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Simon S

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Political junkie, proud leftie, anti-racist, supporter of LGBT, theatre lover, numptie. All views are my own. 🏳️‍🌈

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Walnuts @mrwalnuts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I see on the news that the Tories have let Doctor Bunson Honeydew have a go at being Shadow Chancellor
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@SueCymraes.bsky.social🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇰🇼🇳🇫 @suecymraes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same old Tories otherwise known as the Nasty Party. Proudly announce their intention to benefit the wealthy and privileged, while equally proudly announcing they’d pay for this by starving disadvantaged children!!!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Useful things are happening recently on the right, with prominent figures drawing a line under the racism: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadhim Zahawi, now James Cleverly. Tentative sense of a social and moral norm being re-established.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city."
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐
Main on Sunday front page: 

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A baby giraffe's first zoomies are just what I needed to see tonight. I hope it brings you joy, too.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strike!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Badenoch says Burnham wants to take the country back to the 1970s. Griffith would prefer the 1870s… www.cityam.com/heathrow-and...
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Griffith pledges ‘most ambitious deregulation project’ in generation
Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, will say he will slash red tape on businesses across construction, supermarkets and nuclear energy.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Conservatives have moved ahead of Reform UK in fresh polling from Lord Ashcroft released this morning. Using a model based on how likely people say they are to vote for each party at the next election, the results are: Labour 28% Conservatives 22% Reform UK 19% Greens 14% Lib Dems 8%
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Under the Tories we will lose our human rights and environmental protections. They are promising to deliver a full on race to the absolute bottom. I am not sure this wins back those seats they lost to the LibDems in 2024.
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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You just despair at Badenoch’s daily pollution of our political discourse - coarse, simplistic and divisive.
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Jane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have the Tories learned nothing? We are still paying for Thatcher’s nonsense — water privatisation, sale of social housing etc. And as for austerity — will our economy ever recover? But Badenoch can only look backwards. Let’s hope electors memories don’t fade.
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Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
15 years of arrogant lies, greed & corruption. 15 years and what did they bring us? Brexit. Used Covid to line their own pockets. £Billions lost from the public purse. Left a mess of starved & stripped services, closed police & fire stations. The state we’re in? Blame the Tories, not immigrants.
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on Kemi #Badenoch and Britain’s Neets @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Julian Power 🖋️📖 @julianrwpower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s bewildering that the Tories think it’s okay to be this openly racist. (Yes, they’ve always been this racist, but they’re unafraid to say the quiet part out loud now.)
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JohnSears01.bsky.social @johnsears02.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#BBCLauraK #Badenoch wants to be seen as an "old school #Tory" The type that sold our public services to private equity? And sold off our stock of council housing? And she thinks we want more of that?
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is there a subtle contrast being drawn between who Labour help and who the Tories help 🤔 #CPC26
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Zoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The policies of Tories and Reform seem to amount to 'You know how poor and miserable you are? Well, we can make you even poorer and more miserable. Oh, and it's all the fault of [insert your chosen prejudices according to personal preference].
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Ian Caveney @iancaveney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Burnham were Frodo Baggins he'd have set up a bus service, called it the Bree Network and jumped on the 192 down to Minas Tirith. Short stroll to Mount Doom and back in time for a chippy tea.
Screenshot of Telegraph piece by Charles Moore titled 'If Burnham were Frodo Baggins, Sauron would have won'.
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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Conservative conference demonstrating how Badenoch wants to position the party as: the party of tax payer benefits for the wealthiest in society, whilst removing the social support structure for the poorest & most vulnerable - all while cutting growth, encouraging pollution & discouraging tourism. 👇
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
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Simon S @sphynxzilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem with Badenoch is she hasn't worked out that being in opposition doesn't mean opposing everything the Government does.
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aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Question for Badenoch, Farage, Braverman and Lowe. Who among the England men's football squad are English?
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AnneMc #FBPE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🩵 @boof64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Helen Whately & Kemi Badenoch are both millionaires. They claim the most. Incl £74.6k in rent paid for by us. Their bills, council tax, travel expenses, subsidised food & drink. But the Conservatives want you to believe disabled people on an average of £15k a year are the issue
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Badenoch seamlessly blends supreme arrogance with weapons grade stupidity & thinks we’re as dim She rips into Labour for releasing prisoners early Yet when in power her Govt freed more than 10,000 prisoners up to 70 days because they refused ti build more prison places which was fine with her 🤷‍♂️ 🙄
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's enough "Kemi Badenoch might be quite a good Tory leader actually" articles thanks. We've seen her interviews and you're all beginning to sound a bit desperate.
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Canaries Caption It @canaries-captionit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Idiot Tories taking their 'opposition' role too literally. It doesn't mean you have to oppose everything a government tries to do (Labour didn't). Being selective makes you look credible. Opposing everything makes you look extreme & ridiculous.
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Simon S @sphynxzilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They don't like benefits for the poor but benefits for the wealthy are fine.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you earn over £100k the Tories are on your side. Not exactly a vote winner, is it?
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SE16mss @se16mss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BadEnoch on #Lk described people on benefits as having “made bad choices”. That must be quite the reassurance to the disabled. (55% of benefits go to pensioners: choose to be younger!)
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jflohan.bsky.social @jflohan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch pledges free childcare for high earners No change here…. Of course the rich need as much support as possible. www.thetimes.com/article/bdbf...
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Kemi Badenoch pledges free childcare for high earners — follow latest
The Tory leader played down speculation that she would make a key announcement on inheritance tax as the party gathered in Birmingham
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Matt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You absolutely don't gotta hand it to Cameron and Osborne, but if the Tories do die then Brexit and austerity are what will have done it, the cheque's just been in the post a while.
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Cerulean Man 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 🐶 @ceruleanman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything Bad Enoch does is performative. Just like Farage. Ed Davey is a good egg and so is Burnham; they care. Polanski I havent worked out yet. But Bad Enoch is bad for politics. A narsty piece of work. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Return of the nasty party? Badenoch walks tightrope with ‘punch down’ policies
Shadow minister says Tories have ‘outsourced our toxicity to Reform’, but others doubt leader can spark lasting revival
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 03/10/2026
The pension conversation has turned, yet again, into Netflix and avocados. A quick thing though. Netflix: £20.99pm / £251.88pa Avo: 0.69p an avo - so £251pa if you had an avo every day. So, just over £500 a year Average 10% deposit? £27,300. So just 54 years to save there FFS.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A girl adopted an injured deer and showed how, over time, it turned into just another little dog. Original post
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So invading small boats are good now?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026
More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...
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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows
FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you have a few minutes this weekend, do check out my new article in 'Nigel's Notebook'. It's partly about the many benefits of Brexit, so it's quite short. parodypm.substack.com/p/brexit-epi...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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