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The chef's kiss moment was following this with a complaint that people in politics are too tribal.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

Just perfect

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 12h

Jesus H Christ. Two cities with two naval bases. Two cities in America. Two cities no US President would want to see attacked. Republicans would have any US President impeached for just that. Again, Jesus H Christ.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 7h

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20h

What a mess! “The resolution as voted yesterday goes against our agreed positions of the EGP and its Member Parties, therefore as EGP we unequivocally distance ourselves from it… we demand clarity from the leadership and parliamentary group of GPEW, to understand the official party policy.”

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I say bigger than it is because nothing has come up about it on my Instagram so far, thats how I know a story breaks through. I also follow some pro-green/anti-labour lefties on Instagram, all suspiciously quiet so far.

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What happened within the Green Party yesterday, a few things to note: Will be interesting to see how the Greens poll now. Will be interesting to see how certain well know ideological people on the left who are pro-Green / anti- Labour respond to the vote. This story should be bigger than it is.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a Jew I think what the Greens have done is appalling. As a political commentator I think Andy Burnham is a lucky man.

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.

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Jewishness itself is now the offence

The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Top story on the BBC. The Green Party motion has certainly got cut through...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐

Main on Sunday front page:

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You realise we all saw how an amendment specifically designed to remove the targeting of Jewish Green Party members for Synagogue attendance was rejected, right? These "assurances" are as worthless as your "solidarity".

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's hard to see how the Green party's motion today will avoid an investigation by the EHRC, given Labour was previously found in breach.

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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What’s happened today is purely down to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, his inaction lost them the fight.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Explanation - one of the main concerns was that any Jewish member, or even any synagogue, supporting a two state solution, would be considered racist (because one of those states would be Israel). That's most left wing UK Jews. The amendment to address that concern was voted down.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Green Party conference just voted in favour of this motion, and this time, in the hall itself, specifically voted against an amendment which would have removed the element about “Zionist Synagogues”. As a result, for most Jews the Green Party will now be considered to have a policy of antisemitism.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While Caroline Lucas and Ellie Chowns spoke well against the Zionism is racism motion, I can’t help but be a bit disappointed that Zack or Hannah Spencer didn’t do so. It’s made the situation seem more factional than it needs to be, and some more unifying figures would have been really helpful.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some Greens feel Polanski has shown a complete lack of leadership on the motion, saying he was happy to see an influx of new members but then did nothing to make sure they stuck with Green values. In fairness, the leader has few powers. But they do have influence - and Polanski has not exerted any.

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Starmer became Labour leader his priority was to rid the party of antisemitism. As the party changed and Corbyn was kicked out of the party, members left the party and a high number went to the Green Party. Polanski has a lot to answer for, the Green Party is antisemitic. It voted for it too.

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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good to see a Local Authority print edition in the wild. Located at Three sheets to the Wind Rochester. Moved it out from the elements, to save it for someone else to read. @localauthority.news @edjennings.bsky.social

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Actually pretty funny when you consider that they could benefit significantly from this.

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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:

The Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)

Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATION

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CC: Farage, Badenoch, Jenerick, Polanski, Davey. Yesterday, you all criticised the policy which is popular with the majority of the public.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the three months to June 2026

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026

This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Prime Minister seeking to fix this country's pressing problems and the broken politics and stagnant consensus that underpins so much of it... A PM promising real improvements rather than unicorns sunlit uplands and an agenda of hate... Who knows? This could be catching.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Resists temptation to make an upbeat succinct mood assessment that will haunt me for the next 3 years* #BurnhamSpeech

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it is very good that the PM is being so publicly vulnerable about grieving his father. That is also a form of leadership

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it might backfire horribly on him but if so, boy is Andy Burnham going out with a bang. Do wonder if that speech could only have been made by someone who was out of Westminster for the madness years & isn't as scared of the public - he's gambling on them still grudgingly respecting conviction

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That was a really good speech by Burnham. That whole "hope again" slogan makes sense after that speech. I suspect a lot of Lib Dems and some greens would have liked that speech, something that didn't happen under Starmer. Starmer went for policies on the right, and that did not work. Will this?

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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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kuenssberg couldn't sleep last night, imagining how she would spring "Santa Burnham" on the PM. She is crestfallen that he actually has a cogent answer, that is not a version of "it's true, poor people are wicked and must be punished".

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Danny Tommo - Tiny Tears edition

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What an "alpha"/ "real man". I think they are crocodile tears tbh. Why? To make him look human. Ironically. His tough guy image, absolutely ruined. Good.

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Stephen McCormack @mccormack91.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Daily Mails front page today is absolutely disgusting. It is not their worst front page, but its the one word that didn't need to be there. With Daniel Thomas' little followers, only adds fuel to their facistic behaviour. Burnham needs to stamp this shit out. Burnham needs to be seen.

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