@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Right
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Right
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
FFS
Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Why isn't Starmer or Cooper doing anything?
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social) reposted
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes.bsky.social) reposted
Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
The same with BREXIT. Before 2016, no-one was in the least bit interested in the EU. No-one. Yet here we are
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
We are suddenly on a very dangerous track.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
But he wouldn't be stroking the racism of Farage...he thinks he can keep up with them. He's a coward with NO answers
Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social) reposted
Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right. My piece for @tribunemagazine www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
Oliver (@oliver48.bsky.social) reposted
Every day the media attempts to brainwash us with lies, half-truths, misinformation, unspoken bias meme via Labour Heartlands
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Have they done their due diligence? ...we don't always seem to be able to deliver such projects on time & on budget....
Richard Murphy (@richardjmurphy.bsky.social) reposted
The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government is fixated on the wrong one. In this video, I explain why Rachel Reeves has it all wrong. youtu.be/OnewHXTy8ak?...
Nula Suchet (@nulasuchet.bsky.social) reposted
A reminder of the lies the Brexiters sold sold to the gullible - just as Farage is doing now
Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted
Reform UK councillor suspended from job at Home Office processing asylum claims It is understood an investigation will look at whether Paul Bean of Durham council breached civil service code www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Richard Murphy (@richardjmurphy.bsky.social) reposted
What Farage’s British Bill of Rights really means for your freedoms youtu.be/E40AXGZ2Nrc?... Nigel Farage says he wants to replace the UK Human Rights Act with a so-called “British Bill of Rights.” But let’s be clear: this is not about protecting freedoms. It’s about removing them.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
So we’re supposed to believe that the Truth Social posts over the last couple days that aren’t filled with terrible spelling and grammar, random capitalization and quotation marks where they don’t belong, with no threats or personal insults, are actually being written by Trump?
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
😂
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully, so effortlessly. I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.'" 😂😂😂😂 Meet Cory Booker's (fake) political consultant, played by Zeteo's very own @heycapello. "No one does it like Cory." zeteo.com/subscribe
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
"Play"? What do you mean?
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Was that from Donald Trump?
Journeydude (@scottishinsider.org) reposted
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
Alan Rusbridger (@arusbridger.bsky.social) reposted
Here’s 10 questions MPs might ask about the royal family - if only they were allowed to www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...
Oliver (@oliver48.bsky.social) reposted
The Labour government is as corrupt as the last Tory governments from the very top down
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr, "We need to stop trusting the experts, right.. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy" Good luck America 🤷♂️
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Oliver (@oliver48.bsky.social) reposted
"Oddly the BBC never mentions this. It would be a shock to people in England to see how poorly treated we are down here." via Expats for Scotland Independence
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social) reposted
Greg Jackson, "Our biggest offshore wind farm is paid not to generate energy 71% of the time" "40% of all of the wind energy we could have from Scotland is paid to be not generated" "We need to fix this because this is what is pushing people's bills up"
Marwood (@andmarwood.bsky.social) reposted
#Profiteering The Starmer government needs to address profiteering by supermarkets and energy companies. So why isn't it?
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) reposted
Economic growth & productivity crisis created by govts. 6.23m await NHS England hospital appointment. 17m have two or more chronic conditions. 2.8m 16-64 year olds chronically ill, can't work. 148.9m working days lost to sickness in 2024. Sick people can't work. Invest in the NHS to boost economy.
Matthew Stadlen (@matthewstadlen.bsky.social) reposted
Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. Not coming anymore.
John Bull (@garius.bsky.social) reposted
Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party (@nickhartleygreen.bsky.social) reposted
When the Chancellor came to Newcastle…
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
This is who they are.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not Autumn. The trees are just water deprived.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
🤷🤦
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Trumpian
George Tsakraklides (@tsakraklides.bsky.social) reposted
All of Earth’s 10 million life forms came into existence in the same exact way: out of the dark murk, the silent mud, the restless, nourishing molecular soup that made us all. The soup is now poisoned by the one species who forgot what it is and where it came from. open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 (@cnice59.bsky.social) reposted
Let’s Not Ever Forget To Remind America 🇺🇸 Of This! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
For "woke" read "decent"
North East Bylines (@northeastbylines.co.uk) reposted
Greens take a seat from Labour on Newcastle City Council Sarah Peters, Green Party, wins council by-election in South Jesmond northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted
In the run-up to the election, Trump said... and he said it 53 times... that he’d end the Ukraine war within 24 hours. He's currently been in office for 4992 hours. No sign of peace yet. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't worry, it's done 👍
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
*snigger*
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
What's the point in this statement?
🇨 🇭 🇪 🇷 🇾 🇱 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🩵 💙 🌊 (@confettimother.is.democrat) reposted
What If We Went Scorched Earth on Trump Scorched earth is evil incarnate. What if we did the total reverse, as a strategy for winning? More info: www.survivorsguidetoearth.com
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Not even thinking about it, anymore.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Goodness me.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social) reposted
They hate ‘wokeness’ because being woke means having empathy with the marginalised and oppressed. Let that sink in.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. But his grovelling is very profitable.
Brant Reeves (@bireeves95.bsky.social) reposted
So Many Amendments Should Have Already Been Made To Our Constitution….
The Intellectualist (@theintellectualist.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 The man once indicted for inciting the Capitol riot is now urging Congress to investigate those who tried to hold him accountable. Trump’s allies are targeting the Jan. 6 probe itself—attempting to rewrite reality in real time. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
“The president destroying the integrity of government economic reports? Welcoming a war criminal to U.S. soil as his guest? Sending the National Guard into another American city and urging on police brutality? This is fascism. It just is.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
The law specifies a census every ten years, not whenever you feel like it could help your party.
George Tsakraklides (@tsakraklides.bsky.social) reposted
“The most shameful narrative this civilisation created was the idea that nature was the aggressor, the “unruly” one who needed to be tamed” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣
LaindonFeminist: Grassroots Labour Comms (@viviane49.bsky.social) reposted
Funny how the media keep up the call for riots to break out. But not in Primrose Hill or Bayswater. Just in some back of beyond place they’ve never set foot in. Manufacturing dissent to the thugs acting as their whipping boys. If you weren’t sickened by them you will be now!
George Tsakraklides (@tsakraklides.bsky.social) reposted
“It is our biggest cognitive impediment that we have only learned to survive as a species that extracts and exploits” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasn’t been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nation…under the cloak of “attacking crime,” is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
Nothing about what happened today was normal. But it's not enough to say that. It must clearly be said that what just happened doesn't happen in a democracy. America is now on the autocracy scale—and those responsible for this won't turn back. The question is what we do now. Options are dwindling.
Pat Oddy 🇪🇺📚📻 (@rossaverde.bsky.social) reposted
The fact that a number of the protesters in recent cases have been well into their 70s or 80s should act as a timely reminder to the media that not all older people are right wing. ‘68ers’ are pensioners now, as are people who grew up as feminism and environmentalism were developing.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Think you may be wrong about a Party with the involvement of Corbyn. We'll see
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
"average minds" says the less than average mind. 🤣
Abbi Lichtenstein (@abbij1961.bsky.social) reposted
Who would have thunk Kristine Noem making a great comic villian. South Park nails it and depicts well what’s happening in the US and immigration. They cover it better than legacy media. Warning: Dogs watch out. youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
I do hope so. For the Americans & the rest of the World. But, I fear there will be bad actors to follow him
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
No style.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.
@BatesMoira (@manderson22.bsky.social) reply parent
Not at all. I was a life-long member. But I'm genuinely interested to see & hear the evidence....