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mrjohncrace.bsky.social • 92 days ago

The disposable society. And a day out with the CBI

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/25/two-million-voters-already-think-keir-starmers-team-should-be-relegated

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mrstott.bsky.social•92 days ago

The petition was hijacked by the far right and signed by like minded idiots across the world

smiffy13.bsky.social•92 days ago

You haven't headlined the 2 million voters on here like you did on the other place. Why's that?

mrjohncrace.bsky.social•92 days ago

I don’t write the headlines

peterbridgman.bsky.social•91 days ago

They're probably the same people who voted for Reform UK, thus ensuring the Labour victory. Clowns.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•91 days ago

🤔

oldbakes50.bsky.social•92 days ago

It’s such horse shit. Most of those will be Russian bots

kuyvonbraun.bsky.social•92 days ago

They’re the people who didn’t vote Labour to begin with.

That’s the relatively tiny number who actually reside in the UK that is, lots of Melon loonies signed as well

suzybrew.bsky.social•92 days ago

THIS PETITION - The headlines should refer to the sentence hidden in the text on the BBCNews website: 'This petition urging the government to hold a new general election was set up last week and has been promoted by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and tech billionaire Elon Musk.'

treakledeaks.bsky.social•92 days ago

Who would we vote for
……?

gizmobikes.bsky.social•92 days ago

2 million 'signatures' from all over the world, got bugger all to do with voters.
As well established here yesterday and this morning.
Must be thousands living in downing Street alone.

granvilleg.bsky.social•91 days ago

On point, as always. Cheers John.

qsilver1.bsky.social•91 days ago

Doesn't that mean that of the nearly 7 million #tory voters, 5 million now agree with the #Labour government 🤣

maybwise.bsky.social•92 days ago

Football on your mind today?
I wonder why.

smig3108.bsky.social•92 days ago

The BOTs petition (meaningless crap) and the CBI. That whiter than white organisation, that Businesses were leaving following scandal after scandal. I wonder why they are massively pushing hardships unlikely to be experienced by big business. It’s not as if their future depends on it, is it?

quigonsmith.bsky.social•92 days ago

Those two million voters:

ilikecaketoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

Alleged lots of bots on there. A bit like X.

baronchristina.bsky.social•92 days ago

No evidence that those signing the petition are UK voters, or even real people

mrbojangles2.bsky.social•91 days ago

If you ask a question of any of them ( the petition signatories) they never reply ! Definitely bots

ruralriding.bsky.social•92 days ago

4 half more years at least. 👍

shakeyjake.bsky.social•92 days ago

This is ridiculous.

terry-m.bsky.social•92 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/supertanskiiii.bsky.social/post/3lbpydjfmxk2s

deborah122.bsky.social•92 days ago

2 million out of 68+ millions. And how many of those signatures are bots, multiple sign-ups or nonUK residents, I wonder?

rebeccafox.bsky.social•92 days ago

I remember signing the post Brexit vote petition. And I'm not convinced this is people outside the UK - let's not get drawn into our own conspiracy theories - that's really not helpful.

admiralbooth.bsky.social•92 days ago

Probably the same 2m who didn’t vote for him at the election.

rossaverde.bsky.social•91 days ago

Spot on. Your columns keep me sane (sort of)

stevecrowther.bsky.social•92 days ago

Who commissioned the poll?

johncastleford.bsky.social•82 days ago

With Labour holding 63% of parliamentary seats it’s churlish to imagine a petition will facilitate an election in less than 4 years. Irrespective of how many signatures there are.

gampajml.bsky.social•92 days ago

2 million people are gaslit idiots.

sparrowphil.bsky.social•91 days ago

nictwigg.bsky.social•92 days ago

Trouble is, we need a strong & not an extreme opposition. Badenoch is a pound shop Farage, same extreme views but totally ineffective. I despise them both but fear that Farage & Reform will be the beneficiary of another rubbish Tory leader & a too slow to show positive change Labour Party.

johncastleford.bsky.social•82 days ago

I recall quite a few Tory MPs anticipating the inevitable a year or two ago, saying a spell in opposition would do them good as it provides better scope for clarifying what the Conservatives should stand for. How well
13 years in opposition helped Labour remains to be seen.

clairecopperman.bsky.social•92 days ago

Starmer is quite right to ignore the petition, given the amount of signatures from overseas. Great to see the right wing encouraging foreign interference in democracy.

artbookreview.bsky.social•92 days ago

Voters? Really? Since when did foreign bots have a vote here?

rrgw.bsky.social•91 days ago

…and wow 14 years of Tory bullshit - how comes there wasn’t a petition to boot them out ??

rrgw.bsky.social•91 days ago

And I guess that includes the celebrity Tory farmers ?

insanelylivid.bsky.social•92 days ago

I’ve signed dozens of petitions. They don’t grow this quickly. Smacks of dark forces trying to undermine our democracy. Don’t let them.

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