Grenobob
@grenowl82.bsky.social
Woke, left-wing, writer, anti-royalist, environmentalist, husband, father, and grandfather.
All political parties who accept huge donations are basically allowing themselves to be bought. Nobody believes these donations are from altruistic supporters. They are bribes, pure and simple.
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen@kevbro1969.bsky.social · 6h agoJust WHY is there private healthcare in our #NHS? WHY do #Labour allow it? And WHY does Labour accept "donations" which is basically bribe money? Ah! I know the answer to that one, it's because they're as corrupt as the #Tories. 🙄
Any media outlet proven to have knowingly printed or broadcast lies which did or could have caused people harm, should be fined heavily and warned that they risk losing their licence if it's repeated. Self-regulation is a joke. We need an independent body who can implement tough punishments.
If politicians enacted policies that helped middle and bottom earners, rather than the richest 1% they would win every election. The reason they don't, is because it's the top 1% who have the money to buy them.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE IS STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUEL.
If it became even a tiny bit like X, then I'm off elsewhere.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · yesterdayThe new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
I wish the UK had a PM like Spain's Sanchez, instead we have craven lickspittles to the US, regardless of how awful their President is.
A lawbreaker (Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's computer) dresses up in police high vis to complain about other lawbreakers being released early because her party didn't build enough prisons when they were in power for 14yrs.
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · yesterdayThe state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Arts, culture and music lessons should be compulsory subjects at school.
walkingpete.bsky.social@walkingpete.bsky.social · yesterdayThe new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
They need more billions for Healey to give to the military to waste on crap procurement. And when they inevitably do, no top brass will get fired.
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen@kevbro1969.bsky.social · 2d agoIdeally, #Burnham could #TaxTheRich. No chance! #Labour are on the side of the rich.
I wish we were more like the French. Try to do over the workers or pensioners and the country takes to the streets. Not afraid to speak the truth and call out despots, even if they are POTUS. Got rid of royalty and didn't let them back in again. Plus they're pretty good at food and drink.
Bob Mickowski@bobmick.bsky.social · 2d agoViva la France! 🇨🇵 🎓📚🌉🌁🇨🇵🇺🇦🇺🇳🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇻🇪🇲🇽🇭🇺🇩🇪 Democracy! No Kings! Tax Billionaires! Faux News! Vote Blue! Freedom! Stand with Ukraine! Resist Tyrants! Unions! Education! Read! Math and Science! Don't do drugs!
His delusion runs so deep I have no doubt he actually believes he's the most popular leader in world history.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d agoThe gaslighting is off the charts with this one. Every word is a lie. His actual approval rating is the second worst in modern presidential history, behind only Nixon’s 24% just before he resigned.
British warships and marines can't enter French ports without permission of the French. And they certainly can't 'dump' migrants on French beaches. Zia Yusuf knows full well it's impossible to do, but who cares about that when you're only intention is to stir up your voter base with glib headlines.
True. I imagine when it constantly pops up on people's TV and mobile screens on a daily basis, most people change channels or scroll past it without giving it much thought. Be it war, famine or natural disaster, most people don't think too deeply about such things unless it affects them directly.
Edward Cornwell@hopper3011.bsky.social · 2d agoThat's why 9/11 was such a shock, sadly the realisation that war is not a game hasn't lasted.
If England wanted to leave the union, do you think they'd ask permission from the other countries first? Scotland wanted to remain in the EU, but were taken out against their will. Hold a referendum, and if the will of the Scottish people is to leave the union, then do it and nobody can stop you.
Irish Unity@irishunity.bsky.social · 2d agoThe SNP has won five Scottish elections in a row. Scotland wants Independence. Scotland deserves an Independence Referendum.
Americans treat the use of military power like some kind of video game, and some view it as a such when they see it on their TV screens. It might be far removed from them, but the chaos, destruction and mass killing is not a video game. It's real, it's terrible and it's an obscene use of power.
Further proof that #Labour aren't on our side, but the side of privatised companies & the wealthy. If they genuinely cared, they'd #nationalise water immediately & set the ball rolling on nationalising the other utility companies. For them, it's ALL about making money - at OUR expense.
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d agoMPs are trying to push Thames Water into a 'cooperative model'. Basically they have a babysitter from the State who sits with them until they behave, then in a few years it is back to business as usual. NO, end the con, Nationalise.
I'm not sure he realises it. But most of Reform's voting base would like to see all non-white people driven out of the UK.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 4d agoZia Yusuf has gone to Ceuta, because what Spain needs most right now is an entitled shit-stirrer wandering around taking selfies.
Burnham is a, steady as she goes, captain. He is not the trailblazing political reformer he likes to paint himself as.
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen@kevbro1969.bsky.social · 3d agoCan ANYONE tell me the difference between #Burnham & #Starmer, please? #Labour #MoreOfTheSame #ContinuityKeir
Yes, they are. And Farage is a Trump wannabe.
Mel@mac43gb.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Reform is just the UK version of MAGA....
It really rankles me when people say they don't believe that long covid exists. My wife has long covid and it has given her so many problems that she's no longer the same person she once was.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 3d agoTwo things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?
Right-wing parties like Reform only like democracy if they win. They cannot stand losing, so whenever they do, they yell, 'the election's been rigged' and blame the mythical 'deep state'. That's why, if they were ever given power, they would try to rig any future elections to stay in power.
Or any country, for that matter. I would rather watch paint dry.
Tracy@wacket.bsky.social · 4d ago"Reality" TV was the worst thing to ever happen to America...
You did the right thing. I'll bet the interviewer wouldn't work extra hours for nothing.
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d agoThis what everyone should do. Your employer already makes massive profits that it doesn't pay you. If it wants you to work more, it needs to pay you more. Don't be abused like that, walk out.
Let me make it clear The UK's biggest problems are not problems within cities, they cannot be solved by more Mayor's They are the systematic tax dodging, extortion and destruction of essential services for billionaires profits that fly straight out of the UK tax free
Not automatically, but in most debatable cases I would probably side with them.
Edward Cornwell@hopper3011.bsky.social · 4d agoSo 'science and logic' are automatically 'right'? Why so?
I can only use my own thoughts and logic as a guide as to whether I'm on the right side of the debate or not. It might not be completely objective, but that, plus the sense that hitherto accepted science and logic are under attack by people on the far-right, makes me hopeful that I am.
Edward Cornwell@hopper3011.bsky.social · 4d agoWhy do you see yourself as being on the 'right side' of the debate? What objective measurement are you using to determine right and wrong?
Paying poverty prices to people in the third world to make cheap products for the West doesn't necessarily result in cheaper goods for the Western public. But it does mean Western companies make obscene profits at the expense of the world's poor. Then we're surprised when they want to migrate here.
Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · 4d agoA farmer in Africa getting 50c for a kilogram of coffee beans and it being sold for $40 roasted in the West - 80x as much - illustrates the problem. Profiteering farmers squeeze poor farmers. Addressing such unfairness would begin to address global inequality, which is one driver of migration.
That is entirely possible and not doubt probable. We can only ever speak from our own perspective. But looking at movements like Maga, who seem to be rejecting science and logic, I'd like to think I'm on the right side of the debate.
Edward Cornwell@hopper3011.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's interesting, have you ever stopped to consider whether they think your world-view is the cult-like one?
Indeed. The mindset of the far-right is baffling to me. All the science and logic in the world proving a particular point means nothing to their cult-like view of the world.
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen@kevbro1969.bsky.social · 5d agoAgreed. And if you notice, the type of person who opposes migration & #ClimateChange, etc are ALWAYS those on the #right & #FarRight.
