Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social sums up why Starmer is responsible for voters hating him after such a short time:

Streeting's face is hard to look at. It's like a textbook image of the word 'insincerity'.

Fear the old blood.

Morgan McSweeney and his downfall reveal what the Starmer project always was. A project defined by kneeling before wealth, seeking power for its own sake, ridding Labour of any principle or morality. It is an irredeemably corrupt project which was always doomed.

He's a goner, that Starmer. Utter lame duck. All that conniving for a taste of power and for what? Contemptible.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

Mandelson would never have been exposed by the British media if it wasn't for the US DOJ dumping all those files. They would have assisted in covering up his role instead, like they've been doing for the past 30 years. They knew what he was and they kept quiet for decades.

Sources tell me (as per @hzeffman.bsky.social) that John Pond who was copied into the emails forwarded to Epstein was in fact Gordon Brown - a code name for aides stored in their contacts. Emails intended for the prime minister went directly to the disgraced financier.

I don't indulge, but this seems like good news for those who do.

This is Maybelline. She was found as a stray, struggling to breathe. Born with an elongated soft palate and abnormal sinuses that cause severe swelling, she has never been able to take a full breath. Surgery will give her that chance. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/maybelline-bsd

Getting a mortgage with an entry level job and no family money behind me

Don't worry. Fairly certain they still plan to go after disabled people because remarkably few people give a shit.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

#OtD 1 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany enacted a law which forcibly sterilised more than 400,000 disabled people. Later they began murdering them, killing 250,000. Their rhetoric about disabled and ill people being a burden on workers is still widespread today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8069...

No shit.

I had no idea about Bardot's nasty political views until today. We really can't have nice things, can we?

Live. Deer in the snow. www.youtube.com/live/LbcUTGN...

It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes

"There are a thousand and one legitimate reasons why people are on benefits - and many of those people are already working hard to afford to live, or use food banks because they can't afford to feed and heat themselves. As this post says, 'stop judging'!" via Stevie Burrows

Headlines translated: Britain's far-right media didn't like the budget. In an attempt to please them, the prime minister is going to punish the mentally ill.

Under Mahmood's current proposals, presumably would have been deported to Czechoslovakia in 1945, when it was "safe" again.

The Tory benches actually cheered just now when the Chancellor pointed out that they want cuts to public services & welfare of £47 billion

McFadden has a strong lead in a Cabinet of creeps. McFadden refuses to explain why he misled MPs over back-to-work benefits system – Disability News Service share.google/gwfVn5NWZxOh...

Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds – Disability News Service share.google/O9LT1NhqCrfj...

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.

Keir Starmer's spokesman insisted on Monday that "clearly these changes will not be retrospective" for those already granted asylum, as Reform have been demanding. Now we learn they will be inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Vote Labour

Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous. Filmed by North East Hunt Monitors on 08/11/25

OFCOM to monitor VPNs I see. GB News still on track to take over from the BBC.

Afterward I watched House of Dynamite which wasn't as cheerful. Well put together for the most part and tense but maybe i should have tried to remain cheerful.

I watched Fantastic Four First Steps last night and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. And the art direction astonished me. It was beautiful.

Imagine if he had said, "There was an hour long programme criticising Hitler but no similar show taking on Churchill."

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Speaks for itself. share.google/xUVrX9mxT1xu...

To be followed by cock-fighting, bear-baiting and bare-knuckle punch-ups. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Patricia Routledge 😞

I don't know what to say. Except that an extinction event is long overdue.

My current GP booking system is online. They switch it off at the same time as the phones.