Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialHarry Smith @harry-smith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think that she won an election and he didn’t. 23374 337
waspwaspish.bsky.social @waspwaspish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Not sure about your neighbourhood, but as a British citizen I’m sure I’d want mine to be defended by the British military in the event of a second invasion by a hostile aggressor. 000 0
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialRafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I was on the telly. 1302108481 2.1K
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialSouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The numbers on social media posts from the likes of Nigel Farage and Richard Stupid Tice aren't looking so good today in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres. 10264104 264
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026From The Archives #492 That time in October 2019 when Farage got all his Brexit Party MEPs to vote against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda. 7 years later, almost to the day, he accuses Burnham of lying that there was Russian interference in Brexit... 21358199 358
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Ukraine's bombing of Russian bot farms... "Operation: Quiet Piggy" 1133 13
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialBen Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The BBC's pathological obsession with platforming an extremist party with 8 MPs shown again with their inexplicably extended interview with the unelected Zia Yusuf re their latest insane, inhumane batshittery. Where is the similar platforming of e.g. the Lib Dems with almost ten times the MPs? 46523 65
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026no one can calibrate how successful the interference was but of course there was interference, people 1424917 249
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAndy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #HeroyamSlava🇺🇦 #СлаваУкраїні🇺🇦 #Героямславаhas🇺🇦 #GlorytoUkraine🇺🇦 #GlorytotheHeroes🇺🇦 Please stand with Ukraine against Russian war crimes & help Ukrainian defenders & allies🇺🇳 win peace in 2026 #IStandWithUkraine🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #PutinIsACriminal #TrumpIsACriminal #ZelenskyisAHero 🇺🇦 1278 27
waspwaspish.bsky.social @waspwaspish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Does funding the ally of your country’s enemy qualify as TREASON? 3303 30
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialGary Lewis @seasidegaz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Burnham needs to commission a [thorough] retrospective report on matter, like Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee recommended in 2020. The one that Johnson declared was “unnecessary”. 0252 25
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialNick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Today, the Telegraph can exclusively reveal that people who've got nowt often live near each other in less well off neighbourhoods. More as we get it. 1622843 228
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialBDVE - Big Donkey VOTING Energy @boulevaardvark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 0113 11
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialJill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026there is minimal evidence that inheritors in their 50s and 60s are desperate to move into their parents' former home. My @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on why Kemi Badenoch's policies are for the world of Downton Abbey - not the one we live in now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...instituteforgovernment.org.ukKemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for GovernmentThe leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through. 1422769 227
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026🔥🔥 This phenomenal article shows how European Movement UK are now laying out a 10-year path back into full EU membership. All the stages, timings, complexities, ratifications and considerations in place. Could even be sooner if we get a lucky break. Read 👇independent.co.ukLabour voters overwhelmingly want Andy Burnham to commit to rejoining EU, poll showsExclusive: New 10-year plan for re-entry to the European Union in 2036 being put to the prime minister 25475162 475
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026Yeah, I feel no need to override people's right to self-determination to hand a nationalist a win. 3491 49
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialTransmitter Down @thetransmitterdown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026So they shared a flat and these images were on the computer they both used? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...independent.co.ukHome Office ‘child abuse cover-up’: Michael Gove rules out publicReview into alleged abuses finds 114 related files ‘lost or destroyed’ by officials 196 9
waspwaspish.bsky.social @waspwaspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Dems haven’t won the midterms yet. You’re underestimating Trump’s capacity to ‘cheat like hell’. 010 1
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hi Andrew Husband, can you explain how you had any part in gaining this award considering the entry was made 10 days in to your taking over the Council? As Reform Party Watch say, you're celebrating a Diversity award and a Low Carbon Emissions award. 01911 19
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is absolutely damning. A must-read. 22492153 492
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialbanma569.bsky.social @banma569.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They're the party who seem to have a problem with maths. The country's been in a financial mess, very much, due to their fiscal ineptitude. 021 2
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAlan Downie @aland1960.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As an engineering manager I’d be checking and double checking everything this clot did in her previous career. 031 3
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data 98777339 777
waspwaspish.bsky.social @waspwaspish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How will it be moved around the country? £10bn is not even 10% of an incomplete railway system!🫣 #HS2 110 1
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialPeter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"New team" bsky.app/profile/josh... 2102 10
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialThe Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The algorithm doesn't want you calm, informed, or connected. It wants you angry, addicted, and isolated. Because that's what lines the pockets of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg. 10728171 728
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Kemi Badenoch says “privatisation was a success”. Tell that to Britain’s rivers. Since privatisation, sewage has polluted our waterways while water bosses collect bonuses. Labour is repealing Thatcher’s ban on public ownership and giving Mayors stronger powers to hold companies to account. 1219 21
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialIain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Former RAF Air Command deputy commander Air Marshal Greg Bagwell said £10 billion might protect some key sites (e.g. London) but not the whole UK, and cited US “Golden Dome” concepts in the $200 billion-$1 trillion range. #Badenoch is away with the fairies! #BritanniaShield 0156 15
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialJack Monaghan @jackm30.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He makes Alan Partridge look self-aware by comparison. 061 6
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in 971284241 1.3K
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.bbc.co.ukKemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UKThe Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds. 31503120 503
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAlex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the week when 54 people and 20 organisations facing charges over the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Tories want to weaken housing regulations. Out-of-touch, stupid, reckless. 1287 28
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding. 541904772 1.9K
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialCeri P 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇳🇵 @ceri38.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh I do hope loads of shit 💩 is about to descend upon him. 061 6
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialGar_eth @garmobile.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Good News next Burnham could free up some of the court backlog by repealing the Starmer protest legislation that has seen 1000,s arrested and charged with terrorist offences for holding signs supporting Palestine. They are not terrorists and juries are unwilling to convict them. 0275 27
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 861525617 1.5K
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialGavin @gavintc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is truly disgraceful, and particularly so from a main stream political party. But, the greater shame must be applied to the wider journalist community. We must support free journalism not merely those we might like. The option is state controlled propaganda. 0266 26
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialDaily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Conservatives a facing quite the rebellion on their opposition to Andy Burnham's Triple Lock Reforms for the National Care System. 4145 14
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471186353 1.2K
waspwaspish.bsky.social @waspwaspish.bsky.social · 28/09/202610. Telling his supporters to “cheat like hell”. 1522 52
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel 851366394 1.4K
Reposted by @waspwaspish.bsky.socialAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I doubt whether Nigel Farage's older supporters will be happy when they learn that Reform UK plan to abolish the state pension and our NHS ... meme via Drew Flanagan 59754413 754
