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@sj51.bsky.social

Interested northern lurker, walker, local and family history, art, politics, volunteer....

created August 14, 2024

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Somebody should tell him and keep on telling him that small boat immigration wasn't a problem before Brexit.

1/9/2025, 10:01:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jealousy because she lives inside their miserable withered brains.

1/9/2025, 6:02:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're a novelty this year 🌦️

1/9/2025, 5:58:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My thought too.

1/9/2025, 3:59:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am horrified that you are leaving but can't fault your decision after your ordeal, I wish you the very best for the future. Britain is the loser here, stay strong.

1/9/2025, 3:13:39 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree you can't tar everybody with the same brush but Farage does seem to attract some of the worst of the worst.

1/9/2025, 3:10:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are like Trump, want to rule by decree. They mostly don't understand how local government works and have no idea how to make it work. Do they even know what a policy is?

1/9/2025, 3:04:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not the immigrants I worry about, it's the mob outside.

1/9/2025, 2:59:07 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would ban X in Britain if that's what Musk is spreading. We've seen what the US is becoming thanks to him and we don't want it here.

1/9/2025, 2:51:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he isn't offering any solution, it's a slogan to stir up racism

1/9/2025, 11:49:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Save it, it would make a fitting obituary.

1/9/2025, 11:16:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm inclined to agree 🤐

1/9/2025, 11:06:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do any of today's so called journalists ever ask these morons what they want to save the country from?

1/9/2025, 11:04:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone ought to ask him exactly why the handgun ban is ludicrous. It has prevented more school shootings so why is that a bad thing? He needs to be questioned, questioned and questioned again every time he spouts nonsense

31/8/2025, 12:07:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage is a hypocrite full stop.

31/8/2025, 11:55:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who's that peeping in the pic? Surely not that Epstein chap

31/8/2025, 11:46:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven't tucked my ambition to join away, and I'm not afraid to say so.

31/8/2025, 11:43:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a waste of money, councils are strapped for cash, so Epping is going to spend its taxpayer money on lawyers.

31/8/2025, 11:37:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Archbishop of York is a Member of the House of Lords, I suppose that gives him as much right to spout on matters political as Tice

31/8/2025, 11:05:50 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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😂 Make your own, we do in a pyrex bowl in the microwave, 60% fruit 40% sugar. Better than anything bought and we grow our own fruit.

30/8/2025, 1:54:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No policies just bandwagons

30/8/2025, 9:52:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Under no circumstances should handguns be unbanned, this is not the wild west.

30/8/2025, 9:32:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the end of the day the problem is that it's incredible to me that anyone could vote for this ****

30/8/2025, 7:15:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone who sees anything funny in that needs their head examining. Revolting people.

29/8/2025, 1:33:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or is it that as far as Reform is concerned, a dead candidate is the best they can offer?

29/8/2025, 11:23:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not the flag that intimidates me, it's the people waving them.

28/8/2025, 2:09:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do any of these people have any self respect?

26/8/2025, 6:21:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He knows he's lying but it stirs up his base who don't know any different which is the whole point of it.

26/8/2025, 6:18:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You couldn't make this stuff up it's so implausible and contradictory.

26/8/2025, 10:22:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's Connolly who has a problem not the UK.

25/8/2025, 6:18:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Circular walk in the woods and fields before it gets too hot.

Stone post and signpost on a dusty path in the woods. Field of pale yellow stubble and trees on the horizon under a blue sky
25/8/2025, 2:18:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely not. Farage is a vile, but to many, plausible rabble rouser. He couldn't govern to save his life but as agitator in chief he excels. Every right the ordinary worker has fought for will vanish. How people can be so naive is beyond me.

24/8/2025, 2:34:23 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stupid is as stupid does

24/8/2025, 12:03:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There will be more news on that single page than in any newspaper today.

24/8/2025, 12:01:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I though one property went with the job.

24/8/2025, 11:58:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nigel Farage and the Brexiteers are the cause of this problem and it should be shouted from the rooftops that it would never have happened without Brexit.

23/8/2025, 12:58:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely a consequence of Brexit.

23/8/2025, 12:56:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These people have no standards whatsoever.

23/8/2025, 12:29:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm glad they're coming back but they never went away where I live 🐄

23/8/2025, 10:27:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage believes in something? I find that hard to believe.

23/8/2025, 10:18:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage tells the mob what they want to hear but is never properly questioned as to how he would do it, he just blathers and blusters. A man with no plan just a vile rabble rouser.

23/8/2025, 10:04:27 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fantastic.

23/8/2025, 8:46:39 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All mouth and no trousers.

23/8/2025, 7:45:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it because they've removed the orange guy?

22/8/2025, 2:44:18 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not as much as I do.

22/8/2025, 12:46:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For soft spoken insert menacing.

21/8/2025, 12:12:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apart from everything else someone should quote Matthew 19:24. (It's something about camels and needles.)

21/8/2025, 9:06:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am aware but enough is enough and more is too far.

