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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1h

...oil drilled in our backyard as Big Gas'nOil Inc. will always sell to the highest bidder (P. Eye, last issue 1659).

Drilling locally is better than shipping gas, etc from U.S. or Middle East - but cheaper energy for Brits is a lie.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1h

In other news, oil & gas lobby group Offshore Energies UK has cancelled Prof Matthew Agarwala, specialisez in sustainable finance, from speaking at LibDem, Lab (& prob tory) fringe events because he re-iterated that U.K. consumers wouldn't receive a "locals' discount" so no lower prices for gas &...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
on.ft.com/4nZ6DBt

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 1d

This could easily have been...er, reported in a pretend newpaper operating under the control of say the daily mail...er...oh, hang on.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 3d

Who missed this?
There must be a better way of charitable fund-raising.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 15d

In its strategic report the company cited “unfavourable media coverage” as a potential risk to its business, warning that negative publicity for its service fees “could have an adverse effect on the size, engagement and loyalty” of its customer base. Let's hope so!

www.thetimes.com/article/1b9a...

JustGiving pays £25.8m dividend to American owner

The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m

www.thetimes.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly.
More grifting.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d

Fucking loathsome.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5d

Fucking loathsome.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 5d

...momentous that the rest of us have all missed.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 5d

It's tricky to understand how some voters have already decided to vote for reform nearly 3.75 yrs out from next GE based on 1, maybe 2...er, policies while ignoring the incoherency of others & ignoring all the awful background picture of its leader & his connections.

Maybe they've seen something...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Sarah Smith #r4today says Trump gave no details about (didn’t know or care) what happens next with the Gaza/Israel peace deal but she can confirm that Trump will be “furious” on Friday if he isn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wow.
Priorities.
Inspirational.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

She's deffo not out of her depth at all. She signed a trade agreement with Florida, y'know.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

That woman certainly knows her stuff.

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

...on which the memorandum of understanding had been written.
Anyway, as long as she & her entourage got a few trips out if it all.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

Hang on! You missed out the...er, trade deal with Florida signed by badenoch, with similar ones lined-up with Texas, etc.

That deal allowed the tories to do a lap of honour & the fools applauded. After the headlines had been won, 2 days later, it was pointed out that it wasn't worth the paper...

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

Can you provide examples of benefits & upsides?

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, that'll be my fault, not understanding what you'd posted.

Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, yes. History.

It wouldn't look like that now.
All the polling shows that a constant, consistent minimum of 55% (rising to 70% in some polling) favour more closer ties to EU.
The snake-oil promises of prosperity & benefits to U.K. have failed to appear.

You know polling? It has farridge as p.m.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 9d

When was this election?

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Johnimator @johnimator.bsky.social · 12d

They are snowflake-you melts, aren't they?

Altho' they're quite happy to call people 2-tier Keir or Rachel-from-Accounts.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”

Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument.
Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage.
It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13d

Such an embarrassment. The fact she'll never have any power makes it barely worth noticing her, but whenever you do she's doing something abysmal or moronic. She richly deserves the anonymity to come.

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13d

Were all those huskies hugged for nothing?

"Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law" - on.ft.com/4gQgXsJ

Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law

Tory leader reaches out to voters hit by high energy bills but faces backlash from business and within the party

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