Scrags
@scragsuk.bsky.social
Ex Twitterholic, here for rehab. Follow the sane. Like to hangout with musicians (I’m a drummer)
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
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You’re telling me this guy was on drugs? I’m not buying it.
May 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
You’re telling me this guy was on drugs? I’m not buying it.
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BREAKING
After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill.
As of today:
• Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended
• Dividend payouts halted
• Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed
Democratic control of water is here!
After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill.
As of today:
• Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended
• Dividend payouts halted
• Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed
Democratic control of water is here!
April 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
BREAKING
After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill.
As of today:
• Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended
• Dividend payouts halted
• Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed
Democratic control of water is here!
After a debate in Parliament, the Government has accepted my Private Members’ Water Bill.
As of today:
• Above-inflation water bill hikes suspended
• Dividend payouts halted
• Citizens’ Assembly on water ownership confirmed
Democratic control of water is here!
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Wanted: those prepared to ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
February 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Wanted: those prepared to ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Our NHS is not for sale.
Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:
Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:
January 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Our NHS is not for sale.
Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:
Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:
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Excellent piece in Private Eye on Musk and company donations to political parties.
They make a good suggestion: companies should only be able to donate to parties when the ultimate owner can vote here.
Also interesting that Twitter UK is late in filing its accounts, a criminal offence...
They make a good suggestion: companies should only be able to donate to parties when the ultimate owner can vote here.
Also interesting that Twitter UK is late in filing its accounts, a criminal offence...
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Excellent piece in Private Eye on Musk and company donations to political parties.
They make a good suggestion: companies should only be able to donate to parties when the ultimate owner can vote here.
Also interesting that Twitter UK is late in filing its accounts, a criminal offence...
They make a good suggestion: companies should only be able to donate to parties when the ultimate owner can vote here.
Also interesting that Twitter UK is late in filing its accounts, a criminal offence...
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🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
January 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
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I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
January 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
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Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
January 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
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Interesting.
Read to the end.
Read to the end.
January 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Interesting.
Read to the end.
Read to the end.
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So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
January 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes.
And far right apologists.
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Life comes at you fast
January 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Life comes at you fast
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This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
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Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to.
Maybe now people will listen.
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SHOULD THE UK BAN TWITTER?
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S1, E32 Bonus · 10m
podcasts.apple.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to.
Maybe now people will listen.
APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
Maybe now people will listen.
APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
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Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk’s claim that “very few” businesses want to invest in Britain under Labour – pointing to billions of pounds worth of money that have come into the UK since he became prime minister
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Keir Starmer hits back after Elon Musk claims few businesses willing to invest in UK
Tesla boss and close ally of Donald Trump, who is at the centre of rumours he could donate to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, hits out at prime minister
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk’s claim that “very few” businesses want to invest in Britain under Labour – pointing to billions of pounds worth of money that have come into the UK since he became prime minister
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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A reminder that Sadiq Khan successfully won three elections in a row by large majorities against Conservative opponents, one of whom, Shaun Bailey, was then given a seat in the House of Lords for life.
Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"
Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"
December 31, 2024 at 9:20 AM
A reminder that Sadiq Khan successfully won three elections in a row by large majorities against Conservative opponents, one of whom, Shaun Bailey, was then given a seat in the House of Lords for life.
Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"
Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"
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🔴Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince ‘Interested’ in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince 'Interested' in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells Byline Times he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media
bylinetimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM
🔴Left-Wing Media Mogul? Environmental Campaigner Dale Vince ‘Interested’ in Funding Breakaway Observer Title
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
The owner of energy firm Ecotricity tells @josiah.writes.news he is open to funding a new media project staffed by Observer journalists opposed to its sale to Tortoise Media,
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BBC’s Chris Mason calls Farage a “master of storytelling”
Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.
Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 AM
BBC’s Chris Mason calls Farage a “master of storytelling”
Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.
Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.
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Thames Water bills are to rise 36% over the next five years, this comes just after they were fined 18 million by OFWAT for paying excessive dividends.
The customers are always the ones punished in the long run.
The customers are always the ones punished in the long run.
December 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Thames Water bills are to rise 36% over the next five years, this comes just after they were fined 18 million by OFWAT for paying excessive dividends.
The customers are always the ones punished in the long run.
The customers are always the ones punished in the long run.
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Tim Montgomerie, who has defected to Reform UK from the Tories, says he thinks Elon Musk will donate $20 million to the party
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
December 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Tim Montgomerie, who has defected to Reform UK from the Tories, says he thinks Elon Musk will donate $20 million to the party
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations