Andrew G0MBL
@plantfamily.net
Retired IT technician, radio amateur (mainly FT8 & other digital modes) and a late convert to cruising (ships, not the other kind!). I live in Ramsgate, UK.
Intensely introvert. Loathe sarcasm and 'banter'.
I'm Socialist, Atheist and Woke.
Intensely introvert. Loathe sarcasm and 'banter'.
I'm Socialist, Atheist and Woke.
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3 months ago few people had heard of #ZackPolanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Only the party faithful cared who the leader of the Greens was. Now the Polanski surge looks unstoppable. The party’s membership has doubled, bringing in much-needed money and volunteers
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Zack Polanski on the Green party boom – podcast
Three months into his leadership the Green party membership is surging. Randeep Ramesh explains why
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
3 months ago few people had heard of #ZackPolanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Only the party faithful cared who the leader of the Greens was. Now the Polanski surge looks unstoppable. The party’s membership has doubled, bringing in much-needed money and volunteers
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Turns out that MacDonald Hotel’s hosted the fascists Farage rally for free🤢
Thinking of booking a holiday, short break or business trip?
MacDonald Hotels welcome fascist, racist, misogynist scumbags🤮
Take your business elsewhere because after a Farage Rally the stains can never be cleaned 🤮
www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk?utm_source=g...
MacDonald Hotels welcome fascist, racist, misogynist scumbags🤮
Take your business elsewhere because after a Farage Rally the stains can never be cleaned 🤮
www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk?utm_source=g...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Turns out that MacDonald Hotel’s hosted the fascists Farage rally for free🤢
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The decision to allow Israel to participate in Eurovision is an act of grotesque culture-washing and serves as nothing less than wholesale acceptance of Israel’s campaign of international PR.
Our #MusicForTheMany campaign response to Israel’s participation in Eurovision.
Our #MusicForTheMany campaign response to Israel’s participation in Eurovision.
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The decision to allow Israel to participate in Eurovision is an act of grotesque culture-washing and serves as nothing less than wholesale acceptance of Israel’s campaign of international PR.
Our #MusicForTheMany campaign response to Israel’s participation in Eurovision.
Our #MusicForTheMany campaign response to Israel’s participation in Eurovision.
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The UK must follow Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia’s lead and boycott Eurovision.
We cannot have “business as usual” with Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.
We cannot have “business as usual” with Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The UK must follow Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia’s lead and boycott Eurovision.
We cannot have “business as usual” with Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.
We cannot have “business as usual” with Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.
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Every national broadcaster should leave the contest. Some already have
🔴 BREAKING: According to 20minutos.es, 8 broadcasters have requested a secret vote on Israeli participation in #Eurovision 2026, exceeding the required threshold of 5.
The vote is expected to take place this evening.
The vote is expected to take place this evening.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Every national broadcaster should leave the contest. Some already have
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Also fyi,
Claiming asylum is a universal human right afforded to us all and protected under Article 14 of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
There is no such thing as an "illegal" or "bogus" person seeking asylum.
Claiming asylum is a universal human right afforded to us all and protected under Article 14 of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
There is no such thing as an "illegal" or "bogus" person seeking asylum.
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Also fyi,
Claiming asylum is a universal human right afforded to us all and protected under Article 14 of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
There is no such thing as an "illegal" or "bogus" person seeking asylum.
Claiming asylum is a universal human right afforded to us all and protected under Article 14 of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
There is no such thing as an "illegal" or "bogus" person seeking asylum.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
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He needs to do better against people that have supported policies that tanked the economy on a regular basis? WE need to do better against these charlatans whose economic knowledge is farcical.
At one level, yes its pretty galling seeing centrists & right-wingers mocking Polanski's lack of economic knowledge in those podcast clips, given that the ultimate legacy of their own economic traditions is a likely terminal climate catastrophe. But the point remains that he needs to do much better.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
He needs to do better against people that have supported policies that tanked the economy on a regular basis? WE need to do better against these charlatans whose economic knowledge is farcical.
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Overseas student numbers plummeting?
It’s almost as if making it harder for them to come and being less welcoming makes them go elsewhere.
Shame really as they bring a small fortune into the country.
That’s racism for you.
It’s almost as if making it harder for them to come and being less welcoming makes them go elsewhere.
Shame really as they bring a small fortune into the country.
That’s racism for you.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Overseas student numbers plummeting?
It’s almost as if making it harder for them to come and being less welcoming makes them go elsewhere.
Shame really as they bring a small fortune into the country.
That’s racism for you.
It’s almost as if making it harder for them to come and being less welcoming makes them go elsewhere.
Shame really as they bring a small fortune into the country.
That’s racism for you.
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It might fit him well to ponder this..
December 1, 2024 at 8:14 PM
It might fit him well to ponder this..
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"Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Unite for Palestine Benefit Single"
'“Lullaby,” a version of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” will be released on December 12, aiming for the coveted UK Christmas No. 1 slot.'
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#Palestine
#SolidarityWithPalestine
'“Lullaby,” a version of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” will be released on December 12, aiming for the coveted UK Christmas No. 1 slot.'
pitchfork.com/news/brian-e...
