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My name is Neil. And I live in Neath.

The CO₂ level was 319 ppm when I was born; it's over 430 ppm in 2025.
I get the feeling Redwood has been paid to utter this nonsense ad infinitum! Now, just who could that be…? 🤔
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It's a "neoliberal thing"! They've also misled the world since 1979-80...
The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.

A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."

Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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When you see "14 years of x" line, it tells you you're dealing with someone who can't analyse politics without a party lens.

Britain's been governed by the same overarching philosophy since 1979, regardless of which party was in power. And without understanding that, you won't understand anything.
How should Labour tackle 14 years of mismanagement? I'd like to hear some realistic alternatives, considering the available resources in law professionals, university places and tutors and physical spaces. All I've read so far here is 'throw money at it' without considering the resource implications
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Also, Norway set up a sovereign wealth fund from the profits of gas and oil extraction that is now topping out at $2 trillion; where is the UK's?! There isn't one.

"But, Neil, where have all those trillions of £'s gone?" I hear you ask.👇
The super-rich have thrived at our expense over the last 35 years. This much wealth in the hands of 156 people is corrosive to the public good. Today's budget must take steps towards a system where billionaires do not exist!
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I remember when John Redwood was made Welsh Secretary by Thatcher... He was a complete moron, then [not a 'carrot'] [Welsh language 'joke', there] and he remains a complete moron, now. In fact, I think he's gotten a little bit stupider! Or he's been "bought".
@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye

Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Bleddy migrants! Comin' over 'ere, breathing are English air...
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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EXCLUSIVE

Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism.

Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday.

More:

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/racist-off...
Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism
Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Okay, so I had a Surplus of +£33.4bn!

And it was easy... higher rate of tax to 45%; reverse 2p rise in NICS; increase corporate tax by 1p; add gambling tax, reverse 2 child limit; targeted council tax; close capital gains loopholes; tax bank profits; no whisky for Rachel. And the banks are happy...
Could you do better than Reeves as chancellor? Play our interactive budget game
Can you pull the levers of power to deliver a successful budget? Can you keep backbenchers happy without upsetting the bond markets? And can you do it all while keeping the books balanced? Try our bud...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Absolutely this!!!!! 👇
Farage's racist remaks as an 18 year old were only "banter" if he rejected racism later. But he didn't and he still hasn't. In fact, without racism, Farage wouldn't have a career!
#Reformski 🔷️🇷🇺
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"Just off out to do a bit of nourishing and friendly racial abuse"
What an interesting choice of words
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Shared this a while ago... Always worth repeating!
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

"About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism."
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Donald Trump and I have so much in common. For example, we both enjoy doing whatever Vladimir Putin tells us to.
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
NEW: Nigel Farage shakes hands with Adam Johnson, well-known 6 January rioter, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Florida, this March - as unearthed by @nafeez.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social today
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How come hardly anyone's talking about this?
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Excoriating view of 'Shabby' Mahmood's immigration plans and self-victimisation by Nesrine Malik!

Also, if you haven't seen it already, watch Robespierre's takedown of Mahmood and her disingenuous and insulting Commons speech here: youtu.be/JWLYPReYGOs
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
ChatGPT doesn't like ANY of the 28-point Putin peace plan!
I Let AI Read the 28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan. And ChatGPT Went NUCLEAR
YouTube video by I Ask AI
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.

Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A great way of looking at it! And convincing people that billionaires are anathema... Billionaires ought to be taxed out of existence!
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Yup... "Privatisation", PFI's, etc. = THEFT from us! Lining shareholders' pockets.
There is a poisonous word constantly used by politicians to justify privatisation, investment

There is no investment, only theft of the vast majority of money and a tiny trickle of your money that is 'invested' back into the service

Every time you hear investment, hear theft
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM