Markeye
@markeye.bsky.social
Trains, music, film, theatre. Environmentally green, politically left of centre but well to the right of the real nutters. Retired and very opinionated!
When they get down to personal insults about someone’s appearance, they’ve completely lost the argument.
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When they get down to personal insults about someone’s appearance, they’ve completely lost the argument.
Goodness knows I’m no fan of the current government.
But when they do something right for a change, it seems somewhat churlish then to criticise it - whatever the reason or background.
But when they do something right for a change, it seems somewhat churlish then to criticise it - whatever the reason or background.
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Goodness knows I’m no fan of the current government.
But when they do something right for a change, it seems somewhat churlish then to criticise it - whatever the reason or background.
But when they do something right for a change, it seems somewhat churlish then to criticise it - whatever the reason or background.
‘Always back the big bully’.
That’s been Trump’s motto in business for decades.
That’s been Trump’s motto in business for decades.
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
‘Always back the big bully’.
That’s been Trump’s motto in business for decades.
That’s been Trump’s motto in business for decades.
I thought Dyno-Rod had emigrated?
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I thought Dyno-Rod had emigrated?
Has ‘chaos’ written all over it.
Leader A says something in an interview, Leader B says something different. A then says B got it wrong. B then explains why A is wrong.
And if there’s a C…..!!!!
Leader A says something in an interview, Leader B says something different. A then says B got it wrong. B then explains why A is wrong.
And if there’s a C…..!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Has ‘chaos’ written all over it.
Leader A says something in an interview, Leader B says something different. A then says B got it wrong. B then explains why A is wrong.
And if there’s a C…..!!!!
Leader A says something in an interview, Leader B says something different. A then says B got it wrong. B then explains why A is wrong.
And if there’s a C…..!!!!
And the tenth anniversary of the original vote would be a very good time to take the temperature.
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And the tenth anniversary of the original vote would be a very good time to take the temperature.
While the BBC continues to rely on the Talentless Twosome of Kuenssberg and Mason, it’s a very big ask to expect informed and informative coverage.
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
While the BBC continues to rely on the Talentless Twosome of Kuenssberg and Mason, it’s a very big ask to expect informed and informative coverage.
This is sadly what ‘political commentary’ has become in 2025.
No insights, no informed questioning, no explanations of what the main challenges and options were. Just pathetic, trivial tripwires.
I’ve never been convinced that Kuenssberg has the depth to do the job properly anyway.
No insights, no informed questioning, no explanations of what the main challenges and options were. Just pathetic, trivial tripwires.
I’ve never been convinced that Kuenssberg has the depth to do the job properly anyway.
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is sadly what ‘political commentary’ has become in 2025.
No insights, no informed questioning, no explanations of what the main challenges and options were. Just pathetic, trivial tripwires.
I’ve never been convinced that Kuenssberg has the depth to do the job properly anyway.
No insights, no informed questioning, no explanations of what the main challenges and options were. Just pathetic, trivial tripwires.
I’ve never been convinced that Kuenssberg has the depth to do the job properly anyway.
At a time when centre and left-leaning parties need every vote they can get, this party is a completely unnecessary distraction.
Hopefully it will fade away into obscurity before it matters.
Hopefully it will fade away into obscurity before it matters.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
At a time when centre and left-leaning parties need every vote they can get, this party is a completely unnecessary distraction.
Hopefully it will fade away into obscurity before it matters.
Hopefully it will fade away into obscurity before it matters.
Yes. It’s a shame that the good people of Durham felt they wanted to give more votes to Reform than to any other party isn’t it?
Under FPTP adding up other party votes and pretending people didn’t want the winning party is a completely crass and pointless exercise.
That’s why we need PR.
Under FPTP adding up other party votes and pretending people didn’t want the winning party is a completely crass and pointless exercise.
That’s why we need PR.
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yes. It’s a shame that the good people of Durham felt they wanted to give more votes to Reform than to any other party isn’t it?
Under FPTP adding up other party votes and pretending people didn’t want the winning party is a completely crass and pointless exercise.
That’s why we need PR.
Under FPTP adding up other party votes and pretending people didn’t want the winning party is a completely crass and pointless exercise.
That’s why we need PR.
They thought it would be easy.
But they’re finding out you can’t run big organisations on prejudice and ignorance alone.
I could feel sorry for the people of Durham. But you reap what you sow, eh?
But they’re finding out you can’t run big organisations on prejudice and ignorance alone.
I could feel sorry for the people of Durham. But you reap what you sow, eh?
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
They thought it would be easy.
But they’re finding out you can’t run big organisations on prejudice and ignorance alone.
I could feel sorry for the people of Durham. But you reap what you sow, eh?
But they’re finding out you can’t run big organisations on prejudice and ignorance alone.
I could feel sorry for the people of Durham. But you reap what you sow, eh?
Exactly. Like him or loathe him, he was a professional who did the job properly. Mason and Kuenssberg are just Gibb stooges.
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Exactly. Like him or loathe him, he was a professional who did the job properly. Mason and Kuenssberg are just Gibb stooges.
Of course.
But I can’t see Robin Day, for example, taking that sort of ‘guidance’. They were employed because they intuitively knew how to interview politicians, not because they were happy to read a political script.
Anyone who saw Paxman disembowel Michael Howard in 1997 will understand that.
But I can’t see Robin Day, for example, taking that sort of ‘guidance’. They were employed because they intuitively knew how to interview politicians, not because they were happy to read a political script.
Anyone who saw Paxman disembowel Michael Howard in 1997 will understand that.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Of course.
