Profile avatar
vandasnook.bsky.social
If Pupil Premium, record NHS investment, Sure Start, various Equalities acts are 'Centrist' then I'm a fkn proud centrist. British European diaspora & WOKE AF
193 posts 228 followers 385 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 20 Comments 30

The Fisherman's Fraud

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My old pal and Trans Ally Steph has been involved in organising these stand up gigs across Wales to support Trans Rights and @goodlawproject.bsky.social If free and you're down that way do cut along to watch, or if like me you're part of the far flung Cymru diaspora give it a share.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Also, asking homeowners for permission would kill the burglary industry.

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

The decorated counter espionage agent “became alarmed after obtaining intelligence suggesting that 🇷🇺 military intelligence had successfully cultivated relationships with high-profile Silicon Valley billionaires, using a combination of flattery, backchannel political access, & subtle kompromat.”

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

There’s nothing stopping the Home Office from changing a) how the migration figures are recorded (who counts as a migrant worker vs a foreign student on temporary visa) so they’re more credible and reliable, and b) how migration is actually managed. And yet, instead, we get this kind of nonsense.

submitted 46 days ago • 20 comments

Oh, NOW they want diversity?

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you. Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.)

submitted 52 days ago • 102 comments

2025: Nigel Farage, "We've never ever ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free" 2012: Nigel Farage, "We need to think about healthcare very very differently. We're going to have to move to an insurance based system of healthcare" And don't forget he got it wrong on Brexit too

submitted 53 days ago • 53 comments

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

submitted 61 days ago • 29 comments

He's tanking the stock market so he and his bastard horde can make a killing buying low. I despise this piece of shit with a passion and everyone who's enabled him.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 62 days ago • 311 comments

#DogsofBluesky

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

But of course they are

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant new word to describe the US under Trump

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

From last month... www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...

submitted 76 days ago • 77 comments

Who could have imagined that a government of rapists, racists, coup plotters, conmen, tax dodgers, conspiracy fantasists and bullshit artists might not work very well?

submitted 75 days ago • 58 comments

Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this. This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.

submitted 79 days ago • 51 comments

No notes.

submitted 79 days ago • 13 comments

BBC Scotland, which had hours of coverage of the murder tents outside Sturgeon's home, just spent 3 mins on her ex-husband Peter Murrell's routine court appearance but 14 seconds on the news that she & former SNP Treasurer Colin Beattie have been cleared of wrongdoing & no charges will be brought.

submitted 80 days ago • 20 comments

Mental health issues are skyrocketing. According to Labour, it's because of widespread abuse of the system. Or it could be something like Brexit + pandemic + Russia's war on Ukraine + WWW3 fears + cost of living crisis + wild Trump global destabilisation? No, must be abuse of the system, right?

submitted 81 days ago • 16 comments