Michael Hindley
@hindleylancs.bsky.social
Former MEP. Coordinator of "EP (European Parliament) to Campus Program" Author of "The Semi-Detached European".Writer & speaker on international politics. Traveler. Follow on https://mhindley.substack.com
In 1945 Britain had a Labour government determined to introduce the welfare state, in 2025 it has a Labour goverment helping dismantle the welfare state.
Why, it’s almost like nobody likes these people or ever wanted anything that they were selling, and the only reason they’re in these jobs at all is because they were crowbarred into them by Britain’s horrendous media outlets.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In 1945 Britain had a Labour government determined to introduce the welfare state, in 2025 it has a Labour goverment helping dismantle the welfare state.
Under the unwritten UK constitution, but nonetheless legally correct, no Parliament can bind its successor. Call it out, indeed.
It’s balls. Call it out.
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Under the unwritten UK constitution, but nonetheless legally correct, no Parliament can bind its successor. Call it out, indeed.
Or indeed, what's a whiteman doing in Africa and why does his family's mine belong to white colonials and not the native blacks ?
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Or indeed, what's a whiteman doing in Africa and why does his family's mine belong to white colonials and not the native blacks ?
I'd have thought having studied PPE at Oxford would be sufficient to disqualify anyone for high office.
This is getting properly unhinged
A former junior champion said Reeves did not hold the official British girls’ under-14 title, and critics ask broader questions about her CV and career claims ⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'd have thought having studied PPE at Oxford would be sufficient to disqualify anyone for high office.
The appointment of magistrates needs investigating before giving them more power. It seems to be done in some masonic process of whispers, hints, nods and winks.
Is David Lammy persuaded by his own jury trials proposal? Not sure. But he said it anyway.
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in.
#JohnJCrace
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in.
#JohnJCrace
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Is David Lammy persuaded by his own jury trials proposal? Not sure. But he said it anyway | John Crace
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The appointment of magistrates needs investigating before giving them more power. It seems to be done in some masonic process of whispers, hints, nods and winks.
Of course he knew this and should have said this as soon as he came to power and we'd be in a much better position. But he's still looking over his shoulder at Farage, Rothermere, Murdoch.
Better late than never we guess
Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack
Starmer said it had harmed the economy and led to “the degradation of political debate”.
He also took aim at those who now want the UK to leave Nato and the European Convention on Human
Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack
Starmer said it had harmed the economy and led to “the degradation of political debate”.
He also took aim at those who now want the UK to leave Nato and the European Convention on Human
Keir Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack
The prime minister also took aim at those who now want the UK to leave Nato and the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Of course he knew this and should have said this as soon as he came to power and we'd be in a much better position. But he's still looking over his shoulder at Farage, Rothermere, Murdoch.
Surely Jones is sending her up ?
I used to have a friend who was in the SWP.
This is (apart from the bit about the internet) exactly what he believed.
It's actually a deeply patronising, very middle-class, very rose tinted student-Marxist view of working people that is completely divorced from any experience of life.
This is (apart from the bit about the internet) exactly what he believed.
It's actually a deeply patronising, very middle-class, very rose tinted student-Marxist view of working people that is completely divorced from any experience of life.
Zarah Sultana apparently wants to nationalise the entire economy including the Internet.
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Surely Jones is sending her up ?
I try to explain this on mhindley.substack under "Washington, Brussels and British Exceptionism"
mhindley.substack
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I try to explain this on mhindley.substack under "Washington, Brussels and British Exceptionism"
More fake news. Surely that brain size has been artificially enlarged.
An theres the proof, if you put a few drops of Ketchup in a petri dish, and leavitt to fester to provide a continious flow of hot air passing through it, eventually it turns into an all consuming fungus, that smells exactly the same as putrid bullshit!
It was only a matter of time before the MRI was leaked.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
More fake news. Surely that brain size has been artificially enlarged.
