Jo Kibble (Political Animal)

War is over! If you want it.

(He didn’t want it.)

Can’t believe that exception will last long.

Reform councillor suspended from party 'over row about clipboards' - Discover SWNS A Reform councillor has been suspended from the party just six months after his shock by-election victory following "a row over clipboards".

You may laugh at this, but actually it’s a sign of Reform’s growing maturity. In long-established, properly functioning parties, all policy debate and personal rivalry is played out through the means of fights over clipboards and the allocation of leafleting rounds. discover.swns.com/2026/03/refo...

I like going to the polling station too much to permanently have one (I do have the advantage that the polling station is 30 seconds walk from our front door, tbf).

Reminds me, must apply for my postal vote for May when I’m going to be away.

‘Hairy creature’. This is Bigfoot erasure!

BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"

Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station

Strange. You'd think that the British people would be persuaded by such compelling arguments as 'we don't have a plan for regime change but a friend of a friend does' or 'Keir Starmer smells!'

Old money always wins through.

My favourite bit of this is where Tice says we need to back the ‘hard-working people of Iran’, seamlessly merging BritPol boilerplate with geopolitics.
We must bomb Tehran in order to empower l’Iran qui se lève tôt, smash the Ayatollahs on behalf of Alarm Clock Persia.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

And yet I bet if I tried to use a 30-year old West Yorkshire Metro Saver Strip, the driver would kick me off.

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Yes, consistent outliers on almost every issue.

The expanded Reform support base since then is likely, simply by force of numbers, to be less pro-Trump, certainly.

We have an astoundingly crowded political and media market for a 13% proposition, it must be said.

If you're going to fake parts of your articles with AI, you can't expect anybody to trust anything you post on your 'news' website.

Indeed, well into five figure membership at one point.

Women’s Equality Party, back in 2024?

TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03

■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!

目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026

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Magnificent. When I was growing up the railway was covered in signs saying ‘Be alert’
re IRA bombs. My dad, each time we saw a sign, would say ‘Be alert! The world needs lerts!’

I’d accept that as a deviation from the roundel norm!

Clara’s first Sunday outing to a National Trust property for stroll and scones. Morden Hall Park looking very New England-y today (5 minutes walk from a fully-accessible Tube station).

Glad not just me.

Yeah - @diamondgeezer.bsky.social (of course!) wrote up somone’s FOI request on this a couple of years back and it is those 3 with the most routes diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/06/bus-...

I’m pretty sure that’s the most. Those three stops are the highest number of routes overall, and I can’t imagine anywhere beats them for N routes. They start to split up too much once you get to Trafalgar Square.

She’s already got on and off the 161 there!

Indeed, one of the most constrained stations on the system!

She does indeed at this point.

Not sure the jokes do, though.

‘The next station is Oval.’
‘No it isn’t, it’s the same shape as all the others.’

The dad jokes aren’t quite landing yet.

Well spotted - absolutely correct!