Paul Hilton

@paulhilton.bsky.social

I like a liminal space.

if starmer is going to be remembered at all, and it's a big if, it should be for being a deeply authoritarian and nasty streak of piss who enthusiastically supported genocide overseas and worked tirelessly to make the lives of trans people worse all to appease a handful of brain rotted fascists

Keir Starmer announces his resignation as prime minister and leader of Labour Party

Speaking in Downing Street, the PM says he informed the King of his decision this morning. He will remain in place until Labour chooses a new leader.

bbc.co.uk

The UK Government has moved faster to destroy the online communities of teenagers than it has to limit the power of a foreign white supremacist to launch race riots in the UK's cities and spread child pornography online

For those of you not in the UK, this is the former health secretary. If he doesn’t understand how enabling walking and cycling will save the NHS and social care services multiples of that £4.5bn then it really shows he learnt nothing during his near 2 years in the role.

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I do feel it's a little, well, shortsighted, to live in a world that's being torn apart by the uncontrolled power of very, very rich people, at a level that would have seemed heavy-handed even for satire a few decades ago, and dismiss any radical reordering away from this as "infantile nonsense".

I would simply throw a silver-threaded blanket over the haunted mirror that Tony Blair comes from and ring it with salt so that he can no longer communicate with our realm

You have voters screaming - we want leaders who actually are for working people & will tell billionaires to fuck off & pass policies to raise wages, fortify unions, improve care, etc. But consultants saying - just shit talk immigrants & trans folks. Guess which answer centre-left parties favour?

Labour could and should have - Repealed voting ID law. - Cut ties with Israel. - Cut ties with Nazi tech bros. - Ended SLAPP - Pushed through Leveson 2. - Rolled out healthcare/protections for LGBTQ+ people. - Opened up safe routes. - Rent caps. - Proper living wage. But they didn't.

I keep seeing the same common theme: the impossible standards placed on anyone advocating changes to our transport system. Question car dependency and you're expected to address every inequality and injustice at the same time; but support car dependency and you'll never be challenged on these issues

The funny thing about Hannah Spencer is that she’s literally exactly what everyone pretends they want from politicians in political media: a working class woman who has broken into politics from a normal job, speaking her mind from genuine lived experience. And they fucking hate her for it lol