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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social

2) People in Britain need to be confronted with the genuine choice, you can reduce immigration but we will get lower economic growth, and worse health and social care. Or we can determine what is an acceptable level to compromise across all those things, but we can’t have them all

aug 26, 2025, 9:36 am • 12 1

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Robert Loveridge @makingsawdust.bsky.social

The problem with this is that the population (and certainly the mass media) don’t have the ability to deal with this. Far easier to pivot to snake oil salesmen like Farage. Given anybody listens to him after Brexit is a scandal - but evidence of this country’s deficiencies.

aug 26, 2025, 9:42 am • 5 0 • view
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Phil John @philjohn.bsky.social

The mass media WANT a reform government. The capital owners have decided they want even more of the pie, and to operate with close to zero regulations and pesky things like “health and safety” or “human rights”. The media is complicit.

aug 26, 2025, 11:08 am • 2 1 • view
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Jon Loveridge @jonloveridge.bsky.social

Correct

aug 26, 2025, 9:45 am • 0 0 • view
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gerryguk7.bsky.social @gerryguk7.bsky.social

And also that, up until the last few years, there's been little incentive for theain parties to confront systemic change on eg social care, because they were part of an inefficient duopoly under FPTP.

aug 26, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view