#Palestine
#SolidarityWithPalestine
Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Unite for Palestine Benefit Single
Operating as Together for Palestine, an ensemble will aim for a UK Christmas No. 1 with “Lullaby,” a new version of “Yamma Mweel El Hawa” written by Peter Gabriel
pitchfork.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Unite for Palestine Benefit Single"
'“Lullaby,” a version of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” will be released on December 12, aiming for the coveted UK Christmas No. 1 slot.'
pitchfork.com/news/brian-e...
#Palestine
#SolidarityWithPalestine
'“Lullaby,” a version of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” will be released on December 12, aiming for the coveted UK Christmas No. 1 slot.'
pitchfork.com/news/brian-e...
#Palestine
#SolidarityWithPalestine
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Benidorm the greatest example of immigrants refusing to learn the language, adopt the culture or integrate into society., adopt the culture or integrate into society.
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Benidorm the greatest example of immigrants refusing to learn the language, adopt the culture or integrate into society., adopt the culture or integrate into society.
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Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thanks to all who have reposted this thread to help get the word out. The selling of these books "as new" on Amazon is making it more difficult for Unbound authors to rebuild what we lost and move on.
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Totally agree.
Government finances are entirely different from personal finances.
Nobody has a money printing press.
The govt does.
However, our financial journalists continue to spread financial illiteracy, with talk of “balancing in the books“, “maxing out on the country’s credit cards“ etc
Government finances are entirely different from personal finances.
Nobody has a money printing press.
The govt does.
However, our financial journalists continue to spread financial illiteracy, with talk of “balancing in the books“, “maxing out on the country’s credit cards“ etc
I wish we could have a more honest discussion about how government finances actually work. If I see another paper suggest the chancellor has to ‘balance the books’ as if the government was a business…
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Totally agree.
Government finances are entirely different from personal finances.
Nobody has a money printing press.
The govt does.
However, our financial journalists continue to spread financial illiteracy, with talk of “balancing in the books“, “maxing out on the country’s credit cards“ etc
Government finances are entirely different from personal finances.
Nobody has a money printing press.
The govt does.
However, our financial journalists continue to spread financial illiteracy, with talk of “balancing in the books“, “maxing out on the country’s credit cards“ etc
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Never has the British legal system
been more blatantly biased
than since it was set up
by the property owning class
to protect their interests
meme via Matt Kennard
been more blatantly biased
than since it was set up
by the property owning class
to protect their interests
meme via Matt Kennard
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Never has the British legal system
been more blatantly biased
than since it was set up
by the property owning class
to protect their interests
meme via Matt Kennard
been more blatantly biased
than since it was set up
by the property owning class
to protect their interests
meme via Matt Kennard
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Clothing Bans and Logic
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Clothing Bans and Logic
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Promoting hate to win votes,
draconian laws to stop protest,
are two common policies of all fascists
currently being enacted by Starmer's Labour
meme via Expose Racism
draconian laws to stop protest,
are two common policies of all fascists
currently being enacted by Starmer's Labour
meme via Expose Racism
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Promoting hate to win votes,
draconian laws to stop protest,
are two common policies of all fascists
currently being enacted by Starmer's Labour
meme via Expose Racism
draconian laws to stop protest,
are two common policies of all fascists
currently being enacted by Starmer's Labour
meme via Expose Racism
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And also not a word on Gill on the BBC’s flagship political programme this morning. A senior British politician jailed for taking bribes from a foreign power, and BBC does not cover it???
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
And also not a word on Gill on the BBC’s flagship political programme this morning. A senior British politician jailed for taking bribes from a foreign power, and BBC does not cover it???
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social hits the nail on the head!!! Something that is ignored by all the other political parties as the focus in immigration to cultivate votes. I am a life long socialiat who will never vote Labour again after they get praise from Yaxley Lennon on their immigration policy.
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social hits the nail on the head!!! Something that is ignored by all the other political parties as the focus in immigration to cultivate votes. I am a life long socialiat who will never vote Labour again after they get praise from Yaxley Lennon on their immigration policy.
Walking along the river stour in Canterbury this morning and saw this kingfisher. Best photo I could get on my phone!
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Walking along the river stour in Canterbury this morning and saw this kingfisher. Best photo I could get on my phone!
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... great news and an intriguing story about a Scots musical genius
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... great news and an intriguing story about a Scots musical genius
What's going on near Pegwell in Ramsgate - lost count of the number of police cars with blue lights going up and down our road in the last half hour 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What's going on near Pegwell in Ramsgate - lost count of the number of police cars with blue lights going up and down our road in the last half hour 🤔
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Its time for every Labour MP that has a tiny shred of morality left to piss or get off the potty.
This has got to be the end to this Labour Party. This needs to be the end of Starmer.
This has got to be the end to this Labour Party. This needs to be the end of Starmer.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Its time for every Labour MP that has a tiny shred of morality left to piss or get off the potty.
This has got to be the end to this Labour Party. This needs to be the end of Starmer.
This has got to be the end to this Labour Party. This needs to be the end of Starmer.
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk