Reposted by Ally MaciverGerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 19hHMRC have failed to collect £500Bn+ of taxes since 2010, and there's a continual softly, softly approach on the mega wealthy, but hey, those pensioners are growing orchards of those magic money trees on their allotments! 02219
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We need to restructure everything to make it easier for good people to do good things and much much harder for bad people to do bad things! Instead of putting the bad people in charge of everything and emasculating the good people… 000
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The use of the phrase “double down” relating to Earl Spencer’s comments is carefully chosen. This phrase is almost exclusively used to describe a stubborn refusal to back down when everyone accepts you are misguided, or morally wrong. It is not an impartial portrayal of the “news”… 000
Reposted by Ally MaciverAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukFarage and the £130m even his detractors have missedGB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing 351311649
Reposted by Ally MaciverGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just a quick recap : 27025
Reposted by Ally MaciverIndependent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 18/09/2026According to the latest #Indyref2 polling by Survation in August 2026, Among people who did not vote in the 2014 independence referendum, approximately 68% currently say Yes and 32% say No. This is why Westminster don’t want the vote. They know they’re screwed. 56541
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If the grown ups were in charge there would be an acceptance that the UK is dysfunctional and no longer fit for purpose. And the proper solution is to first hand full autonomy to each constituent part of these islands and then let each part hold its own referendum on a redrafted Act of Union. 010
Reposted by Ally MaciverOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat. 781709559
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Racism is like mushrooms, they grow best in darkness… 000
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Scientists, clever people who typically are not rich, tell us the world is in danger. People who make fuck tons of money from fossil fuels, tell us to drill baby drill. Who you gonna believe? People like David Attenborough? Or people like Donald Trump? Its important to get this answer correct… 001
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is seriously weird. And I’m not talking about the hat, specs and moustache combo… 000
Reposted by Ally MaciverDoric Studio @doricstudio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hi. We are Doric Studio, an Aberdeen based clothing brand. We take inspiration from our culture, people and places plus a bit of films/pop culture to bring you Tees and Apparel. All clothing is 100% Organic Cotton and most of it is screen printed by us in the studio.! 1209
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Politics has to be nationalised. The one thing that should never have happened is the privatisation of democracy. Donations must be banned… 100
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why is it people that try to act Devil’s Advocate over the Dover protests end up losing their shit and accusing you of defending “third world subhuman parasites” within half a dozen posts? Farage and his pals have really managed to mobilise the stupid… 001
Reposted by Ally MaciverBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Germans voted for the Far Right because their Media is controlled by Far Right Billionaires from Washington and Tel Aviv. And they are doing the same in every single country in the Western World. 25434150
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Seen this attitude so many times. Its not an unfair representation of how internet access has gutted the music industry… 000
Reposted by Ally MaciverGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/202680 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing. 9533561381
Reposted by Ally MaciverByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howsebylinetimes.comThe BBC Is Just Nodding AlongThe corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer 36868354
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” (Not my quote, don’t know who said it). 010
Reposted by Ally MaciverFoxyfunderburd 🏴🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦 @foxyfunderburd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Danny Tommo, the man who organised the blackshirts rally, openly telling us a foreign American think tank wired him £30k for his very first street protest. Foreign money is propping up the British far right 36348
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you have to wear a balaclava you are not a protestor or a demonstrator. You are a thug. Its sickening that in this country politicians “understand” the grievances of the far right, and treat actual peaceful protesters as criminals and terrorists. 000
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If the living wage is £12.71/hour, £24,785/year, then why is the basic rate of tax payable on earnings over £12,570? HMRC are taking £2,443 off workers, leaving them with less money than they need to live on. Surely people should only be taxed on “disposable income”? 120
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026When “fighting age men” dress up like this, its not a protest or a demonstration. Where is the spirit of Cable Street? 010
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026@thetrawl.bsky.social How to give feedback to Google Maps on the naming of Lakes, Gulfs, Straits and Golf Courses… [google placename, click three dots on the right, provide feedback, click submit]. 000
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Meanwhile, in a retarded back alley just across the sea from France, Belgium and Netherlands… 000
