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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 4d

Special phone line for the people with the most spare time during the day? Why would any working age person vote for this nonsense?! Not sure what you're smoking in HQ, but even I don't want to legalise it.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Must won't stop.

I wrote this for @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government g...

The platform has become a swamp of disinformation. Politicians should lead the way out of it

observer.co.uk

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 5d

Wikipedia's featured article is about the 1858 case in Bradford of sweets being made with Arsenic powder instead of (also unsuitable, but less so) Gypsum.

I think that is definitely how I would have died if I was in Bradford in 1858.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Br...

1858 Bradford sweets poisoning - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 6d

The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

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

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 7d

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Josh Babarinde OBE MP @joshbabarinde.bsky.social · 9d

🎥Think I’m gonna apply to be in this TV ad.

Sarah Pochin MP, will you be my reference?

#racism

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Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 9d

This is worse than her doing it IMV

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 9d

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 9d

Pochin would still be a filthy racist even if she apologised. Glad she let the mask slip. The country doesn't need apologies from these tiny-minded weirdos, it needs them to resign and get into the sea.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 9d

Remembering the wall-to-wall coverage when, off his mic, Gordon Brown called someone who expressed bigotry a bigot.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC

The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

www.lbc.co.uk

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 9d

🧙‍♀️ Single Market Masters

The EU Single Market is one of Europe’s greatest achievements, empowering citizens and businesses alike.

It grants us four legendary superpowers. ⚡👇

A hand holds a purple trading card featuring a person in a European flag-themed top raising a golden bell, with text that reads: "OUR MASTER CARDS FOR THE EU SINGLE MARKET," surrounded by 12 golden stars. Five other gold-bordered cards are visible beneath it.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 12d

Microsoft have really turned their cloud offering into the floordrobe of data storage. Between Sharepoint, Teams and OneDrive it's virtually impossible to find anything. Not so much information retrieval as endless manic rummaging.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 12d

I have done my CHI reviews <3

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Migrants come to Britain because they think we're Europe's most generous country

TODAY’S small boat numbers are shameful, and the British people deserve better. They contain a lesson: we must go further and faster to secure our borders. Under the last Conservative Government, t…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 12d

Well, have they tried undeclaring pot holes?

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12d

Reform has “undeclared the climate crisis” to try to find savings.
Wow. If only we’d known it was that easy. Don’t like it? Just “undeclare” it. Simples.

The thought of clowns like this in government is just beyond anything remotely sane. Let’s not go there.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/399...

What Reform's Kent nightmare means for Farage's dream of becoming
PM
Reform is hoping to prove it is fit for government by the way it runs local authorities
Nigel Farage is relying on Kent County Council to prove Reform can hold office. Councillors pictured are Clirs Paul Thomas, Oliver Bradshaw, Bill Barrett and Maxine Fothergill

"We've undeclared the climate crisis, which will free us up further down the line to make many more savings when we start to unpick all the net zero targets that have been sort of baked into the constitution. Then we can save a lot more money in the long term."
ClIr Kemkaran, leader of KCC, last month called for the return of international railways to the county (Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA)
CIr Kemkaran said she had appointed an internal Department of Local Government Efficiency or "Doge team" which was scrutinising each Cabinet member on what savings could be made.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13d

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13d

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13d

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Revocation of Indefinite Leave to Remain in certain circumstances Indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom is revoked with respect to a person (“P”) if any of the following conditions apply. Condition 1 is that P is defined as a “foreign criminal” under section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007. Condition 2 is that P was granted indefinite leave to remain after the coming into force of this Act, but would not be eligible for indefinite leave under the requirements of section 2. Condition 3 is that P, or any dependents of P, have been in receipt of any form of “social protection” (including housing) from the UK Government or 5 10 15 20 25 30 353 Immigration and Visas Bill Part 3—VISAS a local authority, where “social protection” is defined according to the Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, subject to any further definition by immigration rules. (5) (6) (7) (8) 4 5 (1) (2) (3) (4) (1) Condition 4 is that P’s annual income has fallen below £38,700 for six months or more in aggregate during the relevant qualification period, or subsequent to receiving indefinite leave to remain.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 14d

Curtis Yarvin, David Starkey, and Toby Young all speaking at Oxford this week. Orr now advising Farage invited the author of the Bell Curve to Cambridge. Endorsing race science still isn’t a barrier to entry into the British establishment, continuing a 200 year old tradition.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 14d

This is how you do it. Well done, France. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nicolas Sarkozy enters prison to begin five-year sentence over criminal conspiracy

Former president organised stage-managed departure from his Paris home before becaming first French postwar leader to be jailed Europe live – latest updates

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14d

The way to answer "has anybody done this since Idi Amin in 1972" would be for Conservatives to name a democratic government that revoked permanent settlement to remove legal rights & then deported, expelled those people.

Important they get asked to give the counter-example to "since Idi Amin"

Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 14d

Essential @sundersays.bsky.social thread on Katie Lam.

Ms Lam is proposing policies last used by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1972.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14d

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14d

The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 15d

Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker.

They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 14d

"So, Katie Lam, where do you get your policy ideas?"

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Will Forster MP @willforster.bsky.social · 15d

The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 14d

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

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Dr Richard Gomer @richardgomer.bsky.social · 14d

So I think weasel words like "culturally coherent" are outright extremist racism and whoever utters them should be thrown into the sea. So I don't see how KKKatie Lam and I could possibly have any "cultural coherence". And yet, my utter cultural rejection of her ideas is not qwhite what she meant.

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