Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialSimon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Badenoch running scared, and of course the lobby is really right wing now! 031
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Disagree. He is trying to grapple with the real world and it is quite clearly true that free movement does allow people to come and go while earning settled status encourages staying. Yes there are uncomfortable nuances, they are going to be difficult to escape. 4443
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialSauron. @ramble4565.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If Andy Burnham wants to take us back into the EU. That gets my vote every time. Before I retired the firm I worked for lost a lot of customers thanks to the bloody stupid vote to leave. The Tory’s and little farage did so much damage to this country it’s unbelievable. 062
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialMaria @mariasergiivna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I also want to briefly mention Oleshky Russia occupied this city, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, back in 2022 In 2023, a terrible disaster struck the area when Russian forces destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, causing severe flooding #UkrainianView 58641
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialhudcrauf.bsky.social @hudcrauf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Disgraceful by Kemi Badenoch. A new low 032
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That’s your choice, but dismissing something as “AI slop” says nothing about whether the argument itself is right or wrong. The AI section is simply a production tool I’m using to add my own commentary; the views and words are mine. 101
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well" 30595150
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialПангея 🇺🇦 @pangeaua.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So this is what an after-work walk sounds like in Kyiv. I met a friend and we went to a coffee shop to the soundtrack of ✨️war✨️. #Ukrainianview 57030
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Either the UK government is: 1. Scared to confront the far-right; or 2. In agreement with the far-right. I don’t think it’s 2. I think they are absolutely terrified to do what they know is right because they believe we’re all racists. It is utterly shameful. 66218
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialWilliam Brown 🏴 @brown666w.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This should be the headline, but Peston, Beth and the rest are all puffing up Burnham and how his meeting with a convicted felon and alleged paedo went. 011
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRob d’Antifa Bruce @rob6679lastfm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The restraint Andy Burnham manages to exercise here! 131
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware. 1988156485587
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149263703
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2412218555339
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialDee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now. 46910322
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialEmmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 19/09/2026Tomorrow is my birthday. I'm blessed that there is nothing apart from the collapse of rogue empires that I urgently need, but if some of you wish to support some Ukrainian & international initiatives, those are a few that I vouch for: 🐾Animal Rescue Kharkiv www.animalrescuekharkiv.org/donate 1/animalrescuekharkiv.orgDonate | Animal Rescue Kharkiv 13726
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance toolExclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot. 331216600
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"The base’s airfield was also completely destroyed in the strike." 1245
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026👇👇👇👇 16632723312116
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialThérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hey Cameron, Osborne, May, Starmer, Burnham etc - that could've been us! 031
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialLittleoldladywho +Angie Scarr @littleoldladywho1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How many can relate? I NEVER voted Tory but what this guy says does explain why there were always SOME nice Tories and there are some 'neo-liberal'(monetarist) Twunts in the LP. 0102
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sounds like Putin when Ukraine was finalising its closer association with the EU in 2013 40418119
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A vote where the only candidates are imported cops and the only observers are the same people holding the rifles. Calling it an election is the insult on top of the crime. 0102
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/09/2026We can't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain. The Liberal Democrats are calling for the government to go further in tackling crypto billionaires getting into our politics. @lisasmartmp.bsky.social 26230
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialIngrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'll be as "interrogated as a witness" at the BBC Radio 4 program 'The MOral Maze' tonight on #limitarianism. But more importantly, in the first half of the program, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social will "a witness" to talk about dirty money in UK Politics. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 16/09/2026Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze 2269
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialPositive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fantastic to have the @tuc.org.uk's Paul Nowak call on Burnham to #TaxTheBanks💰 After years of record-breaking profits thanks to higher interest rates, this'd be hugely popular with the public & help show workers this government is really on their side. Please sign & share 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks 198
