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John Graves

@borograves.bsky.social

Retired IT Manager. Golfer (sort of). Originally from Middlesbrough, now South Manchester (UK). Leftish.

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Presumably somebody is paying graphics designers to create this shite. If they're being paid using government funding then that would be a misuse of public money.

22/7/2025, 5:31:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

My money's on him lying.

6/7/2025, 9:27:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the late queen might have done😜

6/7/2025, 9:26:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Barry McGuire's 'Eve if Destruction' from 1965 might be more appropriate🙁 The Eastern world, it is explodin' Violence flarin', bullets loadin' You're old enough to kill but not for votin' You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'? And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'.

27/6/2025, 1:58:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

But hopefully not the chair of Spelling 😜.

25/6/2025, 6:38:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

It's allowed us to charge VAT on private school fees👍🏻

23/6/2025, 7:59:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of tie knots those are shit, loosely tied single Windsor knots. Somebody should teach them how to tie a proper double Windsor.

16/5/2025, 5:42:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

And those little buggers will have probably never met a refugee. How has it come to this?

16/5/2025, 5:40:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not a real option anyway is it George? How could it be implemented, given most media is digital.

7/5/2025, 2:48:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

If we didn't know better you'd suspect that Trumpty Dumpty hasn't fully thought this one through wouldn't you?

5/5/2025, 3:35:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

It's just nice to see someone picking up Nadine Dorris' mantle.

3/5/2025, 5:52:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The arrogance of these people is off the scale. A politician of very limited intelligence overruling scientists and medical professionals on such a critical protocol is staggering.

2/5/2025, 4:36:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Or butter? 😋

23/4/2025, 4:48:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean he can read and write? Well, who would have thought it?

23/4/2025, 2:47:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The guy is so thick that he calls these conditions 'injuries'.

23/4/2025, 12:25:06 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I wouldn't have classified Fahrenheit 451 as a pulp novel. It's an excellent piece of literature.

21/4/2025, 3:27:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I can add you into the group if you like. I seem to have admin rights for some reason 😜

21/4/2025, 6:26:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

So he's walking away? Well that's a shame because he's made such progress towards ending the conflict so far hasn't he? What a gobshite.

18/4/2025, 6:51:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

What he probably said was Badenoch was a prick.

16/4/2025, 7:05:50 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, I think she understands perfectly well. She's not stupid - she's just a liar.

16/4/2025, 7:10:12 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the main arguments trotted out to justify privatisation is that competition drives efficiency - which may be true in some cases (he says, doubtfully!), but there is no competition in monopolies. Look at the shit show (literally) in the UK that is the result of water company privatisation.

13/4/2025, 6:46:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Just think, if you knew in advance what he was going to do that would have been a great opportunity for making a fortune by selling stock when the price was high and then buying back when it briefly tanked. It's a good job that Trump's inner circle are above reproach. Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

10/4/2025, 6:30:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He's proved there are no consequences for anything he does. A convicted felon and sexual predator and he still gets to be President!

10/4/2025, 6:25:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed George. It's not just Mango Mussolini and his cronies that concern me it's the exposure of the disdain that millions of Americans for us in Europe (and Canada/Australia etc.) that is obviously deeply embedded in elements of the US culture and that will remain long after Trump has gone.

7/4/2025, 5:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder how many readers will know what you are referring to! Clever though 😜

7/4/2025, 5:14:53 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

When will everyone acknowledge that people like Trump and Musk don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves? That's what characterises narcissistic sociopaths.

5/4/2025, 7:02:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, I think Trump is as dumb as he seems. If there's a plan he hasn't come up with it.

5/4/2025, 7:00:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice post. I just can't get my head around how people still can't understand that tariffs aren't paid by the countries that Trump is targeting but are a US tax paid by the importer. How do they think their version works in practice? The exporter puts an envelope of cash in with the consignment?

4/4/2025, 10:16:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes.bsky.social) reposted

Richard Gere helping Asylum Seekers. RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.

