Tony
@toekneee.bsky.social
UK Labour Member. We won. Now let’s deliver. But taking money off vulnerable people is not the answer to the country’s problems. So let’s not do that 🫡
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US President Donald Trump has since played down the 28-point peace framework as a "concept" to be "fine-tuned."
Zelenskyy arrives in Paris for Ukraine peace talks with Macron
US President Donald Trump has since played down the 28-point peace framework as a "concept" to be "fine-tuned."
l.euronews.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
US President Donald Trump has since played down the 28-point peace framework as a "concept" to be "fine-tuned."
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The system is not perfect, especially when the Tories were in office for 14 years, which produced a conveyor belt of their appointees dominating the BBC. The Board has too much power. The 4 who are appointed by the Govt, appoint all the other Board members. That should be done independently.
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The system is not perfect, especially when the Tories were in office for 14 years, which produced a conveyor belt of their appointees dominating the BBC. The Board has too much power. The 4 who are appointed by the Govt, appoint all the other Board members. That should be done independently.
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For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
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As the day has gone on the claptrap about Rachel Reeves lying is falling apart like a cheap suit as are the justifications for calling her a liar. This arse covering exercise by the media is shabby example of how far our they've fallen.
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
As the day has gone on the claptrap about Rachel Reeves lying is falling apart like a cheap suit as are the justifications for calling her a liar. This arse covering exercise by the media is shabby example of how far our they've fallen.
The strong links between the BBC and the Tory party and Sky News and the Tory party have never been more apparent than today. Time for better regulation.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The strong links between the BBC and the Tory party and Sky News and the Tory party have never been more apparent than today. Time for better regulation.
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Rachel Reeves did not mention a £20bn blackhole in her speech. Prior to the budget she indicated the UK faced a potential £20bn fnancial gap. Indicated and potential are words our media seem unable to understand, back to school for them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Rachel Reeves did not mention a £20bn blackhole in her speech. Prior to the budget she indicated the UK faced a potential £20bn fnancial gap. Indicated and potential are words our media seem unable to understand, back to school for them.
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I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
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The general position of journalists in that Starmer Q&A appeared to be: The economy has been doing better than expected and so the Chancellor did not have to increase income tax, breaking a manifesto pledge, as feared, therefore, THE CHANCELLOR MUST RESIGN. 😵💫
I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The general position of journalists in that Starmer Q&A appeared to be: The economy has been doing better than expected and so the Chancellor did not have to increase income tax, breaking a manifesto pledge, as feared, therefore, THE CHANCELLOR MUST RESIGN. 😵💫
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Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd
Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
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Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform UK
He joins Daniel Jellyman
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
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You have to question what is happening in our media.
Yields decreased, with the UK bond market being a top performer compared to other global markets in the last week of November 2025.
Yields decreased, with the UK bond market being a top performer compared to other global markets in the last week of November 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
You have to question what is happening in our media.
Yields decreased, with the UK bond market being a top performer compared to other global markets in the last week of November 2025.
Yields decreased, with the UK bond market being a top performer compared to other global markets in the last week of November 2025.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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@splootman.bsky.social
The face of impartial journalism 😂
The face of impartial journalism 😂
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@splootman.bsky.social
The face of impartial journalism 😂
The face of impartial journalism 😂
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Yes!
Solidarity.
F*ck Amazon.
Dump the Tech bros.
Solidarity.
F*ck Amazon.
Dump the Tech bros.
Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yes!
Solidarity.
F*ck Amazon.
Dump the Tech bros.
Solidarity.
F*ck Amazon.
Dump the Tech bros.
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It's all about the grift. No matter who you are, or where you're from, the wide mouthed frog is available, if the price is right.
Fun fact: Farage has made £140,000 (2000 videos) from the Cameo messaging platform over the past 12 months - but has spoken in Parliament only 22 times, and mentioned his Clacton constituents on just three occasions.
Source: The Mirror
Source: The Mirror
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's all about the grift. No matter who you are, or where you're from, the wide mouthed frog is available, if the price is right.
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Reform UK's Lancashire leader takes trip paid for by Israeli government
The first cabinet meeting cancelled at County Hall in quite some time raises eyebrows in opposition ranks
He and many others missed Remembrance Day because of the trip
lancashire.thelead.uk/p/reform-uks...
The first cabinet meeting cancelled at County Hall in quite some time raises eyebrows in opposition ranks
He and many others missed Remembrance Day because of the trip
lancashire.thelead.uk/p/reform-uks...
