Steve Pottinger
@bigstevepoet.bsky.social
Old enough to know better. Still doesn't. Likes it that way.
Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg.
www.stevepottinger.co.uk
Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg.
www.stevepottinger.co.uk
Pinned
Jeez.
Fun fact I couldn't mention until now: At the time Graham Linehan was harassing Sophia Brooks online, I was contacted by her former teachers and School Safeguarding Team to get her latest contact details, as they were worried sick about her being publicly stalked by an abusive alcoholic celebrity.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jeez.
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There's two excellent poetry and spoken word events in #Wolverhampton this weekend, with open-mic opportunities at each of them. Get yerse;ves down there! 😊
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
There's two excellent poetry and spoken word events in #Wolverhampton this weekend, with open-mic opportunities at each of them. Get yerse;ves down there! 😊
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I see we're back to minimising the suffering and murder of Palestinians with that well-worn phrase "Hamas-run health ministry says". FFS, BBC.
Another 22 dead in Gaza as a direct result of Netanyahu's aggressive collective punishment. This feels like a short pause not a path to peace
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 22 Palestinians, Hamas-run health ministry and civil defence say
Israel says it struck targets in Gaza after an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I see we're back to minimising the suffering and murder of Palestinians with that well-worn phrase "Hamas-run health ministry says". FFS, BBC.
Words to live by, from yesterday's meeting of creatives in Wolverhampton. 😊
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Words to live by, from yesterday's meeting of creatives in Wolverhampton. 😊
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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Poll after poll showing huge rise in @greenparty.org.uk voting intentions. Which will not be reported as enthusiastically as Reform's rise was or result in a repeated inclusion of Zak Polanski or Green MPs on BBC Question time.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (-1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 17% (+1)
LAB: 16% (+1)
LDM: 11% (=)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 19 Nov.
Changes w/ 12 Nov.
RFM: 32% (-1)
GRN: 18% (+1)
CON: 17% (+1)
LAB: 16% (+1)
LDM: 11% (=)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 19 Nov.
Changes w/ 12 Nov.
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Poll after poll showing huge rise in @greenparty.org.uk voting intentions. Which will not be reported as enthusiastically as Reform's rise was or result in a repeated inclusion of Zak Polanski or Green MPs on BBC Question time.
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Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my latest poem. 🙏 Go on, have a read.
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my latest poem. 🙏 Go on, have a read.
Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my latest poem. 🙏 Go on, have a read.
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my latest poem. 🙏 Go on, have a read.
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If you want to know why Reform is coming, read this typically incisive dissection of Alison Pearson's latest column by the indispensable Mic Wright.
NEW | The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you want to know why Reform is coming, read this typically incisive dissection of Alison Pearson's latest column by the indispensable Mic Wright.
I've written a fresh Substack. Have yourself a gander.
stevepottinger.substack.com/p/sad-sacks
stevepottinger.substack.com/p/sad-sacks
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I've written a fresh Substack. Have yourself a gander.
stevepottinger.substack.com/p/sad-sacks
stevepottinger.substack.com/p/sad-sacks
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The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great to see the petition to save Walsall Leather Museum gathering pace. The council's claim they aren't shutitng it would be more credible if they had more than a vague "town centre location" plan for its future... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Walsall Leather Museum petition signed by nearly 2,000 in five days
A petition launched to save the Walsall Leather Museum has surpassed 1,900 signatures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great to see the petition to save Walsall Leather Museum gathering pace. The council's claim they aren't shutitng it would be more credible if they had more than a vague "town centre location" plan for its future... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Greens have gone up 57 seats since September.
