2024 Lucy Connolly : How dare they arrest me for tweeting support for terrorism!
2026 Lucy Connolly : ARREST FEMI for tweeting that I support terrorism!
The right has TRULY jumped the shark on free speech.
This. is. Reform UK!
@alanlewch.bsky.social
Retired, carer, birder, railway buff, ex geochemist, ex environment lecturer, ex IT lecturer, ex MIS Manager. https://www.facebook.com/alanlchambers MyLifeinTrains.com
2024 Lucy Connolly : How dare they arrest me for tweeting support for terrorism!
2026 Lucy Connolly : ARREST FEMI for tweeting that I support terrorism!
The right has TRULY jumped the shark on free speech.
This. is. Reform UK!
On my dog walk today
28.02.2026 17:41 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It's this simple...
28.02.2026 12:00 β π 72 π 24 π¬ 1 π 0
Air power and elite special forces both make leaders feel like they have costless military options because any consequences are abstracted and delayed.
Those unable to value delayed gratification are equally unable to conceive of any price that's not immediate and obvious.
Absurdly dangerous.
CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump βlost patience with negotiationsβ.
I donβt believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.
The 'rigorous training' that the apolitical volunteers receive is a 3 hour online module a/c to a recruitment ad from UCL students union. There appears to be no way of independently verifying the volunteers' neutrality. No election officials identified 'family voting' as an issue in the by-election
28.02.2026 12:56 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Democracy Volunteers is led by John Ault a failed minor Lib Dem politician & an 'expert on by-elections in Cornwall'. Ault claims to be a lecturer at the University of Exeter but there is no mention of him as academic staff except in connection to a 'political historian' by the same name from 2013
28.02.2026 12:48 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The Spectator The Greens clearly think they can ride to power on the back of the self-pity of overeducated urban leftists and the religious anger of certain Muslim constituencies Brendan O'Neill
The Spectator A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: 'True or false, the "green" in the "Green Party" originally referred to the environment.' By this point, the etymological origins of Britain's sectional Islamic party will be as obscure as the relationship between British Conservatives and 17th century Irish bandits. A key milestone, our mid-century quiz regular will inform his teammates, was the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election in which the Greens stood neck and neck in a three-way race with Labour and Reform before voting opened. Ed West
Spectator columnists having a meltdown
28.02.2026 08:53 β π 322 π 35 π¬ 45 π 23Screenshot of an X post by journalist Sam Stein stating that DHS claimed it left a man at a coffee shop described as a βwarm, safe location,β but video later showed it was the middle of the night, cold, and the coffee shop was closed.
Screenshot of an X post from the official Homeland Security account titled βHere are the FACTS.β The statement says Buffalo Police alerted Border Patrol about a non-citizen, that Mr. Shah Alam entered the U.S. as a refugee in December 2024, was not amenable to removal, and accepted a courtesy ride to a coffee shop described as a warm, safe location. It adds that he showed no signs of distress or disability requiring assistance.
This is negligent homicide. We demand justice for Shah Alam and his family. He was nearly blind, and they left him five miles from his home, forced to try to walk home alone in the dark and the freezing cold.
27.02.2026 22:45 β π 3897 π 1216 π¬ 141 π 44Look at that!
27.02.2026 19:52 β π 49 π 22 π¬ 1 π 0
In real life criminal law I can say that even in the 1970s as well as the 1980s and 1990s we dealt with murders and violent crime involving machetes, zombie knives, hate crime, people trafficking, terror plots, seizes at embassies of a range of countries.
Has she forgotten the PC Blakelock murder?
Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farageβs party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/r...
27.02.2026 17:08 β π 228 π 82 π¬ 22 π 9
Also, "we never thought we could win this".
Again, no challenge from interviewers.
Really?
DO YOUR FKN JOBS.
RefUK's David Bull toured several studios this morning. One of his rehearsed talking points was along the lines: "in this sort of area, I am delighted that we came second". Not a single journo pointed out that they were second at the last GE. Not one. Isn't glancing at the last result minimal prep?
