rod bates
@rodbates.bsky.social
socialist,dog lover,from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs
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I can’t decide whether this is hilarious or depressing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I can’t decide whether this is hilarious or depressing.
Classic 😂👍
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Classic 😂👍
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www.theguardian.com/politics/201... the patriot Farage -just not sure which country, eh Nige
Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve Bannon
Footage shows Brexit party leader calling Bannon’s plan a ‘fightback against globalists’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/201... the patriot Farage -just not sure which country, eh Nige
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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#Newsnight
I must say, the UK media have done an amazing job on Keir Starmer.
They started as they meant to go on, going on about Arsenal tickets and suits, and the attack has been relentless.
I have never seen anything like this sustained black propaganda campaign.
I must say, the UK media have done an amazing job on Keir Starmer.
They started as they meant to go on, going on about Arsenal tickets and suits, and the attack has been relentless.
I have never seen anything like this sustained black propaganda campaign.
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
#Newsnight
I must say, the UK media have done an amazing job on Keir Starmer.
They started as they meant to go on, going on about Arsenal tickets and suits, and the attack has been relentless.
I have never seen anything like this sustained black propaganda campaign.
I must say, the UK media have done an amazing job on Keir Starmer.
They started as they meant to go on, going on about Arsenal tickets and suits, and the attack has been relentless.
I have never seen anything like this sustained black propaganda campaign.
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Show of hands please.
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Show of hands please.
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?
Asking for a country still wanting an answer.
#Farage #Frintongate
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Gaza Cola is the perfect answer for us, to the problem of how to stock a popular fizzy drink without supporting bad things happening in the world.
stroudtimes.com/stalled-eco-...
stroudtimes.com/stalled-eco-...
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Gaza Cola is the perfect answer for us, to the problem of how to stock a popular fizzy drink without supporting bad things happening in the world.
stroudtimes.com/stalled-eco-...
stroudtimes.com/stalled-eco-...
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I could spend time listening to two Times columnists in Emma Barnett and Justin Webb presenting a radio show but I'd rather take in some news. #r4today
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I could spend time listening to two Times columnists in Emma Barnett and Justin Webb presenting a radio show but I'd rather take in some news. #r4today
No surprise that Farage,Johnson & Rees-Mogg are involved. A sense of superiority comes in at the birth of these public schoolboys they don't do patriotism their sense of entitlement means they live in a bubble of their own kind which know no borders & they have no principles to constrain them.
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
No surprise that Farage,Johnson & Rees-Mogg are involved. A sense of superiority comes in at the birth of these public schoolboys they don't do patriotism their sense of entitlement means they live in a bubble of their own kind which know no borders & they have no principles to constrain them.
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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British media lied and or conspired over Hillsborough, Brexit, austerity, the Farage riots, and Gibb turning the BBC into GB News.
But trust us on evidence-free anti-Labour stories.
Fuck that and them.
But trust us on evidence-free anti-Labour stories.
Fuck that and them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
British media lied and or conspired over Hillsborough, Brexit, austerity, the Farage riots, and Gibb turning the BBC into GB News.
But trust us on evidence-free anti-Labour stories.
Fuck that and them.
But trust us on evidence-free anti-Labour stories.
Fuck that and them.
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Maybe, maybe, there is a counterfactual involving a UK with no BBC that performs worse politically. But there is no doubt at all that there are counterfactuals involving a UK without the BBC that performs better.
The 'how much worse will things be without the BBC' folks never answer this.
The 'how much worse will things be without the BBC' folks never answer this.
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Maybe, maybe, there is a counterfactual involving a UK with no BBC that performs worse politically. But there is no doubt at all that there are counterfactuals involving a UK without the BBC that performs better.
The 'how much worse will things be without the BBC' folks never answer this.
The 'how much worse will things be without the BBC' folks never answer this.
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UK Lawyers for Israel - aka 'shadowy lawyers working for a foreign power to suppress free speech in our country' - they look like they've run out of road. The law may be catching up with them - how ironic.
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
UK Lawyers for Israel - aka 'shadowy lawyers working for a foreign power to suppress free speech in our country' - they look like they've run out of road. The law may be catching up with them - how ironic.
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if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
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#PoliticsLive
That's Samir Shah, one of the authors of Boris Johnson's fake race report, and who was appointed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
But sure, the BBC is full of lefties. 🙄
That's Samir Shah, one of the authors of Boris Johnson's fake race report, and who was appointed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
But sure, the BBC is full of lefties. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#PoliticsLive
That's Samir Shah, one of the authors of Boris Johnson's fake race report, and who was appointed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
But sure, the BBC is full of lefties. 🙄
That's Samir Shah, one of the authors of Boris Johnson's fake race report, and who was appointed by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
But sure, the BBC is full of lefties. 🙄
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A remarkable choice of booking...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor on to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A remarkable choice of booking...
My favourite clip from CH4 is of Alex Thompson doorstepping Kelvin MacKenzie. Katie Razzall of #BBCVerify if you have to rely on a quote on ethics from Kevin MacKenzie you are definiteley in the wrong job.
You have to be completely ignorant of history if you glowingly quote Kelvin MacKenzie on journalistic ethics. Apparently Katie Razzall is that person. #bbcnews
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My favourite clip from CH4 is of Alex Thompson doorstepping Kelvin MacKenzie. Katie Razzall of #BBCVerify if you have to rely on a quote on ethics from Kevin MacKenzie you are definiteley in the wrong job.
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You have to be completely ignorant of history if you glowingly quote Kelvin MacKenzie on journalistic ethics. Apparently Katie Razzall is that person. #bbcnews
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You have to be completely ignorant of history if you glowingly quote Kelvin MacKenzie on journalistic ethics. Apparently Katie Razzall is that person. #bbcnews
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Trump - the king of fake news and hypocrite extraordinaire - has the gall to welcome someone else’s resignation… we’re talking about a man convicted of rape and of tax fraud - who did not resign and never would. Incredible. And btw, I resent his interference in our media and our country.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trump - the king of fake news and hypocrite extraordinaire - has the gall to welcome someone else’s resignation… we’re talking about a man convicted of rape and of tax fraud - who did not resign and never would. Incredible. And btw, I resent his interference in our media and our country.
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Kent’s fire authority is in disarray, the @fbunational.bsky.social says
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fire...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fire...
Fire Brigades Union slams Reform in Kent for causing "threat to public safety"
Reform UK’s councillor suspensions have left the council’s fire authority unable to function properly
leftfootforward.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Kent’s fire authority is in disarray, the @fbunational.bsky.social says
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fire...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/fire...
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The UK Labour Party defines itself as a "democratic socialist" part in the first sentence of Clause IV. And has since the 1990s.
That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.
That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.
I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The UK Labour Party defines itself as a "democratic socialist" part in the first sentence of Clause IV. And has since the 1990s.
That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.
That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.