Debs

Debs

@deborah55.bsky.social

🇬🇧 Escapee from the hellsite formerly known as Twitter Interests: music (especially world music), cinema, reading, sailing, Reiki, politics & social justice. Happily married mum of one.

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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And these are the assholes that rant over protecting free speech. I know the First Amendment only applies to the government but these assholes are always claiming to support free speech but clamp down on those with opposing views.

My dad (1923-1991) joined the Royal Marines at 19 & by VJ Day was training in the jungles of Sri Lanka for the allied invasion of Japan. Like many contemporaries he said little about those times, other than to voice his disgust at the way the British army treated locals in Egypt.

JWexTheSpa@jwsidders.bsky.social

The youngest person who saw active service in WW2 is now 95 - assuming they lied about their age, were born between October and December, and enlisted just shy of their 16th birthday.

And btw I’m reporting his lived experience in imperial times. No disrespect intended to veterans of more recent conflicts.

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It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social

Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.

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Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊

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Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.

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As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.

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Replying to @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social

We don't actually need carve outs for either. Schengen is not required for EU membership (Ireland being the most notable non member) and while theoretically every EU country is supposed to join the Euro in reality there's no mechanism to actually force you. Sweden has simply not joined and won't EG

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Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.

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Makes you proud to be British

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.

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Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comPolice arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in ChannelThirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Superb

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )

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Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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After The Great North Run Andy Burnham was criticised for only making a photo opportunity. He’s raised £30692 for the homeless thus far. Reform morons were happy with Starmer they are terrified of Andy as they should be and the RNLI are receiving huge donations Mr Farage. How marvellous!

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If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Another compilation video from yesterday's fascist paramilitary 'storm' action in #Dover town and at the Port of Dover. #FarRight Some national security-related observations below.

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When Farage attempts to deflect criticism for his Reform UK conference attendees assaulting protesters because he got milkshaked twice in 5 years, remember this:

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social

Both people who threw milkshakes at Nigel Farage were prosecuted.