Dave Madden 🇪🇺

It would be good if the likes of @TheBotanics and @theusherhall would get their bottoms over to Bluesky, so we can continue to say nice things about them.

@KathViner @Keir_Starmer @guardian @UKLabour - your readers and members are abandoning this place in droves this week - you really need to go find them again... on Blue Sky maybe?

@Merrion Thanks. Perhaps see you there.

Probably today is the day to leave this place. Where to go to?

Dear @Keir_Starmer - you don't stand shoulder to shoulder with Trump. You really don't. This should be your Hugh Grant moment.

Don’t count me in this. I don’t have ANY special relationship with a rapist. x.com/i/trending/185…

Starmer has to get real about the EU now. We are an orphan of the storm. The only thing special about the relationship between Labour and a Republican White House - David Miliband or Peter Mandelson as our ambassador, seriously? - will be the fear and loathing.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

@BenPBradshaw @UKLabour Why is @Keir_Starmer still digging his heals in? When will the Russia report be made public (without the reductions)?

This @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

Votes not yet all in but looks like hate is winning. The implications for security across the globe cannot be underestimated. Ukraine. Middle East. China. The UK will need to reevaluate its geopolitical centre of gravity.

Dear @Keir_Starmer

People on the news are talking about this in terms of analysing Trump’s legislative agenda for his presidency. I don’t think they’ve understood the story they’re covering.

Dear America. Just fuck right off. The World. #USElections2024

Hard to express how few fucks I give that our budget does not please a Brexit-voting billionaire who moved his business to Singapore and bought 36,000 acres of farmland to avoid paying tax.

Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because: • Biden’s admin has been solid • Trump’s lost ground since 2016 • The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22 • Young women like Kamala + vote ✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses

Farmers angry about losing 30 year old concession that lets them avoid all inheritance tax bit.ly/3NS3IKD even though the vast majority will, on HMRC figures, not be affected by it

“If Trump is elected, there will be celebrations in the Kremlin; there’s no doubt about it.” -Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton (February)