Neil

Neil

@nather59.bsky.social

67,married,service engineer, mountain/gravel biker. Keen walker and very amateur bird watcher. Life long socialist and republican Music-punk, reggae, ska,indie, Real ale and amateur wine drinker. Lover of bread and cheese. Long time Celtic and C.U fan

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And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder

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While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

Seems the BBC equate a Reform “press release” with Moses coming down from mount Sinai with the 10 commandments. Seriously needs to be some big changes at the BBC

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Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't laugh at the demise of Jenrick's political gambit... playing out here in real time

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip

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Ruud Gullit "The World Cup belongs to the world, not to governments, political interests, or football administrators. It belongs to the players, the referees, and the supporters. If FIFA cannot guarantee that all three are treated fairly and equally, then it has failed in its most fundamental duty.

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😡😡😡😡 Now you see how the Nazis managed to do what they did. The fact that anybody could ‘announce’ this, publically, and millions will be greeting it with glee, says how low this country has sunk! Yeah right not YOU! But here it is. And after the Reform concentration/ICE camps - who will be ‘next’?

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You know what never seems to make the front pages of the UK media? Native born British white paedophile gangs. Like this one in Bolton. Just this week. Who saw this on the front page of Daily Mail ? Who saw this being discussed for seven hours by @GBNEWS ? Nobody.

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On the one hand Reform Ltd leaders complain that Britain is lawless On the other hand ... "Reform UK suspends Northamptonshire councillor John Allen for allegedly threatening to kill the prime minister" John Allen '...sits on the Northumbria Police & Crime Panel' leftfootforward.org/2025/09/refo...?

leftfootforward.orgReform UK suspends councillor for alleged threats to PMThe party says it has suspended John Allen, who represents the Hirst ward on Northumberland County Council, following allegations that he made online comments threatening to kill the prime minister.

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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The UK has one of the highest levels of wealth and income inequality in the world. It's a political choice. It hasn't changed materially under Labour or the Tories - and Farage's Reform certainly won't make it better. It doesn't have to be like this. Vote 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Green

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Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood. Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday

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It’s so cruel - and what next? People are housed in hotels (& barracks) often out of town, bus routes are scarce & the weekly allowance is pitiful. Charities can step in, but are people now just going to get sick? What is the plan here?

Cathal Malone@cathalmalone.bsky.social

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I worry that Trump’s latest partial climbdowns, pathetic & insincere as they are, will bolster Downing Street’s arguments for keeping him sweet when it’s surely time to go full Mark Carney.