Vicki Johnson

Vicki Johnson

@vjohnson.bsky.social

Planning a rebellious retirement shouting about injustice, inhumanity, climate and environment and political insanity. Probably nobody will be listening.

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the Associated Press reports the Pentagon faces a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missile interceptors in Europe, after exhausting most of its supply defending U.S. bases and Israel from Iranian drones and missiles.

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The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.

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📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint, no VAT number and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

bylinetimes.comReform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ PollsterExclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint, no VAT number and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...

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🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...

democracyforsale.substack.comThe 700 freebies: how lobbyists and businesses courted Labour's special advisersA Democracy for Sale investigation reveals the scale of hospitality accepted by ‘spads’ – and how little the public is allowed to know about it

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Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports according to findings by Logistics UK. And a business survey by the European Movement UK has revealed that 73% of firms say that Brexit has had a negative impact on their businesses - with 98% wanting the UK to rejoin the EU’s single market.

independent.co.ukTrue cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market growExclusive: The damning findings comes as a major new survey shows that 98.2 per cent of businesses want access to the EU single market restored

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📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

bylinetimes.comReform's £645,000 'Ghost' PollsterExclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

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Seems a brilliant idea.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

In Wales they now do a cool thing where candidates have to list their recent party membership history. It throws up lots of interesting findings for voters. Like Dai Richards (bottom) - 'independent' candidate who has been a member of four far-right parties in the space of a year...

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Reform appears to have deleted their "Make Britain a Crypto Hub" policy document from their website, prior to these donations being declared. The document proposed massive tax and regulation cuts for crypto firms

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The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social

This looks like bullshit stenography to me. Glen Owen also ‘reported’ Farage’s lies about French police & a monoglot mechanic ‘telling him’ his car had been ‘tampered with’ in an ‘assassination attempt’ when he was trying to distract attention from something else. Also, Putin *wants* him to be PM!

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Top Democrat on House Judiciary formally asks White House physician to conduct cognitive exam of Trump: “Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline… increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening.”

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Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comUK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbyingExclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

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NEW -- Is DOGE still around? Because Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost us $101.2 million in just 14 months back in office. That's correct. US soldiers are suffering brain injuries in the Middle East, gas prices are spiking, all while Trump golfs. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTaxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 millionThis is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.

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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

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BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says a total of 14 health workers have been killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/u9tuem

The timing of this visit is weird even by the standards of incompetence of our government intelligence.

Trumpton@trumpton.bsky.social

While the Prince of Wales visits Saudi Arabia to boost ties, King Charles is supporting a police probe into claims that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked files to Jeffrey Epstein.

Best response today. 👏

Jasmine@feistybunnygirl.bsky.social

Donald, Canada is not into you. Get off of its lawn, stop calling, stop showing up at its place of business. It’s not interested. Fuck off and move on. This creepy obsession is weirding everyone out. Don’t make them get a restraining order.

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Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

bylinetimes.comReform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference DebateNigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics

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Lord Walney: "The UK is a friend of Israel" Matt Shea: "Is being a friend of Israel the right position to have given the mass slaughter of civilians that has been going on in Gaza?" "Well, what you say on that is highly contested" Lord Walney is a genocide apologist.

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🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition – BY-ELECTIONS TO BE CALLED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT TO ANOTHER PARTY on 16 March 2026! Contact/Tag your MP now and ask them to attend the debate and speak out in support

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‘There was no cover up’ Reform UK’s Councillor George Magwick has been shown to have lied. He spread misinformation about an asylum seeker that has been found not guilty, information that he used to stoke hate and fuel demonstrations.

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"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

bylinetimes.comJeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK GovernmentThe Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson