Posting this for no other reason than to get more Looney Tunes circulating on Bluesky.
Lea Worrall
@leaworrall.bsky.social
Coach painter/Bus restorer. Specialist subject: The history of public transport in Greater Manchester 1969-2015. Manchester, England.
+++ A Friendly Word of Warning! +++ For those of you currently in the dust bowl, that is the UK. ;-) #eclipse #solareclipse #theSun
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage pocketed £2.3 million in income and donor gifts during his first two years as Clacton’s MP - equivalent to £22,000 a week. 📝 New @desmog.com report 👇🏻
Nigel Farage Made £2.3 Million in Two Years While Serving as Clacton’s MP
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage amassed £2.3 million in income and gifts during his first two years in Parliament, DeSmog can report. On 7 July, Farage announced that he would be resigning as Clacton’s ...
desmog.com
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
inews.co.uk
Very important statement On the Clacton-by-election To clear up matters for Everyone. Because we are politically neutral It would be wrong for us to Name any candidate who Favours CEEFAX returning And it would be Childish to find a way of Embedding a subliminal message here.
Makes him look like a petulant twat who made his voters leave Wetherspoons to vote for him.
I found this at the weekend @showmeasign.online, must be getting on a fair bit, another non road sign set in Transport aswell! 🙄
Stories like this about acts of heroism by people who are not white never go viral www.thesun.co.uk/news/3937252...
Teacher 'stabbed while protecting pupils from knife-wielding girl' is pictured
A HERO teacher who was stabbed in the neck while shielding pupils from a “knife-wielding” girl has been pictured – as his wife reveals the “devastating” call she recei…
thesun.co.uk
On the subject of GBR signage @doublearrow64.bsky.social what is going on at Manchester Victoria?? @thebeautyoftransport.com Now Northern logos have appeared on *some* of the new signage (over the already covered Hexabees) and this sign on the stairs can get in the bin 😒
At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.
This, more than the original, is art. An intensely rich text
it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson
And this is *exactly* what Reform would do here in the UK… join forces with this network of malignant power-brokers to bankrupt the people and enrich themselves… All in the name of representing ordinary people and dealing with their “legitimate concerns”. It’s intolerable.
I suspect this may be a drip-drip story from the Mirror over the next few days www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news... They are unlikely to the the only ones on the 2008 list, and the cross-referencing is straightforward.
Huge blow for Farage as 3 Reform election candidates appear on leaked BNP list
We confronted wannabe councillors after cross-referencing Reform candidate names with a BNP list from 2008, in a joint investigation with anti-racism group Hope Not Hate
mirror.co.uk
If you're concerned about Bluesky being better, then I'd encourage you to Repost things you like and want others to see. Hitting Like doesn't do much here. Low effort PSA.
Whilst @thebeautyoftransport.com appears to have found a nice original, this has popped up at Manchester Deansgate... I really hoped Victoria was a missed error but seems not... Honestly, @doublearrow64.bsky.social, why bother making a manual if no one uses it?! Also, are Northern hard up for cash?
Sometimes, opportunities come that are too good to pass, for reasons not everyone will agree with. Leyland Bus ceased to exist 33 years ago & parts will only become more scarce as time marches on. So we jumped at the chance to purchase SELNEC 7008, after it had fallen on hard times, for spare parts.
On Sat/Sun 28/29 March, our 'Ticket to Ride' event will feature buses with the engine at the back or under the floor. Rides on heritage buses from the 60s to the 00s. Parking will be difficult: use the free heritage bus from Shudehill Interchange on the hour and half hour. motgm.uk/events-theme...
Team work makes the dream work! After a slight miss hap, our coach painter has been helping our good friends @motgm.uk get their Express Metrobus 5208 looking its best again. Primer applied to the bare aluminium, then the undercoat...