Phil M
@phillm.bsky.social
Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
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Phil M
@phillm.bsky.social
· Jun 7
Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
Remember how they lied about Brexit? Unsurprisingly, they're lying about ECHR too.
Don't give up your rights!! 👇
Don't give up your rights!! 👇
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I mean I understand why people become landlords, I really do. But let's not be silly about the fact that they are getting their tenants to pay hugely more than they'd pay as buyers so the landlord has a cosy income AND a very substantial future investment, and this is causing huge social problems.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I mean I understand why people become landlords, I really do. But let's not be silly about the fact that they are getting their tenants to pay hugely more than they'd pay as buyers so the landlord has a cosy income AND a very substantial future investment, and this is causing huge social problems.
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Oh come on.
4% return on rent - perhaps? But we aren't going to acknowledge that the value of that £600k London house is appreciating significantly every year, and that's the point of the investment?
We're really supposed to believe that landlords are living hand to mouth on the rent they get. 🤣
4% return on rent - perhaps? But we aren't going to acknowledge that the value of that £600k London house is appreciating significantly every year, and that's the point of the investment?
We're really supposed to believe that landlords are living hand to mouth on the rent they get. 🤣
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Oh come on.
4% return on rent - perhaps? But we aren't going to acknowledge that the value of that £600k London house is appreciating significantly every year, and that's the point of the investment?
We're really supposed to believe that landlords are living hand to mouth on the rent they get. 🤣
4% return on rent - perhaps? But we aren't going to acknowledge that the value of that £600k London house is appreciating significantly every year, and that's the point of the investment?
We're really supposed to believe that landlords are living hand to mouth on the rent they get. 🤣
Except, of course, the people in your £600,000 house are paying your mortgage for you, AND your coining in £6k a year, while you sit on your backside.
Boo ****ing hoo.
Boo ****ing hoo.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Except, of course, the people in your £600,000 house are paying your mortgage for you, AND your coining in £6k a year, while you sit on your backside.
Boo ****ing hoo.
Boo ****ing hoo.
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The number of MPs that are landlords is staggering, an obvious conflict of interest. Ever wondered why regulation of social housing is much more stringent than for private landlords?
www.independent.co.uk/politics/lab...
www.independent.co.uk/politics/lab...
Revealed: The landlord MPs raking in £830k a year in rent
The register of interests reveals that 83 MPs are also landlords, declaring at least £10,000 in rental income in the past year, while the Labour government pushes through its Renters’ Rights Bill
www.independent.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The number of MPs that are landlords is staggering, an obvious conflict of interest. Ever wondered why regulation of social housing is much more stringent than for private landlords?
www.independent.co.uk/politics/lab...
www.independent.co.uk/politics/lab...
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Private rent in UK now swallows 44% of the average wage.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Private rent in Britain now swallows 44% of the average wage
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, and £2,736 in the capital, with hotspots showing hefty rises
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Private rent in UK now swallows 44% of the average wage.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Well I never!
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Well I never!
"A Jewish former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest" by suggesting former pupils who say they witnessed his racism are not telling the truth." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"A Jewish former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest" by suggesting former pupils who say they witnessed his racism are not telling the truth." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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While everyone is worrying about a Reform government, a Labour one is already taking away our rights
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
While everyone is worrying about a Reform government, a Labour one is already taking away our rights
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The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
@brynleyheaven.bsky.social
Q about building permissions around railway stations.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
Q about building permissions around railway stations.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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questions-statements.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@brynleyheaven.bsky.social
Q about building permissions around railway stations.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
Q about building permissions around railway stations.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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that thing everyone predicted would happen is happening
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
that thing everyone predicted would happen is happening
Keep washing out those yoghurt cartons.
Just pathetically in Heathrow’s pocket, Govt backs the airport’s own climate-wrecking expansion plan, the one that requires moving (!) the M25.
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Keep washing out those yoghurt cartons.
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Labour will call this an Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project which means under their Planning and Infrastructure Bill no-one can object.
Business Growth Partnerships is all they care about
Business Growth Partnerships is all they care about
Just pathetically in Heathrow’s pocket, Govt backs the airport’s own climate-wrecking expansion plan, the one that requires moving (!) the M25.
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Labour will call this an Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project which means under their Planning and Infrastructure Bill no-one can object.
Business Growth Partnerships is all they care about
Business Growth Partnerships is all they care about
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Protest against evictions from tenement houses on York Street, Dublin, 1964. Photo by Elinor Wiltshire, who documented a rapidly changing city.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Protest against evictions from tenement houses on York Street, Dublin, 1964. Photo by Elinor Wiltshire, who documented a rapidly changing city.
It should be a household energy duty freeze, electricity and gas suppliers have gone rogue.
absolutely batshit insane for a government to drag out the fuel duty "freeze" (annual tax cut) even further
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It should be a household energy duty freeze, electricity and gas suppliers have gone rogue.
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Got a minute?
Labour are about to pass new planning legislation that will effect every single one of us.
Make sure you have the right facts.
Here’s everything you need to know about the bill in 60 seconds.
Labour are about to pass new planning legislation that will effect every single one of us.
Make sure you have the right facts.
Here’s everything you need to know about the bill in 60 seconds.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got a minute?
Labour are about to pass new planning legislation that will effect every single one of us.
Make sure you have the right facts.
Here’s everything you need to know about the bill in 60 seconds.
Labour are about to pass new planning legislation that will effect every single one of us.
Make sure you have the right facts.
Here’s everything you need to know about the bill in 60 seconds.
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75% of Britain is farmland, just 1% is taken up by houses. So let’s not fuss overly on the 1% of the 1% (small plots) and focus instead on the 75% of 75% which we can give back to nature if we stop animal farming - that’s 50% of our entire country.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
75% of Britain is farmland, just 1% is taken up by houses. So let’s not fuss overly on the 1% of the 1% (small plots) and focus instead on the 75% of 75% which we can give back to nature if we stop animal farming - that’s 50% of our entire country.
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The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
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Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
Yet it remains some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
#NationaliseUtilities
#NationaliseUtilities
Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yet it remains some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
#NationaliseUtilities
#NationaliseUtilities
"‘We Don’t Need Any More Money’: A Disney Heiress Begs Congress to Hike Her Taxes".
#TaxWealthNotWork
cc @garyseconomics.bsky.social
#TaxWealthNotWork
cc @garyseconomics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"‘We Don’t Need Any More Money’: A Disney Heiress Begs Congress to Hike Her Taxes".
#TaxWealthNotWork
cc @garyseconomics.bsky.social
#TaxWealthNotWork
cc @garyseconomics.bsky.social
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I always said #Brexit would be a shit show, and we now know that to be true.
And now we have the same fuckwits that voted for it, lining up to vote for Farage to be PM.
And now we have the same fuckwits that voted for it, lining up to vote for Farage to be PM.
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows. Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I always said #Brexit would be a shit show, and we now know that to be true.
And now we have the same fuckwits that voted for it, lining up to vote for Farage to be PM.
And now we have the same fuckwits that voted for it, lining up to vote for Farage to be PM.
Lazy f*cker.
"He will remain a Labour councillor, and continues to be a candidate for Hounslow Labour at the 2026 elections. This comes at a time when several Labour councillors feel they are being “unfairly” deselected in the borough."
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
"He will remain a Labour councillor, and continues to be a candidate for Hounslow Labour at the 2026 elections. This comes at a time when several Labour councillors feel they are being “unfairly” deselected in the borough."
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
London politician apologises after Lamborghini found parked in disabled bay twice
Farhaan Rehman has also quit from one of his roles at Hounslow Council amid outcry over the parking of his £200,000 vehicle
www.standard.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Lazy f*cker.
"He will remain a Labour councillor, and continues to be a candidate for Hounslow Labour at the 2026 elections. This comes at a time when several Labour councillors feel they are being “unfairly” deselected in the borough."
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
"He will remain a Labour councillor, and continues to be a candidate for Hounslow Labour at the 2026 elections. This comes at a time when several Labour councillors feel they are being “unfairly” deselected in the borough."
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...