Reposted by Ally MaciverPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Nearly a fifth of UK pensioners live in poverty. Two-thirds of single pensioners in poverty are female. Low wages prevent private pensions DB pension schemes gone Gender pay/pension gap Full state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage Yet neoliberals push lower state pension. archive.ph/W6cH3inews.co.ukNearly a fifth of pensioners now in poverty - how experts say it should be fixedThe fastest increase has been among those who have never married, followed by divorced pensioners, research has revealed 33430226
Reposted by Ally MaciverPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Tory Legacy 6.15m people awaiting 7.27m hospital appointments in England. 3,000 a day treated in corridors. 300,000 a year die awaiting hospital appointment. Good health not seen as investment. Healthy life expectancy declining. Govts obsessed with fiscal rules and 'mustn't tax the super rich'.healthcare-management.ukNHS waiting list falls slightly despite record demandThe waiting list fell to 7.27m from 7.28m in May despite a record number of patients being referred for treatment. Health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper... 11229102
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026There were a hundred people on that flight, including the entire press pool. They didn’t know there was a credible threat against the life of someone who sneaked off the plane to save his own skin. Everyone else was deemed “expendible”… Have a think about that. 065
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Asset stripping, killing jobs, deliberately bankrupting businesses for a quick profit, SHOULD be a crime… Capitalism is a cult. 000
Reposted by Ally Maciver(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped So here is mine If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great👇 23627
Reposted by Ally MaciverGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices. 1343059870
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Saying climate change is “just summer” is the same as someone on the Titanic saying “its just water…” There are no life boats on a dying planet… 000
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’ve been saying this for years. 9 out of 10 charities should not be charities… 042
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Anas Sarwar has achieved what Jackie Baillie has spent her entire servile existence craving, what she has spent her whole life working for, like Gollum in a fucking cave… Some people actually covet their second class status, as a grovelling outsider, desperate for scraps from their masters table… 010
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 20/07/2026You don’t have to tax wealth to redistribute it. Just stop using public money to bail out private failures. Let Thames Water go bust. Share holders lose everything. Lenders/Banks lose billions. Rich people are less rich. The poor are better off - by not paying for the bail out. Market forces baby… 001
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Let me get this right? If we stop funding the BBC…? …no more East Enders??? Where do I sign up? 040
Reposted by Ally MaciverPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026South East Water warns over survival as funds dry up. SEW has £1.7bn debt Pays interest at the rates of 6% - 10% 2011-2025, paid £947m dividends, £401m interest 104m litres of water lost daily to leaks Customers fleeced Takes bad management to destroy monopoly suppliers with captive customers.theguardian.comSouth East Water warns over survival as funds dry upSupplier to over 2.4m customers says it doesn’t have enough money to last beyond July 2027 27255103
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 16/07/2026All the triple lock actually achieves is ensuring the pension doesn’t get devalued by inflation. Capitalism is a cult. 010
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It was right after the equaliser I said Tuchel would be crucified. Didn’t take long!! 😂😂😂 010
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026First time they’ve come up against a team of the calibre of Morocco or Brazil… 010
Reposted by Ally MaciverJR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Pandemic Inquiry – ‘Disinterested in working with, or hearing the concerns of the Devolved Administrations’ talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/15/p...talkingupscotlandtwo.comPandemic Inquiry – ‘Disinterested in working with, or hearing the concerns of the Devolved Administrations’By stewartb The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has just published its latest report, on Module 5: Procurement. (see The Inquiry’s overarching conclusions for this module focus on: (i) the UK’s unpr… 11316
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Seeding is intrinsically unfair. It ensures stronger teams get an easy tie and weaker teams have a mountain to climb. Obviously it has a part to play, but qualifying, groups and then knock outs makes it impossible for an underdog to progress. 100
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The earth is 4,500 million years old. Life on earth is 4,000 million years old Mankind is 0.3 million years old The industrial revolution was 250 years ago. In 250 years human population has increased 10 fold. Climate change today is real, and it has been caused by us… 000
Reposted by Ally MaciverBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days. In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured. While 0 Israelis have been killed. There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide. 431624831
Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Only two teams left that have never won the world cup. And I guess thats why I’m hoping Norway and Switzerland win tonight… If both get knocked out then the top four seeds reach the semi finals. And thats not a fairy tale - its a horror story… 020
Reposted by Ally Maciverweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Spare a thought for Rupert Lowe. 16 kids and their teacher were slaughtered in Dunblane, another 15 were shot and wounded. Hundreds more were traumatised and grief stricken, but Rupert's dad had to give up his shooting hobby. There's no violin small enough. 1519088
