Kevin McKenna MP
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Kevin McKenna MP
@kevinmckenna.co.uk
· Sep 13
Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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Yesterday in Parliament I said that the government should leave X.
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday in Parliament I said that the government should leave X.
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Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on such a clear win in New York.
His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Zohran Mamdani seals remarkable victory - but real challenges await
After entering the race largely unnoticed, the new mayor of New York City can expect to face serious scrutiny in office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on such a clear win in New York.
His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His victory shows that boldness and a story of economic change in the interests of the many not the few, defeats the politics of division and despair.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Punishing people doesn’t get people into work.
We get people into work by creating good jobs.
We get people into work by creating good jobs.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Punishing people doesn’t get people into work.
We get people into work by creating good jobs.
We get people into work by creating good jobs.
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif
Absolutely bang on from Peter here
The rapid descent of political discourse in the UK away from the mainstream values of the British people is sickening
For Reform’s leadership to tolerate this from their MPs speaks volumes
The rapid descent of political discourse in the UK away from the mainstream values of the British people is sickening
For Reform’s leadership to tolerate this from their MPs speaks volumes
Support for LGBT people is fundamental to my British values
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Absolutely bang on from Peter here
The rapid descent of political discourse in the UK away from the mainstream values of the British people is sickening
For Reform’s leadership to tolerate this from their MPs speaks volumes
The rapid descent of political discourse in the UK away from the mainstream values of the British people is sickening
For Reform’s leadership to tolerate this from their MPs speaks volumes
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Support for LGBT people is fundamental to my British values
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Support for LGBT people is fundamental to my British values
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
When a ReformUK MP compares that to backing Hamas, it needs calling out
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Great to have @metromayorsteve.bsky.social's support at my Lucy Listen’s event in Liverpool today.
Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.
Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.
October 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Great to have @metromayorsteve.bsky.social's support at my Lucy Listen’s event in Liverpool today.
Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.
Members want us to do better and they want the Deputy to be their voice, all the time, and to help us turn things around. That’s what I’ll do.
Oh Nigel 🙄
Normally I’m an advocate for heavily reframing arguments to take them away from Reform’s insidiously poisonous propaganda traps, but here I’m just all “huh, wtf??”
Also is “God help us” a knock-off attempt at a “Thank you for your attention to this matter” trademark sign-off? Sad.
Normally I’m an advocate for heavily reframing arguments to take them away from Reform’s insidiously poisonous propaganda traps, but here I’m just all “huh, wtf??”
Also is “God help us” a knock-off attempt at a “Thank you for your attention to this matter” trademark sign-off? Sad.
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Oh Nigel 🙄
Normally I’m an advocate for heavily reframing arguments to take them away from Reform’s insidiously poisonous propaganda traps, but here I’m just all “huh, wtf??”
Also is “God help us” a knock-off attempt at a “Thank you for your attention to this matter” trademark sign-off? Sad.
Normally I’m an advocate for heavily reframing arguments to take them away from Reform’s insidiously poisonous propaganda traps, but here I’m just all “huh, wtf??”
Also is “God help us” a knock-off attempt at a “Thank you for your attention to this matter” trademark sign-off? Sad.
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
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Right back at ya @roswynnejones.bsky.social What a lovely piece!
The truth is Ros spends every day campaigning against injustice, championing real heros, giving voice to the voiceless & tackling division wherever she sees it. Honoured to call you my friend.
t.co/evjo1M8QMw
The truth is Ros spends every day campaigning against injustice, championing real heros, giving voice to the voiceless & tackling division wherever she sees it. Honoured to call you my friend.
t.co/evjo1M8QMw
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/my-best-mate-lucy-powell-36027160
t.co
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Right back at ya @roswynnejones.bsky.social What a lovely piece!
The truth is Ros spends every day campaigning against injustice, championing real heros, giving voice to the voiceless & tackling division wherever she sees it. Honoured to call you my friend.
t.co/evjo1M8QMw
The truth is Ros spends every day campaigning against injustice, championing real heros, giving voice to the voiceless & tackling division wherever she sees it. Honoured to call you my friend.
t.co/evjo1M8QMw
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Meanwhile Nigel Farage:
- has talked about taking up a rifle/knife
- courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets
- lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence
- refused to condemn violent riots last summer
- has talked about taking up a rifle/knife
- courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets
- lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence
- refused to condemn violent riots last summer
October 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Meanwhile Nigel Farage:
- has talked about taking up a rifle/knife
- courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets
- lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence
- refused to condemn violent riots last summer
- has talked about taking up a rifle/knife
- courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets
- lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence
- refused to condemn violent riots last summer
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This is a total lie repeatedly unchallenged on media
The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech?
“the wind fARMs of South Wales.”
The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech?
“the wind fARMs of South Wales.”
This outburst by Tice should have more publicity. He made up a quote from Starmer’s speech, saying the PM had called on people to ‘take up arms’ against Reform.
4 minutes in.
www.youtube.com/live/7OMe2iC...
4 minutes in.
www.youtube.com/live/7OMe2iC...
Reform UK accuses Keir Starmer of inciting violence against Nigel Farage
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is a total lie repeatedly unchallenged on media
The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech?
“the wind fARMs of South Wales.”
The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech?
“the wind fARMs of South Wales.”
