@john0634.bsky.social
Retired and living in Hampshire. Follows Southampton FC, Hampshire CC. Irish heritage. Long Covid. Simple Minds 1979 to 1984, Factory Records and Postcard Records. The Cure and Post Punk. Politically, the centre left and after a "fairer" society. No DMs
The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.
60K migrants who entered Spain coming our way? Bailiffs seizing your dead parents’ old car in their garage to pay an imaginary death tax? Fighting for democracy against a bin? Reform MPs’statements in the past week. Reform UK are officially the NEW Monster Raving Loony Party! 😉
Hmmmm… Will RichardTice now be calling a by-election in his constituency so he can fight against a bin? 🤔
11:15am yesterday, our village. Are these the first migrants from Ceuta to reach Dorset? A number of young lads in Cub Scout uniforms leapt out of a minibus & invaded Jill’s shop. They had no idea what Apple Cobbler was and taunted Simple Sally with their woggles. Deport. Now.
Lee Anderson showing his tender side: “Here’s 30p son, treat yourself to a slap up meal.”
#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?
From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks
theguardian.com
I've just emailed my MP asking them to reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep hold of Thames Water. Take 2 mins to email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/angela-eagle...
Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatised
weownit.org.uk
Let us be clear stealing land and forcing people out of their homes is ethnic cleansing. Such actions are outright wrong whichever community is the victim and anyone remaining silent needs to ask themselves what they would do if it happened to a Jewish or Christian community.
Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 16h ago
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
Badenoch flailing around now on #r4today trying to defend this idiocy. Babbling incoherent nonsense. Truly woeful that this deeply unpleasant and thoroughly mediocre person is now Tory leader. And a better journalist than Justin Webb would have made that very clear. (Article from iPaper)
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
theguardian.com
Pretending that the Navy taking back migrants would be a humanitarian mission and therefore legal, is a bit like pretending that a £5 million bribe is nothing to do with politics and therefore doesn't need to be declared.
I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.
"Hands up if you're a prancing prick who's been spouting complete bollocks about using the Royal Navy to send migrants back to France in a desperate bid to distract attention from the sleaze your party is mired in"
Hands up who’d be in a racist party whom probably 90% of their voters think you’re a illegal migrant who should be sent home as you have different coloured skin & a non English name Yes that’s you Zia Who else of a similar background would be so stupid to join Deform Oh ….hang on…bugger
. It's clear we urgently need affordable social care! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #C4News #Newsnight #toriesgone761 .
After starting with speedy action on several little things that have raised the cost of living, how quickly will he move on to tackling the big one? ‘I want to rejoin the EU… Brexit has been a disaster’ – Andy Burnham www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...
'I want to rejoin the EU... Brexit has been a disaster' - Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham has pulled no punches in his assessment of Brexit - saying that leaving the EU has 'weakened immigration control'.
thelondoneconomic.com
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
Unbelievable hypocrisy from Badenoch - she attacked Starmer for putting Louise Haigh in cabinet (conditional discharge and £100 fine) but defends Bonehill-Paine (five year prison sentence). Obviously the reliably hopeless Justin Webb failed to make this point to her on the Today programme…
So nobody who supports Net Zero or the European Convention on Human Rights can be a Tory candidate. But Kemi Badenoch is defending the selection of a former neo-Nazi who went to prison for harassing a Jewish Labour MP. And there you have it.
Two former members of the British Union of Fascists went on to become Conservative MPs. Good to see Kemi Badenoch upholding the Tories' great traditions.
Edward Stourton is a much more meaningful loss to journalism than Rod Liddle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Edward Stourton: Broadcaster and journalist dies aged 68
Stourton hosted Radio 4's Today programme for a decade and was a founding member of Channel 4 News.
bbc.co.uk
. Farage's Sinking Ship! Let's hope he is defeated by a bin in just 10 days time! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #C4News #toriesgone760 .
With only weeks to go until the start of the new premier league season, Chelsea release a squad photo