But I can’t see Robin Day, for example, taking that sort of ‘guidance’. They were employed because they intuitively knew how to interview politicians, not because they were happy to read a political script.
Anyone who saw Paxman disembowel Michael Howard in 1997 will understand that.
But I can’t see Robin Day, for example, taking that sort of ‘guidance’. They were employed because they intuitively knew how to interview politicians, not because they were happy to read a political script.
Anyone who saw Paxman disembowel Michael Howard in 1997 will understand that.
Yes. But you’re referring to today’s BBC, not the BBC of Robin Day, Martin Bell, Richard Dimbleby, Ludovic Kennedy, Vincent Hannah and the rest - even Jeremy Paxman.
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yes. But you’re referring to today’s BBC, not the BBC of Robin Day, Martin Bell, Richard Dimbleby, Ludovic Kennedy, Vincent Hannah and the rest - even Jeremy Paxman.
Barely a day goes by when Badenoch doesn’t choose to demonstrate her profound ignorance.
She’s a godsend for every other parliamentary party. A spectacularly effective gaffe machine.
She’s a godsend for every other parliamentary party. A spectacularly effective gaffe machine.
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Barely a day goes by when Badenoch doesn’t choose to demonstrate her profound ignorance.
She’s a godsend for every other parliamentary party. A spectacularly effective gaffe machine.
She’s a godsend for every other parliamentary party. A spectacularly effective gaffe machine.
In BBC world, this is the balance they strive for.
Yet:
Are we better informed about the detail in the Budget? Most certainly not.
Are we educated about the thoughts behind the budget and the issues the Government are grappling with? Again, a resounding no.
That’s why the BBC is failing us.
Yet:
Are we better informed about the detail in the Budget? Most certainly not.
Are we educated about the thoughts behind the budget and the issues the Government are grappling with? Again, a resounding no.
That’s why the BBC is failing us.
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In BBC world, this is the balance they strive for.
Yet:
Are we better informed about the detail in the Budget? Most certainly not.
Are we educated about the thoughts behind the budget and the issues the Government are grappling with? Again, a resounding no.
That’s why the BBC is failing us.
Yet:
Are we better informed about the detail in the Budget? Most certainly not.
Are we educated about the thoughts behind the budget and the issues the Government are grappling with? Again, a resounding no.
That’s why the BBC is failing us.
And no evidence that the ‘plan’ is working.
A small drop in Reform polling, but likely caused largely by Farage’s teenage fascist tendency.
A small drop in Reform polling, but likely caused largely by Farage’s teenage fascist tendency.
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
And no evidence that the ‘plan’ is working.
A small drop in Reform polling, but likely caused largely by Farage’s teenage fascist tendency.
A small drop in Reform polling, but likely caused largely by Farage’s teenage fascist tendency.
If they’re going to get this sort of coverage for a relatively light budget then it makes you wonder why they didn’t grab the bull by the horns and make some really bold changes. Coverage couldn’t get much worse.
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If they’re going to get this sort of coverage for a relatively light budget then it makes you wonder why they didn’t grab the bull by the horns and make some really bold changes. Coverage couldn’t get much worse.
In a career of over 40 years I came across quite a few people who were promoted way beyond their abilities.
Very few were as over-promoted as Badenoch though.
Very few were as over-promoted as Badenoch though.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In a career of over 40 years I came across quite a few people who were promoted way beyond their abilities.
Very few were as over-promoted as Badenoch though.
Very few were as over-promoted as Badenoch though.
The one thing that could have given them a bit of credit - raising just the base income tax threshold - and they’ve screwed it up.
So much for a budget for hard pressed earners and pensioners. Like many, I’ll now be worse off.
So much for a budget for hard pressed earners and pensioners. Like many, I’ll now be worse off.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The one thing that could have given them a bit of credit - raising just the base income tax threshold - and they’ve screwed it up.
So much for a budget for hard pressed earners and pensioners. Like many, I’ll now be worse off.
So much for a budget for hard pressed earners and pensioners. Like many, I’ll now be worse off.
Since the age of philanthropy has long since disappeared and those with extreme wealth now spend their time and efforts trying to hide that wealth so they don’t get taxed on it, we need to do something different.
A wealth tax seems as good a way as any to help to restore the equality we’ve lost.
A wealth tax seems as good a way as any to help to restore the equality we’ve lost.
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Since the age of philanthropy has long since disappeared and those with extreme wealth now spend their time and efforts trying to hide that wealth so they don’t get taxed on it, we need to do something different.
A wealth tax seems as good a way as any to help to restore the equality we’ve lost.
A wealth tax seems as good a way as any to help to restore the equality we’ve lost.
He’s not interested in the country at all. MAGA is just a smokescreen.
He’s on a personal mission to understand how Putin has managed to utterly screw the Russian people over in order to amass a huge personal fortune.
He’s on a personal mission to understand how Putin has managed to utterly screw the Russian people over in order to amass a huge personal fortune.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
He’s not interested in the country at all. MAGA is just a smokescreen.
He’s on a personal mission to understand how Putin has managed to utterly screw the Russian people over in order to amass a huge personal fortune.
He’s on a personal mission to understand how Putin has managed to utterly screw the Russian people over in order to amass a huge personal fortune.
They have a golden opportunity to shift this debate on next year. Ten years on (=two parliamentary terms) from the first referendum, go for a ‘how has it been?’ second referendum. Arguably they should have done this once the details of Brexit were agreed, but a decade since the first one seems good.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
They have a golden opportunity to shift this debate on next year. Ten years on (=two parliamentary terms) from the first referendum, go for a ‘how has it been?’ second referendum. Arguably they should have done this once the details of Brexit were agreed, but a decade since the first one seems good.