Reposted by Simon SIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10hJust 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. 59822169
Reposted by Simon SWalnuts @mrwalnuts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I see on the news that the Tories have let Doctor Bunson Honeydew have a go at being Shadow Chancellor 3215
Reposted by Simon S@SueCymraes.bsky.social🏴🇰🇼🇳🇫 @suecymraes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Same 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!!! 075
Reposted by Simon SIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Useful 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. 3542767
Reposted by Simon SBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city." 16609158
Reposted by Simon SDewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OMG 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 😳 2503540643
Reposted by Simon SAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐 531063188
Reposted by Simon SParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For 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? 1051418288
Reposted by Simon SThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A baby giraffe's first zoomies are just what I needed to see tonight. I hope it brings you joy, too. 582790440
Reposted by Simon SPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The 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 591077302
Reposted by Simon SSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As 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) 821858676
Reposted by Simon S@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Badenoch says Burnham wants to take the country back to the 1970s. Griffith would prefer the 1870s… www.cityam.com/heathrow-and...cityam.comGriffith pledges ‘most ambitious deregulation project’ in generationAndrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, will say he will slash red tape on businesses across construction, supermarkets and nuclear energy. 0155
Reposted by Simon SThe Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The 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% 6127
Reposted by Simon SJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Under 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. 3178
Reposted by Simon S@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You just despair at Badenoch’s daily pollution of our political discourse - coarse, simplistic and divisive. 3185
Reposted by Simon SJane Duncan @janecourt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Have 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. 071
Reposted by Simon SIrene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social · 04/10/202615 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. 13117
Reposted by Simon SPolitical Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on Kemi #Badenoch and Britain’s Neets @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com 12710
Reposted by Simon SJulian Power 🖋️📖 @julianrwpower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’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.) 074
Reposted by Simon SJohnSears01.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? 074
Reposted by Simon SGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is there a subtle contrast being drawn between who Labour help and who the Tories help 🤔 #CPC26 1022258
Reposted by Simon SZoe @ineffablerat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The 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]. 151
Reposted by Simon SIan Caveney @iancaveney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If 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. 031
Reposted by Simon SLeviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Conservative 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. 👇 172
Reposted by Simon SJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds. 16733217
Simon S @sphynxzilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The problem with Badenoch is she hasn't worked out that being in opposition doesn't mean opposing everything the Government does. 010
Reposted by Simon Saiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Question for Badenoch, Farage, Braverman and Lowe. Who among the England men's football squad are English? 022
Reposted by Simon SAnneMc #FBPE 🏴🇺🇦🩵 @boof64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Helen 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 153
Reposted by Simon SPatrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Badenoch 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 🤷♂️ 🙄 24616
Reposted by Simon SDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That'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. 3311
Reposted by Simon SCanaries Caption It @canaries-captionit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Idiot 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. 062
Simon S @sphynxzilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They don't like benefits for the poor but benefits for the wealthy are fine. 000
Reposted by Simon SSimon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you earn over £100k the Tories are on your side. Not exactly a vote winner, is it? 94614
Reposted by Simon SSE16mss @se16mss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026BadEnoch 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!) 182
Reposted by Simon Sjflohan.bsky.social @jflohan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kemi 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...thetimes.comKemi Badenoch pledges free childcare for high earners — follow latestThe Tory leader played down speculation that she would make a key announcement on inheritance tax as the party gathered in Birmingham 042
Reposted by Simon SMatt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You 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. 021
Reposted by Simon SCerulean Man 🐝 🏳️🌈 🌹 🐶 @ceruleanman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Everything 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...theguardian.comReturn of the nasty party? Badenoch walks tightrope with ‘punch down’ policiesShadow minister says Tories have ‘outsourced our toxicity to Reform’, but others doubt leader can spark lasting revival 1103
Reposted by Simon SThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 03/10/2026The 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. 2221454
Reposted by Simon SMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Years 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? 47621138
Reposted by Simon SMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A girl adopted an injured deer and showed how, over time, it turned into just another little dog. Original post 723189408
Reposted by Simon SWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So invading small boats are good now? 77112
Reposted by Simon SRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CEO-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. 327110704302
Reposted by Simon SSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Very 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. 27427118
Reposted by Simon SStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sir 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'. 11034491286
Reposted by Simon SParody 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." 472354695
Reposted by Simon SHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026More 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...as.ft.comOver 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis showsFT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project 720192
Reposted by Simon SParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If 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... 19672209
Reposted by Simon SOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A 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." 2882545924