I notice that with people noticing Reform's increasingly aggressive rhetoric towards EU immigrants, a common reaction - from perfectly nice individuals - is "it's awful to think you may have to go home" - when our home is so obviously here, in Britain. This angers me even more than Farage's threats.

All I can really say is Reform are scum and we need to start forcing the media to call them far right, because people need to know that's what this is

This makes me so angry, it's quite literally proposing to breach a core promise that we as a country made over Brexit.

This feels unethical on many levels.

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If "very liberal" is how all the far right see him anyway… why not proudly be that? Make them as mad as possible, get as much of your base back from the Greens as possible

It's a shame that so many at the top have taken home the idea that banning kids from using all the social giants should mean "kids shouldn't be using any social media at all", not "we need to create new well-policed online hangouts where kids can safely go"

This is how you do it. Don't roll out the red carpet for the likes of Farage and Lowe "because democracy": be bold and exclude them. The state sent soldiers to fight and die to defeat what they represent and it shouldn't be neutral on that

I admit that I used to be a hairshirt opponent of air conditioning. But I love the idea of solar powered cooling systems. The judo of technology: using your opponent’s power against itself.

I do think we need legislation to protect street trees and to make councils plant them where they've already been removed

These people are like a washed up band that've been playing the same once-shiny tunes for ten years in exactly the same way and somehow don't care that they're now playing to empty rooms. They're just happy to keep doing it because it's all they know how to do

"thirty three but feels like forty one" also describes a significant part of bsky dot app's userbase

Yes it can

My first act as benevolent dictator would be to respell all of these place names phonetically

All we need is Proper Brexit, that'll sort this out, yes sir

Express trying to recreate the Cliffs of Dover "urgent appeal to the nation for Brexit" thing they led with in 2016 but somehow not reading the room. Most people—even their own readers—agree we did have a "proper Brexit" but now they think it was a mistake. The result is this looks slightly pathetic

Love how this makes it sound like the Met Office is sending heatwaves to specific towns like Natwest closing branches

"Just a heads up boss that I accidentally hit publish without editing the title but don't worry, I corrected it within seconds and I'm sure no one noticed"

Wow that is not the announcement I was expecting but good on him

Evidently BritSky isn't working hard enough if US commentators are earnestly posting that Starmer didn't put a foot wrong

“Don’t piss off every section of the coalition that elected you” is advice that most political scientists would give you for free

What are your highlights? I will never forget racist riots taking place where they were trying to burn people alive and he took about 8 business days to call them racist and sent Yvette Cooper out to talk about how much she loves England flags and has them in bunting form

Once again, if you work for any charities or nonprofits still using X, keep sending these announcements to the comms people

If Hungary can do it…

"Starmer is a fighter!" On the contrary, he's demonstrated more than amply his unwillingness to start any fights for anything that should matter and that's why we're here

Respectfully disagree with those saying this is unfair and there should be a GE. PMs should not be chosen by the voters! We elect MPs to decide on who leads them and us and if you don't like the results, what you want is presidentialism (and you would like that a lot less)

Cracking up. Echoes of Theresa

Even as a liberal I'd support a Steve Bray exclusion zone TBH

Half of my Bsky right now

And lo, Hot Podium Guy, erstwhile guardian of the U.K. constitution, appears

The narrative of "this shows our system is in trouble, we never used to have this high a turnover of PMs" does bother me because it's simply not true. High PM turnover is what our parliamentary system is built for and multi-term presidential figures are the rarity

*sad trombone*

I would agree with James on a number of points but I think this sums up why I still prefer *not* to use LLMs for research. Why would my starting point be an unreliable summary that I have to check? Sure, I *could* check it every time, but then why not just start with the actual research instead?

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

This guy sounds like pretty much any radicalised knuckledragger in Facebook comments sections only taking it to the logical next step of violence

Discover Feed at it again eh

Must've missed the emergency broadcast from Farage then

Now imagine the Home Office posting this under Reform (because they would)

Interesting Makerfield voxpop on the Politico pod where an older voter who's "been Labour since 18" eventually left because of Brexit—"we all wanted out, Labour wanted in" Given Labour has been pro-EU since the 80s it should be obvious these people have left Labour rather than the other way round

Fucking Starmtroopers man

Oh god that chord change into the chorus. Did they just lose interest #totp

Why bother plugging them in and not bother sticking jack leads in too #totp

That Cenotaph will be like Woodstock

If Starmer really wants one final humiliation to be his legacy, fair enough I guess. And perhaps it might even look better for Burnham to have fought him for it than for it to look like the crown was handed to him

This is all very noble but I just don't see how it can happen while one half of that divide is openly posting racist and anti-LGBT content Of course the other half isn't going to want to reconnect with such people The division here is all coming from one side and platitudes won't solve that

Okay, it is quite funny that coping Starmerites set Burnham a ridiculously high bar that he cleared

"But what about the local elections?" (A question I immediately asked, to be fair) It looks like the turnout for those in Makerfield was *half* what it was last night, so it seems much more likely Labour voters didn't bother voting while Reform voters all did