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialThesecretfarmer @thesecretfarmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm a farmer living in Lincolnshire & everyone assumes I'm going to be a small minded racist but actually not! Other half is Polish & we keep a little Polish flag in a window! Bet it winds a few people up! Still she speaks better English than most locals anyway! 0183
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?bbc.co.ukThe Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract showsThe Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows. 21993072833
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialDrew @drewsnx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yes.. discourse HAS changed since EU Ref. Pre-2016, people weren't openly using "non white" as a euphemism for "the type of people we are trying to keep out" when talking about LEGAL workers. Yet here's a man who bankrolled Farage in UKIP & co-founded LeaveEU with Tice saying it out loud in 2026: 222
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Restore Britain's Cllr Kieran Mishchuk of Sittingbourne, Sheppey is so determined to see "men on boats" everywhere that he mistook 2 minibuses full of agricultural labourers in an Asda capark for "illegal immigrants" 210768240
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialShazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Courtesy of The Irish Star (US) . #Ireland #Trump #IrishWelcome 26626217
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialSam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million. 631243559
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The refurbishment of Refuk's HQ looks almost complete... 4364
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialMartin McGrath @martinmcgrath.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Reform is not a political party. It's a privately owned investment platform for those who think they can get rich selling the UK Government to tech bros and oligarchs. 2102
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialNicolas @ragnarleviking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If Harbourne and Delo wanted to change society for the better, then their combined £72 million could have been given to cancer research, to buy hospital equipment, fund libraries, indeed, anything philanthropic but they chose to fund a dangerous ,vulgar and racist political company. F*ckers. 011
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 22412160
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRich @pibasedlifeform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ok I don't see how this is going to help with their appeal to anyone other than the hopelessly lost But that requires the other political parties (esp Lab and Cons) to prove they can run things and..........the jury is out And as an aside, surely this is a real chance for the Lib Dems to shine? 153
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialtayloracastilleja.bsky.social @tayloracastilleja.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 2258
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRobbo @redfells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hard to get any cut through with this one tbh, given Badenoch being Tory leader is very funny 021
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialA Doorway To Somewhere Else @lem.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026"wrongly targeted" Sooner or later Labour and the Tories are going to have to address their own culpability on unleashing this monster. What do they expect, that the masked terrorists are going to decide to vote Labour if only their madness is bowed to enough and all will be well? 041
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialRefugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🎤🎤 "it cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” Mic drop from Paul Nowak @tuc.org.uk explaining why the government's earned settlement model is so harmful. Tweaks won't do. Andy Burnham needs to scrap it in full now and make the positive case for immigration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretaryPaul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment 12116
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialIain @iainfrew2024.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Not blatant hypocrisy and lies from the leader of the Tories? Surely not?!? 021
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialmmmmavocado.bsky.social @mmmmavocado.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Dimon revealed plans to build a 3m sq ft tower in London’s Canary Wharf district, although he added that a “continuing positive business environment in the UK” was required." So, you won't build it then, Mr Dimon. Thank you for your contribution to combating climate change. 021
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialThe i Paper @theipaper.com · 08/09/2026This is Daniel Thomas, the guy behind the disruption in Dover and Portsmouth this weekend 1109
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate. 511835448
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialEmmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 08/09/2026A new round of explosions just as people who survived the night start to head to work. Hearing stuff flying afar while looking for nearest shelter. Such great results from this weekend's farce. 13015
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialI Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Support the RNLI.static.klipy.comYou're Joking, Not Another One!ALT: You're Joking, Not Another One! 0142
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialAlex Staniforth @alexstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I wonder if the Tories regret promoting their most scenery-chewing MPs to the top jobs in government? Probably not since they’re following a similar pattern in opposition. 152
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialBard Of The Revolution @dndnerd69.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The guy that beat the woman protesting at the Reform conference is Stephen Cooling of Sutton Coldfield Reform Party. And of course he bought a fucking shirt the prick 813281
Reposted by @manchedave47.bsky.socialThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Join The New Arab inside the Reform Party conference, which at times looks more like a Reform theme park than a traditional political gathering. By Issy Maple @issymaple.bsky.social 1168