@chrispoff.bsky.social
On the left, teenager in the 80s, will always detest thatcher and the cruel Tories/farage/Clarkson. Believe in a fairer society ✊
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs"
"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"
"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"
September 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs"
"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"
"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"
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When you see Tories whinging about the price of concert tickets, just remember, Badenoch took a £14,300 luxury holiday for her whole family, courtesy of a donor. And what did they get in return? She changed the Tory policy on Net Zero. #ukpolitics
March 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
When you see Tories whinging about the price of concert tickets, just remember, Badenoch took a £14,300 luxury holiday for her whole family, courtesy of a donor. And what did they get in return? She changed the Tory policy on Net Zero. #ukpolitics
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One from the archive:
Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government
The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection
open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...
Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government
The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection
open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...
Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government
The UK government has authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection.
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One from the archive:
Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government
The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection
open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...
Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government
The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection
open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...
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This is why we need Diversity Equity Inclusion... Without DEI we will all die.
Stupid fucking Donnie Fucking Dollhands Forever!!
Repost if you agree this was a Dollhands move!!
Repost if you agree this was a Dollhands move!!
February 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This is why we need Diversity Equity Inclusion... Without DEI we will all die.
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February 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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With Reform, Tories and now Labour queueing in the right hand lane our country needs a viable alternative. Would the @greenparty.org.uk and the @libdems.org.uk consider a working alliance or do we need an entirely new party created?
February 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
With Reform, Tories and now Labour queueing in the right hand lane our country needs a viable alternative. Would the @greenparty.org.uk and the @libdems.org.uk consider a working alliance or do we need an entirely new party created?
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I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?
Click this link to sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Bring in legislation to prevent foreigners from donating to political parties.
Bring in urgent emergency legislation to prevent foreign nationals buying into our democracy
Petition: Bring in legislation to prevent foreigners from donating to political parties.
Bring in urgent emergency legislation to prevent foreign nationals buying into our democracy
petition.parliament.uk
December 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
I’ve made a petition – will you sign it?
Click this link to sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Bring in legislation to prevent foreigners from donating to political parties.
Bring in urgent emergency legislation to prevent foreign nationals buying into our democracy
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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Nick Candy has donated at least one million pounds to Reform UK.
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
December 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Nick Candy has donated at least one million pounds to Reform UK.
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
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Severn Trent Water used accounting tricks to boost investment by £1.68bn.
OFWAT uses investment to decide customer charges.
Such tricks enabled company to pay higher dividends.
Financial engineering rife at all water companies. OFWAT does nothing to curb it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OFWAT uses investment to decide customer charges.
Such tricks enabled company to pay higher dividends.
Financial engineering rife at all water companies. OFWAT does nothing to curb it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Major water company uses accounting trick to inflate balance sheet by £1.68bn
A substantial Severn Trent Water investment is based on IOU notes - BBC Panorama finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Severn Trent Water used accounting tricks to boost investment by £1.68bn.
OFWAT uses investment to decide customer charges.
Such tricks enabled company to pay higher dividends.
Financial engineering rife at all water companies. OFWAT does nothing to curb it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OFWAT uses investment to decide customer charges.
Such tricks enabled company to pay higher dividends.
Financial engineering rife at all water companies. OFWAT does nothing to curb it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The price of taking the High Speed 2 rail link into London’s Euston and building a new station on the site - while rebuilding the old station - has risen to more than £9.4bn in today’s prices, according to confidential government documents
www.ft.com/content/311e...
www.ft.com/content/311e...
Financial TimesFinancial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:56 AM
The price of taking the High Speed 2 rail link into London’s Euston and building a new station on the site - while rebuilding the old station - has risen to more than £9.4bn in today’s prices, according to confidential government documents
www.ft.com/content/311e...
www.ft.com/content/311e...
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Dedicated public servant, Nigel Farage, understands that the best way to serve his Clacton constituents is to fly to the US for a sixth time, to kiss the arse of a rapist and convicted felon.
December 9, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Dedicated public servant, Nigel Farage, understands that the best way to serve his Clacton constituents is to fly to the US for a sixth time, to kiss the arse of a rapist and convicted felon.
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How long before QE is required to save the wealthy from the folly of their greed? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... The feeling that we are heading for another financial meltdown is growing by the day.
How long before QE is required to save the wealthy from the folly of their greed?
As the FT notes this morning:
Investors’ “relentless” appetite for juicy returns has triggered the biggest boom on Wall Street in complex financial products since the lead-up to the global financial c...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:41 AM
How long before QE is required to save the wealthy from the folly of their greed? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... The feeling that we are heading for another financial meltdown is growing by the day.
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In 2022, Brexit cost us £1M a day. So, Mark Francois and Ian Dullard Smith decrying universal phone chargers as a loss of sovereignty is beyond pathetic. Your idiotic ideology has failed, lads.
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee
New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM
In 2022, Brexit cost us £1M a day. So, Mark Francois and Ian Dullard Smith decrying universal phone chargers as a loss of sovereignty is beyond pathetic. Your idiotic ideology has failed, lads.
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And we’re all very bored of it. Time to make things work again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Netanyahu to take the stand today in his CORRUPTION trial
A pattern repeated across the world inc UK (except we don't charge our corrupted politicians - we promote them)
Netanyahu pleading not guilty & blaming a witch hunt against him. Ah..the old "witch hunt" issue!
news.sky.com/story/benjam...
A pattern repeated across the world inc UK (except we don't charge our corrupted politicians - we promote them)
Netanyahu pleading not guilty & blaming a witch hunt against him. Ah..the old "witch hunt" issue!
news.sky.com/story/benjam...
