Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 22hstatic.klipy.comLeonardo Leonardo DicaprioALT: Leonardo Leonardo Dicaprio 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The right-wing paranoia that kids being taught proper stuff doesn’t help them 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Tories sorely need a new David Cameron, but one with backbone. They’re a galaxy away from this, though I sense more Tories are only putting up with Badenoch’s infantile nonsense for now until she and the hyper online movement she defines is clobbered in the next election. 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Those tens of millions extracted from poor saps taken in by crypto won’t spend themselves 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So we can be thankful the counterfactual to ‘let’s leave the EU to stop boat crossings!’ is playing out now. Although the proxy is all the rightwing saps shouting to leave the ECHR. Fancy wanting to hand your rights to the likes of Farrige or Badenoch. But brains there are well and truly boiled 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The small Boat crossings and Brexit are coincidental timelines. The intersection of demand and technology was always going to make the channel crossing more feasible over time. If we were still in the EU the boats would still be arriving and they’d be another stick to beat the EU with. 100
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What is the market for the wacky litany of half-baked, resentment-dripping, anti youth policies the #Conservatives have pumped out the last couple of days? Do they not realise their vote base is dying out and they absolutely need young voters - trust funded weirdo Tory boys ain’t going to cut it 000
Reposted by BenWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling. 2048195
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Kemi Badenoch’s speech on Wednesday is going to be jammed full of petty, waste-of-time, culture war crap. It will be bigoted, reactionary, negative and shrill. It will not move humanity forward one inch. 252
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not sure Bond yields much to do with spending. They’re up due to inflation expectations running through from Hormuz. Now I don’t know if Dem control of both houses can force Trump to end that stand off. But if Dems do manage it, yields will fall instantly. If they don’t, the Labour gamble fails. 310
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Think they’re betting Trump has his wings clipped from November 110
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The state of the country explained in one chart. This hyper concentration of degree holders is just not representative of the country. And where we had a clear problrm with out of touch old etonians when Tories were in office, we have and enduring one of Oxbridge educated lawmakers 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What word should Miliband have used there then? I don’t get what Shipman’s problem is? 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Never forget that the states over there with the death penalty have the highest murder rates. 000
Reposted by BenLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In this week’s voting intention, Labour's lead widens as Reform fall to their lowest in over 18 months. 🌹 LAB 27% (+1) 🌳 CON 22% (-1) ⏩ REF 21% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 11% (-) 🟢 GREEN 9% (+1) ⚫ RES: 6% (-) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1) ⚪️ OTH 1% (-) N = 2,041 | Fieldwork 25-29/9 | Changes w 18/09 615041
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Go way back to 1997 and Gordon Brown reduced VAT on fuel to 5pc after the Tories first imposed it at 8pc in 1994 (it was that Tory imposition that triggered the EU VAT floor rule). We were in the EU then too. Always work to the assumption Tories are colossal clowns who wreck everything 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026‘EU… taking taxpayers money’ 🤡 Money freely given over by governments who sign up to it. No wonder #Brexit is such a torrid turd 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who are you to talk about British interests? All your votes have been total turds! 😂 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😂😂😂 Brexiters delivered the same high borrowing and a collapsed currency 😂😂😂 010
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😂😂😂 Brexiters under the lettuce delivered high bond yileds and collapsing sterling. 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😂😂😂 Eh? Can’t walk right now for you lot whining incessantly about how we’ve lost control of the borders. Admit it, you were easily conned. It’s the same pile of 💩💩💩 I knew full well was the only thing the Brexiters had the capability to deliver 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh how terrible it would be to be in the #euro with its bond yields nearly a full 2pc points lower than #sterling #EU 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Failed euro? The currency with much lower bond yields than the dollar or sterling? The glorious CPTPP! With zero discernible benefits! 110
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eh? There was a Tory Brexit recession in 2023. Go on, Which EU vanity projects were they then? The cap funding our farmers no longer get making them more expensive and less competitive? 1100
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😂😂😂😂😂 news.sky.com/story/anti-m...news.sky.comAnti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas remanded in custodyThe 37-year-old, known as Danny Tommo, faces trial accused of criminal damage to a boat in the English Channel. 000
Reposted by BenDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6499226
Reposted by BenGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time. 752931754
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The shifts in this show how pointless these things are at this stage but if #Reform get over 100 seats I’ll eat my hat. All I’ll say at this stage is that they’ll get ‘dozens’. 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We sometimes forget (and we shouldn’t) Northern Ireland is an integral part of our country, and we forget there are still divisions there that are beyond most British people’s experience: they just don’t exist in your Dudleys, Chelmsfords, Aberystwyths etc 000
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why on earth was the Orange Order given permission to march down the Garvaghy Road in #Portadown? There obviously still isn’t community consent. So there’s another highly avoidable flare-up. Stupid officials 140
Ben @murfbenj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Going to write an exasperated letter to local paper later to inform its dozen readers about national debt and yields. It’s not what they think. Will do a highly miffed one after that on the Budget season scourge of all these govt spending slashers being all over our media, every fucking year. 001
Reposted by BenJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Perfectly put. (The whole thread’s very good.) 8640131
