echosounder.bsky.social

echosounder.bsky.social

@echosounder.bsky.social

Last of the Duke Street Kings

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Fuck the SFA - but not for the usual reasons We’ve sent a team to the u15 World Cup as have England Fifa have invited Belarus & Russia, and it appears we don’t have an issue with that Fuck FIFA too, but a round of applause for the teams that aren’t going

Can’t trust Trump or (currently) America Can’t trust Musk And if you haven’t worked that out yet then you really are in the remedial class

Tony@weeton4.bsky.social

Treason is the crime of betraying a state, nation, or sovereign, typically by attempting to overthrow the government, waging war against the country, or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.

Fuck BBC News for giving airtime to something that won’t ever happen

Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social

Our BBC - doing the pro-Reform UK job of Russian bots ... 'He’s not an elected official. He never has been … So why are the BBC giving Zia Yusuf a platform to tell the country that Reform would instruct the Navy use “lethal force” against people in the channel?' via Reform Are Not Your Friends

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Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukMI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chiefSir Ken McCallum says Russia, Iran and emerging threats from AI were increasing the risks to Britain.

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Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

theferret.scotThe Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre planScotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office

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Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?

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So, to recap. Nothing, nada, zilch was done about the fash blockading one of the UKs major ports??? Last month, 5 Palestinian Action protesters narrowly avoided being sentenced as terrorists for *checks notes* chucking some paint at the Burnley branch of Barclays.

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Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference.

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Anti-apartheid protesters climb the goalposts during South Africa's rugby match against a North of Scotland District side in Aberdeen in 1969. 96 protesters were each charged £15, with their fines being paid by John Lennon.

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Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

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FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!

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The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels is down by 50%. And the backlog of people who have claimed asylum is down from 175,000 to 40,000, the lowest since 2019. But we mustn’t let facts get in the way of spreading fear and hatred and coming up with crackpot policies.

Just watched The Professionals “A Stirring Of Dust” I rewatch this show & a few others when they’re on (Robin of Sherwood, The Sweeney, Minder (Denis Waterman episodes) etc) Sometimes it’s easy to forget how well written they were. You could remake that Professionals episode as a mini series now

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Nigel Farage admires Margaret Thatcher because she was brilliant at making a few extremely wealthy people even richer ... Just as he hopes to do via yet more privatisation for the millionaires funding Reform UK meme via Huddersfield TUC

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It’s only going to get worse everyday and in the foreseeable future the only hope there is to save our democracy is to vote blue, vote early and mail-in ballots.

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Nigel Farage regained his seat after a tough campaign against... a bin. A waste of everyone’s time, effort and money – all to run away from scrutiny. The investigation into Farage’s finances will now resume and only when that’s concluded will we get full transparency.