geof-lay
@geof-lay.bsky.social
Retired Pharmacist Civil Servant type thing. Resident in Kent, England. Trying not to spend my whole day saying "Well, what did you expect would happen?” I waste time in Tamriel as a Khajiit.
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The stupidest people in the world continue to get cheered on by those whose lives will only be made worse by their actions.
While the majority of us remain hostages to it all.
It's so bleak.
While the majority of us remain hostages to it all.
It's so bleak.
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The stupidest people in the world continue to get cheered on by those whose lives will only be made worse by their actions.
While the majority of us remain hostages to it all.
It's so bleak.
While the majority of us remain hostages to it all.
It's so bleak.
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*GARGANTUAN* 💥
Economist for Brexit admits
🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Biz investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis
🟥 No meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage undeniable in data
🧵
Economist for Brexit admits
🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Biz investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis
🟥 No meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage undeniable in data
🧵
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
*GARGANTUAN* 💥
Economist for Brexit admits
🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Biz investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis
🟥 No meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage undeniable in data
🧵
Economist for Brexit admits
🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Biz investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis
🟥 No meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage undeniable in data
🧵
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“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”
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I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I think Brexit was garbage. But if in 2025 you're still pedalling "all we need to do is reverse Brexit!" you're ignorant. Everything before Brexit was fine, obviously. It was definitely ALL Brexit and not the six years of austerity before that and the 31 years of untempered Thatcherism before that.
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Why is it that the rich always seem to win? youtu.be/KKwCTaUQ5gM?... In this video, I unpack how political choices and not economic laws have made wealth compound and wages stagnate, and what we can do to reverse it.
Why is it that the rich always seem to win?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Why is it that the rich always seem to win? youtu.be/KKwCTaUQ5gM?... In this video, I unpack how political choices and not economic laws have made wealth compound and wages stagnate, and what we can do to reverse it.
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Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers.
It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.
Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.
It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.
Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Yes climate breakdown means more turbulence for flyers.
It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.
Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.
It’s also on track to heat the planet by 4C+ this century, kill billions of people & collapse our civilization.
Keep on seeing the deadliest crisis our species has ever faced framed as some minor consumerist inconvenience.
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The 'Prince Andrew Story'
We are missing the main point, which essentially is this:
THE ROYAL FAMILY IS AN
EMBARRASSING,
SUPERFLUOUS
AND EXPENSIVE
NUISANCE!
We are missing the main point, which essentially is this:
THE ROYAL FAMILY IS AN
EMBARRASSING,
SUPERFLUOUS
AND EXPENSIVE
NUISANCE!
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The 'Prince Andrew Story'
We are missing the main point, which essentially is this:
THE ROYAL FAMILY IS AN
EMBARRASSING,
SUPERFLUOUS
AND EXPENSIVE
NUISANCE!
We are missing the main point, which essentially is this:
THE ROYAL FAMILY IS AN
EMBARRASSING,
SUPERFLUOUS
AND EXPENSIVE
NUISANCE!
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🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.
Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.
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BoE says Brexit weighing down the exonomy for years to come, but hey, dark bkue passports www.reuters.com/world/uk/bre...
www.reuters.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
BoE says Brexit weighing down the exonomy for years to come, but hey, dark bkue passports www.reuters.com/world/uk/bre...
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Spoke to i by IMD magazine about why trust in institutions is faltering, and the temptation to turn to charismatic individuals instead
www.imd.org/ibyimd/caree...
www.imd.org/ibyimd/caree...
The Crisis of Trust - Globalization - I by IMD
Ros Taylor, author of ‘The Future of Trust’, explores how globalization has fractured trust in institutions and led to a renewed faith in the individual.
www.imd.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Spoke to i by IMD magazine about why trust in institutions is faltering, and the temptation to turn to charismatic individuals instead
www.imd.org/ibyimd/caree...
www.imd.org/ibyimd/caree...
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Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....
Mel Stride: Conservatives are the only people who tell the truth, and have a plan for growth that means something | Conservative Home
It falls to us, the Conservatives, to win back the country’s trust and reverse the economic vandalism of this Labour government. We can and we will.
conservativehome.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....
