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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 6h

this is hateful

The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 6h

well frankly this is a remarkable amount of progress that they've begun to think multiple *weeks* ahead instead days. Maybe by the Locals in May they'll have figured out how to formulate a political strategy that thinks about what things will be like in 12 months!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

One manifestation of Labour’s “everything is polling” approach to government is that they visibly think of policy not in departmental solos but in issue polling silos. Your immigration choices and your levies on business are the same picture!

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

B2 or not B2? Some thoughts on the government’s latest announcement on immigration (and why the most striking bit isn’t the posturing about English):

Labour’s big blind spot in UK immigration policy

To make it seem tough on legal routes, the government introduces radical measures with uncertain effects

www.ft.com

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

Labour’s immigration plan in full:

- raise the salience of small boats as much as possible
- make it harder and more expensive for people to come here legally and contribute
- ???
- solve the small boats issue to rapturous applause
- markets reward their ingenuity with return to growth

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Conservative criticism of Labour I absolutely did not give enough intellectual houseroom to pre-election was 'none of these guys have ever created a job'.

Bo Jacobs Strom @bojs.bsky.social · 1d

Headlines going to the English requirements but I'd completely missed this part of the plans, yet another act of idiotic self harm. Completely incompatible with the government's stated aims on housebuilding, growth, etc.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck off!!!!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

It's pointless to ask the Starmer gov be better because they can't but Jesus Christ do we not have fucking depth in the party? We've got almost 400 MPs and the best people can offer up is Andy Burnham who isn't an MP and won't get back into parliament.
What the fuck are we doing?

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously it would be nice if there was a candidate who didn't want trans people dead but fuck it I'm willing to compromise on that one because I want to live in a country that isn't a fucking shit hole in 5 years even if it does want to kill me and my friends.
And they can't even do that!

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

Who is the candidate who will say universities are good actually and it wasn't a mistake that too many of the wrong kids are getting degrees?
Who is the candidate who will advocate for a business/public services focused immigration system instead of these fantasies about the labour force?

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like to get all doomer because it's so unproductive but it really is hard to escape that conclusion that every day that goes by that the PLP doesn't pull the trigger is another day we don't have to actually fix things and the only candidates who are making moves are people who will also fail

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

This is unsustainable. Luckily Andy Burnham is going to ride in on a white horse to save the party and do basically all the same things except with a "wealth tax" that won't raise enough and a London Surcharge that diverts 20% of London Council revenue to hard hit northern councils.

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Sloppy beheaded enjoyer (queervoid of the haunted episteme era) @cisgirl.space · 1d

See I know if I quote skeet this you'll all know she's talking about me but I think it was really not ok of louise weard to illicitly read my DMs like that and base a character on them

The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

Watching castration movie pt 1 with friends, pointing at the worst character and saying to one my friends "that's you."

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 1d

Watching castration movie pt 1 with friends, pointing at the worst character and saying to one my friends "that's you."

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 2d

“Muddling through by simply raising rates of current taxes might appear the easier option… but relying on badly designed taxes to bring in additional revenue will bring unnecessary economic damage.”

📗 Read the full chapter, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

Quote from IFS Director Helen Miller: "What will make this Budget important is the choice not only over how much tax to raise, but over how to raise it. There is an opportunity to be bold and take steps towards a system that does less to impede growth and works better for us all. Muddling through by simply raising rates of current taxes might appear the easier option – Rachel Reeves’s predecessors in the Treasury have all too often shied away from taking bold steps to improve the tax system. But relying on badly designed taxes to bring in additional revenue will bring unnecessary economic damage."

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 3d

Bashar who’s your favourite Russian unifier in The New Order mine is Ordosocialist Komi.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 3d

I GM over Discord so we use a dice bot and when I started a new campaign I chose a different dice bot for UI/system reasons

Every bad roll the players blamed the new bot and demanded I add back the old bot

I finally did and the old bot immediately gave them a long streak of awful rolls.

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 4d

when someone says "my dice are cursed" you sort of have to agree with them because if you say "marius you are a grown man and I know you know that's not how probability works" they won't say anything but they'll treat you like you are in league with the cursed dice

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 3d

I was very brave and had to GM two people who were hungover from last night and one person who was waking up at 5am on the otherside of the world, please shower me in adulation.

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 4d

Is this A People's Tragedy?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 5d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 6d

Gonna start suggesting this to all my gay friends and see how long it takes before one punches me in the face

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 6d

(Stares directly at camera)

Kort has heard women in mixed-orientation relationships say that gay men are more emotionally available and open to their input. And he stresses that not all of these partnerships are sexless. “Gay men are able to have sex with a woman if that’s his person,” he said.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 6d

A young girl died because of the British government’s assault on trans people. They murdered her. Streeting, Starmer, Cass and the rest, they murdered this girl. Her blood is on their hands.

archive.ph

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 6d

Please join my campaign for the British government to set up a department that would deal with issues around culture, media (and sport - why not?). And also to set up a specific regulator for broadcast media.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 6d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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