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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

If your problems are all a product of austerity and Brexit, and your opponents are the people who did austerity and Brexit, this shouldn't be hard.

aug 27, 2025, 10:21 am • 86 19

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Someone in the Cabinet just needs to make an 'incendiary speech' just saying out loud that anyone who is still a Leaver is an idiot. First line: Brexit was wrong. Second: Those who pushed it are now calling for rivers of blood because they're a shower of c$%ts. Third line: Fuck 'em.

aug 27, 2025, 10:48 am • 23 1 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Fourth line: perhaps some of the very few people who still think Brexit was a good idea are honest and sincere, but we shouldn't be afraid to say 'we tried it your way, everything got worse, you were wrong'.

aug 27, 2025, 10:51 am • 11 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Fifth line: Britain has an opportunity now to try something new. Fine. Austerity, deregulation, failing to tax the rich while leaving everyone else with no disposable income, houses that earn more than people ... that's the old way that needs to go.

aug 27, 2025, 10:57 am • 10 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Sixth line: if you think the problem is small boats and Trans people, then go vote for that odious, sickly shit. Bye. The rest of us will get on with fixing this mess.

aug 27, 2025, 11:05 am • 11 0 • view
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A Bompstable Cat @bomstable.bsky.social

There's a huge discrepancy between what the news is saying and even what their own comment sections are saying. My local online news outlet is usually full of rabid loons about most issues, but 80% of them are currently saying Farage is a twat and red cross painting goons are idiots. It's bizarre.

aug 27, 2025, 11:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

This is something I'd noticed - the comments sections are now the voice of reason, the articles are where you find the hysterical phobic nonsense. This is so wrong it almost doesn't need stating.

aug 27, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
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Andy Hunt @wellpossibly.bsky.social

Especially if the people who still like Brexit and austerity are never ever going to vote for you.

aug 27, 2025, 10:37 am • 2 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

It makes a bit more sense for Dems in the US to seek votes from Republicans, but it makes no sense in the UK to win a landslide, see a split opposition on the right and decide that's the territory to fight for.

aug 27, 2025, 10:44 am • 3 0 • view
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JonnyExists @jonnyexists.bsky.social

It's not tactical. This is just who people like McSweeney *are*.

aug 27, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social

"Blue Labour" unfortunately are running Labour and they are deeply conservative.

aug 27, 2025, 11:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Labour have always been a coalition of people united only by the common aim of framing popular, sensible ideas so badly they'll lose to the Tories.

aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

To use a football analogy, the score was Labour 398, Reform 5 at the end of the first leg, with three-quarters of the second leg match to play, and Labour can't really lose, but are still playing in a way that makes it possible.

aug 27, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social

Say what you like about David Cameron, who had sex with a dead pig and destroyed the country, but he somehow managed to operate as a government even though he didn't have a majority. Labour have the sort of majority that can bend the course of mighty rivers, yet ...

aug 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view