Anyway volunteering to provide cover at work this bank holiday in anticipation of the Traditional Bank Holiday weather has proven to be yet another in a long line of mistakes I've made with my life

I am feeling really emotional thinking about the families who will open their monthly UC payment, see it’s several hundred pounds higher than before, panic in case it’s an overpayment - only to be told, it’s yours. That money - which should always have been theirs - will transform things for them

The front page of a national UK newspaper today that traditionally always supported the special UK/USA relationship.

A few years ago my dad got hit by a van when out cycling. He was almost killed and left permanently disabled due to 3 broken vertebre. The bloke who did it was speeding and fled the scene. Multiple previous offences. He served less than a year in prison. My dad still cant walk longer distances.

A simple way of seeing the problem is just post something normal like 'Wes Streeting is a good person even if I disagree with him on preyty much everything' and see how many seconds it takes before you get asked why you want trans people dead/blood on your hands etc etc...

Can understand the reasons people give for leaving Bluesky but don't buy the reasons for going back to a site run by a drug addled racist who is happy to push misinformation, racism, porn and the rest into your timeline. That's *your* choice and you don't have to make it.

America went from this to this.

Can anyone sane left, please ask Farage, Badenoch and particularly Truss if they regret being cheerleaders for this. Oh and going forward can we all just stfu about marmalade and concentrate on the impending apocalypse. Thank you for your lack of attention to this matter.

Just not sure sending the King over to the US when even by his own standards Trump is becoming more and more unhinged every day he realises how much he's completely fucked it in Iran.

Amazing time to be alive, given we both get to live through the below Onion headline *again* and we get to do our own parochial version with Green supporters “this policy will completely tank the economy, send inflation rampant and kill thousands of people in the developing world vs No it won’t”

Random people on here who decide they are owed answers to their questions or owed a debate from you are absolutely 100% not worth the effort and need to go and get another hobby, tbh.

X = VIDEO: immigrants can resurrect now. This is why we need mass deportations #Jerusalemfirst Bluesky = clearly the Romans faked the resurrection to justify further crackdowns #falseflag

Fucking hell. Any Bluesky discourse needs to take into account what we walked away from.

While I seem to be doing my unpopular takes, can I just say that I think MPs should be paid a *lot* more (but not be allowed second jobs or hold investments) and get a *much* bigger expenses allowance (to fund their offices).

I was thinking about this the other day and I feel like the publics response to Covid showed that people are willing to accept hardship if politicians are honest with them about why. If anything, that period showed that general population were less infantile than the political class.

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

Can someone explain to me how the Greens have ended up demanding universal financial support for the consumption of fossil fuels?

There was a time when politicians were prepared to tell voters 'no, actually, you're wrong. And here's why'. Thatcher, Blair, Clarke, Brown, many others too, within fairly recent memory. How did they all get on electorally I wonder 🤔

amazing that out of (a) the voters who told every pollster they expected tax increases during this Parliament and (b) the politicians who promised not to do it and have already broken the promise, it’s the *voters* who get the rap for being unreasonable

How would we know? The Conservatives in 2019 and Labour in 2024 both ran on impossible promises and most of their partisans have spent the time since complaining that the voters are unreasonable. When was the last chance you gave them to *be* reasonable?

Lesson learned during Corbyn's years is there's no point in trying to debate with his very online supporters. Often deluded , frequently unpleasant it's a waste of time. As many of those people are now Geeen supporters I'd advise you to do something else instead. Like sticking pins in your eyes.

The very online Green supporters entered the chat

You get it in the Labour party too, but I honestly can't stand the smug moral superiority from some on the left. "Only *we* understand the suffering of the poor, only *we* care. "So here's my 5 point totally detached from reality plan to fix it all in 90 days...."

My latest Substack piece. Any likes and shares are appreciated. I finally finished my piece on the "vibes economy", so now I can go back to laughing at the ridiculousness of Kemi Badenoch @davidbeech.bsky.social ceremonialgeek.substack.com/p/the-vibes-...

I'd like to see flat out lying by politicians result in a career ending event rather than 1,000 retweets, a podcast and 'another thousand members joined today' post, ngl. (Regardless of party. )

Do Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Bridget Phillipson, Darren Jones to just name a few of the people at the top of Labour not understand what it's like to struggle to get by? They lived it. As have many others and those who haven't *experienced* it do understand how big the problem is.

