Fear of Farage is crippling the Labour Government and, tbh, the Tory party. Starmer changed tack as soon as he was elected. Angela would have been a good leader but her problem with tax cripples her at the moment. Andy Burnham would have been excellent but McSweeny intervened. Milliband would be ok.

Interesting that the right wing press in the UK have spent years attacking Harry and Meghan while skating over the revelations about the former Prince Andrew.

They are now piling on on Starmer but Farage escapes much needed scrutiny .

So much for an independent press.

Interesting article in the Washington Post about data centre resistance in the US. While the US and UK governments keep pushing to allow them, people who have had one imposed on them are very much against them. They’ve seen through the ongoing lies about more jobs, low usage of power and water.

As a reader of banned books may I remind you that George Orwell’s 1984 pretty much predicted what is happening right now in the US. He was out by 42 years but only on when it would happen.

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Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say.

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I remember when, years ago, Iraq war, a joke in the NHS was that there was need of a new operation. Excision of British PM from rectum of US President. That was Blair and GW. Labour PM and US President taking us into a very long war.

Let’s be honest. He’s achieved his objective. Epstein is off the front pages. And he’s going to give Venezuelan oil to the highest US bidder. Bids to DJTrump in plain envelopes?

Always remember that Tice’s mistress is a right wing “journalist” who continually rants about immigrants in the right wing press. While she is an “immigrant” in the UAE. Pots and kettles. Typical Reform.

How can Robert Jenrick ever be taken as other than a moron after he over- ruled a planning inspector to save a multi millionaire pal millions in tax? A tax that would have benefitted locals who certainly weren’t millionaires. Is he Tory or Reform? I can’t remember. Or tell the difference.

@rosiewrightingmp.bsky.social You have an interesting take on the Brexit referendum. Even if you ignore current opinion polls watch the Carole Cadwalladr TED talk on the referendum. Frightening how manipulated we were. Watch it and weep. And stop echoing REFORM. The party for the hard of thinking.

Neither you nor I is dead. So we aren’t covered in the OAP bit.

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

As a teenager, years before personal computers and t’internet thingy, I usually read around 3 novels a week in term time and 6 in the holidays. Discovered the magical world of The Lord of the Rings when I was 12. All from the local library. Happy days. Librarians pointed me in the right direction.

Littlejohn lives in Florida, has done for years if my memory serves. He’s far right, and the Mail editor who permitted that front page is up there with Mosley and his ilk.

Kruger’s an Evangelical Christian. They are busy destroying the US and are now funding their brothers and sisters here. Look at the newest member of their Supreme Court, busily changing the law on Trump’s request. Christian? Really?

In the UK we have “postal votes”. Any registered voter can apply for one. My wife and I have had them for years as I worked in travel and was often overseas on election day.

I wish it was only water. Look at gas, electricity, railways, all of the PFI schemes. Neither governments or Treasury ever understand the difference between revenue expenditure (such as water workers salaries) and capital expenditure. Nor do gov’t fine for breaches of contract. Ban all board bonuses

I wonder who on earth they were referring to 😂😂😂

Sadly true. I bet a significant % of them are from right wing parties. And seriously tainted in their views of people not 100% white. Their MAGA equivalents in the US have yet to realise that THEY are the immigrants.

I worked for a company with 2 outlets near LHR 40 years ago. Low level jobs only attracted Britons of Indian parentage. Your complaint to the Head Office will be filed in the bin. Which it deserves. Your racism defines you.

Overdue by months, not days. The (relatively old)Private Eye commentary highlighted the problem. It is not, nor has it ever been, anti semitic, to criticise the Israeli government run by Netanyahu and Settlers stealing lands owned by Palestinians for centuries. Ignore Israeli funded lawyers. LBD ✅

I didn’t vote for Labour as I’m in a Tory strong hold. But I had high hopes. Spoiled. Starmer following Farage up Trump’s back passage. Reeves taxing everyone except the mega Rich And a deaf ear on Gaza. Is it fear of more, Israeli (not Jewish) claims of antisemitism? Even A Rayner seems adrift. 😢

Perhaps Pearson might like to consider the implications of her words. If she were an immigrant she’d probably be arrested, charged and end up in prison or extradited. I guess as a Telegraph writer she has a measure of protection that certainly isn’t earned.

Privatisation broke our water system.

@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.

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Some would think that with the referendum, the Brexit Act and living in the rectum of the worst US president in my lifetime Farage is a 3 time offender. Can we lock him up?

Reform. The party of the hard of thinking. Including my neighbour, pilot at a German airline who voted for Brexit. Still a first officer at 51. Definite Reform supporter boasts about it. 🤮

Seeing that many countries, including my own, have issued a stern warning to Netanyahu, I think they should have a plan B because he will ignore it.
If military personnel were to be declared guilty of a war crime if they shell, bomb or kill by sniping a civilian even if under orders.

Sadly true.

I cannot describe my admiration for you, and those alongside you. Thank you, from everyone who, like me, is too old to do more than express our support on BlueSky but trust me, we do care.

Your point about arming Israel is obviously correct. See also LedbyDonkeys latest reveal on an Israeli backing law group.