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Despotic Inroad

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Despotic Inroad

@DespoticInroad

Contributing Editor @UnHerd | Former policy hack @NewStatesman | Erratic Marxism with Blue Labour sympathies | EFC | Also: @RenewalJournal + @liverpoolpost

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Joined July 2023

Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Nov 21, 2024
Every single Labour front-bencher today would wither here. They'd start stuttering out some pre-prepared research lines written by some obnoxious 20-something, like a rabbit in the headlights, terrified of generating a bad headline, with all the charisma of a Thameslink
Calgie
@christiancalgie
Nov 21, 2024
One of the best stars in a reasonably priced car interviews too
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Jul 6, 2024
I’m old enough to remember when the Tories banned books getting sent to prisons, and when they privatised the probation service. Now we have a rehabilitation-focused *actual experienced manager/practitioner* in post - not a fucking useless MP doing his “prison works” schtick
UK Prime Minister
@10DowningStreet
Jul 5, 2024
James Timpson OBE @JamesTCobbler has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice @MoJGovUK.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
May 30, 2025
A lot of Lefties’ problems stem from thinking “working class” basically means a semi-criminal underclass or the unemployed/ homeless. They don’t orient their politics to an actual reality of, say, a normal/lower-income couple with kids, earning ~£28k-30k each and choosing their
Femi
@Femi_sorry
May 29, 2025
Robert Jenrick spent the day harassing working class people for not paying the £3 train fares. This is the same @RobertJenrick who tried to steal £45 million from the poorest community in London on behalf of a billionaire Tory donor! 🤮🤮 youtu.be/f3s0IfhFvR4
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Jan 13, 2024
Can’t believe I spent the Corbyn years being lectured by privately educated, dishevelled, skinny millennials with names like “Barnaby”, going on about “prefigurative politics” and “socialism from below” and “participatory forms of common ownership and self-governance”. Then some
Barnaby Raine
@BarnabyRaine
Jan 12, 2024
The free people of South Africa and the free people of Yemen know the savagery of imperial power too well to abandon Gaza now. Thousands of us in London will march tomorrow to say this global coalition for human freedom stretches even into the heartlands of empire.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Aug 28, 2024
Yes, I remember David Cameron coming into power & introducing legislation to nationalise the railways, establish a publicly owned energy company, a National Wealth Fund, and expand workers’/trade union rights, while (most likely in the Budget) raising taxes on capital/richer
Richard Murphy
@RichardJMurphy
Aug 28, 2024
Why does the BBC call Starmer ‘centre left’ when he is well to the right of where Cameron was when he came into office? Isn’t it their job to tell the truth?
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Oct 16, 2025
Another example here of the Left not being able to accept 2 realities at once: (A) the collapse of a financial-services-driven growth model + 14yrs of day-to-day austerity + a decade of squeezed investment in an era of ~0% interest rates + ~50 years embracing free market
Furkan Gözükara
@FurkanGozukara
Oct 14, 2025
This guy has a rare gift nowadays. Critical thinking.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Jan 13, 2024
Replying to @ThomasVLinge
Tbf it’s not that hard. You just have to say “Israel bad, America bad” and a whole swathe of them will be buying your flag that very night.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
May 1, 2025
Stats for Leftist view of working-class life
Zokko
@Zokko18
Apr 30, 2025
Green Party member everyone..🤪👇
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Feb 25, 2024
EFC have been relegation fodder for three years and have lost Richarlisson, Gordon, Gray, Iwobi - £120m+ worth of talent. Without the deduction, Dyche has us sat 13th in the table, 11 points from the drop and 7 points from Europe - on a shoestring budget. I find it amazing that
Richard Lloyd
@Richlloyd1984
Feb 25, 2024
Any blue that wouldn’t have taken 31 points from 26 games is either a liar or doesn’t fully understand the limitations of this squad
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Nov 4, 2024
Just one more left-of-Labour micro-party, bro. I promise, bro, it’ll definitely work this time.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Sep 20, 2025
Lefties cancelling Gary Stevenson, the 1 guy pushing their economic message beyond the crowd of the converted/ usual suspects. NOT cos he said “immigration is too high”, but because he said “people have the right to think it’s too high”. 72% of people think immigration is too
camilo
@AscendedYield
Sep 19, 2025
They’re cancelling Gary Stevenson
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Apr 4, 2024
Replying to @BenKentish
What utter bollocks. Your views are not beyond reproach because of your race or religion. He's criticising people for their opinions and their political positions. All this "trope" nonsense is pathetic frankly.
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Mar 7, 2024
It's not that we don't understand those things, it's that it's funny watching Londoners moan about public transport despite having one of the best networks in the world, and the cheapest in the whole country. I lived in London for 13 years – I know it gets stressful/busy! But my
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Despotic Inroad
@DespoticInroad
Jan 9, 2025
Lynch is one of the very few lefties who can speak in a vaguely relatable, non-robotic, off-the-cuff way, without sounding like a whiny SOAS student, a mad tub-thumper, or a miserable, po-faced misanthrope (the three default settings for 99% of left radicals). His pragmatic
RMT
@RMTunion
Jan 9, 2025
Article
Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch
RMT general secretary Michael Lynch has made the decision to retire at the age of 63 after serving the union in many capacities. He was elected general secretary in 2021. He also served two terms as...
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