Geoff Walker
@geoffalbw.bsky.social
Rail enthusiast and preservationist, volunteer at Talyllyn Railway and Foxfield Railway. Son of the Potteries and fan of Arnold Bennett. Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. Dislike Tory ideology
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Geoff Walker
@geoffalbw.bsky.social
· Dec 4
Sewage pipelines planned for unprotected rivers. Could they get any worse?
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There has now been 9 episodes of #BBCQT since it returned from its summer break
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
There has now been 9 episodes of #BBCQT since it returned from its summer break
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
A Reform representative/mouthpiece has appeared on 5 of them:
Kruger - Nov 13
Goodwin - Oct 30
Dorries - Oct 23
Yusuf - Oct 9
Tice - Sept 25
But please tell me more about the BBC’s left wing bias
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Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Kind of familiar.
Isn't it.
Isn't it.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."
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Farage - What should I do now Sir?
Putin - Avoid hotels with balconies, and never go to Salisbury.
Putin - Avoid hotels with balconies, and never go to Salisbury.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Farage - What should I do now Sir?
Putin - Avoid hotels with balconies, and never go to Salisbury.
Putin - Avoid hotels with balconies, and never go to Salisbury.
A few years back, before Russian money bought folk like him, our country deemed such activities as traitorous. I’m old enough to remember the Anthony Blunt scandals and many other secret sharing. Now we just accept the dosh and elect them to power. The system is broken
Exclusive: Two of Nathan Gill's fellow Ukip/Brexit Party MEPs used the same pro-Russia talking points in European Parliament, after joining him on a paid-for trip to Kyiv
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Jail is inevitable’ for former Reform politician awaitin...
Two other MEPs joined Nathan Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests – and 6 weeks later repeated his talking points in Parliament
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A few years back, before Russian money bought folk like him, our country deemed such activities as traitorous. I’m old enough to remember the Anthony Blunt scandals and many other secret sharing. Now we just accept the dosh and elect them to power. The system is broken
This scandal has only seen minimal changes since the election, although some regulations have been tightened. Still not enough for them to remain greedy private companies with enriched shareholders the rest of us pay for.
Water bills in England rose by an average of 26% this year.
More rewards for failure for the privatised water industry.
Bring water into public ownership @weownit.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More rewards for failure for the privatised water industry.
Bring water into public ownership @weownit.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
England's water companies get worst ever score over pollution
Thames Water - the UK's largest water company - was given the lowest one-star rating.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This scandal has only seen minimal changes since the election, although some regulations have been tightened. Still not enough for them to remain greedy private companies with enriched shareholders the rest of us pay for.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Such a wonderful little station, where great tea is served and glorious steam engines and their colourful coaches call. A delight on a hill side, beautiful Abergynolwyn
For this #ThrowbackThursday there can only be one location. It's the station of the hour, Abergynolwyn - seen here in the early 1900s.
The station may have changed a lot over the last 160 years, but has changed lots of lives in the process!
Vote Aber!👉
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The station may have changed a lot over the last 160 years, but has changed lots of lives in the process!
Vote Aber!👉
www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Such a wonderful little station, where great tea is served and glorious steam engines and their colourful coaches call. A delight on a hill side, beautiful Abergynolwyn
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October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Nigel Farage announces plan to deport legal immigrants.
Will split families. Will resisters end-up in concentration camps?
Plans to deny welfare benefits to those who worked, paid taxes.
Produces false financial savings numbers.
Will the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Will split families. Will resisters end-up in concentration camps?
Plans to deny welfare benefits to those who worked, paid taxes.
Produces false financial savings numbers.
Will the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Hate, hate again, hate better – for Farage, the country needs educating about foreigners | John Crace
Was he sure everyone hated legal immigrants as much as he did? Nige knew better because he was Nige
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Nigel Farage announces plan to deport legal immigrants.
Will split families. Will resisters end-up in concentration camps?
Plans to deny welfare benefits to those who worked, paid taxes.
Produces false financial savings numbers.
Will the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Will split families. Will resisters end-up in concentration camps?
Plans to deny welfare benefits to those who worked, paid taxes.
Produces false financial savings numbers.
Will the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
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Nearly 18 yrs of paying taxes, volunteer work, being a member of my community.
And the most worrying thing is that those who are supposed to have the loudest counter voices, talk about how he's got the numbers wrong rather than calling this out as being morally reprehensible and fascist-adjecent.
And the most worrying thing is that those who are supposed to have the loudest counter voices, talk about how he's got the numbers wrong rather than calling this out as being morally reprehensible and fascist-adjecent.
