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@tomscotson.bsky.social's intra-Labour latest: The party's seaside MPs are getting more organised The Coastal PLP, chaired by East Thanet MP Polly Billington, will push for local investment when it meets Darren Jones next month These MPs fear their areas are particularly vulnerable to Reform

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This account is not real, I’m told

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New Labour pressure group just dropped

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🚨OUT NOW🚨 Will Parliament finally get modernised? 📅 Labour MP Rachel Blake, Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney, and reporter Sophie Church join host Alain Tolhurst to discuss whether Westminster will finally drag itself into the 21st century 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2afc50

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loving the thick Fleetwood Mac whiff of the new Sam Fender record

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@tomscotson.bsky.social's intra-Labour latest: The party's seaside MPs are getting more organised The Coastal PLP, chaired by East Thanet MP Polly Billington, will push for local investment when it meets Darren Jones next month These MPs fear their areas are particularly vulnerable to Reform

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Seaside Labour MPs are the latest group to get more organised in the face of Reform East Thanet MP Polly Billington chairs the Coastal PLP, which will soon meet Treasury Sec Darren Jones to push for seaside investment, reports @tomscotson.bsky.social These MPs fear their areas are ripe for Farage

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Realistically if the USA security guarantee is gone, Europe (including the UK) is looking at something like 3-3.5% or so of GDP as regular defence spending. And very probably another 1-1.5% or so as additional defence capital spending for a good 5-10 years on top of that.

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Tonight, I think for the first time in my life, to my slightly stunned delight, I’m in a bar / pub that is playing The Blue Nile

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- "A unique opportunity" - "Substantial three-storey property" - "Versatile building" Gotta love the London property market 😭😭😭

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The Tories are going after Reform. The shadow defence secretary tweets:

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Nigel Farage has said Zelenskky "is not a dictator" However, speaking in Washington, the Reform leader said "it's only right and proper that Ukrainians have a timeline for elections" @zoecrowther.bsky.social reports

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No matter how hard Donald Trump tries, he still can’t get Republican voters to like Vladimir Putin.

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“Zelensky is not a dictator. But it's only right and proper that Ukrainians have a timeline for elections," Farage tells GB News He says "you should always take everything Donald Trump says seriously," but not always "absolutely literally" He blames his flight to the US for his delayed response

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Typically interesting from @benshimshon.bsky.social (& @stevevr.bsky.social) Do voters care about manifesto promises? Yes... But Labour's opponents care more than its supporters For the latter, feeling positive change is more important than campaign pledges www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Will there be tax rises to fund greater defence spending? A "good chance", says @theifs.bsky.social's Paul Johnson, as the alternative is cuts to departments that already face pressure The IfG's @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social said "by definition" cuts will be needed if tax rises are off the table

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Are we ready for voting at 16? Large majority of teachers believe curriculum fails to provide pupils with sufficient political education to vote, poll shows ft. thoughts from @samcarling.bsky.social on importance of critical thinking @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Entirely correct, tbf

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Reform UK — usually so vocal — has so far said nothing tonight about Ukraine / Russia / Trump

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Starmer phone call with Zelenskyy: “The Prime Minister expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II.”

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February 8th, 2023

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Kemi Badenoch hits back at Trump: "President Zelensky is not a dictator. "He is the democratically elected leader of Ukraine who bravely stood up to Putin’s illegal invasion. Under my leadership, and under successive Conservative Prime Ministers, we have and always will stand with Ukraine."

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Kemi Badenoch statement: "President Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is the democratically elected leader of Ukraine who bravely stood up to Putin’s illegal invasion. Under my leadership, and under successive Conservative Prime Ministers, we have and always will stand with Ukraine...

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Given the Tories have so far struggled to lay a finger on Reform, surely explicit, public backing for Zelenskyy — as well as being the right thing to do — is a genuine wedge opportunity? Nothing from any frontbench Conservative up to now as far as I can tell, nevermind Badenoch

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Trump is losing his rag because Zelensky isn't backing down. He needs Zelensky to back down. So support Zelensky.

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Ah! The strongholds of the radical left! The history books will say that while the revolution started in Lynmouth, it was when Dorchester fell it really took flight! Come, follow Comrade Ed and storm the Bicester bastille!

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Another similarity between Badenoch & Corbyn is tendency to dismiss opponents rather than take them seriously as people who hold different views for good reasons. Corbyn saw opponents as less morally virtuous. Badenoch sees them as stupid. In both cases, they have a fig leaf for their own laziness

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The reason why we need to spend more money on 'bombs and guns' is because Russia is trying to remake the borders of Europe by force and people who live in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic states have as much right to live freely as you do.

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There's quite a lot to unpack here (is a former Conservative voter in the SE who supported austerity really a left-wing protest voter?; Lib Dems are very much, even strikingly, on Twitter), but goodness, the Tories are in a world of trouble

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They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I’m keen to read about the recent revival of British folklore, and hopefully visit places where I can experience it — any book recommendations, learned people of Bluesky?

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'The point is almost never appreciated by the fanatics but they owe their health and freedom to the sanity of the society they affect to despise' James Marriott, brilliantly, pulling no punches 'The paradise of fools is coming to an end'

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