27.02.2026 17:30 β π 193 π 28 π¬ 12 π 2
Is there anyone Reform havenβt blamed for losing the by-electionβ
They blamed @bylinetimes.bsky.socialππΌ, family voting, sectarian voting, Muslims, Greens, dogs influencing owners (especially migrant breeds Pugs, Shih Tzu, Afghan hounds etc)
Maybe ppl just donβt like clueless, racist, bigots π€·πΌββοΈπ
There was always one in the class wasnβt there.. that would cry if they lost, make up lies and go to the teacher saying theyβd been cheated..
Well imagine a Party full of them.. and lo and behold I present Reform the Spoiled Brat Tantrum Party π₯΄
So the Telegraph is taking this well
27.02.2026 07:06 β π 5940 π 1109 π¬ 413 π 291Further disappointment awaits Goodwin when his pitch to be the next Poet Laureate is rejected
27.02.2026 11:54 β π 155 π 21 π¬ 14 π 0Very on brand for Brexity folks to throw their candidate under the bus
27.02.2026 11:46 β π 104 π 21 π¬ 6 π 0Collage featuring two images of birds and text. In one image there are two Puffins on a rocky surface, one with a bill of fish. The second features a Wren with its bill open as it sings while perched in a bush full of blossom flowers. A quote features reads: βQuite simply the best investment you can make into researching and conserving birdlife.β Fabienne, BTO Member. Wording in a separate box reads: Join us today.
Discover the power to make a difference. For just Β£3 a month you can help support our work to build a brighter future for birds and people β all while enjoying exclusive member benefits and content!
Join today β‘οΈ www.bto.org/support-...
The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.
The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.
Canβt help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year agoβ¦
As discussed in here the problem with Labour attacking Reform and Greens as two sides of extremism is that Labour and Green voters are very similar in their views.
And the big majority of Labour voters would be willing to join a coalition with Greens, when almost none would with Reform.
statement on the Gorton and Denton by-election result. Labour created the monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes and yesterday that monster came back to bite them. As I've said many times before, we are a multiracial country, not a multicultural country. If you stir up grievance politics between groups based on religion or race, as Labour have done for decades, as Reform are seeking to do, and as the Greens have done successfully in this by-election, you are piting neighbours against each other and you start to unravel the culture of tolerance that makes Britain great. Our country is not broken, but this by-election showed that Labour, Reform and the Greens are trying very hard to break it Labour trying to buy people off with more and more benefits spending. Reform telling people you can't be British if you aren't white. The Greens running a nasty, sectarian campaign while simultaneously wanting to legalise crack-cocaine. Clearly this election was not about who would be the best MP. But there was only one sensible candidate standing in Gorton and Denton, and it was Charlotte Cadden - a former Deputy Chief Inspector, a mother, a woman who fought for single sex spaces and dignity for women and girls. While the other parties race to the bottom, Charlotte embodies the new Conservative Party. This result shows Keir Starmer's premiership is finished. He lost authority a long time ago, a mere hostage at the mercy of a divided Labour Party that cannot decide who to replace him with. He has lost the support of his voters, his MPs and the country. He is in office but not in power lf he had any integrity he would go 11:00 am 27 Feb 26. 158K Views Post your reply Promoted by Sheridan Westlake on behaif of the Conservative Party, both at 4 Mathew Parker Street London, SWIH 9HO Kemi Badenoch Leader of the Conservative Party
"I was much too far out all of my life,
And not waving, but drowning."
Time for a clarification:
I wonβt vote Labour again until there is significant change in their approach to migration and LGBTQ+ rights. I am more likely to vote either Lib-Dem or Green in the next GE dependent on who is in a better position to win.
Labour has disappointed me with their 1/
Matt Badloss is continuing to take his defeat by the Greens incredibly badly
27.02.2026 13:05 β π 673 π 95 π¬ 80 π 26"The Conservative party is still big. It's the votes that got small"
27.02.2026 13:09 β π 93 π 15 π¬ 9 π 0
Could somebody from the BBC or from Democracy Volunteers explain how these cases of "family voting" were observed?
#WATO
They'll be wanting to go into peoples' homes next to 'observe' postal voting, won't they?
27.02.2026 13:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0