ChippyGirl
@chippygirl.bsky.social
Proud to be part of "the social media of the elites” and "tofu eating wokerati" brigade
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Why are Tories not being hauled over the coals about this.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why are Tories not being hauled over the coals about this.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
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I see Nigel Farage seems to have survived evidence of overt antisemitic behaviour from his teens and constituents of Clacton voicing anger at his greed and dereliction of his duty as an MP. Can’t find any demands for his resignation.
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I see Nigel Farage seems to have survived evidence of overt antisemitic behaviour from his teens and constituents of Clacton voicing anger at his greed and dereliction of his duty as an MP. Can’t find any demands for his resignation.
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All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time.
Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point
The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time.
Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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You can make your own minds up about Badenoch but @stephenkb.bsky.social's glib throwaway about Labour's 'failed and flailing government' shows just how toxic and deranged what poses as contemporary political journalism has become.
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You can make your own minds up about Badenoch but @stephenkb.bsky.social's glib throwaway about Labour's 'failed and flailing government' shows just how toxic and deranged what poses as contemporary political journalism has become.
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What a stupid, nasty woman this Badenoch is.
Of course the Budget leak was someone else's fault!
Did she expect the Chancellor to check the OBR web pages herself for erroneous coding and links?!
We can be darn sure no Tory idiots would have done so in Reeves' place.
#bbcnews #r4today #ukpolitics
Of course the Budget leak was someone else's fault!
Did she expect the Chancellor to check the OBR web pages herself for erroneous coding and links?!
We can be darn sure no Tory idiots would have done so in Reeves' place.
#bbcnews #r4today #ukpolitics
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
What a stupid, nasty woman this Badenoch is.
Of course the Budget leak was someone else's fault!
Did she expect the Chancellor to check the OBR web pages herself for erroneous coding and links?!
We can be darn sure no Tory idiots would have done so in Reeves' place.
#bbcnews #r4today #ukpolitics
Of course the Budget leak was someone else's fault!
Did she expect the Chancellor to check the OBR web pages herself for erroneous coding and links?!
We can be darn sure no Tory idiots would have done so in Reeves' place.
#bbcnews #r4today #ukpolitics
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No huge fan of R. Reeves, but she's better than the multitude of Chancers the Tories threw at us.
Calling for her resignation is just a Tory ploy encouraged by the biased media.
She's accused of doing what they all do, changing her mind & making political choices.
Meanwhile the world is on fire...
Calling for her resignation is just a Tory ploy encouraged by the biased media.
She's accused of doing what they all do, changing her mind & making political choices.
Meanwhile the world is on fire...
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
No huge fan of R. Reeves, but she's better than the multitude of Chancers the Tories threw at us.
Calling for her resignation is just a Tory ploy encouraged by the biased media.
She's accused of doing what they all do, changing her mind & making political choices.
Meanwhile the world is on fire...
Calling for her resignation is just a Tory ploy encouraged by the biased media.
She's accused of doing what they all do, changing her mind & making political choices.
Meanwhile the world is on fire...
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Media speculating whether media will continue to speculate about something that only media is speculating about.
"Rachel Reeves will be hoping the shock resignation from the boss of the economic watchdog tonight will drown out questions about whether she misled the public about its forecasts."
"Rachel Reeves will be hoping the shock resignation from the boss of the economic watchdog tonight will drown out questions about whether she misled the public about its forecasts."
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Media speculating whether media will continue to speculate about something that only media is speculating about.
"Rachel Reeves will be hoping the shock resignation from the boss of the economic watchdog tonight will drown out questions about whether she misled the public about its forecasts."
"Rachel Reeves will be hoping the shock resignation from the boss of the economic watchdog tonight will drown out questions about whether she misled the public about its forecasts."
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Britain has a secrecy problem.
In 2024, the govt answered just 29% of Freedom of Information requests - the lowest rate since FOI began.
Secrecy fuels corruption, bad governance, scandals covered-up to protect elites. Ministers don't answer questions in parliament.
Sham democracy.
In 2024, the govt answered just 29% of Freedom of Information requests - the lowest rate since FOI began.
Secrecy fuels corruption, bad governance, scandals covered-up to protect elites. Ministers don't answer questions in parliament.
Sham democracy.
The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back
Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Britain has a secrecy problem.
In 2024, the govt answered just 29% of Freedom of Information requests - the lowest rate since FOI began.
Secrecy fuels corruption, bad governance, scandals covered-up to protect elites. Ministers don't answer questions in parliament.
Sham democracy.
In 2024, the govt answered just 29% of Freedom of Information requests - the lowest rate since FOI began.
Secrecy fuels corruption, bad governance, scandals covered-up to protect elites. Ministers don't answer questions in parliament.
Sham democracy.
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Douglas Alexander just called out Andrew Marr live on air. About the ‘black hole’. Rachel Reeves never said it. The media said it.
