Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find. 323085713
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Europe has tabled a counter proposal to the US-Russia draft peace plan for Ukraine news.sky.com/story/in-ful...news.sky.comIn full: Europe's 28-point counter proposal to US-Russia peace plan for UkraineThe document uses the US plan as its basis, with suggestions for deletions and alterations. 2425255
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025New research suggests that older adults who regularly use smartphones, computers, and the internet have a 58% lower risk of cognitive decline. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... 1581372301
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJim Russell 🏴. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Always remember, Labour were willing to save the Scunthorpe steel works, but not Grangemouth or Mossmorran & their Energy Profits Levy is destroying investment, livelihoods & jobs in Aberdeen & the north east. Scotland will always be an afterthought for Westminster, it’s time for independence 🏴 23215
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialAlec Burrett @alecjburrett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Personally I think means testing asylum seeker help the same way we do for UC would be a better idea & fairer. 051
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.social(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 15/11/2025The reality is that new nuclear power in Scotland would mean massive costs, a poisoned legacy to future generation and yet more radioactive pollution of our air and seas, writes Dr Ian Fairlie 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/256... 43925
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialHugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025There is truly no surer sign of being trapped in the Westminster bubble thank thinking that the person to reverse Labour's tanking poll numbers is Wes Streeting. 95613
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialRichard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else? youtu.be/SzTi95kUBKo?...youtu.beWho can we really afford — the rich or everyone else?YouTube video by Richard J Murphy 411149
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/11/2025 35891582473
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJames Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025really need these clouds to fuck offiflscience.comWatch Out For Aurorae Tonight – The Strongest Solar Flare Of 2025 So Far Just Erupted From The SunThe show may even be visible in California. 2588731876
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, said he would run for the congressional seat being vacated by Representative Jerrold Nadler. 28442071096
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialWarren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I support Sir Keir Starmer. He is our PM and must remain as PM. This speculation about his future needs to stop. The media have it in for him and he is actually doing a bloody good job. 2920751
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialA.Stringer @annekin1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025vanish if they change leader? Sure, some issues may go away, but of course they'll be replaced with new ones which people will get upset about. The trouble with Labour for most of the press is that it's in government. So fight to change the electoral system be all means, so you can then vote for 171
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialA.Stringer @annekin1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The trouble I have is he's no where near as bad as the polling and media make out. There are areas of fundamental weakness but Labour are still delivering on most manifesto promises (I'll attach a link for those who immediately deny this fact). So do we really think criticisms will just magically 1162
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialNic @nic-rowley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025You never really hear of the things the government are getting done, the bills they have pushed through. Instead the media amplifies the errors 10x and spout continuous nonsense from certain individuals to whip up hatred. I try not to pay attention to news anymore. 0194
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialWhat? @midlymannered.bsky.social · 12/11/2025When good men aren’t good enough. What a tragedy. 1181
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJohn Holland @johnnetherlands.bsky.social · 12/11/2025What about his significant parliamentary majority or the damage the Tories did by swapping PMs at will during the last administration? Are they relevant measures? This is just hyperbole and poor by your standards James. 0203
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialAlex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Nil carborundum! James. The country might be close to ungovernable at the moment, but if we lose Starmer, then Labour, to Tory/Reform we are Hungary or Trump's USA. Some people want that. Don't do their job for them. Courage, mon brave! 0241
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialOddballwoofwoof @oddballwoofwoof.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Maybe some see that repeating things said on social media, that aren't really based on anything that happened in the *real world*, rather than looking at what the actual policies and legislation being passed are, might not be as snappy a comeback as you thought. 181
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialSamuel Vimes : City Watch @samvines-watchman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Maybe some don’t see taking money off the disabled and the elderly as positive policies. 🤷🏻♂️ 152
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialOddballwoofwoof @oddballwoofwoof.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Apparently quietly getting on with implementing some positive policies, working to repair 14 years worth of neglect to every part of our society and repairing our international reputation and relationships isn't what we all voted for just over a year ago. We wanted light entertainment and snake oil. 1195
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialDave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Starmer certainly isn't a populist sloganeer along the lines of Wolfie Polanski or a serial liar and grifter like Nigel Fagash but what is it that he's done that makes his position "untenable"? Beware those interesting times if the right wing press get their man. 2316
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialVirginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The weekly polls promoting a 4-5 seat party, the live coverage of ever utterance of said party across the media …and the same media’s off shoot podcasts …and relentless negative speculation, served up as ‘news’ for 16 months solid. No respect for the folk who voted for Labour under Keir Starmer 0335
