@juliads65.bsky.social
Xscaper retiree and dog lover, trying to make sense of a mad world! Pro 🇪🇺, watching UK govt with great hope🤞. Still masking and wishing for better Covid measures and other pandemic preparedness. Carpe Diem! 🐕🌹
Oh. Due process followed perfectly. The Tory politicians & client journalists lying desperately about all this were, of course, cheering & chuckling away when *two* of Boris Johnson’s ethics advisers resigned in disgust at his staggering contempt for ethics.
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#dunblane #nigelfarage #reformuk
Can’t quite believe that journalists are having to report this latest visceral spasm of rightwing idiocy. How feeble-minded our politics have become for the leader of the opposition - and Farage of course - to feel they have to turn this utter non-event into a culture war moment. Dear god.
The bullshit excuses came thick and fast… while any attempt at charm quickly drained away…
More of this please, media. He’s there to be had. There’s a mess of nasty inadequacy and failure lurking behind his oh-so-confident bluster.
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A wise administration wouldn’t start another war in the Middle East.
A competent administration wouldn’t bomb an elementary school full of children on day 1 of the war they started.
They are neither.
We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
The irony is physically painful.
This is completely unhinged
@mrjamesob.bsky.social as you say war is nuanced. A fantastic explanation by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the history of Iran and why it matters! Badenoch, Trump and their ilk just do not get it- we need much better leaders! www.instagram.com/reel/DViuQdm...
@goodlawproject.org runs an email campaign to stop the #NHS from using #Plantir software. It runs OUR health records. Enter your postcode to find the relevant authorities and draft emails for each of them.
@reecedinsdale.bsky.social #NoToPalantir
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Nigel Farage is in Mar-a-Lago tonight (not Clacton, obvs). Via Politico: "What Farage should be doing: Sorting out his Reform documents with Companies House. The party is overdue on submitting a [legally mandatory] statement."
Last Saturday, Trump took it upon himself to break the global economy and bring WW3 much closer.
Feels like a month ago based on the firehose of bad news since then.
As @mrjamesob.bsky.social has explained this week, decisions about military action are NOT binary- Not about ‘be in this gang or that one’. It’s incredibly nuanced and involves history, world relationships, and more. As highly trained lawyer, Starmer is used to weighing up evidence- thank goodness!!
Maybe now more people will stop listening to the right wing press and realise that we’ve got a good Prime Minister.
Shabana Mahmood in 2015 “wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said "we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas."
There’s a kind of mass hysteria on the right: a howling insistence that they must be obeyed. They’ve lost whatever minds they had in their populist raging. It’s a cult. A total collapse of morality, independent thought and responsibility. God knows why anyone else would join in.
This is what Badenoch, Farage, the Murdoch press, and Paul Marshall's stable of GB News weirdos want us to get behind, and you know what I'm good, thanks...
Water companies have a cheek, they fail miserably to perform their jobs, take our money and use it for dividends to foreign owners while neglecting our water systems - often poisoning us and in thankfully rare cases, causing death (allegedly).
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Almost nobody in the media reported on the former Tory Government's sweeping power grab of the electoral commission. This week Labour have announced that they will reverse what Boris Johnson did and return the commission to independence.
Ofcourse Labour will get absolutely no credit for doing this
I’m utterly sick and tired of ‘politicians’ (Farage is just playing at the role let’s be honest) who have no grip of, no interest in and no intentions of ever understanding the concept and practice of public service. It’s destroying democracy! 😡🤬😡🤬
Nigel Farage said today, I’m not interested in public opinion. Just think about that for a while.
AOC: “That’s one reason he must be removed from office - if the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this admin that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”
Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.
If Britain's sense of national self-worth had declined at the same rate as our economic, military and political power, we would be in a much better position now.
Instead, we're hampered by memories of Empire, Britannia Rules the Waves, not-invented-here, British exceptionalism and similar nonsense.
I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
Impeachment, conviction, and removal only work when Congress has a spine.
A brilliant letter from a Party leader who genuinely cares about the plight of humans struggling to make their lives even remotely palatable, to a Home Secretary who once shared the same sentiments.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social… I salute you!
Shabana Mahmood… what happened to you? 😱
Politicians are there to help the people of their country. As you can see, that is not happening. So…..this is what you have instead. You must stop him. Now.