Laurie Merrifield
@laurieboy.bsky.social
We draw what we see before we read or write
Why do the BBC promote Farage? Who is directing the BBC to spin Farage’s funding scams?
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉@paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy oh why does BBC News do it❓ This is headlining as they provide a willing platform for Farage to turn this into another conspiracy against him Much like conspiracy that led him to to resign as MP, to fight the Establishment and then fight to rejoin it as an MP This shit👇shouldn’t get airtime❗️😡
Nigel Farage saying he's done nothing wrong is like Fred West wondering why the police are digging up his garden
Jukes and Orr were told to step down and take the blame. How is Chris Mason going to spin Farage’s innocence? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two Reform officials step down after undercover report on party donations
Reform says Dan Jukes and James Orr have left their roles as it launches an investigation into the report.
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Hey, why don’t we wait until the planet is overheating from our fossil fuel addiction, then start a needless war in the Arabian Gulf, and just to mess up some more, build needless AI industries with Data Centres to consume vast energy reserves? How smart are we. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Faisal Islam: Why bond market wildfire is keeping world leaders up at night
Huge AI spending plans and the ongoing war in Iran are driving up borrowing costs around the world.
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So no need to change a thing, we can sign off more Gas and Oil drilling, accept those Corp donations and enjoy better times ahead? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Is this what Andy Burnham is sanctioning… bsky.app/profile/prem...
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d agoThames Water should go into administration, says Tory MP. Even the Tories can see the inevitable. Nearly 30% of TW revenue services debt. Speculators buying into TW in the hope of steep compensation. Proper steps: enforce all laws, bankrupt TW, nationalise at knockdown price. archive.ph/JwWSb
When legislation fails, should our schools debate the subject, with the proposed motion: If sea levels rise will our shit return? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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A factual perspective illustrating a horrendous portrait of privatised moral bankruptcy
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.Large part of UK’s water network was installed 130 to 150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Its IT systems date back to the 1980s. Since privatisation, water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.
And how would the United States give serious consideration to anything under Trump?
The rest of the World is giving serious consideration to changing the name of America, to American’t.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2w agoWhatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
Trump and his billionaires have an extortion Agenda: Run up US debt, run down the US economy, buy US assets cheap, and hold Americans to ransom. Blame Canada.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are masters in our own home.
Particularly thinking about Canada’s position right now, and how the US exports its crappy leadership’s corruption problems to embroil a good and loyal neighbour. The more Trump dumps on Canadians the closer Canada aligns with Europe, and the UK, if we can be trusted? bsky.app/profile/noth...
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w ago"We recognized that sometimes [the United State's] signature was written in pencil." — Mark Carney
We‘ve been sold an unsustainable transport ‘system‘. Oil and vehicle companies have colluded for a century. Alternative transport systems are neglected or downgraded. Civilisation is being choked to death.
No notes.😳 Sharing too keep. It is worth a listen. April, this year.
“Get Him Out Of There Before He Kills Us All”: Sachs Trump Warning | WORLD NEWS | US NEWS
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
Should we stay interested in this most boring and predictable school bully forever trying to steal dinner money from the 1st year children! www.thenational.scot/news/2647362...
Gambling Commission urged to investigate allegations against Reform UK donors
The Labour Party has called on the Gambling Commission to investigate alleged unlicensed activity linked to Reform UK donors ...
thenational.scot
Train crash: a derailed train, people injured. BBC News reports a ‘defect’, an ‘irregularity’. Our BBC is defective, and irregular, and Rail bosses saying it’s ‘safe’ is irresponsible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train track defect found before Lewes derailment, report says
Initial findings from an RAIB investigation show an "irregularity" at the site near Lewes.
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If Michelle Mone, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove had been Black people with Left Wing views they would actually be in jail. Justice in the UK is blind, if you are Rich, White and Right Wing. Everyone else gets the hammer.
Is this ‘gesture politics’? Will this appease the middle class conscience? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Andy Burnham unveils plan to get rough sleepers off streets for Christmas
Rough sleepers in England will be offered housing, in a move likened to the “Everyone In” initiative during the pandemic.
bbc.co.uk
Tice shows no empathy or understanding of the dangers people are experiencing when he tells us “we should enjoy multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine“. Making light of real danger is poor leadership www.ft.com/content/49ea...
Reform UK’s deputy leader tells Britons to ‘enjoy’ heat amid record drought
Richard Tice’s call for people to ‘celebrate’ hotter weather comes as farmers warn of one of the worst harvests on record
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When technology becomes all too much, Sometimes you need to step back. Sadly now If you do, You'll be excluded from mainstream society as there is no alternative backup. We have allowed everything to become 'Smart' from telephones to washing machines. So when the system crashes, Who will help you?
