Corruption Top Trumps the Trumps trump the Borgias.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US democracy is broken; Greg Palast described it as 'the best democracy money can buy'. Let's fix ours.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
£72,000,000 divided by 48,208,507 voters = £1.49 each; so I don't think Farage will be trying that one.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did Trump have a bad experience involving an atlas as a child?
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump just had a moment of honesty when he said he would 'cheat like hell' in the coming US elections.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bankrupting America is a difficult job but Trump is giving it his best shot.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you remember back when single mothers were the right-wing's favourite scapegoats? There must have been a year when they switched their attention to immigrants; presumably because there were too many single parents in our society by then to keep on picking on them.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
America's enemies must be very pleased with Hegseth's performance so far.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Segregated education makes a segregated society.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Is Trump seeing just how gullible Americans are with his 9/11 fantasy? Is he hoping to win a bet?
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Would the police have cracked down harder on the weekend Blackshirts if we had more prison capacity?
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It looks like the far right have given up trying to ban the burqa and have adopted it as their uniform instead.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Zia Yusuf reminds me of the guys who thought it was cool to hang around with the bullies at school.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nigel Farage is making the same incompetence defence that Boris Johnson made when he got caught out.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The police must be getting a bit fed up of Reform's false claims of security warnings.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My suspicions were raised by so many political opinion polls being commissioned such a long time before the next election; it hadn't happened before. As I suspected Reform have been paying for dodgy polls. I wonder how many more will be uncovered?
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Bayeux Tapestry is an interesting piece of history. It celebrates the hostile takeover of England by a foreigner with a very dubious claim to the crown. The Normans claimed nearly all of the land and built fortified settlements in their occupied territory, just like the Israelis are doing today.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I expect that Burnham will be glad to see the back of Starmer after his petty stunt. He could have resigned tomorrow.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
With the Bayeux Tapestry coming to London we're hearing a lot about William the Conqueror's victory at the battle of Hastings. It's funny how nobody mentions his horrifying genocide in the north of England that came afterwards.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration sounds pleasingly like The Trumpet Ministration.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A lot of right-wing activists use the 'speaking quickly' tactic; the theory is that if you speak fast enough then nobody will realise that you are talking rubbish.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
'How to Lose Friends and Fail to Influence People' by Donald Trump is available from all good bookshops.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you think that Reform will copy Trump with calls to rename The Irish Sea? England only has a channel so why should Ireland get a sea? It wouldn't surprise me.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I fear that AI will swamp the internet with second rate derivative dross and unreliable 'facts' like a deranged individual filling their local library with dodgy books.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Donald Trump is 'the neighbour from hell' and poor Canada can't move house.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You can understand why Nigel Farage is so reluctant to delegate authority in Reform. None of his minions is up to the job.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I like to avoid angry people but it's difficult now that we have social media. People seem to think that anger helps to promote their message; maybe it does with most people but it has the opposite effect with me.
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critical-hippo.bsky.social @critical-hippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't think Donald Trump really knows what a friend is, let alone an ally.
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