(living in a country where smoking is the national sport) “Ya know it’s probaly the inorganic food that’s causing all this cancer.”

oh come on

FYI Waitrose is 4.5% of the UK Supermarket share. And I'm sure "Waitrose Woman" would vite to Rejoin the EU by a very large margin.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · yesterday

🚨 NEW: The Tories are now targeting the "Waitrose Woman" to win the next election "She is aspirational, not necessarily a millionaire but above all wants a lower tax burden, wants to work hard, get on and pay less tax" [@MillardClothier]

The extent to which the Conservative leadership has convinced themselves, to the point of falling out with other Tories who go “come on, it’s not gonna happen”, that an election is imminent is crazy.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

This seems to be quite a silly front-page splash, since the mounting speculation about the PM calling a snap 2026 election is largely imaginary. (There is rather more chatter about 2027 now) A 2026 election is available at odds of 18/1 from Ladbrokes if you believe it

I would genuinely like to see anyone on the British right who claimed to be a friend of Ukraine but supported Trump tarred and feathered.

america is so gender that it will not even let ukraine help russia transition away from fossil fuels :////

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d ago

US warned the Ukrainians that Washington might cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv if it will continue strikes on Russian refineries. The Americans also informed their Ukrainian counterparts that the US was set to lift sanctions on Russian diesel and that Moscow intended to lift its export ban.

"Well Senator Collins, do you support giving billions of US dollars for diesel that might never reach American workers to Vladimir Putin?"

Oh *of course* those sanctions where bloody useless, when The Donald and co can just get around it on a whim. Now it's curious what Donny has offered in return.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 3d ago

Christ, they are using this to start the process of ending sanctions on Russia.

Basically everyone who has contact with the DWP has a story like this. They exist to make the lives of disabled people & those who care for them harder, any money you get from them is against their will. If you say the system is unfair to anyone but those not using it you are branded as out of touch

The UK's "not very strict welfare system" in action yet again

I think the post mortem of Ed Davey's leadership is so going to be interesting; what went so wrong after the GE?

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d ago

Blimey: big story in Lib Dem land from @pickardje.bsky.social:

People really downplay how the Conservative party has radicalised aince the GE. Kinda wish they just went below 100 MPs or below the LDs and elected Braverman at this point.

Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · 7d ago

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

Labour strategists will be having meetings from now until the election to figure out which way round Badenoch & Farage should go in this poster

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 6d ago

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

Can't help to think but the constant Conspiracy theory mongering about those Ukrainian Biolabs...

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7d ago

Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Obviously "late" reply but utterly insane she's gotten this virulently antisemitic along with Sean Padraig McCarthy really showing new depths of Antisemitism on the left:

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus.bsky.social · 2w ago

somebody infiltrated that little squirrel freak zei's discord and apparently she loves doing phrenology on Jews. Huge surprise. Had forgotten about her, last I heard she was calling for the genocide of Kurds

Lol this side plot of US Politics is so fascinating; after the most pro-labour US Admin in many decades helps to bailout this Trade unions pensions... they go and back the GOP. After the last two years it's insane this is still happening.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.

what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!

It’s important to note “those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.” But we know too often state tests are not accurate in judging “severe”, just as we know people with less severe conditions still face vast expenses and discrimination.

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.

Weird you can whack a PM yet still be beholden to a random PDF. Committed to a document with a massive picture of Keir Starmer on the front of it

Found the best Labour Conference protestor.

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

On Desktop; anyone else getting this?

I definitely getting the vibe that Labour will run on Rejoin the EU in some manner. *Unsure* if this will mean a Rejoin referendum or just rejoin via a GE... Or maybe compromise and have a GE coincide with a referendum lol.

David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hard to tell if there's really anything new to this reporting on UK-EU relations, wait for tomorrow but quite possible the conversation is at most inching forwards while claiming boldness. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities. Work for russian SVR, pay the price. His handler Sergei Nalobin is, among other things, releted to Brexit campaign and arson of the home of British PM K.Starmer. news.err.ee/1610150341/7...

Maybe the "very English" aspect of it all is that the entire thing turns out to be an embarrassing mistake.

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t understand this “very British/very English” framing. According to the Today programme it was “very English” that a member of the public called the police on seeing something dodgy. I’d no idea this is a specifically English thing. Perhaps we can encourage other countries to adopt this idea?

Wait no, hang on, I was informed that masked men in balaclavas are peaceful protesters? Why is this woman judging their legitimate concerns about immigration?

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2w ago

This would have scared the absolute shit out of me. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...