Kate Bond
@littleoldlady56.bsky.social
Seeker after truth. Still get furious with lies, obfuscation, propaganda, fact-free opinions, weasel words.
The rain it raineth every day, upon the just and unjust fella.
But more upon the just, because the unjust has the just's umbrella.
The rain it raineth every day, upon the just and unjust fella.
But more upon the just, because the unjust has the just's umbrella.
I find UK politics so depressing right now, and getting smaller and more parochial by the day. I felt liberated by the UK's positive and frequent engagement and shared leadership with international allies. It all seems narcissistic and inward now, hope it changes after conference season.
October 6, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I find UK politics so depressing right now, and getting smaller and more parochial by the day. I felt liberated by the UK's positive and frequent engagement and shared leadership with international allies. It all seems narcissistic and inward now, hope it changes after conference season.
Looking at the Green Party motion today - well done and thank you, Keir Starmer.
October 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Looking at the Green Party motion today - well done and thank you, Keir Starmer.
Scandal or not, if Starmer was PM media outlets across the country would be demanding his resignation now if his staff had met City's chairman at No. 10 shortly before the guilty verdict; if his mayoralty benefited from vast sums of UAE funding; if his comments sounded like political interference...
October 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Scandal or not, if Starmer was PM media outlets across the country would be demanding his resignation now if his staff had met City's chairman at No. 10 shortly before the guilty verdict; if his mayoralty benefited from vast sums of UAE funding; if his comments sounded like political interference...
The lorry on ice skids.
October 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The lorry on ice skids.
So the day starts with 'universal free social care' and morphs through the day to exclude care home residential costs, and later we find it is to apply to adults only. Rhetoric and reality after just one day.
September 30, 2026 at 10:17 AM
So the day starts with 'universal free social care' and morphs through the day to exclude care home residential costs, and later we find it is to apply to adults only. Rhetoric and reality after just one day.
Where was the climate emergency in the PM's speech? Nowhere other than 'we will be pragmatic in relation to the North Sea'. That means licenses.
September 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Where was the climate emergency in the PM's speech? Nowhere other than 'we will be pragmatic in relation to the North Sea'. That means licenses.
Interesting how the NHS itself has now fallen completely off the political radar in favour of social care. It's only been a couple of years since it was front and centre in our political media.
September 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Interesting how the NHS itself has now fallen completely off the political radar in favour of social care. It's only been a couple of years since it was front and centre in our political media.
Whoever the Fairford Five are, I'm guessing that the area is likely to be free from country criminals like fly-tippers and diesel thieves for some time to come.
September 28, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Whoever the Fairford Five are, I'm guessing that the area is likely to be free from country criminals like fly-tippers and diesel thieves for some time to come.
I know that the policy disagreements between factions of the Labour Party can cause unpleasant ructions, but this new Stepford Wives version of Labour is far more unsettling.
September 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I know that the policy disagreements between factions of the Labour Party can cause unpleasant ructions, but this new Stepford Wives version of Labour is far more unsettling.
My parents had me rather late in life by the standards of the time. But it's incredible now to think that my mother was born in 1918 - the final year of the First World War - and my father was born before it started. And yet I've only just reached retirement age. So much change in two lifetimes.
September 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
My parents had me rather late in life by the standards of the time. But it's incredible now to think that my mother was born in 1918 - the final year of the First World War - and my father was born before it started. And yet I've only just reached retirement age. So much change in two lifetimes.
Now's the time for all political polls published by any UK pollster/media outlet in any forum to state where the funding came from and the methodology used to collect the data. Also, maybe we could stop interpreting polls as facts (e.g. '86% of people think' instead of '86% of respondents stated').
September 3, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Now's the time for all political polls published by any UK pollster/media outlet in any forum to state where the funding came from and the methodology used to collect the data. Also, maybe we could stop interpreting polls as facts (e.g. '86% of people think' instead of '86% of respondents stated').
It's interesting that Starmer haters 'know' what his motives were in resigning today. There are other interpretations, some positive, some negative. Those who hate him are so visceral in their hate that they interpret literally everything he does as though he were the devil incarnate.
September 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
It's interesting that Starmer haters 'know' what his motives were in resigning today. There are other interpretations, some positive, some negative. Those who hate him are so visceral in their hate that they interpret literally everything he does as though he were the devil incarnate.
'A big boy did it' vibes from the Sun article 'Lammy gave Burnham number of fraudster'. Feeble from the paper and its 'source'.
August 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
'A big boy did it' vibes from the Sun article 'Lammy gave Burnham number of fraudster'. Feeble from the paper and its 'source'.
Sentencing Act: used Gauke's report, Lord Timpson's expertise, PM's KC knowledge, 3 readings, committee stage, report stage, Lords, consideration of amendments. Approval of 3rd reading in Commons by 321 MPs inc Green, LD, PC, and 299 Labour MPs. That's how democracy works in the UK, not by fiat.
