Taffy Osborne
@poppingbubbles.bsky.social
Popping Bubbles on twitter. UK & Welsh politics/social policy. Occasional regional broadcaster. Data person at large UK charity.
If the game is to brief something that is so horrific that when they walk it back liberals can go along with it, it's *still* enough that I can't vote for them. Then there is always the possibility that they mean it....
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
If the game is to brief something that is so horrific that when they walk it back liberals can go along with it, it's *still* enough that I can't vote for them. Then there is always the possibility that they mean it....
I've found a setting to stop it complimenting me, which improves the experience a lot, considering going further into mild disapproval.
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I've found a setting to stop it complimenting me, which improves the experience a lot, considering going further into mild disapproval.
What do they have to lose?
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What do they have to lose?
Truss is an archetype all of her own now too.
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Truss is an archetype all of her own now too.
I think this might be fair to be honest.
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I think this might be fair to be honest.
Gov is now so unpopular that 100%a "YOLO, let's just fix some politically unpalatable stuff we're fucked anyway" stuff might actually work.
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Gov is now so unpopular that 100%a "YOLO, let's just fix some politically unpalatable stuff we're fucked anyway" stuff might actually work.
Reposted by Taffy Osborne
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
Charybdis today would be bound by international law to render assistance to seafarers in peril.
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Charybdis today would be bound by international law to render assistance to seafarers in peril.
Sent a clear enough message to me though Anand. I will definitely not be able to vote for Labour again till something changes.
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Sent a clear enough message to me though Anand. I will definitely not be able to vote for Labour again till something changes.
This is where I am at exactly. Hopefully it will make a difference if enough of us (Welsh people) think the same for Senedd elections next year. I can't vote for this, I can't. Even if I thought they were delivering elsewhere.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is where I am at exactly. Hopefully it will make a difference if enough of us (Welsh people) think the same for Senedd elections next year. I can't vote for this, I can't. Even if I thought they were delivering elsewhere.
Oh, books, yeah, the other way round. I thought you were talking about the film/TV series.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Oh, books, yeah, the other way round. I thought you were talking about the film/TV series.
It predates murderbot!
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It predates murderbot!
Oh C'MON autocorrect. *Superior aura
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Oh C'MON autocorrect. *Superior aura
I'll have to defer to your superior order now you've exposed my hot take! 😃
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'll have to defer to your superior order now you've exposed my hot take! 😃
I mean yes? (She does think that.) She is right in that they aren't as good at sounding like reform as she is. Just obviously hideously wrong that it will a) work or b) be any electoral benefit to then whatever - quite the opposite.
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I mean yes? (She does think that.) She is right in that they aren't as good at sounding like reform as she is. Just obviously hideously wrong that it will a) work or b) be any electoral benefit to then whatever - quite the opposite.
Look, you are just never going to be able to import Aura produce to Britain beyond the Aura Quota. The cool tax is just too high beyond the first 10,000 Aura tonnes.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Look, you are just never going to be able to import Aura produce to Britain beyond the Aura Quota. The cool tax is just too high beyond the first 10,000 Aura tonnes.
Absolutely no fresh thinking whatsoever. Just more efficient at delivering the flawed strategies.
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Absolutely no fresh thinking whatsoever. Just more efficient at delivering the flawed strategies.
Wait, you are telling me it's not?
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Wait, you are telling me it's not?
It's unbelievably tedious. The actual numbers are relatively tiny. I think they were higher via Eurotunnel previously but they improved their security, and the boats are much more cinematic.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's unbelievably tedious. The actual numbers are relatively tiny. I think they were higher via Eurotunnel previously but they improved their security, and the boats are much more cinematic.
I don't know what a successful intervention would have looked like, but the lack of anything had all kinds of unexpected consequences.
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I don't know what a successful intervention would have looked like, but the lack of anything had all kinds of unexpected consequences.
I am 100% with you here and the fallout can be really unexpected & erratic. Like refugee flows from Syria, where we (and UK parliament had an outsized role for once) notably failed to intervene. Very few actually came to the UK, but the televised refugee flows impacted politics profoundly.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I am 100% with you here and the fallout can be really unexpected & erratic. Like refugee flows from Syria, where we (and UK parliament had an outsized role for once) notably failed to intervene. Very few actually came to the UK, but the televised refugee flows impacted politics profoundly.
My last five years in the charity sector have properly opened my eyes to the economics of early interventions which are relatively incredibly cheap and the tragedy of local gov scrubbing all of it from it's budget. Ok, some was probably badly targeted - most was incredibly helpful preventative spend
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My last five years in the charity sector have properly opened my eyes to the economics of early interventions which are relatively incredibly cheap and the tragedy of local gov scrubbing all of it from it's budget. Ok, some was probably badly targeted - most was incredibly helpful preventative spend
Honesty regarding asylum policy? Do keep up Alexander that's how we are in this mess. (Not that you are wrong but it's also flawed in that there will always be *new* trouble spots.)
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Honesty regarding asylum policy? Do keep up Alexander that's how we are in this mess. (Not that you are wrong but it's also flawed in that there will always be *new* trouble spots.)
Oh right! I thought you were talking about the BBC! I think that's Kipling's point - it never works long term the only policy for plunderers is total resistance.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Oh right! I thought you were talking about the BBC! I think that's Kipling's point - it never works long term the only policy for plunderers is total resistance.