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DepressedClown @lizardunicorn.bsky.social

People tend to look for an evil plan or conspiracy theory that explains everything, but more often than not, it's just bad decisions, incompetence and hubris.

aug 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

I tend to favour cock-up over conspiracy. But why do we believe Starmer to be better than anyone on that list I first started off with? I remember when we used to do this with Johnson. A stupid man who took the wrong turn and ended up Mayor of London. The incompetent who tripped over his own...

aug 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

... own boot laces and became Foreign Secretary. Then, in an act of bumbling idiocy, he slipped on a banana skin and landed in No. 10. I don't like conspiracy theories. But I don't much like a series of accidents, bad moves and incompetence that all head inexorably in the same direction either.

aug 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view