Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 12hFair 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? 110
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 14hShould 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 100
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’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 010
Reposted by Josh NeichoLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This 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. 2195
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Black labs would be the epic compromise (maybe a sneeky greyhound too) 000
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Does make him look magnificently enlightened and impartial on cousin marriage 😞 000
Reposted by Josh NeichoLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’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. 3225
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think the ‘rats as big as cats’ are a Birmingham bin strike thing - but that doesn’t make it seem any less racist! 020
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is what 🇬🇧 national decline is about imo, not freaks wittering on about immigration 020
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 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 201
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Interesting thread from Dan Hamilton from Jan 2023 when Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia 👇 000
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nothing 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 210
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good point - eg Restore’s Charlie Downes didn’t vote for Brexit (just turned 15 in June 2016) 010
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@garvanwalshe.org @ldfreedman.bsky.social thoughts? 000
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tories’ Dan Hamilton (🇬🇧🇧🇷 dual national) not Tweeted anything yet 220
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Who 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? 110
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What 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? 🤷♂️ 011
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Should the Lib Dem Normans get a mention here too? 110
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🙏 Fowler! Lamont! St John-Stevas! Also Archie and Jesse Norman 120
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Upstanding men think about the Romanesque every day 110
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 20th century Tory Party produced some great Normans 140
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026From 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?) 010
Reposted by Josh NeichoJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 'Zionism is Racism' campaign at Green Party conference is v organised. Nearly 800 members in the motion-backing WhatsApp group 7243
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s also a term which last had any meaning in 1991, which shows an amazing commitment to keep up with the times 030
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026How 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 010
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It reads so oddly, especially as it is in single quotes (no doubt house style but which implies paraphrase) 000
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What would Pochin consider a proportionate sentence for wearing a burka? 010
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fantastic 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 👇🗳️🇺🇸 0142
Reposted by Josh NeichoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US. 181981697
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hope we are all allowed to belong to @acornunion.bsky.social! 000