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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

A great programme, I just wish it could have been longer

Brilliant!

Do you know this band @glennairey.bsky.social? You get a name check in the write-up 🎶😎👍

I’m very pleased that Jonathan Gullis has joined Reform – we need more conviction politicians with strongly held principles. In other news, here he is explaining why there is absolutely no chance he would ever defect to Reform.

Here’s hoping for a new Christmas tradition 🍷🧑‍🎄👍

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Released on this day in 1971 in The US: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band. youtu.be/uMH_wMvMy_8?si…

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.

@cici6923.bsky.social Hiya! If you don’t adopt this look this weekend, I reckon I’m slim and tall enough to carry it off myself. bsky.app/profile/kate...

Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

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Hey @skipratmedia.bsky.social this is tonight’s listening pleasure. I think you’ll like, unless you’re ahead of me. Which wouldn’t surprise me.

No doubt he also want to take credit for helping them ‘build character’

Can't you see? My butterfly stomach Growls growls I drank a jar of coffee Then I took some of these And now I'm totally wired

On the anniversary of the day Margaret Thatcher resigned, let us take a moment to remember what a cruel, heartless piece of shit she was.

@skipratmedia.bsky.social 😎👍

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.

When I win £132,000,000 on the Euromillions I'm going to hire the biggest pa system in the world, set it up outside Boris Johnson's Oxfordshire mansion & have someone read out every one of the columns in which he said Trump would be good for Ukraine 24 hours a day www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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All hail the king of the world.

I’ve just bought a Christmas tree. Because it was pot grown and cheap. Not because I’m getting in to the Christmas spirit. I wouldn’t want anyone getting the wrong idea.

These cases are similar to Farage’s response to Pochin’s racist comments about black & Asian people in adverts. He said she ‘didn’t intend to be racist.’ In other words her racism ‘slipped out’ its fine to be racist, but to get elected Reform politicians need to keep it hidden. #CelebrityRacist

I’ve got my answer ready for when my GP wants to discuss the results of my annual alcohol consumption questionnaire…

When Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka. Tommy Robinson, aka. Tiny-Tommeh-Ten-Names) treats your policy announcement as a win, you must realise that things have gone sideways in a pretty significant way? Or is that just me? A post on the Hostile Environment 2.0 asking: Why is Labour doing this?

So depressing that any political issue in this country is either about immigration or is blamed on immigration. We need someone with a voice brave enough to call this out for what it is; hysteria, deflection of blame and good old fashioned racism. Shame on any party or person involved.

When Tommy Robinson endorses your latest policy you need to look in the mirror, and then resign. The voters you have already lost ain't coming back, the rest of us? We will be voting for somebody else. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

@skipratmedia.bsky.social @mattbraithwaite.bsky.social @skif45.bsky.social @glennairey.bsky.social 👇😎👍

You want a Legend? I’ll GIVE you a Legend! TV Smith last night at Brum’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Brewhouse courtesy of @goldbergradio.bsky.social. Shout out to @humdrumexpress.bsky.social as support.

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Prescott? Independent?

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

You might have thought Question Time was biased. But you never realised how much. UKIP never even had a single MP.

Any of my vintage Stokie mates able to help?

Save up your birthday postal orders @glennairey.bsky.social 👋😎🎶

I guess @wulfhelm.bsky.social DREAMS of a shaft like this…

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

Released on this day in 1980: Kings Of The Wild Frontier (album) #AdamAndTheAnts youtu.be/8KNT3NHrCR8?si…

@kingy61.bsky.social 👋😎🎶

@hiddenbritain.bsky.social Hi. Sadly I can’t make it tonight so have two tickets to give to anyone who might want them.

Pinched from the Anti Reform group on Facebook. Which I recommend! 👍

Love this 🥰 Now to check out their other recordings. I wonder if @lost-otter.bsky.social has heard of them? 🎶😎👍