@chriswyeth.bsky.social
I like the bellend d’or
Disappointed to live in a world where a footballing body conjures up a prize purely to give it to Trump… and doesn’t even name it properly.
Call it: the Ballon d’Orange!
That way Trump can win it every year… There you go, FIFA, I’ve fixed it for you….
You can have that one for free.
Call it: the Ballon d’Orange!
That way Trump can win it every year… There you go, FIFA, I’ve fixed it for you….
You can have that one for free.
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I like the bellend d’or
I rather think that they are all too far into the trough
It’s really simple…
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I rather think that they are all too far into the trough
We can hope
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We can hope
No
Does Putin actually want to end the war in Ukraine?
Impasse at the Kremlin: here’s what we know after the latest US-Russia talks
Does Putin actually want to end the war in Ukraine?
tcnv.link
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
No
We definitely need an elected upper chamber to counter cronyism.
Keir Starmer's planning to make former First Minister Vaughan Gething a Lord according to The Times.
Mr Gething was FM for 4 months.
His time as leader was overshadowed by a controversial £200k donation to his leadership campaign.
He stepped down after 4 ministers resigned.
Mr Gething was FM for 4 months.
His time as leader was overshadowed by a controversial £200k donation to his leadership campaign.
He stepped down after 4 ministers resigned.
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We definitely need an elected upper chamber to counter cronyism.
Putin cannot believe his luck to have both Trump and Farage on his side, and now Mohdi. He can now feel free to assassinate whoever and wherever he likes with impunity.
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Putin cannot believe his luck to have both Trump and Farage on his side, and now Mohdi. He can now feel free to assassinate whoever and wherever he likes with impunity.
That and much more
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
That and much more
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Brexit was our Nemesis.
Starmer knows it, writes Peter Thurlow
So why can’t he say what everyone else already sees?
Is he terrified of the only path out?
Starmer knows it, writes Peter Thurlow
So why can’t he say what everyone else already sees?
Is he terrified of the only path out?
Now is the winter of our Brexit sent
While we have used this title before, perhaps this is the time to look at our options afresh, now that we have seen the disaster that is Brexit
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Brexit was our Nemesis.
Starmer knows it, writes Peter Thurlow
So why can’t he say what everyone else already sees?
Is he terrified of the only path out?
Starmer knows it, writes Peter Thurlow
So why can’t he say what everyone else already sees?
Is he terrified of the only path out?
Many of the millionaire homeowners are elderly and asset rich and money poor.
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Many of the millionaire homeowners are elderly and asset rich and money poor.
Was Fiona Bruce at Dulwich at the same time.
I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Was Fiona Bruce at Dulwich at the same time.
This is the truth but many are not willing to pay for public services
The myth that the NHS is ‘free’ is propagated by people who don’t want it to exist. No it’s not free! It’s paid for by the public - and many older patients who need the service more than most have paid into the system for their entire working lives!
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is the truth but many are not willing to pay for public services
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Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA.
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history'
The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA.
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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Does a resident doctor earn more than an MP? No. Let’s save the desperate morality grasps from politicians then. MPs have had umpteen pay rises since 2010 and they have quietly and relentlessly awarded these to themselves, regardless of what the public is going through.
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Does a resident doctor earn more than an MP? No. Let’s save the desperate morality grasps from politicians then. MPs have had umpteen pay rises since 2010 and they have quietly and relentlessly awarded these to themselves, regardless of what the public is going through.
Or 82yo
Sorry kids!*
* Forty-year-olds.
* Forty-year-olds.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Or 82yo
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Welcome to all of your 1,000 new members!
We welcomed 1,000 new members to #LeedsGreenParty in the last month alone! A local record! Congratulations to the team! More campaigners and more funding... we are so busy. Hope is normal again! join.greenparty.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Welcome to all of your 1,000 new members!
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And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise.
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise.
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
Insufferable.
(iPaper)
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It's in the interests of the far right to terrify the population.
They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state.
But it's based on lies.
Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.
They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state.
But it's based on lies.
Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It's in the interests of the far right to terrify the population.
They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state.
But it's based on lies.
Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.
They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state.
But it's based on lies.
Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.
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Love and solidarity this morning to the right-wing rags clutching their pearls about the possibility of tax rises after championing Brexit, which has left the Exchequer £40 billion worse off than it would otherwise have been.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Love and solidarity this morning to the right-wing rags clutching their pearls about the possibility of tax rises after championing Brexit, which has left the Exchequer £40 billion worse off than it would otherwise have been.
True
As a Muslim, at a time of division Mamdani has brought much of his city together. He spoke for Mexican abuelas & Ethiopian aunties. “No longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do”. It is shameful that not one of our UK leaders has been able to do the same.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
True
The same here in Dorset. Some of the comments I hear on the bus are straight out of the daily Mail.
Where I live, most people aged 50+ seem to read the Mail, and I even see some reading the Express which blows my mind. It is so disheartening.
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The same here in Dorset. Some of the comments I hear on the bus are straight out of the daily Mail.
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We will pay the price for Nigel Farage's Brexit - and Labour's cowardice - until we reverse it.
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We will pay the price for Nigel Farage's Brexit - and Labour's cowardice - until we reverse it.
I assume she wanted to prime the money men and prevent them crashing the economy.
That was very much the Waiting for Godot of chancellor’s speeches. The newsline never arrived.
Which maybe is to be expected for a speech three weeks before the budget, but in that case…why bother giving the speech?
Which maybe is to be expected for a speech three weeks before the budget, but in that case…why bother giving the speech?
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I assume she wanted to prime the money men and prevent them crashing the economy.
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This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.