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Lee Fellows @leejfellows.bsky.social · 4h

Mark Francois, John Redwood, David Frost, David Starkey and others…

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Lee Fellows @leejfellows.bsky.social · 4h

Just looked at who is on their Advisory Board 🫣

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Panther Raccoon @pantherraccoon.bsky.social · 4h

BBC News has been broken for more than a decade now.

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 4h

The far-R goons imposed at BBC by Tories need to be removed.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?

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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

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davegearing @davegearing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Assuming that all those who support the Tories policy reinstatement of free child care for those earning over £100,000 will equally welcome the Tories policy of scrapping inheritance tax?. Notwithstanding the Tories policy of slashing welfare payments to poor & sick by 50+ billion.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I understand the desire to speak well of the dead, and am sure that Archer, like all of us, was a mix of good and bad. But the tendency to indulge dishonesty, so long as it's by a loveable scamp, has done real damage to British politics. We should be a bit wary of the "isn't he a card?" thing.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

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davegearing @davegearing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sorry but if Politoco’s reporting of the extreme far right Tory Party electoral strategy of tacking centre to appeal to middle class LD’s & Labour voters is true then it’s one of the most batshit political strategies, guaranteed to failure, I’ve ever heard.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/10/2026

‘In fixating on the threat of “foreign” money, Labour has implicitly accepted that plutocrats can buy politics, so long as they are on the electoral roll.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“With births barely exceeding deaths, and likely to fall, idea UK faces inexorable immigration-driven population growth is detached from reality. The long-term challenge is how we sustain the workforce, public services and tax base as the population ages.” www.thetimes.com/article/uk-p...

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UK population grows at slowest rate since 1998, ONS figures show

The slowdown is largely due to the ongoing fall in net migration

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed.

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would ask what he's done to date to prove it - he's PM now. Has he jailed water CEOs for pollution - nationalised water? Why keep same Home Sec with same anti-migrant (racist) policies? Why go easy on the fascist mobs? Why continue jailing grannies peacefully protesting genocide/climate? It's BS

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Burnham shows no signs of undoing the Blue Lab culture wars, if anything his Govt is doubling down on the very worst aspects: -Retention of Mahmoud - retrospectively changing permanent residency for legal immigrants -Retention of Phillipson - implementation of the unworkable EHRC Code of Practice

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Mike Jay @mikejay.link · 21/09/2026

I agree with this... Labour have no chance in improving their standing with those that stopped supporting and voting for their party unless they remove Mahmood, stop the processes she has started and actually welcome migrants because it helps the UK economy. If they don't, I won't change my view.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My main conclusion is that the UK government doesn’t want any kind of deal, really.

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Iain Alexander @iaingalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

…but it’s also potentially problematic if/when people start to see him failing to muster anything like the same level of genuine care and fluency on key policy matters. “You can do it for this, why not for *this*?”, as he evades, triangulates, and equivocates.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, I think that lets them off too easily, see rest of my thread. Condemning violence/illegality is easy. But (say) chanting "send them all back" is AFAICS likely to be entirely legal in most contexts. That does not mean it is an expression of "legitimate concerns" and Ministers should say so.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Just-Me @just-me.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He knows who and what is being asked about but won't answer because he doesn't consider them to be rioters.

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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1. He knows & just doesn't want to respond 2. Natalie did that posting 3 he's in one of his many dementia dips 4 he's still smarting from the smack down given by Catherine Connolly

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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He knows, it's his way of shutting down something he doesn't want to talk about - and media keep giving him a pass

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sandymarsh.bsky.social @sandymarsh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He knew EXACTLY what the questioner was asking. He simply doesn’t view those who rioted on Jan 6 on his behalf as RIOTERS ‼️

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026

The radical right wants you to think that immigrants are to blame for problems in this country. Do not fall for their false narrative. Immigration is good for our country.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#Burnham and #Starmer before him seem asleep at the wheel while British politics dissapears down the gutter. 2 and a quarter years of untrammelled power and nothing! 🤬 #Funding #ElectoralReform #Press #BBC #Ofcom #Leveson #GBN Utterly crazy. Emergency legislation needed in 48 hours.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Sir Edward Leigh MP: “What is happening in the West Bank... is ethnic cleansing... I am proud to say, as the longest-serving member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, that I absolutely and fully support what [Ed Miliband] is doing today, because it’s about standing up for freedom and justice"

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davegearing @davegearing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pleased to see a strong and imo entirely correct & justified foreign policy response to the continuing illegal, & growing occupation of WB by Israel. And to the increasing violence against Palestinians perpetrated by Israeli settlers.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yes, Trump is a horror. But he was elected a second time, after people saw what he did the first time. Sure, we can blame Trump, but a large portion of the American people are really to blame. It makes me sad and embarrassed to say that, but we all know it’s true.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That was precisely my problem with Tapp’s comment. Essentially he was saying, “why are you protesting when we’re addressing your concerns?”. What happened yesterday was illegal.

Martin Gallagher, a former superintendent, told GB News that there had been an "intelligence failure" by the force. "Whatever intelligence opportunities exist about this group, the anti-immigration group, they've obviously failed," he said.
He raised the idea of the police using the Public Order Act 1936 to counter such protests. That legislation relates to a group forming in uniform that can be seen as acting against the state and was drawn up to counter Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British fascists in the 1930S.

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Mike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is it really too much to ask for to be governed by a PM who actually understands the need for a cordon sanitaire to delegitimise the far right, instead of endlessly validating them? It’s starting to feel like this bit. But not as funny: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWa3...

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The Devil, is he all bad? (Not the nine o'clock news)

YouTube video by Ozkurl

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/09/2026

I guess someone could also argue that to wade into this would be to allow the government to be distracted from Andy Burnham's priorities. Except it's already on the front page. You can't just ignore it, hide and mutter about devolution. Silence is itself a statement. People are listening.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/09/2026

I clearly lack imagination because I can't picture the kind of voter who might vote Labour in the next election but not if they come out forcefully against black-uniformed balaclava wearing thugs blockading infrastructure. Who is this mystical beast, and are we sure s/he lives in a marginal?

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you are going to describe something as a 'protest' you should be able to state what is being protested about with some degree of certainty.

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also perhaps a Tory party where the one nation element has been almost completely neutered. It is a very different party to one where Greening, Gauke, Stewart etc had roles.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's worth trying regardless. You miss all the shots you don't take.

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No issue with the Sun thing, fine, they were disgusting but, er, hellooo.

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