JB
@jbpol.bsky.social
Lefty, pro LGBT, atheist in Birmingham, UK
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If you announce reversing Brexit as one of your main policies, it will go through the roof.
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you announce reversing Brexit as one of your main policies, it will go through the roof.
But Patrick Minford...
What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
But Patrick Minford...
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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If only we had some kind of person whose job it was to investigate the news and present a balanced set of challenging facts. We could call them something like “journalists”. The whole craft could be called a cool name like “journalism”.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If only we had some kind of person whose job it was to investigate the news and present a balanced set of challenging facts. We could call them something like “journalists”. The whole craft could be called a cool name like “journalism”.
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Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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An unexpected change of mind.
I was uneasy about the mansion tax prior to the budget. Having now seen newspapers full of people who bought their property for buttons moaning about it I now want a 50% confiscation of the value from anyone who moans about it.
Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
An unexpected change of mind.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Cathy Newman, "Is it any wonder that Labour are aping Conservative policy on the issue of asylum seekers?" #C4News
Enver Solomon (Refugee Council), "It doesn't have to"
"I don't think you defeat Reform UK by trying to be tougher than them or sounding like them"
Enver Solomon (Refugee Council), "It doesn't have to"
"I don't think you defeat Reform UK by trying to be tougher than them or sounding like them"
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Cathy Newman, "Is it any wonder that Labour are aping Conservative policy on the issue of asylum seekers?" #C4News
Enver Solomon (Refugee Council), "It doesn't have to"
"I don't think you defeat Reform UK by trying to be tougher than them or sounding like them"
Enver Solomon (Refugee Council), "It doesn't have to"
"I don't think you defeat Reform UK by trying to be tougher than them or sounding like them"
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
No longer have to be precise? The word "precise" obviously means something very different to me...
While some pretend that Israel's conduct can singularly be pinned on Netanyahu, an Israeli lawmaker just called for merciless bombing of Gaza.
"We have no hostages [left]... We no longer have to be precise. We can attack without mercy. Merciless! MERCILESS!"
"We have no hostages [left]... We no longer have to be precise. We can attack without mercy. Merciless! MERCILESS!"
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
No longer have to be precise? The word "precise" obviously means something very different to me...
Quite remarkable that we go along with something that implicitly says violence against boys and men is less of a problem, despite it being 2x the problem in its ultimate form.
Can't help thinking that if you open the door to one form of violence being less serious, that extending this view is easy.
Can't help thinking that if you open the door to one form of violence being less serious, that extending this view is easy.
White Ribbon Day aimed at ending violence against women and girls is 25 November
Red ribbons mark World AIDS Day 1 December
Red ribbons mark World AIDS Day 1 December
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Quite remarkable that we go along with something that implicitly says violence against boys and men is less of a problem, despite it being 2x the problem in its ultimate form.
Can't help thinking that if you open the door to one form of violence being less serious, that extending this view is easy.
Can't help thinking that if you open the door to one form of violence being less serious, that extending this view is easy.
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The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The "acceptable debate" according to Bari Weiss.
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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And we add £7bilion to the deficit for every 100,000 drop
To appease economically illiterate racists and xenophobes
To appease economically illiterate racists and xenophobes
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
And we add £7bilion to the deficit for every 100,000 drop
To appease economically illiterate racists and xenophobes
To appease economically illiterate racists and xenophobes
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1/🧵 He did something similar after the murder of Brianna Ghey, using the mention of a hate crime as a kind of prop. He never talks about hate crimes themselves; he only talks about how virtuous it supposedly is for him to acknowledge that they exist.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
1/🧵 He did something similar after the murder of Brianna Ghey, using the mention of a hate crime as a kind of prop. He never talks about hate crimes themselves; he only talks about how virtuous it supposedly is for him to acknowledge that they exist.
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Also who cares why they did it? What matters is it's done. (In any case reducing poverty is one reason people vote for Labour MPs so mollifying is kind of the point of elected them).
I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions.
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also who cares why they did it? What matters is it's done. (In any case reducing poverty is one reason people vote for Labour MPs so mollifying is kind of the point of elected them).
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I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I know who Nus Ghani MP is - not because we always agree - but because she’s been serving her constituency (as well as lewks) since 2015.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
Who the hell is Lucy White?!
Ah, a quick google search reveals her as a rentagob for GB ‘news.’
I know which one is qualified to chair the budget debate.
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Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
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Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Only a man, sorry, but I'm really not sure that murdering men is intrinsically less bad than murdering women.
All such victims lose their lives and will leave grieving relatives and friends behind.
All such victims lose their lives and will leave grieving relatives and friends behind.
This is good
The sister of a murdered young woman had said: The murderer was not a monster, but the "healthy son" of a deeply patriarchal society
These words brought crowds out across Italy demanding change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The sister of a murdered young woman had said: The murderer was not a monster, but the "healthy son" of a deeply patriarchal society
These words brought crowds out across Italy demanding change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
The gender-motivated murder of a woman will now be covered by a distinct clause in Italian law - punishable by a life sentence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Only a man, sorry, but I'm really not sure that murdering men is intrinsically less bad than murdering women.
All such victims lose their lives and will leave grieving relatives and friends behind.
All such victims lose their lives and will leave grieving relatives and friends behind.
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Robert de Niro, "Trump doesn't understand humanity.. He has no empathy.. He wants to hurt this country.. To hurt people"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Robert de Niro, "Trump doesn't understand humanity.. He has no empathy.. He wants to hurt this country.. To hurt people"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
"What upsets me the most is that people follow him"
Counterpoint: a majority of our peers were hoodwinked by charlatans into the worst act of treachery in any of our lifetimes.
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Counterpoint: a majority of our peers were hoodwinked by charlatans into the worst act of treachery in any of our lifetimes.
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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
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‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’