August 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Sentencing Act: used Gauke's report, Lord Timpson's expertise, PM's KC knowledge, 3 readings, committee stage, report stage, Lords, consideration of amendments. Approval of 3rd reading in Commons by 321 MPs inc Green, LD, PC, and 299 Labour MPs. That's how democracy works in the UK, not by fiat.
When it comes to UK chancellors, don't worry about what degree a person has or their experience, or even if they have ever delivered a budget in their life: 'a safe pair of hands' is code for 'man'.
August 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
When it comes to UK chancellors, don't worry about what degree a person has or their experience, or even if they have ever delivered a budget in their life: 'a safe pair of hands' is code for 'man'.
Do you think at some point we'll start hearing that the 'Labour Government' is going to do X rather than that 'Andy Burnham' is? Or do we all want to live in Trumpland?
July 26, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Do you think at some point we'll start hearing that the 'Labour Government' is going to do X rather than that 'Andy Burnham' is? Or do we all want to live in Trumpland?
For some reason I suddenly remembered today the way Nadine Dorries looked at Johnson.
July 22, 2026 at 12:59 AM
For some reason I suddenly remembered today the way Nadine Dorries looked at Johnson.
What a great couple of days in sport. The rugby, the third place match, and then the World Cup final all went exactly as I was hoping 🙂
July 19, 2026 at 11:13 PM
What a great couple of days in sport. The rugby, the third place match, and then the World Cup final all went exactly as I was hoping 🙂
James Murray (Health) turns out to be rather good at his new job, settling a years-long dispute with resident doctors. An example of a quiet achiever who gets good things done without a dose of snake oil. That's my kind of minister.
June 30, 2026 at 12:45 PM
James Murray (Health) turns out to be rather good at his new job, settling a years-long dispute with resident doctors. An example of a quiet achiever who gets good things done without a dose of snake oil. That's my kind of minister.
Is it too optimistic to hope that, if Andy Burnham does become PM, people on social media will be able to spell the first name of the PM correctly?
June 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Is it too optimistic to hope that, if Andy Burnham does become PM, people on social media will be able to spell the first name of the PM correctly?
Tomorrow (Friday) the UK political media will be in seventh heaven, whichever way the by-election goes. Unadulterated and endless speculation, full of comments from 'sources' too gutless to put their names to them, so we never know how many or how influential.
June 18, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Tomorrow (Friday) the UK political media will be in seventh heaven, whichever way the by-election goes. Unadulterated and endless speculation, full of comments from 'sources' too gutless to put their names to them, so we never know how many or how influential.
'Beware Greeks bearing gifts' should be updated for the UK as 'beware easy-on-the-ear politicians offering exactly what you want'. Why is it that people fall for it every single time, from all sides of politics?
June 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
'Beware Greeks bearing gifts' should be updated for the UK as 'beware easy-on-the-ear politicians offering exactly what you want'. Why is it that people fall for it every single time, from all sides of politics?
Reposted by Kate Bond
@bbcnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social
Watching news channels this evening rolling back from their made up stories about Labour forcing supermarkets to enforce food caps and relaxing oil sanctions on Russia, you’d think they want to bring an elected government down?🤔
Watching news channels this evening rolling back from their made up stories about Labour forcing supermarkets to enforce food caps and relaxing oil sanctions on Russia, you’d think they want to bring an elected government down?🤔
May 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM
@bbcnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social
Watching news channels this evening rolling back from their made up stories about Labour forcing supermarkets to enforce food caps and relaxing oil sanctions on Russia, you’d think they want to bring an elected government down?🤔
Watching news channels this evening rolling back from their made up stories about Labour forcing supermarkets to enforce food caps and relaxing oil sanctions on Russia, you’d think they want to bring an elected government down?🤔
Recommend having a listen to today's More or Less on R4 (20/5) on surveys. Some people on here are commenting on surveys as though their validity/reliability can be taken for granted. This is far from the case. Personally I feel that we need an independent Ofpoll - like Ofcom, only effective.
May 20, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Recommend having a listen to today's More or Less on R4 (20/5) on surveys. Some people on here are commenting on surveys as though their validity/reliability can be taken for granted. This is far from the case. Personally I feel that we need an independent Ofpoll - like Ofcom, only effective.
Reposted by Kate Bond
I'm sorry @news.sky.com and @samcoatessky.bsky.social but a poll of 706 of us in the Labour Party when there are hundreds of thousands of us does not constitute validity.
Absolutely pathetic reporting. You could asking thousands on Bluesky and they'd say Starmer should stay.
Grow up!
Absolutely pathetic reporting. You could asking thousands on Bluesky and they'd say Starmer should stay.
Grow up!
May 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I'm sorry @news.sky.com and @samcoatessky.bsky.social but a poll of 706 of us in the Labour Party when there are hundreds of thousands of us does not constitute validity.
Absolutely pathetic reporting. You could asking thousands on Bluesky and they'd say Starmer should stay.
Grow up!
Absolutely pathetic reporting. You could asking thousands on Bluesky and they'd say Starmer should stay.
Grow up!