Starvecrow
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@Starvecrowfeast Prostate cancer awareness. Something only men get, despite what the Greens may say.
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Is this chap wearing a lavatory-themed lapel badge?
Is this a Restore thing?
Restore Britain@RestoreBritain_
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@echetus Will Atkinson seemed to be pretty up for doing so it seemed?
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Gove’s move to the editorship of the Spectator was excellent timing for his legacy. Who—even among the Jacobins of the online right—wants to make a foe of the man controlling commissions and careers at Britain’s premier right-wing magazine?
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Reminder: the only occasion 2010-2024 that Gove rebelled was against Truss’s plan not to raise benefits in line with inflation.
Michael Gove@michaelgove
The great moving Left show
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@St2station @echetus The correct etiquette now is of course to start a podcast.
(Joking aside it’s a major benefit of the new age to be able to listen to hours of politicos discussing their profession on their own shows, without journalists interrupting)
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@echetus There’s a reason that politicos-as-editor used to edit the magazine *before* frontline politics, not afterwards. Afterwards, they have a legacy and reputation to defend (and, if needed, obfuscate.)
And, naturally for a recently-frontline pol, he puts his own stuff in the
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@St2station @echetus Luckily we now have the Critic as an alternative - and perhaps relatedly I have wondered lately if I detect a certain new level of sniping on here between figures from each of them.
Speccie needs to be careful not to be left behind…
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@echetus Terrible mistake, as a long-time reader. ‘What are the lessons learned from the 14 Wasted Years of 2010-25?’ is the central question on the British Right, and its most prestigious legacy masthead has in charge a man who cannot even begin to ask that, because he’s implicated.
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@justinmadders AAHGGHHHHH!!!
IT’S NOT ABOUT COMMS
IT’S NOT ABOUT COMMS
IT’S NOT ABOUT COMMS
IT’S NOT ABOUT COMMS
Is there a single MP in Westminster who can think about anything other than comms!?!?!
Please God my country is dying and all they can do is talk about f***ing comms!
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..one of the things you will hear even loyal MPs say is that we are not very good at communicating. Two years into Govt we are still saying that; we do not have long left to fix that before people stop listening altogether. Our vote is splintering off in all directions. (5/10)
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There can be no now doubt the era of multi party politics is upon us. In an age when living standards have stagnated for almost two decades and where the long tail of austerity can still be felt,we are far from alone as a country in seeing the incumbents getting a hammering(1/10)
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Farage victory followed by immediate Interdiction imposed by UN Pontiff upon entire kingdom - no funeral masses, weddings or coronations allowed (civil partnerships to be permitted subject to authority of local bishops).
Metro@MetroUK
Dame Sheila Hancock, 93, scared ‘to die while Nigel Farage is Prime Minister’ trib.al/RkoEPv9
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Swinney promised he would be a First Minister for ALL of Scotland, but his first act pours scorn on the 383,425 Scots who voted for Reform.
No matter. He may shut us out from his cosy club, but he cannot stop their voices being heard in Holyrood!
Colin Mackay@STVColin
FM says he will invite all party leaders except Reform in to St Andrews House for talks about post election priorities. On cost of living, he will deal with supermarket price cap and £2 bis fare in first 100 days. He says UK Govt must engage on the constitution.
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This excellent post explains what is really going on
CJ@UnderSneege
I don’t even think it’s being pro unlimited migration that drives much of the real pro migration sentiment in the centre of politics. It’s something closer to “impassioned permissibility” where the only thing they care about is not enforcing rules / hierarchies / categories at an abstract level. Not enforcing a boundary on another is THE highest order value. They don’t actively want bad things to happen, they just don’t want to push back against a liberalisation of a category even more.
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And we all know this!
No politician in the country pretends the Boriswave was a conscious act of gov policy. But now we see Labour types insisting they receive ILR.
Is this due to economic policy? Of course not - it simply rationalises a mistake.
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A thing I notice more and more - so many people, as below, talk as if immigration is result of balanced decisions by the state.
But eg the Boriswave was just accidental! And the scale of chain migration is accidental!
This guys whole thread is a post facto rationalisation.
