Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialWhaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 1645996523
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLabour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelectionVictory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics 912875530
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialCornish/Manc Parallel Realist (Worldwide Dept.) @leftymuso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 22483163
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Maybe there is still something good in the world. Timeline cleanse . 010
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#Badenoch I’m hearing a lot of bragging and slagging, but not a lot of substance, never mind policy. #ToryPartyConference 162
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#BBCNews announcer hurriedly ends a “tribute” to the late, unlamented #JeffreyArcher when #MichaelCrick describes him as a “serious crook”. Crick’s knowing grin says it all. Well done, Mr Crick.👏 031
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialwolvespolitburo.bsky.social @wolvespolitburo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Same old boring Tories. Anything that gets in the way of them making piles of cash on the cheap is called red tape. Be it workers rights, health and safety protections, building regulations just a few examples. Low tax means poorly funded essential services. The shit we are in after 14 years. 072
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428481093
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#Badenoch keeps claiming people are “gaming” the benefits system, but every time #BBCLaurak challenges her for figures - for people claiming disability benefits who aren’t disabled, or in with bug claiming - she didn’t have the figures. “My team will send them,” she parps. 271
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Within a minute of starting, #Badenoch said that earning more money meant you had been working harder. Even #bbclaurak pushed her on the basic idiocy of her free childcare for millionaires policy. 040
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 13248872034
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Isn’t the US president bragging about intelligence operations a bit rich, given he’s been deferring to foreign dictators rather than listen to their advice?theguardian.comUK security forces were aware of RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot, hints defence secretaryWes Streeting indicates farmer who alerted police and said security forces had ‘dropped the ball’ only ‘had a partial picture’ 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thsnjx for posting this - just think of his much USA could have done to fight climate change with the money they squander on war. It’s a question of how far ahead you look. 041
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026American Head of State addresses Elyse’s Palace and French President in their own language. You want see that very often.., 000
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts: 861058423
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Dear @metpolice.bsky.social Could you please enforce the 2006 UK law against spreading religious hate ... meme via We Demand UK 616274
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It still seems kind of quaint the way Americans still believe their constitution works. 1212227
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective. 19514272
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialPaul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It beggars belief that the leader of a political party is allowed to have his own show on a UK news channel. One of the reasons we had previously avoided the worst of US-style culture wars was that we didn’t have our own equivalent of Fox News. Now we do, and look where it’s taking us. 022
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rich assholes like this grind my teeth. Earned his billions off the petrochemical industry Backed Brexit squeezing the UK into a poorer less powerful corner Doesn’t admit that HE is one of the reasons we are in the state we are in Not worth the steam off my coffee www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 47530133
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monacobbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 721181326
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Let’s stop indulging the racist nimby clowns of #Piddington. Let’s demand the police arrest those intimidating RNLI volunteers. Let’s make “legitimate concerns” as discredited a phrase as “Get Brexit done”, and as hollow as a slogan in the side of a bus. 050
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Good to see the HS (finally) calling out this piece of racist excrescence. She shouldl also instruct police to actively seek out those who intimidated the RNLI volunteers. But for how long do we have to indulge the racist nimbyism of the Piddington bigots?theguardian.com‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretaryShabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I know this might be a stupid question, but can’t they just unplug AI? #AI 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How on earth did the waffling bluffer Mark Harper become a Lord? Watching him, utterly unable to answer a direct question about where the Tories would house asylum seekers, fantasising about leaving the European Convention, was instructive. 041
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialLet’s Be Frank @frankedson24.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Seriously, get gambling, legal or otherwise, the phuck out of sports. Now, before it’s too late. It’s entirely possible gambling could be the undoing of sports as we know them. There are too many bad actors, including people and athletes involved in and around sports, who could ruin it for everyone. 1582526459
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How long before #BBCLauraK lies down in the studio floor to let Robert Jenrick walk over her some more? 010
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If the British people, the British media, and the major political parties cannot see that the 36m donations aren’t just an electoral threat, but an attempt to give billionaires the same level of power and political immunity they enjoy in the US, then we really are lost. 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026#RNLI we’ve come to a very bad place when volunteers are being intimidated by racists, when their personal safety is compromised, and #BBCNews is treating it as a by-product of “protest.” This is not a matter of opinion. This is media giving voice to physical endangerment. 020
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#TimMontgomerie is talking about his erstwhile party "seizing power." It's a phrase that has uncomfortable resonances. What's wrong with "winning elections"? 010
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat. 781710560
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Shocking to see #DonnaJones, a Police Commissioner politicising the work of a paramilitary mob as a "wake up call to the government." The only wake up call it should be is for the Home Secretary to instruct the police to take much firmer action with these thugs, and remove Jones from her post. 000
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Racists closed Dover port.They seem to think that people crossing the channel in small boats come through the port. If you want to close down a major travel terminal, just be a fascist thug. No arrests. But hold up a sign protesting for Palestine Action & against genocide & you're a terrorist. 56517
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#Farage #ReformUK man whose entire political career has been based on grievance and demonisation says we “live in a complainant society.” 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In a world of spitefulness and tragedy, I found the footage of the rescuer carrying one of the rescued tunnel workers on his back strangely moving. 110
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why is #BBCNews covering Hate-Goblin #ZiaYusuf’s extremist rant, complete with Nuremberg Rally cadence, live. The BBC never stops reminding us we pay for them. I don’t pay to watch this little piggy squealing his resentment and poisonous hatred. 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#ReformUK #SuellaBraverman On the TV, at their conference. Voice faltering, stammering, all sense of confidence in what she's doing absent. 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ah, #PoliticsLive is back and once again a Tory - Helen Whately - is shrieking over the non-Tory panellists. Once again, no effort to control the melee from the alleged presenter. 000
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... Fuck all these entitled people, who ban books, appropriate the Kennedy Centre, pillage and plagiarise all our culture for their AI, and plan vulgar self-aggrandising monuments.theguardian.comBritish Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestryConcern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum 010
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I am curious to know why the return of Harry and Meghan was greeted with snark, speculation and talk of a backlash (that I have to say I saw little sign outside the righting media), while Epstein pal Fergie is treated like an eccentric auntie coming back from a week in Benidorm. 011
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 25/08/2026#BBCBreakfast “if you’ve just joined us, it’s 9 minutes to 8. If you’ve been with us for a while it’s also 9 minutes to 8”. You have to appreciate Martine Croxall👏 000
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialThe Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housingLabour called the plan "unserious and unworkable" and accused Reform of pushing "gimmicks and division". 40556178
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Instead of having a backlash against casting Meghan Markell in a TV show - a backlash btw I've seen little evidence except in gutter papers - might it not be better to have a backlash against social media platforms which encourage teenagers to drive the wrong way up m'ways for 'likes'? 000
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Don’t bother fixing anything cos that might encourage people to come here… is quite the manifesto pledge. Also… the fact that £5Mill, 5 homes Farage doesn’t want to fix homelessness is a lovely look, isn’t it? 1135577
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Sooner or later, these scumbags are going to start declaring people with chronic conditions or hereditary diseases as “useless eaters”.theguardian.comJenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics liveParty’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits 010
ilpenseroso.bsky.social @ilpenseroso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Has the Culture Secretary questioned the BBC’s DG on the bizarre decision to make the benefits policy of a party with 8 MPs the lead story? Has the Head of daily News been summoned in front of a Parliamentary Committee to answer persistent pro-Reform bias? 1103
Reposted by @ilpenseroso.bsky.socialRichard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20243111201