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I/P a starter action of significance, yes, but the follow through not so much, at least so far. Still early days.

Like with PR, there's to be a whole Nat Commission. Keeps them happy chatting on what is the best form of PR. And he's committed to considering making "it" part of a manifesto. Which doesn't seem much to me. And so on and on with other issues. Action is deferred. After the next election. On...

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 16h

My theory with Burnham is he says stuff that some element of the supportive chattering class agrees with, and it's noncommittal, but they love it. There's no policy connection. To be suspicious, its helpful to keep some people talking. True for govt to be effective you need to stop talking..

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We'll see, but not getting a warm feeling about this govts commitment to climate change from multiple angles

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't think even they broadcast them though? The Saudis kept foreigners away from theirs.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm waiting to read why this proves the Keminaissance is real and on on-track....

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Below thread is good; I'd add to annoy people further: the left is split. So is the right. This is a left dominant seat, so only the left split mattered here, but these splits are bad news for both blocs where the blocs are closer. And the LD centre does not exist, at least here.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rubio going on about Cortes and 'civilisation' makes sense in this context of mad lusts for gold and land. No other President would have been consumed by a lust for cash.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trade off of "Electrification" vs "conservation area" (= half of England) and the govts decision is...sigh...vote Labour for prioritising petrol cars I guess. Mad. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Blow for EV drivers in conservation areas who need pavement cables

Last-minute government amendments will exclude some 100,000 electric car owners without driveways from automatically being allowed to use cables

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I could care less about football, and realise the sport is more corrupt than Trump, but allowing some idiot and evil Middle Eastern sheik to openly buy his way around the UK law.....is morally wrong and needs to be stopped.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

British politics resembles a cruel psychological test: how much pain of Labour doing nutty left things can you take before you vote for crazy Kemi to make it stop?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Churchill to Truss. Life's unfair.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Warning: its not advisable to read past this point until you've had a strong espresso.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Labour's London constituencies such as Hammersmith are basically invulnerable, and er, well, perhaps not! www.thetimes.com/money/tax/ar...

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London borough considers 150% council tax rise

Hammersmith and Fulham has the fourth lowest bills in the country — but not for long

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I doubt she's into the systems specifics. There is a valid concern though: what if an unknown cargo ship off the coast launches 5-10 drones at London? Is there any defence in place?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pulling out the bombers from this base means the threat, imaginary or not, has forced the retreat of US forces further from theatre. Admitting this is...something.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember Gove trying to take out no-fault evictions, kind of 'does not compute' stuff.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Left-wing parties boasting about left-wing things and right-wing parties boasting about right-wing things is the hot new trend

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very fun, in most part I shop where I do, Tesco, cause its the closest one to my house. When I lived elsewhere it was a Sainsbury's. Having said that, the Tory- M&S is odd. Like M&S is expensive like Waitrose but with iffy quality? Does the English cachet it has really mean more business?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In other words the Iranian operation was a success; it pushed the US operations back from a base with weak security? Funny thing to admit.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wish a journalist would do a profile of these "judges"; it'd be shocking.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Making Stalin's show trial judges look respectable:

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, unrepentant hard core philistinism. Quite a bit of it in the Labour party too, truth be told, but usually kept a lot more quiet, in both parties. Again, I see a huge space for a party that cares about culture, community spaces, for all.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not really able to handle Big Debate right now but isn't it just that some people are using "Zionism" to mean "the core proposition of a 19th century nationalist movement i.e. that the Jewish people get a state" some people to mean "the ideology of the present expansionist settler movement"...

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think house building will be trickier- the anti ULEZ and Tory outer belt has green belt housing plans which are not popular. Is he opposed as they are Labour plans? Also - the "meh" point applies to himself too?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Indeed, current nonna in law speaks dialect as well as Italian. She prefers dialect. Young locals speak it as well; as mountain villages tend to preserve customs.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Its a politically astute attack line from the Greens though: make Burnham explain why is sadly can't do anything, or until 2029+, again and again.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remain are now very Welsh, and have usually had their children taught the language too.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Welsh angle is particularly absurd, considering the massive English migration to Wales, greater than that to America. Whether one self-ids as something depends on more than birth; many children of that migration, born in Wales, thought of themselves as English, and left. Those that...

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How to split the environmental EU vote: just have the EU ban the marvellous Chinese ecars and the UK electrifies with them. Condition of joining is 'must buy German diesel cars.' Be ironic if it comes down to the German car makers in the end.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Same, without success.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've seen BT pressuring older relatives into buying capacity they have no need at all for. £84 is wild.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, I mean I think all the basic systems generate equal results, so trying to change the voting system is a waste of time. But adherents to the PR cause almost never get push back, as no-one can be bothered, so when things get a little serious, they are surprised.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think a referendum would be closer now, as in 2011, there was a lot of PR is a foreign Euro thing, which was more unpopular then. It will still lose I predict, unless both Tories and Labour campaign for it.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But then, for a referendum, the particular flavour of PR/non-PR change on offer will no doubt be perceived to benefit one party, so all the others will be unenthusiastic.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Its dangerous not to go a Referendum route, as if not, there would be no barrier at all to a future govt changing it howsoever they liked. In Italy, the govt does that but is constrained by the judiciary & constitutional limits. We have no such limits.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Burnham's Man City comments made me realise why I haven't bothered writing an article about politics since he became PM; he's so incoherent that there's nothing to properly engage with. He's very like Johnson where it's all a ragbag of random beliefs shaped by youthful idealism or career experiences

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As Robert says, step 1 - discussions have continued since 1918; no result so far. No sign of one. Any system will favour someone; others will thus unite against it.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since 1918 - the exact PR (or new) model flavour proposed is, amazingly, perceived to benefit one party, and the others can't agree on it: paralysis.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bit stunning, not that Burnham reads, can write, has literary taste and a mind, but that we just had a few PMs who couldn't and didn't. And it showed. There's some hope for him; since I'm not convinced any of his opponents have read or wrote much recently.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haven’t we renamed la manche, “The American Channel” in recognition that the Murcans won “the war”.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One issue on the PR referendum, or neverendum, is if we have another in say 2030, 19 years after the last, what is the reason not to have a Scottish one 3 years after that?

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is very good as a model for building consensus for change, (quibble: raises but does not address the 'we'll change the system every parliament' problem). The Jenkins model would be excellent if the commission is for party & opinion management, not actual change, as proven by its results.

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its not a sustainable message for Labour for 3 years. I don't think that means an early election, so either they deliver something before May 29 or perish.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Its a very solid piece by Burnham; as in, he can write and make an argument. Starmer never could write anything, even using ghosts. I wonder if Kemi can come up with any counter beyond shrieking about the triple lock. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

telegraph.co.uk

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