Reposted by MelSDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 16hSurely we should be calling Jenrick the Pimlico Pillock. 1233
Reposted by MelSThe Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial] @mirror.co.uk.web.brid.gy · 8hmirror.co.ukOutrage as Reform's Robert Jenrick says navy should be allowed to use 'lethal force' in ChannelReform MP Robert Jenrick said that if Nigel Farage becomes PM, marines will be able to use 'lethal force' to stop small boats - a statement branded 'horrific' by Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child 011
Reposted by MelSDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing 252035531
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Third Labour gain from Reform in by-elections in the last fortnight. 1035552
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option. 44585164
Reposted by MelSDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Amazing logic: "Yeah he knew we were going to pull some crackpot stunt at conference and stitched us up." It's a conspiracy theory that depends entirely on the victims fucking up 8587
Reposted by MelSRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's become a catchphrase for Badenoch that "We have to be SERIOUS" - and she's right about that. Yet every announcement is like this: a burst whoopie-cushion of wrong numbers, bungled data and stuff someone found on Google. The gulf between rhetoric and reality is positively cavernous. 914246
Reposted by MelSPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment. 1521151270
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I can assure Conor that the rest of us are also tired of this stupid conversation which would end if he and his mates fucked off back to the pit they crawled out of. 2553159
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit. 91756131
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The party is polling, on aggregate, nine points lower than the day she took over, even with every right-wing media shoulder to the Badenoch wheel for several months now, and Reform in free fall, they have managed a one-point improvement since their party conference last year. 1123766
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.” 1232899
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it. 2422553
Reposted by MelSMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things. 719791
Reposted by MelSDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 06/10/20261) Actively refuses to take a position on the motion, publicly admits he's "equivocating" 2) Leaves conference, dodging voting or speaking on the motion/amendments, when the constituency he's fighting a by-election in is 90 minutes away by train 3) Releases this piss poor attempt at damage control: 4233
Reposted by MelSHugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes. I keep reading pained and earnest explanations of how this targets and marginalises Jews across the board, written by people who somehow don't realise this is literally the point. 1330231
Reposted by MelSIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns. 66917185
Reposted by MelSJohn-Barry Waldron @jbwaldron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's the vote itself. It will make zero impact on anything except the green party. For weeks and months this will be the only issue talked about. There is a literal climate crisis happening right now and it won't get mentioned at all because of this motion. Its just a completely idiotic thing to do. 2531
Reposted by MelSDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs 3548472
Reposted by MelSDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fortunately this one did not pass but this is who Greens for Palestine are 1307
Reposted by MelSGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party. 3571353213
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good. 103754179
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I particularly love the distance travelled in a month by the Mail's Jason Groves, from "living in the past" to "old school values". 312719
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What 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.” 2017433
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As a Jew I think what the Greens have done is appalling. As a political commentator I think Andy Burnham is a lucky man. 7286676
Reposted by MelSStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“The person I wanted to put in charge of the criminal justice system, who I defended when he made truly vile comments, who I gave a shout-out to in my speech…he’s an unperson now. It’s good that he left.” Sorry, this is insane. 613113
Reposted by MelSPaul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The UN said so in 1975” is a spectacularly bad argument when the UN repealed that resolution in 1991. “Zionism is racism” was a Soviet-bloc political campaign. Quoting a rescinded Cold War resolution as settled fact is propaganda laundering, not history. 37211
Reposted by MelSDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Say you genuinely believe that Zionism is racism. OK. But if your MPs and former leaders tell you very clearly that your motion will hurt the party and you vote for it anyway, then that’s wrecker behaviour 131519
Reposted by MelSIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The 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. 621284164
Reposted by MelSNationCymru @nation.cymru · 04/10/2026Green Party members have decided to define Zionism as racist in a vote skipped by party leader Zack Polanskiwp.meGreens make ‘Zionism is racism’ party policy as Polanski skips voteHelen Corbett, Press Association Political Correspondent Green Party members have decided to define Zionism as racist in a vote skipped by party leader Zack Polanski. Mr Polanski did not take part in ... 242
Reposted by MelSOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A 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." 2872552924
Reposted by MelSAJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 03/10/2026As night follows day, this hate-filled bottom feeder is deriding the sentence a white person received. 4355
Reposted by MelSJosh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 30/09/2026“Does he agree that the triple lock is simply not affordable?” - Tom Tugendhat, shadow foreign secretary, in the commons last year. H/T Tali Fraser on X The extent to which Burnham’s triple lock position will unsettle the Conservatives is underappreciated 1/... 43219
Reposted by MelSDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comYoure Hard David BrentALT: Youre Hard David Brent 1133
Reposted by MelSSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 561634528
Reposted by MelSIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it. 41644105
Reposted by MelSRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 241360486
Reposted by MelSOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that 2644064
Reposted by MelSSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging. 551071147
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂 1433741
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best. 5551088
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Burnham 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: 44364110
Reposted by MelSStuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The right wing media are worried. At last a leader who is more appealing than anything these media moguls can achieve. 45710
Reposted by MelSReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Zia Yusuf: “I'm at RAF Fairford. The situation is developing fast, but it brings into sharp focus that the situation in the English Channel is a national security emergency." Reform UK expose themselves. www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/2658573...swindonadvertiser.co.ukReform UK politician spotted at RAF Fairford as he explains why he was thereA Reform UK politician has been spotted at the police cordon near RAF Fairford. 4711838
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If 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. 60775121
Reposted by MelSAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why is this CAROUSEL OF NOBODIES constantly platformed by our state broadcaster? This woman was reviewing restaurants and books until recently - then she lands a spell with the Centre for Policy Studies and - hey presto! - she works for City AM and is on the BBC as some sort of expert on economics. 1621937
Reposted by MelSpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yesterday we had Liam Halligan, the current director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Today we have Alys Denby, former deputy editor of CapX which is owned the Centre for Policy Studies. Small world... #politicslive bsky.app/profile/paul... 77131
Reposted by MelSScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hahaha. And the trial date’s set for MARCH! 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDaniel Thomas refused bail over alleged boat damage in ChannelDaniel Thomas is remanded in custody after appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court. 13486
Reposted by MelSOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho 37804212
