Cllr Ian Parsons

Is #chrismason on the naughty step again?

Quite frankly, #bbcradio4today is a sinking ship. Emma Barnett is a total disgrace. Right-wing shill.

I really could despair at the quality of interviewing on the Today programme. Emma Barnett is a total disgrace. She just attacks Peter Kyle. Pathetic.

Psalm Sunday. A very special day for Robert Jenrick

Corruption in plain sight and on an industrial scale. The GOP will live to regret letting the Orange Man-Baby do all of this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"That's all for today. Our editors were Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. Good morning. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beeeep. #Radio4Today

England are so predictable. Usual boring rubbish; no pace in the game, no guile.

I find it funny that Daniel Levy never, ever, sacks himself from a role to which, based on recent history, he is eminently unsuited.

Arise, Sir David, for services to tax avoidance.

Donny TACO has fallen out with Elon big time. Prepare for pyrotechnics.

Joe Root is amazing. There were THREE players who failed to score and ONE who only got TWO; yet Root, with 166 not out carried the team to victory.

My sources tell me that SpaceX's next rocket is to be named Karma.

Man of the people, Nigel Farage, seems to believe that working class men, in a working men's club, watch Channel 4 Racing. That will be a surprise to ITVRacing, who have been covering horse racing since 2017. Who wrote his speech?

I cannot understand why the Tories and Reform believe that Brexit has been sold down the river. Sovereignty and being rule-takers is pure straw-man sophistry. The deal will be good for growth and good for young people. Perhaps Nigel will tell us what he is specifically against? Maybe not.

Opening remarks by PM Starmer: "Moving on from stale old debates, looking forward, not backwards, focusing on what we can do together to deliver in the national interest. That is what today is all about. We are agreeing a new strategic partnership fit for our times." ~AA #UKEUSummit

VAR isn't the problem. The problem is the truly inept set of referees that monitor the system. Henderson should have been sent off. He deliberately handled the ball outside of the area, which is a red-card offence on its own, never mind him stopping a clear goal-scoring opportunity.

It will be interesting to find out what the Precariat feel about Trumpgeld.

Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are making a huge strategic mistake in championing Trump. The USA isn't a plutocracy and Trump has a date-stamp on his forehead. People aren't stupid: a backlash is coming.

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The rise in my water bill from Yorkshire Water has wiped out my entire increase in state pension. This is on top of my council tax increase. Happy Days.

The Pope has died; may God grant him rest and peace in eternal life.

To add to this, offer me the same position in 17th April 2026 and I’ll bite your hand off. Any other argument is just football being stupid.

I rather think that ignoring a Supreme Court ruling when they have voted 9-0 on an issue, will backfire on the Orange Felon.

Dear @theguardian.com I have now cancelled my subscription seeing as you are either too incompetent or too bone idle to sort out my issue. Your loss.

Seeing as @theguardian.com are pestering me to subscribe when I already do, I have decided to cancel my subscription and they can then pester me for not being a subscriber. Saves me money and makes perfect sense, in a Kafkaesque kind of way.

Trump and his mates are manipulating the stock market. Simples.

Trump is a mercantilist: plain and simple. He thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Adam Smith is spinning in his grave.

One cheer - many more if Mone gets nicked.

Will the last lunatic leaving the White House please lock up behind them.

Will JD Vance plead the 25th?

Don't you just LOVE Paul Tierney?

Dear @bradfordtanda.bsky.social when you publish an article based on figures obtained by the so-called Taxpayers Alliance, does it ever occur to you to question who funds them? They won't tell you who their funders are, mainly because they are very rich indeed. I wonder why they question tax rates?

Businesses are complaining about the extra national insurance contributions they have to pay. Have they ever done an analysis of how much it costs to have workers off sick, because of a failing NHS? Benefits will accrue when the workforce is healthier.

Dear @theguardian.com I subscribe to your newspaper. I have changed internet service provider. You no longer recognise me and keep telling me how many articles I've read and would I like to subscribe. How do we solve this conundrum?

Just like McCarthyism; Trumpism, Musk, Vance et al will one day be history. It will pass. And the sooner the better, for the sake of all of humanity.

Conundrum: if the rich avoid taxes, why should the price of increases in defence spending be placed on the backs of poor people when, in effect, the increase is intended to protect the assets of the rich?

The Establishment will try to tell you that wealth taxes don't work; that they have never worked. They can and must be made to work; but they won't tell you that. The economy will not stand massive inequality. Tax wealth more and income less.

If you want to understand why the north is starved of proper investment: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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The fact is; having a wealth tax is now part of the narrative on both sides of the Atlantic. The UK and US public have been taken for fools whilst the wealth of the mega-rich seems to grow exponentially. Gross inequality is unacceptable in a mature democracy. The fight back begins today.

My friend and MP, Imran, telling it like it is.

Which public school did Justin Webb go to, #bbcr4today? Asking for a friend.

Every Labour government always improves the living standards of those with least, lifts more children out of poverty, revives the NHS, schools and local councils. In this dark economic moment, it takes trust to believe Starmer and Reeves too will, in the end, do as Labour always does.

Newcastle United fans demanding a statue of Eddie Howe at St. James' Park is really rather sad, in a way.

#SkySports should be ashamed of themselves. I've NEVER heard and seen a more one sided presentation as that of their coverage of Liverpool v. Newcastle. Disgustingly biased.

Eventually, Americans will be able to see with their own eyes and in their own lives what Trump has done to the US and the wider world. Their daily experience will expose him for what he is: a confidence trickster who has made them poorer and less safe. The only question is when.

Venture capitalist on #bbcr4today pushing AI; saying how wonderful it is all going to be. It will be: for him and his ilk. Where is the balance?

They say that the stock market has fallen by $4 trillion. Mmmm: I wonder who gains when the stock market miraculously recovers and someone has bought stocks at a very low price? The coffee smells nice, lol.