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On The Threshold

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Admirer of hope. Wisher of good fortune. Enactor of bad decisions. I just want the best life for my local hedgehogs.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13h
I'm going to be honest: this kind of stuff is so much more enervating and demoralising than any "wrecking" behaviour by sjws in lesbian bars. Having to fight tedious centrists who never found a social security program they could actually support is exhausting.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h
And you’re *sure* they’re patsy proxies for Iran and not, you know, fuel thieves.
Laurence Taylor, the national head of counterterrorism, said on Tuesday night: “Those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination, with the support of military assets and forensic experts, and we can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered.”
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h
There is so much at stake at this election. Real hope looks like action. Rent controls, nationalising Thames Water and no to fossil fuels. Here's an update on how it's going! youtu.be/hPmtOL6obLw
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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12h
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 10h
I know I should really have prepared better for retirement, but I was busy having a great time and taking so many drugs that I never expected to make it that far.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10h
With Andy Burnham's speech, the left has unequivocally won the argument - on the rhetoric, at least. The substance is rather more complicated. But this government is more susceptible to popular pressure to go in a more progressive direction than Starmerism. Should embolden us!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h
We have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass.
Prime Minister stops short of nationalising water companies
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h
We can conclude here that either 1) these lads have been assured none of this is going to happen, or 2) somewhere in Labour HQ there is a drawer full of evidence against them that’s so utterly damning, all of these guys will squeak “Oh yes I love nationalising things” like their nuts are in a vice.
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"Was that a better speech than any that you can imagine yourself ever delivering?"
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Wes Streeting says he feels "completely vindicated" by his decision to back Andy Burnham.
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 12h
🗣 From effectively green-lighting new oil and gas, to failing to tax extreme wealth, Burnham’s speech missed the mark. By a long way. 🟢 For real change and real hope: Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 14h
Hello fellow Labour enthusiasts and Andy Burnham lovers, I know it's a hassle, but while the conference is going on, Andy has asked me to just pop round and make sure everything is in order with your wallets. I'm sure it is, but if you could have them ready for inspection that would be great.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 19h
For decades, electorates have been mis-sold a fanatical ideology: the prerogatives of the private sector must override the collective interest, and anything less is tantamount to Stalinism. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 18h
We've been doing "let's scrap [benefit] to fund [promised future public service] for close to two decades now, and while we have succeeded in scrapping benefits we do not seem to have funded any more public services. And somehow we still don't have any money.
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Fish @fishmcneill.bsky.social · 18h
Remember when Starmer presented as left wing when he wanted the leader's job, then presided over possibly the most far right government the UK has ever seen? Don't get fooled again.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19h
Phoning up MI5 to say I think all the dog shit, fly-tipping and St. George's Flag graffiti around my area might be an Iranian plot
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19h
It is "electoral suicide" to drop the triple-lock, but apparently not to blow a hole in the side of public finances with a xenophobic campaign to make the whole UK hostile to immigration
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20h
"Its the wrong place to get money from.. there are other places.. the richest 50 families are worth £500bn. Why are we talking about pensioners £12,500 & not talking about a wealth tax. Why is that?" @unitesharon.bsky.social says scrapping the triple lock would be the wrong thing to do
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mamdani came up challenging the centre left establishment party. James would have been digging up dirt on him the second he became aware he existed.
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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 22h
Means testing is just wedge used to turn the obviously outrageous "should we have this social net at all" into "who deserves this social net?". Every edge case is then used as an argument to diminish provision until it's gone. Cynically using people's sense of fairness to fuck everyone over.
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 20h
Labour just want to use anything as an excuse to slash welfare and harm vulnerable people. It’s pure evil and it makes me sick. People still voting/backing Labour you need to raise your standards.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Being seen as nasty“ isn’t so much a risk as the entire point
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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What happens when they can't get a job? What happens when there aren't enough jobs to go around? What happens when we live in a system that relies upon a certain amount of people being unemployed? Tory shit
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Once again marvelling at how every political decision of the past 50 years has been calibrated to fuck people born in 1994 specifically.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22h
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again.
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It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This man is one of the biggest complete and utter scumbags out there
recent Google Maps view of Gaza showing that all the buildings have been flattened and there is no evidence of green. It is all dust.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they're wasting money for the sole purpose of being cruel and that in itself will cost us even more money, while they talk about more cuts because we're apparently struggling with money
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We will make sure that Britain wins in the AI revolution." There’s a story in the Guardian today about how Euan Blair is using AI to make his employees mentally ill.
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does a Labour government in UK wants to ape and copy the authoritarian far-right libertarians in US? Why trying to be like th school bully is the aim here?
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People who’d still vote Labour are being conned. There is little to no difference between the current government and the Starmer project. It’s just better PR. Their policies and politics is still to the right of Theresa May. Labour are just neoliberals who are in love with austerity.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey: "The money New Labour had in the 90s is simply not there now." "It is not progressive to allow a bigger & bigger benefits bill." "We will make sure that Britain wins in the AI revolution." TRANSLATION: expect continuity austerity & steering the UK into the AI hurricane.
John Healey at Labour conference
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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
andy burnham was an op used to prevent increasing support for a left wing alternative among predominantly 'normie libs' who had even begun to realise how shit starmer, who was also an op, was
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shabana is amazing, genuinely, she's like a militarised version of a district manager who thinks she's hard. Who will never defeat us, Iran? Doggers? Fly tippers?
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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was
All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me in January The Times today
On the left, Andrew Fisher writing in The i Paper in January 2026, warning that falling migration would damage the economy and necessitate tax risesThe Times today (28/09/26) reporting that falling migration numbers will cost £7 billion as Chancellor prepares his Budget.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/09/2026
Economic disaster + emboldened racism Well done lads. Thanks for the sensible, grown-up politics and the grand plan to please a small minority that will never be pleased unless they get full fascism (and even then...)
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sing along at the chorus, kids: they are building a permission structure, and this is no more a moral crusade than the Big Society was.
Josh Glancy @joshglancy
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Alan Milburn and Pat McFadden are creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts. When the time comes, they must take it, or watch Farage/the Tories do it their way
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Clark the Bushman @allypallywally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm getting pretty sick of watching Labour constantly attack disabled welfare claimants. Below is the antidote to the Labour sickness. Time to join and vote Green 💚 join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=g...
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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Jack Badger @ctzbadger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you support labour you're a cunt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The next election? Motherfucker, you are the prime minister NOW.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#GetGreensElected - a crucial 10 days to get out the message: #VoteGreen for Zack Polanski
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Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another weekend trip for @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social to Holborn and St Pancras to get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected. 💚
Oxford Green Party activists holding 'Vote Green' and 'Vote Zack Polanski' posters with a huge crowd in Castlehaven Community Park
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Paul Moore @greenbookmarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A vote for Labour is a vote to harm disabled people. This government is evil
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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you can't do this with the biggest majority anyone will likely see in this country for decades, you can't do it at all. Weak shit. Palette swap Starmer. Bloodless quants will say it needs to be afforded but it will not be affordable in the next parliament.
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 28/09/2026
🔔 NEXT WEEK: Green Party of England and Wales Leader Zack Polanski takes on Labour in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. 🏛️ On 8 October: VOTE ZACK. Spread the word. 💪
Green graphic with BY-ELECTION UK PARLIAMENT written, as well as EIGHT OCTOBER: VOTE ZACK, with an image of UK politician Zack Polanski, pictured to the left.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.
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