David Blagden@blagden_david
P.P.S. While all politicians know this, it afflicts them to different extents. Centre-chasing Labour and the Conservatives have had the hardest balancing act (the median voter wants low immigration *and* cheap labour). Easier for those just seeking to galvanise one of the poles.
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@blagden_david For anyone interested in pondering this conundrum, the real driver of immigration policy is not David’s post facto rationalisation, which assumes the actors are rational - it is of course @UnderSneege ‘s insight as below
CJ@UnderSneege
I don’t even think it’s being pro unlimited migration that drives much of the real pro migration sentiment in the centre of politics. It’s something closer to “impassioned permissibility” where the only thing they care about is not enforcing rules / hierarchies / categories at an abstract level. Not enforcing a boundary on another is THE highest order value. They don’t actively want bad things to happen, they just don’t want to push back against a liberalisation of a category even more.
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@blagden_david David, if you think our immigration system is defined by our politicians trying to manage this alleged ‘balancing act’, then why are they so reluctant to, eg, obtain the data that would enable them to do so, such as how many immigrants are in the country?
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Trouble is, public preferences on immigration are contradictory. They don’t want all the cultural change, overcrowding, upward pressure on house prices,* etc. But they also need lots of cheap labour, in lieu of the babies Britons no longer have, to sustain living standards…
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Arthur Spirling@arthur_spirling
Party systems don't die very often and I don't think it's time for obituaries quite yet. Still, when the history of this period is written, the fecklessness of Labour and Tory elites and their bizarre inability to deal with voter preferences around immigration will loom large.
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@LairdSummerisle @Danjsalt I recall some chap called Andy Burnham from the Blair years ago- he was quite good, Starmer should find out what he’s doing now and get him back into Parliament.
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This is not democracy at work it’s a complete erosion of national sovereignty and accountability.
I genuinely thought it was a joke at first. A guy who only arrived in the country in 2021, on a temporary student/graduate visa, with no long-term commitment to Scotland , no roots here, and apparently fundraising for his next visa just to stay… has now been elected as an MSP for the Scottish Greens in Edinburgh & Lothians East.
He can now help shape laws, spending, and policy that affect Scottish taxpayers, communities, housing, services, and culture for years while his own right to be here could be temporary.
This isn’t “diversity” or “inclusion.” This is fucking lunacy.
Scottish Greens@scottishgreens
🟢 @q_ueering elected to represent Edinburgh & Lothians East region! Q is one of four Scottish Green MSPs elected in Edinburgh & Lothians East today, taking our total across Scotland to seven - so far!
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This guy is here on a temporary three year student visa. He just won a 5 year term in the Scottish Parliament.
He is currently crowdfunding for another temporary visa
Mental. Absolutely mental
Scottish Greens@scottishgreens
🟢 @q_ueering elected to represent Edinburgh & Lothians East region! Q is one of four Scottish Green MSPs elected in Edinburgh & Lothians East today, taking our total across Scotland to seven - so far!
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This is literally one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever seen.
What an impressive young woman to hector her own teachers this way! What a shifty looking bunch the teachers are!
Alex Armstrong@Alexarmstrong
I can’t believe what I’ve just watched. Socialist teachers who are striking, right in exam mock periods, are being counter protested by very grown up and sensible teenagers DEMANDING that they be taught back in school. These “teachers” should be ashamed of themselves. Draped in Gaza flags, and flying far-left “Stand Up to Racism” and Unite Union banners outside a school. Keep your politics out of our schools and DO YOUR JOB.
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@JAHeale I just don’t understand how she can sensibly head the next GE campaign if her own seat is at risk.
Will be interesting to watch.
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Yep. The risk for Badenoch is that, much like our former monarch, she becomes the adored Queen Kemi, respected and admired by many – but ends her reign ruling over much less territory than with which she began.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win.
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@BucketsOf_Rain @tm1fox We have 3 that are all EE gypsies or similar in my small rural market town.
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You never see a British seller now. Never give them money. There is an old vet in Sloane Sq still
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus
Reminder that all the Big Issue sellers are now Roma because the gypsy mafia realised it was a way to claim tax credits while begging, and took it over.
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