Conor Mc Bride

And there is absolutely zero doubt on page and on screen about poor Miss Murgatroyd and desolate Miss Hinchcliffe.
From their mutual chemistry to the overwhelming grief and fury of the bereaved, they are a same-sex couple.

American *voters* did this.

The citizens of a democracy are responsible for the actions of their government.

I noticed I was whistling the Mr Benn theme tune in the bath earlier. There are a host of reasons why this could be.

So farewell then, Josh Simons
You didn't like them following the dough
You hired APCO
And, like Labour Together,
It's better that you go.

Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister

Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together

Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

Wes Streeting likes to say he's following the evidence - but in fact he's following the bigots. We know it and he knows it.

Meanwhile, if Starmer had any wit, he'd quit and let his successor take the thumping in May.

Even though HATE didn't win, scarily many people voted for them.

Meanwhile, the Government need to stop being FEAR.

The FEAR people like to tell me it'll be my fault if HATE wins. I think electoral politics is a tiny fragment of politics. People make politics, by walking down the street.

Three candidates with a shout. HOPE, FEAR, HATE.

The electorate delivers HOPE, HATE, FEAR. In that order.

But we know what's coming in the media, don't we? Something like
"Zack Poolanski is a Jew.
I bet he likes the Muslims, too.
Zack wants trannies in your loo.
Before you say boo he'd rejoin the EU."

Well, someone's for the trapdoor over the shark tank at SPECTRE headquarters...

Labour's old "hold your nose and vote for us else the r/w get in" strategy is well fucked isn't it.

I see Labour are setting new standards of integrity and dignity in British politics. I'm sure their activists are proud of how their party is conducting itself.

Oh! It does exist! 😱

Tactical-choice.uk

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

BIOLOGICAL foo IDENTIFYING AS bar
as a turn of phrase
is not consistent with anyone's dignity.

The BBC hates me.

Does the BBC say "biological Stephen Yaxley-Lennon identifying as Tommy Robinson"?

We live in an age of extremely asymmetric power that denies respect and dignity. Political violence is its party policy. Their accusations are confessions.

The "no political violence ever" people are idiots.

It's no political violence if you're lucky enough to live in an age of universal respect and dignity.

We don't.

Powerful people are always telling us powerless people that if we are upset, we should do everything in our power.

So, how are *you* planning to vote in the Galton and Simpson by-election?

‘Reform want to scrap rights for women. The Greens want to legalise date rape drugs. Only Labour will protect women and girls.’

An actual post from the actual Labour Party.

“It’s an old wall, Avon, it waits…” Ambiguously revolutionary Avon (Paul Darrow) with Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce), the President of the Terran Federation, chained to a wall in her own palace cellar.

Avon’s happy reunion with Anna / Sula / B——…

Servalan, in ruined cocktail frock, chained to that wall.

Avon stares directly at us. This is his happy face.

Now on a long thread…!

OTD 1980: Blake’s 7 – Rumours of Death
“It’s an old wall, Avon, it waits…”
Love and betrayal
A film noir political thriller in which revenge is defeat and everyone loses
Utterly spellbinding
Utter despair
The greatest Blake’s 7 of all.
Tell me who / Tell me why:
1/30

I thought they wrote Steptoe and Son.

Hey, telly fans! Talking Pictures are about to start showing Buccaneer. It's another ultimately unsuccessful outing for Gerard Glaister's "sex and money" formula in which (unlike "Oil Strike North") he remembers the sex. It's got Clifford Rose and Pamela Salem, and Bryan Marshall as "Tony Blair".

We tell our oral histories for #LGBTHistoryMonth because we must, because it’s never more important than when people are trying to literally erase us.

We are here. We are queer. We are not going to take this lying down.

My MP
Gordon McKee
tells me
he hopes that
COMMON SENSE
will govern where I pee.

He's a bit dense
in his blether
(and a junior partner in Labour Together).

COMMON SENSE
is what bigots
euphemistically
call their bigotry.

Surfacing slowly (but, of necessity, early) after a lovely evening with @satnam6502.bsky.social. It's been too long. Thanks for making it happen!

Labour supporting kids unless they're trans

I would say that the people of Clacton deserve stern punishment for electing Nigel Farage, but for the time being, that would appear to be its own punishment.