Benjamin Netanyahu to take the stand for the first time in his corruption trial
Netanyahu says he has waited eight years to be able to tell his story and expressed outrage at the way witnesses had been treated during investigations.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Netanyahu to take the stand today in his CORRUPTION trial
A pattern repeated across the world inc UK (except we don't charge our corrupted politicians - we promote them)
Netanyahu pleading not guilty & blaming a witch hunt against him. Ah..the old "witch hunt" issue!
news.sky.com/story/benjam...
A pattern repeated across the world inc UK (except we don't charge our corrupted politicians - we promote them)
Netanyahu pleading not guilty & blaming a witch hunt against him. Ah..the old "witch hunt" issue!
news.sky.com/story/benjam...
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When Labour is looking for an answer by next Friday it has really lost the plot www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Pat McFadden is for reasons that entirely elude me, Keir Starmer’s chief fixer. The trouble is, he’s completely forgotten the need for a political narrative.
When Labour is looking for an answer by next Friday it has really lost the plot
Pat McFadden, in his role as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and chief Starmer fixer, said on Radio 4 yesterday that he wanted the government to behave as if it is a start-up company. His explan...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 10, 2024 at 7:54 AM
When Labour is looking for an answer by next Friday it has really lost the plot www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Pat McFadden is for reasons that entirely elude me, Keir Starmer’s chief fixer. The trouble is, he’s completely forgotten the need for a political narrative.
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Renewables will never catch on ( sarcasm emoji) 😂😂😂
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... German wind and solar overtook fossil fuel electricity in the first nine months of 2024. (German renewables share hit a record 59%).
Germany sets new record for renewable power | Ember
Germany has accelerated its renewables deployment, with solar growing at a record pace. Wind, though currently lagging, is expected to gain momentum in the future.
ember-energy.org
December 9, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Renewables will never catch on ( sarcasm emoji) 😂😂😂
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Prince William is 6’3”.
Trump claims to be 6’3”.
Trump claims to be 6’3”.
December 8, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Prince William is 6’3”.
Trump claims to be 6’3”.
Trump claims to be 6’3”.
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Stop arming Israel.
December 5, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Stop arming Israel.
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Funny way to spell Brexit. Buying up thousands of acres of land to avoid inheritance tax and cream off all those subsidies. He needs to give his head a wobble.
Oh, and fucking off to Singapore to exploit slave labour for profit doesn't hurt anyone, does it? Right? 🤔 www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
Oh, and fucking off to Singapore to exploit slave labour for profit doesn't hurt anyone, does it? Right? 🤔 www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
Billionaire James Dyson hoovering up land to avoid inheritance tax isn't working out quite as he planned
James Dyson thinking his opinion on inheritance tax holding any weight is laughable from a hard Brexiteer and billionaire land-banker
www.thecanary.co
December 5, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Funny way to spell Brexit. Buying up thousands of acres of land to avoid inheritance tax and cream off all those subsidies. He needs to give his head a wobble.
Oh, and fucking off to Singapore to exploit slave labour for profit doesn't hurt anyone, does it? Right? 🤔 www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
Oh, and fucking off to Singapore to exploit slave labour for profit doesn't hurt anyone, does it? Right? 🤔 www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
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Musk flirts with Farage…
Where does one even begin?
Come join us on the brand new episode of The Trawl out right now, where we discuss the rank hypocrisy and why Labour need to get their arses in gear
…not next month
…not next year
NOW.
Listen on link below.
Where does one even begin?
Come join us on the brand new episode of The Trawl out right now, where we discuss the rank hypocrisy and why Labour need to get their arses in gear
…not next month
…not next year
NOW.
Listen on link below.
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Musk flirts with Farage…
Where does one even begin?
Come join us on the brand new episode of The Trawl out right now, where we discuss the rank hypocrisy and why Labour need to get their arses in gear
…not next month
…not next year
NOW.
Listen on link below.
Where does one even begin?
Come join us on the brand new episode of The Trawl out right now, where we discuss the rank hypocrisy and why Labour need to get their arses in gear
…not next month
…not next year
NOW.
Listen on link below.
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Can't believe Horrible Histories of all people did this 🤣
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Can't believe Horrible Histories of all people did this 🤣
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Lot of ppl sharing idiotic blog by someone from the ASI today calling for EVEN LONGER temporary status for immigrants working & living in the UK 🤦♀️
I say: read something good instead, like THIS, which shows what endless visa renewals for those with "temporary" status really means👇🙌
I say: read something good instead, like THIS, which shows what endless visa renewals for those with "temporary" status really means👇🙌
Delays in issuing leave to remain visas can cause *huge* problems for those applying.
The figures we've obtained are only a snapshot, but they give a clear idea of the issue:
news.sky.com/story/visa-d...
The figures we've obtained are only a snapshot, but they give a clear idea of the issue:
news.sky.com/story/visa-d...
Visa delays crippling lives of hundreds of UK migrants - even when they have British children
Almost a thousand migrants under certain visas in the UK are waiting more than a year to find out if they can stay - with most waiting significantly longer. They can face job losses and debt even when...
news.sky.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Lot of ppl sharing idiotic blog by someone from the ASI today calling for EVEN LONGER temporary status for immigrants working & living in the UK 🤦♀️
I say: read something good instead, like THIS, which shows what endless visa renewals for those with "temporary" status really means👇🙌
I say: read something good instead, like THIS, which shows what endless visa renewals for those with "temporary" status really means👇🙌