The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 13hThe problem with the whole 'Greens should stick to environmental issues' is: they are doing. Climate change is the ultimate result of unrestrainable capitalist markets exporting costs as externalities. It cannot be solved without fundamentally altering the relations of production. 5466
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 23hDescribing Zionism as an inherently racist ideology is not to deny its complex and contested history. Pre-War Labour Zionists sought to create a socialist, egalitarian society. But they also employed a caste of Arab manual workers. And when the time came, they joined the ethnic-cleansing militias. 030
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 23hComrade Red Diesel Thieves, even more effective than the Filton 25 👌 0237
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Staggering how the banal evil of the counter-terrorist security state had seeped into our popular culture. Watching Vigil S2, and there's a point where the 'protagonists' full-on threaten a journalist & his *brother's family & children* with extraordinary rendition and torture. arewethebaddies.jpg 020
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sad to hear that your father is not taking the divorce, or Starmer's resignation, well. 150
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Zionism is racism, for the same reasons that ethnonationalist 'you can't be British without being white' Anglo-Saxonism is transparently racist. 1193
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Greens now advocate: - immediate nationalisation of water utilities without compensation - below inflation rent controls - annual wealth tax of 1% on assets over £10m; 2% over £1bn. This is the palest pink social democracy, and the minimum programme needed to tackle the enormity of the Omnicrisis. 181
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It always strikes me as a bizarre that you can be locked up for secretly planning the murder of a right-wing politicians - but if you openly plan the social murder of thousands of disabled young people by denying them vital in-work benefits, you'll get a glowing write-up in the papers of record.bbc.co.ukWiddecombe suspect charged with planning acts of terror against FarageCounter terror police say the further charge comes after a "hugely intensive and complex investigation". 1101
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These are the fleas they should actually shake off. 130
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This seems to be being widely (and cynically) misrepresented as Zack saying that all the Greens can be is a pressure group. Whereas what he actually seems to be saying is that the current government is so weak and unpopular that the Greens can set the agenda even before they win state power. 020
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah man I'm sure cutting the spending power of u-25s, the single largest consuming demographic for all forms of entertainment media, by enacting 'welfare reform' will have absolutely no significant negative macroeconomic impacts whatsoever. Government by economic illiterates is humiliating. 031
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Massive welfare cuts and scrapping the pension triple-lock? Sure, no mandate for it but whatever, it's vibes. Electoral reform, opposing the far-right, nationalising failing public utilities? Nah fam it's not in the 2026 manifesto, I don't know her. 17828
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh so this is the game aye. Shuffling pension money into elderly care? We used to call that a 'shell game'. 040
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The death penalty is the most unimaginably barbaric institution, and has no place in any civilised society. The state is not competent to wield the power of life and death. The imagery of guillotines should only ever be just that: imagery to remind the elite of the better option.bbc.co.ukChrista Pike in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections, lawyer saysPike’s lawyers have asked for her death sentence to be commuted following the botched execution. 080
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Turns out, woke was the only thing keeping oil under a hundred bucks a barrel. 000
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Them little Rolo yoghurt are fucking mint. That is all. 030
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look! Look! The red diesel thieves knew an Iranian man! That proves it! I am reminded of the Mohammed Al-Fayed bit from Dead Ringers back in the day: "You fuppin fuppers, it was the CIA, it was the Boy Scouts, it was the Brownies, it was the WI!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDual UK-Iranian national arrested over RAF Fairford incidentThe 25-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, marking the sixth arrest in connection with Sunday's incident near the airbase. 020
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026OK officer you got me, I'm an agent of the Iranian state, I trained in a mountain jihadi camp for sixteen years to steal those weirdly shaped blocks of cheese from Aldi 040
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm gonna fix the electoral system, you just have to vote for me next election (which is almost mathematically impossible for me to win because of the broken electoral system) - but I swear I'm gonna do it What? No lol I can't use my existing crushing majority to do it, you idiot communist child 060
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Strange, because when there was a serious version of this, backed up by a mass movement (chanting for it in their hundreds of thousands at music festivals) in the mid-2010s, centrists like Dunt had a screaming fit and colluded with the very worst people in the country to prevent it coming to power. 030
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I thought Owen had left his liberalism far behind him, but evidently the key-jingling was just too tempting this time around. 070
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just such an embarrassing, bare-faced lie. Hanging onto the fascist US's coat-tails in order to try and solve the UK's domestic problems with foreign adventurism has never, ever worked. But it's all we expect from the Blairite cargo cultists. 041
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is no doldrum of humiliation to which the Continuity Labour Left will not stoop. Anyone remaining in the Party has made peace with everything up to this point - and they'll continue to swallow every indignity. @labourlewis.bsky.social is a patsy for authoritarian neoliberalism. 050
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The answer, which is obviously not elucidated here by the BBC, is that: the police have a ready-made permission structure in the form of 'terrorism' that affords a limitless state of exception, to the extent that it has become a knee-jerk instinct to be wielded against five random petrol thieves.bbc.co.ukHow did the RAF Fairford incident go from 'suspected bomb plot' to police bail?Detectives are entering a vital stage of the investigation, with a number of options still open, the BBC's Daniel Sandford writes. 032
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Far too late. Without electoral reform in *this* Parliament, it'll never happen. Democracy is largely toast, with defenders like this. Burnham has a crushing majority, yet is hell-bent on governing as if he's a minority administration. Bunker mentality setting in from day one, just like Starmer.politics.co.ukAndy Burnham announces national commission on electoral reform - Politics.co.ukAndy Burnham has announced a new national commission on electoral reform, and pledged to put a commitment to change the voting system in Labour‘s next manifesto. Speaking to Labour conference, the pri... 150
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Literally absolutely anything other than the single cryingly obvious solution to the problem. Scam government, mark 2.0. 011
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PFI for pylons. This was crappy and insufficient for electricity generation, it'll be crappy and insufficient for modernising distribution infrastructure. 'Public control' is not public ownership. This has all been an exercise in weasel-words and plausible deniability.bbc.co.ukAndy Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity gridThe prime minister will say he wants to reduce energy costs in his first conference speech as Labour leader. 050
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some 'socialists' will allow their hatred of the settler colonial state of Israel to convince themselves of the Great Replacement Theory But Left Wing. 320
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“We fight to win. That means we lose. And lose, and lose, and lose. Until we’re ready." - Luthen Rael, Andor (2025) 050
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The conspiraloony fixation on the Fabians is unsurprising, given that it's a defined membership org extremely milquetoast centre-left associations - but every Fabian I've met was a bizarre little briefcase goblin who would happily feed the working-class into a woodchipper for Line Go Up. 151
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Labour are the only party who could govern with the mindset of a minority administration whilst having the largest working majority in modern history. 2178
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My therapist: AI Slop Chibi King In The North Andy Burnham isn't real, he can't hurt you Whatever the fuck this is: 164
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Breaking: Irish nationalists attempt to march through Protestant neighbourhood in celebration of the genocide of Irish loyalists. Oh wait sorry no, it's the other way around. It always is. 031
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just started watching the second season of Vigil - and now everything had kicked off at RAF Fairford. Coincidence?? 010
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@asleepmink.bsky.social insists that I have 'big NikNak energy' and refuses to elaborate. 110
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Like Starmer, Andy Burnham has a historic majority, bigger than Blair's in 1997. But, like Starmer, all he intends to use it for is it to blackmail the electorate into giving him a second bite at the cherry! It's just staggering how under-prepared these weird little neolib homunculi are.bbc.co.ukPM Andy Burnham proposes national care service to tackle "threadbare" social care system - watch liveThe PM says the care service for England, which would be "free at the point of use", would be put on the ballot at the next general election. 1156
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's pretty important to remember that Whig liberals only became convinced of the needs to create the early welfare state after they tried to recruit Britain's young men into the Army during the Second Boer War, and found that two thirds of them were too malnourished to be cannon fodder. 031
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The obvious answer is: it's a hollowed-out husk, which, if the security-brained neoliberals actually cared about national resilience as much as they claim, they would urgently course-correct to rebuild a functioning civil society. But all this 'security' talk has ever meant is: murdering outgroups. 083
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah I mean I haven't killed myself so I'd say probably a net positive. 050
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Literally all the Labour Together ghouls have been able to do is wreck - first their own party, then as a method of government. Sucking your teeth and saying that Burnham might not be doing Growth Growth Growth hard enough is a cynical attempt to prompt a feeding frenzy from the right wing press.bbc.co.ukAndy Burnham not doing enough to boost growth, says former business secretaryEx-Business Secretary Peter Kyle calls for more urgency on the economy, as Labour members head to the party's annual conference. 394
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you shoot up a school, they'll prosecute you for murder. If you tell someone how to shoot up a school, you'll be prosecuted as an accessory. If you write a computer program that tells people how to shoot up a school... You'll get billions in capex and a place in the national security strategy. 142
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Men's Mental Health Advocates: why do we only talk about women's mental health, men never get to talk about their struggles Andy Carroll: Actually I w- Men's Mental Health Advocates: lol man up pussy 050
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Jason Arday lynching template is being exported. It was never about academic standards - it was absolute ghettoising Black people out of public life. The ringleaders of the movement eg Nathan Cofnas literally loudly and explicitly stated as much. 1930s Weimar vibes intensifies. 073
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If they've only charged him under CDA 1971, then it's the same charge as doing graffiti or knocking off a policeman's hat. I repeat: there is two tier policing in the UK - one tier for grannies holding placards opposing genocide, and a much lower one for Nazis trying to murder people at sea. 14921
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why do we have to have welfare reform? The public finances What about the public finances? *gestures vaguely* 010
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Your regular reminder that the claim we have 'ballooning' welfare spending, or that it needs to be 'brought under control', is flatly false. It's a barefaced lie, told in order to justify hatred of the disabled, vulnerable and economically excluded. Not a fact which 'everyone agrees'. A lie. 074
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What's the matter babe, you've hardly touched your FROZEN MYSTERY ITEM 040
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That's it, lads - just a little more flattery, just a little more self-flagellation, just a little more confirmation of every delusional conspiracy theory - and then they'll definitely vote for you.bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentThe arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025. 1106
The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Continuing to support my hypothesis that Burnhamism is merely Starmerist declinism but with more pointing at the problem and saying 'Ooh that's bad that'. 151