Pat Condren

Nice to meet you (at the bus stop) the other day Colin.

Unbelievable!

Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer - Politics.co.uk Ed Davey will call on the government to negotiate a new customs union with the European Union (EU) to “turbocharge our economy in the medium and long term.” Delivering his first major speech of 2025, ...

YES.

“Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer”

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden

Dear me. These people are mad!

Plenty of Blue Sky at the North Coast today.

NUMBER CRUNCHING £300 Fall in annual GDP per head in last eight recorded quarters, which Nigel Farage cites as the reason people are 'economically angry; we are getting poorer' £1,000 Loss of annual GDP per head caused by Brexit so far

Far right honker, Nigel, furiously peddles stupid, prejudiced ideas that make you poorer. Then, when you are poorer, he tells you you’re right to feel angry about that. But not with him.
For love of god, England, work it out…

(Private Eye)

I fear there is deep truth here.

We were on the Siegfried Line today

We did loads this year…
We kicked out the Tories, we called out the ruinous idiocy of Brexit, we exposed the liars and the grifters, we’ve caused an almighty tantrum in the rightwing press and the Tory MPs that survived are losing their shit in opposition…
Let’s keep going in 2025. Happy New Year!

Sky TV question. Would any of you fine folk know why I can’t seem to use the ‘Manage your Sky TV’ function on the MySky app? I want to downgrade some stuff that I don’t use. TIA

Lots Jakki! 😀 Happy Christmas to you too 🎅🏻

@manutdfc.bsky.social onwards and upwards….😬

Same here Jakki. Stay strong 💪🏼

With so much kindness, intelligence and love around, how have we, as a society, totally messed up? War, famine, misinformation, science denial, etc….! Make it make sense.

🚨 NEW: The Assembly has voted in favour of the Democratic Consent Resolution motion, keeping NI's post-Brexit trade rules for another four years.

For (48): Sinn Fein, Alliance, SDLP, PBP
Against (36): DUP, UUP, TUV

Mike Galsworthy ends the Brexit argument in four minutes "I can't see a model for the future of humanity that I like coming out of China, India or The States. But I can see it in Europe."

"I can't see a model for the future of humanity that I like coming out of China, India or The States.

But I can see it in Europe."

What about the relief of the 27th? 😮‍💨

Number Crunching (from Private Eye) 5 years to rebuild Notre Dame 7.5 years since Grenfell and 85% of remediation work still not done.

This country needs to pull its finger out on many fronts.

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

Words To Live By Number 152

Rayner to allow building on area of green belt bigger than Surrey The deputy prime minister will set out a planning ‘framework’ that aims to release more land for housebuilding. She will meet passionate opposition

Angela Rayner will press ahead with plans to prioritise for housebuilding an area of the green belt bigger than Surrey, insisting there is no alternative to large-scale development in the countryside around big cities ⬇️

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but…

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...

That is excruciatingly dense. All of it. And yet still so cocky.
Anyone who thinks these arsehats could govern a country must be beyond dim.

The power of stupid is stronger than it should be.

The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

In 2022, Brexit cost us £1M a day. So, Mark Francois and Ian Dullard Smith decrying universal phone chargers as a loss of sovereignty is beyond pathetic. Your idiotic ideology has failed, lads.
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

North coast of Ireland 💚

I laughed out loud at this Brian 😀😀

This 👇🏼

…. A comfortable armchair

I am Kcirtäp…..