Rob of Bobington
@mrweekender.bsky.social
IT specialist by day, bodyboarder, vector artist, photographer, drinker of beer and gamer by night. Tax wealth, not work. Plant more trees.
Views and opinions are my own.
Views and opinions are my own.
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Our chocolate boxes feel extra magical this time of the year! ✨
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our chocolate boxes feel extra magical this time of the year! ✨
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
If you’re looking for something thoughtful, delicious, and a little bit showy under the Christmas tree, this is it. Treat someone you love or create a box just for yourself. A little luxury never hurts. 🎄🍫
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Farage rightly points out that he can't investigate further whether anyone else in Reform UK has taken bribes as he doesn't have powers to look at phones, emails, etc
Nigel Farage wrongly says that Nathan Gill has not been with him for a long time, they've been best buddies for decades
Nigel Farage wrongly says that Nathan Gill has not been with him for a long time, they've been best buddies for decades
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Farage rightly points out that he can't investigate further whether anyone else in Reform UK has taken bribes as he doesn't have powers to look at phones, emails, etc
Nigel Farage wrongly says that Nathan Gill has not been with him for a long time, they've been best buddies for decades
Nigel Farage wrongly says that Nathan Gill has not been with him for a long time, they've been best buddies for decades
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UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
UK's Online Gambling Industry: The £3.8 Billion Tax Question Nobody's Answering
UK's online gambling industry generates £15.6bn annually but pays minimal tax. With £3.8bn in receipts, experts say it's time for reform Here's why.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
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The vicious cycle of monopolization:
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The vicious cycle of monopolization:
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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I’M SICK OF AMERICANS
SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST
Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has
SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST
Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’M SICK OF AMERICANS
SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST
Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has
SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST
Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has
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You should be able to untroduce someone at a party so everyone immediately forgets about them
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
You should be able to untroduce someone at a party so everyone immediately forgets about them
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There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inverness school's Christmas show cancelled after 'racist' abuse
Highland Council says some of the online messages were directed at staff at the primary.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NEW: Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage should have “courage” to launch inquiry into Reform's links to Russia after Nathan Gill sentencing.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
NEW: Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage should have “courage” to launch inquiry into Reform's links to Russia after Nathan Gill sentencing.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
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are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
are you fucking serious
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when the AI bubble bursts there are going to be lots of unused data centres around the world.
I propose we use them to jail all the tech bros that created the bubble in the first place.
I propose we use them to jail all the tech bros that created the bubble in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
when the AI bubble bursts there are going to be lots of unused data centres around the world.
I propose we use them to jail all the tech bros that created the bubble in the first place.
I propose we use them to jail all the tech bros that created the bubble in the first place.
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Three levers Labour can pull - to halve our energy bills, drive down inflation, bank lending rates and our cost of living.
@dalevince.com
@dalevince.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Three levers Labour can pull - to halve our energy bills, drive down inflation, bank lending rates and our cost of living.
@dalevince.com
@dalevince.com
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Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Kent Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
#KemkaranMustGo
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
#KemkaranMustGo
Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Kent Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
#KemkaranMustGo
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
#KemkaranMustGo
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Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings and refusal to apologise
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column
www.independent.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings and refusal to apologise
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Gibb said he never interfered editorially in the Jewish Chronicle
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Gibb said he never interfered editorially in the Jewish Chronicle
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
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I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.
Musk Accidentally Proves Most MAGA Accounts On Twitter Live In Russia
Whoops!
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.
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Robbie Gibb needs to go, not just be diluted.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Robbie Gibb needs to go, not just be diluted.
This is wild:
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is wild:
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
What do you think about this @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Also there’s evidence that Putin is using illegal people trafficking to increase migration into European countries, in an attempt to destabilise them and provide political ammunition for far-right groups who are sympathetic to his regime
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What do you think about this @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty? | CNN
Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
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Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics