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You'd have thought it would be of journalistic interest that this was his page on the Sex Matters website until very recently... and today that same page is a "not found". It might also be interesting to note its the one trustee position missing from his LinkedIn. That sounds like a story.
So after a court decided a member of the public involved in a tribunals birth name should be protected due to privacy, An elected member of Parliament decides to deadname her along with the GC Queen. Does anyone really think this anything other than bullying? Deadname redacted obviously
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Murder and manslaughter was down 15% in 2024, compared to 2023. 2021 seems to have been the turning point.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
They've probably been told to actually put the stuff up. All these cabinet ministers, sitting in their houses, surrounded by flags and bunting, thinking "what the fuck am I doing?"
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine degrading yourself like this
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
England, not UK
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
It seems to follow a trend that started in 2021/22. counciloncj.org/crime-trends...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Like their government, their incompetence, rather than their bigotry, will be their undoing.
The EHRC did not conduct an impact assessment on the usage of AI to reduce the consultation responses size.
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After years of advocating for family reunification, today Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has suspended all family reunification applications. As she has pointed out many times before, this announcement will drive more people into the arms of smugglers. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort
Right wing groups are organising a protest outside a refugee centre for unaccompanied children in my town. Adults actively planning to intimidate and frighten vulnerable youngsters. It’s hard to describe my anger and disgust at these ‘people’.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
The one where he farted in court was good. And the one where he realises he's wearing two watches.
Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR" Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?" Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating" *Article 8: Right for private and family life*
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
It would also be very difficult technically and economically. They could try to insist that sites block known VPN addresses, but that would affect all their visitors, not just UK ones. And more addresses would pop up hourly. It would be unworkable.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not banned in the UK but they will probably try. The difference here is that it would cost businesses billions. Not just porn sites - tens of thousands of regular companies. It would a bigger disaster than requiring ID, which was obviously never going to work but didn't affect most businesses.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
What about the people they're losing to the greens and lib dems? The most recent polling I can find says they're a bigger group.
Let's play Spot the Difference... UNDER THE TORIES - Tories: anti-immigrant - Labour: neutral to pro-immigrant - Reform: anti-immigrant UNDER LABOUR - Labour: anti-immigrant - Tories: anti-immigrant - Reform: anti-immigrant If you can't see why that's a problem, there's literally no helping you.
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I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
By "illegal" they mean people seeking asylum, the majority of whom are refugees. The tories flicked a switch and made claiming asylum via irregular routes a crime, and made it practically impossible to claim asylum via regular routes, and these idiots swallowed it, without a second thought.
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
It doesn't mean much but at least the tories and reform never pretended to be decent people. This arsehole gave impassioned speeches about how refugees should be taken care of, now he's telling us that they should be treated like shit. He stands for nothing and that will end his political career.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Apologies for living in the real world. I hope you enjoy your fantasy but I hope more that dems learn from their mistakes.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody said she wasn't superior. I said they were both bad.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Brilliant
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
As someone with very basic common sense? I'm suitably embarrassed.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
They were both bad though. Seems like something dems should learn from.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
For all that talk about being the party of power, not protest, they couldn't make it more obvious that they don't want to be the party of power or protest. Very hard to figure out what they want, besides lucrative jobs advising private industry on how to lobby their successors.
Labour's attitude to immigration is both deplorable and tragic, and it would not look out of place at a Reform rally. If you're not paying attention to Twitter, here's everything that Starmer tweeted about immigration in August...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
She must have assumed you were already going
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gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
The very kindest thing you can say is that it's because they don't understand the issue. And they don't understand it because they don't care. When they're asked, they just say any old shit in the hope that it will go away.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
We laugh at reform's lack of vetting procedures but Your Party failed to vet actual MPs that the leadership had known personally for years. How could they possibly not have seen this coming?
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gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope, it's too late.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
So two of their six MPs are transphobic. Hopeless. Change, or whatever they were called, lasted longer than this.
The company secretary of Your Party UK Limited is Adnan Hussain, a transphobic landlord who thinks public schools shouldn't pay tax. bsky.app/profile/euan...
OF COURSE it’s the rich CEO of a company stealing from the kid because every story these days ends that way www.themirror.com/sport/tennis...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Jfc. Anything for a buck. Vile.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably a good time for wikipedia to migrate to infrastructure located in a more civilised jurisdiction
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Hopium
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, people advocate against restrictions on firearms in order to make money. This is not news to you, so don't play dumb. If you personally don't profit from it, then you're in the "little boys who will happily see thousdands of people die and never even consider giving up their toys" bracket.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Real democrats sound like moronic cunts, the way you describe them. You just mean "people like me".
Everyone Who Isn't In A Cult: If you nominate gavin newsom you will lose Dem Party: Oh thank god i wasn't sure we could manage it this time
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
No, because people like you are either so besotted with your little toys that you'll sacrifice the lives of countless children, or you're so addicted to the profits that come from murder that you'll vehemently support it.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
The only "mistakes" they will ever "admit" to are the completely false ones that racist Israeli organisations accuse them of. When someone gets convicted of war crimes, they will apologise to some mad Israeli institution because they didn't say that the court, like everyone else, is antisemitic.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
They will simply not report on any fallout. Anything they do report will be vague and in the middle east section. Even if people are convicted of war crimes, the Israeli government's absurd lies will be given as much credence as the court They will never report it fairly, and their audience is huge
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gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Absurd bullshit so you can keep playing with your toys is really not difficult to understand. Grow up.
