Jim Obey
jimob1.bsky.social
Jim Obey
@jimob1.bsky.social
All opinions are other people's passed off as my own.
100%. Technocratic decision making leaves no room for discretion or judgement.

Here is 'mindless and zombified' Reeves explaining why two-child benefit cap should be kept:
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mr Lennon and Mrs Lopsided discuss the merits of today's sermon on 'love they neighbour' at coffee morning after mass.
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Rachel from accounts says whilst budgets have to be balanced, if we're good she will fund this budget rail replacement service.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Scandis do have a relatively flat system.

But what happened despite Osborne's cuts + reducing top rate of income + corporation taxes? As Reeves is now finding out, if the poor's spending is the rich's income, extract money from the economy...confusing correlation for causation?
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is what I see (whilst hearing Tragedy)
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yes, the rictus grin and dead fish eyes scream Void of Darkness.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
At least Marlow reckoned with his own demons. Did Jenrick look inside his soul after his dealings with pornographer and all round piece of shit, Richard Desmond?

And car boot sales as the epicentre of the criminal underworld? A rare photo of organised crime's Mr Big.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Wow. Pick the bones out of that.

Far from being low risk, I always feared Starmer's caution and Labour's inertia might pave the way for Reform. What's clear is that people would quite like a change of direction and Labour got elected despite (not because of) intending to do naff all.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Are the traitors plotting to oust Starmer trying to install....
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
These guys get it
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Of course. But distribution has changed (many graphs like the following illustrate this) hence inequality. If you own assets happy days, if you don't..

Add 'there is no such thing as society' thinking and in tough economic times, when things near enough become zero sum, the politics turns nasty.
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Bodycam footage of the suspect just before the incident occurred
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tbh, I always assumed they would make an example of us as a deterrent and intractable bureaucracy would do the rest.

To paraphrase Colonel Nicholson, what have we done?
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Musk and Thiel give their response
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Whaaat? The French are in the bally colonies!
October 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In today's 'best walking trousers' review, I noticed Which? omitted these from their 'worst buys' section.
October 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
But as Kier has declared Reform the baddies, doesn't this make Labour.....?
October 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If Reform are the baddies, does this make Labour...?
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
And the greatest of them all born in Newbury.
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Let me guess, when asked to respond originalists all replied 'no comment'?
September 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A copy of ID in happier times.
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
'Productivity forecasts, top OBR economist David Miles conceded last year, are an “educated guess, and maybe not even terribly educated”.' Mystic Meg says crystal ball gazing not to blame.
September 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM