Grippo
@grippo77.bsky.social
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Jesus, famously an absolute dick to the poor and disadvantaged.
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Jesus, famously an absolute dick to the poor and disadvantaged.
Question about NI on pension payments.
Imagine someone was band A and already paying NI on earnings over £967 a week. Am I right that they'd only be paying 2% NI on any salary sacrifice pension payments over 2k?
Imagine someone was band A and already paying NI on earnings over £967 a week. Am I right that they'd only be paying 2% NI on any salary sacrifice pension payments over 2k?
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Question about NI on pension payments.
Imagine someone was band A and already paying NI on earnings over £967 a week. Am I right that they'd only be paying 2% NI on any salary sacrifice pension payments over 2k?
Imagine someone was band A and already paying NI on earnings over £967 a week. Am I right that they'd only be paying 2% NI on any salary sacrifice pension payments over 2k?
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The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The honest budget speech...
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
"This year we're putting pensioners ahead of growth. We're prioritising reform voters over growth. Incumbent businesses. Tax advisors...
And the party opposite can complain, but they did exactly the same thing.
In UK politics, this is called change"
Jay Bothroyd is such an idiot. So confidently stupid.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Jay Bothroyd is such an idiot. So confidently stupid.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…
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600 murders a year in a country of 70 million. If you watch GB news you'd think there were 600 murders a day all committed by marauding Jihadist predators. This is the alternative universe half the population inhabit. Per head if population the murder rate is where it was in the late 1960s.
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
600 murders a year in a country of 70 million. If you watch GB news you'd think there were 600 murders a day all committed by marauding Jihadist predators. This is the alternative universe half the population inhabit. Per head if population the murder rate is where it was in the late 1960s.
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bengals and bears was like watching two absolutely hammered dudes with beer guts swinging wildly at each other with their eyes closed outside a bar at closing time
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
bengals and bears was like watching two absolutely hammered dudes with beer guts swinging wildly at each other with their eyes closed outside a bar at closing time
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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it's rather telling how people react to the awful stabbing incident on the LNER train
your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism
everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers
your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism
everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
it's rather telling how people react to the awful stabbing incident on the LNER train
your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism
everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers
your usual, braindead suspects are going all-in on racism
everyone else (including myself) is at awe of the professionalism and conduct of the train staff and signallers
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You don't need to work in the industry long to see why people often call it the 'railway family'. Drivers, signallers, cleaners, platform staff, train crew, track workers, scheduling teams... Everyone works together to try and do a decent job in often tough circumstances
November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don't need to work in the industry long to see why people often call it the 'railway family'. Drivers, signallers, cleaners, platform staff, train crew, track workers, scheduling teams... Everyone works together to try and do a decent job in often tough circumstances
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As drivers our first point of contact is the signaller, who can then alert the emergency services as necessary. In this incident the driver would've also had to request a route onto the slow line to access the platform at Huntingdon. As you said it all seems to have been coordinated very well
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
As drivers our first point of contact is the signaller, who can then alert the emergency services as necessary. In this incident the driver would've also had to request a route onto the slow line to access the platform at Huntingdon. As you said it all seems to have been coordinated very well
Also,whichever bad biff thought that Wednesdays pale pink top did not constitute a clash with our predominantly white top needs to get in the bin too.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Also,whichever bad biff thought that Wednesdays pale pink top did not constitute a clash with our predominantly white top needs to get in the bin too.
This bad biff needs to stop talking about Mickey Johnson
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This bad biff needs to stop talking about Mickey Johnson
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Businesses have noticed this is a leftwing government. Farmers have noticed. The globally mobile rich have noticed. Basically the only people who don’t think this is a leftwing government are the people who want one.
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Businesses have noticed this is a leftwing government. Farmers have noticed. The globally mobile rich have noticed. Basically the only people who don’t think this is a leftwing government are the people who want one.
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UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The basic problem is not having the money to bring services up to scratch, or the ability to raise the taxes needed to pay for them. Hence those offering east solutions, either tax the rich or blame immigrants, hoover up a great deal of support. The alternative is dull and slow, a bit like Starmer
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The basic problem is not having the money to bring services up to scratch, or the ability to raise the taxes needed to pay for them. Hence those offering east solutions, either tax the rich or blame immigrants, hoover up a great deal of support. The alternative is dull and slow, a bit like Starmer
Everton lad's offside
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Everton lad's offside
Gabriel there, demonstrating how to attack your balls at the far post.
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Gabriel there, demonstrating how to attack your balls at the far post.
Eldest has just asked me if I've seen her concealer.
"No dear, I think its too well hidden..."
The resulting eye roll was hard enough to tilt the earth off axis
"No dear, I think its too well hidden..."
The resulting eye roll was hard enough to tilt the earth off axis
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Eldest has just asked me if I've seen her concealer.
"No dear, I think its too well hidden..."
The resulting eye roll was hard enough to tilt the earth off axis
"No dear, I think its too well hidden..."
The resulting eye roll was hard enough to tilt the earth off axis
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That a high profile prisoner was mistakenly released early should surprise nobody with a passing acquaintance with the prison service. Like so many things, it is badly underfunded, it’s staff demoralised and it is simply not functioning. /1
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
That a high profile prisoner was mistakenly released early should surprise nobody with a passing acquaintance with the prison service. Like so many things, it is badly underfunded, it’s staff demoralised and it is simply not functioning. /1
Women don't like the vehicle...
October 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Women don't like the vehicle...
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
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Some conservatives have been talking about ‘traditional British culture’ but I had really not realised that meant the ‘good-natured fun’ of <checks notes> 1980s hooliganism.
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Some conservatives have been talking about ‘traditional British culture’ but I had really not realised that meant the ‘good-natured fun’ of <checks notes> 1980s hooliganism.
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Just ask him to explain Hillsborough and why the fences were there.
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just ask him to explain Hillsborough and why the fences were there.