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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14h

re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 22h

Looking likely that from tomorrow Green Party policy will be that Israel shouldn’t exist

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Post-1945 Britain has only had two truly transformational Prime Ministers; Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher It’s clear that Andy Burnham’s ambition is to be the third

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBC seems to think it can’t label Reform, Daniel Thomas, and Tommy Robinson as “far-right” because millions of people support them But strength of support doesn’t make a person or group not far-right, and the BBC should really know that

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think there’s an *excellent* chance the Lib Dems will be part of the next government

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million to Reform. IN TWO DAYS AND FROM TWO PEOPLE At this rate they could just buy the election outright 🙄

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If conference attendees inflicted physical violence on protestors at the Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, or Green conferences, I suspect it would get far more media coverage than *EXACTLY THAT HAPPENING AT REFORM CONFERENCE* is currently getting

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The BBC, which is normally keen to tell you the nationality or immigration status of people charged with crimes, has failed to mention in this guy had a long history of involvement with Britain First. Funny that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Warwickshire man raped and attacked woman in 'horrific' abuse campaign

James White, from Warwickshire, subjected the victim to weeks of abuse, including rape and sexual assault.

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zack Polanski surely going to stand in the Holborn St. Pancras by-election?

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To answer your question Mr Lowe, I do. His name is Nasser Hamid. He was 16 when he left his village, to escape Sudan's civil war. He could not speak English. Look what he achieved! I admire his courage, resourcefulness and intelligence. All qualities sadly lacking in... certain people 🤮

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Conservative MP for Windsor using a word championed by racists to describe people with British citizenship who aren’t, in their eyes, British. Badenoch’s big strategy is to get tactical voting for her party to keep Reform out. What’s the point if it’s the same picture?

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The fact that the state has also given 81% of these social tenants born abroad Yookay citizenship (as well as a million quid of lifetime rental subsidy) isn't really the counterpoint you think it is.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tesco delivery driver today made small talk about the weather We both agreed how nice it was for it to be grey, cool, and slightly drizzly

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Breakup of the Russian Federation. It will be more like the breakup of Yugoslavia than the breakup of the USSR. Border conflicts, genocides, ethnic cleansing, and untracked nuclear proliferation to various successor states and warlords

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 16/08/2026

General Election Nowcast - 16/08/26: LAB: 244 (-167) | 25.4% (82 Short) RFM: 143 (+138) | 24.1% CON: 96 (-25) | 19.6% LDM: 73 (+1) | 10.5% SNP: 43 (+34) | 2.7% GRN: 13 (+9) | 10.5% PLC: 12 (+8) | 1.3% RES: 1 (+1) | 3.1% Oth: 6 (+1) | 2.9% electionmaps.uk/nowcast

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hi BBC News Just to make you aware that Nigel Farage is not at present an MP. He voluntarily resigned that post because his advisers wrongly thought it would get him out of an investigation into financial wrongdoing. He’s now fighting a man dressed as a bin in order to reverse course Thanks

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Bloody hard to campaign on an anti-establishment platform when your main opponent says with a straight - erm - bin that he is a Recyclon from the planet Sigma-9 who says he intends to nationalise model railways and price-cap 99 Flakes at 99p

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It would only be more on-brand Lib Dem if they said “Andy Burnham should recall Parliament from recess”

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To recap; Kemi Badenoch thinks that Neo-Nazis fit right in with her party, but that anyone who supports Net Zero or the European Court of Human Rights is a dangerous extremist Dense as a singularity

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Incredible. Even while u-turning Kemi will just not back down.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This particularly incident will be forgotten but those failings will do for her in the end.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Badenoch's two biggest flaws are that she's nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is and is incapable of admitting error. Both well illustrated by this fiasco.

