Checked Twitter and my whole feed was about whether or not Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules in 2020. Would feel like biggest story in UK if you just read that site. And I just hadn't even heard an echo of it? Whether in media or on here? That site must do weird things to Tory attack lines. - ThreadSky

jim.londoncentric.media • 20 days ago

Checked Twitter and my whole feed was about whether or not Keir Starmer broke lockdown rules in 2020. Would feel like biggest story in UK if you just read that site. And I just hadn't even heard an echo of it? Whether in media or on here? That site must do weird things to Tory attack lines.

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sabbykhatri.bsky.social•20 days ago

Paul Br^nd mentioned it, but was soundly ridiculed in the replies.

tomaskernohan.bsky.social•20 days ago

GB news was talking about it earlier ,no agenda there 😂😂😂.

paulbrand.bsky.social•20 days ago

Twitter versus Bluesky.

csav55.bsky.social•20 days ago

You got this response you deserved on Bluesky, there's no equivalence to Johnson's partying and Starmer hiring a voice coach which was within the rules. God knows why you feel the need to do the bidding of Tory MP's and Hartley-Brewer.

sanderella.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh look, “polite” request on Twitter, “angry” reply on Bluesky, you know very well any Labour government gets scrutinised to death by the MSM, a Tory government? Crickets… Until they blatantly break the rules like Party gate!

aladdinnoons.bsky.social•20 days ago

😂

rodbates.bsky.social•20 days ago

Susanna Reid & Andrew Pierce desperately trying to make a non story into a story on GMTV (is Susanna angling for a job on the Daily Fail) Both trying to equate it to what went on in #Partygate 😂

andredarmanin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sounds like a Daily Mail kind of shitpost.

alanf.bsky.social•20 days ago

"Would feel like biggest story in UK if you just read that site."

Haven't you made a typo?
I'm sure you've omitted an "h".

jamesmcneile.bsky.social•20 days ago

Never go back, never buy a Tesla, never vote Tory or Reform etc

billheywood.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why are you still looking at the cesspit?

digitasmedia.bsky.social•20 days ago

But did he Jingle and Mingle?

Tory Covid party invitation titled Jingle & Mingle https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65952298

songbirdeee.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's a right wing, historical echo chamber now isn't it.
I'd had enough but I miss some of the people I used follow. I wasn't seeing their posts anyway.

pjadams1994.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don't think some have realised how much of an echo chamber Twitter has now become for conservative talking points.

stugib.bsky.social•20 days ago

Especially when it's the chronic waster of police time Richard Holden behind this latest waste of police time

sinurata.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh not again. Really, the police should be taking action against him.

cllrdent.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's precisely why Kemi Badenoch decided to mention that absurd general election petition at PMQs.

jim.londoncentric.media•20 days ago

FWIW I'm just as bad with thinking a debate on here might matter, and used to be the same on Twitter, so self-awareness and all that.

cllrdent.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sure, but I think the way that Twitter has a) become such a right wing space, and b) the fever pitch there tends to be over trivial things there, makes it an even bigger pitfall for the Conservatives.

cllrdent.bsky.social•20 days ago

That being said, if Labour decided to lead on some argument on here it would be equally inane. I just see that as much less likely to actually happen.

invalid-handle.com•20 days ago

Maybe the case. Jim’s right though and remembering that we’re all vulnerable to this sort of stuff is useful I think

worgztheowl.bsky.social•20 days ago

That's true. An additional thing though is that large parts of the right appear to have kidded themselves that what Musk has done to it is "ended censorship" rather than put his thumb on the scales so are getting a real gague of opinion, whereas I think before we all knew to have a bit of caution.

telson.bsky.social•20 days ago

Social media is very important (because so many members of the media/political class spend so much time on it) and at the same time not important at all.
It's very confusing.

spw-dev.pro•20 days ago

Good old echo chambers

ljwattswales.bsky.social•20 days ago

See Bluesky replies to story here (some use of strong language)

https://bsky.app/profile/news.sky.com/post/3lhba53dwux2g

jim.londoncentric.media•20 days ago

I mean, doesn't exactly feel like it was within the spirit of the lockdown law at the time. Equally, I think most of the not-politically-engaged public probably wish to never think of lockdown again.

digitasmedia.bsky.social•20 days ago

Interior decorators were essential key workers. I think you’ll find the idea of essential is quite fluid.

twlldun.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah, and I think “within the spirit” and “within the regulations” are arguable. I do not think he’d get a fixed penalty notice for it, from my memory of tier 4.

