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@secretthinker.bsky.social
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Enjoy listening to & reading about political matters & thinking about them & sometimes commenting. Bad things happen when good people disengage from historical and empirical evidence. Facts first, then opinion. Rhetoric needs to reflect reality.

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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Glad we're standing up to misinformation Mr Burnham-could we stand up to: Black Shorts terrorising RNLI endangering life by saboteurs of RNLI boats? How about the Posh bigots of Piddlington harassing their own neighbours? Perhaps the vigilantes holding Dover Folkstone Portsmouth hostage? Arrests?
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙄I do hope that someone in Piddington has watched 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949 Ealing Comedy) to the very end as they prepare for their Independence . Piddingtonians!!!! Don't say Margret Rutherford and Stanley Holloway didn't warn you!😂
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've learned a loved one is not alone with Alzheimers - it's a shared, at times desperately devastating debilitating process that robs everyone involved. But love & hope remain. For all my worries, critiques concerns Mr Burnham has my heartfelt support as he celebrates a life well lived & loved.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The coup was justified: "Only Burnham can defeat Reform". How's that going then? Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned- Burnham spent a week doing his pet projects, ignoring the Black Shorts, reneging on pre PM promises, hiding up north ignoring 9/11, ran a run & enabled Reform's assault. Do SOMETHING!
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bumbling Burnham & Union sponsors enabled UK democracy to be bought by pardoned felon & ex pat billionaire then sold to private political company for White British morons. Seemingly there is nothing the PLP, Govt or parliament can do about it except ask membership to chip in for £20🙄
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Helbel 🌻☘️💚🤍🧡 @pudner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the calibre of thug you can expect to find in RefUK . Their battle cry to *protect are wimmin and gurls* is more likely to be a call to beat them with a crutch for the sin of freedom of speech. Low-life thug this one and all those piling on.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Violent thugs
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Could someone please identify the pub in Clacton ( one the poorest parts of UK remember)where the bar snacks are champagne and oysters and punters can plot and plan enrichment days with foreign vested interests without fear of discovery by pesky journalists just doing their proper job?
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And so it begins… day 2 of parliament and this supposedly independent views paper is already on manouvres😳🙄
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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The only thing I wish Burnham would U-Turn on is his decision to take down a democratically elected PM. What an embarrassment for Britain and Labour needs to STFU about other parties behaviour when this coup is exactly what should be non stopped criticised. He’s struggling to even look like a PM.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trying to imagine headlines if Starmer did this! Not hard to do- an Orwellian trope of Burnham good, Starmer bad. How is £165k from Sainsbury's more palatable than JCB for Reform to a Labour voter - what's the difference? Leadership? Reform and Labour unelected by members - spot the difference?
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I quite agree Mr Burnham...please tell that to Labour Party members who were denied a vote as to who should be leader after your coup.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Starmer was absolutely monstered for doing what Burnham did.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a great article - everyone in Labour Party should read it the PLP, Burnham and his acolytes and sponsors should hang their heads in shame - but won't, obviously.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I imagine some sort of Tory/Reform pact....Jenryck to Badenoch as Burnham to Starmer.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well look at that, Owen Jones is sceptical of Burnham's Govt.- it's just not what he had hoped for or accepted - (had been great pals of Rayner Corbyn et al before he pledged his support to Polanski) - who knew?😂
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Interesting about the PLP. Turned on SKS who brought them to power-Fear?Conspiracy? Manipulated? Mixture of all 3? Ignoring own ambitions now supplicants to man who did little to get them into Parliament & brings them nothing new just a different way of doing stuff. How long before they turn again?
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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Share far and wide. You’ll know you’re upsetting Farage no end.
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dollyz.bsky.social @dollyz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just been sent this on Twitter. Had to share here. Bloody brilliant.
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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@labourlist.bsky.social I've unsubscribed from your emails. How dare you patronise Labour people who are ashamed that the party we love has shafted the first Labour PM in 14 years. Your rationale for this is in #BadFaith
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
1/2 After 52 years of voting Labour regardless of leader because I was voting LABOUR...I am now changing tack... especially as I have no say in who is leader therefore PM. I will vote for the best candidate in my constituency not the party. I feel very let down by this coup and the PLP.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Please also remember that MSM studiously ignored the evidence and actively promoted the notion that Farage was PM material except for @bylinetimes.bsky.social where the team there have meticulously investigated since from whenever the printed version began
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Please remember that this long slow fall of Farage began by proper, meticulous, by the letter due process in Parliament long before the change in Labour Leadership.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Do you really think Frit Farage is going to spend 6 weeks in Clacton meeting constituents in public/on doorsteps? & NOT be: Interviewed or followed by the MSM all summer? My guess is he won't stand - he knows speculation & investigations will continue regardless. Just too afraid to admit it today.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Reform are not the party of the people #NeverVoteReform
REFORM UK
A party owned by millionaires, funded by billionaires, and voted for by those who have nothing.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Some hard lessons learned & to be learned by next incumbent. PLP/NEC have betrayed membership, party & ultimately, nation - history has shown that changing leader mid term (Callaghan/Brown) results in 14 yrs in wilderness where some are too comfortable. Thanks Kier. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer: Burnham will have to spend as much time on foreign affairs as me
In an untypically candid interview, the outgoing PM tells the BBC it was "really tough" to accept his political career was over.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
😂 Starmer not 'good' at politics? Reality vs Rhetoric. Burnham might think differently today- somehow outmanoeuvred/forced to reveal his priorities re: Defence Welfare,Tax - well played politically I'd say. Healy/Streeting frothing too - nice. Rayner doing a Dorries/Johnson thing with Burnham? Yuk.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Frank Gardner spells it out here. BBC report it- will anyone else I wonder. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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Defence secretary outlining details of spending plan after Starmer announces extra £15bn for armed forces
The prime minister said earlier that the extra budget - funded in part by scrapped road and energy projects - would "make the British people safer".
