Peter Moore
@petejmoore.bsky.social
🇺🇲🇬🇧 - British-American former rail worker and father to an autistic child
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Why is half the country so out of touch with the views of the public?
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Why is half the country so out of touch with the views of the public?
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Having been a lib dem in coalition the vibes are just exactly the same. Total public contempt for the leader. Trust gone. Big picture approach wrong. Activists desperately shouting about the few policy wins to a public that has made its mind up.
It's funny how much they talk like the Liberal Democrats in coalition, except instead of 'negotiating with the senior partner in a coalition', the coalition partner is 'the campaign people refuse to let go of the wheel or to sign off anything suggesting their campaign was anything but perfect'.
Absolutely. The improved forecasts is insane because it's banking inflationary increases in revenue that will surely provoke inflationary increases in spending (particular public sector pay).
This BTW is a work of art. Exactly the type of attitude that has got Labour into this mess.
This BTW is a work of art. Exactly the type of attitude that has got Labour into this mess.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Having been a lib dem in coalition the vibes are just exactly the same. Total public contempt for the leader. Trust gone. Big picture approach wrong. Activists desperately shouting about the few policy wins to a public that has made its mind up.
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Why am I, a white man being told by a British Asian woman I am not racist enough? I feel like I am taking crazy pills
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Why am I, a white man being told by a British Asian woman I am not racist enough? I feel like I am taking crazy pills
Capital is able and even willing to address climate change in the ways we want, the problem is a particular subset of capitalists with a propensity to throw money into media and politics because they think ULEZ is an Islamoleftist plot/people were rude to their racist son on Twitter
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Capital is able and even willing to address climate change in the ways we want, the problem is a particular subset of capitalists with a propensity to throw money into media and politics because they think ULEZ is an Islamoleftist plot/people were rude to their racist son on Twitter
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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... The UK feels like a nation whose ruling elite are absolutely committed to their own decline and utterly in love with their own perpetual mismanagement. Or, at least, so proud, so unwilling to admit general mistakes, that they will de facto achieve those goals rather than every saying sorry.
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
... The UK feels like a nation whose ruling elite are absolutely committed to their own decline and utterly in love with their own perpetual mismanagement. Or, at least, so proud, so unwilling to admit general mistakes, that they will de facto achieve those goals rather than every saying sorry.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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A self-defeating moral outrage from Labour
Home Office media release on new settlement rules.
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A self-defeating moral outrage from Labour
This is honestly one of those things where I think we'd have been better off with the Tories, because it is significantly worse to 'tidy' up this mess caused by underfunding by chipping away at traditional rights rather than just pretending everything is fine.
Just raise taxes!
Just raise taxes!
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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UK politics live – latest updates
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is honestly one of those things where I think we'd have been better off with the Tories, because it is significantly worse to 'tidy' up this mess caused by underfunding by chipping away at traditional rights rather than just pretending everything is fine.
Just raise taxes!
Just raise taxes!
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we are going to win
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
we are going to win
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Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
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IF they u-turn, of course, it will only be BECAUSE OF the "tedious moralising".
But they do so HATE having to listen to it. Why can't people just cheer, and move on?
But they do so HATE having to listen to it. Why can't people just cheer, and move on?
This vividly demonstrates the problem with rightwing “centrist” regimes.
“Moralising” is “tedious” to them. Their policy decisions are never taken on principled or moral grounds, morality is non-existent in the Starmer regime & its apologists.
No wonder @zackpolanski.bsky.social is doing so well!
“Moralising” is “tedious” to them. Their policy decisions are never taken on principled or moral grounds, morality is non-existent in the Starmer regime & its apologists.
No wonder @zackpolanski.bsky.social is doing so well!
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
IF they u-turn, of course, it will only be BECAUSE OF the "tedious moralising".
But they do so HATE having to listen to it. Why can't people just cheer, and move on?
But they do so HATE having to listen to it. Why can't people just cheer, and move on?
What is the point of a Labour Party that can even consider this?
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What is the point of a Labour Party that can even consider this?
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It can't be emphasised enough that the Government's current approach:
- Increase ILR to 10 years,
- Increase Asylum ILR to 20 years,
- Removal "immediately" if your home country becomes "safe,"
- Loss of permanent refugee status,
Is exactly the sort of thing they dismissed as radical extremism.
- Increase ILR to 10 years,
- Increase Asylum ILR to 20 years,
- Removal "immediately" if your home country becomes "safe,"
- Loss of permanent refugee status,
Is exactly the sort of thing they dismissed as radical extremism.
Yvette Cooper was defined by inertia and just blew in the wind. Shabana Mahmood gets things done. And what she wants to get done is absolutely crackers.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It can't be emphasised enough that the Government's current approach:
- Increase ILR to 10 years,
- Increase Asylum ILR to 20 years,
- Removal "immediately" if your home country becomes "safe,"
- Loss of permanent refugee status,
Is exactly the sort of thing they dismissed as radical extremism.
- Increase ILR to 10 years,
- Increase Asylum ILR to 20 years,
- Removal "immediately" if your home country becomes "safe,"
- Loss of permanent refugee status,
Is exactly the sort of thing they dismissed as radical extremism.
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That YouTube clip of Sir Nicholas Winton, but at the end of it the audience gets put on a bus?
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
That YouTube clip of Sir Nicholas Winton, but at the end of it the audience gets put on a bus?
Do I have to get tossed off into the Pacific or could it be closer to home?
look we have fun on here going back and forth with our cousins across the pond but "i don't think the uk is a friend to this country" is one that should get you tossed off into the pacific
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Do I have to get tossed off into the Pacific or could it be closer to home?
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£100,000 being an arbitrary line in the UK tax system above which you are treated differently for no clear reason remains one of the dumbest features of the UK tax personal income tax system, itself one of the dumbest systems in Europe
Good and for those earning over £100,000 base a year that makes sense. For those below, or at least below £80,000, especially if not owning one’s own house, and/or if caring for elderly, life can be tight
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
£100,000 being an arbitrary line in the UK tax system above which you are treated differently for no clear reason remains one of the dumbest features of the UK tax personal income tax system, itself one of the dumbest systems in Europe
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Some of my family are Democrats in Wyoming of all places and it always tickles Brits when I relay that far from being unusually conservative Democrats they're basically just the living embodiment of the woke redneck meme.
It's worth staring at this picture a while. Labour voters have VERY similar views whatever constituency they live in. The same is true for every other party, even people who say 'Don't Know'. The mistake strategists are making is the 'ecological fallacy' - judging people by the places they live 7/n
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some of my family are Democrats in Wyoming of all places and it always tickles Brits when I relay that far from being unusually conservative Democrats they're basically just the living embodiment of the woke redneck meme.
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To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.
Some people need to die.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Some people need to die.
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'Having moral standards is for women' is a decent summary of Trumpism tbf
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'Having moral standards is for women' is a decent summary of Trumpism tbf
I am friends with an engineer with a specialty that was in particularly high demand here and he said so many of his colleagues were hired to do something, then fired six months later for not doing the impossible, that people just assumed took it as a profitable sabbatical
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I am friends with an engineer with a specialty that was in particularly high demand here and he said so many of his colleagues were hired to do something, then fired six months later for not doing the impossible, that people just assumed took it as a profitable sabbatical