Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They’re not. There will be quite a bit of anti-reform tactical voting from sensible Green supporters, I reckon. 010 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026When 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. 120 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsJames 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 14601192 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This 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. 000 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Labour'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... 20372165 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“He looked like he hadn’t slept for a week” Was it Boris Johnson? 000 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026To 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. 171356442 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026How 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. 22978492631 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This 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 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Membership in the Lab party has totally collapsed from a high of 500,000 when it was actually left wing. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026December 2018 is ancient? It feels like yesterday to me! 010 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate. 5347471035 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/01/2026Despite 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...as.ft.comAdapt, 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’ 622299 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list. 1488168626977 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026This 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." 110735 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I 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...theguardian.comWhite House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protestGuardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration 211568499 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody. 231867650 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsFat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 23/01/2026THERE'S NO JOKE HERE!!!!!! WHAT IS THE JOKE????????????? (it's the Big Bang style of writing geek humour) 121 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026These “purity or bust” fools cannot even see their own foolishness. 000 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2026A 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.nyti.msDetention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses MinneapolisA 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. 43365131 0
Reposted by Simon WatkinsChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This 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. 69878395 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026That 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. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I’m not supporting the murder of children at all, let alone so my life can be a little bit better. You disgusting PoS. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Not if it’s only for tactical purposes it isn’t. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Yes 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. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The reply of my last post claimed it wasn’t. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I have told you explicitly to stop be disingenuous. Yes. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Again. Misuse of refute. My point is irrefutable. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026It might also increase the chances of another government. 000 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026No 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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I’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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026You 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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026No 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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026And 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? 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Yea 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. 200 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Tactically voting for Labour isn’t to Labour to get Labour in. That’s called “voting for labour”, different to “tactically voting for Labour” 200 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I have answered all your questions perfectly and politely, before you started misrepresenting me, and falsely accusing me. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Duh! 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? 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Here. Will you toddle off a little wiser now, or will you decide to double down and look stupid? bsky.app/profile/simo... 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I’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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Oh 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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Yes it objectively can. You’re broadcasting, again, your ignorance, and how you don’t understand how tactical voting works. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Yes I am. You’re the one ignoring the point. Of course it’s a tactical vote if it helps the Greens. Stupid. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026No 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. 100 0
Simon Watkins @simonwatkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I’m not being repeatedly told anything. I’m being shouted at by a tiny amount of fools who are unable to process the concept. 110 0