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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

He's hardly standing in defence of it though, and taking donations from people with interests in private health when you are NHS secretary is a conflict of interest. Which he is happy to do, ergo he still fully deserves the opprobrium.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Which bit is unfair and personalised though? Maybe 10% of it, but the rest comes from his deeply-held beliefs that the NHS requires complete privatisation to US corporate interests, and that all our data should be handed to Peter Thiel. I mean - that's enough on its own.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I don't mind him resigning. That's the good news bit. Standing for leader? Well he must have allies somewhere, probably a few in the PLP, but apart from that, I'm pretty sure everyone knows he's a twat. And he'd guarantee Labour lose the next election as he has no clue what the country needs.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Absolutely agree. Whoever replaces Starmer it cannot be Streeting. The man has no principles whatsoever.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

No, Audi at present, replacing it next year

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I am sure they will, like the solar panels and inverters we have also have Chinese components. Same with the batteries we are adding. But I can minimise this and the corrosive effect their anti-competitive practices are having, even though I can't eliminate it.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yep, and I'm 100% sure they are going to apply them 🤣🤣🤣 Still no chance I'll buy anything Chinese.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Selling below cost price. China has done this regularly - it builds massive over-capacity (eg in steel or solar panels), then floods the market selling ultra-cheap. This wipes out its competition and it gets a near monopoly. Is why I will buy a European EV

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Saying the quiet part out loud....

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You won't see US made cars in Europe. Often too big for our roads [old cities], also have a reputation for low quality they can't shake off. US brands sell - Ford, & Opel is GM. Chinese certainly taking off now. I'll buy an EV but not Chinese due to dumping. But I can afford to. Some can't.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Agree, the UK is among the worst: it seems France sells 3-4x as many as Britain, though the UK has improved under Labour [grants]. They do cost: we built a new house in 2019 [in Spain] and installed one: cost about €14,000 then but arguably cheaper than converting an existing house.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Household energy is 26% of total power use in Europe: and heating is 63% of that, and 77% if hot water thrown in So this market is 16-20% of total power, and currently 'renewables' account for about 25% of the market. Cost remains the issue and is discriminatory.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Everyone hates him anyway: but it doesn't make Ryanair less popular. They're cheap if you fly basic. Very cheap. Good routes too. We must go Gibraltar to Sicily in July for my kid's wedding. Can fly Seville to Catania. Basic fare: €105 each. Add seats together and luggage etc, up to €275.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

That's not what I said at all: my inference was that this area - largely black - most likely didn't vote for Trump, so he's cancelling their sewage grants in revenge, and, well, for not being white.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Big improvement in my wife's home city. The river was completely covered for decades and essentially ran under a main road. This will be a massive improvement. Definitely paying a visit when we're there this summer oceane.ouest-france.fr/ca-y-est-la-...

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A Rennes, la Vilaine se découvre dans le centre ville ! - OCEANE

Depuis quelques jours, les Rennais peuvent apercevoir la Vilaine dans le centre-ville. Le chantier de démolition de la dalle du parking Vilaine touche à sa fin, entre les ponts de Nemours et de Bretag...

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

You didn't name him "Donald" by any chance?

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

lol - yeah it does! An English nickname FYI. It was notorious for spelling errors back in the day of typeset newspapers, hence the sobriquet.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Most will. As the article says, this is a very poor, rural area and mainly Black, so.... In summary: they have no sewage so pipe the 'waste' directly into fields and it sometimes backs up into the houses. The program was to install septic tanks but somehow Trump cancelled it as 'DEI'.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

To be fair, she did quite well in getting Starmer to "think about doing something" in only a year. It's usually at least a fucking decade before he stops vacillating.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Targetted tariffs can work, but have repercussions. In 2018 Chinese steel was tariffed because they were dumping. But not end products. Jobs were created in steelmaking, but lost in factories making nails, car wheels etc who couldn't compete against imports. Then US steelmakers raised prices....