29/3/2025, 8:05:06 PM | 1074 401 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The obvious scenario is that Waltz had Goldberg's contact details on his phone and accidentally selected him when setting up the group. The question then is why did Waltz have Goldberg's contact on his phone? I'm not saying he has definitely been leaking information to the press, but ...

28/3/2025, 7:41:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

"Blessed be the fruit."

27/3/2025, 5:41:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't need to visit the US in its current state. I've seen everything I need to see by watching The Handmaid's Tale.

26/3/2025, 3:12:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

What I find most disturbing about this incident is the fact that the US Border officials were so diligent in enforcing Trump's new directives. They could easily have ignored the comments on his phone. They obviously agree with all of the shit that the Mango Mussolini is introducing. Best stay away.

20/3/2025, 4:18:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Be careful - if Trumpo sees this he'll want to annex Mauritius and turn it into the next Las Vegas.

12/3/2025, 1:06:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

If that happens I'm going to be in a world of pain. All that dancing will play havoc with my dodgy hip

8/3/2025, 3:17:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Now he tells us!

8/3/2025, 3:14:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Groan!

7/3/2025, 4:10:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

You are a better person than me. I'd be very interested in seeing him in prison.

5/3/2025, 4:14:14 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I suppose they will be easy to identify as they all wear red baseball caps with the caption 'Make America Great Again'.

4/3/2025, 2:52:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

So he's admitting he had a fetish for listening to girls peeing?

2/3/2025, 1:57:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd always thought that it meant being deranged in the same manner as Trump is.

2/3/2025, 1:53:59 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Track and Trace - £37bn "spaffed up the wall".

2/3/2025, 8:32:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

She has form for murder-suicide? That must take a bit of doing! Is she descended from Lazarus?

28/2/2025, 8:53:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Without reading the article I'm assuming this is describing photosynthesis, i.e. plants using light energy to combine water and carbon dioxide to create carbohydrates?

26/2/2025, 7:03:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

There's only one person that Trump likes and that's himself. His extreme narcissism cannot spare any affection for anyone else.

26/2/2025, 6:53:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Can I just correct your spelling of mediocre? In this context it's actually spelled 'totally incompetent and unqualified'.

26/2/2025, 3:50:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Borrow and increase tax rates for higher earners to pay for it. Sod the manifesto promises

25/2/2025, 7:23:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

You have to remember who the other candidates were!

23/2/2025, 6:34:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

One that Farage seems unable to say is "Sorry for the economic and cultural disaster that is Brexit. It was all my fault because I am a racist and a liar."

23/2/2025, 7:50:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He tried to style it out but was really rattled by that defiance wasn't he? What a spineless piece of shit he is.

22/2/2025, 2:39:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

When she talks about fighting for Western values does she mean like Randolph Scott in High Noon?

18/2/2025, 10:43:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm guessing the follow up video, 'The Best of Richard Tice', will be a lot shorter.

17/2/2025, 9:26:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, if that's the position you want to take that's fine😜

15/2/2025, 8:14:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Would you care to elaborate on that comment, or perhaps just phrase it as a coherent sentence?

12/2/2025, 9:22:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you heard of a guy called JD Vance? 😲

4/2/2025, 7:17:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

They must be expecting a massive influx from the US of Democrats fleeing persecution.

29/1/2025, 8:15:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sorry but I disagree. She talks utter nonsense all of the time.

28/1/2025, 12:19:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

And when is he going to announce phase 2 of his plan (his bigliest, most beautiful plan) and explain what will happen to the deserted territory? Unless of course he doesn't really have a plan at all and he's just saying whatever shit is washing around in his little brain at the time.

27/1/2025, 12:08:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The guy is an absolute jolk.

27/1/2025, 12:02:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

So is Tice only going to claim half of his MP's salary?

19/1/2025, 2:29:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

There is no empirical evidence to support this myth. You would have to measure tourist income both with and without the royals and compare the two. I'd happily support a few years' trial without the royals to assess the impact.

18/1/2025, 9:39:54 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

No they don't.

18/1/2025, 9:35:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the rank hypocrisy that really gets my goat. Parasites.

