BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026PCC Katy Bourne ( who ? say the people of Sussex) attended an anti-immigrant protest . She seemed to be happy about the controversey and continued issuing press releases about it for weeks www.itv.com/news/meridia...itv.com 021
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thatcher was trying to persuade the Islanders that their future was with Argentina before the military regime invaded. They told her envoy to go away . 010
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I sort of remember Raheem from a years ago What's he doing now? Big on Twitter probably 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026By-election cost £200K+ Clacton tax payers must be thrilled 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Having 35 nuclear reactors seems like a security concern. I imagine locals may be worried about house prices as well 200
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The tobaco industries push to getting people addicted to nicotine 010
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026" Stiil a few tickets left " would be better from a marketing standpoint IMO 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I imagine most of the 27 EU countries would like this Swiss option where you choose which parts of the Single Market you sign up to. 010
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Regulations are pointless if they're not enforced. Asking Uber Eats to advise food delivery workers when their business model incentivises faster deliveries isn't going to achieve much IMO 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Guardian pod today is about how Reform are battling with Restore . A year ago Nigel sacked Rupert for his extreme views on deportation. These extreme views are now Reform's policies 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Did the journalist ask Blair about Iraq ? It seems appropriate given the timing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNational Memorial Arboretum service for forces who served in IraqMore than 6,000 British armed forces personnel were injured, and 179 killed, in the 2003 Iraq war. 130
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026If you look at many union leadership elections it's quite shocking how few of these 6.6 million vote. Unite membership 1.2 million . Sharon Graham - 46,696 votes 040
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026It's just Blair desperately trying to get noticed by Trump. 020
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I await Lord Hannan's column starting " It's 2030 ..." 030
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The Wall Street Journal reported on how Meta make $ Billions from advertising fees for scam and fake ads. They're well aware it's going on No-one seems to be holdin Mark Zuckerberg accountable 040
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026In Makerfield the MP who was supposed to represent it for 5 years has resigned. So the Manchester Mayor who doesn't live there and was supposed to be Mayor for 5 years can have a go at being PM. A new by-election costs the Tax-payer £200K a Mayoral election £millions. I'd vote for anyone but Labour 030
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Maybe the placard should have footnotes and references 130
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Can't Rayner, Streeting etc just do a job for 5 years instead of wasting tax-payers money on Mayoral elections, by-elections and months of disruption ? They're as bad as the Tories 050
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A by-election for a MP costs the tax-payer over £200K. How much is Andy Burnham's ambition going to cost the tax-payer for a mayoral election ? 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The lack of direction and vision in the Starmer Govt . It's like the Tories defecting to Reform complaining about the previous Tory Government 100
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026IMO it's not that she made a mistake. It's the total misjudgement of taking the position of Housing Minister while having complicated housing issues without foreseeing a problem. This resulted in disruption, wasted time and money etc etc. She didn't help people desperate for a home in anyway 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Sharon Graham Unite leader was elected with 46,696 votes from a membership of 1,177,292 about 3.9% . Going by this Starmer would require the votes of 17 Labour MPs from 403 to stay in power 010
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Why is Gordon Brown such a hero. He was the Chancellor and PM for years who was totally unaware that banks offering 200% mortgages was a problem. He voted for the Iraq War . Appointed PM by Blair.... 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Rupert Murdoch and his media companies have been happily creating division for decades 010
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I don't know much about Bessent except it's easy to instantly dislike him. The Trump regime should stop him doing media interviews IMO 030
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Are we back to 2014 when the EU banned vacuum cleaners ? 021
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Would the Evil Junta have invaded if Thatcher hadn't sent Nicolas Ridley to the Falklands to persuade them the future was with Argentina ( told him to FO) then had meetings with the Evil Junta in Vienna. Week before the Falklands War , we were trying to sell military aircraft to the Evil Junta 110
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026IMO Social Justice relys on everyone paying their taxes www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...bbc.co.ukParadise Papers: Bono linked to tax probe in LithuaniaA Lithuanian shopping mall partly owned by U2 singer Bono is being investigated for tax irregularities. 2121
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026UK water companies process shit and sell it to farmers. Although they also pump a huge amount of shit into the sea and waterways 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Dan knocks out thousands of opinion columns. He's probably written many pro-Trump opinions. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3299...washingtonexaminer.comAfter eight years, Britain is suddenly falling in love with TrumpThe oddest thing is happening in Britain: Donald Trump is becoming popular. The man was almost universally abhorred during his first term. Leftists 240
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTycoon Moves $6 Billion Fortune to Switzerland From CaribbeanAnthony Bamford, the billionaire chairman of excavator maker JCB, has transferred his shares in the firm’s Caribbean holding companies to Switzerland, altering arrangements that fostered his family’s ... 1102
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Did it go wrong ? Was the whole point just to wreck Iran's infrastructure and leave chaos 000
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026www.youtube.com/shorts/lbCd-...youtube.comMan Tasting Homemade Limoncello - with subtitlesYouTube video by Keiran Betteley 120
BriteJon @britejon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Lord Frost is weird. I don't understand what he believes in. I wonder if he thought he'd be a hero having got Brexit done and is bitterly disapointed In January, Frost argued that Britain “should strive to be America’s new Israel”. 000
