Valerie France
@vfrance.bsky.social
Viewing the world from Yorkshire. Always on the lookout for brighter colours, lighter hearts…
Reposted by Valerie France
Honestly, Americans aren’t just worse off, they’re 400%, 500%, even 600% worse off than we are.
Tremendous numbers. The worst numbers.
Nobody’s ever seen numbers like this.
Tremendous numbers. The worst numbers.
Nobody’s ever seen numbers like this.
The best stat is Canadian median wealth is over $30,000 HIGHER. That's in USD too.
US GDP per capita is 30% higher, but it doesn't trickle down to regular folks like you and me.
US GDP per capita is 30% higher, but it doesn't trickle down to regular folks like you and me.
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Honestly, Americans aren’t just worse off, they’re 400%, 500%, even 600% worse off than we are.
Tremendous numbers. The worst numbers.
Nobody’s ever seen numbers like this.
Tremendous numbers. The worst numbers.
Nobody’s ever seen numbers like this.
Reposted by Valerie France
Nigel Farage, leader of the party who claim to care deeply about women’s equality, yesterday described bbc broadcaster Emma Barnett as a ‘lower grade’ presenter for asking questions about his alleged historic H*tler fanboying.
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nigel Farage, leader of the party who claim to care deeply about women’s equality, yesterday described bbc broadcaster Emma Barnett as a ‘lower grade’ presenter for asking questions about his alleged historic H*tler fanboying.
Reposted by Valerie France
Brexit ‘badly damaged’ our economy says David Lammy, the deputy prime minister also says rejoining the EU customs union would boost economic growth. More and more people are realising the sky doesn’t fall in when you tell the truth about Brexit!
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Brexit ‘badly damaged’ our economy says David Lammy, the deputy prime minister also says rejoining the EU customs union would boost economic growth. More and more people are realising the sky doesn’t fall in when you tell the truth about Brexit!
Reposted by Valerie France
Reposted by Valerie France
in my judgement, Chris Mason misled the country
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
in my judgement, Chris Mason misled the country
Started with some classy @gailmyerscough.co.uk wrapping paper, added garden twine and cut out some as gift tags. Loving it!
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Started with some classy @gailmyerscough.co.uk wrapping paper, added garden twine and cut out some as gift tags. Loving it!
Reposted by Valerie France
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
Reposted by Valerie France
Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity…
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
All rightwing policies.
Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of
that👆shit.
Reposted by Valerie France
Reposted by Valerie France
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Reposted by Valerie France
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
Reposted by Valerie France
UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations
French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
Reposted by Valerie France
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
Reposted by Valerie France
‘In-work benefits’ = low wages.
Make the employer pay properly.
Make the employer pay properly.
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
‘In-work benefits’ = low wages.
Make the employer pay properly.
Make the employer pay properly.
Reposted by Valerie France
Ex Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker Tim Horlick, who was previously married to City Superwoman Nicola Horlick (née Gayford), bought an £8.5m Pimlico flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks. He has now had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. Ben Ellery in @thetimes.com
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Ex Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker Tim Horlick, who was previously married to City Superwoman Nicola Horlick (née Gayford), bought an £8.5m Pimlico flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks. He has now had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. Ben Ellery in @thetimes.com
Reposted by Valerie France
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
Reposted by Valerie France
For the first time in 30 years, rail fares are being frozen by this Labour Government. Passengers using an annual season ticket from #York to Leeds will save £176 next year. #Rail #Transport
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For the first time in 30 years, rail fares are being frozen by this Labour Government. Passengers using an annual season ticket from #York to Leeds will save £176 next year. #Rail #Transport
Reposted by Valerie France
I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess.
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Michael Gove lobbied by Covid VIP lane’s biggest winner of PPE contracts
Exclusive: then Cabinet Office minister had phone call with Unispace, which weeks later got the first of £680m worth of deals
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess.
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Valerie France
Don’t buy mass-produced Black Friday crap from online outlets owned by billionaires.
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Don’t buy mass-produced Black Friday crap from online outlets owned by billionaires.
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
Reposted by Valerie France
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.
UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.
Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.
Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.
UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.
Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.
Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.
UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
fortune.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.
UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.
Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.
Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.
UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.
Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.
Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.
UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
Reposted by Valerie France
Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
Reposted by Valerie France
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
By Brian McHugh
Reposted by Valerie France
JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Valerie France
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM