Geoff S

Geoff S

@dogsta.bsky.social

Northern. Socialist. Atheist. Retired educator. PNEFC

622 Followers 621 Following 182 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 days ago
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS

And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

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4 days ago

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

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1 week ago
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Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

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1 week ago

Exactly!

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1 week ago

Iran: How Keir Starmer has upheld international law at a crucial moment, kept meaningful distance from ‘allies’ treating it with contempt, defended the national interest & served the network of global obligations designed to make world safer.
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

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1 week ago
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

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1 week ago
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🚨BREAKING🚨

Keir Starmer delivers statement to house on the situation in Iran.

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1 week ago
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Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics

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1 week ago
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have got away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

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1 week ago
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BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!

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2 weeks ago
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Joy Division/New Order are amongst the newly announced nominees for the 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The fan vote is now open - so make your voice heard…

Vote Joy Division/New Order now via vote.rockhall.com - you can vote daily!

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2 weeks ago

Gaslight Anthem joined by Bruce Springsteen on John Peel Stage at Glastonbury was quite special if not totally unexpected.

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2 weeks ago

Having a decent MP who knows your people, isn’t parachuted in, doesn’t have second/third jobs is worth its weight in gold.

I have Richard Holden who does nothing for us. He won by 20 votes.

Gorton & Denton you’ve got 3.5 years with your choice.

Make it wisely.

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2 weeks ago

I’m wondering if @mrjamesob.bsky.social is watching “Dirty Business” on C4.

It’s as shocking as it is excellent.
I hope it gets the exposure it deserves & the villains of the story finally get what they deserve…

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2 weeks ago
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Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

Please watch Dirty Business, C4, outlining what is essentially an organised crime network making a fortune out of the UK water infrastructure.

It seems we can't re-nationalise - our govt would prefers not to rock the boat.

www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

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2 weeks ago

My pleasure. Good luck with the training and then the event - it looks a tough one

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Training hard with great motivation. Raising funds for the incredible East Lancashire Hospice. It’s criminal that successive Governments don’t fund these essential services.

www.justgiving.com/page/graeme-...

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2 weeks ago
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EXCLUSIVE: Starmers take children to Poland for emotional search into Jewish family roots Prime Minister and Lady Victoria travel to remote village outside Warsaw with their two children during weekend break

Starmer last week:
Take children to Poland for an emotional search into Jewish family roots.
Farage:
Fly to the Seychelles on a private jet paid for by foreign oligarchs, pull a stupid fascist stunt to impress Reform subscribers, and squeeze some more money out of them.

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2 weeks ago
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● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return

● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+

● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000

● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

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2 weeks ago
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Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Unions enforce your employment rights.
Unions can help if you’re discriminated against or mistreated by your employer.
Reform doesn’t want you to have that help.
They don’t care how badly you’re treated at work.
They’re taking the piss out of you.
You should mind.
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2 weeks ago
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Farage accused of 'cheap stunt' after being 'denied entry' to Chagos Islands The Foreign Office website makes clear the restricted access of the British Indian Ocean Territory and clearly states 'you need a permit before you travel'

But it's not "a cheap stunt."

Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too.

It's expensive flying to the Maldives.

Where did he stay?
How long is he staying?

How much did it cost?
Who picked up the tab?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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2 weeks ago

⬇️ Inflation down
⬇️ Interest rates down
⬇️ Borrowing down
⬆️ Retail sales up
⬆️ UK fastest growing European G7 economy

#Labour

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2 weeks ago

There's a lot of positive economic news coming out for the UK right now - not that you'd know it from much of the UK Westminster media and their desperate narrative to undermine a Labour government.
I don't know how they get the message out better in such a toxic media/social media environment.

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2 weeks ago
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And where did that ‘true Tory budget’ with its tax cuts take us, DM hacks? Straight to 6% interest rates and 12% inflation.

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2 weeks ago
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UK reports record-breaking budget surplus of £30.4bn in surprise boost for Rachel Reeves Largest January total since records began in 1993 is sharp reversal from December’s £11.6bn deficit

Another green shoot. Ironic that evidence of economic recovery is starting to build just as govt’s stock is lowest - it means they’re not getting credit for something that feels like it might actually be going right (shock, horror) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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3 weeks ago
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Ah Matt turn off comments.
Why?
Maybe to stop people pointing out that:
a) All Reform MPs voted against the Workers’ Rights Bill
b) He took a hefty salary from a Hungarian far-right organisation
c) He doesn’t even live in the area—and likely won’t be seen after the election
d) All of the above?🤔

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3 weeks ago
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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3 weeks ago

If you have a Royal Family, you have deference.

If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.

If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."

Why would anyone want that at all?

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3 weeks ago
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Reform candidate called it ‘insane’ to jail man who said ‘burn asylum hotels’ Exclusive: It comes after The Independent revealed that Matt Goodwin called for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check

Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.”

No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.

Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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3 weeks ago
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Huge applause as Starmer declares Britain has moved beyond the Brexit years. One of the strongest EU speeches by a PM in decades - yet barely covered by the BBC or MSM. While serious leadership is ignored, airtime still goes to Farage and recycled outrage. Kuenssberg, Zeffman, Mason, Gibb - out.

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