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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 3h

His channel should be much bigger than it is. His video series about the Battle of Britain was fantastic.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5h

You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.

But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?

Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 6h

"It's democracy, but not as we know it"
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...

Film made by John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt

YouTube video by Lyn Cat Irv

www.youtube.com

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doomsmoker (just memes) @doomsmoker.bsky.social · 8h

SIGNS OF A STROKE

TWISTED MOUTH

ARM PARALYSIS

INCOHERENT SPEECH
"I love Microsoft Teams."

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 9h

sounds pedantic but Labour more need to stop pissing off and alienating voters. They're already trying to appeal to more people but in contradictory ways that just backfire.
The voters who support the extra worker's rights don't support disability cuts, and vice versa. They've alienated both groups

mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 9h

The difference between Farage’s ambitions and reality last night was Llŷr

mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

You aren’t special, the whole earth has two poles.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

That’s the generational divide. I’m an 80’s kids and I remember kids being sick all the time *does a kick flip*

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

You are a sad and boring individual

mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

Reading is a brilliant thing to do

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

Random question, last year on your kids event in the Glee club you had a Spanish comedian, sung a song about paella to the tune of Rhianna’s Umbrella. Do you remember that comedian’s name?

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 10h

CONSTANT PISSING LIKE A HORSE!

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 11h

I worked in Accounts Payable for the public sector when the TORIES brought in guidelines that after the receipt of goods we had a week to pay the company because we were damaging the economy.

Jos Gallacher 🟰 @jos.gallacher.be · 12h

Put off paying your bills for the sake of the economy.

The UK government is considering rowing back on planned legislation that shortens payment times for small suppliers after lobbying from big businesses, which warn that a squeeze on their cash flow would harm investment in the economy.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 11h

Given up implies they tried.
Welsh Lab and PC both wanted the Crown Estate devolved like it is in Scotland. Straight away Westminster made WL stop talking about it. When WL started slipping in the polls WL started asking for the Crown Estate, this was the response www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens says Crown Estates powers 'risk' jobs

Welsh Secretary tells MPs money and jobs would be

www.bbc.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15h

What's Caerphilly and Clacton got in common?

Neither's likely to see Nigel Farage today.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13h

[Scene is a high school classroom. A teacher is writing on the whiteboard 'ACT 2 SCENE 3'.]

TEACHER:
OK class - open up Macbeth to Act 2 Scene 3...

TEACHER:
So - does anybody have any ideas on Shakespeares meaning behind the character of 'the Porter' in this scene?

[A voice comes from off-scene, behind the teacher's back[.

VOICE:

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

TEACHER [turning round]:
Sorry….. who are you?

[We see a wider scene that shows it is the GHOST OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, hovering over the heads of the startled students]

SHAKESPEARE:
I'm the Ghost of Shakespeare and I've come back to say: this scene means *absolutely nothing*.

The Porter is a funny drunk bloke I lobbed in to cover a costume change!

I mean like, not everything I did was genius OK? Stop giving me the ick.

TEACHER:
So um...what do you suggest we study?

SHAKESPEARE:
The most important text in British culture!

TEACHER:
Which is...?

SHAKESPEARE:
'Bollocks People Say on the Internet.'

TEACHER:
You think we should study... bollocks people say on the internet?

SHAKESPEARE:
Yes.

TEACHER:
But Mr Shakespeare... your Porter scene was a question in a past GCSE paper...
We need to analyse it so the kids don't end up failing their exams...

SHAKESPEARE:
Yes, and I'm just suggesting you should analyse Bollocks People Say on the Internet instead, so they don't end up painting flags on roundabouts.

[Silent pause]

TEACHER:
OK class - open up your phones to X...

[ends]

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 13h

That’s funny. You should try standup. Welsh Labour has been in charge for almost 30 years.
People are abandoning Labour because for the previous 14 years Welsh Labour said the Westminster Tories were holding them back. WM Labour government now and no change.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 14h

It would be interesting to see how many of those professional managers were entry level staff that benefited from Blair and Brown. It feels a weird thing to not consider your successes for your voters changes your retained voter demographic.

mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a lot of UK mainstream attention and analysis on the bi-election but these are also local elections, not general ones. Some good insight from a more localised lens.

Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 14h

Special Caerphilly by-election podcast is out.

I need to go to bed now.

youtu.be/RrEwC62ujFY?...

Shock Caerphilly By-Election Result | For Wales See Wales

YouTube video by For Wales See Wales

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 14h

Next week remind Robin to have a piss BEFORE filming starts. Ridiculously unprofessional on his part.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 14h

It’s why I left my union, PCS , to join Prospect. As a “manager” (I was a team leader), I was constantly bombarded with messages from PCS labelling me, and people like me as the enemy and the problem. It’s also why I hate Labour’s “working people” line. I work too fucking hard to not be included.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn the layout of her small workplace and still frequently ends up in the stationery cupboard, reportedly thought it would be a great idea to visit a dense thicket of over a million maize plants and see what happens.

Dyspraxic woman at corn maze still looking for way in

A dyspraxic autistic woman tasked with finding her way out of a Halloween corn maze first has to find the entrance, her loved ones have revealed. Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn…

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very important that men aren’t accused of domestic assault cause it will destroy their careers.

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

Johnny Depp will reportedly play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s EBENEZER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with Andrea Riseborough (Possessor) also attached to star in the film.

‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ – Ti West Directing Dickens Tale With Johnny Depp as Scrooge

While Robert Eggers plans his own dark take on A Christmas Carol starring Willem Dafoe, Deadline reports that Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is taking his own crack at the classic tale. Johnny Depp will...

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 16h

Reform are strong in Wales because of lopsided access to mainstream media and a crumbling of the two main parties.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 16h

Plaid Cymru is a VERY small party, it’s about as grassroots as you get in British politics. There are no English speaking Welsh channels, it’s English TV for us and they don’t platform Plaid.
Reform are platformed in ALL of the English channels, big coffers and are favoured by the algorithms.

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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 16h

Cutting their name out out of fairness, but yeah, I don’t get it either

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