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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2h

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

vintage Halloween postcard. The image depicts a figure, possibly a woman, wearing a blue and gold kimono or robe with a large jack-o'-lantern for a head. She is holding a lit candle in one hand. The background is a dark, leafy landscape, and a banner above her reads "ALL HALLOWEEN". The text at the bottom of the card says, "ON HALLOWEEN STRANGE SIGHTS ARE SEEN."

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 12h

Tactical voting is your friend if you want to lock reform out of power.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 12h

Caerphilly shows Nigel Farage’s Achilles heel – tactical voting could lock Reform out of power. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Caerphilly shows Nigel Farage’s Achilles heel

Tactical voting could lock Reform out of power

www.newstatesman.com

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 12h

“Many a true word spoken in jest” this is spot on. 🥹

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13h

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon

There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’

www.theguardian.com

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 12h

Brexit and tactical voting are the two topics flooding my inbox from various political newsletters and substacks.

@bestforbritain.org leads the way on both and has done for 8 years and 3. Our work is more critical than ever. Do support us if you can.

Join for free at /join or back us at /donate 🙏🏼

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 15h

Yes! Good news - a win for Plaid Cymru, a win for people turning out to vote, a win for tactical voting and a win for progressive politics over the Reform populist politics of fear, uncertainty, doubt & division.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Plaid Cymru ousts Labour in Caerphilly byelection

Rhun ap Iorwerth’s party seizes Senedd seat after Reform UK challenge

www.theguardian.com

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

“Five survivors invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel have written to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to say they will continue working with the investigation only if the safeguarding minister Jess Phillips remains in post.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post

Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 1d

Governments love to promise they’ll listen, but real listening means staying in the room when the truth is uncomfortable

Good intentions are not enough if the govt doesn't understand the decades of hurt that shape this inquiry

Me for @theleaduk.bsky.social

national.thelead.uk/p/grooming-g...

Courage is needed to ensure grooming gangs inquiry stays the course

There are good intentions from Labour, but Jess Phillips must rise to meet this challenge as weaponisation ramps up.

national.thelead.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin.

They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

This is more my fear… there are too many Weimar Republic fall echoes going on right now for my liking. Tho knowing the past can help to divert from similar mistakes.. but then again Katy Lam hasn’t been kicked out for saying stuff further right than Enoch Powell when he was kicked out of the Cons. 😳

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

No it hasn’t 🥹 it’s shitty…& I imagine it is not what the majority of people who voted Labour want. But unless something changes I imagine Overton window will shift so far right b4 next election that if Reform & Cons get in we’ll be thinking of this as ‘the good old days’ bsky.app/profile/sund... 😔

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally what is in the Bill as a definition.The Shadow Home Secretary may not remember & LOTO were saying it does not say this yesterday, so there are some mistakes in deporting pensioners, and they may notice the mistaken proposal to deport the Syrian vulnerable refugees if somebody asked

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Philp said Farage went too far so must be unclear about his own bill

There are a small group (people who earn £38k-60k) who Reform would kick out who the Conservatives might keep. But the draft bill would kick most of them out too, and most spouses, parents because of the state support definition

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

As drafted
* identical expulsions even if married to British citizens/with UK-born children
* no cut off as to how far back Cons want to go pre-2019 (eg 15-20-30 years). Should accept not go back beyond 2020 arrivals
* no exclusion of pensions.Nor child benefit for UK-born child
* maternity leave

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

Recognition of this hierarchy of bad isn’t being happy at where we are or the options ahead! For me it’s a recognition of the difference between what “ought” and what “is” under FPTP. At next election I’ll be supporting tactical voting - Lib Dem, SNP, PC, Labour, Green, progressive independents. 😊

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one 😊Labour are a disappointment on many issues, awful on some, & brilliant on others, & still overall better to what we’d be getting from Tories or Reform. Eg Katy Lam & Jenrick are talking about deporting ppl w ILTR & Badenoch hasn’t sacked them 😳

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I totally agree 👍 - well, not tomorrow.. it would take a while to draw up legislation & get through HoL, but on the principle I am with you on this one. I have written to my MP & campaigned to try to change FPTP to PR (plus Aussie style compulsory voting w option of ‘none of the above’)

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 1d

Quakers in Britain have long called for a just transition, which puts justice and equality at the heart of climate solutions.

We welcome the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy, which aims to train 400,000 people by 2030.

Clean energy jobs a step in the right direction, Quakers say

Quakers in Britain has welcomed the first ever national plan to recruit the workers needed for clean energy.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 3d

see the stakes that are facing the west of the rise of authoritarianism & ethnonationalism, & UK is also at risk, & embrace the art of the possible & work together, utilise tactical voting, there is a chance to get a hung parliament/centre & progressive coalition. But I am always up for new ideas! 😊

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 3d

However, if anyone thinks Labour is exactly the same as Reform, I think they would be surprised how much worse it would get if Reform got the predicted majority 😳 There are 4 years-ish, but even Zack P is saying he doesn’t think Greens cld get a majority or be ready to govern. I think if ppl can

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 3d

There are Labour policies I don’t like, ones that I’m not happy with but understand, ones that are brilliant and give me hope, ones that I am very sad & angry about & ones I can’t understand for the life of me why they aren’t shouting about from the rooftops because they are excellent..

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 3d

Hello! 👋 that’s an interesting conclusion, how did you get to that assumption? 😊 If you don’t think tactical voting wld be a good idea in FPTP I am genuinely open to hearing alternative realistic & achievable plans for preventing a Con/reform govt in the UK, w current predicted voter intention👍

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 3d

Labour should be shouting about this investment on a daily basis - Labour MPs should be pushing out the message locally on social media and in person. It’s another instance of Labour hiding their best and most equitable actions under a bushel.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Starmer outspends Johnson on levelling up in first year

Labour invested £2bn more on Levelling Up in its first year

www.newstatesman.com

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