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Douglas Alexander just called out Andrew Marr live on air. About the ‘black hole’. Rachel Reeves never said it. The media said it.
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Oh FFS, BBC News, give over with this relentless effort to frame Rachel Reeves as misleading people over the Budget. The only people who are pissed are the likes of Chris Mason who's got egg on his face for predicting tax rises that didn't materialise.
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Oh FFS, BBC News, give over with this relentless effort to frame Rachel Reeves as misleading people over the Budget. The only people who are pissed are the likes of Chris Mason who's got egg on his face for predicting tax rises that didn't materialise.
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Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent
Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...
foe.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
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Farage and other charlatans mis-sold Brexit claiming it would make stopping migration easy. Now the same grifters are using anger at the immigration they claimed they would stop to win power
To hear some sense I interviewed Alan Manning author of the newly released“Why Immigration Policy is Hard”
To hear some sense I interviewed Alan Manning author of the newly released“Why Immigration Policy is Hard”
The “infernal circle” of immigration policy
Interview with Alan Manning
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Farage and other charlatans mis-sold Brexit claiming it would make stopping migration easy. Now the same grifters are using anger at the immigration they claimed they would stop to win power
To hear some sense I interviewed Alan Manning author of the newly released“Why Immigration Policy is Hard”
To hear some sense I interviewed Alan Manning author of the newly released“Why Immigration Policy is Hard”
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BBC News have got their new bone to chew on. Again their lead non-news, is Starmer & Reeves & the budget. They are just stirring it up, trying to make life uncomfortable for the Govt. The question is, how long they flog this nonsense?. Mason is there pontificating, as usual. It's all very tiresome.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
BBC News have got their new bone to chew on. Again their lead non-news, is Starmer & Reeves & the budget. They are just stirring it up, trying to make life uncomfortable for the Govt. The question is, how long they flog this nonsense?. Mason is there pontificating, as usual. It's all very tiresome.
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It's like the media got addicted to the psychodrama soap opera of the last government and keep trying to stir things so we get a doof-doof moment every week. It's relentless, and pretty pathetic.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's like the media got addicted to the psychodrama soap opera of the last government and keep trying to stir things so we get a doof-doof moment every week. It's relentless, and pretty pathetic.
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They got so used to chaotic swapping of PMs and ministers they’re desperate for it to happen again.
If only they actually, I don’t know … did some journalism instead of this crap
If only they actually, I don’t know … did some journalism instead of this crap
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
They got so used to chaotic swapping of PMs and ministers they’re desperate for it to happen again.
If only they actually, I don’t know … did some journalism instead of this crap
If only they actually, I don’t know … did some journalism instead of this crap
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24h news was a huge mistake.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
24h news was a huge mistake.
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Seriously. Take ten fkn minutes off to be a person.
Choir singing carols. Xmas tree lights on. Jolly cheers.
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Seriously. Take ten fkn minutes off to be a person.
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Vote Reform and it seems you’re quite likely to end up with desperate old Tories looking for another pay day. The stampede of the deranged and deluded towards NF and co continues 😂
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-Conservative deputy chair among Tory defections to Reform - BBC News
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform along with fellow former Tory MPs Chris Green and Lia Nici.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Vote Reform and it seems you’re quite likely to end up with desperate old Tories looking for another pay day. The stampede of the deranged and deluded towards NF and co continues 😂
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Magazine that accuses anyone who even dares to think about criticising the Israeli government of ‘antisemitism’ apparently fine with Farage not apologising for allegedly saying ‘H*tler was right’ and making gas chamber noises to descendants of holocaust survivors. Through the looking glass stuff.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Magazine that accuses anyone who even dares to think about criticising the Israeli government of ‘antisemitism’ apparently fine with Farage not apologising for allegedly saying ‘H*tler was right’ and making gas chamber noises to descendants of holocaust survivors. Through the looking glass stuff.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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RefUK headquarters welcome Gullis...
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
RefUK headquarters welcome Gullis...
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‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building
‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building
They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are finally being celebrated
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building
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Reform sponsored BBC still running 3 of their 3 politics articles on this topic.
Not a single effin one about lifting the benefit cap.
BBC, and Reform spokesman Mason definitely trying to bring the govt down.
Not a single effin one about lifting the benefit cap.
BBC, and Reform spokesman Mason definitely trying to bring the govt down.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reform sponsored BBC still running 3 of their 3 politics articles on this topic.
Not a single effin one about lifting the benefit cap.
BBC, and Reform spokesman Mason definitely trying to bring the govt down.
Not a single effin one about lifting the benefit cap.
BBC, and Reform spokesman Mason definitely trying to bring the govt down.
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This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.
Did Rachel Reeves and the Government “mislead” people about the state of the public finances and the need for tax rises before the Budget?
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.