Ian Burton

Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election Though there's still a few years left until our next General Election, the Green Party renaissance will give Sir Keir some food for thought.

Let's make this happen. Together.

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A creepy portrait of a child with a rattle.

Do you dare stare into the eyes of spooky child this Halloween? Take your chance today at our Haunted by the Past event until 3.30pm today! www.sal.org.uk/event/haunte...

“14 years of systematic underfunding and lack of investment in the NHS, has left the NHS battered and struggling to make necessary repairs. While the NHS is dealing with underfunding, it has its hands further tied behind its back by PFI." Johnbosco Nwogbo - Lead Campaigner, We Own It. Quoted in The iPaper, 27.10.2025

"78 out of 80 NHS trusts with current PFI debts have already paid back more than the initial capital invested, despite still being stuck with those contracts until 2048 in some cases. A return to private finance would be disastrous for patients."

“It would see money go out into the pockets of private shareholders that should be going toward fixing hospitals and treating patients. Itʼs time for the Government to consign private finance to the dustbin of history, instead of trying to reawaken it."

The iPaper reports the Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation saying private finance is needed to fix the NHS backlog.

But adding further debt to NHS Trusts' finances will only make matters worse.

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Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand Conservative Donor Multimillion Pound Covid Contract Private correspondence seen by Byline Times reveals that Ciga Healthcare's Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to "take control" of the process

Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.

Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.

The contract was awarded just days later

Well the voters of Clacton voted him in. They knew what he is and what he represents - tough shit.

Special report: Six months in, do Reform’s KCC ‘savings’ stack up? As Reform UK marks half a year in charge of Kent County Council, we investigate its claims of financial success.

Reform UK in Kent are not being transparent about their ‘savings’ figures.

And their claims don’t stand up to scrutiny.

“The trouble is that this is a clickbait council administration,”

They are always called something like “firebrand” when in reality they are nothing more than illiterate thugs. All they can do is protest about things but have no ideas on how to put things right. Hence they totally fail if they get in any sort of power.

Get real! Reform UK Hamble Valley site used AI ‘fake people’ image | Eastleigh News Reform UK’s Hamble Valley branch faces criticism after using an AI image of 'Fake People,” which included a person of colour

Get real! Reform UK Hamble Valley site used AI ‘fake people’ image

Danny Kruger, MP
Reform UK’s policy chief.

Eton
Oxford
Centre for Policy Studies
Conservative Policy Unit
Speech Writer for David Cameron
Only Connect
Legatum Institute
Conservative MP

And Reform UK complain about MPs with no experience of the ‘real world’?

Danny Kruger heading policy.

James Orr as key advisor.

Towler writing Farage has ‘found God’.

Reform UK is becoming an American style fundamentalist Christian party.

It’s a cynical use of faith.

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party.

It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.

Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party

Sorry to break it to you, but you’re not in politics mate- nobody elected you.

🚨 NEW | Greens at 16%, 1pt shy of Labour

➡️ REF – 27% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-3)
🔵 CON – 17% (-)
🟢 GRN – 16% (+1)
🟠 LD – 15% (-)

Via @YouGov, 26-27 Oct (+/- vs 19-20 Oct)

Man gets payout over portrayal in Steve Coogan Richard III film Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

I’m delighted to see that Richard Taylor has won his defamation case against the producers of this film. It was awful to see archaeological colleagues misrepresented, cast as villains to fit a lazy narrative. But remarkably, the producers “remain proud of the film”!
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Sarah Pochin has condemned British Athletics for selecting relay teams that do not look like her.

Michelle Mone has just bought a £10m home in Florida, even though she has yet to repay a penny of the £122m PPE Medpro owes the taxpayer. Good job she hasn't committed housing benefit fraud, because she might have been prosecuted then.

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif: Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background. Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background. Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background. Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology

So sorry to hear of the passing of dear Nabil Shaban. A wonderful actor, good friend and probably one of the best Doctor Who villains of all time. He worked tirelessly for disabled actors and always brought such dedication and humour to whatever he was doing. #RIPNabilShaban ❤️

I first came upon him via the cover of the Power, Corruption & Lies album by New Order, designed by Peter Saville. His works are very distinctive.

My photo shows a pair of cast bronze spoon-like tools. Each placed on a thin black metal stand in a display case with forest-like backdrop at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Dated 50 BC-AD 100. The bowl of each ‘spoon’ is oval-shaped and almost flat, with short, ornate handle, ideally-sized to be held between thumb and forefinger. Length 12 cm x width 7.3cm. The bronze has corroded and appears gold and green in colour. The top spoon has a small perforated hole near the rim. The lower spoon is divided into four areas by an incised cross. In the centre of each area is an inlaid dot of a different metal: top left gold, top right uncertain, bottom left bronze (different bronze composition to bowl), bottom right now filled with corroded material. The prevailing theory is that liquid was dripped from the perforated spoon to the other for the purpose of divination to predict future events. They are a rare find, with only 27 individual spoons from 17 pairs found to date, across Britain, Ireland, and France (one pair).

✨The enigmatic Penbryn ‘spoons’ whisper secrets of long-lost rituals of the British Iron Age 2,000 years ago! ✨

Made for knowing rather than eating, these rare ‘spoons’ are thought to be magic objects of divination, used in ceremonies to seek knowledge and foretell events.

📷 by me

#Archaeology

Two of Swindon's Labour councillors defect to Green Party Tom Butcher and Repi Begum's decision means three Swindon representatives have now gone Green.

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A criminal complaint for offering illegal gambling services has been filed by the Swiss regulator, GESPA, against Fifa's NFT platform Fifa Collect.

The 5 Stage of Reform UK Councillor

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

I stopped listing to the Guardian Football Weekly Podcast because of this w*nker. He was giving off a lot of Linehan vibes.

This.

Why is the PM involving himself in a local policing issue?

It’s purely a policing issue designed to protect British residents from well-known hooligans who have been banned elsewhere in Europe.

This is wild. The PM is putting Israeli hooligans before Brits’ safety and the law.

Time to take on the Daily Mail and this Labour Government.

Let's keep growing our movement with the joy of knowing we all deserve so much better - and we can make it happen.

Time to join.greenparty.org.uk

The vertebrate with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio is the bony-eared assfish.