Chris Rivers
@chrisrivers50.bsky.social
Ex-Gtr Manchester, resident in Almeria 🇪🇸.
Centre left, lifelong Labour, NetZeroDad.
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Centre left, lifelong Labour, NetZeroDad.
FBPE 🇪🇺. Pro🇺🇦. ¡NO DMs!
~Child protection/Social work/Family courts/Politics of UK/EU/US/Sociology/Urban history/Economics/Tennis/TV-Film~
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Andrew Harrop - this was a responsible centre-left plan for tough economic times.
cradle2grave.substack.com/p/in-defence...
cradle2grave.substack.com/p/in-defence...
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Andrew Harrop - this was a responsible centre-left plan for tough economic times.
cradle2grave.substack.com/p/in-defence...
cradle2grave.substack.com/p/in-defence...
BBC’s Chris Mason: distraught.
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
BBC’s Chris Mason: distraught.
“Human rights law has consistently held that the law does not protect family life between parents and adult children, or adult siblings”
rozenberg.substack.com/p/gaza-famil...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/gaza-famil...
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“Human rights law has consistently held that the law does not protect family life between parents and adult children, or adult siblings”
rozenberg.substack.com/p/gaza-famil...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/gaza-famil...
This is surely false. As income tax thresholds remain the same then your take-home pay will not reduce “due to the freeze”.
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is surely false. As income tax thresholds remain the same then your take-home pay will not reduce “due to the freeze”.
“A new poll tax on wheels”? Like ICE cars, EVs require an MOT once 3 years old. So if you do 10k miles a year in your EV, your first EV MOT may mean you have to pay a PPM tax, which could be 3x£300 …
This is in addition to the £195-a-year VED rate electric car drivers now pay for car tax.
This is in addition to the £195-a-year VED rate electric car drivers now pay for car tax.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“A new poll tax on wheels”? Like ICE cars, EVs require an MOT once 3 years old. So if you do 10k miles a year in your EV, your first EV MOT may mean you have to pay a PPM tax, which could be 3x£300 …
This is in addition to the £195-a-year VED rate electric car drivers now pay for car tax.
This is in addition to the £195-a-year VED rate electric car drivers now pay for car tax.
OBR: Brexit reality
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
OBR: Brexit reality
The Swedes have 50 words for snow. Scots have almost 70 for drunk.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Swedes have 50 words for snow. Scots have almost 70 for drunk.
I don’t. This chart demonstrates it, along with Rob Ford’s explanation.
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I don’t. This chart demonstrates it, along with Rob Ford’s explanation.
I was in a bad zone in UK. Now in a good zone in Spain.
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I was in a bad zone in UK. Now in a good zone in Spain.
2013 anti-fracking protest at Barton Moss, Eccles, Gtr Manchester. There were more police than protesters 😉 But we ultimately prevailed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2013 anti-fracking protest at Barton Moss, Eccles, Gtr Manchester. There were more police than protesters 😉 But we ultimately prevailed.
This is Castillo de La Calahorra in Sierra Nevada - we see it on the road halfway between Almería and Granada. Superb. Built between 1509 and 1512. Used in House of the Dragon.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is Castillo de La Calahorra in Sierra Nevada - we see it on the road halfway between Almería and Granada. Superb. Built between 1509 and 1512. Used in House of the Dragon.
The FBI is being used as a weapon by Trump. He is seeking FBI interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video last week, urging armed forces members to refuse illegal orders from Trump. The six Democrats were attacked as traitors on social media by Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/p...?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/p...?
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The FBI is being used as a weapon by Trump. He is seeking FBI interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video last week, urging armed forces members to refuse illegal orders from Trump. The six Democrats were attacked as traitors on social media by Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/p...?
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/p...?
Tories decided to go all Led By Donkeys so projected their campaign material onto the Treasury last night. 🤦♂️
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Tories decided to go all Led By Donkeys so projected their campaign material onto the Treasury last night. 🤦♂️
Your Party members have their inaugural conference in Liverpool this weekend, including whether to have a single leader or collective leadership or a ban on an MP being party leader. It may have a “democratic whip” to instruct public office holders to vote in line with policy. As yet it has no MPs.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Your Party members have their inaugural conference in Liverpool this weekend, including whether to have a single leader or collective leadership or a ban on an MP being party leader. It may have a “democratic whip” to instruct public office holders to vote in line with policy. As yet it has no MPs.
“Starmer is having the time of his life, being more political than usual and using the Ukraine issue to beat Reform around the head. In the Commons, he delivered repeated attacks on Farage and co. over the imprisonment of their former Welsh leader, Nathan Gill, for pro-Russia bribes…”
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“Starmer is having the time of his life, being more political than usual and using the Ukraine issue to beat Reform around the head. In the Commons, he delivered repeated attacks on Farage and co. over the imprisonment of their former Welsh leader, Nathan Gill, for pro-Russia bribes…”
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One former senior council officer said, “While Reform councillors in the news come across as ignorant blowhards, the fact that they have zero influence makes it an amusing sideshow.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...?
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One former senior council officer said, “While Reform councillors in the news come across as ignorant blowhards, the fact that they have zero influence makes it an amusing sideshow.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...?
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...?
Sam Bright writes about far right connections between Farage, Ref UK, Matt Goodwin & Hungary
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-farage...?
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-farage...?
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sam Bright writes about far right connections between Farage, Ref UK, Matt Goodwin & Hungary
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-farage...?
writesbright.substack.com/p/the-farage...?
All I got was the revolving circle. Until now.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
All I got was the revolving circle. Until now.