Grumpy Old Biker
@grumpyoldbiker.bsky.social
CEng. Eur Ing. European. Middle class leftie remoaner ex-RAF antifascist. Happily "woke". Rugby and cricket fan. Union member. Licenced UK radio amateur. Musical tastes include prog (sorry not sorry), rock, metal, and "sad seventies hippie crap". #FBPE
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In May this year, Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer Systra to sack me by threatening them.
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...
UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
www.politico.eu
August 29, 2024 at 6:49 AM
In May this year, Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer Systra to sack me by threatening them.
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...
Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...
Have you ever applied for a job, got it, and then found out that the Ts and Cs were actually far worse than you’d been told during the interview? You, me, and Keir Starmer.
August 27, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Have you ever applied for a job, got it, and then found out that the Ts and Cs were actually far worse than you’d been told during the interview? You, me, and Keir Starmer.
The awful truth of the matter is that if Trump suddenly disappeared from the political landscape, we’d be forced to confront the fact that US politics is firmly in bed with Zionism. POTUS could stop the slaughter in Gaza with one phone call, but he chooses not to.
August 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
The awful truth of the matter is that if Trump suddenly disappeared from the political landscape, we’d be forced to confront the fact that US politics is firmly in bed with Zionism. POTUS could stop the slaughter in Gaza with one phone call, but he chooses not to.
It’s a tomato soup and bread roll for lunch sort of day, isn’t it?
August 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
It’s a tomato soup and bread roll for lunch sort of day, isn’t it?
It’s a sad reflection on priorities to note that any news story concerning a boat full of migrants sinking gets “flash in the pan” media coverage, whilst a luxury yacht full of rich people sinking gets its own section on the BBC news app.
August 21, 2024 at 8:23 AM
It’s a sad reflection on priorities to note that any news story concerning a boat full of migrants sinking gets “flash in the pan” media coverage, whilst a luxury yacht full of rich people sinking gets its own section on the BBC news app.
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Any ex 🇬🇧 Diplomats on here know anything about FCDO “Senior Civil Servant” Mark Smith who’s just resigned over 🇬🇧 provision of arms to 🇮🇱 ?
“ I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes,”
@simonpease.bsky.social @snellarthur.bsky.social
“ I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes,”
@simonpease.bsky.social @snellarthur.bsky.social
August 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Any ex 🇬🇧 Diplomats on here know anything about FCDO “Senior Civil Servant” Mark Smith who’s just resigned over 🇬🇧 provision of arms to 🇮🇱 ?
“ I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes,”
@simonpease.bsky.social @snellarthur.bsky.social
“ I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes,”
@simonpease.bsky.social @snellarthur.bsky.social
Ha!
A small story for you, Bluesky, in my occasional series of Things that Happen in London.
So my daughter (just turned 17) and two friends were on a late train the other night. Also present: an exceedingly drunk lady returning from Taylor Swift, snoozing in the opposite seat. /1
So my daughter (just turned 17) and two friends were on a late train the other night. Also present: an exceedingly drunk lady returning from Taylor Swift, snoozing in the opposite seat. /1
August 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Ha!
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Champion the Wonder Hearse
August 16, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Champion the Wonder Hearse
Had the courts merely dished out a few slaps on the wrists for being a bit naughty, then I’m sure we’d still be getting reports of riots on an almost daily basis. It’s been nipped in the bud by robust action from the courts - plus a lot of good people turning out to say “not in my name”.
So…the Conservative Party,the traditional party of law & order are very upset that the courts are coming down hard on people who break the law & cause disorder under a Labour government.
August 17, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Had the courts merely dished out a few slaps on the wrists for being a bit naughty, then I’m sure we’d still be getting reports of riots on an almost daily basis. It’s been nipped in the bud by robust action from the courts - plus a lot of good people turning out to say “not in my name”.
August 16, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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“He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck.” Oh, this is it
Hard to imagine, but there's one place that called it as it is: USA Today?!
Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.
Donald Trump's campaign took another hit with a disastrous, glitchy X interview with Elon Musk that left many wondering if the former president is OK.
www.usatoday.com
August 13, 2024 at 5:28 AM
“He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck.” Oh, this is it
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Apparently you have to pick a side, pick a flag, pick an ideology, pick a religion.
Well I pick humanity and fuck your sides and fuck your flag and fuck your ideology and fuck your religion and double fuck each and everyone of you who thinks a single human death is justified.
Well I pick humanity and fuck your sides and fuck your flag and fuck your ideology and fuck your religion and double fuck each and everyone of you who thinks a single human death is justified.
October 14, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Apparently you have to pick a side, pick a flag, pick an ideology, pick a religion.
Well I pick humanity and fuck your sides and fuck your flag and fuck your ideology and fuck your religion and double fuck each and everyone of you who thinks a single human death is justified.
Well I pick humanity and fuck your sides and fuck your flag and fuck your ideology and fuck your religion and double fuck each and everyone of you who thinks a single human death is justified.
