"Won Ton will be all over me like knockers in a wind tunnel".
Badenoch:
"My being in this position is proof we don't need this equality stuff".
*Jon Bon Jovi singy songy voice*
"YOU GIVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE A BAD NAME!!!!"
I feel emphatically that @originstorypodcast.bsky.social should be mandatory
"DESPOTISM!" I hear you cry
Yeah but in a really good way :)
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social & @iandunt.bsky.social
The Statler & Waldorf of political analysis (this is a COMPLIMENT guys)
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Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
The horseshoe theory is completely valid in as much as this guy has been clearly hit in the head with a horseshoe.
