Steve
@stevexe.bsky.social
Husband, dad, counsellor and Exeter City!
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‘Mainly’, though. To accommodate the cohort who were leaving but *not* because they were leaving.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
‘Mainly’, though. To accommodate the cohort who were leaving but *not* because they were leaving.
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I don't understand the first sentence: lots of people are leaving because of an exodus [i.e. lots of people leaving]
I am a simple man.
I am a simple man.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I don't understand the first sentence: lots of people are leaving because of an exodus [i.e. lots of people leaving]
I am a simple man.
I am a simple man.
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NEW: There is a due to be a £6 billion gap between SEND funding and spending in 2028-29, on the basis of OBR forecasts.
📗@lukesibieta runs through the three main options for filling this gap: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
📗@lukesibieta runs through the three main options for filling this gap: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEW: There is a due to be a £6 billion gap between SEND funding and spending in 2028-29, on the basis of OBR forecasts.
📗@lukesibieta runs through the three main options for filling this gap: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
📗@lukesibieta runs through the three main options for filling this gap: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
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Tory immigration policy - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tory immigration policy - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
Tory Brexit ideology - ruinous, prejudiced madness.
Why Labour is killing itself and the country to try to soothe the unsoothable rightwing media is beyond me. Tell the goddam truth. Publish the damage. Only then can you start to fix it.
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'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
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Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
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This is very good from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This is very good from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Finally got round to giving @benansell.bsky.social's latest. It's also one of his very best - especially if you want to understand the extent to which Reform voters (often talked of as 'the people' and, apparently therefore, representative of all UK voters) are real outliers, culturally-speaking.
Odd Ones Out
Mapping Britain's social values and the marginalisation of the 'anti-woke'
benansell.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Finally got round to giving @benansell.bsky.social's latest. It's also one of his very best - especially if you want to understand the extent to which Reform voters (often talked of as 'the people' and, apparently therefore, representative of all UK voters) are real outliers, culturally-speaking.
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Loved this characteristically thorough yuletide debunking by @monkemma.bsky.social
No, Tesco Hasn’t Cancelled Christmas
A myth-busting explainer on Tesco trees, ‘renamed’ cakes, and the real purpose behind these manufactured panics.
monkdebunks.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Loved this characteristically thorough yuletide debunking by @monkemma.bsky.social
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Time for honesty about migration? #NomadCentury
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Time for honesty about migration? #NomadCentury
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Remember when Brexiters were reduced to pretending that pint bottles of champagne represented a major win?
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Remember when Brexiters were reduced to pretending that pint bottles of champagne represented a major win?
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It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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Hmm, “There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this [the US deal] was very close to corruption”... which is true if you think that something that is x is also very close to x... www.ft.com/content/36c9...
Swiss politicians decry ‘gold bar diplomacy’ in Trump trade deal
Backlash over role played in talks by executives from companies including Rolex and Richemont
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hmm, “There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this [the US deal] was very close to corruption”... which is true if you think that something that is x is also very close to x... www.ft.com/content/36c9...
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My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
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Speaking truth to power.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Speaking truth to power.
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Scrapping the 2-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of poverty.
Gordon Brown: Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than the last 7 tory chancellors.
#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #C4News #bbcqt #toriesgone510
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Scrapping the 2-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of poverty.
Gordon Brown: Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than the last 7 tory chancellors.
#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #C4News #bbcqt #toriesgone510
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Scrapping the 2-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of poverty.
Gordon Brown: Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than the last 7 tory chancellors.
#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #C4News #bbcqt #toriesgone510
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Scrapping the 2-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of poverty.
Gordon Brown: Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than the last 7 tory chancellors.
#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #politicslive #C4News #bbcqt #toriesgone510
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Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany
Former Ukip leader accepts invitation by the granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, Beatrix von Storch, to speak at Spandau Citadel in Berlin
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Farage is trying the age old politicians default now, of, it's just because you don't like my poltics
It's a bit more than that Nigel
It's about values isn't it?
Not the pathetic stance of, you just don't like me
There are reasons we don't like you Nigel, very good reasons
It's a bit more than that Nigel
It's about values isn't it?
Not the pathetic stance of, you just don't like me
There are reasons we don't like you Nigel, very good reasons
"The allegations that I used to use hammers to murder rabbits are only being made because people don't like my policy of killing rabbits with hammers."
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Farage is trying the age old politicians default now, of, it's just because you don't like my poltics
It's a bit more than that Nigel
It's about values isn't it?
Not the pathetic stance of, you just don't like me
There are reasons we don't like you Nigel, very good reasons
It's a bit more than that Nigel
It's about values isn't it?
Not the pathetic stance of, you just don't like me
There are reasons we don't like you Nigel, very good reasons
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Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
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Why do I call Tories scum? Badenoch says she’d repeal the Employment Rights Bill and slash welfare. #ukpolitics
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Why do I call Tories scum? Badenoch says she’d repeal the Employment Rights Bill and slash welfare. #ukpolitics