Brownnick
@brownnick1.bsky.social
Amateur violinist/violist. Retired teacher. English but obsessed (healthily) with Sweden. Learning Swedish hence the follows. Lifelong Spurs and Labour supporter.
Good point
I don’t remember any of this scrutiny of Rishi Sunak and his families business connections - given the political links in India
As it is this is not that huge
As it is this is not that huge
January 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Good point
And people claiming that we need to work with him...
January 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
And people claiming that we need to work with him...
'Andrew Tate’s house was raided by armed police in relation to allegations of human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. Is it time for parliament to question Nigel Farage over his relationship with Tate?'
Farage and Tate: a similar phenomenon?
Should Nigel Farage face questions in parliament over his relationship with Andrew Tate?
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
January 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
What chutzpah! Farage has the gall to complain “We are getting poorer” without a scintilla of shame that Brexit has played a key role in our impoverishment @bbclaurak.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm sure the press will be all over it...
The amount of sewage dumps today is off the scale, absolutely disgusting
January 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm sure the press will be all over it...
Shouldn't he be dealing with constituency issues? He is only a MP not a government minister.
January 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Shouldn't he be dealing with constituency issues? He is only a MP not a government minister.
Compare the sheer scale of the coverage handed by the BBC this morning to Nigel Farage and his party, with its grand total of five MPs, to its coverage of other similarly small parties.
January 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Agree. Every question seemed designed to give him time to spout the same old rubbish. Really did not push hard enough on musk's appalling comments.
If only Laura Kuenssberg had interviewed Nigel Farage l Victoria Derbyshire would have what a different KETTLE of FISH it would have been
Kuenssberg let Farage walk all over her and let him get away with everything
Very poor Journalism !!!
Kuenssberg let Farage walk all over her and let him get away with everything
Very poor Journalism !!!
January 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Agree. Every question seemed designed to give him time to spout the same old rubbish. Really did not push hard enough on musk's appalling comments.
A passenger moaning about being stuck in Berlin with a flight on Tuesday. Doesn't he know about the high speed train to Paris? Suspect it is the airline that is the problem not the weather too
January 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A passenger moaning about being stuck in Berlin with a flight on Tuesday. Doesn't he know about the high speed train to Paris? Suspect it is the airline that is the problem not the weather too
So they have regressed over the last 50+years...
In 1968, Enoch Powell was fired from the shadow cabinet after his Rivers of Blood speech. Over half a century later, a senior shadow cabinet member has said something wildly racist and deliberately inflammatory, and the only difference is he won't be sacked.
There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
January 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So they have regressed over the last 50+years...
So true. How are they the company for the people when they only attract those rejected at the ballot box?
These defections would be so much more significant if Reform were attracting current MPs, rather than acting as a loser magnet for failures.
Former Conservative MP Marco Longhi defects to Reform UK
January 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So true. How are they the company for the people when they only attract those rejected at the ballot box?
Yes
Not-for-profit care homes run by local authorities that don't have to make huge returns for private equity, an end to six-figure salaries for their 'chief executives', decent pay and conditions for their workers. Just a few suggestions for the Casey review there.
January 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yes
Surely they must do something now?
That’s all in the first two days of 2025!Labour must wake up to what’s happening here. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations before its too late
Elon Musk has called for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson to be released from prison, suggested the US should exert economic pressure on the UK to get him out, said Jess Phillips should be jailed and said there should be fresh elections to oust Labour
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Surely they must do something now?
With Musk pimping for Reform, spreading hateful misinformation, calling for our govt to be brought down and one of its MPs to be imprisoned, all decent MPs should question whether they should be on X at all. They’re enabling a profoundly undemocratic threat to our country by being on his platform.
January 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
However much they shout, facts remain the same. Our democracy and our freedom to live peacefully with each other is now at risk every second these people use their money and their networks to rewrite history. We need urgent political finance law reform and we each need to stand up for the truth.
January 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Appreciate your angle but I think they’ve been talked about way too much and yet farridge very rarely held to account for the damage he’s done to this country x
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
UK Tory govt spent £50,000 to stop release of review into disabled man’s death.
DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income.
He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped.
Govt tried to conceal murder.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income.
He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped.
Govt tried to conceal murder.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Most definitely
Happy New Year.
In 2025 the UK needs to Rejoin the EU.
I'm sure you agree.
In 2025 the UK needs to Rejoin the EU.
I'm sure you agree.
January 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Most definitely
“James Dyson owns 36,000 acres of agricultural land, estimated to be worth in excess of £550mn…Prior to Reeves’ new tax regulations there would have been no tax to pay if he had died and passed the land on to his successors”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Always has been.
I mean, here's the crux of it.
Quite apart from the detail about Steinway grands, if school fees are hitting £60k a year - the argument that this tax raid impacts ordinary people is just bunkum.
Quite apart from the detail about Steinway grands, if school fees are hitting £60k a year - the argument that this tax raid impacts ordinary people is just bunkum.
Every kid needs to learn on a Steinway grand.
Private school fees are rising in a facilities ‘arms race’ — timely piece from @financialtimes.com Laura Hughes on facilites/fees link over last 20 years in private schools, and the impact on affordability.
on.ft.com/4gAThHT
Private school fees are rising in a facilities ‘arms race’ — timely piece from @financialtimes.com Laura Hughes on facilites/fees link over last 20 years in private schools, and the impact on affordability.
on.ft.com/4gAThHT
December 30, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Always has been.
As opposed to tory cabinet ministers who were abroad and really should have logged on to work to avoid some catastrophic problems...
"Probe reveals hundreds logging in from abroad..."
There are over a million council staff (900k FTE). Hundreds could be abroad at any point for all sorts of reasons - including work, study, compassionate grounds, etc.
This is a ludicrous non-story designed to attack public servants.
There are over a million council staff (900k FTE). Hundreds could be abroad at any point for all sorts of reasons - including work, study, compassionate grounds, etc.
This is a ludicrous non-story designed to attack public servants.
December 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
As opposed to tory cabinet ministers who were abroad and really should have logged on to work to avoid some catastrophic problems...
We know it but...
This is Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, appointed by Nigel Farrage.
Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco)
He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax.
Patriotic? Anti-Establishment?
It's a con.
Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco)
He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax.
Patriotic? Anti-Establishment?
It's a con.
December 29, 2024 at 6:36 PM
We know it but...
Does anyone know this? At that price I think that it's worth the gamble. I have heard a couple of other things by him.
December 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Does anyone know this? At that price I think that it's worth the gamble. I have heard a couple of other things by him.