Joey Gurney
@joeygurney.bsky.social
Internationalist currently working in Local Gov strategy. Former think tanker. School governor and charity trustee. Many hats, even more interests.
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Really pleased to see a new commitment to place-based budgets today. Further progress towards the implementation of 'Total Place' principles as urged with @jesstud.bsky.social a couple of years ago. www.newlocal.org.uk/publications....
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Really pleased to see a new commitment to place-based budgets today. Further progress towards the implementation of 'Total Place' principles as urged with @jesstud.bsky.social a couple of years ago. www.newlocal.org.uk/publications....
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Distributional analysis published alongside the Budget shows that the poorest will benefit most from the measures - particularly due to welfare and public service improvements.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Distributional analysis published alongside the Budget shows that the poorest will benefit most from the measures - particularly due to welfare and public service improvements.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
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Good to see HMT has finally relented on the tourist tax. Important that mayors are allowed to keep all of the income and choose how to spend it without central interference. And that it's the beginning of fiscal devolution not the end.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Good to see HMT has finally relented on the tourist tax. Important that mayors are allowed to keep all of the income and choose how to spend it without central interference. And that it's the beginning of fiscal devolution not the end.
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In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
In other news look at councils projected cumulative deficit just on special needs costs over the next few years. Yikes.
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When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
I ordered an EV through a salary sacrifice scheme at work a week ago. Terrible timing? 😅
Introducing a pay per mile levy at this stage would be bad for the EV transition, but scrapping salary sacrifice would be catastrophic.
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I ordered an EV through a salary sacrifice scheme at work a week ago. Terrible timing? 😅
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Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.
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Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
West End Girl is the pop album of the year (at least so far) and it's not even close.
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
West End Girl is the pop album of the year (at least so far) and it's not even close.
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And every comment below is a blue tick demanding even more people are deported. Hardly surprising that politicians spending all there time on X think this stuff is popular.
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And every comment below is a blue tick demanding even more people are deported. Hardly surprising that politicians spending all there time on X think this stuff is popular.
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The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
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“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In the week devolution priority areas submit their local government reorganisation (LGR) plans to ministers today the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk published a new report looking at the challenges and options facing local leaders as they reorganise councils and district services 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In the week devolution priority areas submit their local government reorganisation (LGR) plans to ministers today the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk published a new report looking at the challenges and options facing local leaders as they reorganise councils and district services 🧵
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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Today's @britishfuture.bsky.social report presents new evidence about public attitudes to asylum - which are not irredeemably hostile.
It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too
It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Today's @britishfuture.bsky.social report presents new evidence about public attitudes to asylum - which are not irredeemably hostile.
It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too
It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too
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He was saying “Boo-urns!”
Badenoch: "I think he was saying, if people are violent, fight back"
What the leader of the opposition says is not true.
Musk called for *pre-emptive* violence. He wants people to begin the violence.
She says it would not "de-escalate" to reject this!
What the leader of the opposition says is not true.
Musk called for *pre-emptive* violence. He wants people to begin the violence.
She says it would not "de-escalate" to reject this!
September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
He was saying “Boo-urns!”
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There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
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This is full on Nazi shit
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is full on Nazi shit
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When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.
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When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything
September 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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It is never comms. It is always the policy or the principal.
September 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It is never comms. It is always the policy or the principal.
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Looks like the Xi/Putin/Modi pic all over your timeline is from a 2018 G20 meet, not today. news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514...
G20: China, Russia, India agree to increase cooperation
Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Friday to strengthen trilateral coordination, build consensus and increase cooperation...
news.cgtn.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Looks like the Xi/Putin/Modi pic all over your timeline is from a 2018 G20 meet, not today. news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514...