Olddogandgrump
@olddogandgrump.bsky.social
Irishman in UK. Love my wife, dog and children. Hate Tory governments, Reform UK, Brexit campaigners, reality TV! 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 Credit to Charles Shultz for the avatar and profile caption.
Cue announcements of big oil donations to Trump's ballroom and library and "investments" in Trump Coin!
Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’
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Thank you @quietriotpod.bsky.social for highlighting this. This was my call to action today - donate to the cafe and poke Reform in the eye. Now to find a local one. grumpycook.co.uk
The Grumpy Cook – Fighting Food Poverty Without Stigma.
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HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 2w agoThis has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Young, Rees-Mogg and their organisations need to be treated as agents of a foreign government and cut off from contact with any elected official, MP, peer, political party, civil servant, and the media. I'm all for free speech. I object to being subjected to foreign gov't funded propaganda.
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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Something for Clacton min wage grafters need to think about when the grifter asks for their support - it'll take them 192 years to earn anti-establishment Farage's "gift" - before tax! £5,000,000÷(£12.51 per hour ×40 hrs per week ×52 weeks per year)= 192.15 years.
Of course they do - they feel safer in their 3 ton cocoon so thats what matters most. And besides each one thinks they are better drivers than other SUV drivers. #cycling #urbancycling
SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds
Exclusive: Research suggests financial penalties necessary if number of large vehicles on roads is to be reduced
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Payment from Fujitsu shouldn't be a gesture of goodwill. The government need to bill Fujitsu for all redress to all people affected by a faulty product that Fujitsu staff lied under oath to defend. Why do taxpayers need to pay for corporate malfeasance?
MPs urge Fujitsu to make ‘immediate’ payment to Post Office Horizon victims
Liam Byrne, who chairs Commons business committee, says too many operators are still waiting for redress
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If I had any lingering doubts on Lords reform Lord Dominic Johnson has just cured me. A JR Mogg croney, happy to make everyone unemployed if it makes him a bob or two. I hope his accountant, lawyer and doctor tell him to get AI to file his accounts, do legal advice and operate on him.
Any Irish people in the UK - don't for one minute think Farage and Lowe won't come after you...to them we are foreigners and the 1949 Ireland Act that says otherwise can be repealed. #speirgorm
Farage vows to ban foreign nationals from social housing as byelection looms
Reform leader claims ‘anti-whiteness is institutionalised’ in UK as polls suggest Labour have lead in Makerfield
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This is simply not good enough. IIT is time X and others were brought to heel. All MPs and public bodies should stop using and promoting a site owned by anyone looking to undermine the UK and being used to invite unlawful behaviour. @chazelgrovemp.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
Any official reprimand will come from regulator Ofcom, but not for at least two months
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Violent racist thugs in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid selective concern over knife crime. There FIFY @theguardian.com
Fuck off @jd-vance-1.bsky.social. Stick to creating havoc in your country, it's all you are good for. We don't need or want you or your opinions. You aren't fit to even tie the shoe laces of any member of the UK government. We have some rubes, but none as craven and useless as you.
Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over Nowak claims
No 10 responds after US vice-president blames UK teenager’s death on mass migration
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Hi @octopus.energy - I've just found out they @givenergy.bsky.social has gone bust when the app stopped working and they want £5 pcm to access data from solar panels you installed. Have you any alternatives that will allow us monitor in real-time? Thanks
Reform's excuse for needing to gatecrash a cafe - to use the toilet. Why hasn't the local Reform council made provisions for public toilets across the borough? They've been in power a full week. Disgraceful inaction.
Community cafe demands apology from Farage for ‘intimidating’ uninvited visit
Reform UK Makerfield team reportedly arrived as cafe run by people with special needs was holding celebration event
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Only odd if you ignore the fact that Streeting is actively courting largely pro EU Labour members.
Culture secretary says Streeting’s call for UK to rejoin EU is ‘odd’
Lisa Nandy told the BBC she did not understand ‘sudden focus on Europe’ from Labour leadership hopeful
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Greedy money grubbing TNT/HBO b*******s. £30 per month and the only feed for the #Giro is the ad infested #TNTSports 3 feed. No ad-free feed.
@washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Why won't you call a spade a spade? Others can. We all can see it. Stop pretending any of this is normal. IT'S NOT NORMAL.
Fintan O'Toole@fotoole.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you need to loudly proclaim your faith you don't have any. No true person of faith of any sort would have any hand, act or part in the Trump administration or support his, Putin's and Netanyahu's gross violations of human decency.
JD Vance announces a new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism
The vice-president’s follow-up to Hillbilly Elegy is announced as speculation builds over a 2028 run to succeed Trump
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Tough. The nation's need for clean, renewable, independent energy trumps your little idylli.
‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside
In one corner, clean energy champion Ed Miliband. In the other, residents – and Reform politicians – outraged at plans for more large-scale solar farms in Lincolnshire than anywhere else in the UK
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"Farage says attacking critics of immigration as racist 'doesn't work anymore'" No it doesn't - because they don't care or have to hide it anymore. 15.30 GMT on this live blog.
Farage backs Tory attack on Muslim iftar event, saying public prayer ‘was a shock’ – UK politics live
Nigel Farage echoed Nick Timothy’s comments after he said public prayer for Ramadan was an ‘act of domination’
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Tech companies and their clients need to be bound by the same product and public liability rules for using their untested products as widget makers. The public realm is not a laboratory or testing ground.
These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models
From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high
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Well, if this ain't looting your own country, stealing from taxpayers and a bid to transfer wealth from the poor to the elite I don't know what is.
Trump sues IRS and US treasury for $10bn over leak of tax returns
Agencies accused of failing to take precautions to stop former contractor leaking returns to ‘leftist media outlets’
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FFS...80s is the new 60s if you can choose when you work at well paid jobs swanning about TV studios. Not if you are an 80 year old brickie or warehouse worker or in any job that requires you to turn up every day for low wages.
Mary Berry, and now Prue Leith. Retiring in your 80s is the new 60s | Simon Jenkins
As long as you feel able to work and have wisdom to offer, you should continue to do so. Although some outstay their welcome, even on the world stage, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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There is a world of difference between agreeing something is unacceptable and biting the hand thet feeds you and doing something about it. Useless platitudes from Vance, and Lammy should have pressed him for actions.
David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’
Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM
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Hi, @bsky.app Any chance you could make the left/right arrow to scroll through images on a post more transparent?
That's how to show the true Christian spirit of Christmas, bullying primary school staff and pupils into shutting down their Christmas show. They are scum of the earth! I hope they are proud of themselves, spoiling the end of the year for these children and denying them their show.
Scottish school cancels Christmas play after ‘racist and abusive’ messages
Show at Cauldeen primary school in Inverness had included a scene explaining hardship faced by Syrian refugees
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This is why we need the equivalent of Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) with the power to seize personal assets derived from criminal acts (subject to a court order, on the balance of probability and even if they have been gifted away). Fraudulently marking goods as CE is a criminal act.
Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?
The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds
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So it's not a peace plan or a deal or a negotiation, it's an ultimatum from the aggressor* and their enabler promising even more aggression if their terms are not met. *Israel went from being the victim of Oct 7 to being outright aggressors months ago.
Trump and Netanyahu to Hamas: accept Gaza peace plan or face consequences
Pair say proposal represents new chapter but Israeli PM threatens to ‘finish the job’ if Hamas officials fail to agree
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