Not just you!

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.

A huge thank you to residents for recycling their household waste - our 60% recycling rate has helped save 51,000 tonnes of waste – enough to pack Bath Abbey around 14 times. 👀Look out for the leaflet with the Christmas and New Year collection dates Read more: newsroom.bathnes.gov.uk/new...

Good

It's a bit ******* late for crocodile tears now.

Who wrote this? Some of the language seems too fluent for Trump and not many capital letters!

SPC will next meet on 2 December, the agenda is now available on our noticeboard and website www.saltfordparishcouncil.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Of the two trials I sat through as a member of a jury, one definitely did not need a jury.

Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid. buff.ly/r8yeFmJ

Ridiculous

Why did it take so long?

Of course it will reject the modified plan. Russia has no intention of settling for less than a takeover of Ukraine's territory.

Brexit: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350m a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250m a day in 2025. That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Failures by Tory ministers and welfare officials led to carer’s allowance crisis, review finds

Not much chance Putin will agree though, is there?

Has your business been Snowballed yet? ❄️ As seen on Dragons’ Den — with offer of investment from all five Dragons. A Snowball Assessment is rapidly becoming the UK’s new standard for accessibility. www.snowballassessment.com

BREAKING BBC coverage of Liberal Democrats in national news has doubled since the resignation of the BBC Director General (I HAVEN'T IMAGINED IT) Thx to Copilot & Bing

Central Bath yesterday morning. Delivery vans blocked the same road (a one-way street) on two separate occasions holding back buses and other traffic for about 10 to 15 mins each time.

Disgraceful. No one political party should be singled out in this way.

The E3 (UK, France, Germany) counter-proposal for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is vastly superior to the US sell-out. It has a strong focus on Ukraine’s sovereignty, EU membership, security guarantees & reparations, and no surrender of free Ukrainian territory to Russian occupation.

But Silicon Valley executives get hearings, PR statements, and another quarter of profits. Kids were the product. Safety was the afterthought. Accountability is long overdue.

The difficult truth is that there is a clear national security element to social media information flows. It can't all be viewed through the single lens of free speech. Disinformation sabotage is a hostile act intended to destablise our societies. Our societies need appropriate protection.

This

"... here are 5.8 million unpaid carers in the UK as of December 2024 with 2.6 million of these having given up paid work to care. "... about 9% of the adult population providing regular unpaid support ..." via @dailypolitik.bsky.social #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #SocialistSunday

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The system does not want me’: why some doctors struggle to land jobs “While the number of applicants for specialist training increased by 30% this year,according to the BMA figures, places rose by only 0.7%. Every year that applicants outnumber places,the problem is compounded” on.ft.com/43KQbwC

Reminder.

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

91.5 tonnes of the "Russian" gold the country is now selling to stay afloat is actually the Romanian national treasure, sent to Russia for safekeeping during WW1, which has never been returned.

Important speech. February 2022 vibes

2/2Reform’s finances are shrouded in mystery, covered by its unusual structure (for a political party) as a private limited company. The scope of any such investigation must include Farage, his key stooges and funders.

I cannot imagine how people can feel safe in the USA. We may have our problems, but compared with the States, the UK is a fantastic place to live.

Government, what are you waiting for? Nathan Gill’s sentencing should be the final wake-up call for Britain to take the threat of Russian interference seriously, says @benbradshaw.bsky.social

Liberal Democrats vs Reform UK Ltd: who’s really the underdog? The Liberal Democrats hold 72 parliamentary seats, yet the media have sidelined Ed Davey while Reform UK Ltd hogs column inches and airtime @politicalsatirical.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Mess it up for the rest of us, then jump ship!!!!

So much of the UK’s steady decline post war can be explained by how easy it is for some people to fail upwards. Some spectacular examples with COVID and Brexit - often the same people in both. And easily identifiable by the frequency of their appearance on BBC Radio 4 Today programme

Promoted, like so many of them, way above his capabilities. A country where going to the right school and having a posh accent, is enough to get you into no.10, is not a serious country.

Same for me and my husband.

Reform Ltd on BBC Question Time again tonight. Tell me again how the BBC isn’t the marketing arm of Farage’s party?

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

David Cameron’s failed Police & Crime Commissioner system is being scrapped 12 years of wasted money, low turnout & zero accountability, a political gimmick that didn’t make our streets safer Labour’s putting that £100 million back where it belongs: into frontline policing & communities #Labour

Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Here's the Govt announcement on proposed changes to rules around suspending councillors, codes of conduct etc. Sounds wonky but actually v important when it comes to rooting out wrongdoers, crooks and donation-hiders (when ministers get round to legislating on it) www.gov.uk/government/n...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

I welcome the Government's decision to reconsider issuing compensation to #WASPI women. Hundreds of thousands of women were failed when the age at which they could claim their state pension was changed without their knowledge. This includes more than 3,000 women in North East Hampshire.