Adam Bienkov

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 09:53 UTC

🔴After the Wipeout Comes the Cope and the Hope

As Conservative politicians seek to downplay their defeat, there are real reasons to be hopeful about what a Labour Government will now bring
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

As Labour heads into Government large parts of the British press are suddenly starting to notice things they have spent the past 14 years carefully ignoring
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

Sticking my neck out a bit, but here are my predictions for what we can expect to wake up to on Friday morning...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/my-predict...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

The Conservative party, which is led by a man pledging to restore "integrity" and "accountability" to public life, is currently pushing hundreds of adverts lying about Labour's plans, while rebranding as independent fact-checkers in order to mislead voters
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/27/c...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 12:11 UTC

The Conservatives claimed yesterday that a mysterious website design service handed £100,000 in taxpayer cash by its MPs is "independent" from the party

However, I've now obtained records showing its company address is a property owned by a Tory staffer
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/24/c...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 10:17 UTC

Why all the Conservative warnings about a Labour "supermajority" are failing to cut through.

Exclusive new polling finds that even among current Conservative voters, many believe a wipeout for Rishi Sunak's party would actually be a "positive" result

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 09:05 UTC

The truth is that the Conservative election betting scandal is just the tip of the iceberg from a party which has treated its time in Government as the ‘gift that keeps on giving’

How the Conservative 'Spivocracy' has cashed in over the past 14 years
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 08:42 UTC

As a new report finds the two child benefit cap is set to push hundreds of thousands more children into poverty, Keir Starmer tells LBC there's "no money" to scrap it.

Here's why Labour's commitment to Osborne's pro-poverty measure is now indefensible
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/18/k...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 07:23 UTC

The trouble with feeding buns to crocodiles is that eventually you run out of buns and the crocodile eats you instead.

How Rishi Sunak's feeding of the Faragist crocodile went so badly wrong

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 08:41 UTC

EXCLUSIVE: GB News Host Darren Grimes accused of pushing "far-right tropes of a Muslim takeover" after posting series of AI-generated images of Keir Starmer in Islamic dress alongside Muslim women

Muslim groups accuse station of a pattern of Islamophobia
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/14/g...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

"If Labour win this time, they'll change the rules so they're in power for a very long time," says Rishi Sunak, whose government has

- Rejigged electoral systems
- Introduced Voter ID
- Raised election spending limits
- Extended voting overseas

bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/r...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 06:55 UTC

Is this the end of the Conservative party?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

So to summarise, Rishi Sunak, who wants to force young people to spend an entire year of their lives serving their country, wouldn’t even devote one afternoon to it himself

bylinetimes.com/2024/06/07/r...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 08:26 UTC

All the Conservative-supporting newspapers today lead on a false claim about Labour's tax plans that has already been repeatedly debunked by independent fact checkers.

bylinetimes.com/2024/06/05/l...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 10:35 UTC

🔴In Search of the ‘Good Tory’

The reaction to the downfall of Iain Dale's short-lived political career tells us a lot about how politics and media really works in the UK

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/in-search-...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

It's only day one of the general election and already the Conservative Party is running a deeply dishonest and dirty campaign to keep Rishi Sunak in Downing Street

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/faking-it

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 08:27 UTC

Rishi Sunak said this morning that no Rwanda flights will take off before the General Election

With a Labour victory now overwhelmingly likely, that means the Government’s “dream” of sending refugees to the brutal Rwandan dictatorship looks all but over
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 20:20 UTC

🔴Not Waving, but Drowning

Rishi Sunak's low-energy general election announcement gave all the impression of a man who already knows he's beaten

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/not-waving...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 09:01 UTC

When I first suggested to Boris Johnson that his Voter ID law was an attempt at voter suppression he dismissed it as "nonsense".

Now one of the Government's own ministers has finally given the game away

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/22/l...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

🔴Rishi Sunak's Plans to Kill Off the Right to Protest

Today was a landmark moment in the fight for our basic democratic rights and against new restrictions which should alarm us all

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

The Government has just published a report demanding draconian new anti-protest powers, specifically to protect defence and energy companies, while failing to mention its author's role as a paid lobbyist for... arms and fossil fuel industry groups

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/21/s...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 11:12 UTC

BREAKING: Sunak's 'anti extremism' adviser Lord Walney has just published his report on "Protecting Democracy from Coercion" It calls for a ban on protest groups organising or raising money if they cause "serious disruption... [in order] to influence government or public debate"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 10:36 UTC

'Huge Victory for Democracy’ as Rishi Sunak’s Protest Crackdown Found Unlawful by High Court

The Home Office unlawfully gave police powers to intervene against protests where no serious disruption was taking place, the court ruled

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/21/r...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 09:47 UTC

BREAKING: The High Court rules that the Government's anti-protest legislation is unlawful, in a major victory for campaigners Liberty The Court found Suella Braverman had lowered the threshold for police to intervene to even cover protests with 'normal' levels of disruption.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 09:32 UTC

The Government promised Brexit would give us the "world's most effective border"

A new report finds:

- Brexit border checks will cost £4.7 billion
- They add £7.5 billion a year to business costs
- Hundreds of millions were wasted on facilities that were never used
bylinetimes.com/2024/05/20/b...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

The Conservative party became so addicted to driving a wedge between their opponents, that they failed to notice the only wedge they were driving was between voters and themselves.

How the Crosby approach to politics has wedged the Tories into a corner
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

The point is the cruelty
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Just imagine the supreme jealousy Europeans will feel when they discover this 'Brexit freedom' of al fresco dining

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 09:53 UTC

⬆️Sunak's family wealth rises to £651 million

Meanwhile:

⬇️UK now homelessness capital of the developed world
⬇️ Biggest fall in living standards since records began
⬇️ Sick and disabled targeted with welfare cuts

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 09:30 UTC

🔴The Plan is Working: Rishi Sunak Races Up the Rich List as Homelessness Soars

The Prime Minister and his wife’s personal wealth rose to £651 million, amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 10:18 UTC

What Keir Starmer’s new ‘six steps’ tells us about his plans for government

- Housing is out, 'border security' is now in
- 'Fiscal rules’ now trump economic growth
- He's gone from making 'pledges' for government, to 'missions' to mere 'steps'

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/16/k...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Rishi Sunak is accusing his opponents of 'emboldening' Vladimir Putin.

Since entering Government Sunak's party has

- Taken millions from Russia-linked donors
- Ennobled the son of a former KGB agent
- Covered up details of Russian interference in Britain
bylinetimes.com/2024/05/15/r...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 08:16 UTC

How Rishi Sunak and other politicians now use press conferences to give the illusion of accountability, while excluding all but a small, pre-picked set of journalists from asking questions www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-imitat...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

🔴The Imitation of Scrutiny

Today we were offered a rare glimpse into how political journalism and power really works in the UK

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 09:02 UTC

Rishi Sunak's attempts to weaponise performative cruelty against marginalised groups have only hurt his own party.

Here's why Labour must now avoid falling into the same trap.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-cruelt...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Labour MPs are furious with Keir Starmer over his decision to welcome hard-right Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke into the party.

One Labour MP describes it as a "disgrace" that will "come back to bite us"

MPs from all wings of the party angry about the move
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 09:27 UTC

The Conservative party's latest big idea to avoid losing elections? Stop people voting

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social [ View ] May 05, 2024 at 07:28 UTC

Unlike the Labour leader, who has repeatedly folded under pressure from the Conservative party and the press, Sadiq Khan has stuck to his guns and won a historic third term

Here's the lessons a Keir Starmer Government should learn from the London mayor

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-lesson...

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