Lovely late autumn sun over Frensham Pond today!

Perhaps if you wanted #Israel to listen to you, then you shouldn’t have recognised a brutal terrorist regime, against which they are fighting an existential war, as a state… #Palestine

Mer-man!

Happy Friday! www.edmcguinness.org.uk/newsletter

Happy Friday #cats_of_instagram #catyoga❤️ #catsfollowers #cats

Above average sleeping cat. #Cat #CatsOfBluesky

Took a break this weekend to see some chickens. This is Henrietta. Plenty of pun filled names including Omlet, Hen Solo and Hilary Fluff… #Chicken #hens #Feathers

Your boy is now on TikTok. Taking suggestions on sign offs. Currently on “see ya round.” www.tiktok.com/@ed.mcguinness

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ordering the UK’s Senior Civil servant to pressure the National Broadcaster into not running a story about his political chief of staff? Literally everything in this story is corrupt. www.thetimes.com/article/4fd9...

It’s been exactly a year since we lost our special little boy Freddie. We still miss him everyday - he brought so much joy and gentleness to our home. The best.

An honour to participate in a lively debate at Durham Union last night alongside some superb speakers and an extremely engaged audience of young adults! The motion was “The Labour Government has Failed.” I shall leave it to my followers to decide which side I was on!

That’ll be two sitting MPs who assaulted people then. 1x @reformuk.bsky.social 🥶 1x @teamlabouruk.bsky.social* 🥀 Talk about “connecting” with the electorate

“Fortunately, the stakes weren’t that high on Christmas Day, but they are now in politics. Labour are finding themselves playing with a conspicuously low number of chance cards remaining as a result.” My latest for @conservativehome.bsky.social 👉 conservativehome.com/2025/01/10/e...

She's VERY disappointed with what i did to the chicken.

The @libdems.org.uk had an opportunity this evening to, for once in a long time, step off the sidelines and take a stand against potential systemic rape of little girls by backing a National Inquiry. Instead they couldn’t even be arsed to show up. This is the definition of pathetic.

Do you think @RachelReevesMP has checked the gilt yields yet?! 👀👀

What came first the chicken or the @egg-in-waiting.bsky.social?

Whilst any and all abuse against @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social is completely unacceptable, where was the empathy and humanity when she was saying Rishi Sunak was supporting peadophiles?

Where was the now Prime Ministers’s condemnation of this misleading advert his own Party ran in 2023? Oh wait… he endorsed it. He’s happy to act the big man now isn’t he?

How many ‘former’ EDL and BNP members are @reformuk.bsky.social subscribers?

12 months ago @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social bemoaned the lack of action to tackle violence against women and girls… now, as the Minister responsible, she abandons inquiries into child rape and grooming gangs…Utterly unforgivable… #GroomingGangs

🎉Happy new year to you all 🎉 🔹Saving Frimley Park Hospital petition 🔹Seeing the Sikh community secure a Gurdwara 🔹Helping to keep our area clean and green 🔹Supporting farmers and local businesses 🔹Seeing our community thrive AND I got married to the love of my life! 💫

Surely a finance minister being caught up in an embezzlement scandal is grounds for disqualification from office? Where’s all the Left wing analysts like @danneidle.bsky.social when this happens to @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ?!

Imagine being asked a question about funding for Hospice care- care which is given when people are at their most vulnerable - and giving this aggressive, sneering answer. Astonishing. Hospices, charities and the British public deserve better. #PMQs

Fair

This kind of “journalism” belongs in the dustbin of history. It’s two adults on a date. Cretinous ‘scoop’.

Despite MoD’s confidence weeks ago, at the direction of their poltical masters, there will infact be an exodus of experienced personnel from the Army because of Labour’s class driven VAT rise. The most predictable result…

Amazing how far charlatans can progress in society.

Merry Christmas #Cats

Keir Starmer is quick to cloak himself in the warm blanket of the British military. 10 years ago he is photographed working closely with Phil Shiner, who relentlessly pursued fraudulent claims against the British Army. A charlatan beside a shyster.

One of the letters which will haunt Keir Starmer … where he supports ❌ closing detention centres ❌ more safe and legal routes ❌ granting right to vote What else in Starmer’s past is he hiding which will haunt him? #PMQs

Frankly astonishing that a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom would stand up to defend cousins marrying each other citing the strengthening of “family bonds”.

Quite right.

This is the current U.K. Foreign Secretary speaking in 2013 about his pride that the U.K. couldn’t intervene to stop women and children being gassed to death in Syria. Always keep your receipts….

Yet another business survey showing the impact of Reeve’s bodged budget. Seems like everyday there’s another raft of bad data. With monthly GDP numbers out on Friday are we moving into recession watch territory? 👀

Translation - “shut up cause you lost?!” Given they are representatives in thier own rights I think that argument is fairly weak.

Keir Starmer states: “The Syrian people have suffered under Assad's barbaric regime for too long and we welcome his departure.” Does that mean he will be asking David Lammy to resign given he voted against UK military action in 2023 and thus prolonged that suffering for 11yrs?

Still silence from the Foreign Secretary and Sir Keir Starmer on this. #Syria #Damascus

In fairness this is probably the best decision @thesnp.bsky.social have ever made. Freeing up Civil Service capacity from this folly will hopefully make things better for Scots. #Scotland #LoveOurUnion🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Paws for thought

wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear an anti-vax person to say, “okay three years have passed since the Covid jab and I’ve just realised the vast majority of you were fine”

The exact moment Keir Starmer destroyed British business

The exact moment Keir Starmer destroyed British business

5 months in and Starmer is already ditching the first (and probably only one that people could remember) “mission” of his government. Increasingly seems like No Idea Keir is scrabbling around for some purpose. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Capital City vs Geographic Centre.

Colour me skeptical, but wasn’t the election campaign the time to unveil your plan for government? This is just another opportunity to gaslight the British people into thinking you’re doing something you aren’t. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gregg Wallace: “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” Same age as you Gregg t.co/ax8NNIs8LF

Happy birthday Winston 🫡