Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined.
This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.
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Donegal/Derry/sometimes Belfast. Politics, books,the craic. Like sound and decent people.
Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined.
This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
This ancient, wild oak in my place is about 12m from the edge of a road. It has stood there for 100s of years, supporting a whole web of life, bothering nobody.
Now they're talking about removing it and countless others, because in Ireland (1% native forest left), nature ALWAYS has to pay.
Can guarentee if 20 years ago someone had done a Nazi Salute at a Presidential Inauguration that person would have been kicked out of Government for good.
But now the richest own the Government completely.
Nice sounding terms and what they actually mean in real life.
Free Market - Monopoly entirely controlled by the richest
Free Speech - Monopoly entirely controlled by the loudest who are the richest
Democracy - Your chance to pick from a selection of people owned by the richest
Pascal Soriot the UK's highest paid CEO gets ยฃ18,700,000 a year, largely in shares so he doesn't have to pay any tax.
In just one day he 'earned' more than 90% of UK workers will get in a year.
THIS is the problem.
And they did absolutely FA for it.
06.01.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 203 ๐ 60 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.
Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k
We'll always be together
however far it seems
We'll always be together
together in malignant schemes
Lovely sentiments, Helen. Wishing you peace and joy in 2025.
31.12.2024 22:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0when I was homeless in florida, the library was a godsend, straight from heaven. air conditioning, bathrooms, somewhere I could sit, go online, read, just exist.
27.12.2024 19:54 โ ๐ 9106 ๐ 673 ๐ฌ 154 ๐ 28Your daily reminder to keep the Palestinian People in your thoughts and prayers
25.12.2024 07:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tesco could afford to give every single one of their 12m customers ยฃ100 for Christmas and their profits would still be higher than 2 years ago.
That's because that is how much extra they are stealing off you.
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
21.12.2024 00:49 โ ๐ 21997 ๐ 8722 ๐ฌ 1061 ๐ 1052The Grand Stretch is Back baby!
14.12.2024 16:06 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3Short letter to Irish Times, detailing the grief felt by the letter writer at Christmas, after the loss of his wife.
What a letter.
14.12.2024 09:23 โ ๐ 1353 ๐ 353 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 51The story behind this picture.
This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him ยฃ153k to save his life.
They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500.
That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.
Remember the most profitable businesses in the USA are healthcare and war.
And they both involve killing people.
Totally agree. Can't watch it.
11.12.2024 22:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I donโt know if this app is local enough to be used for this yet. But Phil is a friend of friends, missing since last Thursday. Areas - Moira, Magheralin, Mournes.
www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...
Some balloons here in Donegal as well.
29.11.2024 23:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.
29.11.2024 20:46 โ ๐ 2575 ๐ 562 ๐ฌ 160 ๐ 27I did not have one canvasser at the door, or one leaflet in the letterbox here in Donegal.
29.11.2024 21:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Future will be exactly the same as the Past because nothing has changed.
It is still a handful of the richest most powerful people forcing everyone else to kill each other and destroy the planet for their own gain.
Not one here in Donegal either.
25.11.2024 22:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Actually Great Power is evil, and you see that every single day.
23.11.2024 18:07 โ ๐ 3432 ๐ 470 ๐ฌ 51 ๐ 23@carlowweather.bsky.social Foyle River very high at Lifford just now.
23.11.2024 18:53 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hey look.
The billionaires are plotting to make it easier for companies to screw workers.
Helping the rich get richer. Thatโs all this has ever been about. #UnionsForAll
Daily Mail headline: Prankster fools Selfridges staff three times into getting rude words printed on jars of nutella - Seamas O'Reilly, from Derry, Northern Ireland, came up with the jokes - Staff in Oxford Street store made to put 'bumgravy' and 'backdirt# on jars - One poor worker was even convinced that 'arsemuck' was an Irish name - The 30-year-old admits he's spent ยฃ19 and doesn't even like Nutella
What's the stupidest thing you ever got in trouble for? I have... a few, some of which I've detailed here before.
But you might not have heard about the time the Daily Mail did a bullet-point scare job on me in 2016, because I tricked Selfridges staff into printing rude words on some Nutella jars.