Wrote about this last week! Destroying homeless encampments, like what the President is doing in DC, is far from a Trumpian innovation. "Blue" cities and states have mastered this tactic. Newsom, Bowser, Biden, and on (gift link): www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...
Let's make a big deal about banning asylum seekers from buying things they couldn't possibly afford so that the likes of *Rylan* can announce on daytime TV that they use their £10 per week to buy snowmobiles. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, like 8 year old boys. Grow up.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
"there are intelligent, balanced, well-meaning people who don't think the answer to tragedies like this is to ban firearms" No, there aren't. And you know it.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
You are reaponsible for deaths because of your childish obsession with guns. Pipe down, you absolute nutters.
The BBC’s reporting is a farce. It is obviously true that Israel is committing every war crime in the book, as it is that cats and dogs exist. But the BBC’s official narrative remains that this is simply a matter of opinion, writes Owen Jones ✍️
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
That would be a terrorism I'm afraid
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
He did in 2018ish. A passionate speech about how refugees should be looked after. We now see that for the bullshit it was. He will say anything for a few hard right votes, even if it loses him more votes overall. He's a bullshitter and politically incompetent.
Lesser-evil rhetoric will absolutely and positively make things worse, and there's over a century of evidence to back that up. You either build an oppositional movement in the other direction, or you move incrementally to the right and pretend you're not collaborating when you are.
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs. That's where she now is.
The real enemies of Scotland don't arrive by small boat; they arrive by private jet. People seeking asylum didn't sell off community centres, privatise buses, or bail out the banks, it was the super-rich and their friends in Westminster. Greens believe in a welcoming Scotland.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Exit strategies are important in IT contracts. No doubt the Reform lot didn't think of it.
In August, Keir Starmer has tweeted 61 times. 22 of those tweets were about immigration. 100% of his tweets about immigration painted immigration in a negative light. If you're not on Twitter, you won't be aware of what you're missing. This thread collects EVERY tweet he posted about immigration.
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
the trolley problem is not a serious philosophical problem and no one who merits any amount of attention has ever taken it seriously.
What was it that first attracted Number Ten to the former President of Columbia Univeristy who infamously set heavily armoured police on protesting students, calling them “a clear and present danger”, and then resigned
Incredible that Reform and Farage are given hours of coverage to pretend they are patriots on the BBC when their policies aim at the literal destruction of national institutions like the BBC and NHS. The BBC is inviting in a parasite that wants to eat it from the inside.
People think immigration is important to the country, but not to them personally. What does this mean?
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Who here has called you a nazi?
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Also the myth that they are the majority. They are not.
This ridiculous insistence on going as softly as possible on the racists is what got us here. They should have been hounded out of public life decades ago.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think they can even claim it's because it has a big audience anymore. The algorithm and the insane number of bots ensures that their reach is very limited, and their message is drowned out by abusive replies.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Why are our MPs still posting on a site that is absolutely riddled with racism, misogyny, transphobia, violence, fraud and porn? What you've posted is horrible but it's rife on twitter. Why endorse it with your presence?
Zack Polanski, "I'm really concerned that fascism is at our door" "We saw Nigel Farage run a press conference this week and Prime Minister Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer didn't even condemn the outrageous comments he made"
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Out fash the fash. A disasterous strategy for everyone except the far right. Shameful.
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gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Unlikely to become law any time soon, I'd say. But likely to be the official guidance from the ironically titled "Equality and Human Rights Commission", which is a transphobic public body that advises all organisations as to what their legal obligations are.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
My word, he is pathetic. The dems look pretty hopeless, don't they. No direction, no unity, no effect, no courage, no messaging, nothing. Grasping at any old shit they laughably think will cut through to the public. Hopeless.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
If see you are not here to be taken seriously but for the attention that comes with acting the clown. Well done. Hope it gave you a thrill. Muting you now.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
You'd have a point if she tried and failed but she didn't. You're excusing someone actively supporting war crimes on the basis that trying to stop it would have been too hard, or might not have worked. One of a handful of people in the world who actually had some influence.
If you voted for a politician who armed or promised to continue arming a genocide we don't consider you an ally.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Harris supported killing people - including tens of thousands of children - because of what their "government" did, you clown. You're not just a nasty piece of work, you're breathtakingly stupid.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
1 hour ago you told a trans person to stop whining about losing their rights, you absurd, virtue-signalling bullshitter.
UN Report: Over 1,000 attacks by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank recorded just since January, killing 11, injuring 696 and causing considerable property damage, including damage to olive trees and agricultural areas. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
"Let's all stick together but shut the fuck up about your rights. Nobody cares." As part of a thread where you argue that dems need to be aligned with their messaging, this is genius stuff. You should get a job as a dem strategist.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you told Gavin Newsom this? I would focus on divisive, high profile figures like him rather chastising random people on the internet who don't want people's rights to be removed, often their own.
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
Loving all the dems saying they need to stick together whilst fawning over other dems who want to remove people's rights. Presumably you're not one of those. The lack of unity amongst dems comes from the party's senior politicians and strategists. Unity can't happen until they want it to.
The Daily Wire's Mary Olohan: "There are calls for the FBI to institute a new class of domestic terrorism that involves trans ideology. Is that something the administration will support?" Karoline Leavitt: "I would have to check with the appropriate people on that."
111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.
What’s the link between Rachel Reeves, a political lobbying firm, and United Health? 🚨🚨🚨
gruffthedog.bsky.social (@gruffthedog.bsky.social) reply parent
He writes to advocate the UK not providing shelter to refugees then calls other people nasty for making jokes.