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Gregk Foley

@gregk.co.uk

Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine —— Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence. @bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show

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Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 2h ago

If you're someone living outside of the UK who wants a primer on what Keir Starmer's deal was, why he was so unpopular, and so on, Sinan is one of the most thoughtful and thorough chroniclers of our incredibly cruel and stupid epoch of British politics, and I highly recommend their work.

Sinan Kose@thesinankose.bsky.social · last wk.

It's finally here, I'm ending the Starmer trilogy and it was a blast to make. This time I'm trying to work out whether the 2+ years of feckless, useless, bigoted government had a point to it? And if so what it was. youtu.be/tKw1PGRDLvQ

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 9h ago

Holy shit man, a right-winger blaming the left for his own rancid bigotry and gutter prejudice? Stop the fucking presses, this changes everything.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour. By 2015, when I was 22 turning 23, this ideology had become my whole exis-tence. I welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because I saw him as hostile to Israel and aligned with anti-Zionist politics. In my mind, all of this was part of the same war. Alongside those I associated with, I began targeting Jewish MPs and becoming loudly vocal about what we called "Jew-ish infiltration". One of my peers had been arrested and jailed for targeting Luciana Berger in an antisemitic cam-paign. Rather than seeing that as a
Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 11h ago

issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, regarding antisemitism in british politics. there is a place for it, and it’s in the country’s natural party of government and the broader right-wing coalition, which is radicalising at an alarming clip.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com