Reform UK's Lancashire leader takes trip paid for by Israeli government
The first cabinet meeting cancelled at County Hall in quite some time raises eyebrows in opposition ranks
lancashire.thelead.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reform UK's Lancashire leader takes trip paid for by Israeli government
The first cabinet meeting cancelled at County Hall in quite some time raises eyebrows in opposition ranks
He and many others missed Remembrance Day because of the trip
lancashire.thelead.uk/p/reform-uks...
The first cabinet meeting cancelled at County Hall in quite some time raises eyebrows in opposition ranks
He and many others missed Remembrance Day because of the trip
lancashire.thelead.uk/p/reform-uks...
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"To achieve this, whether in Russia or elsewhere in the world, the same tool is always used by those in power: self-censorship."
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
I'm an exiled Russian journalist – I see worrying parallels between Trump and Putin
Vladimir Putin throttled free speech in Russia. The US must not sleepwalk into the same kind of situation
inews.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"To achieve this, whether in Russia or elsewhere in the world, the same tool is always used by those in power: self-censorship."
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
"Self-censorship is far more effective than censorship."
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/exiled-russian-journalist-sees-worrying-parallels-trump-putin-4062823
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Is Washington about to become the new Narco capital under Donald Trump?
The ex- President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, orchestrated a decades-long drug trafficking conspiracy. He flooded America with cocaine & ravaged his Central American country.
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Trump has pardoned him
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Is Washington about to become the new Narco capital under Donald Trump?
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Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press
www.newstatesman.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Don't forget🚨
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
70 per cent of the money from lifting the two-child cap is going to children whose parents are working.
A third of Universal Credit claimants are in work. People claim benefits to reduce their hours to raise children or care for parents.
https://bit.ly/4iooCiF
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The good news this week:
Immigration at lowest level since pre Brexit. Labours methods are working
Budget delivers ways of taxing Gambling and the wealthiest more as demanded
Markets and business happy
There was only a black hole because of an OBR downgrade to productivity.
Immigration at lowest level since pre Brexit. Labours methods are working
Budget delivers ways of taxing Gambling and the wealthiest more as demanded
Markets and business happy
There was only a black hole because of an OBR downgrade to productivity.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The good news this week:
Immigration at lowest level since pre Brexit. Labours methods are working
Budget delivers ways of taxing Gambling and the wealthiest more as demanded
Markets and business happy
There was only a black hole because of an OBR downgrade to productivity.
Immigration at lowest level since pre Brexit. Labours methods are working
Budget delivers ways of taxing Gambling and the wealthiest more as demanded
Markets and business happy
There was only a black hole because of an OBR downgrade to productivity.
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This is a long one. But well
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is a long one. But well
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!
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Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Before the Budget I told you the Chancellor was going to do 3 things with it:
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
💷 Tacking the cost of living
✂️ Cutting NHS waiting lists
📉 Driving down borrowing and debt
How did I know?
Because if you ignore the media and listen to what the government said, they told us.
And she delivered all 3.
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13 bits of good news delivered by Labour in the last week. Some via the Budget. Some worth a reminder from a bit further back marked out in Budget by funding.
Great to have a Labour gov
Great to have a Labour gov
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
13 bits of good news delivered by Labour in the last week. Some via the Budget. Some worth a reminder from a bit further back marked out in Budget by funding.
Great to have a Labour gov
Great to have a Labour gov
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We cannot trust Trump to ever act in Ukraine’s real interest. That's why Europe must stand with Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/world/europe/europe-ukraine-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/world/europe/europe-ukraine-trump.html
Trump Cut Europe Out of Ukraine Talks. Here’s How Europe Pushed Back.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We cannot trust Trump to ever act in Ukraine’s real interest. That's why Europe must stand with Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/world/europe/europe-ukraine-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/world/europe/europe-ukraine-trump.html
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Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf opened September 2025’s @SkyNews Immigration Debate with a bald-faced lie about net migration:
“Last year it was about a million.”
Reality:
2024: 345k
Year to June 2025: just 204k
The Many Lies of Zia Yusuf 👇
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf opened September 2025’s @SkyNews Immigration Debate with a bald-faced lie about net migration:
“Last year it was about a million.”
Reality:
2024: 345k
Year to June 2025: just 204k
The Many Lies of Zia Yusuf 👇
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf opened September 2025’s @SkyNews Immigration Debate with a bald-faced lie about net migration:
“Last year it was about a million.”
Reality:
2024: 345k
Year to June 2025: just 204k
The Many Lies of Zia Yusuf 👇
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf opened September 2025’s @SkyNews Immigration Debate with a bald-faced lie about net migration:
“Last year it was about a million.”
Reality:
2024: 345k
Year to June 2025: just 204k
The Many Lies of Zia Yusuf 👇