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
So there's all the rhetoric . Anyone and everyone should have those aspirations. Where's the timeline& finance? What essentially is different in terms of action? Surprised 'Apple Pie & Custard' for everyone wasn't in there but you can't have everything I suppose. Nice quip about MSM though. 1/2
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is exactly what the UK is up against...not tanks, not ships, not troops not missiles.... cyber is the new nuclear threat for the 21st Century.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
History repeats - 2/3 Yrs in. Wilson resigned (albeit of his own choosing), Callaghan undermined by gang of 4, Blair resigned for Brown who fell at first hurdle & Starmer - toppled by PLP & vain naked ambition. What puts an end to Labour Govt is Labour PLP. Worse than 60 yrs of World Cup misery.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Last November Streeting claimed he was the victim of slurs & even alluded to Celebrity Traitors. Like all good Traitors - he lied, lied,lied and everyone fell for it. Learned his lesson from Alan Carr BUT Alan Carr is an irascible national treasure. Streeting is a grubby purveyor of snake oil.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In 2022 Rayner vociferously complained and condemned Sunak's coronation . Where is that call now? Burnham offers NOTHING new policy wise. More of the same actually taking credit for what has already been achieved. COUNTRY FIRST not Johnson lite. 1 member - 1 vote Deny us our vote - lose next GE
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As ALL the MSM clearly believe their own wishful thinking. I remind everyone that the hypocrite 'messiah' -has unresolved financial scandal waiting in the wings in Manchester. Labour MPs! Country First! NOT a Labour Johnsonite. One Member - One Vote Deny us our vote you'll lose next GE.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A fine example of why some Labour should resist posting stuff that will bite them back later.... naive amateurs 😂
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Some Labour MPs are behaving like teenagers experiencing the angst of living in a BBC soap opera -their first pangs of identity crisis, self harm, woe is me, nobody understands me, look at me look ate me, don't look at me,don't ask me questions,don't make me decide/choose leave me alone.😜
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
1/ Below is what I reminded and wrote to Anna Turkey Labour Chair today. I am writing to you as Labour Party member number ............ regarding the debacle unfolding under your watch and before our eyes.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And so the take down of Burnham?Labour begins.
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The Salopian Popular Front are splitters! @petesalopian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Blair had very little bad press because he was mates with Murdoch... Starmer on the other hand prosecuted chequebook journalists & their bent copper mates... he's been smeared from the day he stood for the leadership.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If true...'i' has turned into a gossip mag these days....I hope so.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
So basically, Burnham/Streeting & their allies are afraid of calling a leadership challenge - they want PM to just give in. Why? Perhaps fear scrutiny will expose their empty rhetoric compared to the reality of Starmer Govt.? Cowards, no coronation. Starmer! show them how it's done. Fight.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
And so he should. A proper debate and analysis of policy and future direction is welcome in a democracy.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pleased Reform, Restore & Tories trounced big time. Glad Lib Dems/Greens voted tactically. Disappointed in an unforced election anyway. Worried mayoralty will be a failure. Angry Burnham behaves like Johnson did -self interest vs nation's interest. Hopeful members will support Starmer.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So, Precedent wise: This is either Burnham's 'Johnson' moment or his "Kinnock' moment. This unnecessary debacle/side show will damage every party involved but especially Labour. Few Labour enjoy an own goal and fewer general public enjoy a calculated own goal. There will be a reckoning at GE.
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I do love this grandstanding by Streeting & Burnham and their teams. Their petty squabbling oneupmanship and verbal diarrhoea really show them up for who they are - egotists with delusions. Fighting each other for the MSM to come to their cause is so unseemly. A bit like the opening scenes in 2001.😂
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Starmer responded to Blair with essay/rebuttal forced Burnham/Streeting to respond/reveal their basic weaknesses. But they did it in the open defending or reframing their views subjected to some in person scrutiny. Farage? No! Bunker mentality. Pontificating not listening/ debating. Tyrant in utero
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Something must be so right about Starmer - why would Musk, Trump, Farage, Bademoch & MSM work so hard to turn his own colleagues & MPS against him? Why did Russia set fire to his property? Why are they threatened by him? Why do some Labour MPs play the tune these bad actors have written for them?
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secretthinker.bsky.social @secretthinker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yes, The problem with facts for the MSM like this below... is that it is easier to ignore than properly report, investigate and certainly not comment favourable upon...when it spoils your click bait narratives that serve the interests of owners of said media.
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