Shamrock Luddite
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Shamrock Luddite
@scranchav.bsky.social
Labour Party member. London ambulance crew. London Taxi Driver too
Donald Trump sparked outrage worldwide with his shocking display of bullying at Friday's Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 145,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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DWP's new Jobcentres 'on wheels' can help break stigma, minister says

I joined @allymcgovern.bsky.social on one of the vans in Bolton today

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
DWP's new Jobcentres 'on wheels' can help break stigma, minister says
DWP minister Alison McGovern speaks to The Mirror as she launches a new Jobcentres 'on wheels' that have been pulling up at family hubs, retail car parks and outside mosques and churches
www.mirror.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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A Greenwich councillor has told Transport for London to “pull its socks up” over eyesore sites next to Woolwich Arsenal station that remain disused 16 years after the Docklands Light Railway extension was built.
Pull your socks up, TfL told over eyesore Woolwich Arsenal DLR sites - The Greenwich Wire
A Greenwich councillor has told TfL to "pull its socks up" over eyesore sites at Woolwich Arsenal that remain disused 16 years after the DLR opened.
buff.ly
February 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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The Labour MP pushing for assisted dying to be legalised said her plans will be strengthened by introducing a judge-led expert panel to sign off each case.
MP championing assisted dying says people stop her every day and say same thing
www.mirror.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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I loved Bill Bailey’s response to Alanis Morrisette’s song Ironic.

It’s not ironic. It’s just bad luck.

The only way rain on your wedding day is ironic is if your fiancé is a weatherman and he chose the day.

Superb.
January 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Merry Christmas everyone.
December 25, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Happy Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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It’s notable, but not exactly surprising, that so many* of the supposedly ‘sensible’ Brexiters have turned out to be mad, racist, hideous and/or stupid Farage fans. Montgomerie, a particularly pungent proof of this particular pudding, has been stealing a living for years.

*every single one of them
So, Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home, defects to Reform.
No shock to me; he bent steadily to the far right from the time I followed him until the time he blocked me for criticising Toby 'dick up your wife's arse' Young.
vlcpked.me
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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The marvellous Sophie Alloway, who drums with the JR Sextet, is on BBC4 right now as drummer in the competition trio for Young Jazz Musician of the year.
November 24, 2024 at 9:05 PM
@keir--starmer.bsky.social we need to investigate all the offshore accounts
November 17, 2024 at 11:57 AM
November 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM