Seán King
@seanfredk.bsky.social
Retired GP, Ex a lot but still husband dad and grandad…
That old 2 tier policing remark comes to mind.
MTDomain 🦋@mtdomain.bsky.social · 2d agoFive people climb a gantry in the name of Just Stop Oil and the police shut the motorway, arrest the protesters and imprison them for up to 5 years. Hundreds of people block one of UK's busiest ports in the name of Stop the Boats, and the police do nothing and no-one is arrested. Really? Sigh.
Absolutely correct. The BBC would have had this as headline news if it had happened at any other party conference. Shame on the BBC.
A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
schoolsweek.co.uk
3/3 Thank you for including me. Please follow & repost: @capeacadia.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social
I see from the BBC that "Kent Police, which made no arrests, described it as a "spontaneous" protest." That's not what I'd call a large number of people in identical black uniforms. But they weren't disrupting our Critical National Infrastructure to Just Stop Oil, so that's all Right then.
Jonathan Portes in July: "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong"
Even with a wealth tax, millionaires like us will still be richer at the end of the year than we were at the start. PMUK's @stephenstroud.bsky.social explains why a 2% tax on wealth over £10m is fair, common sense and needed. Watch the full report on inequality via @deutschewelle.dw.com on YouTube
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
The BBC needs to commission a Panorama on the failures of their own journalist to do their jobs properly. I was always a strong advocate for the BBC but, in the last decade in particular, they have failed miserably in seeking out and uncovering the truth in the political sphere. Shameful.
So driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway is a social media craze. If a platform allows this on its site, close the platform. Surely a democracy must have power to close and prosecute platforms publishing dangerous and illegal behaviour.
Please ignore the fact that small boat crossings are down 44%, deportations are at their highest level in ten years and immigration is 82% lower.
So much for the tidal wave about to break over British politics, Reform UK is a party that would struggle to run a bath. They're now losing a councillor every three days. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/reform-tracker-losing-councillors-farage-37574051
Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit o
mirror.co.uk
Hi Reform UK "While we're on the topic and producing leaflets for men in order to help reduce crime - let's not forget the quickest way to reach criminals & reduce crime in the UK would be to produce a leaflet for wh|te Br|t|sh men reminding them of their civil responsibilities" via Expose Racism
Spot on. The Moral Maze is far right Overton window shifting in action! Last night’s was “Is Empathy a Weakness” FFS, basically an extreme-right trope discussed as if it were a serious proposition ☠️😡🤬🤡
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3w agoOn BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.
Obama’s real sin was interrupting America’s cherished tradition of turning every foreign-policy problem into a 20-year war.
Why oh why are we not at the forefront of this technology. We are surrounded by a coast with some of the highest tidal ranges in the world.
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀@mackayim.bsky.social · 3w agoBetween two Japanese islands a tidal turbine on the seabed is sending 1.1 megawatts ashore through a single cable, and every hour it will generate for the next decade is already printed on a chart. www.ecoportal.net/en/tidal-tur...
Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.
Israel finally admitted firing on 5-year-old Hind Rajab - and her family. But don't be fooled by their "investigation". It's a sham 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israels-hi...
So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires? Charlatans with their heads in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
theguardian.com
What differences would we see if social media was run as a public service instead of a money making machine?
There was also a report from East Anglia Bylines of Reform strong-arm tactics at polling stations in Clacton that's equally missing from other news outlets.
Absolutely not. James Orr, there's a suspicious character. He's in Reform, it says a great deal about the character of this man. At a top university where a young black man was driven to take his own life. Cambridge university has much to answer. Starting with its policy on Racism, is it Reform's?
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
