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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'll give this one a miss, Alastair. Gove's an awful human being.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And now, a party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative party.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’d definitely whisper it if I was as bonkers as Villiers.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had the privilege of meeting you around a decade ago when you were in Bristol with the Bonzos! I am sure you remember it well! Do let me know if you are ever in this neck of the woods sometime. I think I may owe you a pint!

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

14 years of Griffiths and his pals gutting public services, presiding over a record increase in food poverty and hollowing-out the armed forces seems to have slipped his mind.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's probably just me but I am sick to the back teeth of these 'all-day' themed days on @bbc6music.bsky.social. If I wanted an 'all-day carnival, which it is today, I'd just fucking go to one.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In short, the last one, Marvin Rees, was extremely unpopular and a vote was held to abolish the position. Rees was rewarded by elevation to the House of Lords!

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Could be tough in Bristol where people voted to get rid of the Mayoral position!

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I thought she was just there to change his nappies (diapers)?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm as shocked by the sacking of Dan Jarvis, as I am disgusted by the return of Wes Streeting. With Healey off to the Treasury, I think we can all begin to see what's been happening here.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I expect the Fagash Fuhrer to call for the man's immediate release on the grounds of free speech. After all, remember Lucy Connolly?

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reckon you're right. Let's see what happens ... 😉

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

With an out there homophobe - Mazraoui - in the Morocco team, it had to be France for me, even thought it would have been better for England if Morocco had won.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Calling Carol Vorderman. Clacton needs you.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Those teeth, that growing bald patch. He’s looking very old.

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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This pathetic faux-innocent “but it was before he was an MP”, when said by actual MPs, who should know the rules, is breathtaking. Any gift in the previous 12 months is potentially declarable. Stds commissioner can take into account Farage’s behaviour during the inquiry. 🧐

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ha ha - I didn’t know that. I’ll go along with the need to make a living angle!

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Navarro should have his fat ass sued for saying this shit.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’m the same, John. If this is a coronation, I’ll be well hacked off.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You must be gutted after all your efforts to get rid of him.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Surprised to see Private Eye going after the easy targets.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

To be fair, John, the membership has been shut down already because no one asked us whether we agreed with Burnham's apparent coup and it looks like we will have no say in who succeeds Keir.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I have. We were following each other until then. I can’t be arsed with it all.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

One of the comrades writes … He hates me, a lifelong Labour member, more than he hates an actual fascist.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You’re a bit of a cunt, aren’t you? Presumably the sort of cunt who supported Corbyn as he handed the keys to Boris Johnson. Well, fuck you.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m sure you’ll be happy with the Fagash Fuhrer in charge. I’m sorry, too.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I thought this was on Point….

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

And now we go live to Albania. Fuck you, Kushner and Trump.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@nivenj1.bsky.social Hi John, I've just started O Brother. My God (not that there is a god, but you know what I mean) you can't half write. My only regret is I didn't discover your writing until now. Still, never too late. That's it, really. All the best, Rick

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If Byline Times goes down the same road with Starmer and Labour as the gutter media, will there be any point to it, Adam. Signed sincerely, A subscriber (for now)

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

And disrespectful to Labour members up and down the land who have had no say in what is effectively a coup.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It is a functioning country for the time-being, Otto, but the gutter-media and reckless Labour MPs have taken a wrecking ball to it. Farage must be laughing his fucking head off. He didn’t pick an abysmal candidate in Makerfield for nothing.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hacks like you have a lot to do with it, especially your newspaper's hatred of Starmer.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

And he has a mandate from Labour Party members who elected him leader. The MPs who want to overthrow and replace him don't seem too bothered about us.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

You hear people say, “Politicians are in it for themselves” and then you get a man, Keir Starmer, who could make far more money at the bar, but believes in public service, and is anything but a career politician and people turn on him.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Well, we should. The party keeps asking - begging? - for our money, so why shouldn't we have our say?

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Toynbee literally says that "honesty doesn't pay' in politics and that Burnham must engage in gesture politics. "Impressions are everything." There we have it. Having a decent, honest man, who doesn't do gesture politics, in 10 Downing Steet isn't enough. It is for me, but what do I know?

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As Starmer eyes the exit, here’s a vital lesson for Andy Burnham: first impressions are everything | Polly Toynbee

If the Makerfield MP is to be our next PM, he needs some immediate and memorable cost of living policies to avoid his predecessor’s fate, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There’s no doubt that Starmer is unpopular for reasons I don’t fully understand but I feel little enthusiasm for Burnham in my little world. Most people aren’t that interested in politics and wonder what the fuck is going on.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Honestly, I’m not bothered about engaging with a gutless, nameless coward so just go away and bother someone else.

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

He doesn't seem to give a toss about those of us who elected Keir Starmer as Labour leader. It's as if the 'King of the North' thinks we don't matter.

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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Andy Burnham has said he'd like to be in number 10 by September like it's a foregone conclusion. I wonder if my boss would step aside with no fuss for me to take their job, even though they're doing it rather well, as easy as that?

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

That useless old fool, who helped give us Brexit with his sheer apathy and definitely gave us a Johnson landslide, fucked himself over.

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