My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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Mountain biker, spaniel & lab owner, skier & bandsman. Battlefield Guide, MA graduate FWW Studies. Proud to be a CWGC speaker, guide and EOHO. All views my own.
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because itβs a lot easier to privatise services that wayπ¨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
π Digging into NHS PFI debt wasnβt easy β but we uncovered Β£21bn still owed. πΈ
This debt is a real problem for patients, staff, and the future of the NHS.
Read our blog on the fight to expose the truth β‘οΈ everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
π₯ Private healthcare bosses had a hand in govt 10yr NHS Plan.
Executives from UnitedHealth, InHealth and more sat on working groups that helped draft the blueprint.
Patients deserve a health plan shaped by public need, not private profit.
π Read our full exposΓ©: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
I think people would feel much more positive about tax/ tax rises/ the country in general if they knew that none of the money put into public services was being siphoned off into private shareholdersβ pockets.π°π¨
03.11.2025 07:29 β π 204 π 60 π¬ 6 π 3Congratulations Andy! What was the title?
01.11.2025 08:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.
30.10.2025 18:28 β π 124 π 29 π¬ 6 π 0The BBC is leading all its news bulletins on the escaped criminal asylum seeker. He needs catching and deporting.
Its prominence is because
-Embarrasses the government
-Requires zero analysis by Chris Mason
-Pleases the Reform loving management
Season finale - the Hindenburg Line
24.10.2025 06:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Storm Wotsit will not dissuade us hardy souls!
24.10.2025 06:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dahlia day
12.10.2025 20:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Will be there in two weeks
08.10.2025 07:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A beautiful evening sky to finish off a gorgeous afternoon
07.10.2025 07:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Johnsonβs cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The mediaβs pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
04.10.2025 14:43 β π 2376 π 532 π¬ 67 π 18Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.
22.09.2025 11:10 β π 529 π 376 π¬ 21 π 10Thatβs last yearβs sloe gin bottled and ready for drinking
04.10.2025 16:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We have a choice, we either help the current #Labour Government to fight #Farage and #ReformUK or we let our country be lost to those ultra #Nationalistic forces which have unleashed division, chaos and hatred to the #USA.
30.09.2025 16:17 β π 26 π 4 π¬ 3 π 1Just watched the documentary - superb!
26.09.2025 14:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
26.09.2025 14:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Struggling to find it - what was the title please?
26.09.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thatβs great - will watch it on the long road home
26.09.2025 13:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I understand that completely. As a brass bandsman myself, I thought that the epitaph was wonderfulβ¦
26.09.2025 13:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oops!π
26.09.2025 10:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Qualified in 1986 and never knew there was a World Pharmacist Day!!!
26.09.2025 07:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was a privilege to attend the service yesterday - it was very moving
26.09.2025 07:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0On the Forgotten Front this week
26.09.2025 07:38 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Discussing the Indian contribution on the Forgotten Front
26.09.2025 07:37 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0An absolute privilege to be at the re-burial of eight Scottish soldiers killed 25th September 191(
26.09.2025 07:36 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0