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialMarcello Ruffini @marcello65.bsky.social · 12/11/2025James, PM hits rock-bottom while having done nothing much wrong in context of law and ministerial code and you gob on him. Maaaaaaate. Labour & UK economy are a mess & any leader would have the same mess to deal with. Do not underestimate the mess. Brexit plays a major part. 4% growth solves it all 0373
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Every labour leaders position is untenable when the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Times are endlessly opining against their every move. This and Robbie Gibbs coup at the BBC, is a concerted effort to move the country right. The Labour govt must grow a spine and resist. Bring in PR, sack Robbie Gibb. 1466
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJune-Mitchell @june-mitchell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Certainly getting the feeling that this has been manufactured, possibly to take the heat off the BBC fiasco. Or any other thing the media wants to gloss over. 0143
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialPhillwatson FBPE 🇬🇧🇨🇭 🇪🇺🖖 🔶 @phillipwatson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The trouble here James is that it’s the media setting the relevant measures. Looking from afar it all has a sense of a manufactured crisis here and the media are demanding answers to questions that are being asked by the media. 1446
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialDave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Who would really want to be leader of an increasingly ungovernable country? Voters want better services just so long as someone else pays and they want them now. Can't be done. 2496
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialA.Stringer @annekin1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The Immigration rhetoric sticks in my craw, & I'm desperate for them to raise taxes. But otherwise, I'm happy with the workers rights bill, net zero policies, school meals, realignment with the EU etc. I'm not even a true Labour supporter, but I also know no one party gov can please everyone. 0232
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialajmitchelluk.bsky.social @ajmitchelluk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Mis steps yes. 1 year in to a horrific job. Decent man. I do not want more change now and I didn’t vote labour. But give the man a chance 4507
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialSuzy Brewster @suzybrew.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The media have worked hard to make 'Starmer's position perilously close to untenable'. This is evidenced by the ample platform given to Farage, the leader of a political party consisting of 5 MPs. Look at the treatment of Farage and his property vs that of Rayner and Reeves. 1588
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialPreno @preno67.bsky.social · 12/11/2025You're better than this. The man pulled labour out of the electoral gutter... delivered a thumping GE win most ''experts'' said was impossible.. and has since presided over a return to orderly govt after the years of Tory chaos for which you had a front row seat. Very odd post. 6684
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialClaire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 12/11/2025You aren't, there's many of us who agree. This Government has delivered or has in progress nearly 60% of its manifesto pledges, never mentioned by the media. Raised minumum wage, free breakfast clubs, fre childcare, Renter Rights, Employment Rights bills and delivered 5m extra hospital appointments. 2667
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialLondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I feel like the last person alive to believe that losing Starmer would make both Labour's and the country's position worse, and even more unstable. Under this constant onslaught the only faint hope we have is if this shield wall holds. 14865
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialSPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Russia's ability to wage war continues to be dismantled by Ukrainian Armed Forces, with more overnight strikes on refineries and chemical plants. In Budyonnovsk, Russia (Stavropol Krai), drones attacked the Stavrolen gas processing plant at night. 219630
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/11/2025Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence. 14342213413482
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialKye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Call me crazy but no one should work full-time and still live in poverty. 331349241
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration. 678260435963
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialScottish_Borders 🏴 @border304.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I hope you get elections again and you can elect some leaders who: 1. Aren't morons. 2. Care about other people. 081
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Reports have appeared that Angelina Jolie has visited Kherson. Admire her courage and strength. Thankful to Ms Jolie for standing with Ukraine! Thankful to all who stand with Kherson and Ukraine! 🇺🇦 1060686
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/11/2025School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why. 1783906877
chrissie4850.bsky.social @chrissie4850.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...you.38degrees.org.ukPetition: Ban the public sale of fireworks!Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of ... 000
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialWarren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Why are people trying to tell us today that Labour were not honest about how hard things might be before the election? Labour said it would be tough. They said there would be hard decisions to make. They said it would take a decade of renewal. People seem to have short memories. 1925347
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialWarren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This is great stuff from Labour! Transformative policies put into action for military homes following years of neglect. Never again say the Tories stand up for our forces. They failed to act for 14 years. Only Labour will deliver these plans in full & give our forces the homes they deserve. 212945
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/11/2025At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor. Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey. 216119553111
Reposted by @chrissie4850.bsky.social(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 02/11/2025👇 17037