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I'm worried about Tony. He's gone very quiet. Do you have his number?

Choosing to believe that his comeuppance will yet happen

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

@Glinner Subscribe Alan Dershowitz received the Samizdat Prize alongside me yesterday and he tried to distance himself from my views on stage! Like Ardal O'Hanlon, I asked him what he disagreed with and he spluttered and changed the subject. To be fair to him, I did get the impression he's being bamboozled by his son, who apparently doesn't even think women should have fair sports. Still, a giant of a man in many ways, just not this one.

When your name is all over the Epstein files, but you don’t want your reputation tarnished by being associated with Glinner

"That is why the Guardian would vote, with hope and enthusiasm, for Labour to lead Britain to a better future."

The Guardian, 28 June 2024

It was clear at the time that this was the intention

Particularly since the author is currently in utter despair at just how shit Starmer has turned out to be

An old black and white photo of a large group of people in a charabanc. They are wearing 1920s clothing and mostly looking very serious

Please enjoy this photo of my grandmother and her extended family & friends on a day trip in a charabanc. Prob late 1920s. Location unknown, possibly Worksop or Bircotes

What other morally repugnant decisions would you turn a blind eye to because the person is on your side politically?

Steven Fielding ‪@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social‬ Reported from a Gorton doorstep: “So which party is Kier Starmer from?” “The Labour Party“ ”Well I’m not voting for them then“. 😬

But the polprofs all said he was great

Leaving the court now, the government lawyers look... pissed

And Mandelson was still the stupidest option

I regret to say that Starmer has thwanged another massive rake into his face

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

To be fair, he was chosen by McSweeney et al to "change the party" and was then supposed to be binned for Streeting. He wasn't supposed to actually win an election, so he's already overachieved

Why on earth would you vote for someone who would have even harsher immigration policies than the ones that have caused such suffering to you

You sound like one of the Reform voters I get in my notifications

It would be good if he would listen and change his disgusting immigration policy that is only boosting Reform

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

bears repeating what many have already said, that this is a new, turbo-charged Section 28 that overtly persecutes trans kids. It will destroy lives, and it will end lives. The collapse of this unconscionable government can’t come soon enough.

This is so infuriating I really don’t have the words. Morally indefensible.

I actually think this is even more poisonous than section 28. S28 was deeply insidious, but this is quite literally state sanctioned discrimination and harassment. It’s making the lives of trans children unliveable

Starmer is trying to harm my disabled son right now, so I'll deal with the threats to him one at a time, thanks

Sir Rake Stepper masterfully places another giant rake on the floor

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

June 2023 👍

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❌ False. Both of the stories had been published in national newspapers before he appointed them

I think it says a lot that by far the stupidest option out of these was still Mandelson, and that's who they went with

There's definitely a pattern emerging with Starmer. He keeps ignoring people's close friendships with paedophiles when he appoints them to fancy jobs. He doesn't seem to think it's a problem

Not recent but Mandelson set up the 'Excalibur' database (dirt on everyone incl Lab MPs). McSweeney is reported to have worked on it

Slightly odd paragraph in that Shipman article where an anon source tells him about the infamous "cutting off power" interview, which Shipman presents in a way which suggests he's not familiar with it