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

John Healey gets to be “The Iron Chancellor” according to @thetimes.com He is following a policy programme near-identical to that of Rachel Reeves, who was “Rachel from accounts” Clear cut sexism

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Dom @forensicdom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And the results are in: 1st Round Lab 🌹 - 251,449 Ref ➡️ - 111,928 Lib 🔶 - 14,702 Green 🌍 - 64,968 Con 🌳 - 41,021 Res ◼️ - 46,289 Ind 🙋 - 2,969 Total - 538,659 2nd Round Lab 🌹 - 58,076 Ref ➡️ - 45,250 Total Lab 🌹 - 309,525 Ref ➡️ - 157,178 Labour HOLD - Take that you turquoise fascists

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

MCR mayoral by-election result. Craig (Lab) 66.3% Astley (Ref) 33.7% Follow live on @news.sky.com

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can attest that throughout the Manchester mayoral campaign only Labour visibly did any actual campaigning, and even that was almost entirely via social media and web ads. I was never leafleted or canvassed by anyone, there have been no marquees in the street, and no posters in windows

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Being a Manchester resident and a Burnham supporter since he was first elected mayor I already knew how effective his comms and social media operation is. But it is still very striking to see the contrast with Keir Starmer’s, especially as the rest of the country notices the difference too

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Polanski very stupid for what he shared, but Reform’s pivot from bringing a woman who called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be burned down as their guest of honour at conference, to saying the Green leader should be jailed - is a difficult circle to square

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Seems to me that there’s a fighting chance 2029 actually ends up being Labour vs Tory again. Reform peaked too early (hopefully)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Quarter of a million people now fleeing out of control wildfires in France and Spain, and it is still acceptable for leaders of apparently mainstream political parties (Badenoch, Trump, Farage) to deny climate science, cheered on by the Murdoch press.

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Caveat that my view is almost certainly coloured by being Manchester through and through, but it really does feel that Andy Burnham is going to give people hope that the future will get better. We’ve had 18 years of “It’s going to be shit”, it’s about time we had a leader with some fucking optimism

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nearly 2 hours waiting outside Heron House but it was worth it

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Been here almost an hour, plenty have been here longer than me. Definitely a feeling of sunk cost fallacy Every time *anyone* leaves the building there’s a big cheer

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Media camping out outside Number 10 North There’s quite a crowd of onlookers (myself included), all eager to catch a glimpse of the Prime Minister. Definitely feels like the centre of political gravity has shifted away from London

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Outside Number 10 North they wait for a Prime Ministerial arrival

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I don’t really use buses (combo of living on a rail network and crippling travel sickness) - but I do passionately patronise pubs. But I don’t think only the one of these areas I use should be supported.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Have the British public always been so self centred? I’m staggered by how many people I’ve seen saying ‘I don’t use buses so what good is that?’ Or ‘pubs aren’t for me so who cares?’ Millions of people do use each and they are both pretty vital for our economy and society

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m quite excited for Andy Burnham’s policy tomorrow. It’s like an advent calendar

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My wife and I got lunch for 2 at The Alchemist for £54 No idea what kind of meals these people are eating that they think £50 won’t cover it

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So Burnham’s going to cut electricity bills, lower bus fares, and tax the hated vape shops to keep the pubs open … and people think this WON’T be popular?

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Obviously very unscientific but feels significant that Burnham’s Facebook post about the bus fare cap has generated and overwhelmingly positive response. FB still by FAR the most popular social media site in the UK, much, much more so than X

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

London had a good run as the capital. 1066-2026. But, like Winchester before it, it must eventually surrender the crown. The age of London is over. The time of Manchester has come (I can only assume this is Burnham’s ultimate goal, given *gestures at everything since Makerfield*)

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Very odd that Nandy is still Culture Secretary. I get no impression she particularly enjoys the brief, and would presumably be more than happy to jump at some of Burnham’s more ambitious policies around housing and devolution

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I have met both Andy Burnham *and* Jonathan Reynolds entirely by chance on the streets of Manchester Just my small claim to fame

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Anyone who says they predicted Healy as Chancellor is a damn liar

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Matt @mattdean94.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Presumably Lucy Powell will be made Deputy PM. She’s a close Burnham ally and deputy leader of the party

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