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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eh? What?
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dewy eyed Laura Kuenssberg
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh how terrible it would be to be in the #euro with its bond yields nearly a full 2pc points lower than #sterling #EU
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks to Trump. Here’s US Treasuries. Same trajectory
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Pointless policy that probably won’t survive a legal challenge… and what you notice is the gibbering racists making up the 6k comments don’t care anyway - it is still not cruel enough for them. A damaging waste of time that keeps the issue salient from an angle that Labour cannot win.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Bless Shabana Mahmood (not really she should’ve been sacked), but of 6k comments below this kind of post perhaps a handful might be neutral or positive. And hotels to ‘returned local communities’? What the living hell does that mean? They are all privately owned! Utter nonsense keeps the issue alive
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Local forecast for next few days and longer range is pretty much the same. This after 2 straight months with almost zero rain. And it’s not just that, it’s the temperatures. This is frightening. #globalwarming
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I mean, when you’ve been a full throated supported of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who’s to question your judgement, eh?
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Well, that’s lovely! Some right proper, really good news to wake up to. A stonking Labour win, the force of personality and name recognition doing the business. Importantly: The Fascists crushed. Interesting few weeks now. Starmer’s leadership is though is doomed.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And of course DOWN goes the UK #gilt yield (10 year below) because bond markets are PRIMARILY interested #inflation and are not passing final judgement on govt social policy. Ignore the shrill fools who try to make you think it is
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This should be enough for the UK govt to extricate itself from the X white supremacist hate site.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They’re the majority in that age group sunshine - take a look at the idiocy on display from over 65s below. Took all the benefits of growing up post war with all the rebuilding and reinvestment that happened then voted to pull up the drawbridge under thatcher and flock to Farage’s banner now.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
No it isn’t Spare us from the debt hysterics
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Who does this complete tit think he is? He’s not even elected.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
LOL
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
They ‘escaped’ there for Free speech or something 🤣
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Look who thinks it’s ‘funny’…
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If he stops now it would be the greatest military fiasco so far this century.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some ice cold reality from someone who was breathlessly berating Starmer this time last week
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hooray! Genuinely happy news. What next? Yeah needs answering, but good to see another murderous tyrant getting dragged to Hell
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Welcome result. Not unexpected either. Point 1 - the fascists are beaten back again. For now. Very welcome, but there may be friendlier constituencies out there Point 2 - the McSweeney/ Blue Labour / Glasman strategy lies in complete tatters, just as everyone but them predicted. Starmer owns that
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Every day on the Musk site Starmer’s Home Office account pumps out BNP-lite shite like this. This is an example of how far Starmer’s premiership has gone off the rails. Until this stops and the account becomes informational only, nothing about this govt will have changed
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
There’s the take! 🤪
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Xmas movie build up started at the weekend in posters
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
LMFAO
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
For illustration, this is the IFS chart I’m talking about. Look at how dismally tiny Labour’s bars are. And now we are where we are
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Jessop is ex IEA but he does post clear charts. This 👇 is what happens when you fuss about government debt and don’t pump enough spending into the economy. This small decline was inevitable based on Labour’s ‘costed’ manifesto (highlighted by those tiny IFS charts). That’s what ‘costing’ does.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
THERE IT IS.. leaving the ECHR is not just about foreigners. It will be used by the radical right to go after groups they hate internally. Disabled people first in line according to clueless Kemi. This is no surprise whatsoever.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
‘Benefits Street’ for Tories
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If only the UK government (of any stripe) spent as much time doing the low level grunt work (including opening up safe routes, talking to neighbours on the continent) as it did dreaming up how it can impose ever increasing cruelty on other people
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
More of Fraser Nelson speaking truth to the X cult. By the way, they don’t like it!
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Interesting. There is a line of decency, and this ex Paul Staines flunky leaped right over it. But noticeable how it affected him this much. That is a warning: you might be able to attract constant applause from the very worst scoundrels on X, but when it goes quiet, you have to live with yourself
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
No, the jump into the abyss started here, handing the country over to a spiteful entrenched Tory establishment which then smashed everything else up:
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The real architect (Brown was just the latest owner boasting about the decor he didn’t choose):
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Lots to unpack in this desperate Mail rant but what it really exposes is a terrific lack of confidence in its normal outlook. The funniest aspect of all though is that it has chosen, as the inflection point to galvanise this Rightie ‘insurgency’, the defection to Reform of Nadine Dorries! 😂
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It’s happening again. Wall to wall rightwing press lying backed by another dodgy report from a dodgy rightwing think tank. The ECHR is explicit in the Belfast Agreement. It’s there in black and white. There is zero chance the UK govt pulling at it doesn’t destabilise the whole agreement
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Evidence from another place.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I didn’t think the leopard would eat MY face…
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Neil is an absolute clown, a murdoch stooge at the BBC, tolerated there far too long
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Not among your elderly readership, that’s for sure
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Yes I do think there is a pain-free button marked tax the rich, also borrowing. Winter Fuel Allowance cut has been very costly in its own way. Possibly losing Labour the next election - just 4 weeks into their term
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is not only disgusting, not just intellectual cowardice, it is clearly identifiably wrong.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
For illustration:
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
FFS - are they *still* trying to do a trade deal with that regime? Why pursue one in the first place? What a waste of time. And it is political rather than economic - Starmer/Reeves just want to wave something around in the face of Tories. They are as desperate, and therefore as weak, as Brexiteers
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
When it came down to it, to no one’s surprise whatsoever the Murdoch press were lickspittles to criminality and corruption
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
That opposition to a European army for no reason whatsoever is the damage that having an untrammelled, lying rightwing press can do to your country
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is a solid statesmanlike statement by Jenrick which flies in the face of his awful behaviour these past few years.
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Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is grim. Imagine getting so twisted by your hate of a tiny minority you ignore the biggest most abundant risk of all to women because someone who may have been a boy at some point once won a medal in a female swimming race somewhere
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