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Sophia McDougall@sophiamcdougall.bsky.social |
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Pronounced like the disappointingly heterosexual Nerina Pallot song. Writer.
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Sinan Kose
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Just because I've seen it from some well meaning people: be careful overemphasising the pro-Palestine independents as a Muslim phenomenon. It doesn't rank highly on top issues even among British Muslims and is a cross community issue.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Willie Fitzgerald
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Alex von Tunzelmann
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Seen some kick off about this because they’ve decided it’s telling them they must use titles. By all means drop Sir & call him Starmer: most UK papers do. But if you’re offering your opinion on UK politics & call him “Prime Minister Starmer”, it sounds like you don’t know much about UK politics 🤷🏻♀️
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Lloyd Shepherd
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UKIP votes 2015: 3.8 million, 0 seats Reform votes 2024: 4.1 million, 4 seats Green votes 2015: 1.2 million, 1 seat Green votes 2024: 1.9 million, 4 seats Still two seats to report - but one of these blocs is up 8%, one is up 58%. Can we be a bit more grown up about where the story is?
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Angus Johnston
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.
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Jamie McKelvie
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I have no faith in this coming to pass, but Tory ex-MPs should be completely rejected from light entertainment/reality shows, etc. No Strictly. No Jungle. No rehabilitation. None. They won't see real consequences for the death and suffering they've caused, so this should be the bare minimum.
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Suw
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This whole thread is hilarious.
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phyphor
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If your area got a new Labour MP then it is your duty to email them and say that you are happy the Tories are out but that transphobia should have no place in the party. Make Starmer gently walk back his support for Rowling's position!
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Sophia McDougall
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Why don't they plant something around Buckingham Palace or at least put some pots out. That red gravel is so bleak.
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John Bull
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- Labour's vote spread was way more efficient than under Corbyn. Brilliant groundgame - Tory vote was cannibilized by Reform - soft tories stayed at home, unlike with Corbyn - Labour will need to win back the votes lost due to terrible trans and gaza policies ALL THESE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE
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Sophia McDougall
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WHEN exactly?
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Sophia McDougall
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KINDNESS? DECENCY? TOLERANCE??
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Sophia McDougall
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"I've given this job my all" -- massive self-own right there.
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Sophia McDougall
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Jonathan.
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Jamie McKelvie
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So all the political media will give the Greens as much attention as Reform now, yeah. *Sideways look to camera two*
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Sophia McDougall
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Oh, hey! The Greens went to second place in my seat!
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Sophia McDougall
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Wait lol it's better than the exit poll? Tories AND Reform won fewer seats than it said?? Does that mean that counter to the "shy Tory" narrative, a certain number of Britons were strolling out of polling stations and claiming to have voted Reform just to fuck with people?
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Joonas Linkola
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There are some things that still unite people on social media. #UKElection
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Sophia McDougall
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Rishi Sunak is probably CRYING right now, people.
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Sophia McDougall
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Guys, you are allowed to be pleased for five seconds that 14 horrendous years of Tory rule are over, I promise no evil imp is waiting to punish you for it. You have plenty of time to dwell on how it's bad actually later.
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Naomi Alderman
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But still. I did have a full body ASMR about the exit poll.
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Sophia McDougall
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Fuck yeeeesss
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Sophia McDougall
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If you're lucky.
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Sophia McDougall
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God, the distance you would run from someone dressed like that...
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Suw
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Hearing that Labour turnout is lower than expected, so if you were thinking about not voting because it's a 'done deal' or because Starmer isn't 100% what you want, please, please just go out and vote anyway. We need the Tories to realise they've done wrong and best way to do that is a landslide.
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Sophia McDougall
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Is the fact that Trump raped 12 year olds prompting any frustration or no?
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Giraud
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lmao at people still paying for things you can get for free on the internet
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Sophia McDougall
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There's help on answering (and avoiding the traps) here: rse.brook.org.uk/review-of-re...
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Sophia McDougall
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I voted, and then I did this.
