on my way to Labour Conference to speak at the Annihilating Singularity fringe event. I'll be exhausting my internal nuclear fuel on stage so that my core collapses under its own gravity and creates a black hole, trapping everything in the vicinity and crushing it into cosmic paste. come and say hi!

Give me articles or give me death

Starmer's absolutely full of shit at the moment. Looking forward to single figure popularity ratings.

Now. And always. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The worst cases of Labour Brain on display here. These people are so deeply unpleasant and their strategy to beat a growing progressive party is basically to be even bigger arseholes than they are already.

I love that Zack Polanski just rolled up to the Labour conference to talk to people outside. Although, I think it would be even funnier if Keir Starmer tries to retaliate by doing the same at the Green conference. 🤣🤣🤣 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries 31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

“I love you even if you don’t love me because I’m a good person 🤭” “Eat shit”

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Today was one of my favourite lectures, on how evidence influences debates. Case A: 79 people died as a consequence of smart motorways (2010-2024). That's sufficient to pause the policy. Case B: In the first year of the Welsh 20mph scheme 900 fewer people were injured. There's still contestation.

the ‘fiscal rules’ are literally made up to justify continued austerity.

Have the Labour party thought about introducing policies and actions to make people’s lives better, rather than just attacking other political parties? A bit naive I know, but isn’t that what councillors and MPs elected to do?

80% of the population supports more action on climate change. This is a party deliberately destroying any chance it has of winning another election in order to defend the right wing political establishment.

The Labour government is utterly monstrous. More right wing than anything we've seen since Major, possibly Thatcher.

I came here to say this, but @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social was quicker and more articulate: "Have they considered that going 'look at these actual left wingers' might not be the best strategy when the party is alienating its core left wing voters?"

Being a therapist gives you a lot of access to and control over very vulnerable people. It attracts very caring people, but also incredibly dangerous monsters.

I'm not laundering these people, far from it. I just think this is neoliberal politics coming home to roost. Saying Shut Up, Don't Care. Shut Up, Don't Care. Shut Up Don't Care. About every *real* issue but giving the time of day to racism makes people believe their only influence is via racism.

they've got themselves so fucking tied up and twisted over this because fundamentally they don't disagree with Reform on any singlet thing they just want to be the ones in charge, thank you very much

He obviously means a very dark path for cosy gravy-train riding ministers. And I should hope so too. No sinecures for Darren.

Remembering what Nye Bevan said about why the NHS existed: “No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means." Reeves needs to learn the history of her party.

Imagine if she said "Schooling should be based on the principle of contribution". It's easy to see how the objections to that translate into objection to her welfare remarks. See also: "The prison system should be based on contribution." "Use of the road system should be based on contribution."

The obvious problem being that children have contributed nothing, but need a great deal.

Society is not a savings account. This isn't how anything works, it isn't how anything can work. It's a meaningless bunch of guff designed to appeal to a certain resentful old demographic of racist pensioners.

You could tell this was coming too because very obviously, they spent their entire time in opposition getting increasingly enraged that nobody liked them and nobody was listening to them - it was all fantasies about how everyone would soon recognise how great they were, and no new ideas at all.

Cis white people and mostly men just giving real gormless takes showing they have never in their life feared what the state might do to them

Every person i see defending the id cards plan has been of the particular category of person, yknow the ones, that least has to fear the government harming them specifically. Interesting that

from in the 2021 discord archives

Good luck to Leeds and its proposals for a workplace parking levy. A sign of how utterly broken national and local transport policy is in the UK is that in the 25 years since the law was introduced to allow for workplace parking levies, only one council (Nottingham) has had the political bravery.

Got my performance review.

An absurd stitch up to crown Wes Streeting unopposed* would IMO be powerfully clarifying for everyone *I don’t see any other way this happens

i didn’t think id see a labour government introduce conversion therapy on the nhs and implement segregationist policies but hey, here we are, streeting is doing both.

WTF prison is too nice for these sick bastards

“This far-right politics is going to tear our communities apart, it is toxic” says Keir Starmer, championing the new policy.

“This far-right politics is going to tear our communities apart, it is toxic” says Keir Starmer while his home secretary proposes slavery so migrants can get indefinite leave to remain

I also think (though this one did not surprise me personally as much, I think its hard for others) many don't understand centrist extremism. Our use of "moderate" to denote both the centre of the spectrum and a psychological disposition of being relatively chill is actually seriously misleading here

Exactly, follow the evidence - this is not a government that is prioritising winning, it is ruthlessly pursuing its project into electoral oblivion.

As I said the other day, the main retort of political science professors to people who identify Labour's trajectory as deliberately suicidal is, "Political parties don't like to lose elections," but I really think those people severely underestimate the zealotry that underpins the McSweeney project.

I agree with this. There are a number of things about the current labour party which I think best make sense as a kind of fanatically committed centre right extremism. Odd to say because it's been tied up with a lot of dishonesty, but in a sense it's even principled...

Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration. He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

Keir mate you don't know what "patriotic national renewal" would even look like, no-one does, it's nonsense it was nonsense the last ten times someone suggested it, it's nonsense now, and it will be nonsense in a year when your successor comes up with it again meanwhile, the spiral continues 😑

How many times can he have his wallet inspection? Mesmerising

joining the fight of decency & renewal vs division and decline, on the side of division and decline, etc, etc

Party conference is going to be a wild orgy of full frontal flag shagging, migrant bashing & competitive racisms, isn't it

A whole class of people addicted to living in a rhetoric bubble where the performance is as real as material impact, more even

Just so wrong to praise nice words and rhetoric while even acknowledging its only good if its combined with action. Nice words mean nothing if anything they’re bad cause they obfuscate but these people just looove the yummy yummy rhetoric and pretense of it all

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Come on, man. This is the thinnest gruel. It evaporates on utterance. Labour's immigration policies continue to be racist & they continue to indulge racists. A major reason we are where we are is bc our media can only hear tone not content & are all awed by rhetoric rather than action

keir starmer, and the politics he represents, are everything that is wrong with this fucking country. this particular brand of politics is why we have a far right problem to begin with.

This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.