Steve

Steve

@stevebt16.bsky.social

Retired programmer, Englishman living in Northern Ireland

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At the end of 2nd episode, it looked like Maya decided Richard was going to be banished, so started to say he was a traitor. Doing in the hope that she looked more like a faithful, and so deflect any attention. #celebritytraitors

#mancity Does the Premier League have a 'fit and proper' test for owners? I know EFL does. If they do, surely City's owners will be forced out by PL after the cheating and disrespect for English football that has been proved. How can they be allowed to continue any involvement???

Well Nigel. You may think what Verbatim did was unfair, but they were just 'asking the question'. Recognise that line, Nigel? Are you complaining because you got caught? #c4news

Just spent some time considering the sensible things Chris Philips just said on #lbc. That's one nano-second of my life I will never get back!!

www.theguardian.com/business/ng-... Would these figures have been reached without Ed Miliband sticking to beliefs? Many would reduce targets, so they could say we reached them. He seems to have unblocked things and kept same targets. We may narrowly miss, but will get there soon after. Nice one Ed.

theguardian.comWhy can’t Britain turn its green revolution into cheap energy? A visual analysisLabour has approved a wave of renewable energy projects, but turning plans into power remains slow. Why is that?

#thearchers At some point soon, Brian is going to use the word 'bigly' isn't he?? For sure, he is going to go mad when Ed doesn't do what B wants as the tree felling needs his time.

#newsnight strange seeing Paul Givan from DUP on, saying it was important to be able to talk about this subject. Previously, he was directly responsible for the collapse of Stormont by removing the funding from Irish language schools. Not a great deal if talking there.

#newsnight I live just outside Belfast. I have been in NI for about 14 years now. Should I be worried, as I arrived here on a boat??? Or does the fact I am white and arrived from England make a difference? If so, why?

#newsnight watching on catch-up. Fosters first reaction being to remove human rights and create a border is ridiculous, impractical and fomenting hatred towards Irish. Why does BBC platform such stupidity????

#newsnight I know the answer as to why. She is a paid contributor to GB News, and so her being on spouting rubbish will placate Saint Nigel.

#newsnight people pushing the migrant approach. But no-one mentioned that the accused was accepted here by Garages new besties, Jenrick and Braverman, when they ran home office. Is that too close to criticising Saint Nigel?

#climatechangecommittee needed to highlight, in the section about Drought, ought to have questioned the Government push to allow mega-data centres. They are going to be so thirsty for clean water.

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My suggestion would be to limit political donations to the level of UK income or corporation tax paid by individuals or companies. To twist a well known phrase or saying: No representation without taxation.

#newsnight The sheer hypocrisy. Arlene Foster saying if you say anything about Reform, then you are disrespecting all the people who vote for them. She wasn't exactly slow at denigrating Sinn Fein. 'dont feed the crocodiles' anyone. But she is paid by Reform TV / GBNews, so no great surprise.

#bbcnewsnight do those Labour MPs know which party controls most councils? Seems not, as the answer is Labour. So it seems Labour haven't lost the confidence of everyone.

#c4news what's the betting that those charity donations the water companies make instead of being fined are able to be offset against tax. If so, then in effect the tax-payer is paying the charities as the water companies would not lose anything.

Good grief. It is Tory policy. Helen Whateley now on Lewis Goodall programme in #lbc saying the same stuff. Calling for death of Jews is bad, right-wing thugs calling for death to Muslims is ok, apparently.

#bbclaurak and now she says that if anyone who is a Tory candidate posts anything in support of Hitler will get removed. Although, apparently, they can march shouting the same stuff and it is ok, according to her earlier. She has no clear view on anything, does she.

Brian: yes Natasha. Can we help you? Natasha: can I ask how is your crumpet? Brian: very bad. She is over there with Oliver again!!! #thearchers

#newsnight. Poor Nick Thomas-Symonds getting absolutely roasted by Victoria Derbyshire. Follow-on questions, asking for answers. Great journalism.

#trump #easterbunny No great surprise Trump appears with the Easter Bunny. After all, he is used to be being associated with strange hare.

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As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡

#bbclaurak on Thursday, Labour lost lots of votes because of their support of Israel over Gaza. Friday, and Labour promise to learn lessons. Saturday, and Labour provide support to Israel in bombing Iran. Seems the 'learning lessons' didn't last long.

Presumably, if there is a rerun by-election because of voting irregularities, Labour and Greens would come to an arrangement for the new contest, so as to ensure one of them won. By complaining so hard Farage has guaranteed RefUK cannot win. Master tactician.

#trump. Maduro is up on weapons charges in New York. I thought that having a large stash of weapons was to be applauded amongst the MAGA brigade!!!

#r4today Michael Gove on the radio says UK more susceptible to COVID than Sweden because we have a more unequal society. So how did his VIP Lane, that passed tax money to rich Tories, help improve that inequality???? Why is he allowed to get away with saying that unchallenged???

Andrew is to move to the Sandringham Estate. The estate itself includes villages and hamlets, where it also has residential properties let to people living and working locally. Will the Mail and Express will be drumming up local support to banish the alleged paedophile from the area?

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/400... This says Labours silver lining is that tactical voting took place, and people voted to keep Reform out. If so, it was to stop enactment of their policies. If that is the case, why are Labour trying to out-Reform Reform if they think people hate those policies??

liveapp.inews.co.ukPlan to ‘block’ Reform – Labour’s ‘silver lining’ from Welsh election disasterKeir Starmer is blamed by some Labour figures for the loss

#celebritytraitors I reckon that the next round table will see JR go and, if she sees enough people gunning for him, Cat will write his name on her board. With the poor quality of faithfuls, they would likely see her vote as proof she is one of them.

#c4dispatches one thing not covered is the effect on jobs indirectly. AI will use up huge amounts of power and water, and if this leads to shortages, how will that affect existing industries not trying to use AI, be it on their supply or the impact on their workforces? This might be a bigger effect

#bbcnewsnight. But rich if Jake Berry to say about keeping data safe when, as a Tory, his government decided to give US firm Palantir access to health data for nothing.