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I remember Ange had to swallow some flak for going to Glyndebourne. Incredibly classist response!

In France random supermarkets sell boursin stuffed inside little cured ham rollups and it is one of life's great pleasures

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 30/09/2026

I'm not saying it'll definitely survive contact with the electorate - but surely you can see why this is different to WFA?

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 30/09/2026

Except that here it's clearly paying for a specific thing which benefits that demographic, not "massive ill defined spending black hole". And it's easier to sell a reduction in uprating (the move from triple to double lock) than it is to sell an outright cut. Also it'll go into a manifesto.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 30/09/2026

Not to mention that the Tory Chair demonstrates he doesn't understand the difference between AV and PR - what a moron!

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

£28bn/year green investment (albeit it got dropped a couple of years later 🤦‍♀️)

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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

Telling that it took an English graduate to rediscover the power of political storytelling - not just the what you're doing, but the why you're doing it.

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

Don't get me wrong - I've heard the medicalisation arguments and empathise. But in terms of an immediate political ask, IMV one step at a time is the best way to bring as many people with you as possible.

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

Yeah shrugging and saying "public opinion is unmoveable" is defeatist and not borne out by the evidence. Just takes some bravery.

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

Yeah but during and since the last election the media and JK Rowling have done a number on the British public so they now think perfectly normal use of facilities by trans folk is somehow dangerous

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

Without mounting a public argument, I think that may be accurate. The polling has become incredibly transphobic in just the last 5 years 😔

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

This is the ask! Amend the Equality Act to specify that the definition of women includes trans women in possession of a GRC for the appropriate sections. That would allow services to be trans inclusive as they were assumed to be before FWS.

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

Yeah also - even if the claim is that these rights never existed because they were just convention: tell that to the business unsure if it's gonna get sued by JK Rowling because it had the temerity to offer the same trans inclusive bathroom it has for decades.

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

Possibly not the median opinion but I think I'd probably let her?

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

*soft left figures have controlled CDL, HCLG, Education, FCO, Energy and the Deputy Leadership for the past 70 days* guys I think we might have a problem here

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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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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 27/09/2026

It's all about the bougie ones with the double yolks inside. Basically desserts should be more savoury and I'm in favour of anything tipping they universe's balance in that direction.

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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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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 26/09/2026

It's possible to feel both pity and hatred. And as an ethnic minority Labour sort, it's where I land, because frankly many other Labour MPs are willing to actually fight for what they believe in rather than just pander.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 26/09/2026

Yeah and more than that: if the reforms land at 15 years, that is so antithetical to one of the greatest British policy successes of the last century, integration of ethnic minorities, that I will both quit the party and hold my nose to vote Green or Lib Dem. It's as simple as that.

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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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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/09/2026

Dogshit list IMV. The Crown is absolute crap, don't understand how Shogun isn't higher and missing out the West Wing is criminal.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/09/2026

Agree. Is some external work a genuinely useful way for parties to think through policy? Yes. Do I trust the job of an MP is shit enough that it's essentially impossible to actually buy any influence? Also yes. Would we get better policy if it were properly funded by the state? Defo yes.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/09/2026

QA for @jamesomalley.co.uk: if you get it wrong it shouldn't hide the portraits. It should leave them visible with a red border around the wrong one so you know what you got wrong, visibly.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 25/09/2026

A lot of the MPs in official portraits look super different to real life / how they normally look

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 24/09/2026

MP Recall 🏛️ I named 71/649 current MPs in ten minutes. 🟥 57/403 LAB 🟦 7/118 CON 🟧 2/71 LD 🩵 3/8 REF 🟢 1/5 GRN 🟪 1/2 YP Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/

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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 · 21/09/2026

This is utterly inadequate. Wouldn't be able to knock on a door for her.

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

These things can both be true! He did the bare minimum in terms of rhetoric, a bar which our two recent Labour PMs have utterly failed to clear. But he also fed the far right's ethnonationalism by pushing the agenda like you say. (The ILR changes they're planning for legal migrants are worse FWIW.)

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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 · 19/09/2026

Yeah can't imagine the court even needs to find it a matter of opinion. They'd struggle to even get Mahmood on it not being true.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 18/09/2026

Side note but I met the guy once when he was still the mission head because we hadn't recognised the state yet - you'd expect he'd have to be, but to this day I don't think I've ever met someone so charming. news.sky.com/video/uk-is-...

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UK is 'leading not following' in West Bank sanctions, says Palestinian ambassador

The Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, told Yalda Hakim that the announcement of sanctions is a "turning point in British-Palestinian relations"

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 18/09/2026

Yeah and there's a reason the Palestinian ambassador asked for and welcomed this measure.

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 18/09/2026

🎶 I'm in love with the shape of poo 🎶

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 17/09/2026

Yeah sure. The largest cortisol spikes come from social exclusion / consequences per various macaque experiments - so it'd be unsurprising to me if the breakdown of the social fabric were to create anarchy when those consequences recede.

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