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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 5m

Conservative conference 2027: the sacred remains of Maggie are exhumed and paraded around the hall on a palanquin for adoration at the start of each day.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 7h

Makes perfect sense when you remember that they're still the primary mouthpieces of the fossil fuel lobby, especially now that Fargle's bubble is punctured.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 12h

Given the nature of the French polity, I think the overall answer is 'yes'. "How can one govern a country with 249 varieties of cheese?" - Charles De Gaulle.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 17h

Not according to the most zealous. They take their cues from the Yank 'Left' (themselves a complete joke). As far as that viewpoint is concerned, the rest of us are all complicit in crimes against humanity and deserve to suffer.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 17h

The fact that 'interested' groups had all this ready to go so quickly is disturbing. It suggests some proper unpleasant zealotry behind it.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 17h

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?

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Duel Truck

ALT: Duel Truck

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 21h

Patron saint of the airport novel (and sometimes those seeking financial support for coups in small West African petro-states).

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 23h

Given their propensity to side with the RefUKers at the local level over issues like *checks notes* opposing wind and solar farms, a literal 'blood and soil' coalition no longer looks quite so laughably preposterous 🤔

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.

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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, they'll do the first bit. Won't do the second though, the lying, two-faced f*ckers.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I misread that cack-handed spelling of Bibi's name as 'Netherlands'. Which was confusing. I mean, the VOC did some very nasty things in Indonesia back in the day, but I wasn't aware that the Dutch had a dark history with the Levant as well...🤔

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

150 people some draped in flags as they don’t know how to do put their arms in coats, voicing “legitimate concerns” scuffling with Police because it’s a good opportunity to in Gosport Obvs they don’t have jobs for migrants to take as they were there until early hours.. or they’d be late for work 🤷‍♂️

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Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

The Home Office said 149 migrants were brought ashore and taken by coach to a processing centre in Kent.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For a long time I've heard rumours of Reform UK supporting Islamophobes who warn of dangers of Sharia law happily holidaying and buying flats in Dubai which runs under Sharia law If true, they should be forced to wear a T-shirt proclaiming 'I'm a far right hypocrite' meme via We Demand UK

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I suspect our Zack's going to get an absolute tw*tting this Thursday 🤔

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If only all that 'local engagement' was as focused on core energy and water infrastructure improvements as they once were on demanding sodding bypasses for every hamlet in the realm. Funny how that works, right?

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Still, it's another policy area where the Greens and the Fash can find common ground at the local level... ...hang on...that's an utterly sh!te outcome, isn't it? Bugger 😬

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just as with wind and solar farms. "We need expanded energy and water infrastructure! But not here!"

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Translation: "WTAF have you just done, you headcases. You're making our whole movement look crazy!"

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail comes to mind.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As any pilot will tell you, irrecoverable tailspins have plenty of momentum. But that only makes the sudden stop at the end more painful.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎵'Brave Polanski ran away/ Bravely ran away-away! When zealots reared/ their noisy heads/ he bravely turned his tail and fled. Brave Polanski turned about/ and gallantly he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet/ To Holborn beat a swift retreat. This is the song of braaave Polanski!🎵

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Brave Sir Robin Ran Away

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People tend to be quite shocked when they find out that quite a few core anti-modernity environmentalist principles were embraced by, among others, Heinrich Himmler.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They speak more or less the same language as us in Britain, but they may as well come from another world. One that never left the 17th Century, by the looks of it. First-world economy. Third-world society.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Charlatan or flim-flam merchant. 150 years ago he'd have hawking 'miracle cures' from the back of a wagon...

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not a details man, our Zack. That has now backfired for him and GPEW on an epic scale 😬

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kinnock expended a lot of his internal party political capital doing what had to be done. You can see how history repeated itself with Starmer. He had to do something very similar, and paid the same political price. If he'd achieved nothing else as LP leader, we'd still owe him a debt of gratitude.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm reminded of the Owen and Steele skits from Spitting Image back in the SDP/Liberal Alliance days...

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Better than having them scream abuse at you and unironically call you a Nazi sympathiser, I suppose 🤷‍♂️.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I suppose at least our spectrum of political parties is 'balanced'. By which I mean its clear that both the Russian AND Iranian govts now have fifth columns within the legislature 😬

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are they Americans? This appears to be a significant problem in the US among people of certain ages. Incredibly poor reading comprehension and composition skills.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The far left always helps to put the far right in power, whether deliberately or not. It's why they constantly spout that bullsh*t 'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds'. It's cope to justify their own betraying potential allies in the name of faux-purity. They care nothing for actual people.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Burnham has evidently established good working relations with the genie he inherited from Starmer...

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Given how 'subtle' some of them are, we'll find out two days earlier than that 😖

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe I'm cynical, but the alt/far left really come across as crybullies who lecture you about betrayal and sabotage *while still holding the machete they just hamstrung you with* 😬

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The one thing that LLMs might actually be useful for. Schedule 2500 words of drivel in an approximation of their 'style' weekly, which can then be safely ignored. Then deep-six the pretentious w*nkers.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Polanski did more than just fail to prepare for these people - he actively courted them. He went out of his way to try and hoover up those who bailed or were pushed out by the implosion of 'Your Party'. He was warned at the time that many were idelogically toxic. The whirlwind is now being reaped.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If Keir Starmer's only political legacy was hoofing the maniac element back out of the Labour Party (correcting Ed Miliband's most egregious mistake), then he'd still be owed a debt of gratitude. The events at the GPEW conference is where they'd always end up. Horribly toxic Fash-enabling behaviour.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As many have long known, Polanski is a hollow charlatan. No more, no less.

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theviewfromorbit.bsky.social @theviewfromorbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The political horseshoe is complete, it seems 😬

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