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Quite obvious response is: Farage's Brexit has utterly failed to assuage your immigration concerns. Why give him another chance? The UK should join a bigger community and benefit from mutual mobility rights news.sky.com/story/immigr...
UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂 Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.
Notice how so many young white men become mass shooters but no one stereotypes their entire race as violent.
According to Facebook I've had this Adamas guitar for 12 years now. Thought it was longer than that, almost can't remember not having it. Absolutely love the neck on it. The bowl back did start to annoy when seated but solved by always using strap.
Decided to remove all social media from my homescreen & dip in less frequently. Had enough, need to preserve my sanity. (with the exception of YT, the algorithm only ever shows me guitar and science stuff 🙂)
So sick of English exceptionalism.
A party that blames the electorate deserves to lose.
You gotta laugh. #ImmigrantsAreWelcome
I know, hence ...
Farage's "why can't we be like Norway" is the most likely scenario. Unless, ironically, Farage becomes PM.
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
Not heard this in years. Had his first album, what a guitar hero.
Wrote to my MP about this the other week. This was my follow up email from my previous "nation of stangers one. She's not replied to this 2nd email yet.
The idiots are legitimising Farage with their anti-immigration rhetoric.
That's why they orchestrated that obsequious fawning over Trump at that televised cabinet meeting, it was a message to the base after Trump is gone.
One can hope. I'm done with English exceptionalism, SM & CU without a say for a generation is fine with me. We need a generation with no personal memory of Empire.
Under FPTP, a Lib Dem/Green coalition is the most plausible. I did note Labour were shifty about SM & CU, not ruling it out outright. If they were to offer that in their next manefesto...
Great album, but the production values leave something to be desired tbh.
You gotta be kidding me, entry level guitars are waaaay better now than when I was learning in the 80's. And plenty of choice too.
And anti-immigrant
"Sun" obviously.
So we need the colour of these criminals reported right?!
Love Dan's YouTube channel
Brexit will end every Chancellor until the Single Market is rejoined 🤷♂️
They never explain why there's no prospect other than their own pig headedness.
Those saying they want a change in EU rules from outside the EU.
I bought a wobble board, still getting used to it 😁 #AlexanderTechnique #Posture
I did note that there wasn't the same commitment to staying out of the Single Market. I might vote Labour tactically if SM is in their manefesto next GE.
I don’t even know what their ideology is any more. They seem to the right of the Lib Dems at present.
It makes no sense what so ever. What is going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about? Or are they just in total denial?
Sure, WTO would be "harder", but the outside SM is still "hard".
Yep, outside of the Single Market is the definition of hard brexit.
Yep, outside of the Single Market is the definition of hard brexit.
The conclusion is Labour is a failure.
Labour are a hard brexit, anti-immigrant party. The reason they don't have a presence on this platform, other than @labourlewis.bsky.social (& thank you for being here), is they simply don't want the votes of the demographic that uses this site.
Yep, they're a hard brexit, anti-immigrant party. Will never vote for them again.
Confirmed, Labour is a hard brexit, anti-immigrant party.
Not his lifetime them, Labours term of government .
They never explain why though.
The Man in the High Castle. Vonnegut knew what was lurking in the depths of the USA.
Right wingers can shove their hatred of our capital where the don't shine.
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I'm sure it will be all quite partisan between the various editors. But if his illness can't be hidden/denied there's not much damage limitation the right wing press can do.
Right wing stocastic terrorist who founded Turning Point. They have a UK branch and heavily polluted social media at the last GE.
Be interested to see how he handles the spotlight of his UK state visit. There will be nowhere to hide.
Yep, he was a stochastic terrorist. His murder changes nothing about him, but may tell us something about his murderer.
He was a stochastic terrorist. Murder doesn’t change the nature of the victim, it just tells us something about the murderer.
Yep. bsky.app/profile/adri...
Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.
Yep. Amazing that Labour are unable to say this given their genesis.
Indeed bsky.app/profile/kris...
“There are exceptions. There are people who are racist, and we can have a longer conversation about where that racism comes from, because I believe that probably comes from poverty. I think if you don’t have scarcity in your life, and if you feel safe and secure, why would you hate another person?”
“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson
There are some better people than me out there today. They're right of course, but unfortunately I can't find a way to feel it. "I can't STAND the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up, new age term, and it does a LOT of damage," Charlie Kirk.
He died in the society he was trying to create. He succeded, his death proves it. I condone neither.
He died in the society he wished to create. He succeeded.
And that's condoning neither.
He died in the society he wished to create.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social you think Johnson and Trump came from poverty?!
It was WHY they gave him the position!
It's not helped by your party inflaming the situation by mimicking Farage's rhetoric. Have Labour learned nothing from watching the Conservatives destroy themselves by trying to appease Farage? bsky.app/profile/edwi...
New Reverb advert extolling the virtues of their 5% flat selling fees. That would still be £40 on the £800 guitar I'm selling. No thank you! Whenever I see a guitar I'm interested in on Reverb I always do the seller a favour and see if it's listed elsewhere.
Just deleted over 1,600 emails from Uber Eats. Damn that's spammy. Could have at least battered and deep fried it.
Trump is such an inveterate liar even his own signature is a forgery.
Fighting fire with fire, great 🙄
He's just adding fuel to the fire with that quote.
One for the Satriani fans. Impressive. #guitar youtu.be/bbNHOh1jjTU?...
This is a direct provocation against Trump after his comments on continuing the US military presence in Poland last week.
Farage is a spiv, he has no machismo. Can you imagine doing DIY round the house? He's not getting anything done.
Your Secret Upgrade for Smoother, Smarter Functioning (Mind & Body Included!) #AlexanderTechnique #selfcare #selfimprovement #posture #backpain www.alexander-technique.london/2025/09/10/y...
I'm dreaming of an LD/Green coalition.
Yep, it's a con, and racists are the mark.
Well, I'm not getting any younger! 😉
Thanks
Will get a hollow body archtop in the future once I've off loaded a few things. Might be longer than I'd wish though due to home improvement priorities. Darn adulting.
Having a bit of a clear out myself as I slowly accept, even after 16 years, that my own MECFS means I'm unlikely to be able to gig/rehearse/jam out again. Just put this up for sale ebay.us/m/MPCQvM
There are modern Teles with these specs though, so I don't think it's trying too hard to make it something it's not. But get what you're saying as I'd had similar thoughts.
About the same price actually. At least the Fender one. Considered it. Has 22 frets and roasted maple, so not traditional, but would be nice. Decided to try and keep the traditional look in the end.
Think I've had mine nearly 20 years, but don't play it much now because I’ve gone off the 7.25" fretboard radius. Had a quote of £350 to have it radiused to 12" and medium jumbo frets, but don't have the money at the moment.
In light of this study, Labour are making policy based on disinformation. Indefensible. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
"WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD BECAUSE SOME OF THAT PUBLIC GOOD MIGHT GO TO SOMEONE I DON'T LIKE" is part of how we got to where we are in 2025
This is why DeepSeek is the only AI I use at present. Uses much fewer resources.
Doesn’t negate the need for better managed safe routes.
Get your legal point, but doesn't negate the need for better managed safe routes.
That's a super majority that think brexit has failed as promoted.
Don't blame you, but he is Irish
What evidence do you have to support that?
Why not Ireland?!
Lorry screening improved in 2021. In 2016 there were 8813 crossings made by lorry, and in 2022 approx 9,000 according to Migration Watch (no official govt figures) That doesn’t justify claiming small boats have increased the amount it has because of lorry screening. It's lack of safe routes.
And this seems apposite bsky.app/profile/ox.a...
Does this personally affront you too? bsky.app/profile/adri...
What a convenient way to not produce the data that would undermine your point. I'll provide it for you. About 35% of asylum applications are via small boats that would have otherwise come from safe routes had they been available. In 2016 there were 100 small boat crossings. In 2023 3,404.
You already have the numbers for how proportional that was from before safe routes were closed. You chose not to share them for a reason, and to be absolutely clear, it's because you're being disingenuous.
Indeed: the populists do make people poorer, but then they blame anyone but themselves: immigrants, unions, foreign wars etc. Poor people are disgruntled. Ripe for exploitation by populists. Rinse and repeat. (As we’re seeing now)
The MSM are an equal part of the problem. Anti-immigrant sentiment tracks media coverage of it for clickbait, and uses disinformation for it. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Stopping the boats is a piece of piss, follow international law and provide safe routes. Why aren't you promoting this? The UK does not have an immigration problem beyond MSM pedalling falsehoods. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
This, immigration isn't an issue until you whip people into believing it is. It's the belief that's the issue, not the reality.
