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Retired mainframe sysprog. Left leaning, anti-brexit nomad #Xile #FBPE
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Huge if true! m.facebook.com/FearAndLoath...

Never forget, never forgive.

Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...

Mitch McConnell slams Trump’s tariffs amid rising inflation. “One estimate suggests the president’s tariffs could cost the average Kentuckian up to $1,200 each year... At a time when Americans are tightening their belts, we would do well to avoid policies that heap on the pain.”

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Cracking article from @lukemcgee.bsky.social well worth your time. This firstly. The difficulty is that although support for Europe is fairly wide, it's relatively shallow There is a sense that Brexit is the wrong choice, but not yet a sense that Europe is the UK's future That needs to change A🧵

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Waxey-Lemmon aka Tommy Ten Names is strangely quiet on this. www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

Because they were taking your jobs…

Tesla Swasticars. Musk is a little upset apparently, so don't spread it please.

With Nigel Farage and Reform UK again calling for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights here is a reminder of why joining Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR is a very very very bad idea youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...

Lady in white, "Knife crime in general is a big thing in the UK" #BBCQT "When I was younger we used to have community groups that were government funded. There was something for kids to do" "Now you'll see in our areas just groups of boys hanging around. They've not got anything to do"

Fiona Bruce can't believe that Dale Vince has donated to Labour, Greens, LibDems without expecting anything in return Dale Vince then explains how he supports publicly funded elections as that would end the system of donations for favours #BBCQT

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

When Mexico sends its people, it sends helpers. Because as much as this country hates us some of us are still breaking our fucking backs to help it succeed.

Or to put it another way, bill to protect children voted through, despite Tory attempt to wreck it. Good old BBC.

🤡 Dumb shit Trump has said: 📍Rake the forests 📍Nuke hurricanes 📍Covid is a hoax 📍Inject disinfectant 📍The moon is a part of Mars 📍Revolutionary War planes 📍They’re eating the pets 📍The election was stolen 📍I’m a stable genius 📍Etc, etc, etc…

Trump is the new Hitler. Seeks territorial expansion, Bullies less powerful nations, Wants to deport millions, Deny citizenship to local born, Silence critical voices, Supported by the rich. Has admirers in the UK. Massive failure of western education/politics. Save the future. Oppose fascism.

HEY MAGA! How the fuck exactly will trump invading Panama and Greenland, threatening Canada, and changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America make eggs and gas cheaper? Just curious.

Elon Musk seems to think that Tommy Robinson is some great hero in the UK, rather than someone who is even more despised than Elon Musk. But that's idiots for you, they are stupid.

Remember that Brazil shutdown Twitter in their country and eventually Elon Musk came crawling to them and did whatever they wanted to open it up to them. You have to stand up to fascism, not lie down.

Brexitwang. A total shitshow. But no… Let’s not talk about it Let’s not face up to how the Tories ballsed up an already idiotic idea Let’s not fix the ruinous consequences of turning prejudice and ignorance into policy Let’s just slide into a perma-state of resentful crappiness and ‘move on’. FFS.

A cautionary tale for the rest of the world that should be studied for decades. The country that imposed economic sanctions on itself.

A 1,500km thick wall? That's some wall! Not as thick as Suella Braverman, though.

Suella Braverman tells LBC that Italy have "built a wall" on the "land border between Italy and Turkey" and insists that "I've been to see it"

Nurse, bring the medication please! Urgent.

They don’t care about babies, it’s subjugation of women. MAGA don’t care the maternal death went up 56%. School shootings? More guns. Starving kids? Less food programs. Sick kids? Less vaccines, less healthcare. Child labour? Of course Children's education? Fuck that. www.salon.com/2025/01/02/n...

The real villains aren’t in the fields—they’re in boardrooms plotting how to keep us divided while they get richer.

A social distancing cheat chart:

History will not be kind to MAGA Republicans or the Trump family.

We can EITHER have: lots of babies (via *fully* socialising childcare, ramping up social housing) OR invite a couple million immigrants in to plug the gap. Those are your routes to workers => tax => funding ageing population. UK's issue is Right-wing Newspapers hate both^^ options.

Economy shrinks by a further 0.1% Brexit has cut UK trade by up to 15%... Immigration is much higher post Brexit But..the...boats🙄 WAKE UP and smell the roses...or take your kids' future further into the mire. Then explain how poor we all are in 20 years time Apart from the super rich of course

A GE2024 comparison. ➡️ Reform Raised £1.6 million Votes 4.1 million Cost per Vote: £0.393 Endless press coverage, TV platforming 🩷 Us, @mvtfwd.bsky.social / StopTheTories.Vote Raised ~£40k Votes 1.5 million Cost per Vote: £0.027 👀 Barely a press mention, just social media sharing/content/network

UK Minister ‘surprised’ Fujitsu hasn’t done more to help victims of Post Office scandal. Promises are worthless. It helped the Post Office prosecute innocent postmasters, got £1.5bn from the Horizon contract. Must prosecute Fujitsu, its directors for conspiracy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Tories and Reform in some spat about membership numbers is exactly the kind of playground garbage we’ve come to expect from these two vile political parties. What unserious, undignified fuckwits they are. Deeply pathetic nasty little people with petty grudges who would be viciously useless in power.

Yorkshire Bylines was the one that kicked off the Bylines Network in 2020, setting a new gold standard for citizen journalism. Can you share this with encouragement to follow, to get them to 20k today? 🙏 @yorksbylines.bsky.social

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

Utter drivel in the torygraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

Merry Christmas everyone.

Labour's quest to deliver the highest growth in the G7 seems to be lost in quicksand. If only they could see the giant neon signs flashing "Brexit? Just say no!" all around them.

Donald Trump threatens to take control of Panama Canal. Bullying a small country to submit snd force its population into poverty or else. Getting ready to blame Panama for the price hikes coming from his tariff increases. news.sky.com/story/donald...