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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, McFadden who is planning on cutting disability and limited capability for work benefits for millions next month, presumably because he needs the souls to break the curse that turned him into a lich.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 13h

Nandy keeps wanting the police to assault protesters. Philipson wants to leave the ECHR and scrap the EHRC. Starmer wants all the above.

Who else am I missing?

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 13h

You said nobody in the current cabinet would, now you're moving the goalposts. Even still, Streeting shares the same healthcare position as Reform to increase privatisation. Kyle loves AI and tried to get everyone in the UK a subscription to ChatGPT. Reeves wants to cut harder than the Tories.

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 18h

They absolutely would. Cooper and Mahmood have both copied Farage's homework.

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Blood Seagull @redtim.bsky.social · 23h

This Maccabi Tel Aviv story continues to be an exercise in gaslighting on a massive scale by the British government. Unfortunatelyfor them, they aren't very good at it, embarrassingly so.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Maccabi Tel Aviv will not accept Aston Villa Europa League tickets

Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 23h

As though Labour wouldn't jump in bed with Reform before touching the Greens.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 1d

This monstrous abuse of Brianna Ghey and her grieving mother; to turn an absolutely transphobic hate crime into "kids on they phones" is something you can only do if you're genuinely too stupid or too evil to know better.

Is this the change that needs changing then?

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 2d

Hope not. Hate!

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Starmer, you played another political blinder.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 3d

It's like the nursery rhyme says:

Oh, the former Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid,
He gave it to victims he "never met,"
For things he "never did."

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Given the chance they'll all be Friedrich Ebert

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Pas de consuls! À bas Bernadotte!

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Ralph Miliband really needs to come back from the grave to sort out his two dipshit sons.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Miliband suggests banning people because they support an Israeli team is prejudice & hatred

We should ban all Israeli teams from all sporting competitions & it has nothing to do with prejudice or hatred. Its about supporting a boycott of a genocidal apartheid state.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 3d

Labour can leave the ECHR, use tactical nuclear missiles on small boats, make Starmer flog and behead a shoplifter every Saturday to a live audience, and still the goalposts would move further out.

But sure, this time playing their game will work out!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Lam has heard the charge that retrospective breaches of past promises to deport those who played by the rules are unfair.

She accepts it is unfair & has "great personal sympathy" for those she will unfairly deport.

She says she believes that fairness should apply to British citizens "alone"

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 3d

You'd have to say "let our clearly violent hard right hooligans, who the last time they were allowed to come to a foreign city were caught on camera in multiple videos being violent hard right hooligans, come to your city or it's like the holocaust" is really up there as a classic UK media moment

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

Finally I am the target audience.

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 3d

Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3d

From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:

A picture of a pumpkin ghoul holding a sign that says NO KINGS BUT STEPHEN

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 3d

There's some Kojima things that could very well be AI but only because of how batshit it is.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 POLL | Britons SUPPORT banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending next month's Aston Villa match.

✅ Support – 42%
❌ Oppose – 28%

Via @YouGov, 17 October

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling.

No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites.

Our media class is rotten to the core.

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David Traynier Ⓥ @dtraynier.bsky.social · 5d

In a society with a healthy respect for ethics and the rule of law, the scandal would not be that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are barred from their Aston Villa match, but that the UK hasn't cut all sporting ties with a genocidal apartheid state.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 4d

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Stuart @britestoan.bsky.social · 4d

It is when they're pluralising her name. It would be bad enough if they just said they wanted to deport Zarah, but saying "Zarahs" is when it becomes a dogwhistle too.

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 4d

More targeting of the poor, vulnerable and marginalised

I think Starmer might have been lying when he said ‘those with the broadest shoulders will bear the burden’

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 4d

Rachel Reeves is preparing to save more than a billion pounds by targeting disabled people’s capacity to get cars through the benefits system

Chancellor takes aim at Motability scheme to save £1bn in budget

www.thetimes.com

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