Any Political Leader worth their salt would stand up & tell people they'd made a terrible mistake! Tell them EXACTLY what needed done to correct that mistake! Tell them how they & the country would benefit from that course of action! It's VERY easy to see those who aren't up to leadership!

@antoniabance.bsky.social (doesn't allow replies/quote posts on her employment law rants) needs to realise many of us who voted Labour in 2024 wanted a Labour Government now can't wait to vote out their weak, timid Blue Labour imitation despite their desperate excuses. 33 year Labour member here.

Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...

The Blue Labour right have become the Militant of 2025 - a tiny but hyperactive and densely networked sect working relentlessly to drag Labour towards their niche pursuits and away from the values and priorities of core Labour voters.

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary." Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%? When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

Fairly strange to believe deciding not to add more tax to fuel prices is a "subsidy".

I will be interested in seeing how Blue Labour will calculate my Electric Vehicle mileage. I don't see how they can tax me for driving in France and Spain. Not least as I will be driving kilometres not miles!

Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history? Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Boris Johnson What he said: 20,000 more police What he did: 23,000 fewer people

“This package paints asylum seekers as schemers, not survivors, and turns a legal right into a privilege that the state can withhold at will. Nothing about it fits Labour’s claim to be a party of compassion, let alone its tradition of siding with the powerless.” open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

New post: Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue... It worked in 24 so it will work again. Labours marginals are different. Socially liberal voters will vote for us to stop Reform. Used by Labour to justify Reform like policies, but these arguments are just wrong.

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

A few weeks ago my Labour MP responded to me that "The government is not led by Reform and its migration policy does not match theirs." I don't think that was a very truthful statement.

I feel sick reading Labour’s asylum policy. They’re setting fire to their base and the scum they’re pandering to despise them regardless. It’s simple. Process and let asylum seekers work and pay tax. It’s indefensible despicable shit. I’m fucking disgusted by them.

And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I am not sure @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social reposted this out of context for sake of objectivity 🥴.

Me? The Greens. But Lib Dems if they are better placed to keep out Reform AND Starmer's Reform-Lite. I decided I'd write to my Reform-Lite MP @katiewhitemp.bsky.social

Always pays back the time reading it several times over. And where else would you find gems like "Cant rather than Kant" (it is there - find it for yourself 😁).

I despair of Labour. Can we not just have a sensible budget, delivered on the day, that apologises for hard choices and then just gets on with giving us something that will give us some hope? All this briefing and speculation makes them look like clowns.

Under the Tories we expected a 3 out of 10 government, but got a 1 out of 10. We expected a 7 out of 10 from Labour, but got a 2. Labour's not worse, but they're an even bigger disappointment.

Well he can’t be in the East Wing

I'm starting to the think Trump is trying to make pardons so commonplace he'll get one too after the mid-terms.

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

New Yorkers faced the choice between hope and fear, and just like we've seen in London, hope won. Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign. Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

Nobody seems to remember that not that long ago when an atrocity happened they would go down the Irish pub and make some arrests

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

Seems like a good idea. Just donated. checkout.square.site/merchant/MLW...

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

Anyone else see this as a swan wearing a helmet? Eventually I saw it as a running tap but the swan interpretation fits better with the pollution topic anyway 😁

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Muted for not agreeing 😄 Frances is feeling very sensitive today after writing some very silly things about the pension age. 😁

The government can't really blame 'the way in which the UK left the EU' when its red lines rule out a less-damaging alternative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK Labour supporters have a rare opportunity to see the policies they campaigned for finally get pushed through, all they have to do is defect to the Greens and hold an election.

I didn’t vote for him but thought he’d be better & he’s done well on renewables. BUT: -country of strangers😱 -inept red lines on Brexit boxing himself in🤦🏻‍♀️ -hitting the poorest & disabled as soon as he got in - terrible optics & they’re still threatening them now🤬 Tax the feckin rich ffs 🤷🏻‍♀️

@bluesky want me to age verify so I can see my chat 😀 They obviously haven't read the content. This UK law is so ridiculous. VPN re-engaged. I'm not giving my data for free.

Partner? I think we'll find she was just one of the 1000s of people he bumped into around his kitchen table...😉

Brexit eruptions. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at Tory madness, Labour’s ‘blame Farage’ strategy, the Brexit impasse and a suggestion of a way forward, and the latest ‘reset’ news. Bonus feature: a feeble new Brexit metaphor: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/brex...

"The unidentified man was taken to hospital for evaluation" Does that mean he is white? 🙂

claiming that such questions fired from London should 'encourage the EU to properly assess, in fact for the first time, its own Brexit experience'. The pretentiousness and arrogance of this is, to me, quite breathtaking; and I do not think this approach is likely to improve relations with the EU.

AI says Vodafone is NOT having problems today. Really this is laughable.

His Majesty King Charles III has announced that he will host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender for a State Visit from 3-5 December. It will be an incredible moment for 🇬🇧🇩🇪 relations and the first State Visit by a German President in 27 years.

The UK steel industry is in distress ….. Let’s be clear if the UK had not left the single market and customs union the steel industry would not be subjected to EU tarrifs … but #r4today won’t mention the greatest act of economic self harm #Brexit @mrjamesob.bsky.social #gmb #c4news

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