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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Former Chief Treasury Sec. - the 'economically stagnant' 70s was followed by a 'remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise' in the 80s.......where growth fell. 📉🤔

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always at the scene of the crime. Coincidence?🧐

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Informally dressed sociopath intent on world domination says....

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's just head the news.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And rich countries all coincidentally turning racist at the same time. 🤔

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Yea, I shot my neighbour and buried him under the patio. But in my defence I never thought anyone would find out.'

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How about Jenkyns. Could cover Donna Summer - 'I feel hate'?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'I'm an insomniac, staring at the ceiling, waiting for my thoughts to switch off...🎶'.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pollsters/political scientists/neoclassical economists:

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'No Mum, deontology is different!' 🤦‍♂️

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When Bash Street kids turn Fascist.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Did that fella next to Jenrick, 'take a step to the right'

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

*Very* different from the radical/far right. Agree! But... 'trying to give everyone a stake and realistic aspiration in society'. Do Scandi or UK citizens have a greater stake? 'Aspiration'? Whilst conservatives preach social mobility, in practice they pull up the ladder.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As Socrates was notoriously indifferent to personal hygiene., the real question is what would a burglar do?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wait till Ed Balls finds out who his wife is

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Running on dismantling the opposition's headline policy success is, erm, a 'bold' strategy.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pheremone maxxing? Walk around Greenland smelling like a real man's armpits and watch as the locals fall at your feet.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Centrists debasing the truth (heads I win tales you lose? Tush of course not!) created the conditions for paranoia on the left and right?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This brings to mind how chefs utilise judgement (rather than mechanical metrics) to obtain consistent results - a handful of this, a bit of that, taste and adjust. Politician, 'Judgement? B-b-but the recipe?!'

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

He was catching Bryant & May when disaster struck.....

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ditto Trump's tax cuts etc. Is the populist right a reaction to neoliberalism, the latest iteration of it, or both?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can I take it this received a glowing review in the Economist?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Keynes, 'To suggest social action for the public good to the City of London is like discussing the Origin of Species with a bishop sixty years ago. The first reaction is not intellectual, but moral.' Haves stoke moral outrage in others who will lose out - again.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Come in number one, your time is up!" There, solved it.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I wonder what Denzel Dexter is up to these days?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sacha Baron Cohen made a very serious documentary about it...

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Elon planning to build a ladder to Mars?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As per electricity VAT announcement, on one side there are those who say this a first step to address cost of living crisis crisis and on the other those who ask, is that it?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Indeed. Whilst 'decline' is debatable, a 40 year narrative where all goodies accrued to asset owners - London/S.E. + old people - is very real. But admitting the Green voting urban yoof and Reform voting left behind areas have cause for complaint, means admitting systemic changes have to be made.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

100%. Rather than Ron Swanson (he is great though 😆), channel your inner Leslie Knope to emphasise how looking after each other/improving things, is just who we are. And if at first you don't succeed....

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Voters who didn't take Starmer's election slogan of 'stability is change' at face value. (Conversely, I think Starmer is still in the denial stage)

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With more of the same a losing gambit, authoritarian conservatives - who couldn't care less about enlightenment principles - plan to make an unholy alliance with a far right who they think they can control?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

You've got my attention...

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yup, young adults still living with mum and dad have to endure stories about the awful 70s when there weren't cheap phones/computers/cars. I wonder why crumblies vote for the status quo whilst the yoof don't?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Binface removes his helmet revealing James Earl Jones as Nige's father?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

BREAKING: FIFA have declared that the US has just won the world cup.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You're not going out looking like that young lady!

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The many planning reforms over the decades have delivered how many extra private sector homes? Did we start doing anything different c.1979?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yup, all the planning reforms over the decades have resulted in the private sector constructing approx. the same number of homes.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'Mangling of the information system' - whilst economics deals in hypotheticals, technocrats sell it as fact. And if reality differs from the modelling people react by saying 'don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining'. Was it really a surprise when this was the message that stuck?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'hypotheticals can't be proved and plausible outcomes had to be modelled'. The boy who cried wolf? If previous claims/guesstimates of economists proved mostly accurate Remain would have won? 'there are winners and losers' - Remain swerving political economy is why this bird in hand message won?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

RFK emerges from the reflecting pool 'I told you it was fine'.

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yes, and if the obverse of national debt is 'net private savings', whose savings are increasing? The blue line is your average Trump supporter?

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Jim Obey @jimob1.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here are Blair's principles and if you don't like them he has others.

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