Jim Prescott

"Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far." #annibyniaeth

My 2015 "Hitler Reacts to Welsh Rugby World Cup Injury Crisis" video got more views than his Southgate interview lol..

Burnham - the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes" pointing out the King is naked while the sycophants say how amazing his outfit is. And he's saying what we have been for years - 10 years on, a PM is finally pointing out that hard Brexit was never even suggested during the referendum campaign.

England is a net importer of electricity from both Cymru and Scotland. England, generally, also has lower electricity bills than Scotland and Cymru. You couldn't make this shit up...

FWIW, t's legit on his Facebook page, but is not his actual Facebook setting. He's mocked it up and then posted it as an image. So the conversation (including HMRC's reply) and the likes and the comment numbers are all fake. Which makes it a bit weird.

This is great...

On the school website queueing to book 6th Form Parents' Evening like I'm on Ticketmaster...

Burnham made a big splash about four decades of failed neoliberalism being the root of our ills, yet here was a chancellor speaking straight from the neoliberal playbook. The need to stick to our fiscal rules, getting the debt down, the need for growth to unlock investment, blah, blah, blah.

21st October 1966, 9.13am. The clock stopped permanently, just like the 144 lives - including 116 children - extinguished. All due to the greed, callous indifference and negligence that ignored warnings and let the disaster happen. Not a single person was ever prosecuted. Cofiwch Aberfan 💔

21st October 1966, 9.13am. The clock stopped permanently, just like the 144 lives - including 116 children - extinguished. All due to the greed, callous indifference and negligence that ignored warnings and let the disaster happen. Not a single person was ever prosecuted. Cofiwch Aberfan 💔

BBC Breakfast main news this morning: France Transport in England Shooting in Nottingham Children's Services in England Canada fire Maternity in England Clearly nothing whatsoever happening in Cymru, Scotland or Northern Ireland...

Bookmark this thread for the next time someone says: "Wales relies on being subsidised by England" "Wales can't afford to be independent" etc etc George nails so eloquently what anyone with a modicum of historical knowledge understands.

Absolutely brilliant from George All the moronic fools in Cymru who, with their Stockholm syndrome, think our problems are self inflicted; that England "bails us out" because we can't look after ourselves - they need to read a few economics/history books - they may discover why we are where we are.

Throw Momma from the Train, for Tax Purposes

I see Carlo's "special connection" with a country he was "Prince" of for most of his life doesn't stretch to being able to pronounce "Cymru"...

I don't know if it's childhood memories of Meccano, but I love watching scaffolding being erected. Having said that and despite also loving Lego, I fucking hate the building work bit. 😂

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

From the new Private Eye

Case in point: today's news of BT's rescue deal for TalkTalk, 5 years after a leveraged buyout that ended up more than doubling its debts to c£1.5bn. LBOs, along with their public sector cousin PFI are some of the worst examples of the neoliberal prioritisation of profit over true economic benefit.

The "Labour" Party fgs

The billionaire tech bros might not want AI to be regulated but I was advised by AI itself that regulation "is essential to prevent existential risks". Even their own AI bots don't trust them...

Narrator: sadly he hasn't...

When Jeremy Hunt made two populist 2% cuts in NI in 6 months - that we now know to have been completely unsustainable & uncosted - where was the right wing media pearl clutching or the constant BBC questions about "how are you paying for this"? The media in the UK is a right wing stitch up.

If Starmer/Reeves or Burnham/Healey had been in charge in 1945, there'd have been no NHS, and no massive housebuilding programme. It's not "Fiscal discipline" to stick to a bunch of made up neoliberal rules, ostensibly designed by a Chancellor whose programme was built on an error in a spreadsheet.

Its Chris Philp. #bbclaurak

It was totally unsurprising how frequently she interrupted Burnham, while allowing Philp to spout his evidence free bollocks - eg. he said we're a high tax economy when virtually the entire continent of Europe has a higher tax wedge than us - and yet not even the slightest challenge. #BBCLauraK

Laura keeps banging on about all these economists calling for cuts. Plenty of economists fully understand the benefits of government stimulus and also appreciate how the economy was skewered by Tory austerity - which is why so many opposed it. #BBCLauraK

The Ancient Romans enjoyed an afternoon watching people being thrown to wild beasts or burned alive or crucified. And this chap identifies with that... while dubbing other people "barbaric"

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I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.

I'd like to wish Piddington Parish Council good luck in explaining why everyone in the village now has to pay the surcharge to use the NHS

"All of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran's US tour have quit". Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Diwrnod Owain Glyndŵr Hapus! 🟡🔴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

“It’s really appalling — there’s a reason a lot of authoritarian dictatorships become family enterprises.” @timmiller.bsky.social & Bill Kristol react to grifter-in-chief Trump’s son-in-law Kushner (again) doing Putin’s bidding as he implies both Russia and Ukraine are equally at fault.

I can't understand Labour already managing to get rid of hereditary peers, but not deal with huge donations. While I hate hereditary privilege, those 80 odd peers were far less of a risk than allowing a bunch of cryptocriminals to buy democracy itself. And nobody can say they didn't see it coming.

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is always on the cards when racists and bigots have their concerns legitimised by politicians. Burnham and Starmer should hang their heads in shame.

It's quite unbelievable that the BBC still acquiesces to these fascists and that Lisa Nandy seems fine with it.

This is where the hate fuelled disinformation of the right wing always ends up. A quarter of a century ago, Murdoch's News of the World stirred up so much disproportionate news & outrage at paedophiles that a PAEDIATRICIAN's house was attacked, among other cases. This follow's the same M.O.

I pretty much stopped listening to the Today programme during the Brexit debacle as I was sick of its right wing bias, especially re Brexit and especially from the likes of John Humphrys. It has clearly only got worse.

I do love it when they claim that William and Kate are paying for Eton college "with their own money" as if we're stupid.

Overheard in No 10: What about these masked black-clad men? Are there any vicars there? No Any Quakers? No Any pensioners? No Any placards in support of Palestine Action? No Any connection to climate change? No Then obviously these are legitimate protestors who need to be engaged with...

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...