AJ’s Ramblings
@ajsramblings.bsky.social
Immigrant in Denmark 🇩🇰 . Like bikes 🚲 , books 📚 , birds 🦅, nature, LEGO, cheese 🧀 and wizards 🧙♀️ May ramble about politics. Sometimes cross!
One for you @daveih.bsky.social 🙂
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One for you @daveih.bsky.social 🙂
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🇪🇺 The EU is the world's largest trader in services with 22.8% of global services trade.
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🇪🇺 The EU is the world's largest trader in services with 22.8% of global services trade.
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Thought for the day: The NHS is a fabulous institution. It was the first national health service in the world. It ensures that every person is treated regardless of ability to pay. You don’t mess with that. What you do is fund it properly and manage it properly. Taxes are good. 😌
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Thought for the day: The NHS is a fabulous institution. It was the first national health service in the world. It ensures that every person is treated regardless of ability to pay. You don’t mess with that. What you do is fund it properly and manage it properly. Taxes are good. 😌
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The UK Government is feeding an authoritarian cuckoo.
Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release.
These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release.
These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The UK Government is feeding an authoritarian cuckoo.
Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release.
These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Calling non-violent protesters terrorists, locking them up, then banning them from meeting friends or internet communication after release.
These tools of repression will be used by the fascism they’ve fed.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Anyone with youngsters out there? My son applied and he and 3 friends spent the summer of 2018 travelling all over Europe! Finishing at some music festival in Hungary before coming home. An incredible experience.
giving this a timely bump. deadline is in a few days 👇
18 year olds can get a free 30-day pass to travel all across the European Union. Closing date for applications is 13th November.
18-year olds can travel for up to 30 days during the travel period, which is planned to start on 1 March 2026.
Spread the word, folks.
18-year olds can travel for up to 30 days during the travel period, which is planned to start on 1 March 2026.
Spread the word, folks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Anyone with youngsters out there? My son applied and he and 3 friends spent the summer of 2018 travelling all over Europe! Finishing at some music festival in Hungary before coming home. An incredible experience.
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This latest scandal won't be covered by the UK mainstream media, but it's one more clear example of the corruption that surrounds this manipulative fraud.
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This latest scandal won't be covered by the UK mainstream media, but it's one more clear example of the corruption that surrounds this manipulative fraud.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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💥ANNOUNCEMENT💥
My final public event of 2025 will be at Dukes Festival of Stories in Clapham on Saturday 29 November. Tickets are only £5 so grab yours sharpish and come along at 10am for some live #DrawWithRob fun and a wintry/festive story or two.
Tickets 👉https://tinyurl.com/3n6h6a6d
My final public event of 2025 will be at Dukes Festival of Stories in Clapham on Saturday 29 November. Tickets are only £5 so grab yours sharpish and come along at 10am for some live #DrawWithRob fun and a wintry/festive story or two.
Tickets 👉https://tinyurl.com/3n6h6a6d
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
💥ANNOUNCEMENT💥
My final public event of 2025 will be at Dukes Festival of Stories in Clapham on Saturday 29 November. Tickets are only £5 so grab yours sharpish and come along at 10am for some live #DrawWithRob fun and a wintry/festive story or two.
Tickets 👉https://tinyurl.com/3n6h6a6d
My final public event of 2025 will be at Dukes Festival of Stories in Clapham on Saturday 29 November. Tickets are only £5 so grab yours sharpish and come along at 10am for some live #DrawWithRob fun and a wintry/festive story or two.
Tickets 👉https://tinyurl.com/3n6h6a6d
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Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
October 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
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I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
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Full rainbow tonight over Paris. Extraordinary.
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Full rainbow tonight over Paris. Extraordinary.
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Færger aflyst og togbusser indsat: Kraftig blæst og massiv regn udfordrer trafikken
Danmark | Sektionen med Politikens undersøgende journalistik og seneste nyt indenfor politik, ret, sundhed, uddannelse, forbrug, økonomi og aktuelle temaer
politiken.dk
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Færger aflyst og togbusser indsat: Kraftig blæst og massiv regn udfordrer trafikken
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Reminder: British voters still don’t know who gave £850k cash for a house in Clacton where Kremlin gobshite r🐀t keeps his slippers next to a suitcase of rubles. #ukpolitics
October 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Reminder: British voters still don’t know who gave £850k cash for a house in Clacton where Kremlin gobshite r🐀t keeps his slippers next to a suitcase of rubles. #ukpolitics
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Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
October 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
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So, here we have it.
Not a spontaneous decision by local people to display pride in the national flag, but something imposed on locals by an organisation with access to a cherry picker, traffic cones, and a hotline to the Police to assist them in obstructing the highway.
Not a spontaneous decision by local people to display pride in the national flag, but something imposed on locals by an organisation with access to a cherry picker, traffic cones, and a hotline to the Police to assist them in obstructing the highway.
Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
So, here we have it.
Not a spontaneous decision by local people to display pride in the national flag, but something imposed on locals by an organisation with access to a cherry picker, traffic cones, and a hotline to the Police to assist them in obstructing the highway.
Not a spontaneous decision by local people to display pride in the national flag, but something imposed on locals by an organisation with access to a cherry picker, traffic cones, and a hotline to the Police to assist them in obstructing the highway.
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This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is utterly superb!
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
#Reddit
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is utterly superb!
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
#Reddit
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
“Static images on a wall that appear #animated as Train moves.”
R\InterestingAF
#TrainSky
#Animation
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Dry summers, dirty water: the river Cam’s slow collapse
The river Cam faces crisis from sewage pollution, over-abstraction, and inaction – locals fight to save its wildlife and natural flow
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
They have been doing this for a long time … but guess what, like the Danes and other Nordic countries, they pay decent taxes. They also keep the far right out by having a press that supports facts over opinions and that’s well regulated. The UK could learn a lot from this!
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
They have been doing this for a long time … but guess what, like the Danes and other Nordic countries, they pay decent taxes. They also keep the far right out by having a press that supports facts over opinions and that’s well regulated. The UK could learn a lot from this!
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
September 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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16% of Britons have no savings.
39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income.
Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income.
Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
Average Savings by Age in the UK 2025: by Age, Income & Region
It is important to have some savings aside, but are you putting away enough? Check the 2025 average savings by age and income in the UK here.
blog.moneyfarm.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
16% of Britons have no savings.
39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income.
Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income.
Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population.
Can't rebuild without redistribution.
This city. Where I was born and bred. Where my soul feels at home. This is the home of the melting pot of multiculturalism. Don’t let the noise drown out the kindness, colour and hope.
September 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This city. Where I was born and bred. Where my soul feels at home. This is the home of the melting pot of multiculturalism. Don’t let the noise drown out the kindness, colour and hope.