'Punished' Ed

@algarve32c @LBC @lewis_goodall You mean the party of pensioners? They're another party for welfare queens

@LBC @lewis_goodall Labour have a Voting base to look after. If you want to see a cut in Benefits you’ll need to vote Reform UK. It’s that simple.

Does the government want to cut the benefits bill? We counted how many times @Lewis_Goodall had to ask Labour's Pat McFadden...

@diamondsdayy @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H Dead off screen. How narratively satisfying. My point exactly, Leanor had no arc. It was all just an excuse to write him out of the show without upsetting Rhae fans

@_Richard1917 @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H He's either dead now anyways since Seasmoke was claimed again or else their bond wasn't that strong idfk. But in terms of the canon Laenor had to go one way or another and alive on his own terms with his lover is MUCH better

happy pride month to this bisexual queen and her gay husband

@diamondsdayy @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H Homophobe? What agency did Leanor have? Do you deny Deamon threatened him? Why didn't Leanor not just fly his dragon to Oldtown and get a QT femboy boyfriend like Satin. Is he stupid?

@_Richard1917 @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H You just simply did not watch the show then. Laenor was Miserable since Joffrey died. He had been slowly dying inside trying to put up this front of a family man he was not. I can't imagine anyone other than a homophobe to want him to continue living like that

@diamondsdayy @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H The guy left his DRAGON, recognised children, parents and nobel life with most of his money. Its incredibly sad. He didn't even choose it for himself. Deamon was literally threatening him. And what's to stop him getting bored is Essos and returning a decade later?

@_Richard1917 @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H Yes it does because Laenor is not Going to come back. He left in a deal with Rhaenyra and Daemon to abandon royal life and life a free life while Daemon protected his sons. It makes perfect sense if you understand queer storytelling

@PoliticsJOE_UK @seannhickey @andytwelves Britain bans extremists all the time. Did banning Ben Gvir and Smotrich lead to anything?

Labour have banned Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the UK. Could moves like this open the door for authoritarianism taking hold in Britain? @seannhickey | @andytwelves

@diamondsdayy @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H Its both but incredbily clunky and doesn't make sense in world and for the characters. If Leanor comes back then Rhae's children with Deamon are bastards. So much emphasis is put on Deamon wanting to protect his family and yet puts everyone at risk to... be nice to his wifes ex-

@_Richard1917 @Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @Mayham_H more like the show didn't want to brutally kill off their only gay black man and give him a better ending. Rhaenyra still narratively gets blamed by Rhaenys and Corlys for it

@Anthony_GrAviTy @Grey1371 @diamondsdayy @Mayham_H Narratively he's dead. The show just didn't want Rhea to look like a villain. He's super murdered in the book

@Grey1371 @diamondsdayy @Mayham_H He fucks off the the free cities iirc and they just tell people he died

@PaulRaiiin15 @Mayham_H He didn't really have any choice given Matt Smith threatened to murder him if he didn't leave

@Mayham_H The gay husband that abandoned everything to run away with his lover and the bisexual queen that sets the kingdom on fire while directly leading to the devastation of her house...

@PoliticsJOE_UK Ava always seemed the most grounded between Ed and Oli but the editorialising has really gone to muck since Oli left. Are you next going to cite Kayne West to defend Corbyn? PoliticsJoe is going the way of worthless pander like the Canary.

stopped clock etc

@CantEverDie @SwannMarcus89 The US does not block food also way for you to disregard the first paragraph

@SwannMarcus89 you are evil, cuba and china should not be US enemies and we should stop starving and blockading cuba

lol I called the feds would go after Hasan for the Cuba trip like 3 months ago. It’s a shame I got owned so hard by the 2024 election because my predictive batting average is like 98% otherwise He actually might be in serious trouble. I don’t like the sanctions on Cuba so I don’t support going after anyone for those exclusively, but Hasan admitted he had connections with Cuban agents who set up the trip. Let me give you a hypothetical scenario here that would end with Hasan in prison for quite some time Hasan went to China and Cuba at the invitation of their governments and then after the Cuba trip he suddenly decided to engage a marketing firm and do everything he could to detoxify his brand and infiltrate the Democratic Party. If there are emails with his Cuban “friends” where they advise him on how to help “the cause” by finagling his way into Democratic Party functions, and also they maybe paid for his stay in that government hotel in Cuba, then congratulations, genius! You are now a paid agent working on behalf of a hostile foreign government without identifying yourself as such. In other words, you are a spy actively working to infiltrate one of America’s two primary political parties. I don’t know for sure that’s what happened but it fits with all the available evidence and if that is what happened have fun avoiding federal prison big guy

