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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Loved Burnham's nod to you today. What was really clever though,was he effectively set out his 2nd term. Frees him from the manifesto without needing to call an early election.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social What have we become? Absolute heroes in tears and black shirts in balaclavas spreading fear and intolerance.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/1E2zYw... Andy Burnham is just so much better at politics than Keir Starmer

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Andy Burnham's instincts and goals appear to be very good. Just straight forward soft left policies. The country will be far better if this works out. The problem will be paying for this programme. In a decade or so, the economy would certainly be improved. But how to get from here to there?

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Starmer has to go, and the sooner the better. I'm a soft left social democrat, so should be his core support. The problem is his "rivers of blood" speech, attack on the disabled & pro-Brexit rhetoric just give the message that Farage is right. He's lost the left & pushed the right to Reform. #LABOUR

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Immigration is a net contributor to the UK economy. The only difference in academic studies is by how much. Pass it on.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Hopefully @stellacreasy.bsky.social is going to run for Deputy Leader. About time her profile and influence matched her abilities. #Labour

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Wouldn't the best compromise be to expand Luton airport? Far easier to access from the Midlands and North and still close to London for your imaginary American friends

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Is Labour's best chance if winning the next election to make it about Brexit? Accept that Farage has the reactionary 25%. Pin Brexit on him. Say that winter fuel, PIP etc were forced by the economic realities of Brexit. Vote Labour to rejoin SM & CU to rebuild UK. #BREXIT

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social People vote Labour, join Labour, become Labour councillors, and become Labour MPs because they believe in social justice. Keir Starmer must understand that ultimately, party stakeholders will not allow policies that make life intolerable for the vulnerable. #Labour

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social You simply cannot go ahead with the cruel plan to cut disability benefits. It is immoral and will destroy the party. You will be unable to govern without your core support.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

People wonder why I’m so angry at Labour. It’s because their kamikaze mission to appease the far right by being continuity Tory instead of the change they promised, is haemorrhaging support (obviously) and will result in Farage as PM. I mean, for fucks sake. Sort your shit out and stop it now 👇🏼

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This chart from Immigration White Paper illustrates quality of government's underlying "analysis." 1. Numbers are completely wrong (in fact non-EU employment in health/care rose by over 100K). 2. Doesn't say what time period this is. 3. Footnote to source says data is from OECD (it's from HMRC)

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I hope that Labour now stop trying to appease Reform. The way forward is to consistently point out their propaganda lies and highlight what effects Reform policies would have on people's lives. They need to relax the fiscal rules, drive through a social democratic programme and make lives better.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Right wing populist politics has been so damaging and so brain-achingly tedious this last decade. Look at where we are as a result. Far poorer, weaker, more divided, isolated from the EU and trying not to piss off an egomaniacal lunatic in the White House. Sovereignty at its most vulnerable.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

everyone can help champion what we need to do more of and what we need to change. If you agree share this post and spread the word! 2/2

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Does the dim button queue up a call from a Reform voter?

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Trump is trying to ramp up inflation. The Fed will respond by hiking interest rates. Trump will make a fortune in interest from his billions. He'll also bring in emergency tax rules to 'stimulate' the economy & exempt billionaires from tax. It's about making money for Trump.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I wonder when Greenland starts having local 'independent' referenda on joining the US?

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

@labourlewis.bsky.social sounding like a 21st century Nye Bevan. Clive is making a lot of sense these days.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BBC News - Trump bemoans a portrait of him - but gets a new one from Putin www.bbc.com/news/article... It's so heart warming to hear of a boss treating his employee so well

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Trump bemoans a painting of him - but gets a new one from Putin

A "distorted" portrait in the US was removed after the president complained, but he was "touched" by a Russian gift.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social WW2 brought unimaginable suffering to millions. Yet, that suffering would have been worse if Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Hirohito had been left to carve up the world. Trump is copying Hitler in 1933. Who will stop Trump, Putin and Xi?

