Fannywobble induced by-election in Boston and Skegness incoming!
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2d ago🚨 NEW: Richard Tice is now being investigated by Parliament’s Standards watchdog for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest
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Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2d agoIt absolutely boggles my mind as a South African that I am living through a drought in the United Kingdom. Like, how? We have what feels like pretty much non-stop rain most of the year - the country is rather known for it. Yet here we are, with the countryside looking like the Free State in (1)
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoBBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
It looks like Reform has some sort of “Migrant Crisis Response Team” now, led by Zia Yusuf of all people. I can’t imagine what they’re trying to achieve though - in general the man has all the skill and wherewithal of a wet sock and is practically about as useful as a crochet condom. Dire.
My only caveat is: there were several times when we thought Trump and MAGA were finished, and they came back. We must not become complacent in the UK.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoThe Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.
Manchester voted over 60% for remain as well. It's sadly not representative of the country as a whole.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoThe Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.
“Unabashed socialist” The Telegraph having a totally normal and not at all hysterical reaction to Bev Craig winning the Manchester Mayoral election. Not deranged at all.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d agoThe Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.
Oh no. Wealthy people who only wanted to live here because they weren’t paying the same tax as everyone else are leaving because they might have to pay the same tax as everyone else. How will I cope with this turn of events? Anyway. 💅
The Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.
Turns Out Reform Isn't Inevitable After All
Reform came second, Labour won comfortably, the Conservatives somehow finished fifth, and the political story everyone expected never quite happened.
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So that’s 40 candles. Wow. 🐻🎂
Badia's 40th Birthday Fun
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This going to annoy the ever-loving shit out of all the right people.
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Hi all, You may have noticed that I’ve been a little bit more quiet. It is unfortunately not because I’ve been too busy getting my sleeve tattoo for my 40th birthday (I can’t at this stage, too expensive), but rather because I have a slipped disc actively trying to destroy me. A different kind
Mal De Dos
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I’ll save you the trouble of going to see who this “veteran” is - it’s David Campbell Bannerman. No, I don’t really know him either. Seem the Express is looking for anything that might be construed as good news - even when it’s a total nothing burger.
Nope - tattoo won’t work, it is INSANELY expensive 😕 I might just take up cheese rolling or something.
Clumsy Cheese Rolling Falls
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The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoScratch that. I’ve decided it’s going to be a full sleeve tattoo. That’s going to be my midlife crisis. Yay!
Scratch that. I’ve decided it’s going to be a full sleeve tattoo. That’s going to be my midlife crisis. Yay!
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoI have been informed that I’m too late and my mid-life crisis chose itself in the form of 3D printing, miniature painting and Dungeons and Dragons. I’m seriously okay with that.
I have been informed that I’m too late and my mid-life crisis chose itself in the form of 3D printing, miniature painting and Dungeons and Dragons. I’m seriously okay with that.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoI am now in my last week of my thirties and looking for recommendations for an enjoyable midlife crisis. 🐻
I suspect there’s almost a perfect overlap between the people harassing this language hub and the people who regularly have fannywobbles about immigrants not speaking English.
I am now in my last week of my thirties and looking for recommendations for an enjoyable midlife crisis. 🐻
2026 Turning 40
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Nigella Lawson@nigella.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd a special #CookbookCorner shoutout for 'The South African Cookbook: Authentic Flavour-Packed Recipes from Cape Town to Durban' by Nokx Majozi. Plus I've got a recipe from it to share with you: Burger Pies – I just couldn’t resist! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
Ignore him and instead ask him about the £5m he got from a crypto-billionaire that just coincidentally matches the £1m a year he said he needed to be an MP for five years. Please and thank you.
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3w ago🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says the Government should build up the Royal Navy after Argentina’s players held a “The Falklands are Argentine” banner last night
Good. Anyone calling for violence on Social Media should be arrested. Now, one quick ask - while people are getting Farage’s views on this, do ask him if there’s any correlation between getting £5m from a billionaire and needing £1m a year to be an MP - which he would need to do for five years.
You know things have got bad when even a novelty candidate in a Fox costume start saying “this is all a bit too unserious for me, I’m out.” Which is quite a shame really, as I’d loved to have seen a fox v. Fox storyline in this growing farce.
"If the public is laughing at your political hero, it cannot possibly be because he’s made himself look an absolute arse by his own doing. Someone must have paid for the laughter."
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoWe're taking a short break today from the Faragian Farce to talk about something just as important: why satire terrifies people in power. From Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout to Count Binface, this is a brief history of laughing at politicians until they stop looking quite so frightening.
Someone at The Telegraph seems a bit titchy about this all. Which means one big thing - it’s working.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoWe're taking a short break today from the Faragian Farce to talk about something just as important: why satire terrifies people in power. From Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout to Count Binface, this is a brief history of laughing at politicians until they stop looking quite so frightening.
So, by show of hands - who has actually heard of Evita Bezuidenhout, ambassadress to Bapetikosweti? For research purposes, of course. 🐻
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w agoWe're taking a short break today from the Faragian Farce to talk about something just as important: why satire terrifies people in power. From Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout to Count Binface, this is a brief history of laughing at politicians until they stop looking quite so frightening.
Reform UK’s Warwickshire library review alarms librarians and readers Reform-led Warwickshire County Council proposes censoring what children read, even if residents don’t agree with them | Meg Gain
Reform UK’s Warwickshire library review alarms librarians and readers
Reform-led Warwickshire County Council proposes censoring what children read, even if residents don’t agree with them
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We're taking a short break today from the Faragian Farce to talk about something just as important: why satire terrifies people in power. From Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout to Count Binface, this is a brief history of laughing at politicians until they stop looking quite so frightening.
Interlude: The Serious Business of Taking the Piss
From Evita Bezuidenhout and Nando's, to Screaming Lord Sutch and Count Binface, political satire has spent generations doing what power fears most: making itself look ridiculous.
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