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Josh Neicho

@joshneicho.bsky.social
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🖋️ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids 🏭🌾, often in London 💂‍♂️. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross 🪢👑

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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 12h
Fair enough! 🙏 (And that makes a lot of sense). Would it have made a noticeable difference if the seat available was in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury etc or is that getting pedantic?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 14h
Should eg Caroline Russell have run in H&StP? Andy Burnham seems to be a counter-example to your point (fairly local to Wigan but his localness not that important). Maybe a special case
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kent country-cide?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t believe it was on the same occasion
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Narrator: Robert Jenrick is 44
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s certainly the inverse of G&D in that (as you suggest) it saw a very ambitious male candidate with a weakness for exaggeration face a female candidate with more emollient messages and appeal. I wonder how much these personal factors made a difference around the edges
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This suggests - gently, as it’s only two results - that there has been a 5-6 point swing from Green to Lab since May in seriously contested elections in their main battleground.
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Black labs would be the epic compromise (maybe a sneeky greyhound too)
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
57 varieties of English 🥫
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Does make him look magnificently enlightened and impartial on cousin marriage 😞
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m away from home at the moment but I’m horrified to hear from neighbours that there has been anti-Semitic leafleting by masked individuals in my street in Holborn & St Pancras.
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the ‘rats as big as cats’ are a Birmingham bin strike thing - but that doesn’t make it seem any less racist!
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what 🇬🇧 national decline is about imo, not freaks wittering on about immigration
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A few ex-ministers, ex-diplomats and Brazil-watchers to have something intelligent to say? A big package on the Today programme? 20-30 years ago I think a major “change” Brazil election with a far Right challenger would have had that level of salience
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interesting thread from Dan Hamilton from Jan 2023 when Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia 👇
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nothing yet from Reform’s Global Affairs Advisor Alan Mendoza Tommy Robinson has welcomed Bolsonaro Jr’s first round ‘win’. Otherwise it looks like tumbleweed from Britain’s political classes
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good point - eg Restore’s Charlie Downes didn’t vote for Brexit (just turned 15 in June 2016)
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@garvanwalshe.org @ldfreedman.bsky.social thoughts?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tories’ Dan Hamilton (🇬🇧🇧🇷 dual national) not Tweeted anything yet
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who in Labour or the Tories (or Reform) has anything enlightening to say about what 4 years of Flavio Bolsonaro means and what the UK, EU and middle powers should do about it?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does the Green Party - indeed what does anyone in British politics have to say about the prospect of four years of Bolsonaro Jr and what it means for Brazilians, the Amazon and international relations? Anything at all? 🤷‍♂️
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“I’m off to lanyard class”
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was today years old…
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Should the Lib Dem Normans get a mention here too?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🙏 Fowler! Lamont! St John-Stevas! Also Archie and Jesse Norman
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Upstanding men think about the Romanesque every day
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The 20th century Tory Party produced some great Normans
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Any interesting characters among them?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From a comms point of view, a red rag to the commentariat to savage Polanski with all week until the by-election (will H&StP voters care though?)
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💯 imho 🦇
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What about the opponents?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The 'Zionism is Racism' campaign at Green Party conference is v organised. Nearly 800 members in the motion-backing WhatsApp group
Screenshot of a WhatsApp group information page in dark mode. Beneath a generic teal group icon, the group name reads "Zionism Is Racism MOTION UPDATES", followed by "Group · 769 members". The description is truncated: "This group is an announcement page for the motions being presented at spring… Read more".
Below are three buttons: "Voice Chat" and "Add", both greyed out, and "Search" in green. A "Media" section lists "Media, links and docs" with a count of 4, "Manage storage" showing 646 KB, and "Starred"The header shows the group name, truncated as "Zionism Is Racism MOTION…", with the participant names beneath it scribbled out in white.
At the top of the message is a cropped graphic. On the left it lists names in black text on white: "Tariq Khawaja" (partly cut off), "Ollie Probert-Hill", "Deolinda Eltringham", then an underlined heading "Conference Committee" followed by "Maroof Raouf" and "Kyra McDonald". On the right is a partly visible logo of a red raised fist inside a ring of green leaves.
The message text below reads:
"Greens for Palestine Committee Elections slate! We recommend you vote for the following candidates
Standing Orders Commitee [sic]:
Syra Marshall
Sophie Short
Adeel Salwar
Vennetta Johnson
Jackie De Beaudrap
Alternative Disputes Resolution Committee (ADRC):
Elaine Donnelion
Momtaz Islam
Disciplinary Committee:
Halima Brewer" (this last name is partly cut off at the bottom of the screen).
A bar at the foot of the screen reads "Only admins can send messages".
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s also a term which last had any meaning in 1991, which shows an amazing commitment to keep up with the times
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How much time has the roaster spent in Birmingham, etc etc. Quick look at his timeline and there’s limited pics of Ozzy the bull and the Moseley Folk Festival
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It reads so oddly, especially as it is in single quotes (no doubt house style but which implies paraphrase)
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jenrick to double rat? 😱
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What would Pochin consider a proportionate sentence for wearing a burka?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP severely lacking the wizard of Oz
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look forward to Isabel Oakeshott’s explainer
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tombs and Biggar afterwards sounds like a banger
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fantastic resource from @taniel.bsky.social @boltsmag.org about key elections in the US’s carnival of democracy next month, from the congressional midterms to state referenda to 17 sheriff races 👇🗳️🇺🇸
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 01/10/2026
He’s renaming X to XY.
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Uber Thick of It-style crisis comms, I hope
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The final boss of manels 🕺
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unfunny numbers of Actons 🚇
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fascinating 🌌💬
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hope we are all allowed to belong to @acornunion.bsky.social!
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Merton College Oxford?
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It could be a manifesto
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