18/1/2025, 9:34:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social)

Now that the tangerine one has moved his inauguration indoors with a limited audience, will Farage get a seat or will he have to watch it on the telly in a bar somewhere?

18/1/2025, 9:33:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Now, now. You know it's in a good cause. Someone has to pay for Michelle Mone's yacht.

16/1/2025, 8:20:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

And don't forget to wash the slime off.

13/1/2025, 12:09:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Well he doesn't know his arse from his elbow so why do you think Six Bob Knob would know how to spell?

12/1/2025, 2:31:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Or organise a 'prisoner exchange'. One Democrat voter gets to move to the UK for every Reform voter the US takes.

11/1/2025, 12:40:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't they have rather pale complexions for men of Pakistani heritage?

9/1/2025, 2:32:54 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt if Jess has the financial resources to take on that mega-rich tosser, even if she wanted to. Unfortunately that kind of wealth means he can more or less do what he wants with impunity.

9/1/2025, 2:29:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Cathy Newman is one of the few MSM journalists I have any respect for.

8/1/2025, 10:02:17 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

It's obviously the latter, or by corollary do you think that 88% of white people carry out child sexual abuse?

8/1/2025, 3:16:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Or maybe they just love polar bears?

8/1/2025, 3:08:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The ability to read and write should have also been included, but it's too late now.

8/1/2025, 3:04:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a precocious child.

8/1/2025, 3:00:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Check your spelling - it's narcissistic idiot.

7/1/2025, 3:30:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

What's a fascit?

7/1/2025, 3:24:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

She wouldn't recognise a truth, difficult or otherwise, if it bit her on the arse.

7/1/2025, 3:16:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

But deGaulle is long dead.

7/1/2025, 3:13:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently not:

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7/1/2025, 3:12:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not a theologian so I am open to being corrected, but I didn't think that any of the major religious texts promoted the practice of paedophile grooming gangs. These crimes have nothing to do with religion.

7/1/2025, 1:44:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He was probably busy holding constituency surgeries in Clacton.

6/1/2025, 8:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He's talking about people who have more money than they could spend in several lifetimes but are still greedy for more and who are even willing to sacrifice the future of their own children and descendants in the pursuit of that wealth. Musk is just one example, albeit a particularly abhorrent one.

5/1/2025, 2:02:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't let the bastards grind you down - you know how good you really are. Look after yourself.

1/1/2025, 1:36:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

The true spirit of Christmas 😜

25/12/2024, 9:42:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Or will it be Muskmas?

25/12/2024, 9:41:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I did have half an hour ago Geoff. Toasted with loads of butter and blackcurrant jam😋

24/12/2024, 12:11:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Mind you, I saw him playing flute for Jethro Tull in 1974 and he was fantastic.

20/12/2024, 7:20:51 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Too late. Have you heard of Boris Johnson? Liz Truss?

15/12/2024, 10:38:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope they only use electric tractors though.

13/12/2024, 9:14:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Just think how excited Neil Parish must get when he watches the news at the moment.

13/12/2024, 9:13:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

And the one thing he thinks about constantly is himself.

13/12/2024, 9:10:09 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, but I think you haven't read the article properly. This happened in Dubai, not the USA.

12/12/2024, 7:18:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this because they have so many twats working there?

11/12/2024, 12:03:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think that question she's posing requires a great deal of deductive logic.

11/12/2024, 12:00:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) reposted

Sounds like a plan www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/aus...

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10/12/2024, 2:51:01 PM | 3803 925 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) reposted

Chancellor plans to end the UK’s “fractious” post-Brexit accord with the EU, a relationship she said had been defined by “division and chaos”, by promising closer ties in the first speech by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers since 2020 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

9/12/2024, 9:39:52 AM | 771 167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He's not on the autistic spectrum but he's definitely on the twatism spectrum, towards the ultra-violet end.

9/12/2024, 8:53:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He must have been overwhelmed by the beauty and grandeur of the architecture and decor. Must have felt just like being back home at Mar-A-Lago.

8/12/2024, 6:45:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Graves (@borograves.bsky.social) reply parent

He's married to Cruella FFS! What do you expect?

8/12/2024, 6:33:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view