lonwon.bsky.social
Curious about politics. Hoping for more than slogans.
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Listening to Meg Hillier and Stephen Kinnock on the Today programme just now, but my word, these are NOT serious people.
Labour MPs might have been pacified by these last-minute changes, but they have no response to obvious scenarios that make disabled people worse off without good reason.
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7. So maybe Keir Starmer should listen to this. If you don't know what to do with power, if you have no project other than staying in office, no moral core, no plan to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, no trace of Labour values, perhaps you should step aside for someone who does.
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See @danneidle.bsky.social's paper explaining the details of why Farage's Britannia Card can't achieve what it claims to do
taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...
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The local Labour councillor is using the Collinson Report uncritically
nextdoor.co.uk/p/6wdxTXGxBBcH
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It's beyond parody
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British journalist imagines Trump comes out of this looking stronger
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Also, like other populists, Farage evades effective scrutiny, because he has no shame in his relationship to truth
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People all around the world are now watching this video and realising that the Trump administration has no qualms about forcibly preventing democratically elected representatives from questioning the government.
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All true, but the entertainment is a blessed relief after the months of chaos
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ps if you no longer have a Twitter account to follow along on, New York Times seems to be doing a live blow by blow account of who is trying to deport/impeach/otherwise finish off whom www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...