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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is just bollocks. When my dad and grandma faced the most disgusting racism in the 60s and 70s (more extreme than what would ever be considered mistreat today) migration was far lower and many Brits were facing plenty ‘inwards’

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 29/09/2026

Not against linking state pension to earnings instead. But it would be deeply regressive to scrap the triple lock, hitting vulnerable folk relying solely on the state pension, while doing nothing about council/property tax reform to ask a little more of wealthy pensioners in million £ houses.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Renewal, Steve discusses some testing Persuasion has done on the electoral appeal of this approach. renewal.org.uk/blog/the-cas...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan.

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sheer crap from Burnham. If you say "immigration needs to be dealt with" and talk about small boar crossings in this context, you -are- equivocating. Call them what they are - fascists, terrorists, scum. Nothing short of that will do.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026

I do wonder sometimes if certain people in Labour have ever met the modern working class. I know in reality they have, but it never feels like it. Working people are overwhelmingly literate now! Most know people of other races! Many have gay friends or family! Some worry about climate change!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference

Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, we've apparently lifted the ban on right wing hooliganism so what's the point keeping the stable door bolted I guess

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The public will of course notice the reduction in small boat crossings and net immigration and thus vote Labour again!!" - me, a fucking idiot

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 20/09/2026

Props to Bridget for saying what, 5 years ago, would've been totally common ground between basically all Labour and Tory MPs. We need to hear the same moral leadership, consistently, from everyone in the Cabinet.

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We should be proud that being British is something that unites people regardless of their skin colour. If today’s parties of the right want a backward-facing, exclusionary patriotism – Labour will fight against them, and we’ll win.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 16/09/2026

The last PM who did nothing to arrest the rise of racism, 2025 (colourised)

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Her worldview is so regressive. Male nursery staff can’t change nappies????

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

disagreeing with Urdu election material is silly. the more interesting question is why Polanski is campaigning in Urdu in a constituency with hardly any Urdu speakers

Census 2021 data on main language in Holborn and St Pancras. Only 156 people listed Urdu as their main language (compared with 3,471 for Bengali, 2,488 for French, 2,153 for Spanish)

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Labour sending out fundraising emails off the back of the Harborne and Delo donations. Yes chaps, that’ll do it.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 12/09/2026

Sure it's not Burnham's fault. But the second best time to cap individual and company donations etc etc. It's very easy to make a political argument that TU funding is, per person, very low. You could just limit each person (voter, union member, shareholder) to £15k and boost short money a bit.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2026

I can’t believe that George W Bush painted the meme

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 10/09/2026

Really good stuff from @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social here - more Labour MPs should be saying the same. Mahmood's ILR reforms are unfair, will undermine migrant integration and only embolden the far right's attack on the world's best and brightest who want to contribute to the UK 👏

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 09/09/2026

The fact they got an English person to wax lyrical about the design like a Temu Jony Ive is absolutely sending me youtu.be/jwh3asyiIgs?...

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iPhone Duo Event in 24 minutes

YouTube video by The Verge

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 09/09/2026

And the Home Secretary needs to get in the bin.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 08/09/2026

Vital for Labour MPs to pressure the Government by explicitly, publicly condemning this fascist behaviour. We must never conflate racist, anti-democratic thuggery with peaceful protest. A random selection: @torstenbell.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @antoniabance.bsky.social

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.

Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers

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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At the most basic level, this is why the PM, Police, and press response is so horrifying: it gives a fascist cabal the impunity that because they can get away with open "not touching u" demos, they can get away with directing their followers to the homes of RNLI volunteers

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026

It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I appreciate they would deny it, but they spent the last two days arguing about if some ethnicities can be British, announcing they'd declare a state or emergency to push through their policies, and now this, it's a very straightforwardly fascist movement.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 04/09/2026

Richard Tice is claiming on Radio 4 Today that a KC's opinion is that no rules have been broken. I'm not an electoral law expert but worked within these rules as a Labour fundraiser. I can't see how that advice can have been given. Trying to take foreign cash thru a proxy is an offence under PPERA.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

James Orr was correct when he described the Electoral Commission as “completely clueless”, apparently.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 03/09/2026

"Route foreign money through UK-based proxy": pretty much the most comically flagrant breach of electoral rules possible. As a political fundraiser (James Orr, Dan Jukes) you'd have to be an utter clown to send your boss into a meeting to gleefully thank the donor for doing it. youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 03/09/2026

Many voters in H&SP aren't necessarily huge Polanski fans but hate what the Government's doing on migration, Israel/Palestine, trans rights & other issues important to liberal voters. Looks like a free opportunity to punch Labour's bruise - the candidate must be credible to such voters.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best time for broad based tax rises was autumn 2024. The next best time was autumn 2025. But here we are. The next best time is this budget. The point of political capital is to spend it when you need to. Take the hit now and give yourself a path to a strong political argument in 2028/29.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in the future" this person is TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and the BBC is scaremongering about their choice not to breastfeed a baby that they do not have and have given no indication of ever wanting to have

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 01/09/2026

Yeah sorry this is just hurting your successor for no earthly reason. Bitter and childish.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The traditional move in this situation is of course to name the street in Ottawa where the US embassy is Renee Good Avenue

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Once again i'd like someone to ask the immigration restrictionists 'how are you going to pay for this?'

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 24/08/2026

More for the "the gulf in aura is largely a luck thing" theory, @matthewholehouse.bsky.social. Keir could play the flute at a waaaaaay higher level than Burnham's guitar (Guildhall at the weekends!)...but wouldn't be caught doing so in public because it just looks silly, whereas this is PR gold

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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📈 GREAT CLIMATE NEWS 📈 Renewables keep powering ahead. They now power *a third* of the world's electricity supply. And that number is only going up and up and up.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Starmer not having Khan's back on the Western expansion was one of the major warning signs that Starmer was going to be a shit PM

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