Martyn Brunt
@skybluebrunty.bsky.social
Former Team GB swimmer and triathlete, and one time runner for England (literally one time). Greenway builder, hedgehog fosterer, wild gardener, ageing punk, book author, francophile, and if I can't bring my dogs, I'm not coming.
@quietriotpod.bsky.social I know it's too late for tomorrow, and that QR isn't a request show, but please please please can we hear the thoughts sometime of @sturdyalex.bsky.social about Badenoch pissing all over her remaining councillors to defend a violent neo-nazi criminal who then withdrew.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
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
Badenoch has somehow managed to make defending a violent, Nazi criminal worse by sneering at the entire grassroots of her own party, and dismissing local politics to boot. Incredible.
Will Reid-Tong@willthong.com · 11h agoSomehow Kemi on R4 has just backed herself into the utterly farcical line "come on now it's not a *national* platform - he's only gonna be a Tory councillor, not a Tory MP!"
"Badenoch claims it doesn't matter who your councillor is because nothing they do is important" would be a good headline
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
I just heard Badenoch defending the selection of violent fascist criminal Bonehill-Paine on BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Damn Punch
ALT: Damn Punch
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Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h agoMultiple convictions including assaulting a police officer and a three year prison sentence for racially aggravated harassment of an MP. And she's defending his appointment
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
Wednesday 5th Aug, 8:35pm AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD (1983) written by #AlanBennett and starring #AlanBates #CoralBrowne #CharlesGray drama #TPTVsubtitles
When I was a teenager my French friend Didier took me to meet his grandfather who'd been a résistant during WW2. He'd been a courier in occupied France taking incredible risks. He was captured, escaped, and joined the Maquis until the end of the war. Filth like Sarah Pochin isn't fit to say his name
Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · yesterdayFrench forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
I will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is profoundly upsetting
The killed/missing the Heer alone suffered in France during Fall Rot amounted to 27,701 of whom 118 were missing. There were probably another 60-70,000 wounded during this period so total casualties likely >100,000. One presumes Pochin believes in her pea brain that they all stubbed their toes.
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · yesterdayI will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
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Donna Rees@donnarees.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky...
🔴 NEW Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In
Cllr Paul Mackings' consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate
bylinetimes.com
Most people think these Red-tailed bumblebees are fighting. What are they really doing? They're actually mating! ⏰Mating can last for up to an hour. ⚠️Never try to separate mating bumblebees as this can harm them. 🔒Once mating is finished, they will eventually fly off and go their separate ways.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
We're all feeling the devastating impacts of climate change in real time. Urgent action is required to combat it.
England and Wales suffer driest July on record
Some areas of England saw the driest month ever
independent.co.uk
What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.
The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