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1/2 My view on potential welfare cuts: If a government drives people who are unwell into exploitative and insecure work, the illness doesn’t go away. We'll see more people on waiting lists, visiting food banks, & pushed into services that are past breaking point. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs

Labour MPs have hit back at ministers for plotting disability benefit cuts worth billions of pounds. Instead, they call for a wealth tax.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Sally just described me. It's not so much the reading issues anymore for me, it's the short-term memory challenges. My wife still gets grumpy that I can't order a family meal at the bar in a pub. Despite being told several times, by the time I get to the bar, I've forgotten.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Brexitwang. A total shitshow. But no… Let’s not talk about it Let’s not face up to how the Tories ballsed up an already idiotic idea Let’s not fix the ruinous consequences of turning prejudice and ignorance into policy Let’s just slide into a perma-state of resentful crappiness and ‘move on’. FFS.

Independent front page 5th Jan 2025

Five years on, the true cost of Brexit

£30.2bn
Cost of Britain's divorce settlement from the EU (HM Treasury) - not counting any ongoing impacts to the economy

£27bn
Drop in goods exports to EU in 2022 alone due to the introduction of trade barriers since Brexit (LSE) with food, agriculture and fishing among worst-hit sectors

15%
Long-term hit to
UK trade (OBR) as revealed in
Budget forecast

£2.8bn
Annual decrease in UK food exports to the EU
(Centre for Inclusive
Trade Policy)

6 in 10
Britons think
118,000
Brexit has gone badly (YouGov)

Tonnes drop in seafood exports
and 12% believe
to the EU since 2019 (Marine
it has gone well
Management Organisation)

3.6m+
Number of immigrants into UK since the end of EU free movement
(ONS) despite claims it would reduce the flow

56%
Proportion of dairy producers
1,227,800
struggling to find workers (Arla)
EU nationals who left the UK between 2016-21 (ONS)

16,400
Number of businesses that stopped exporting to EU due to Brexit trade rules (LSE)

1/3
Drop in EU students at UK universities

2.3m
Net migration since

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

How scary is politics now? Starmer is struggling to get his message across - a combination of a horrendous economic situation & a lack of political nous. If Starmer fails, he'll be replaced by hard right Tories who will destroy the welfare state or actual Reform fascists who will likely start a war.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Tax is good. It pays for things we need; transport, health care, education, policing, street cleaning, firefighters, pensions...etc. Lower taxes mean these services get worse. Unless you are rich, lower taxes cost you money as combined buying power is more efficient than buying services privately.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Has the Telegraph been taken over by a brilliant satirist? All their stories barking mad. It's now the newspaper equivalent of @rosieisaholt.bsky.social or @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social .

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

NHS funding per patient is now more than 6% lower than in 2010. The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated. This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What should Starmer do. He's in a horrible position. Austerity has destroyed the country's infrastructure. Consequently, productivity and growth are very low. Covid (exacerbated by Tory corruption) depleted the reserves and Brexit destroyed inward investment. The economy needs a boost.

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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A few facts about Labour's Budget and farmers.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Do CAMHS actually make things worse? It's taken 4 years to get an autism assessment and an EHCP granted, although not yet actually drafted for my autistic child. There's been school refusal, self-harm, and depression along the way, but the GP won't get involved as it's CAMH's responsibility.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If Starmer doesn't achieve significant growth before the next general election, the populist media will have him on toast. A fiscally moderate course isn't going to cut it. His choice is to borrow more for a Keynesian boost or rejoin the single market and customs union...or it'll be Farage as PM.

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Steve King @stevekderby.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The problem with Trump isn't so much him - his ideology is pro-Trump. Not good for US minorities or Ukrainians, but probably not going to invade anywhere. The issue is, he's shown that the best liar wins...which threatens the very basis of democracy and gives proper Fascists and Nazis a road map.

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