With this and Polanski's rubbish today the Greens really are leaning into the easy populism stuff arent they. It's rubbish that corrodes our politics, but they don't care. Its just a game for them

Easy street for now. He's really getting into the conspiracy theories. It will absolutely come back and bite him in the end. And I wonder who his supporters would say have 'bought and paid' for Labour 🤔

Honestly I've let dozens of these go but this endless stream of antisemitism just proves everything I was saying in the post. (For the hard of thinking the ambulances were used for the whole community regardless of religion, and even if they weren't racist arson would still be unacceptable.)

Anyway, been busy today seen family and mates and my view is :- hardly anyone is prepared for what's coming. Yeah bit of moan about petrol prices and what a dickhead Trump is, but that's it 🥶

In addition, you should not pretend, to others or to yourself, that the problem here is one that is going to be fixed by a pablum statement every Easter from Charles III. The problem here is hostility towards Muslims from people who are mostly wouldn’t know their Acts from their Exodus.

Reactions to this really do sum up how sm is screwing up politics. Read further and it's not all that big a deal. Same happened with Starmer's intital response to the Iran attack - "Starmer's Iraq ". And on and on. Reacting to *everything* within seconds (I've done it too) is just pointless.

*stares in actual government policy* Yes, thats us as the second best performing nation globally on climate. We were in 17th when the govt took over.

I laughed out loud when I saw the original post - mini eggs ffs lol and then I see this QP and my god some people honestly need to log off the Internet for fucks sakes

Tbh probably a good thing if we can speed run to the inevitable in the next 2 years it would be useful and then demonstrate to voters that when it comes to stopping the hard right in most cases that will mean voting Labour.

100 this No attempts at honesty, persuasion or the real choices or tradeoffs which need to be made to improve things for most people All parties, yes including your favourite one, just continuously offer impossible solutions where you can have what you want and someone else pays in some way

Starmer's call, which he explained in Parliament, was that: (1) The attack on Iran violated international law. (2) The attack was poorly conceived, had no defined objectives and no exit plan. Badenoch made entirely the opposite call when it mattered. She was wrong. Starmer was right. That's it.

I'm always the person who is 'there's more good than bad in this world' but my God this man is beyond bad. Every person's story in this piece is horrific and it's just impossible to fathom how someone could be so callous to people at the lowest times in their lives.

British politicians can't be trusted with "emergency" fuel duty cuts: they're never brave enough to reverse them when fuel prices drop back to normal levels. They're also not brave enough to change how fuel duty works to make it stabilise prices. So that makes short term cuts unaffordable. Sorry.

Its really fustrating that Labour has such talented MPs like Polly and Uma - who get the scale of the interlinked challenges we face - and they're on the backbenches while the govt continues to bury its head in the sand as to what is going to hit us.

Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?

The really odd thing is I can totally believe Kemi Badenoch honestly believes her position on Iran has been consistent throughout.

Kemi Badenoch: “I have made it very clear that the Conservative party stands behind America taking this necessary action”. 2nd March 2026

It’s barely even subtext that Kemi’s position is “at last a real thinker is in charge” and she clearly sincerely believes she is a thoughtful person and not a fizzing ball of partisan anger and incoherence.

How it started. How it's going

When you read the nonsense the Tories, Reform, the LibDems and the Greens are coming out with currently on taxing and spending it does emphasise two things: 1. How cautious Labour was in opposition. 2. How Labour is judged to an entirely different standard. 2 explains 1 but does not excuse it.

I suppose it was always certain that a malignant narcissist, nepo baby who has bankrupted many companies would tank the world economy.

Obviously Lewis is right here but also some of us just find hosts of podcasts generally intensely irritating and in need of a good editor willing to tell them to shut up and I'd like my tribe to be recognised for what they are too - the only true and good people online.

Anyone who seeks to intimidate an elected politician or vandalised their office should receive a long prison sentence. Set a precedent.

Sorry but whenever I see these kind of tv 'spiritual advisors' I'm always reminded of those tv evangelists who spent the 80s/90s preaching against homosexuality only to be uncovered at a sleazy gay sauna partaking in 'all comers welcome nights' while high on god knows what.