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Secondary school maths teacher, guitarist in too many bands, running addict, loves debating politics.
This will never age ..
14.10.2025 13:06 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!
13.10.2025 21:53 β π 7419 π 2725 π¬ 52 π 120After Reform hailed Lucy Connolly as some sort of free speech heroine, this is quite something.
14.10.2025 18:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If Labour lose the next election that that is entirely the fault of labour.
14.10.2025 14:21 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think so too. I think (hope to god) that this bubble bursts. And we a actually need the Tory party to get their act together.
14.10.2025 14:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Absolutely agree. Starmer's labour spent four years telling people like me who supported Corbyn to fuck off. They've then spent a year in govt legitimising Reforms narrative. If they want my vote back they've got a hell of a lot of work to do to earn it. I won't be guilty tripped.
14.10.2025 14:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh absolutely. I think the establishment probably thought Corbyn was a joke before 2017. When he took May's majority against all expectations they realised he was electable and therefore a threat. And when I say "the establishment" you have to include a fair part of the Labour party in that.
14.10.2025 14:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"I'll just have a quick look at bluesky to see what's going.... OH JESUS... I'M GOING TO BE SICK"
14.10.2025 13:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0No, of course not, but journalistic election rules did apply to an extent and it was before the antisemitism "crisis" and before a facebook post from years ago expressing vague support for a mural sparked headline news for weeks on end.
14.10.2025 13:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of Β£800 million) doesnβt like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Letβs tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
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Never ever forget (or forgive) that in January 2021 the Dfe forced all schools to open for one day (spreading all the xmas covid to classmates and staff) before bowing to the inevitable and closing schools for months, wasting the xmas break that schools could have used to prepare.
14.10.2025 12:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Don't forget this quote too....
It's unbelievably stupid that the debate was 'Is lockdown good or bad'? When of course the answer is complex and nuanced and requires understanding that speed is of the essence when reacting to pandemics. We always locked down too late and therefore for longer.
But a leftist party growing in popularity and making clear, compelling progressive arguments will also have the effect of forcing Starmer to pursue votes on the left rather than pointlessly trying to court Reform voters. Polanski himself has stated this. What he's doing is badly needed.
14.10.2025 09:30 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In the 2017 election (arguably the only time the media reported on Corbyn with anything resembling balance) Labour absolutely soared and got 12.9m votes. For reference, Starmer got 9.7 in 2024.
But the general narrative is still that Corbyn and his policies were deeply unpopular and unelectable.
I just envisaged them as fractions 6/5 and 7/6 then mentally worked out equivalent fractions 36/30 and 35/30, so 6 miles in five mins is faster because the fraction is bigger because it's a faster speed.
I hope I'm right....
The solution to this, and many other problems, is simply less cars. People who own houses without off road parking should receive incentives not to own a car, such as subsidised public transport.
BBC News - Pavement parkers blamed for 'no safe place to walk' as ban urged
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isnβt it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly canβt be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the menβs toilets and neither should you
11.10.2025 10:06 β π 679 π 83 π¬ 174 π 67Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
It's be nice if the BBC did. It is their job to fully investigate a potential future govt. They certainly weren't shy of investigating anything vaguely questionable with regards to Jeremy Corbyn's labour.
11.10.2025 08:49 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).
Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?
1. Make a recent convict the star guest of your annual conference, despite her conviction being about calling for a group of people to be murdered. 'Just hurty words/free speech'.
2. Then getting [rightly] very upset when someone wants to murder you.
Yes, it's the latest 'Hurty Words Update'.
Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".
My best explanation of parallel lines
09.10.2025 22:37 β π 184 π 27 π¬ 3 π 3The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
09.10.2025 20:23 β π 55901 π 22726 π¬ 1881 π 2165SteelFox144 β’ 1d ago Profile Badge for the Achievement Top 1% Commenter Top 1% Commenter I haven't read The Onion for a long time, but I wouldn't be surprised. The Left tries to take over everything. Upvote Vote Downvote Reply Share CookieMobster64 β’ 22h ago Did the left take over your failing marriage? Upvote Vote Downvote Reply Share u/SteelFox144 avatar SteelFox144 β’ 22h ago β’ Edited 20h ago Profile Badge for the Achievement Top 1% Commenter Top 1% Commenter Did the left take over your failing marriage? Failing? My marriage failed a long time ago. It only lasted 3 years and that was too long. My ex wife was a hardcore feminist who blamed literally everything that didn't go her way on sexism. She went from having sex with me everyday to once a month, if I was lucky, the day we got married. She literally screamed at me anytime I didn't do whatever she wanted and wouldn't stop screaming at me for hours on end until I did it. She also more than doubled her weight in the first year of our marriage and informed
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09.10.2025 21:02 β π 8811 π 753 π¬ 281 π 57Reporting live from Chicago, thereβs no βhellscapeβ Iβd rather be in.
10.10.2025 04:19 β π 24559 π 6396 π¬ 591 π 473Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.
But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.
Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
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