(Also: it really still isn’t “drunken party of hundreds in 10 Downing Street the day before Prince Phillip’s funeral”)

darksatanicmills.bsky.social•20 days ago

I mean, pubs were still open on December 24th.

richarddwyer.bsky.social•20 days ago

London had three regimes in December.

Tier 4 at the start.
No restrictions in the middle.
National lockdown at the end.

Man that was stupid.

twlldun.bsky.social•20 days ago

Pretty sure it was tier 4 on Xmas eve? But yeah, the constant finessing was stupid

richholman.com•20 days ago

Ah yes. I remember the train stations being packed because everyone knew London was about to go into lockdown from midnight of the 20th. And masks were not even mandatory. 23:00 fine, 0:00 nope. It was all so inconsistent.

richarddwyer.bsky.social•20 days ago

Tier 4 being the strongest of the three tiers of local lockdown obviously.

shmmeee.bsky.social•20 days ago

The real story here is Starmer got ripped off by a voice coach cos he still sounds like this:

https://youtu.be/D-UmfqFjpl0?si=xGQNLL44sLWZ7pXw

olibradley.bsky.social•20 days ago

I saw it mentioned here this morning, but was given short shrift... https://bsky.app/profile/paulbrand.bsky.social/post/3lhbd4o4fyc23

zolenkan.bsky.social•20 days ago

it's ridiculous!

jacktindale.bsky.social•20 days ago

Astonishing things are happening.

alvinford.bsky.social•20 days ago

#FuckStarmer

cornwallchar.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'd like to see what a voice coach makes of the scansion on this

twlldun.bsky.social•20 days ago

It is astounding. Not so much poetry as a war crime

rkemb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Every line has too many syllables in it, even accounting for the extra syllables you already expect from the previous oversyllabled line.

scosthrop.bsky.social•20 days ago

Indeed. No syllables in any of the lines would be ideal.

andraswf.bsky.social•20 days ago

This entire country must go to therapy right now

twlldun.bsky.social•20 days ago

I am finally ready, András. I am ready to commit to healing. It’s necessary.

rkemb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hell is empty and all the Vogons are here.

thewilderobin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Competent enough to learn to use Photoshop filters, incompetent enough to use them like this. Who was this person?

ukjarry.bsky.social•20 days ago

Surely for the full William McGonagall effect the first couplet should be something like:

Twas in the year of two thousand and twenty
When the British people afflicted by troubles felt they had more than plenty

janecasey.bsky.social•20 days ago

As ever, Douglas Adams predicted it.

areamancm.bsky.social•20 days ago

emmajourno.bsky.social•20 days ago

It doesn't seem to bear much relation these days to any reality...

mickeyhynes.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's a total waste of space for gauging opinion now. A botnet dead zone of far right crap.

pibasedlifeform.bsky.social•20 days ago

And if it is being used by the Tories for their policies and attack lines, its no wonder they are in such trouble

invalid-handle.com•20 days ago

It’s amazing watching them embrace all the things they were convinced everyone else was doing. Not sure if we should call it projection or paranoid delusions

swabrautv.bsky.social•20 days ago

I assume they all think that he did?

spw-dev.pro•20 days ago

If Twitter is wound up about something Starmer has done it’s almost certainly a non issue

digitalmb.bsky.social•20 days ago

Once people figure out that Elon is PLAYING FOR PUTIN'S TEAM, pretty much everything he does makes a lot more sense

https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lhbvir26x22n

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