Mark Spell 🌈
@litespell.bsky.social
🌈 lgbt+, liberal, Irreligious, British, European, Human-Rights, anti-fascist, Kindness-Empathy-Equality
There’s absolutely no way anyone can take any part of this farcical by-election seriously. What a total joke that this was allowed to happen and that Farage - the orchestrator of this total waste-of-time debacle - may try to claim any sort of victory or vindication here.
I am a Lib Dem voter (in my constituency they were the best suited to get the Tory filth out). Have voted once for Labour. But do also agree with Greens also on many policies. Call me a "floater" if you will 💩 Frankly... i'm just happy to see Deform UK dying a death...
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2w agoAndy Burnham ends his 3rd week as Prime Minister with a 1.3% lead in the polling average: 🌹 LAB: 25.6% - 18 month high ➡️ RFM: 24.3% - 19 month low 🌳 CON: 19.6% 🌍 GRN: 11.3% - 10 month low 🔶 LDM: 10.7% - post GE low ◼️ RES: 2.9% electionmaps.uk/polling/vi
I would put it :- Nigel Farage's dreams of becoming PM 'ruined' by greed, dodgy finance, and dodgy mates.
@jonnygf.bsky.social · 2w agoNigel Farage's dreams of becoming PM 'ruined' by Count Binface and 'joke' by-election - Daily Star apple.news/AfI1u7aQ0QgW...
Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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New Opinium poll. There’s a clear picture across multiple pollsters now. 🌹 LAB 27% ➡️ REF 23% 🌳 CON 17% 🌍 GRN 12% 🔶 LD 12%
“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
open.substack.com
A leading UK Conservative and moderate criticises leader Kemi Badenoch for chasing Reform policies and suggests it might be better if the party split.
Ukrainian drones also hit Engels Airbase and the oil refinery in Saratov. #explodey
Farage has just released a video begging Reform supporters to come to Clacton to help him win his unnecessary by-election. All going well in the Battle with the Bin then.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Should not come as a surprise. All the nationalists that protest seem to be the most horrible people.
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
theguardian.com
One of the great sources of humour is listening to things like the NYT’s The Daily podcast describing US democratic socialists as “extreme” when they’d barely make it to centre-left in Europe.
Good luck to Hungary Pride event. You all deserve full equality & human rights now! #Hungary #Pride #LGBTQ+
‘Many are still afraid’: hope and caution in Budapest before first Pride since Orbán
LGBTQ+ people continue to reel from stigma spread by 16 years of rightwing populist government, says organiser
theguardian.com
Sarah B Rogers (the ugly face of Trumps anti-liberal democracy) joins Farage & Badenock at right-wing conference. She believes anti-hate policies are policies of a dystopian society. This American Nazi has the gall to quote George Orwell, in defence of hate-speech as 'free speech'. Twat
The So Called Gang Of One 🇬🇧@thegangofone.bsky.social · 2mo agoMAGAts are like screwworm. Speakers will include Sarah B Rogers, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and an official who has become the public face of the Trump administration’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
See also, obviously, Musk's endless quest for an algorithm that gives him a more appealing personality. It just can't be done.
Tbf, Farage on a desert island would be the best reason I've ever heard to Stop The Boats.
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 3mo agoBBC couldn't get copyright permission to play the Horst Wessel Song.
I think it’s impossible, short of triggering a nuclear strike against the UK, to surpass Liz Truss as the “worst ever”.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2mo agoI basically think it's hard for anyone to oust Liz Truss as worst PM of my lifetime. I think she's a contender for worst ever? Probably not in terms of damage done I guess, for obvious reasons, but just on some sort of measure of competence and basic ability to do the job.
A new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social modelling exercise shows that #Brexit has substantially reduced the UK’s trade with the EU, both in goods and services. We find that a customs union with the EU would do little to recover those losses. Read the paper here: buff.ly/5r48H6b
The cost of Brexit, ten years on: The impact of leaving the customs union and single market on UK trade
A new CER modelling exercise shows that Brexit has substantially reduced the UK’s trade with the EU, both in goods and services.
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Hungarian government lifts ban on Ukrainian news outlets blocked by previous administration The previous administration introduced the ban in response to Ukraine's decision to block several foreign news sites, including some Hungarian outlets which were part of the Orbán government's propaganda.
Hungarian government lifts ban on Ukrainian news outlets blocked by previous administration
The previous administration introduced the ban in response to Ukraine's decision to block several foreign news sites, including some Hungarian outlets which were part of the Orbán government's propaganda machinery.
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Your belly laugh for the night. The former Tory Notts Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry who was done for speeding has been blocked from standing for Reform. So has her husband ex-Broxtowe Tory MP Darren Henry. Reform says it is not a "dumping ground”. Repeat: not a “dumping ground”.
Ex-Notts policing boss convicted for speeding blocked from Reform
Caroline Henry and Darren Henry both recently joined Reform UK from the Conservative Party
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No Equality Act. All new family rights in the Employment Rights Act scrapped. But, a “Women and Motherhood Protection Act” From a party of misogynists with links to MAGA christofascists and anti-abortionists. Just call it the Gilead Act and be done with it. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
Reform branded 'shameless' with announcement of 'Women and Motherhood Protection Act'
Reform have been accused of using "shameless" distraction tactics by announcing a 'Women and Motherhood Protection Act.'
thelondoneconomic.com
"UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says" Excellent news #RejoinEU
Italian PM Giorgia Miloni slam President Trump for claiming she begged him for a photo, "Then there are certain matters that warrant an immediate response" "Donald Trump’s statements are completely fabricated. I am, quite frankly, stunned"
Restore was backed and amplified by the world's only trillionaire, and despite the huge spend and mobilisation, they only managed 3000 votes! There's joy to be found in that regardless if you're a fan of Starmer or Burnham or neither.
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
"We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us". It was ten years ago today that Jo Cox was taken from us in the most awful way. I met her, briefly, once. She was one of those people who radiated a sort of inner goodness. Rest easy Jo 💔