@LeftNatLeft @testosteroneHAV @tejparikh90 @FT Proving his point. We have the small tax base in the developed world. We need to cut benefits for everyone and start to actually tax people earning <£40k again

@testosteroneHAV @tejparikh90 @FT Could just deport the 1.5m foreigners claiming benefits

Britain gets the politics it deserves My latest for @FT. Cakeism, impatience and low-quality public discourse contribute to the UK’s instability: as.ft.com/r/282a11e6-c49…

@Sasha4602844303 @PostLeftWatch True but at this point it feels the majoirty of the left alternitive media is literlly just this. Look back at the 2016 left media space and compare how many now vote Republican. They chase money and it leeds to this

@PostLeftWatch At what point can we all just collectively ignore these bullshitters. None of them act in good faith. It’s just pointless and enraging

Marjorie Taylor Greene does not show "intellectual honesty" you dolt

@Jonathan_Hinder < 18% of Lab 2024 voters are Brexit. Get your head out from your arse and do what the base wants... And you wonder why you're losing young graduates

Look at the results in… Wigan Sunderland Grimsby St Helens Hartlepool And THIS is the response? Utter contempt for working class people. These people are destroying Labour.

@quinnthegm People laugh but he's by far the most thematically rich character in HOTD. So much of his dialog could pass for Jamie, Oakheart or Jon's inner POV

is it controversial to say that I think Criston Cole has the most ASOIAF character arc in HotD Season 2? To the point where it genuinely feels like it could be how Jaime reacts to dealing with the Others and/or dragons in TWOW

@ContraPoints He says he'd vote for Hamas with fewer caveats and reservations than when he did with Kamala

If it’s Israel vs Hamas I’m voting for Jill Stein

@billmul65 @tomhfh UK pensioners don't pay out of pocket on healthcare expenditure. Combine state pension, with other benefits and the NHS and the UK is in the top 1/3rd of pensioner welfare

@tomhfh Thanks for taking the time to answer Tom. It still baffles me why other countries in Europe can pay their pensioners far better than the UK. Are they facing the same pressure?

Reform, Tories, and Labour have all rowed in behind the (originally Lib Dem) idea that it is smart to continually engorge state spending on pensions, beyond the rate of growth in the economy. This, mathematically, cannot go on forever.

@lewis_goodall The irony of Streeting and Starmer allies blocking Burnham from standing for fear of destabilising the PLP, only to lose the by election and destabilise the party

A truly historic and (potentially) momentous win for the Greens. They’ve never won 10% in a by election before. Now they’ve won in a part of Manchester Labour has held since 1931. Labour’s coalition and strategy is fraying in every direction. Starmer’s has anchored that strategy in saying only Labour can beat Reform. And (like Caerphilly) that’s just been shown to be nonsense. What’s left?

@BoxLoner What's the reason on the ban?

UNITED STATES OF ICEATOLLAH KHAMENEI

@CFO4TAG It's like that episode of Better Call Saul when Jimmy deliberately tries to get fired from Clifford and Maine

🚨 Oliver Glasner’s relationship with the #CPFC hierarchy has taken a nosedive, after he continues to ignore club rules. Glasner has NOT completed his mandatory diversity training, and has started parking in disabled spots at the training ground. He has also refers to Steve Parish as “Big Nose” around the club. Parish has asked #CPFC Head of Discipline Mark Bright to have a word.

@Mcker3 @YouGov Then why do pensioners dramatically oppose it compared to working age tax payers. 65+ are just spiteful.

@YouGov “Free”? Try asking “would you support tax payers funding free bus travel for other peoples under 25s” and you’d get a very different answer.

With the Greens proposing free bus travel for under-22s, our August poll found 57% of Britons would support such a policy Support: 57% Oppose: 32% Net support by age 18-24: +67 25-49: +33 50-64: +10 65+: -2 Results link in replies