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Slimwasherman

@slimwasherman.bsky.social
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One of those lefty types. Remainer. Retired rugby player with retired knees. West Ham fan. Darts player 🎯 My partner is Cornish artist, elaineallenderart.co.uk

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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking about the impact of the triple lock on the state pension can be confusing as there's a number of interacting moving parts (earnings, inflation, 2.5%). 🤷‍♂️❓ But here's a visualisation that hopefully might help...1/5
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
...Put those together and the result is that over 15 years the triple lock has pushed up the state pension in cash terms by more than growth in average earnings and more than the increase in prices...4/5
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Logatex @logatex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And yet not long ago...
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Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chris Mason is texting his mates on live telly. Fuck sake
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair By @adambienkov.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair
The Prime Minister’s emotional and expansive speech opened the door to a genuine shift in our politics, argues Adam Bienkov
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
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Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Danny Tommy Robinson both arrested on one day 👌 Sweet.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Footage appears to show Danny Tommo slashing an RNLI boat
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bloke in QT audience talking about AI danger, to paraphrase, "we were supposed to frazzle cos of the ozone layer, still here. Then there were global warming, we're still here. I think it's just a scam so we by some defence system so we're not frazzled to death." We're not going to make it, are we?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"
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Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine the furore if "unelected" Burnham had completely ripped up the manifesto that Labour and Starmer had won the election with and taken a different route.(Even if manifestos generally explode upon contact with real life) Jenrick, Yusef, the Mail would have been baying for a general election.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The same people who were rending their garments when Lord Alli bought a dress for Starmer's wife, screeching 'WHAT INFLUENCE IS HE BUYING?' now look voters in the eyes and insist the crypto bros giving them £72m want nothing in return. By all means, take the donation, but stop taking the piss."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In fact there's been a whole series of events over the last decade including one terrible and very high profile suicide and sexual assault associated with those barracks. And this. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/soldier...
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Soldier convicted of raping a sleeping woman in his barracks
The woman said: “He has taken not only the last two years of my life but the incident will be part of my life forever.”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good straightforward reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Musk's promotion of Restore/Rupert Low/civil war in the UK. Lots of detail, no polemics. The BBC could and should do this. Why doesn't it? archive.ph/eTOS5
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AI leaders: “We need to slow down, we may have created something hurtling us towards the extinction of humanity.” Mike Johnson: “Now hold on there, let’s not be too hasty. What if China extinguishes humanity first?”
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ianxz.bsky.social @ianxz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
but, like this
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Two crypto billionaires donated £36 million each to Reform UK, how does that compare to donations in European countries?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2020: Ben Delo, "Last year I signed The Giving Pledge, pledging to give the majority of my wealth to good causes over my lifetime" 2026: Ben Delo donates £36 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Awks - when Reform UK complain about the establishment but are also funded by the establishment Have a peek at this article by @adambienkov.bsky.social www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 11/09/2026
Jess Phillips delivers an emotional speech about her mother who thought deeply about her death, but was denied the choice of an assisted death with her family @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
JFC, the Telegraph description reads: "Fresh from their 'stop the boats' demonstration in Dover on Saturday, masked protesters board a train as three female passengers, unconnected with the men, look on." And the title is - I kid you not - "Race for the train". AREN'T MASKED RACIST MILITIAS FUN?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Farage, a man who was doing Cameo videos for £70 a pop as late as March 2026, apparently turned up to a meeting to discuss a half-million donation and "wasn't really listening". What utter contempt he has for the very democracy, country, and people that he claims to love.
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Daniel Bruce @danieljbruce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reform UK foreign donation allegations: @transparencyuk.bsky.social’s @duncanhames.bsky.social analyses the @channel4news.bsky.social findings with @lbc.co.uk’s @mrjamesob.bsky.social #UKPolitics
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Friday Cartoon 😃
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LBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The news about JL Partners/Reform UK justifies my long held belief that almost all of these polling companies are fraudulent and/or corrupt. I've been going at them for a long time.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.
Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion) 

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Probably too much to ask but it would be useful if we could keep in mind that this is a global bond sell off and therefore unlikely to be driven by UK policy.
A more sensible FT headline about global bond markets and inflation.
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Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Man, Chris Mason is a massive bell end. Just go to GBeebies and be done with it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mark Fairhurst, Chair, Prison Officer's Association, "We had 2,400 more staff in the 1990s than we do now, and now we're locking up twice as many prisoners" "The Conservative government closed 23 prisons, lost over 10,000 cell spaces, imagine if we had those now, we wouldn't be in this mess now"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.
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Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence.
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