"Fantasy Economics" from Polanski says "Spectator". Whereas Fraser Nelson "Spectator" 16/09/23 opined ""So in theory Truss & Kwarteng were correct" and "I don't think Truss' tax cuts would have been enough"
Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Fantasy Economics" from Polanski says "Spectator". Whereas Fraser Nelson "Spectator" 16/09/23 opined ""So in theory Truss & Kwarteng were correct" and "I don't think Truss' tax cuts would have been enough"
"In for a penny in for a a pound" Starmer, if you sent a postcard to Brussels, Daily Excess and Farage would cry "betrayal", so go for it and declare your intention to start negotiateions immediately to rejoin the internal market.
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"In for a penny in for a a pound" Starmer, if you sent a postcard to Brussels, Daily Excess and Farage would cry "betrayal", so go for it and declare your intention to start negotiateions immediately to rejoin the internal market.
The "Torygraph" thinks Brexit is a disaster but Starmer plods on with making "Brexit Better"
In the Torygraph, it used to be so pro Brexit it ranked as fit for loons only.
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The "Torygraph" thinks Brexit is a disaster but Starmer plods on with making "Brexit Better"
Time for my granddad's quote (he went from school to the pit, then the trenches) "If hard work made you rich, I'd have been a millionaire at twenty-one"
The myths of how billionaires get rich
are perpetrated by the mass media,
which is owned by ... wait for it ... billionaires!
meme via Martyn Shrewsbury
#SocialistSunday
are perpetrated by the mass media,
which is owned by ... wait for it ... billionaires!
meme via Martyn Shrewsbury
#SocialistSunday
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Time for my granddad's quote (he went from school to the pit, then the trenches) "If hard work made you rich, I'd have been a millionaire at twenty-one"
Pope Leo recalls Teddy Roosevelt's maxim "Talk softly but carry a big stick"
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pope Leo recalls Teddy Roosevelt's maxim "Talk softly but carry a big stick"
A good cartoon is worth a thousand words. Circulate widely.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A good cartoon is worth a thousand words. Circulate widely.
"Reboot Britain"
open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...
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"Reboot Britain"
A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World" edited by Peter Cook.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Reboot Britain"
open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...
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No way am I "compatible" with and ready to "aasimulate"with Farage, though we're both born in UK and are former MEPs.
this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No way am I "compatible" with and ready to "aasimulate"with Farage, though we're both born in UK and are former MEPs.
Did so a while ago. Now also on mhindley.substack.com
A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Did so a while ago. Now also on mhindley.substack.com
Reposted by Michael Hindley
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Reposted by Michael Hindley
Yep! It’s that easy.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Yep! It’s that easy.
Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Barcelona & the end of a splendid short trip in West Med. Back ASAP, don't let Brexit tie you down.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Barcelona & the end of a splendid short trip in West Med. Back ASAP, don't let Brexit tie you down.
Home Thoughts from Abroad. Sete, Languedoc.
"Oh to be out of England now that Brexit is there" Browning
"Oh to be out of England now that Brexit is there" Browning
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Thoughts from Abroad. Sete, Languedoc.
"Oh to be out of England now that Brexit is there" Browning
"Oh to be out of England now that Brexit is there" Browning
Now Trump is suing the BBC, even the dimmest UK politicians, ie. Starmer, must realise that there's no "special relationship" & Trump hates Britain & any democracy. Time to join to only democratic trading alliance left. the EU.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Now Trump is suing the BBC, even the dimmest UK politicians, ie. Starmer, must realise that there's no "special relationship" & Trump hates Britain & any democracy. Time to join to only democratic trading alliance left. the EU.
Very important point, repost widely
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Very important point, repost widely
Home thoughts from abroad. Part 3.
Marseilles.
'Oh to be out of England, now that Brexit is there."
Marseilles.
'Oh to be out of England, now that Brexit is there."
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Home thoughts from abroad. Part 3.
Marseilles.
'Oh to be out of England, now that Brexit is there."
Marseilles.
'Oh to be out of England, now that Brexit is there."