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JudePo

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🐈‍⬛ servant. Art and nature lover. Long time Labour member and supporter 🌹

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h
Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:
Actual Thatcher outfits on display.Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 6h
Useful things are happening recently on the right, with prominent figures drawing a line under the racism: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi, now James Cleverly. Tentative sense of a social and moral norm being re-established.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h
This is a good explainer of why the motion is a problem. www.linestotake.com/p/green-part...
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Jewishness itself is now the offence
The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 11h
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h
I still haven't seen a single person be able to defend or explain why you'd vote against this amendment or why it was unacceptable. It's the smoking gun as to exactly what the Zionism is Racism motion aims to achieve.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h
Aaaaannnndddd Zack is liking tweets telling people who oppose the Zionism is Racism motion 'sometimes things don't go your way' and 'to move on'. Right.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21h
The Iran anti-sanctions motion wasn't debated in the end at Green Party conference (ran out of time as I understand it) 5 of the 12 named proposers of 'Zionism is Racism' motion were also proposers of the anti-sanctions Iran motion (and 2 more backed it in the internal party discussion thread)
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's pretty smart comms
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Joe Poser @jposer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think you can hold the position that nationalism is inherently racist but if your policy is Jewish Nationalism is racist but Arab Nationalism isn’t then your policy is racist.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s the 90th anniversary of Cable Street. Today, as then, no paseran ✊
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Denis Healey on David Owen
Healey kept a shelf of Spitting Image puppets as latex mementoes of his turbulent political life - among them Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and David Owen. As he picked up the Owen puppet and squeezed it to make it squeak, I quoted Owen's view that when Healey stood for the Labour leadership in 1980 he “didn't have the guts to take on the left wing of the party”. “That's absolute bollocks," snorted Healey. “David Owen was a very self-centred person. He was good-looking, he was intelligent, he had immense charm and all these presents were given to him by the good fairy and then the bad fairy came along and tapped him on the shoulder and said, '... but you'll be a shit.”
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
good to see the Green MPs coming out against the dodgy motion on Zionism that’s being voted on tomorrow, but, like, it’s being voted on tomorrow guys, where have you been
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Conservative deputy leader Alex Burghart pledges to reverse all UK-EU cooperation But Tory voters are much softer/more mixed than this Youth mobility: 57% Cons support, 15% oppose Closer trade links: 62% Cons support Closer defence links: 61% Cons support 39% would rejoin! (46% stay out)
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tbilisi now. The 675th consecutive day of protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Focusing on supporting a theocratic regime that murders thousands of its own citizens, rather than supporting a democratic ally under imperialist invasion does rather speak to the present Green's priorities.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future of the Triple Lock
The questions I’ve been asked most after Andy Burnham’s speech - and what the answers are.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
By Suella Braverman's definition of Englishness as being "a lineage, an ancestry, a connection to the heritage of this country which dates back a few generations," I'm no longer English. So where shall I go and live when Reform comes knocking?
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"To brand everyone under that one umbrella as a racist shows a deep ignorance of what the word Zionism means and the sheer range of people who identify with it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The News Agents episode talking to Greens who support the Zionism motion is a tough listen. These people are fuckwits
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤞 This means Polanski has less chance of winning in Holborn & St Pancras … www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Caroline Lucas criticises ‘divisive’ Green Party motion to classify Zionism as racism
The motion will be debated and voted on during the Green Party’s annual conference in Brighton this weekend
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quite an odd choice to brief this out
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'As men in balaclavas try to stop lifeboats saving people, something different is happening on the coast of North Devon. In a community changed by an asylum hotel, new friendships are being forged – and a group of refugee schoolgirls are learning to surf like the locals.' 🏄🏽‍♀️ youtu.be/cP5JCtqOgnM?...
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The refugee girls from Afghanistan and Iraq who escaped the Taliban learn to surf Devon waves
YouTube video by The Mirror
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A very brave man. Who is the 'hero' Indian pilot who was stabbed on Israel-bound flight? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Captain Smit Machchhar: The 'hero' India pilot who was stabbed on Israel-bound flight
Capt Smit Machchhar was attacked by another pilot onboard the Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its going to be a fun few years of this stuff. Burnham is probably the most cross-aisle reaching PM weve had... and Kemi the most oppositional LOTO. So this pattern is going to repeat
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 29/09/2026
At Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Andy Burnham said what so many of us know is true - Brexit has done more harm than good.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:
Daily Mail: BURNHAM'S TRIPLE SHOCKThe Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATIONThe Sun: LOCKY HORROR SHOW
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
Seventy-two people died in the blaze in North Kensington on 14 June 2017.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Conservative Party debated for a couple of hours and decided that no, they are not a serious party. Inevitably.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can only assume Zack Polanski is a performance art project at this point. Remember when he was pretending to be the voice of young people?
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I will tell you things no leader has been brave enough to say before…” “Thatcher was bad, 1945 govt was good, Tories are bad.” (*wild applause*)
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Electoral reform: “I hear you, I agree with you, and today I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform.” Biggest opportunity to reform FPP in perhaps a century has now arrived. But long way to go…
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone. Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another appeal, which he's v unlikely to win, but the whole point is the generation of these headlines and the normalisation of the claim that homophobia is protected under the Equality Act. It is not, but these people have endless cash to spend to try to find a court that will set such a precedent.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump clearly saw the Fairford story developing and decided to fabricate a story with him at the centre. That's worrying enough, but watching politicians on both sides of the Atlantic indulge his fantasy is even even worse.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why might that be, Telegraph?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👇A thing which is really striking once you see it is that people visibly think that the words “triple lock” means “all pensions”, from the people who think scrapping it means “no pension” to the people who start ranting about boomers on cruises.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026
Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The speculation and hyperbole has gone into overdrive in some quarters... particularly on X-crement and right wing channels. Given they've been released I suspect there might be a few red faces in the coming days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Laurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.
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