CllrAndyOddy

What did baboons do to upset you so much?

Totally 👇

Why is there no similar move to ban social media taking place in the UK? Oh yeah, Starmer and co are owned by the tech broligarchy

Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.

Where the hell was Chris Mason’s judgement during the Brexit Referendum? Where was it during the 2019 GE Campaign? Where was it during the height of Covid when ministers were partying? Not once before have he or his colleagues decide to exercise their judgement and tell the nation the truth.

Is this week a watershed in the Brenter debate? The Times on Wednesday and now the Sunday Telegraph both explicitly stating Brexit was a disaster and it’s time to admit it

Why? Because Corbyn is as big a threat to the UK as Farage. He was never fit to be PM and it cost the left 2 elections - two of the most radical manifestos - and still lost and lost because of him. He’s a toxic liability. YP won’t exist by the next GE at this rate.

Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana refuses to enter group's conference hall Your Party's "historic" founding conference has descended into chaos on day one as one of its co-founders stages a boycott over claims of a "purge".

Corbyn showing exactly why he wasn’t fit to be PrimeMinister. Sultana acting like a spoiled brat/prima donna. Literally no one’s party.

The many faces of Farage:
Farage the Führer;
Farage the fascist;
Farage the fleecer;
will Farage the felon ever surface?

Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel

There’s daft, there’s mad, there’s totally whacko and then there’s the Office of Rail and Road. Heidi Alexander needs to step in and bang heads over this - a train will run 5x a week - Manc to London - WITHOUT passengers!!!

Yay!! I couldn’t be there but Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring just won gold at the APA podcast awards!!

Whole thing was crowdfunded by @the-citizens.bsky.social to highlight 5-year legal case to get an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics. Power to the people!

Well worth signing AND sharing. Time to root out the truth about Russian influence! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Now over 68,000

I just watched Reeves’s speech in full for the first time. This line did make me laugh but then I thought “why isn’t Blackrod marching Farage straight to jail, denying him his ECHR rights and leaving him there. See how he fares. “

Of all the tax attacks on the middle class, this was the worst — The Times and The Sunday Times It seems a lifetime ago that the chancellor spoke in Downing Street and swore that she would put the country before her party. That all went out of the window today as she unleashed a barrage of tax a...

Atypical of the 🐂💩 MSM references in my first post above. Ben Wilkinson from the Times bemoaning his loss of salary sacrifice.

Not just businesses but govts and potentially whole economies, defences, transport systems and more, much more, could literally implode because of AI Misuse

Great piece and very welcome insights on the risks of going hell for leather in chase of the AI Holy Grail use case. It’s going to backfire and bite many businesses very hard on the 🍑 and cost them an existential fortune in some cases

Declaration of interests:-
I own an EV
I earn 6 figures
I save into a cash ISA
I benefit from salary sacrifice on my pension
I’d have raised income tax - a lot AND the “could have done mores” I reference above.

10/ Minimum wage rise - to be welcomed
11/ no designer cars on Motability -should not be an issue for anyone.
Could have done more on fossil fuel producers, multinationals who don’t pay tax if they hide debt here, full on asset taxes and an exit tax on assets removed from the UK but overall a B-

8/pension salary sacrifice - one I don’t agree with as it will disincentivise people from accumulating a decent pension pot. I make wide use of it but I’ll be retired before it kicks in.
9/ tax threshold freeze - nothing new and a way of increasing tax take without increasing tax rates

5/ EV mileage - £360 a yr for average mileage driver. For those who can afford an EV it’s not a lot and way cheaper than fuel duty for the same distance travelled
6/ reinstatement of child benefit - about time; a win for the left
7/ Cash ISAs - if you can save >12k pa you can pay tax on the interest

1/ increase in dividend tax - tough, get over it and pay your share
2/ Mansion tax - a start but no where near the needs for wealth asset tax
3/ Tourist tax - it’s pennies and aligns us with pretty much the rest of the world
4/ sports betting/gambling - the right industry to hammer

This was much more of a budget I’d expect from a Labour chancellor. It’s not enough - for progressives budgets rarely have been but my thoughts:-

Interesting budget after time to digest it. I don’t think I’ve ever heard as much 🐂💩 reaction from the MSM to a budget in my lifetime. As for Bad Enoch saying Reeves is worst chancellor ever I think she must have forgotten Crazy Kwarteng.

I wouldn’t suggest relying on the MSM to talk about it at all. But progressives need to fish where the fish are and get this outcome Facebook, insta, TikTok etc - Farage voters don’t typically use BlueSky. This is a much bigger challenge as many of us don’t use TikTok or Meta products either

Similar story at Lancashire CC - just don’t read that as LFC. Things are bad enough at Liverpool this season thank you!

Telling that no classmates or even any friends from his younger days have come out to defend him

There are c20% of voters who are openly or covertly racist in my view and no, we won’t change their minds. We may not change the minds of many people who just don’t think. But there’s a share of people thinking of voting RefUK in protest - we must reach them; they make the difference to a RefUK win

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) Left: Shabana Mahmood as Lord Chancellor, "It is right that we have an independent judiciary in this country" Right: Labour have removed a judge who was due to hear and rule over the legality of the…

Attacking judicial independence by removing judges from trials - is a Labour Party policy

Ah but that wasn’t the policy was it? No, the policy was “cut the cost of benefits” and it wasn’t the Tories. And my point was - back in 2017 could you have remotely thought this would be Labour policy?

Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer

“Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt”

Farage’s Achilles Heel is the truth about his past. It will bring him down