A Tomlinson
@tenlargedown.bsky.social
Retired bookmaker with interest in economics, politics, geopolitics and ME/CFS. British and proudly European. Centre-Left . 🇬🇧🇺🇦 #NAFO
“Your Party” are a complete joke and wanting to leave #NATO is a complete shambles. If you support #Corbyn or #Sultana can you explain to me how leaving #NATO is a good idea and how this would go down with the #EU which I hope we rejoin in my lifetime. Please explain this to me in a polite way.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#Palantir are world leaders but the UK consortium (Voror Health, Black Pear, and Eclipse) or Quantexa are both very good options to move to ASAP. They should all be trialed in different areas and then scrap Palantir as they are run by the devil. Someone worse than #Trump or even #Musk. Buy British.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
People who are neurodivergent or have mental health issues are the most rewarding people if they are offered support. This involves workplace reform, work coaches & #NHS therapists. This needs to replace PIP which is for physical disabilities. #Starmer is right. NO PRIVATE HEALTHCARE.
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
This is just a good policy and money to the poorest gets spent straight away boosting the economy. We have no fiscal room for any more fiscal stimulus. We just need to get inflation down now and rely on interest rate cuts.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is just a good policy and money to the poorest gets spent straight away boosting the economy. We have no fiscal room for any more fiscal stimulus. We just need to get inflation down now and rely on interest rate cuts.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
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Don’t be surprised if the shooting of the National Guardsmen is a false flag operation. I’m not saying it is, but it could be. We need to watch closely as #midterms are looking like a bloodbath for #Trump. There are echoes of #Putin who famously uses false flags everywhere.
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is laughable.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is laughable.
The ‘coalition of the willing’ made a strategic mistake not coming up with a peace plan before the #Russia one.
I know Rubio is a Russia hawk at heart and they could have made the first move. This is being fixed a little but it’s put #Ukraine on the back foot.
Witkoff is a traitor.
#NAFO #NATO
I know Rubio is a Russia hawk at heart and they could have made the first move. This is being fixed a little but it’s put #Ukraine on the back foot.
Witkoff is a traitor.
#NAFO #NATO
TRAITOR! Inside the SECRET Deal They Tried to Hide
YouTube video by Ukraine Matters
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
1/ #Labour should update their guidelines for health and look into longevity and healthspan (how long we are healthy for). So things like increasing vitamin D levels, multivitamins and omega 3 have always been either a fad or amazing but the data has finally shown that they are in fact good for us.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
1/ #Labour should update their guidelines for health and look into longevity and healthspan (how long we are healthy for). So things like increasing vitamin D levels, multivitamins and omega 3 have always been either a fad or amazing but the data has finally shown that they are in fact good for us.
Our solar is at 6%. Compared to The bastion of right wing authoritarian #Hungary who lead the #EU at 23%.
This will surprise you.
This will surprise you.
Eastern Europe’s Solar Boom Explained
YouTube video by TLDR News EU
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If the war ends I think he should endorse Zaluzhnyi if he isn’t likely to beat him. He will go down in history like Churchill unless #Russia takes over Kyiv. But in this crazy news environment, if he lost an election he wouldn’t get the same latitude. #Ukraine #NAFO
“The nightmare scenario would be Zelenskyy accepting the deal and then being removed.”
Could the proposed peace deal destabilise Ukraine enough to see Zelenskyy replaced as leader?
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Could the proposed peace deal destabilise Ukraine enough to see Zelenskyy replaced as leader?
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
He should be investigated for #Russia bribes. He would make a nice political prisoner. He nearly died in a helicopter crash. It’s a real shame (for the helicopter).
I implore someone, anyone, in the media…
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
Do your job
And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly:
…what were the motivations behind this?
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
He should be investigated for #Russia bribes. He would make a nice political prisoner. He nearly died in a helicopter crash. It’s a real shame (for the helicopter).
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
They need to be bolder on #Brexit if they want to beat reform. 60% are now remainers. If Trump’s tariffs are struck down in court, we should join the customs union. It would be an ideal way of proving the damage by reversing some before the election. It would also help #Labour against the Greens.
Left, Labour's Peter Kyle: we want to grow the economy and make Brexit work
Right, "GDP reduced by 8%..Brexit decimated UK economy"
Right, "GDP reduced by 8%..Brexit decimated UK economy"
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
Yes they should be lifting up fellow independent, high quality journalism. We need a ‘coalition of the willing’ for non biased reporting. #BBC
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Yes they should be lifting up fellow independent, high quality journalism. We need a ‘coalition of the willing’ for non biased reporting. #BBC
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It's not a coincidence that the four most damaging politicians of the last two decades (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Farage) are all the products of English public schools.
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's not a coincidence that the four most damaging politicians of the last two decades (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Farage) are all the products of English public schools.
Some Debussy would be one of my favourites.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Some Debussy would be one of my favourites.
This is more ridiculous things that should be reported on the #BBC, Sky News and ITV. (Channel 4 News is the best mainstream news).
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is more ridiculous things that should be reported on the #BBC, Sky News and ITV. (Channel 4 News is the best mainstream news).
Now would be a good time for the #EU to do a deal on military co-operation with the #UK on the same basis as Norway, not as a 3rd country with excessive charge for the UK. The current offer is not fair to the UK who bring so much to the table on defence. Norway is not in the EU so it’s unfair. #NAFO
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Now would be a good time for the #EU to do a deal on military co-operation with the #UK on the same basis as Norway, not as a 3rd country with excessive charge for the UK. The current offer is not fair to the UK who bring so much to the table on defence. Norway is not in the EU so it’s unfair. #NAFO