Irritated Llama
@irritatedllama.bsky.social
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Bloody Mary
"Unreconstructed piffle" - Peter Hitchens
"He can sing that lad" - Bloke
GenX
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"Unreconstructed piffle" - Peter Hitchens
"He can sing that lad" - Bloke
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Thanks Greg!
Thanks Greg!
They won't allow a normal government. They want permanent shock therapy.
The attacks on Labour from BBC News are now so relentless, day after day, minute after minute, putting headline negativity on absolutely anything they say, or do.
Are they now the official opposition?
Are they now the official opposition?
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
They won't allow a normal government. They want permanent shock therapy.
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'How can anyone believe what your saying?' says Tory-blind Fiona. Incredible. The news cycle should be: Reform's proven Russian links, the ex-PM is being investigated for multiple frauds & killed 250,000 people, the budget is still responding to Truss' clusterfuck #bbcqt
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
'How can anyone believe what your saying?' says Tory-blind Fiona. Incredible. The news cycle should be: Reform's proven Russian links, the ex-PM is being investigated for multiple frauds & killed 250,000 people, the budget is still responding to Truss' clusterfuck #bbcqt
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Reform UK’s Chair of Tameside has been banned for drink driving.
Robert Barrowcliffe admitted driving while over the legal alcohol limit on 16th November.
www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/11/26/t...
Robert Barrowcliffe admitted driving while over the legal alcohol limit on 16th November.
www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/11/26/t...
Tameside’s Reform UK chair convicted of drink driving - Tameside Correspondent
The chair of the Reform Party in Tameside has been banned from the road after being convicted of drink driving.
www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reform UK’s Chair of Tameside has been banned for drink driving.
Robert Barrowcliffe admitted driving while over the legal alcohol limit on 16th November.
www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/11/26/t...
Robert Barrowcliffe admitted driving while over the legal alcohol limit on 16th November.
www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/11/26/t...
This is the kind of thing disabled people have to put up with. Our media have turned many people into unfeeling scum.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is the kind of thing disabled people have to put up with. Our media have turned many people into unfeeling scum.
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The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
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Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is exactly what a Russian asset would say.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is exactly what a Russian asset would say.
£3897? What's he doing, heating the entire street with a hair dryer?
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
£3897? What's he doing, heating the entire street with a hair dryer?
"jobless breeders"
Do these people intentionally set out to sound like Nazis?
Do these people intentionally set out to sound like Nazis?
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"jobless breeders"
Do these people intentionally set out to sound like Nazis?
Do these people intentionally set out to sound like Nazis?
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As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is disgusting.
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. Even refused to help his "friend from the Hollywood days" Rock Hudson.
George W. Bush waited 7 years to recognize World AIDS Day.
And now we are back to a POS GOP POTUS who will ignore it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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And the 13th century twatspanger speaks, he's another fukin' Vicky Pollard act conservative arsehat, "yer but, no but, yer but have some babies"
Except that he emphasizes that to have lots of children is the refrain of the rich people like him, if we're on the dole, we shouldn't reproduce.
Except that he emphasizes that to have lots of children is the refrain of the rich people like him, if we're on the dole, we shouldn't reproduce.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
And the 13th century twatspanger speaks, he's another fukin' Vicky Pollard act conservative arsehat, "yer but, no but, yer but have some babies"
Except that he emphasizes that to have lots of children is the refrain of the rich people like him, if we're on the dole, we shouldn't reproduce.
Except that he emphasizes that to have lots of children is the refrain of the rich people like him, if we're on the dole, we shouldn't reproduce.
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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Reform love free speech while being perpetually offended any time someone asks them a very basic question.
It's a curious paradox.
Why doesn't he just laugh and say, "Of course he isn't" instead of getting so cross.
It's a curious paradox.
Why doesn't he just laugh and say, "Of course he isn't" instead of getting so cross.
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reform love free speech while being perpetually offended any time someone asks them a very basic question.
It's a curious paradox.
Why doesn't he just laugh and say, "Of course he isn't" instead of getting so cross.
It's a curious paradox.
Why doesn't he just laugh and say, "Of course he isn't" instead of getting so cross.
The fact our times are really shit, and he's apparently the hero of them says it all really.
The fact our times are really shit, and he's apparently the hero of them says it all really.
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The fact our times are really shit, and he's apparently the hero of them says it all really.
The fact our times are really shit, and he's apparently the hero of them says it all really.
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It looks like Nigel Farage is going to have to find a rather better line than "it's a smear".
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It looks like Nigel Farage is going to have to find a rather better line than "it's a smear".
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A huge chunk of the calculated "cost" of the Motability scheme is the loss of revenue because vehicles are tax-exempt. But in many cases, without the scheme, people wouldn't have a car at all, so there wouldn't be any tax paid.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A huge chunk of the calculated "cost" of the Motability scheme is the loss of revenue because vehicles are tax-exempt. But in many cases, without the scheme, people wouldn't have a car at all, so there wouldn't be any tax paid.
It's insane that social media accounts that absolutely did not vote for the current government can dictate government policy, but the people who DID vote for them get ignored.
I thought this was a representative democracy. Where's OUR representation?
I thought this was a representative democracy. Where's OUR representation?
Oh, and it now looks like there will be twats targeting the disabled reliant on the Motability scheme, most likely because the Labour government have stopped funding it.
This government, companies and individuals targeting others are going to highly regret their actions.
It's a matter of time.
This government, companies and individuals targeting others are going to highly regret their actions.
It's a matter of time.
All caused by one mean spirited cowardly individual who doesn't even live in the UK, but seems to hate disabled people and thinks they're scoungers.
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's insane that social media accounts that absolutely did not vote for the current government can dictate government policy, but the people who DID vote for them get ignored.
I thought this was a representative democracy. Where's OUR representation?
I thought this was a representative democracy. Where's OUR representation?
All caused by one mean spirited cowardly individual who doesn't even live in the UK, but seems to hate disabled people and thinks they're scoungers.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
All caused by one mean spirited cowardly individual who doesn't even live in the UK, but seems to hate disabled people and thinks they're scoungers.
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Time to stop corporate welfare!
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Time to stop corporate welfare!
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Yikes - I just looked up the cost of corporate welfare to the UK.
I hope you’re sitting down - it’s between £85 billion and & £180 billion a year!
You probably knew that/ that’s why you said it…but to everyone else !!!! Holy Guacamole!
I hope you’re sitting down - it’s between £85 billion and & £180 billion a year!
You probably knew that/ that’s why you said it…but to everyone else !!!! Holy Guacamole!
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Yikes - I just looked up the cost of corporate welfare to the UK.
I hope you’re sitting down - it’s between £85 billion and & £180 billion a year!
You probably knew that/ that’s why you said it…but to everyone else !!!! Holy Guacamole!
I hope you’re sitting down - it’s between £85 billion and & £180 billion a year!
You probably knew that/ that’s why you said it…but to everyone else !!!! Holy Guacamole!