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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 10m

I'm going to take a punt and suggest that it was probably written by an AI (likely Grok, knowing the far right).

When I've written and delivered my own speeches, I wrote in my own voice and so they flow quite naturally for me when I deliver them. Those words do not suit him as a speaker at all.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6h

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6h

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

YouTube video by Vadrigar

www.youtube.com

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 37m

That's something quite funny about this rabble-rousing speech being delivered with all verve and energy of an asthmatic sloth*.

* With apologies to sloths, obviously.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

UKIP have been taken over by the COO of the UK branch of St Charlie's Turning Point

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 44m

Very well played, Nandy.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

Some discussion in replies about cock-up vs conspiracy explanations.

So, fwiw, here is how I approach this as a law and policy commentator looking at law and policy messes.

And I have looked at many.

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 4h

The closest I got was about 5-6kg away from the top end of the "normal" range (about the time the profile pic here was taken). I had the body shape of a rake.

I have no idea what I would have looked like if my life hadn't turned to shit, and the weight loss with it.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 4h

So now we’re told Britain’s economic woes come from too many plebs going to uni @mrjamesob.bsky.social

It’s the version of the idea that the financial crash was caused by too many libraries in Wolverhampton.

Blame the educated, not the powerful.

That’s the trick, isn’t it?

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@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 5h

Didn't that sign used to say "the French"?

Have your Christian wizards been reading books to you again?

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 6h

Shhhhh 🤫

Don't tell @wulfhelm.bsky.social!

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 6h

Cult of bag ...a veiled Thatcher reference, perchance?

Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 6h

...is not really going to make any difference to legal enforcement (as distinct from the current illegal enforcement).

* Unskilled in immigration enforcement not in other things, obviously.

You need to have a much better plan, probably requiring a period of no enforcement as a new body works up.

Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 6h

Set aside the fact that the way ICE is currently operating completely disregards any "best practice" there may once have been.

Immigration enforcement does require some actual skills: checking documentation, presenting evidence, etc. so just replacing unskilled goons with unskilled* guardsmen...

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 8h

NEW EPISODE

Welcome to Origin Story. The Story of Socialism is our first ever themed season and now we begin our first ever three-part story because there’s just so much to tell: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#Socialism #Lenin #Stalin #Trotsky

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 8h

Also known as Betteridge's Law of Headlines. 👍

Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 14h

No. The "making the trains run on time" was very much a Mussolini thing as a shorthand reference to various large scale public works. With specific regard to the trains, many of the necessary improvements actually happened before Mussolini came to power but he nevertheless took all the credit.

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 16h

I've never been so smug as the time I saw the faces of the onlookers watching me in the IKEA car park as I fitted an entire 2m tall flat-pack book case into my tiny Ford Fiesta and still managed to close the boot securely.

(...because I'd done my homework and measured it all beforehand!)

Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 1d

And this, folks, is the reason these toys are critical in the education of your children.

Make smart choices..,

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 16h

That man has never half-baked anything!

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 21h

Which A' Level though?

Is that actually A' Level English or the A' Level standard for a foreign language in English?

The latter is a rather different prospect.

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 1d

One for you @themeadhallbard.bsky.social!

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 1d

At this stage of proceedings, yes, but didn't Trump feel the need to intervene last year to prevent a ceasefire?

A bit counterfactual, but it feels like positions have significantly hardened since then so maybe, at the time, a ceasefire would have been possible without needing to squeeze so hard?

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 1d

Including "head of lettuce" would disqualify it as vegan in the UK these days...

a woman wears a lanyard that says south west norton

Alt: Liz Truss, whose tenure as UK Prime Minister was outlasted by a lettuce.

media.tenor.com

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 1d

That's because guns are very highly regulated in this country.

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 1d

Quite something to read while actually working on a monthly board report...

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1d

In three different companies, I had to submit reports to the board on a monthly basis. I started putting in a line that said "if you read this, call me and I'll give you £XX". I started at £10, and went up by £10 per month. Nobody ever called, nobody ever mentioned it.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

I'm not a grand strategist but perhaps the US may regret putting all its economic eggs into a single AI basket it needs Chinese cooperation to weave.

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