Matt

a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

This is not good.

You should see what we get it's MAD.

Genuinely not changed for over a decade and since the expenses scandal is *so* tight it's insane.

Free lager and dutyfree cigs? I'm in!

Give me an Elvis tribute act and some ping pong balls.

I'm so fed up of the small boats bollocks. It's entirely because we left the Dublin accords. Not a single leave voter had even heard of the Dublin accords before we left.

Shocker, not working cooperatively on europe-wide problems excludes you from europe-wide solutions

Look you have no idea how here for this I am. I'll just have to convince my boyfriend but the idea of unlimited beer and wine included should do it

Oh don't there's been so many more since. Zionists actually cannot compute that other people don't believe being somewhere 2000 years ago entitles you to commit murder today.

It's fully the same ethnonationalism that Hitler argued for.

Okay but like bluesky oomfy all inclusive week?

Literally average Israeli actually:

Don't support genocide and murder? To quote this cunt "I hope you meet hamas"

Israel is a fascist state. Zionism is a genocidal fascist ideology. It hates Jews, wishes death on them for disagreeing.

Never has a company deserved to fail more.

It's the big boy year of 2026 how are there still signal dead zones on the West Coast Mainline.

Actually get a grip!

I will not take hysteria from the Tories about "sectarianism" when May's government violated the Good Friday Agreement and climbed into bed with the DUP in order to keep power.

It wouldn't be, but the civil service expenses are absolutely crap and wouldn't cover anywhere good 😭

US sub sinks Iranian warship in Indian Ocean, Hegseth says Sri Lanka's navy says around 140 people are feared missing after a military vessel went down off its southern coast.

The United States seems set on escalating this conflict and killing as many people as possible in the process.

BBC News - US sub sinks Iranian warship in Indian Ocean, Hegseth says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love having a work hotel because of course I'll take a 20 minute shower, have the biggest free breakfast known to man and steal all of the tea and coffee.

You didn't have a rise in council tax and the council has had to declare bankruptcy and is £3bn in debt.

No council is perfect, but if Brummies don't realise that the only way out of this is to pay more then they're going to have to put up with shit roads and shit services.

Yes, for now. My partner is moving in soon. Either way, it doesn't really matter as I'd get that regardless of where I lived.

That discount brings it in line with the Birmingham full rate. They've been underpaying for years.

I pay more for a band B in Stockport than someone in band B in city centre Birmingham pays.

Objectively, Brummies have to pay for their services if they want them. That's how this works.

Have you seen local government finances? The VAST majority goes on health and social care for elderly people, alongside education and a smattering of transport. The budgets are bloody tight, and Birmingham was mismanaged and failed to raise the rates in line with costs.

Because the cost of repairing 15 years of neglect is much much more than one years tax take.

a black and brown dog is sitting on a grey couch ALT: a black and brown dog is sitting on a grey couch

I've settled on hunger games mockingjay but this isn't what I want.

Give me recommendations please

I have a cold and I've been dragged to London for work and I'm in a spoons, desperately looking for something to watch on my laptop, and waiting for my food to arrive.

I don't think anyone has ever had it this hard actually.

Oh sure, absolutely those two things were the tipping point, but there's a reason I've multiple libraries on my doorstep and it's because I pay for it

Also, coming from Birmingham?

Brums council tax is less than mine for the same band

Like sorry, I get that it has gone up 18% in a couple of years, but your council went bankrupt because you all didn't pay enough. Of course you have to pay more. You can't refuse to pay and moan when they're broke.

I am 4 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 15 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 25 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 34 years old. War in Middle East could wipe

"why are we expected to pay more council tax when there's potholes and nothing works"

You need to pay more council tax to fix the potholes and get things working again. That's what your tax pays for. That's literally how it works.

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

"Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Three weeks of mass exposure to Matthew Goodwin’s worldview have not done the Reform brand much good