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Neil Shima

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Unlock Democracy@unlockdemocracy.bsky.social · 16h ago

Britain’s two-party system has been weakening for decades. In the 1950s, the average share of the vote won by Labour and the Conservatives combined was 94%. By the 1970s, it had fallen to 80%. In 2024, at 57%, it reached its lowest level ever.

Why First Past the Post can’t cope with Britain’s multi-party politics

Britain’s two-party system didn’t just weaken this May. It broke. With it have gone the political conditions First Past the Post requires to work properly.

buff.ly

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17h ago

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate By Will Meakin-Durrant Kemi Badenoch has said her party "believes in second chances". , after the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate. Joshua Bonehill-Paine posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward. Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment. He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men". He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London. Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis. "Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism. "Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously. "And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Tuta@tuta.com · 3w ago

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Peter Kay@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quite reasonably @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk asks if Dominic Cummings was ever subjected to developed security vetting. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer. Given the furore around Starmer/Mandelson this is an interesting question. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Boris Johnson under pressure to say whether Dominic Cummings has requested access to top-secret military sites

Evidence of turf war with defence chiefs over chief aide’s bid to tour highly classified bases – as he seeks to ‘radically shake up the military’

independent.co.uk

Peter Kay@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”

Will Forster MP@willforster.bsky.social · 6d ago

Residential leasehold has failed in #Woking and across the country. People are living in subpar conditions and being held captive by their leases. I have demanded the Government regulate managing agents to end the con of leasehold.