20/8/2025, 6:03:36 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which beggars the question, "Why are they still being sold off?" Bonkers

20/8/2025, 5:07:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our taxes should not be used to fill the pockets of private companies. I've had enough with the utilities, the NHS is a step too far.

20/8/2025, 2:15:21 PM | 50 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember there was a tent for lost children on the prom.

20/8/2025, 8:19:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy birthday!

19/8/2025, 4:44:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How does that work?

19/8/2025, 11:27:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only solution to what?

19/8/2025, 10:18:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sj51.bsky.social (@sj51.bsky.social) reply parent

Me too

18/8/2025, 4:05:03 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He wants himself in ermine-clad robes.

15/8/2025, 2:27:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Non-Labour members want the government to adopt more radical policies too.

15/8/2025, 2:23:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perhaps it's because she's a woman.

14/8/2025, 7:52:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lovely day to visit Mount Grace Priory on the edge of the North York Moors..

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13/8/2025, 6:06:40 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We send postcards to our seven-year old granddaughter every time we take a trip. They are increasingly difficult to find and expensive to send but she looks forward to getting her special mail delivery. It's a wonderful way of encouraging her to read and write back to us.

13/8/2025, 8:18:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The US should put its own house in order before lecturing anyone else.

13/8/2025, 8:11:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How much crass gold bling will it be enveloped in?😱

12/8/2025, 1:03:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#WeekGforGlass

Green shrub viewed through a green glass square in a leaded window
12/8/2025, 12:34:56 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lowe has absolutely no self-awareness.

11/8/2025, 1:07:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage can't have his cake and eat it.

11/8/2025, 11:40:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MIne too!

10/8/2025, 11:38:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Obviously.

9/8/2025, 5:39:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When the BBC interview "random" people in town centres, our game is to guess what the reply will be to the loaded question. We are nearly always right.

9/8/2025, 5:38:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In 1969 as part of my A level exam, no coursework then, we were given a pair of kippers for life drawing. Three hours on a hot June afternoon, I can still smell them.

9/8/2025, 5:32:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boomers already do voluntary work in our communities, parks, theatres, etc. I know litter pickers, gardeners, scout leaders, railway volunteers, national trust guides, the ladies who make the cuppas at the end of a walk led by volunteers. It's happening now and doesn't require conscription.

9/8/2025, 5:25:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I cannot bear the sight of a UK politician cosying up to a member of the corrupt US government. He should get the same treatment as he gave Volodymyr Zelensky.

9/8/2025, 8:23:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deranged. I'm sick of these people who try to manufacture problems where non exist.

8/8/2025, 1:56:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think there are enough psychiatrists.

8/8/2025, 9:56:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will they send the rest of their current MPs? All of them appear somewhat deranged to me.

8/8/2025, 9:55:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A deranged racist with more money than sense.

8/8/2025, 9:53:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Crass 🤢

7/8/2025, 11:59:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll pay it a visit next time I'm in York. I'm amazed at how many places I recognise without reading the caption.

7/8/2025, 8:41:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I never started.

6/8/2025, 7:00:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have privatised far too much in this country courtesy Thatcher and now we know the result, dearer bills, poorer service and richer CEOs. We CANNOT let this happen to the NHS

6/8/2025, 3:53:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have no idea what he means by this, somebody should ask him.

6/8/2025, 11:44:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a soft spot for Burmantofts exteriors and interiors in Leeds and Manchester.

6/8/2025, 11:19:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cragside is well worth a visit.

5/8/2025, 9:31:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish the press would use his real name Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson and not vice versa

5/8/2025, 7:08:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well he did open his mouth so I suppose it's inevitable he lied

5/8/2025, 6:53:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's been to Buckingham Palace hasn't he and it's his tawdry plagiarising way of replicating it.

1/8/2025, 11:46:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tacky 🤮

1/8/2025, 11:42:00 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think he can ride a bike, but I'd like to see him try.

31/7/2025, 7:33:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But this isn't new.

31/7/2025, 4:38:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If our energy bills weren't linked to the price of gas, they really would be cheaper.

31/7/2025, 4:36:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I believe in climate change, the Trump worshipping leader of Reform In GB doesn't. I don't think earthquakes are realeted to climate change, prove me wrong.

31/7/2025, 3:56:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage should be asked to provide the evidence that climate change does not exist.

31/7/2025, 12:17:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every statement she makes should be fact checked and challenged.

30/7/2025, 2:21:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Netanyahu says lots of things, most of them designed to keep him out of prison.

30/7/2025, 2:19:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He should be fact checked every time he opens his mouth.

30/7/2025, 2:07:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just my humble opinion but I suggest the only way to prevent rioting is to stop platforming the people who instigate it by keep going on about it.

30/7/2025, 1:56:50 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Somebody should ask her what she bases her belief on.

30/7/2025, 1:52:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reform members should be fact checked every time they open their mouths.

30/7/2025, 1:39:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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...and Lancashire, you beat me to it!

29/7/2025, 10:01:33 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not by a long way 👍

29/7/2025, 9:54:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can relate to this, tea every time. I can't stand the smell of coffee.

29/7/2025, 9:46:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view