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@hollia.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 4:17 PM

This is what I saw #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 4:12 PM

"yeah I'm in the queue for the tapestry......no the other one" #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 4:06 PM

We are a modern, outward looking party that is comfortable with bisexual lighting #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:43 PM

Important tank update #CPC26

bsky.app/profile/chri...

@doktorfuttocks.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:28 PM

I think I fixed it. #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:13 PM

Kemi also thinks you should buy @roberthutton.co.uk's book #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:59 PM

*** TRIGGER WARNING ***

Andy Burnham's short shorts (via @peterwalker99.bsky.social) #CPC26

@pauldezylva.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:52 PM

Unfinished business?
 
Kemi Badenoch’s #Conservatives would cut the #EnvironmentAgency - again.
 
Past cuts led to the #SewageScandal

For example, its environmental protection budget was cut from £170m in 2009 to £76m in 2020.

More on EA cuts + jobs lost in AltText

#CPC26

The effect of austerity cuts to the Agency and an obsession with deregulation led to the sewage scandal we’re still facing and paying for now:

 
- The Agency’s environmental protection budget more than halved - £170m in 2009-10 to £76m in 19-20.

- From 2013-16, 1,700 staff were cut as the Agency’s environment and business grant in aid (GiA) revenue funding fell by £21m and its flood control risk management GiA fell by £12.5m.

- According to Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats further job losses arose from the real term cuts between 2017-19 and 2021-23, saw a further 8,836 staff

www.libdems.org.uk/press/release/almost-9000-staff-leave-environment-agency-following-cuts-and-low-morale 

NB the Lib Dems were part of the Conservative-led coalition that initiated the cuts and deregulatory zeal.Ministers also interfered with the Agency by telling it to go easy on polluters by not pursuing legal action and fines. 

For example, between 2012 and 2021:

- Prosecutions undertaken by the Agency fell from 300 in 2012 to fewer than 20 in 2021.

- There was a less severe two-fold drop civil actions.

- Most (59%) of the 4,074 enforcement actions against companies saw no fine imposed.
 
The Agency also became less responsive to reports of pollution:

- From 2015 to 2020 Agency investigations launched dropped 30% from 11,436 to 8,088.

- In 2023, the Environment Agency
visited only 10% of water pollution incidents reported including over 60% of those regarded as the “most serious types of incident”.
@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:52 PM

The only thing I want to find out from #CPC26 is when is the tapestry touring the country?

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:50 PM

adding Nicola Sturgeon's panel to the thread courtesy of @wallaceme.bsky.social who is privileged to actually be in the presence of history #CPC26

@wallaceme.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:46 PM

One attendee laments that the Conservatives aren’t selling tapestry merch: “I’d have bought a tea towel, for the first time ever” #cpc26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:45 PM

"this is what we believe in" #CPC26

@wallaceme.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:45 PM

Just saw the Tapestry. It’s genuinely very well done! #cpc26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:39 PM

"study it, learn it, there will be a test and the bottom 10% will be leaving the party" #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:37 PM

Yep, little blue book and everything #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:37 PM

No flags? What is this? The Communist Party Conference #CPC26

@johnferrett.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:30 PM

Badenoch mentions the number of canals in Birmingham and how it has been referred to as "the Venice of the Midlands". The boorish mob in front of her start guffawing and Kemi gives them a serious look and her best censorious voice says "they do!" #cpc26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:22 PM

oh Matthew no #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:16 PM

"it's your own time you're wasting" #CPC26

@generalboles.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:10 PM

Someone call Easter Island and ask if they're missing a statue #CPC26