Mik
@mikawawaw.bsky.social
I just want to stay informed by interesting people (not bots).
I'll think of what else I might put here as things progress.
I'll think of what else I might put here as things progress.
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Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)
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Profits are just unpaid wages.
Someone worked for it, they just didn't get to keep it.
Don't want to play the game?
Feel free to die in the street 💁🏻♀️
#socialistsunday
#marxistmonday
Someone worked for it, they just didn't get to keep it.
Don't want to play the game?
Feel free to die in the street 💁🏻♀️
#socialistsunday
#marxistmonday
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Profits are just unpaid wages.
Someone worked for it, they just didn't get to keep it.
Don't want to play the game?
Feel free to die in the street 💁🏻♀️
#socialistsunday
#marxistmonday
Someone worked for it, they just didn't get to keep it.
Don't want to play the game?
Feel free to die in the street 💁🏻♀️
#socialistsunday
#marxistmonday
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How Caerphilly best Farage Reform
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
How Caerphilly best Farage Reform
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Except Pochin wasn’t expressing “legitimate concerns” about migration. She was being racist. And if you cynically try to pretend one is the other to give cover for racism, then that needs to be called out too.
Pochin is a racist. Philp is a racist. Who’s next?
Pochin is a racist. Philp is a racist. Who’s next?
Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
October 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Except Pochin wasn’t expressing “legitimate concerns” about migration. She was being racist. And if you cynically try to pretend one is the other to give cover for racism, then that needs to be called out too.
Pochin is a racist. Philp is a racist. Who’s next?
Pochin is a racist. Philp is a racist. Who’s next?
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One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.
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Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.
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What utter dickheads we are…
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
The mega wealthy win again.
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
The mega wealthy win again.
September 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What utter dickheads we are…
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
The mega wealthy win again.
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
The mega wealthy win again.
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'The whole point of their existence is to feed off of dismay and problems'
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
'The whole point of their existence is to feed off of dismay and problems'
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
On #BBCBreakfast Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, was asked about the challenge from Reform UK
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If I had time - or a BBC-sized team - I'd assemble all the Daily Mail front pages hysterically celebrating the Tories doing all the things that left the country in the mess that the paper is now moaning about & somehow trying to blame on, *checks notes*, Keir Starmer. They even worshipped Liz Truss!
Honking endorsement for Farage, Johnson et la, without a moment’s reflection that 10 years of UKIPified Tory govt created the mess they’re railing about — booming benefits bills, bond market routs, immigration surges, trade slump and investment slumps. Bring back Boris and Nadine! That’ll fix it. 🙈
September 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If I had time - or a BBC-sized team - I'd assemble all the Daily Mail front pages hysterically celebrating the Tories doing all the things that left the country in the mess that the paper is now moaning about & somehow trying to blame on, *checks notes*, Keir Starmer. They even worshipped Liz Truss!
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade.
Look at what he does, ffs.
Look at his tax affairs.
Look at his grifting.
Look at his lies.
Look at his prejudice.
Look at his allies.
Look at his manifesto.
Look at his Brexit.
He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.
Look at what he does, ffs.
Look at his tax affairs.
Look at his grifting.
Look at his lies.
Look at his prejudice.
Look at his allies.
Look at his manifesto.
Look at his Brexit.
He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.
September 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade.
Look at what he does, ffs.
Look at his tax affairs.
Look at his grifting.
Look at his lies.
Look at his prejudice.
Look at his allies.
Look at his manifesto.
Look at his Brexit.
He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.
Look at what he does, ffs.
Look at his tax affairs.
Look at his grifting.
Look at his lies.
Look at his prejudice.
Look at his allies.
Look at his manifesto.
Look at his Brexit.
He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.
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I think we all are!
August 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I think we all are!
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“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot
Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...
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July 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more”
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Forget Nigel Farage, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch. The biggest divide in GB politics is not between left and right, the biggest divide is between the wealthy at the top and the poor at the bottom. They want us at each other's throats, but this isn't about left or right.
July 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Forget Nigel Farage, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch. The biggest divide in GB politics is not between left and right, the biggest divide is between the wealthy at the top and the poor at the bottom. They want us at each other's throats, but this isn't about left or right.
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Knowing Brexit is a deeply dishonest project should be good enough reason to bin it, along with the liars who flogged it to the country.
Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Rayner says Farage’s Brexit promises haven’t come true
www.independent.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Knowing Brexit is a deeply dishonest project should be good enough reason to bin it, along with the liars who flogged it to the country.
Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.
June 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.