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Tamworth, this is your Tory candidate. Make sure you keep him OUT 👇👇
Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'
#Tamworth #TacticalVoting
Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'
#Tamworth #TacticalVoting
October 17, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Tamworth, this is your Tory candidate. Make sure you keep him OUT 👇👇
Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'
#Tamworth #TacticalVoting
Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'
#Tamworth #TacticalVoting
This aged well, didn't it? :-)
October 16, 2023 at 9:54 AM
This aged well, didn't it? :-)
Where the hell are the one million inhabitants of Gaza City supposed to go in 24 hours?
October 13, 2023 at 9:07 AM
Where the hell are the one million inhabitants of Gaza City supposed to go in 24 hours?
Blood test 11th August following GP appt for abdominal pain.
Results show high PSA, investigation recommended.
MRI 11th Sept.
Ultrasound 18th Sept.
Results back 25th Sept, prostate biopsy recommended.
Biopsy 28th Sept.
Results back 6th Oct, no malignancy.
Thank you, NHS, you're bloody marvellous!
Results show high PSA, investigation recommended.
MRI 11th Sept.
Ultrasound 18th Sept.
Results back 25th Sept, prostate biopsy recommended.
Biopsy 28th Sept.
Results back 6th Oct, no malignancy.
Thank you, NHS, you're bloody marvellous!
October 6, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Blood test 11th August following GP appt for abdominal pain.
Results show high PSA, investigation recommended.
MRI 11th Sept.
Ultrasound 18th Sept.
Results back 25th Sept, prostate biopsy recommended.
Biopsy 28th Sept.
Results back 6th Oct, no malignancy.
Thank you, NHS, you're bloody marvellous!
Results show high PSA, investigation recommended.
MRI 11th Sept.
Ultrasound 18th Sept.
Results back 25th Sept, prostate biopsy recommended.
Biopsy 28th Sept.
Results back 6th Oct, no malignancy.
Thank you, NHS, you're bloody marvellous!
Here's another Tory lie to add to the list: HS2 Euston was promised only yesterday, but today it's only going to happen if someone else pays for it. This zombie government should call a GE now...but of course, they won't...they'll want to stay on to the bitter end and milk it for all it's worth.
October 5, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Here's another Tory lie to add to the list: HS2 Euston was promised only yesterday, but today it's only going to happen if someone else pays for it. This zombie government should call a GE now...but of course, they won't...they'll want to stay on to the bitter end and milk it for all it's worth.
"For those who initially backed the project the facts have changed, and the right thing to do when the facts have changed is to have the courage to change direction and so I am ending this long running saga and cancelling the rest of the Brexit project."
October 4, 2023 at 1:13 PM
"For those who initially backed the project the facts have changed, and the right thing to do when the facts have changed is to have the courage to change direction and so I am ending this long running saga and cancelling the rest of the Brexit project."
It's chilling to think that someone as awful as this can rise to a position of high power in a supposedly civilized nation.
Is this *because* of the electorate, or *despite* the electorate? If the former, then we're stuffed.
Is this *because* of the electorate, or *despite* the electorate? If the former, then we're stuffed.
September 26, 2023 at 12:27 PM
It's chilling to think that someone as awful as this can rise to a position of high power in a supposedly civilized nation.
Is this *because* of the electorate, or *despite* the electorate? If the former, then we're stuffed.
Is this *because* of the electorate, or *despite* the electorate? If the former, then we're stuffed.
That aged well... 😂
September 25, 2023 at 4:56 PM
That aged well... 😂
"‘Supercontinent’ could make Earth uninhabitable in 250m years, study predicts"
Bollocks...that's spoilt my Monday, something else to worry about.
Bollocks...that's spoilt my Monday, something else to worry about.
September 25, 2023 at 4:49 PM
"‘Supercontinent’ could make Earth uninhabitable in 250m years, study predicts"
Bollocks...that's spoilt my Monday, something else to worry about.
Bollocks...that's spoilt my Monday, something else to worry about.
Rugby folks...how do we improve things for nations such as Namibia so that they don't end up getting stuffed every time they play at the WC?
World Rugby don't seem to be interested in investing in these teams and making it possible for them to play against first class opposition regularly.
World Rugby don't seem to be interested in investing in these teams and making it possible for them to play against first class opposition regularly.
September 22, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Rugby folks...how do we improve things for nations such as Namibia so that they don't end up getting stuffed every time they play at the WC?
World Rugby don't seem to be interested in investing in these teams and making it possible for them to play against first class opposition regularly.
World Rugby don't seem to be interested in investing in these teams and making it possible for them to play against first class opposition regularly.
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One bin to rule them all.
September 21, 2023 at 10:45 AM
One bin to rule them all.
Inflation falls, and the City is "shaken", and the pound falls.
That seems to mean that something that's good for most of us is bad for those who shuffle piles of other people's money around for a living.
Could it be that naked capitalism doesn't have the majority's interests at heart?
That seems to mean that something that's good for most of us is bad for those who shuffle piles of other people's money around for a living.
Could it be that naked capitalism doesn't have the majority's interests at heart?
September 21, 2023 at 8:24 AM
Inflation falls, and the City is "shaken", and the pound falls.
That seems to mean that something that's good for most of us is bad for those who shuffle piles of other people's money around for a living.
Could it be that naked capitalism doesn't have the majority's interests at heart?
That seems to mean that something that's good for most of us is bad for those who shuffle piles of other people's money around for a living.
Could it be that naked capitalism doesn't have the majority's interests at heart?