Patrick Andrews
@patrickandrews.bsky.social
Online teacher of English. Lover of literature and languages. Coventry City fan #PUSB. Tends to the left politically but not dogmatic.
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders 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.
Well if you are former neo-Nazi you are welcome but if you support more action on climate change, Kemi will ban you as a Conservative election candidate #ToxicTories
As UK opposition leader I vigorously defended the selection of a neo-Nazi and convicted antisemitic abuser as a local candidate, and when he withdrew, made him an adviser on party culture
The people who would be really helped by a touch of imposter syndrome are completely immune to imposter syndrome. Ultimate, gold star, case-in-point: Kemi Badenoch.
I have read Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s blogpost from April entitled “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite -and How I Escaped It”. It’s a fascinating account of being consumed by hateful, extremist ideology. You know what’s not in there? An apology. To Luciana Berger or the wider Jewish community
Badenoch's two biggest flaws are that she's nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is and is incapable of admitting error. Both well illustrated by this fiasco.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 5h agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash
Won’t entirely believe it until/if it happens but it seems promising
Ghana Sports News@ghsportsnews.bsky.social · 8h agoCoventry City Agree €30 Million Deal to Sign Ghana’s Caleb Yirenkyi from FC Nordsjælland Ghanaian midfielder Caleb Yirenkyi is on the verge of completing a high-profile move to English side Coventry City after the Sky Blues reached an agreement with Danish club FC Nordsjælland for his transfer in…
This is happening loads! Piles of your cash is being spent on research projects that are being derailed by redundancy or the threat of redundancy. There's no joined-up thinking or planning anywhere. Your money? Expendable mate, don't bother working and paying taxes.
The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 13h ago📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
Didn't we have a few years of panic over antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn? Anyway, the Tories have a literal neo-Nazi running for local council, backed by Badenoch, but he's no longer an *antisemitic* neo-Nazi because he says he supports Israel
This is absolutely extraordinary. It's hard to know where to start. The utter tone-deafness? The scorn towards local government? The high-handed dismissiveness towards people affected by racism and antisemitism? Badenoch is an X-brained crackpot.
The sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · yesterdayThe sentencing remarks are quite something
Sad to see LibDems jump on the prison panic bandwagon. "We know some prisoners must be released earlier, but not them, or them, or him, or her, or them, etc..." is an infinite loop that destroys public trust. Also potentially dangerous, as it throttles arrest/prosecution/sentencing at the other end.
“I wouldn’t want to be physically adjacent to (Joshua Bonehill-Paine),” said Berger. “I’m deeply concerned about his misogyny, and about the pornographic images he created.. he is not an acceptable person to be in public life.” Badenoch supports him of course. Antisemtic neo Nazis are ok if Tory.
The judge's sentencing remarks said it would be difficult to imagine a more serious case of racially aggravated harassment bsky.app/profile/thea...
Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's worth reading the sentencing remarks the judge made about Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a man who is now a Conservative candidate for Somerset Council. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Badenoch strongly supports the MP candidacy of a former proud neo-Nazi who isn’t just an antisemite but actually went to prison for it. Everyone deserves a second chance,’ she says. Sounds unusually humane for this vicious, horrid and non-empathetic woman.
Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
theguardian.com
This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 12h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Badenoch won’t give Shapps a second chance, but will give Bonehill-Paine. Interesting choices she makes.
That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
But Badenoch knows better apparently. What a hill to die on 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
theguardian.com
Farage’s news conference summarised, then a spokeswoman is featured. Why is Reform getting so much automatic airtime on BBC? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social #newsnight
Kemi is a very stupid person. That's it. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
theguardian.com
The man Badenoch thinks should be a candidate because "the Conservative Party believes in second chances". So you can be literally convicted and imprisoned on multiple accounts of antisemitic harassment and get the all-clear from Kemi
Gina Jolliffe@gina72.bsky.social · yesterdayKemi is a very stupid person. That's it. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Though it is repellent, I’m glad The Guardian have left this piece up, rather than trying to hide the shame of publishing it. It doesn’t read as satire, apart from maybe the first paragraph. It’s an edgelording provocation & a pose, I think, though I also doubt know what to make of the conclusion.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2d agoI genuinely can't stop thinking about this piece of his someone shared earlier, in part because I sincerely can't work out which parts of it I am supposed to treat as "real" and which are "provocations" because surely, surely, the conclusion can't be real. www.theguardian.com/society/2003...
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