We've got 3 years to get the rest. #LetsGo
join.greenparty.org.uk
We've got 3 years to get the rest. #LetsGo
join.greenparty.org.uk
🗳️ Projected seat totals:
➡️ REF: 318 seats (+313)
🟠 LD: 87 seats (+15)
🟢 GRN: 61 seats (+57)
🔴 LAB: 60 seats (-351)
🟡 SNP: 46 seats (+37)
🔵 CON: 32 seats (-89)
🟢 PLAID: 7 seats (+3)
Based on @YouGov poll, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs GE2024)
➡️ REF: 318 seats (+313)
🟠 LD: 87 seats (+15)
🟢 GRN: 61 seats (+57)
🔴 LAB: 60 seats (-351)
🟡 SNP: 46 seats (+37)
🔵 CON: 32 seats (-89)
🟢 PLAID: 7 seats (+3)
Based on @YouGov poll, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs GE2024)
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Greens have gone up 57 seats since September.
We've got 3 years to get the rest. #LetsGo
join.greenparty.org.uk
We've got 3 years to get the rest. #LetsGo
join.greenparty.org.uk
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"Send us all a small boat
that we might see ourselves
wearing desperation’s shoes" | Harry Gallagher
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
that we might see ourselves
wearing desperation’s shoes" | Harry Gallagher
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
Small Boat
"Send us all a small boat that we might see ourselves wearing desperation’s shoes"
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Send us all a small boat
that we might see ourselves
wearing desperation’s shoes" | Harry Gallagher
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
that we might see ourselves
wearing desperation’s shoes" | Harry Gallagher
northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
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Zack Polanski with the truth.
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Zack Polanski with the truth.
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Dog whistle attracts dog. Whistler furious.
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Dog whistle attracts dog. Whistler furious.
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Major beneficiaries of the new Labour policy? Reform.
Secondary beneficiaries? Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Major losers? Labour, the U.K., humanity.
Secondary beneficiaries? Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Major losers? Labour, the U.K., humanity.
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Major beneficiaries of the new Labour policy? Reform.
Secondary beneficiaries? Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Major losers? Labour, the U.K., humanity.
Secondary beneficiaries? Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Major losers? Labour, the U.K., humanity.
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While promising to control our borders, didn’t Akehurst admit to working for a foreign government?
Labour MP Luke Akehurst says he "wholeheartedly welcomes" Mahmood's plans "which I believe will tackle a failure by the previous government to maintain one of the most basic fundamental functions of government, which is control of our borders."
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
While promising to control our borders, didn’t Akehurst admit to working for a foreign government?
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I know that some blue Labour advisors will be saying — “Great, the remainers are remoaning. The Metrosexual metropolitan elites are squirming. We‘re owning the libs”.
But guys. You ARE the libs. You won’t ever replace Farage. You’ve just sabotaging yourselves by blowing up your base
But guys. You ARE the libs. You won’t ever replace Farage. You’ve just sabotaging yourselves by blowing up your base
What is it about the Home Office which inculcates in Home Secretaries (going back to Blunkett and May) this performative cruelty?
And where is any evidence it works?
Other than amping up xenophobia does borrowing Trump’s ICE rhetoric actually it have any deterrence effect?
And where is any evidence it works?
Other than amping up xenophobia does borrowing Trump’s ICE rhetoric actually it have any deterrence effect?
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I know that some blue Labour advisors will be saying — “Great, the remainers are remoaning. The Metrosexual metropolitan elites are squirming. We‘re owning the libs”.
But guys. You ARE the libs. You won’t ever replace Farage. You’ve just sabotaging yourselves by blowing up your base
But guys. You ARE the libs. You won’t ever replace Farage. You’ve just sabotaging yourselves by blowing up your base
And some good news...
👉NEW -- Israeli weapons firm set to close UK wing
by Martin Williams
Israel’s state-owned arms company, Rafael, is disbanding its UK subsidiary following an investigation by Declassified.
by Martin Williams
Israel’s state-owned arms company, Rafael, is disbanding its UK subsidiary following an investigation by Declassified.
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And some good news...
This needs saying. Again and again and again.
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This needs saying. Again and again and again.
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
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Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
An important reminder. 👇
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
An important reminder. 👇