Nigel Farage failed to declare ‘£380,000 external earnings’ on time

Morning!!! Xx live on 6 if fancy some tunage and company

@ulsterwildlife.bsky.social Not much happening here, I wish there was more to see. Hopefully there will be soon.

I’m watching the rain pissing down here in Belfast, in January NI had 64% more rain than average according to the @metoffice.gov.uk & the rest of Ireland is much the same. You’ve got to wonder what this is doing to our food security. In March usually, the spuds get sown but not in this sort of wet.

The Guardian editorial today reflects the reality for millions. Bills soaring. Wages stagnant. People pushed to the brink. We don’t have to accept this. It’s time to do things differently. join.greenparty.org.uk

Dear Stormont Assembly, Last Valentine’s Day we broke up with you after 27 years. A year on, we’re still stuck sorting through the wreckage. Around 1 in 4 children still live in poverty - the same proportion as last year. Over 470,000 people remain on NHS waiting lists, with 38,166 patients… 1/7

UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY will be released in August (and makes this exact argument, and far more)—pre-order now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Back to street walking. Leaflet drop for GPNI in north Belfast. 10,000 steps before lunch. Nice way to start a weekend. @greenpartyni.org

In Bristol today we said: No to racism. No to anti-migrant hate. No to anti-Muslim hate. No to anti-Jewish hate. No to any and every form of hate that's directed at people whether it's to do with where they come from, the god they worship, or the colour of their skin. We stand up for one another.

And to what good for the rest of humanity?

Update on Boucher & Pitches Strategy last night at Council. We don't have to pit music & sport against each other. As Greens we successfully argued for a deferral to give everyone a few weeks to get this right. The bigger political parties are failing to deliver up Stormont & need a distraction.

Here we are then. More anxiety for SEND parents, from a perma-leaking government liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/423...

🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

Spot on @mikecookson.bsky.social

Delighted my proposal for a city wide graffiti removal and power washing team in Belfast will become reality. We've put a lot of work into the city centre in recent years, now it's time to expand this. Every neighborhood deserves cleaner greener streets.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The big vote rig begins…

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Reform threaten to close down a university that refused a request to stage a debate with two of their members. We need a rainbow coalition to stop them at the next election.

Get Palantir and Peter Thiel out of our NHS!!!

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

@kilkennycoco.bsky.social Is there anything ye can do to help Glenmore man Seamus Culleton to be released from detention by ICE in America?

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

@markey.senate.gov Please Senator Markey, do whatever you can to help #seamusculleton from Glenmore, Co. #Kilkenny, Ireland who has been held in detention by #ICE for several months in deplorable & dangerous conditions. All of these people deserve better. Thank you in advance.

Seamus Culleton, spotless after 20 US years, rots in ICE's starving tent hell for months, green card stalled by forged lies, his bond cash vanished into agency shadows where death stalks silent men. #ICEabuse

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

A government enthralled to men and corporations drunk on power is the rot at the centre of the Mandelson scandal. Of all seven of the Nolan principles, openness can help build back the most trust. Every MP, like me, should release logs of all lobbying meetings.

The sun won't set earlier than it did today again until around Halloween... .. a thought that might help some others cope with this dreary time of year.

Belfast City Council supported a Green Party Proposal to defer the Boucher Playing Fields decision and pitches strategy for a month. We need time to get right. It has also formally agreed to suspend use on Twitter/X as it a threat to women and girls.

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world? NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

Last month was the 4th warmest January on record for the average global sea surface temperature... Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data. Methods described in doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... 🌊

First stage of denial: shoot the messenger. There's a firing squad on Bluesky, aiming at anyone stating the blinking obvious: that Starmer needs to go ASAP if Labour is to have any chance of recovery before 2029.

Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... They will do anything to get into power. When the next general election comes, we absolutely must have a rainbow coalition against them followed by PR. I wonder if Sinn Feín would give up abstentionism to keep what is a decidedly pro- Union party out of power?

So the DUP and the Shinners are stopping live music at Boucher Rd #belfast from 2028. Does that mean the rest of us can have the 12th July or the St. Patrick’s Day parade closed down too? I didn’t think so.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... So the next time a debt collection agency calls you up to demand a payment, just say “I’m sorry I don’t believe you are real” and hang up. If AI destroys trust in non-physical human interactions, will this revive some of the old analog ways?

@martinwrigley.bsky.social Good on ye Martin, stop Palantir!

The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined. That level of inequality is totally unsustainable. A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

🚨 BREAKING: Rosebank's owner Equinor has just announced profits of £13 billion in 2025. Equinor makes billions, year after year, from keeping us hooked on oil and gas and wrecking the climate. They profit. We pay the price.

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government. Thanks Keir.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... Complaisant EU statements given the increase in drone strikes on critical Ukrainian infrastructure during a bitter winter. If the EU had the balls to give Ukraine the frozen Russian assets, then Ukraine could really inflict some damage to erode Russian morale.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... Shut off the subsidies to Drax, they are full of it!

The leader Labour should have stuck with would not have been caught out by Mandelson

Gonna posting this a lot over the coming weeks.

"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative. "What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today." New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...

Zack Polanski's ( @zackpolanski.bsky.social ) strongly worded open letter to Wes Streeting, rightly urging him to rip up the Palantir contract in light of the Mandelson Epstein revelations