Lucas Bertholdi-Saad
@lucasbsaad.bsky.social
Trade unionist, views my own, he/him
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I was teaching a class yesterday on the 1984-85 miners' strike. Here's an extract from Kinnock's speech to the 1984 Labour Conference.
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I was teaching a class yesterday on the 1984-85 miners' strike. Here's an extract from Kinnock's speech to the 1984 Labour Conference.
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
Can you talk through a bit more why child poverty seems to be rising so consistently?
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Can you talk through a bit more why child poverty seems to be rising so consistently?
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In particular @bbclaurak.bsky.social could quote what Lam said very clearly in Parliament -that the Conservatives would kick out anyone now holding ILR who had ever claimed pension, child benefit or a host of other benefits.
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Further to this - and once again I am doing the basic research that political journalists should have done six months ago - Lam said on the record in Parliament that this *does* apply to pensions/pensioners.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In particular @bbclaurak.bsky.social could quote what Lam said very clearly in Parliament -that the Conservatives would kick out anyone now holding ILR who had ever claimed pension, child benefit or a host of other benefits.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
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They have published a Bill!
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The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
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They have published a Bill!
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It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.