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Enough! Maidstone is inclusive and must stay that way
Letter to the Reform Leader of KCC from me. Our Borough is inclusive and welcoming to all who don't spread hate. I am proud to be English and British and I have no problem with our flags UNLESS they are being used to intimidate people. After…
Letter to the Reform Leader of KCC from me. Our Borough is inclusive and welcoming to all who don't spread hate. I am proud to be English and British and I have no problem with our flags UNLESS they are being used to intimidate people. After…
Enough! Maidstone is inclusive and must stay that way
Letter to the Reform Leader of KCC from me. Our Borough is inclusive and welcoming to all who don't spread hate. I am proud to be English and British and I have no problem with our flags UNLESS they are being used to intimidate people. After receiving many emails from concerned residents who feel intimidated by the actions of a few individuals using our flag in this way I have written to Linden Kemkaran asking them to be removed. I have also made sure that she is aware that some of her councillors are quite happy to be photographed with far right protestors.
stuartjeffery.net
September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Enough! Maidstone is inclusive and must stay that way
Letter to the Reform Leader of KCC from me. Our Borough is inclusive and welcoming to all who don't spread hate. I am proud to be English and British and I have no problem with our flags UNLESS they are being used to intimidate people. After…
Letter to the Reform Leader of KCC from me. Our Borough is inclusive and welcoming to all who don't spread hate. I am proud to be English and British and I have no problem with our flags UNLESS they are being used to intimidate people. After…
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“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
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So many are being misled about Climate Change by Reform UK & others - but we can all play a role in educating our friends & family. Every person we reach with the facts matters. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/06/drill-baby-drill-reform-uk-zero-in-on-ed-milibands-climate-policies
‘Drill baby, drill’: Reform UK zero in on Ed Miliband’s climate policies
From fracking to North Sea drilling, party’s leaders and members give climate solutions the cold shoulder at conference
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
So many are being misled about Climate Change by Reform UK & others - but we can all play a role in educating our friends & family. Every person we reach with the facts matters. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/06/drill-baby-drill-reform-uk-zero-in-on-ed-milibands-climate-policies
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🏰 Heritage Open Days are coming to Maidstone! 🗓️ 12-21 September 2025. Join us for England's biggest celebration of history and culture. Find out what's going on here 👉 www.visitmaidstone.com/whats-on/her...
#VisitMaidstone #maidstoneboroughcoucil #HeritageOpenDays #historicmaidstone
#VisitMaidstone #maidstoneboroughcoucil #HeritageOpenDays #historicmaidstone
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🏰 Heritage Open Days are coming to Maidstone! 🗓️ 12-21 September 2025. Join us for England's biggest celebration of history and culture. Find out what's going on here 👉 www.visitmaidstone.com/whats-on/her...
#VisitMaidstone #maidstoneboroughcoucil #HeritageOpenDays #historicmaidstone
#VisitMaidstone #maidstoneboroughcoucil #HeritageOpenDays #historicmaidstone
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🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage
#FascistFarage
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage
#FascistFarage
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Governments talk about the rule of law while funding genocide.
They talk about the climate crisis while cheering on corporate growth.
And they expand airports despite the likely imminent collapse of tourism - & everything else.
A cognitive dissonance leading to widespread mental health collapse.
They talk about the climate crisis while cheering on corporate growth.
And they expand airports despite the likely imminent collapse of tourism - & everything else.
A cognitive dissonance leading to widespread mental health collapse.
Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?
Leading researcher forecasts ‘beginning of the age of non-tourism’ despite industry returning to pre-pandemic highs
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Governments talk about the rule of law while funding genocide.
They talk about the climate crisis while cheering on corporate growth.
And they expand airports despite the likely imminent collapse of tourism - & everything else.
A cognitive dissonance leading to widespread mental health collapse.
They talk about the climate crisis while cheering on corporate growth.
And they expand airports despite the likely imminent collapse of tourism - & everything else.
A cognitive dissonance leading to widespread mental health collapse.
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I got a lot of negative comments a few months ago when I said the US was much better placed to resist authoritarian leaders than the UK. Not that it is great over there, but as the great @davidallengreen.bsky.social might say, well... emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
Only good fortune has prevented previous governments from misusing our constitutional arrangements more than they did
emptycity.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I got a lot of negative comments a few months ago when I said the US was much better placed to resist authoritarian leaders than the UK. Not that it is great over there, but as the great @davidallengreen.bsky.social might say, well... emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
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It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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❌ "The MHRA struggled after Brexit, as its resources were cut and many of its experts moved to join the EU regulator."
⬇️ "The UK slipped down the global rankings as a popular destination for hosting clinical studies between 2017 and 2021."
⬇️ "The UK slipped down the global rankings as a popular destination for hosting clinical studies between 2017 and 2021."
UK drugs agency outsources 40% of applications after Brexit turbulence
New MHRA chief seeks to shift organisation’s resources to areas in which Britain has deep expertise
buff.ly
July 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
❌ "The MHRA struggled after Brexit, as its resources were cut and many of its experts moved to join the EU regulator."
⬇️ "The UK slipped down the global rankings as a popular destination for hosting clinical studies between 2017 and 2021."
⬇️ "The UK slipped down the global rankings as a popular destination for hosting clinical studies between 2017 and 2021."
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Brexit means choices. Whooda thunk it?
July 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Brexit means choices. Whooda thunk it?