MacTales
@mactales.bsky.social
Fiction writer. www.seanmcs.co.uk
Renationalise public services.
Kick the private sector out of the NHS. The wealthy can afford to pay more tax.
True patriotism is looking after everyone in the country not ranting about a world war you never experienced.
Renationalise public services.
Kick the private sector out of the NHS. The wealthy can afford to pay more tax.
True patriotism is looking after everyone in the country not ranting about a world war you never experienced.
It is exactly what I woud expect from this "Labour" government.
🚨This is not what I expect from a Labour government
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
Devastating cuts for some of most vulnerable children in England is not what I expect from Labour
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It is exactly what I woud expect from this "Labour" government.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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The fire service does not have council members listed as chair or vice chair.
'the public "has a right to expect that its emergency services are accountable to them and their elected representatives.
"At the moment, the structures for that have broken down in Kent."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'the public "has a right to expect that its emergency services are accountable to them and their elected representatives.
"At the moment, the structures for that have broken down in Kent."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The fire service does not have council members listed as chair or vice chair.
'the public "has a right to expect that its emergency services are accountable to them and their elected representatives.
"At the moment, the structures for that have broken down in Kent."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'the public "has a right to expect that its emergency services are accountable to them and their elected representatives.
"At the moment, the structures for that have broken down in Kent."'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Of course – so why were they so stupid as to do it? It takes 10 seconds to find genuine footage to prove Trump is corrupt and criminal.
Now the ant-BBC & anti-licence fee mob will have a field day.
Wel done the BBC!
Now the ant-BBC & anti-licence fee mob will have a field day.
Wel done the BBC!
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Of course – so why were they so stupid as to do it? It takes 10 seconds to find genuine footage to prove Trump is corrupt and criminal.
Now the ant-BBC & anti-licence fee mob will have a field day.
Wel done the BBC!
Now the ant-BBC & anti-licence fee mob will have a field day.
Wel done the BBC!
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Lovely.
Now let's hear about the situations of the children she trafficked and abused.
Now let's hear about the situations of the children she trafficked and abused.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Lovely.
Now let's hear about the situations of the children she trafficked and abused.
Now let's hear about the situations of the children she trafficked and abused.
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This will be the Robbie Gibb of the BBC, 'responsible for upholding the independence of the BBC'. Yeah, right.
From the archives 🔎
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This will be the Robbie Gibb of the BBC, 'responsible for upholding the independence of the BBC'. Yeah, right.
I appreciate it must be extremely difficult to find recordings of Trump to prove how stupid, corrupt and criminal he is – so it is understandable that in frustration the BBC cobbled something together to demonstrate this.
How incredibly stupid. And now the anti-BBC mob have even more ammo.
How incredibly stupid. And now the anti-BBC mob have even more ammo.
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I appreciate it must be extremely difficult to find recordings of Trump to prove how stupid, corrupt and criminal he is – so it is understandable that in frustration the BBC cobbled something together to demonstrate this.
How incredibly stupid. And now the anti-BBC mob have even more ammo.
How incredibly stupid. And now the anti-BBC mob have even more ammo.
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If NHS trusts hadn’t had to pay more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies, that money could have paid for the starting salaries of over 50,000 NHS doctors 😮🚨
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If NHS trusts hadn’t had to pay more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies, that money could have paid for the starting salaries of over 50,000 NHS doctors 😮🚨
I honestly believe Karp is a sociopath and Thiel is dernanged (or brain damaged – have you seen him interviewed?).
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I honestly believe Karp is a sociopath and Thiel is dernanged (or brain damaged – have you seen him interviewed?).
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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
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Tory policy: Let's spend 14 years asset stripping the country for our own ends & when we're finally voted out & things begin crumbling around us, we can blame the current government.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tory policy: Let's spend 14 years asset stripping the country for our own ends & when we're finally voted out & things begin crumbling around us, we can blame the current government.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.
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The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. It will cost about £1 billion.
The purchase is purely political, say Nuclear Information Service and Nukewatch UK.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
The purchase is purely political, say Nuclear Information Service and Nukewatch UK.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam
The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
www.declassifieduk.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. It will cost about £1 billion.
The purchase is purely political, say Nuclear Information Service and Nukewatch UK.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
The purchase is purely political, say Nuclear Information Service and Nukewatch UK.
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
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Chortle 🤭
Reform UK suspends another Kent councillor after video leak
Isabella Kemp is the latest Kent member to be suspended after the leak of a heated virtual meeting.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Chortle 🤭
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It's only ever about skin colour for the far right...
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It's only ever about skin colour for the far right...
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UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
www.unitetheunion.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
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The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.
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💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
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With incompetence like this, I don't think we need to worry about Reform lasting long enough to be a threat at the next election...
Reform UK Councillor Ian Duxbury has questioned why Maya Ellis MP is getting involved with an issue on his patch.
Awkwardly, he’s doesn't seem to know the electoral boundaries changed last year. It’s her patch. So much for knowing your area.
Awkwardly, he’s doesn't seem to know the electoral boundaries changed last year. It’s her patch. So much for knowing your area.
November 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
With incompetence like this, I don't think we need to worry about Reform lasting long enough to be a threat at the next election...
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The rightwing think-tank Policy Exchange is breaching charity law.
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Policy Exchange’s transphobic campaigning breaches charity law | Good Law Project
Policy Exchange, a rightwing think-tank set up for the “non-partisan advancement of education of the public” has been flagrantly breaching its objects and charity law. We’ve made a formal complaint to...
goodlaw.social
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The rightwing think-tank Policy Exchange is breaching charity law.
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
From my book of Updated Nersery Rhymes:
"Oh, the grand old Mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor…"
(I haven't quite finished this one yet.)
"Oh, the grand old Mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor…"
(I haven't quite finished this one yet.)
Success 💥
Andrew has been stripped of his titles – no one should be able to hold to titles they don’t deserve.
Andrew has been stripped of his titles – no one should be able to hold to titles they don’t deserve.
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From my book of Updated Nersery Rhymes:
"Oh, the grand old Mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor…"
(I haven't quite finished this one yet.)
"Oh, the grand old Mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor…"
(I haven't quite finished this one yet.)
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🚨 The Autumn Budget could quietly open the door to more privatisation of our NHS.
Our CEO, Dr Julia Patterson, explains why we must act — before it’s too late.
🎥Watch, share, and join the fight to protect the NHS: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
Our CEO, Dr Julia Patterson, explains why we must act — before it’s too late.
🎥Watch, share, and join the fight to protect the NHS: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🚨 The Autumn Budget could quietly open the door to more privatisation of our NHS.
Our CEO, Dr Julia Patterson, explains why we must act — before it’s too late.
🎥Watch, share, and join the fight to protect the NHS: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
Our CEO, Dr Julia Patterson, explains why we must act — before it’s too late.
🎥Watch, share, and join the fight to protect the NHS: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
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Did you spot it?
This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan
*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*
Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan
*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*
Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
weownit.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Did you spot it?
This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan
*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*
Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan
*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*
Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
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Reform UK’s Lee Anderson wants to bring back the ‘invalid carriage’.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Reform UK’s Lee Anderson wants to bring back the ‘invalid carriage’.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
The Invacar was banned from English roads in 2003 over safety fears after some overturned and others caught fire.
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