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James Cooray Smith
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Sophia McDougall
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God do you remember that time when every five minutes the news would go "The Tories destroyed another precious facet of daily British life today, expected to open a puppy grinder tomorrow" and the polls were all "we love that for us, actually." Felt like it'd never end.
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Sophia McDougall
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Anyway my MP would crawl over broken glass and the bleeding bodies of any given minority if he thought it meant Starmer would give him a seat in the cabinet, and he also won't help my mum get the flammable cladding off her building. Am I allowed to say that? He's going to win anyway! It's fine!
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Sophia McDougall
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I should be able to mention accurately that my MP is a Starmerite drip without a reflexive chorus of "BUT CORBYN", Christ.
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Sophia McDougall
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God the way nobody can just GET OVER Corbyn already. It's been ten thousand years. By now I really should be able to mention that it sucks that Starmer wants to strip trans women of their rights without it being assumed I'm actually pining for a tosser whose name I never want to hear again.
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Sophia McDougall
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Yes, but *I* didn't, and you were explaining to ME ...something something Corbyn unelectable, despite that what *I* said having nothing to do with Corbyn.
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Sophia McDougall
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God the way nobody can just GET OVER Corbyn already. It's been ten thousand years. By now I really should be able to mention that it sucks that Starmer wants to strip trans women of their rights without it being assumed I'm actually pining for a tosser whose name I never want to hear again.
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Sophia McDougall
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Jesus fucking Christ, when criticism of Starmer is already couched in electoral pragmatism and you STILL can't tolerate it ...!
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Sophia McDougall
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Anyway if you're in a seat where voting for the snivelling fuckers principle-free version of Labour will unseat or keep out a Tory, obviously you should do so, AS WAS IMPLICIT IN MY ORIGINAL POST.
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Sophia McDougall
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Literally fucking why are you talking about Corbyn.
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Sophia McDougall
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And you know what, muggins here actually voted for Starmer back before I left the Labour party in disgust! I believed what Starmer would like everyone to forget he said he was going to do at the time and I also thought a human rights lawyer might care about human rights. lol. lmao even.
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Sophia McDougall
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And no this doesn't mean I'm some kind of Starmer-Corbyn centrist. They are actually almost identically useless/absenteeist on Brexit -- you know, merely the defining issue of our time! Otherwise Corbyn's policies were mostly decent and he also cocked up the leadership unsalvageably.
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Sophia McDougall
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Starmerite = he is throwing LGBT people (of whom I am one), disabled people, immigrants and Gazans to the wolves for no actual electoral gain. And nobody fucking mentioned Corbyn, who also sucks. Jesus Christ, learn to tolerate criticism of Starmer. It's going to stick around.
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Sophia McDougall
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*rolls eyes* Do you see how nobody fucking mentioned Corbyn? Do you get how this isn't competing fandoms? Have you also noticed that 2019 was five fucking years ago? I am so fucking sick of the idea that if you have problems with Starmer you must stan Corbyn and vice versa. They both suck actually.
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Sophia McDougall
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Even the tactical voting sites are like "lol whatever you want, doesn't matter."
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Sophia McDougall
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There are good things about living in a rock-solid Labour seat, despite my useless drip of a Starmerite MP, and I guess they include that I get to vote with my heart, i.e, not for him. But it also means I don't get to feel like I helped get out the Tories. :(
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Elspeth Cooper
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Good morning, skyfarers, and happy Tory Annihilation Day to all who celebrate #GTTO
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Juliet E McKenna
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If you're in the UK, reading the press coverage of the general election, and thinking 'yay, it's going to be like 1997 on Friday', take a moment to remember 1992. If you don't recall, find someone who does. Go out and vote tomorrow. Every vote matters. Tell your friends and get them voting too!
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Sophia McDougall
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Please, everyone. It would be politically seismic, hope dawning on the broken wasteland the Tories left behind, and most importantly of all it would be so fucking funny.
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Sophia McDougall
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I mean, she went way past even being weird about trans women! "TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS' SEXUAL HABITS!! WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS IS A WEIRD THING TO ASK??!! IT IS VERY TELLING THAT YOU CLEARLY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT SEX WITH ME!!!!"
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