Ian Gorrie
@iangorrie.bsky.social
35 years in Telecom’s. Scot living in England = British . Refugee from Twitter. Dundee & Redditch Worcestershire Uk. Interested in Technology, Aviation, History, local culture, military history, politics for the people and many other things.
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‘Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952’
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952’
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Two presidents that never served in the military one did the right thing. The other is a selfish prick 🤬🤬🤬😡
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Two presidents that never served in the military one did the right thing. The other is a selfish prick 🤬🤬🤬😡
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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Everyone is talking about Coburn. It would be terrible to keep David Coburn, UKIP (former leader) really prominent. Share this to raise awareness.
David Coburn, former leader of UKIP Scotland & mentioned in WhatsApp messages sent between Gill and his handler answers "no" when a journalist asks him if he took money to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The video of him outside his chateau is lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Everyone is talking about Coburn. It would be terrible to keep David Coburn, UKIP (former leader) really prominent. Share this to raise awareness.
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This is a highly unusual order from a Secretary of Defense, and it’s almost certainly a war crime.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is a highly unusual order from a Secretary of Defense, and it’s almost certainly a war crime.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
In the strike in question, two people survived and were clinging to the side of the ruined boat, and a second mission was spun up to execute them.
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A war crime. No room for debate, this is “manifestly illegal”. Where was the chain of command?
Murder, pure and simple.
Murder, pure and simple.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A war crime. No room for debate, this is “manifestly illegal”. Where was the chain of command?
Murder, pure and simple.
Murder, pure and simple.
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Keep asking the important questions.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Keep asking the important questions.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk posted a false claim yesterday about Labour ending the Digital Services Tax. He was shown evidence that his claim was false yet his post remains both here and on X, where people continue to share it. Next time Lib Dems talk about disinformation, remind them of this.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk posted a false claim yesterday about Labour ending the Digital Services Tax. He was shown evidence that his claim was false yet his post remains both here and on X, where people continue to share it. Next time Lib Dems talk about disinformation, remind them of this.
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Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
buff.ly/s5mz97u
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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The idea of building an A90 relief road, bypassing the notorious junction and the Kingsway, has been on the cards repeatedly.
Why has a Dundee bypass never been built amid Swallow Roundabout chaos?
The idea of building an A90 relief road, bypassing the notorious junction and the Kingsway, has been on the cards repeatedly.
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The idea of building an A90 relief road, bypassing the notorious junction and the Kingsway, has been on the cards repeatedly.
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Why has a Dundee bypass never been built amid Swallow Roundabout chaos?
Why has a Dundee bypass never been built amid Swallow Roundabout chaos?
The idea of building an A90 relief road, bypassing the notorious junction and the Kingsway, has been on the cards repeatedly.
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Why has a Dundee bypass never been built amid Swallow Roundabout chaos?
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God bless the UK supermarket cats taking the strain for the American shop cats on this their special day
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
God bless the UK supermarket cats taking the strain for the American shop cats on this their special day
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Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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This is bollocks. Really disappointed in you for this, Ed. The DST is *remaining* as a temporary tax until a new internationally agreed regime is put in place. It's exactly what Labour said it would do, and it's exactly what is needed. Shame on the Lib Dems for this disinformation.
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is bollocks. Really disappointed in you for this, Ed. The DST is *remaining* as a temporary tax until a new internationally agreed regime is put in place. It's exactly what Labour said it would do, and it's exactly what is needed. Shame on the Lib Dems for this disinformation.
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I don't care if you think you're middle class or whatever. Your house is worth £2m? Lucky you. Shut up and pay up.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't care if you think you're middle class or whatever. Your house is worth £2m? Lucky you. Shut up and pay up.
![BURTON-ON-TRENT,
Tuesday.
THE death-roll [sic] in the R.A.F. depot explosion near here yesterday is expected to exceed 160. Tonight more than 100 men were estimated to be buried in the ammunition store, from which 23 bodies have been recovered. Thirty-one bodies remain under the wreckage of a plaster works nearby. Rescue parties worked through last night and today, often in extreme difficulties. Many deaths were caused by gas and some of the rescuers could work only for two-minute spells, although equipped with respirators. The casualties include Service men, civilians and Italian collaborators. A village near the scene of the main explosion, and the open country above the depot, today looked as if it had been pattern-bombed. Great craters are everywhere, and the face of the countryside over an area of several square miles has been completely changed. Buried under mud. There were two explosions in different parts of the depot. The first was in a gallery which, with the administration buildings above it, was wrecked. The other was at a bomb dump 70ft. underground. Between 50 and 60 men were at work at the site of the first explosion, but some escaped by an air shaft.
Mr. Charles Gibbs was one of those unhurt. Man after man he carried to safety on his back, and he gave in only when he collapsed through being gassed; he was himself carried home by R.A.F. men.
Blast wrecked a reservoir and an avalanche of mud swept through and over the administration offices. Men are believed to be buried under the mud. At the bomb dump there were at least 75 men at work.
Farm disappears. Two farms near the dump were among the wrecked buildings. One has practically disappeared into a crater 100 yards deep and 300 yards wide. There is no trace of a farmer and his wife and three farm hands. At intervals throughout today there have been minor explosions, attributed to the bursting of incendiary bombs...
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NEW: Net migration to the UK fell significantly to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
NEW: Net migration to the UK fell significantly to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
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You’ve seen the signs: ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’. They lie. In the UK ‘trespass’ is a civil offence, not a criminal one. You cannot face prosecution simply for being on someone’s land, off a designated Right of Way, open access land, or land where bylaws permit access, without permission.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
You’ve seen the signs: ‘Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted’. They lie. In the UK ‘trespass’ is a civil offence, not a criminal one. You cannot face prosecution simply for being on someone’s land, off a designated Right of Way, open access land, or land where bylaws permit access, without permission.
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Just RT this, as #BBCNews seems to think it's suddenly a big thing, having barely mentioned it the past 5 years.
Feels slightly disingenuous to say Reeves has "chosen to freeze the personal tax allowance until 2031" when the previous governments had already frozen it since 2021, and had announced a freeze until 2028. This further extends it, which isn't good, but this has been going on for the last 5 years.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Just RT this, as #BBCNews seems to think it's suddenly a big thing, having barely mentioned it the past 5 years.
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We need to smash this untruth shared by Nick Robinson on #r4today, and by his mates in the Tory/Reform party, that working people will be funding people who do not work with the lifting of the benefit cap.
They are very often the same people. 60% of beneficiaries are IN WORK and many others ...
They are very often the same people. 60% of beneficiaries are IN WORK and many others ...
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We need to smash this untruth shared by Nick Robinson on #r4today, and by his mates in the Tory/Reform party, that working people will be funding people who do not work with the lifting of the benefit cap.
They are very often the same people. 60% of beneficiaries are IN WORK and many others ...
They are very often the same people. 60% of beneficiaries are IN WORK and many others ...
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Odd how the whole media are determined to criticise lifting 500,000 kids out of poverty. Do you need to lack empathy to work in the media? Or be some sort of sociopath?
It explains a lot.
It explains a lot.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Odd how the whole media are determined to criticise lifting 500,000 kids out of poverty. Do you need to lack empathy to work in the media? Or be some sort of sociopath?
It explains a lot.
It explains a lot.