MI5 tried to cover up truth over 'Stakeknife' spy in IRA, report says
Freddie Scappaticci was linked to 14 murders and 15 abductions; he worked in a ruthless IRA unit known as the
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Truly damning stuff about the behaviours of MI5 and the PSNI.
The difference is that the PSNI is apologising and stepping up whilst the UK government is treating NI, a part of the UK, like Afghanistan or Iraq.
Benn has been a very poor NI Minister.
09.12.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Covid scheme fraud hit ยฃ10.9bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says
The response to the pandemic led to
Tory Covid fraud losses "unrecoverable" now.
The Tories sure looked after their cronies and donors while we were all stuck in lockdown.
Corruption never sleeps...
#ToryCovidDisaster #ToryCorruption #ToryPPEscandal #PoliticsLive #wato #bbcnews #C4news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
09.12.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
If Kier Starmer and @uklabour.bsky.social won't stand up for Sadiq Khan over something as horrendousas this, why on earth would I believe they'll stand up for me?
09.12.2025 12:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Starmer is such a fawning Quisling.
09.12.2025 12:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Keir Starmer's "spokesman" is considerably worse at his job than even Keir Starmer, and that is a big problem.
09.12.2025 12:56 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Thereโs no way Starmer himself would go with this line if asked this question.
Which means theyโre putting out his spokesman underbriefed and underprepared. This was a cardinal sin of Number 10โs comms during the Theresa May era, was woeful then and is woeful now.
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09.12.2025 12:52 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
This is just an extremely stupid bit of spin that the government is going to have to walk back, which it will probably do agonisingly slowly.
09.12.2025 12:44 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2
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Nature-friendly farmers can help Englandโs nature recover, but they need UK Government support.
09.12.2025 12:11 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A powerful intervention from senior Lords figures.
The message is clear: scrutiny, not sabotage.
The public and Commons are behind this Bill - the Lords must respect the democratic will.
Ask a Member of the House of Lords to keep the Bill moving:
dignityindying.org.uk/actnow
09.12.2025 11:01 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Kemi Badenoch has a Masters degree in Computer Systems Engineering, and the thing she's best-known for doing with it is criminally hacking Harriet Harman's website.
Then she became a banker...
09.12.2025 11:01 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
What's a low value degree? Something that doesn't deliver a high paying job (is that what education is really about?) or something that doesn't accord with some politician's value system (if they believe that STEM is the future then they might want to ponder what happened in the Soviet Union)
09.12.2025 10:37 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer โlow value degreesโ and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
09.12.2025 10:26 โ ๐ 317 ๐ 58 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 15
Local government coming off Twitter is clearly a good thing - but nowhere near as good as the UK government doing so.
09.12.2025 11:04 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ESSENTIALY TORIES LEFT LABOUR A FLOGGED TO DEATH BROKEN SYSTEM T.H.E.Y CREATEDWHILST FILLING THEIR OWN BLOODY POCKETS. CORRUPT BASTARDS THEN HAVE THE GALL TO CARP ON THE SIDELINES!!! THEY HAVE ZERO SHAME, ZERO MORALES. FARAGE MORE THAN HAPPY TO EMPLOY THESE PIECES OF ABSOLUTE SCUM
09.12.2025 11:08 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social just finished Sergei and the Westminster spy ring.
Joined Nerve for exactly this type of reporting.
Just wanted to say please keep going and push for full release and action in regard to Russia influence on UK politics.
Thanks again
09.12.2025 11:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Why do I call Tories scum? Badenoch suddenly pretends survivors were let down, while Johnson threw a tantrum over police digging into historic abuse. The Tories are a party that pissed away 14 years of investigation while victims begged for truth and justice. #ukpolitics
09.12.2025 11:13 โ ๐ 99 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 1
Farage didnโt bark but Badenoch bitched and Starmer whined. Thanks John Crace, we needed that.
09.12.2025 11:14 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Baroness Deech, chair of the House of Lords appointments commission, has told MPs she believes that the historic citations/reasons why peerages were given out and related papers "may well have been deleted." [!!]
09.12.2025 11:15 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Time for ombuds schemes that are: pro-people and pro-justice.
And not: pro-business.
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