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

As a bloke who played maybe 300 matches as a rugby full-back, I'd like to see him rerun this while competing with half a dozen other guys going for the same ball. Not. Impressed.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"SCOTUS must uphold the law" - there's your problem, right there.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Don't wait till Jan 21 - start at 12:01 on Jan 20th with the single most important thing to dismantle: the Supreme Court. First step is four new justices and the impeachment of Roberts, Alito, Thomas and FratBoy. This can be prepared in advance and go hand in hand with taking his name off things.

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Bob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

So fucking true🙏🔥🔥💯

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Correction: for "Trump wanted war", replace with "Bibi told Trump that he wanted a war and, like the fucktard imbecilic puppet he is, Trump agreed". Netanyahu is in charge. Trump has no fucking clue what day of the week it even it. Don't pretend he has agency here.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's not "provocation". He has the aesthetic sensibilities of a colourblind, coked-up magpie. Look at the Oval Office / Two-Bit Brothel Waiting Room. I rest my case.

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

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Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off - Kelley Blue Book

The 2024-2026 Tesla Cybertruck is being recalled for faulty wheel studs.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Not as bitterly disappointing as his Party and his leader, Starmer. Government by shitting yourself every time someone in the media farts. You can't govern if you don't grow a pair of balls.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Alabama passed a school placement law. The law, was to defy the 1954 Brown v Board decision and maintain school segregation, allowed Alabama school boards to assign individual students to particular schools. It was upheld by the SCOTUS.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

He knows that. To be fair, credit for getting 1000 of his countrymen back - worth far more than raining a drone or two on Putler's parade. The 1000 Nazis sent back to Russia will not live long anyway.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

These are the people you are defending. Blowing up a kindergarten. You feel better now? bsky.app/profile/pang...

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I've had it with you idiot Chomsky types who say "west bad, so Russia good" and lap up Putin's propaganda. You need to grow the fuck up and read for yourself, not rely on sad old tropes and one-sided news. Watch @timothysnyder.bsky.social History of Ukraine, available on Youtube. Educational.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And don't think you're the only one who lost relatives fighting the Nazis. My grandparents survived but both families lost brothers, and another who survived and lost his legs. So I ask - why excuse the fucking nazi scum in Moscow? Why do you only seem to look at one side? Because you're a fool.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What nazi scum are they? The Azov? It started as a neo-nazi brigade but their original leadership is dead. However, the fascists in Moscow - who you seem to be arse-licking - have the Rusich brigade, avowed neo-nazis. And they have a fascist government. Which you seem to support. One eyed moron.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

May 9th is when Nazi Russia celebrates their 1945 victory over the very regime they now use as a role model.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If they don't take the House and Senate in 2026, there won't be any elections in 2028.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Ukrainian "corruption" rating pre-2014 was largely due to Russian interference. Look it up. Zelensky was elected post-2014 so how were elections banned? True, not since 2022. BTW- a list of 20th century elections from fascist... Britain. Can you see any gaps? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of United Kingdom general elections - Wikipedia

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yep. Azov were once neo-nazi nationalists: "nationalists" are the first to reach for guns when some fascist c*nt invades their country. And note that the far-right in Ukraine got 2% of the vote. I see, though, that YOU COMPLETELY IGNORE THE RUSICH BRIGADE IN THE NAZI RUSSIAN ARMY. Why is that?

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The OP is Ukrainian. She's probably bit more concerned with the fact that Nazi Russia is trying to fucking exterminate her and her country. She said NOTHING about Israel. You are projecting and drawing a false equivalence. She doesn't have to conform to your pro-nazi talking points.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No it isn't. Trump is Putin's Bitch. Always has been, always will be

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It is what it says: Obama sold weapons to Ukraine - the US has always "sold" weapons. You stated that Putin's Bitch was the first to "give" Ukraine weapons. False. He "sold" them the Javelins that Obama refused. Trump then blackmailed Zelensky. And Biden "gave" them weapons post-invasion.

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David J @davidjacobsgib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A selective interpretation. Trump approved the sale of Javelins that Obama had withheld, but Obama had sold weapons prior to 2014. Trump then withheld other shipments unless Zelensky "investigated" Hunter Biden. And Trump never "gave" them weapons. That was Biden. www.wral.com/story/fact-c...

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Fact check: Did Trump send Ukraine weapons that Obama and Biden withheld?

"The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send," Sen. Tom Cot...

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