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Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but…
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
October 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but…
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
Sorry? The only person tone deaf here is Cole
This isn’t political reporting, it’s just a calous slur
It may come as a surprise to Cole but the British public can see the horror in Manchester and the horror in Gaza and still see the humane path through both of them
Hamish is one of the best of us
This isn’t political reporting, it’s just a calous slur
It may come as a surprise to Cole but the British public can see the horror in Manchester and the horror in Gaza and still see the humane path through both of them
Hamish is one of the best of us
October 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sorry? The only person tone deaf here is Cole
This isn’t political reporting, it’s just a calous slur
It may come as a surprise to Cole but the British public can see the horror in Manchester and the horror in Gaza and still see the humane path through both of them
Hamish is one of the best of us
This isn’t political reporting, it’s just a calous slur
It may come as a surprise to Cole but the British public can see the horror in Manchester and the horror in Gaza and still see the humane path through both of them
Hamish is one of the best of us
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It is a joint statement from the Board of Deputies and the JLC. Its sad something like this needed to be said on the first Sabbath after Thursday but many people from every faith & none will be glad to see the clarity with which this longstanding position has been reiterated, and so can amplify it
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It is a joint statement from the Board of Deputies and the JLC. Its sad something like this needed to be said on the first Sabbath after Thursday but many people from every faith & none will be glad to see the clarity with which this longstanding position has been reiterated, and so can amplify it
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but…
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
October 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yes it’s rancid, yes the idea of Kemi having teams of armed anonymous goons carrying out her will is 1/2 terrifying 1/2 satirical, and yes there is 0% chance of her ever making it happen, but…
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
who looks at the whole history of authoritarian misadventure and thinks this won’t lead to total disaster?
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All this is why I am very happy to co-sign this letter organised by Luke, a great champion for net-zero and fighting climate change. An important reminder that support for tackling the climate emergency remains strong inside Parliament and with the British public.
bsky.app/profile/luke...
bsky.app/profile/luke...
For ~20yrs the Climate Change Act has powered clean growth & climate action
Proud to co-ordinate 124 MPs & Peers to urge the Conservatives, don’t scrap it
Turning climate leadership into a political football puts our economy, security & children’s future at risk
#ClimateAction
Proud to co-ordinate 124 MPs & Peers to urge the Conservatives, don’t scrap it
Turning climate leadership into a political football puts our economy, security & children’s future at risk
#ClimateAction
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
All this is why I am very happy to co-sign this letter organised by Luke, a great champion for net-zero and fighting climate change. An important reminder that support for tackling the climate emergency remains strong inside Parliament and with the British public.
bsky.app/profile/luke...
bsky.app/profile/luke...
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All that’s before the terrifying threats of sea level rise + drought that this idiotic Tory/Reform alignment brings to Sittingbourne, Sheppey & lots of the rest of the country, especially across the Thames in Essex which both Kemi & Nigel are supposed to represent
Massive harm to our constituents
Massive harm to our constituents
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
All that’s before the terrifying threats of sea level rise + drought that this idiotic Tory/Reform alignment brings to Sittingbourne, Sheppey & lots of the rest of the country, especially across the Thames in Essex which both Kemi & Nigel are supposed to represent
Massive harm to our constituents
Massive harm to our constituents
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We’ve got jobs in:
☀️Onshore wind + solar power
♻️Recycling 1/3 of UK’s card & paper + 1/4 of its electronics
♻️Turning old plasterboard into new
♻️Organic waste recycling supporting food production
🔌2 waste to power plants
🛳️Low carbon concrete imported in Sheerness
🔋Plans for hydrogen & battery storage
☀️Onshore wind + solar power
♻️Recycling 1/3 of UK’s card & paper + 1/4 of its electronics
♻️Turning old plasterboard into new
♻️Organic waste recycling supporting food production
🔌2 waste to power plants
🛳️Low carbon concrete imported in Sheerness
🔋Plans for hydrogen & battery storage
October 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
We’ve got jobs in:
☀️Onshore wind + solar power
♻️Recycling 1/3 of UK’s card & paper + 1/4 of its electronics
♻️Turning old plasterboard into new
♻️Organic waste recycling supporting food production
🔌2 waste to power plants
🛳️Low carbon concrete imported in Sheerness
🔋Plans for hydrogen & battery storage
☀️Onshore wind + solar power
♻️Recycling 1/3 of UK’s card & paper + 1/4 of its electronics
♻️Turning old plasterboard into new
♻️Organic waste recycling supporting food production
🔌2 waste to power plants
🛳️Low carbon concrete imported in Sheerness
🔋Plans for hydrogen & battery storage
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It isn’t only climate
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It isn’t only climate
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
It isn’t only climate
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It isn’t only climate
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
Businesses in Sittingbourne are investing in net-zero because over the medium to long term it boosts:
⬆️ Efficiency
⬆️ Productivity
⬆️ Market share
⬆️ Profitability
⬆️ Higher skill, better paid local jobs
Team Badenoch & Farage put all that at risk
www.kemsleycluster.co.uk/p/1
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Very clear thread from Phil
As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through
She’s guilty and now must pay
Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh
As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through
She’s guilty and now must pay
Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh
🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts
1/
Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense.
Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇
1/
Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense.
Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇
UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Very clear thread from Phil
As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through
She’s guilty and now must pay
Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh
As someone who had to PPE-up to care for Covid patients during the pandemic, I’m still incandescent at the risks people like Mone put my friends and colleagues through
She’s guilty and now must pay
Her tawdry distraction attempts only seal people’s judgement of her tbh
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Also wtf is it with the right at the moment that every time they are called out on their policies or actions, their response is to cry about how unfair it is that someone else dare criticise them the same way they criticise others?
Mone now, Farage yesterday. Their playbook is dismally clichéd
Mone now, Farage yesterday. Their playbook is dismally clichéd
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Also wtf is it with the right at the moment that every time they are called out on their policies or actions, their response is to cry about how unfair it is that someone else dare criticise them the same way they criticise others?
Mone now, Farage yesterday. Their playbook is dismally clichéd
Mone now, Farage yesterday. Their playbook is dismally clichéd