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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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    Despotic Inroad
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    Jun 14
    RTing after an old friend told me he's taken to sharing this vid with non-politics-obsessed but vaguely Leftish mates/family who think he's "gone all rightwing". It's not an argument for a reactionary turn, or for a pro-MAGA over-correction, but for a relentless Normie Populism.
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    Academy of Ideas
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    Dec 15, 2025
    "If the Labour Party is only for people in London, only for people who went to university, then its not worth existing and we should just pack it in" 🌹👩‍🎓 Jonny Ball of @unherd @blue_labour @ #BattleFest 2025 on "From Reform to Blue Labour: will the working class find a voice at
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    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
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    Calgie
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    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
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    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.
    James Timpson OBE appointed Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice.
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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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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