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Simon Watkins

@simonwatkins.bsky.social
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Lefty, occasional argumentative sod. Hates Tories, ITV, Tories, Brexiters, Tories, Trumpers and Tories. Also, food that’s not on plates. And Tories.

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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Some of them use STV, right?
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They’re not. There will be quite a bit of anti-reform tactical voting from sensible Green supporters, I reckon.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
When they have 4 councillors in one ward and one of the parties scrapes a win for each and ends up with all four. That’s real madness.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is absolute bollocks. Have you ever tried to hire anyone by visa sponsorship? The job has to be suitably highly paid and/or on the government shortage list. These are skilled people that we need, who bring their skills here. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Labour's changes to immigration rules, including potentially applying them retroactively, would be some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies in decades. They're the hostile environment on speed. This is pure cruelty as policy, with absolutely no merit to them archive.today/2026.02.03-2...
Dozens of Labour MPS threaten rebellion over Mahmood migration crackdown

Under new rules, migrants would have to wait at least 10 years to apply for indefinite leave to remain
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“He looked like he hadn’t slept for a week” Was it Boris Johnson?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is like some Nuremberg Rally or Joseph Stalin speech, it is so delusional and crazy. Made-up and completely invented “facts” followed by standing ovations after every sentence! We are witnessing something really sinister. #StateOfTheUnion2026
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You mean like most of the world?
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Membership in the Lab party has totally collapsed from a high of 500,000 when it was actually left wing.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
December 2018 is ancient? It feels like yesterday to me!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. 

"Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/01/2026
Despite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries. I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat. Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...
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Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid
[FREE TO READ] The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This weekend I watched Nuremberg (2025), which ends with a shattering quote from RG Collingwood: "The only clue to what man can do is what man has done."
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.
IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST WINTER STORM, REMEMBER FOUR TIPS:
1. FILL UP YOUR TUB AND/OR POTS WITH WATER FOR YOUR TOILET.
2. DO NOT USE PROPANE HEATERS INDOORS. THE FUMES KILL.
3. EVERYONE STAYING IN ONE ROOM CONSOLIDATES WARMTH.
4. THE NORWEGIAN CAMP DIDN'T DESTROY ITSELF. ONE OF YOU IS THE THING.
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 23/01/2026
THERE'S NO JOKE HERE!!!!!! WHAT IS THE JOKE????????????? (it's the Big Bang style of writing geek humour)
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 23/01/2026
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
These “purity or bust” fools cannot even see their own foolishness.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2026
A 5-year-old boy was detained with his father by immigration authorities on Tuesday in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. A photo of the child standing next to a vehicle with an adult’s hand on his Spider-Man backpack has prompted outrage.
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Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis
A photo showed the boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This week in San Antonio I met two traumatized young boys who were locked up for 6 weeks at Trump’s “baby prison” in Texas. Taken when they checked in for a routine hearing, their mother waiting in the car with their backpacks for school. It’s insane this is happening.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
That is exactly the reason why I’m prepared to vote tactically to make it stop. You’re effectively the enabling it, refusing to do so, you fuckwit idiot. You’re the one who is evil as shit, because of emotional hysterics.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’m not supporting the murder of children at all, let alone so my life can be a little bit better. You disgusting PoS.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Not if it’s only for tactical purposes it isn’t.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yes but according to current polling Farage would likely be PM. Also the incumbent party isn’t going to call an election early if it’s going to be wiped out. Best Fife the far right a chance to explode by themselves.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The reply of my last post claimed it wasn’t.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have told you explicitly to stop be disingenuous. Yes.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Not if it helps the Greens.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Again. Misuse of refute. My point is irrefutable.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It might also increase the chances of another government.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
No I haven’t. See those goalposts shift? I’ve been invited to explain how voting for a Labour candidate instead of Green candidate boosts the chance of getting a green government elected. I’ve told you to stop being disingenuous. My patience has been exemplary, but t is not without limit.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’ll vote tactically for any party to keep out Reform (and Tories). At least this one isn’t pretended that tactical voting isn’t effective.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
You also have misused “refute”. You and those idiots have not refuted anything. Look up the meaning of refute. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
No they haven’t. Only you are claiming you understand, but then trying to deny what tactical voting actually is. The others just openly didn’t understand and were too hysterical at the thought of voting for the least worst.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And tactical voting Labour is not to get a Labour Government. Again you are broadcasting how ignorant you are. It’s to get a different government. Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yea it is. It’s the same way all tactical voting works. You vote for one party to advantage a different party. You can keep looking stupid and denying established fact, but that’s literally what it is.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Tactically voting for Labour isn’t to Labour to get Labour in. That’s called “voting for labour”, different to “tactically voting for Labour”
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have answered all your questions perfectly and politely, before you started misrepresenting me, and falsely accusing me.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Duh! Yes. Im some circumstances it is. That’s why we have this term called *cough* “tactical voting”. Where it helps your favoured party more to not vote for it. Read the words back to yourself slowly to yourself. “Tactical voting”. What could that possibly mean?
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Here. Will you toddle off a little wiser now, or will you decide to double down and look stupid? bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’m have done it already. Are you serious? Are you quite right? Do you really not know? Same way voting LibDem in some seats help elect a labour government. That’s the raison d’être of tactical voting. Give me a second to find it again.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Oh good grief. Not only tactical voting, you seem to know what “hubristic” means either! Everyone isn’t telling me they won’t do it, just a few emotionally immature, hystericals.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yes it objectively can. You’re broadcasting, again, your ignorance, and how you don’t understand how tactical voting works.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Not if it achieves a virtuous end result.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yes I am. You’re the one ignoring the point. Of course it’s a tactical vote if it helps the Greens. Stupid.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
No thanks. They’re hardly likely to listen to me are they? I’ll carry on proclaiming this sensible logic to return the most left government possible, if it’s all the same to you. Be stupid by all means. Don’t expect the rest of us to be though.
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Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’m not being repeatedly told anything. I’m being shouted at by a tiny amount of fools who are unable to process the concept.
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