claire966.bsky.social
@claire966.bsky.social
Reposted
Spoiler alert…

It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reposted
Much of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes is now "beyond recovery", a report has said

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says
The response to the pandemic led to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted
Angela Rayner has blamed “vested interests” for attempts to delay Labour’s workers’ rights reforms and urged ministers not to “blink or buckle” in the face of opposition

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Angela Rayner blames ‘vested interests’ for workers’ rights delays
The former deputy prime minister, the architect of the reforms, urged the government to press on with the Employment Rights Bill
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Reposted
If you can't guarantee your fans will behave safely in a stadium, they can't come in the stadium. You don't change the stadium because they can't behave themselves.
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted
Isn't it the weirdest thing that he and his mob will never say this in court under oath and that the information proving their allegations is always due really soon but just not right now?
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted
Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.

It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted
Staggering - the effort and resource *still* being invested in keeping the Brexit shitshow on the road.
No one’s held to account.
No one’s fallen on their sword.
No one’s got the guts to really speak out.
So, on we go, protecting this huge and ruinous lie, because telling the truth is too difficult.
"The 2016 decision to exit the European Union has been nothing short of an economic disaster... It’s a bigger hit than if every bank, brokerage firm and hedge fund in London were suddenly to disappear." ~AA
👏🏽"The President and the Brexiteers share a fear of strangers... Trade, in [Trump's] view, is other countries draining our wallets. Immigration is other people stealing our jobs. International treaties are handcuffs limiting sovereignty." 🎯~AA

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reposted
Irish government seems to have given up doing anything about the housing crisis and would prefer to just make patronising videos
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Reposted
Later: The reindeer were smuggling drugs so we shot them all down. No survivors. Be best.
Melania Trump: "Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Comet, all of them -- they're resting in the North Pole. They need to save all of their energy for their great flight around the world on Christmas Eve. Santa told me they're snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets."
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted
If you read somewhere that I've died, it's because I've tried to pull this shit on my wife.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reposted
Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."

Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reposted
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Reposted
Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reposted
This is bonkers-speak. No. You're in an airport - one of the strangest-feeling and most grindingly stressful spaces in modern social life. What you want is for everything to work perfectly first time so your already jittery nervous system doesn't explode & you can leave it as quickly as possible.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted
I’m confused

Is Duffy suggesting we’re supposed to work out in the fine clothing he now wants us all to wear to the airport
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reposted
Seriously… what the fuck is wrong with these other reporters?
Name and shame, man. It’s pathetic.
Trump to ABC's Rachel Scott: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you -- you are an obnoxious-- a terrible reporter. And it's always the same thing with you. I told you."
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego

GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego
GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reposted
The 2022 Biden strategy had a condemnation of “Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war on its neighbor Ukraine,” while the Trump strategy has no words of censure at all. None. While silent about Russian transgressions, it has plenty of nasty things to say about America’s European allies. wapo.st/4prmqK9
Opinion | Trump’s national security strategy slams Europe, not Russia
The White House lays out an approach making clear America no longer leads the free world.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted
No notes
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted
Farage himself is currently in Abu Dhabi, representing his constituents at the Formula One...
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted
To misquote Groucho Marx, "I wouldn't want to be part of any club that had Liz Truss as a member."
Wow. Everything, from font to seal to layout, is an attempt to brand her as a former President. 56th Prime Minister? We don't do that.
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Reposted
“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.

(iPaper)
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Reposted
This absolutely needs to be a campaign. The UK and the EU (Germany especially,) need to get all government business OFF of X. Start with that and charities and other organizations will follow.
Come to BlueSky. Cut off the oxygen at X.
Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.
First, leave X. Leave X. Now.
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM