@andymawby.bsky.social
Refugee from the other place. If I am not on here, I am out on my bike.
05.10.2025 09:06 โ ๐ 1326 ๐ 492 ๐ฌ 24 ๐ 11
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a ยฃ37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
22.11.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 1985 ๐ 981 ๐ฌ 98 ๐ 51
It's July 2016 and Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill is doing the rounds on Nigel Farage's behalf explaining why he resigned as UKIP leader.
Here he is on Russia Today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtz...
17.08.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 1659 ๐ 493 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 24
REALLY?
REALLY?
22.11.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 4It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Trying to think of a case where a national newspaper would platform a man facing allegations of murdering a white British woman - but Agnes is a black Kenyan woman.
22.11.2025 08:48 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Sudetenland was ceded to Germany. It did not stop World War II.
Do not let history repeat itself.
Interesting
22.11.2025 09:18 โ ๐ 169 ๐ 53 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 2
21.11.2025 18:30 โ ๐ 467 ๐ 130 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 4
Gillโs conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
21.11.2025 13:44 โ ๐ 732 ๐ 258 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 18Word of the day is โquockerwodgerโ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
21.11.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 2257 ๐ 767 ๐ฌ 73 ๐ 110
Report from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on the reported Russia/US deal, what it means for Kyiv, and yesterday's devastating attack by Russian drones and rockets on Ternopil
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
๐ UK on US peace plan: Russia can end war by withdrawing its troops
20.11.2025 06:57 โ ๐ 270 ๐ 69 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 5Reporter: Is it appropriate for your family to do business with Saudi Arabia while youโre president? The us intelligence concluded you orchestrated the murder of a journalistโฆ
Trump: Who are you with?
Reporter: ABC News
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
19.11.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 8279 ๐ 4384 ๐ฌ 709 ๐ 534If Trump is so comfortable shouting "Quiet Piggy!" to a professional woman journalist in front of the world's media, imagine what he'd be willing to say and do to a vulnerable woman behind closed doors with his pall Jeff. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
When people are willing to show you who they are, believe them.
Gosh. What a surprise.
19.11.2025 16:15 โ ๐ 1452 ๐ 383 ๐ฌ 106 ๐ 12
Truly, as The Times has described him, a "feminist hero" and a "feminist champion". ๐คฎ
19.11.2025 06:44 โ ๐ 251 ๐ 43 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0
A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
I've spotted an error - they have all the Union Jacks the right way up. When have you ever seen the flag shaggers manage that?
19.11.2025 00:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
So, @telegraph.co.uk was off a strong start on the nonsense scale by having to admit the tree was being sold in their Christmas range while in the very next line saying it was being sold with โno reference to Christmasโ!๐
5/
Trump vs The BBC.
Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...
Aneurin Bevan
"I may be ready to be polite 20 years from now, when we are able to look back on 25 years of Socialist government. Then maybe I won't have enough energy to be rude. But while we have the energy to be rude let us be rude to the right people."
Aneurin Bevan, Speech in Durham (24 July 1948)
Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.
18.11.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 216 ๐ 76 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
18.11.2025 11:08 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
No Lipstick though.
18.11.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety
The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures
Me, for @zeteo.com
