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I fully agree. I don't really object to paying them more, but the main structural disincentives to wanting the job, and wanting to stay in it, aren't salary-related.

A few more PIP assessments will sort that out.

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And what happens to the 7m+ Jews who don't want that to happen, the vast majority of whom live in Israel proper and which is accepted as legitimate under international law?

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That's an absurdly torturous interpretation. Neither Israeli Jews nor Palestinians regard Israeli Jews as Palestinian. You must know this.

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It says it wants one state *for Palestinians*. It doesn't specify what happens to the 7 million Jews who object, but specifies that the party supports achieving the total abolition of Israel by violent means. Also, anyone supporting a two-state solution is by definition racist, and must be shunned.

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That's what the Green motion does - uniquely in the case of Israel. When it's done at the same time as explicitly ruling out allowing Green Jews from associating with synagogues and community groups (inc ones who support 2 state solution), then it's reasonable to think it anti-Jewish.

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Political parties don't call for another country to be entirely abolished, or to state their support for violence to achieve that objective.

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It says that 'all available means are legitimate' to end the entire state of Israel - not even limited to post-1967 international legal borders. It's hardly a stretch to read the motion in those terms.

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I've been out of LDs for a while, but my general feeling is that the membership wouldn't oppose a Labour coalition, especially if backed by the leadership. It's the leadership that makes it unlikely for me. Confidence-and-supply probably more appealing

Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's true, though I don't think there's much tangible difference between the position that "Zionism is Racism" and the one that says "'Free Palestine!' is Racist".

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No cheese puns. I camembert it.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember a party staffer (call him 'Joe') getting an email from his MP-boss with the subject line 'Joe - We need to talk'. After getting over the initial panic and eventually opening the email expecting to get a bollocking and/or the sack, he finds out it's a mail-merged membership fundraiser

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026

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It also ducked all the actually difficult decisions while sounding like it was making them. The fun of muesli and teetotalism with the health benefits of a booze, fags and coke binge.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes - just as long as the growth doesn't involve building anything where people live. Or where they don't.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And efficiency savings. Obviously.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm open to be corrected, but thinking of the Marginal benefit, I suspect that the amount of people who would now visit and spend money here that currently don't is pretty small.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good politics means shit politics. They used to make sure that they got the IFS seal of approval, and ended up with 8 seats. Once they've ditched policy credibility, they get ten times that.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thomas Sankara has a strong case for being the best communist dictator, alongside Tito.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I guess the answer is "Vote for us to stop Reform (and we're not Zack Polanski)!"

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Up next: why the New Model Army is Nasebymaxxing the Royalist cucks

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Truly, Simon Jenkins has bequeathed the baton.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Your assertion that 'all available means' of 'resistance' are legitimate in order to create this one Palestinian state is essentially the mirror image of Netanyahu and Smotrich.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ironically, if you were a Zionist in the 19th century, chances were you were a Christian who wanted Them to 'go back to where they came from'.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It will never not be funny to me that the long-term Effective Altruism Rationalists decided that the most moral use of money was to buy themselves a £15m mansion, which soon had to be sold for £6m to pay back victims of crypto fraud.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's obviously presented, and intended to be read, as a quantitative graph (one that claims 1930-40 was an era of declining global politicization, incidentally). If an ideological opponent of yours did this, (a Matt Goodwin, say), you'd definitely be dunking on it. And rightly so!

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He made graphs up! Based purely on vibes! That's definitely dunkworthy.

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I cycle to work, in an area where few others do. As much as I like (legal) ebikes, having the heaviest version of them used by people with the least experience seems less than ideal.

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I still can't get over it! Also, the idea that 1930-1940 was a global period of declining politicization is certainly a view.

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Banging response by Hugo though.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Worth a read. I think my eyebrows actually did shoot up

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Persuaded my friend to see you there tomorrow. See you in Cardiff next week!

Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pretty weird article in the Economist on (and against) free public transport. Immediately after saying it has no effect on increasing usage, it blames it for causing major increase in delays due to... increased usage. It goes on to say it doesn't help poor people because rich bankers could benefit

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whenever I saw this roadsign, I thought massive boulders were going to fall on our car. Playing donkey Kong probably didn't help.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Probably, though they might've also largely left us alone beyond Offa's dyke. Obviously we survived as a linguistic-cultural group mainly due to our incomparable bravery, sexual prowess and charm, but also, low-yield farm land meant properly dominating us was too much effort for too little reward.

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Steffan @seneddbound.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's all a bit Stewart Lee's immigrants really. Contra Zhou Enlai, it's too late to say.