Ian
@ianpadg.bsky.social
Retired, enjoy photography, reading (historical novels) , politics
"A Poll" reporting Rachel is unpopular!
Please #politicslive enough of the the anti government spin.
Impartial you ain't
Please #politicslive enough of the the anti government spin.
Impartial you ain't
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"A Poll" reporting Rachel is unpopular!
Please #politicslive enough of the the anti government spin.
Impartial you ain't
Please #politicslive enough of the the anti government spin.
Impartial you ain't
To date the net cost, for UK tax payer, to bail banks in 2008 is around £33 Billion. In November Rachel Reeves should recoup every penny by taxing banks accordingly. Remember Fred the Shred and his massive pension? He and his banking colleagues are laughing at the nation. Tax them.
#newsnight
#newsnight
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
To date the net cost, for UK tax payer, to bail banks in 2008 is around £33 Billion. In November Rachel Reeves should recoup every penny by taxing banks accordingly. Remember Fred the Shred and his massive pension? He and his banking colleagues are laughing at the nation. Tax them.
#newsnight
#newsnight
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Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
Robbie Gibb himself must have selected those closing emails
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Robbie Gibb himself must have selected those closing emails
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
This edition of #bbclaurak should have been saved until next week when budget facts could be discussed. All this speculation does no good at all. This week should have concentrated on the #covidinquiry and #Ukraine
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This edition of #bbclaurak should have been saved until next week when budget facts could be discussed. All this speculation does no good at all. This week should have concentrated on the #covidinquiry and #Ukraine
Ask Hunt what the Russian money, accepted by Johnson and the Conservative party, bought?
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Ask Hunt what the Russian money, accepted by Johnson and the Conservative party, bought?
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
To date the net cost, for UK tax payer, to bail banks in 2008 is around £33 Billion. In November Rachel Reeves should recoup every penny by taxing banks accordingly. Remember Fred the Shred and his massive pension? He and his banking colleagues are laughing at the nation. Tax them.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
To date the net cost, for UK tax payer, to bail banks in 2008 is around £33 Billion. In November Rachel Reeves should recoup every penny by taxing banks accordingly. Remember Fred the Shred and his massive pension? He and his banking colleagues are laughing at the nation. Tax them.
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
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All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.
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Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Farage will pardon him?
Good. We need to call this what it is - corruption.
Farage and his cronies are more interested in enriching themselves than our national security - they cannot be trusted.
Farage and his cronies are more interested in enriching themselves than our national security - they cannot be trusted.
Reform UK's former Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for accepting pro-Russian bribes
Gill, 52, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019 in September.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Farage will pardon him?
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Theresa May was a flawed Prime Minister but she had the skill set to lead the UK through Covid. We needed a dutiful plodder.
Johnson, in contrast, was dangerously incompetent and thousands paid the ultimate price.
Being a bit of a laugh is not a criterion for leadership.
#CovidInquiry
Johnson, in contrast, was dangerously incompetent and thousands paid the ultimate price.
Being a bit of a laugh is not a criterion for leadership.
#CovidInquiry
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Theresa May was a flawed Prime Minister but she had the skill set to lead the UK through Covid. We needed a dutiful plodder.
Johnson, in contrast, was dangerously incompetent and thousands paid the ultimate price.
Being a bit of a laugh is not a criterion for leadership.
#CovidInquiry
Johnson, in contrast, was dangerously incompetent and thousands paid the ultimate price.
Being a bit of a laugh is not a criterion for leadership.
#CovidInquiry
The BBC got rid of Gordon Brown
#politicslive
#politicslive
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The BBC got rid of Gordon Brown
#politicslive
#politicslive
All our current ills can be laid at the door of Cameron, Osbourne and their corrupt tory successors. In the case of our housing emergency Thatcher was it's architect.
#politicslive
#politicslive
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
All our current ills can be laid at the door of Cameron, Osbourne and their corrupt tory successors. In the case of our housing emergency Thatcher was it's architect.
#politicslive
#politicslive
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Farage news.
#Nazi #Fascist #Reform
🎵‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’🎶
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#Nazi #Fascist #Reform
🎵‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’🎶
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Farage news.
#Nazi #Fascist #Reform
🎵‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’🎶
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#Nazi #Fascist #Reform
🎵‘Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We’ll gas all the Paks, and we’ll gas all the Yids, and we’ll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids.’🎶
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Perhaps she will un freeze the current bands but create a couple of new bands at the top end.
#newsnight
#newsnight
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Perhaps she will un freeze the current bands but create a couple of new bands at the top end.
#newsnight
#newsnight
Is this tory really saying, we will have a policy of more austerity, and they will vote for us again.
#deluded
#newsnight
#deluded
#newsnight
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Is this tory really saying, we will have a policy of more austerity, and they will vote for us again.
#deluded
#newsnight
#deluded
#newsnight
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I did lots of silly, regrettable things in my youth but I am damn sure I never sang Hitler youth songs or racially abused anyone. Nigel Farage was, is and always will be a racist piece of shit and he can deny it all he likes. He's shown us what he is.
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I did lots of silly, regrettable things in my youth but I am damn sure I never sang Hitler youth songs or racially abused anyone. Nigel Farage was, is and always will be a racist piece of shit and he can deny it all he likes. He's shown us what he is.
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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'The Lords aims to curtail a Labour manifesto promise to give workers a guaranteed hours contract, and day-one protections against unfair dismissal. Voting to water down the plan were 47 hereditary peers, 93 barons, 16 earls and 7 viscounts.
#pmqs #politicslive
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#pmqs #politicslive
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Out of touch’ hereditary peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights
Lords look ‘undemocratic and firmly against interest of working people’, say senior trade union and Labour figures
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
'The Lords aims to curtail a Labour manifesto promise to give workers a guaranteed hours contract, and day-one protections against unfair dismissal. Voting to water down the plan were 47 hereditary peers, 93 barons, 16 earls and 7 viscounts.
#pmqs #politicslive
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#pmqs #politicslive
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The assisted dying bill is already proving the doubters right. Hospices and palliative care are being run down in a managed decline. Is Death a cheaper option?
#bbcbreakfast
#bbcbreakfast
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The assisted dying bill is already proving the doubters right. Hospices and palliative care are being run down in a managed decline. Is Death a cheaper option?
#bbcbreakfast
#bbcbreakfast
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We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
I saw The Untouchables last night. Great acting. De Niro's Capone was excellent. I couldn't help drawing comparisons between his Capone and our modern day Trump. The incoherence and ranting were so good its hard not to think Trump hasn't based his presidential persona on De Niro's Capone.
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I saw The Untouchables last night. Great acting. De Niro's Capone was excellent. I couldn't help drawing comparisons between his Capone and our modern day Trump. The incoherence and ranting were so good its hard not to think Trump hasn't based his presidential persona on De Niro's Capone.
If Farage is PM, Lebvedev would be a shoe in for the DG's chair!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If Farage is PM, Lebvedev would be a shoe in for the DG's chair!
#bbclaurak
#bbclaurak