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Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Richmond and Northallerton 2024. On the Labour YIMBY Exec. PricedOutUK Advisory Board. Occasionally witty. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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So this all got measurably worse overnight. Worst I've ever seen it. Gonna go hike 20 miles and get offline for a bit.

02.08.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, and also fairly sure they hand them out to literal bots too now based on some of their replies, which does not help either.

01.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who is he calling ginger?

01.08.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Could report homophobic abuse from someone with a swastika in his bio, but he's blue ticked so they clearly have already ruled that's fine already.

01.08.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminded quite acutely today of how much of a complete sewer the other place is.

01.08.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Rest is Entertainment is I think the last celebrity/politics adjacent product left that both makes me laugh and where I actually learn things.

01.08.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now even Popbitch has become bad, is there a single genuinely good gossip/diary piece published anywhere in the UK?

01.08.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cameron and Osborne remain simultaneously the most politically effective government of the Tory era, and by far the most damaging long term.

30.07.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Only "single moment" answer here is the crash, and refusal to make use of the ultra low borrowing costs to that marked the entire period of austerity to invest.

30.07.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

They don't say this stuff because they are unaware it is not true.

28.07.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alcaraz very impressive as always but his head wasn't in it from around the third set.

13.07.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching Sinner v Alcaraz in a lovely open-front pub in Keswick that’s been showing the tennis…

While being serenaded by an enthusiastic but truly awful busker who has, impressively, managed to play Chappell Roan and Nick Cave and make them sound exactly the same.

13.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

G'wan Carlos.

13.07.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay losing is still worse, imagining having to do an interview after that.

12.07.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I was at 6-0 5-0, I'd think about throwing a game just to avoid the embarrassment.

12.07.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You'd be quite annoyed winning 6-0 6-0 at Wimbledon wouldn't you? The pinnacle of your career and it's trivially easy.

12.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It does just feel like it's odds on anything you read, watch, or hear is a lie now.

06.07.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoever organised this has clearly never been to a Guns N Roses gig.

05.07.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's the hard bit!

04.07.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ultimately in elections people just want a Government that will get shit done. Failing that, they will probably vote to burn the whole thing down instead.

04.07.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think people basically all want the same thing, a place they can be proud of living in, their community to thrive, and for a country that works.

The first is undermined by decline of their estates and streets, the second by decline of high streets and third by decline of services and the state.

04.07.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the biggest learning experiences too. I didn't have one ill-tempered conversation with a voter across the entire campaign and people wanted to talk. People open up to candidates in a way they don't to a canvasser, and even those who were not natural Labour people engaged open-mindedly.

04.07.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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One year since the General Election and one of the maddest six weeks of my life. We got Rishi scared enough to spend eight full days defending his own seat, and in such a flap he even tried to set up an emergency Lab-Tory hustings in the final week he then, of course, pulled out of.

04.07.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Tried Huel for lunch simply because it was refrigerated. Feel like their marketing people are missing a trick during the heatwave.

30.06.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leicester Church of England: A preacher asked me out and then started stalking me When Jay Hulme complained about the harassment to a bishop, he was accused of witchcraft.

This is one of the wildest stories I've read this year. Gets weirder and weirder the longer it goes on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30.06.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Utter barbarism: Cluster munitions released by a Russian missile tear through a residential area in Kyiv early on June 17 during a massive air attack by fascist Russia on the capital of democratic Ukraine. At least 15 dead and 114 injured by combined drone and missile air raid.

17.06.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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Bruce Springsteen gigs are truly transcendental experiences, even up in the rafters.

05.06.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Thinking of everyone in Liverpool. Horrific.

26.05.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best "looking at a map" games ever made imv. Gets the subtleties and importance of context, personalities, and impossible questions in politics that other political sims completely miss. Also fantastic writing and one of the most convoluted set ups to a fantastic pop culture gag in any game.

26.05.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This would be a resigning issue in normal circumstances.

26.05.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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