Imagine spending years proving you belong here, paying thousands, following every rule - only for Nigel Farage to threaten to tear up your status.
This is not policy - it’s cruelty, it’s showmanship, and I for one, am sick to the damned back teeth of it.
This is not policy - it’s cruelty, it’s showmanship, and I for one, am sick to the damned back teeth of it.
Nigel Farage Wants to Tear Up Indefinite Leave to Remain - and Deport Legal Migrants in Britain
Reform UK’s so-called “Boriswave” rhetoric is a fantasy built on cruelty, cooked-up numbers, and Trump-style authoritarianism.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Nearly 18 yrs of paying taxes, volunteer work, being a member of my community.
And the most worrying thing is that those who are supposed to have the loudest counter voices, talk about how he's got the numbers wrong rather than calling this out as being morally reprehensible and fascist-adjecent.
And the most worrying thing is that those who are supposed to have the loudest counter voices, talk about how he's got the numbers wrong rather than calling this out as being morally reprehensible and fascist-adjecent.
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It's a racist lie, all of it, every word. The claims it is based on are false in fact, and repellent in morality. Merely having said it out loud without being unanimously howled down marks another moment of shameful descent for us as a nation.
As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false.
In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed).
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed).
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It's a racist lie, all of it, every word. The claims it is based on are false in fact, and repellent in morality. Merely having said it out loud without being unanimously howled down marks another moment of shameful descent for us as a nation.
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Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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 11:04 AM
Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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I have defended the BBC again and again.
No more.
No more.
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 11:05 AM
I have defended the BBC again and again.
No more.
No more.
And still we allow the greedy shareholders and CEOs to continue. All the while we pay the price for their failures. If only we had elected a government with integrity and determination to end this mess.
Sewage pours into rivers of English & Welsh national parks at twice rate elsewhere.
254,808 hours of sewage dumped, underinvestment & mismanagement.
More than half of the rivers in national parks failed to meet the good ecological status required by law.
Regulators do little.
254,808 hours of sewage dumped, underinvestment & mismanagement.
More than half of the rivers in national parks failed to meet the good ecological status required by law.
Regulators do little.
Revealed: sewage overflow in English and Welsh national parks twice outside rate
Exclusive: Campaigners attack ‘outrageous’ situation, saying waters in protected areas should be cleanest
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
And still we allow the greedy shareholders and CEOs to continue. All the while we pay the price for their failures. If only we had elected a government with integrity and determination to end this mess.
These obscenities continue despite efforts to add teeth to regulators. Billionaires don’t give a damn, constantly taking more, using money to seek loopholes to prevent them spending on basic infrastructure, while we pay over the odds. Stinks 😷
Revolving doors.
Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser.
The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private.
TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers.
Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.
Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser.
The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private.
TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers.
Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.
Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser
Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
These obscenities continue despite efforts to add teeth to regulators. Billionaires don’t give a damn, constantly taking more, using money to seek loopholes to prevent them spending on basic infrastructure, while we pay over the odds. Stinks 😷
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Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to overthrow UK govt.
Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else.
Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say.
People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses.
Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.
Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else.
Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say.
People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses.
Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.
September 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to overthrow UK govt.
Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else.
Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say.
People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses.
Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.
Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else.
Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say.
People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses.
Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.
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🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
writesbright.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
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Not just progressives. Anyone who isn't a straight up fascist.
🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.
📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
writesbright.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Not just progressives. Anyone who isn't a straight up fascist.
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And here are the front pages of papers now canonising Connoly, on the recent one-year anniversary of the Southport massacre.
Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra".
None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.
Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra".
None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.
August 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
And here are the front pages of papers now canonising Connoly, on the recent one-year anniversary of the Southport massacre.
Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra".
None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.
Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra".
None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.
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I feel nothing but shame and disgust at my nation's flag being turned into a weapon and a threat.
August 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I feel nothing but shame and disgust at my nation's flag being turned into a weapon and a threat.
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Foreign billionaires circumvent laws and pump millions into British politics.
Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.
The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.
End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.
Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.
The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.
End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.
Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics
The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Foreign billionaires circumvent laws and pump millions into British politics.
Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.
The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.
End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.
Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.
The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.
End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.
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England's water companies circumvent rules on exec pay.
Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.
UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.
End the circus. Nationalise water.
Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.
UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.
End the circus. Nationalise water.
Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm
Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
England's water companies circumvent rules on exec pay.
Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.
UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.
End the circus. Nationalise water.
Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.
UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.
End the circus. Nationalise water.