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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ecomet.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer, advocate for ASN Reform, mainly in Scotland but happy to help SEND reform in rest of UK. Enjoys curling and playing guitar. Left wing, Scottish independence supporter.

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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When did Scotland vote for this?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
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Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We stand with the #RNLI
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And then he wants foreign to buy American goods but the foreign countries won't have any dollars. Damn, I knew they'd be a catch.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not many lowland or highland Scots in the Doomsday book
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's like she doesn't like the impacts of the tax cuts that she champions. #eejit
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
c.org/Xf4pBvGbMV
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Sign the Petition
Stop Big Billionaires Buying British Politics
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... This is total baloney. He didn't stop Anthropic doing anything. Anthropic withdrew from government work when they refused to take part in unethical work being proposed by Trump's administration (spying on us citizens).
theguardian.com
Trump claims he is only ‘guardrail’ needed to control AI as top Republicans join him in dismissing calls for more checks – live
President condemns what he claims is a ‘sick conspiracy’ amid global tech selloff following CEOs calls for slowing pace of development
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Or the 47th president of the USA: his hero.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Where will they get the gas? I suspect current gas grid wasn't designed with that in mind.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Theft
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is not earning US respect from anyone, quite the opposite. It's pathetic. He also demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of economics in his rants
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They have neither a brain cell nor original idea between them. This is Trumpian.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
static.klipy.com
You Yourecra
ALT: You Yourecra
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That's completely bonkers
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Now immigration is improving they need another victim to whom they can direct their cult members anger. Very Trumpian.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What, he lied? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked
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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Of course vaccines don't cause autism. Autism existed long before vaccines. Anyone who suggests otherwise is misled or misleading. Neurodivergent brains have always been with us, because they're part of natural human variety and diversity and as such we should value them.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've seen this before. Didn't end well for them.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've seen this play before.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How in any sane world can this be justified?
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think that's correct. North Sea oil traded globally and the price is set by the market. There is no requirement to sell to the UK preferentially. This also makes a nonsense of the energy security argument for extended drilling.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Think you missed "Unconditional surrender". Although, why you would need to negotiate terms for unconditional surrender is beyond me.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Will @andyburnham.bsky.social remove the death grip of Boris Johnson's United Kingdom Internal Market Bill? This was a dishonest attempt to emasculate the Scottish Parliament?
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Agree. I support his approach to decentralizing but feel, and have felt from the start, that he doesn't understand devolution to the other nations of the uk.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
And this is why disabled and older people in England are currently forced to sit in their own urine because they can’t get to the toilet.
Tories and Reform UK tell Burnham they will fight any plan to reform adult social care involving tax rises
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well they shouldn't have voted for him. More to blame are the ones who didn't vote at all. That's unforgivable.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
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Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future
Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Has anyone asked the Venezuelans?
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Why do they ignore the USA and UK deposing the democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953? This is when it really started.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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🎗Dran-Drauf-Drüber-Fella🎗 @dran-drauf-drueber.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the funniest thing i've seen all day..
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Lisa Nandy announces she is leaving X. “A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate. It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it”
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I hope Andy Burnham has no truck with these policies.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Not placating Blue Labour. They are Tory 5th columnists IMHO.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I take it she knows policing and emergency services in Scotland are nothing to do with her. Some Labour politicians seem to struggle with devolution.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Clearly baloney
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Why is Labour taking advice from rampant capitalists? I thought they were socialists.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I thought he was "Calling the shots". Do you think Netanyahou didn't get the email.
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Alan Halley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ecomet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Still collects his MEP pension from EU
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Les Trois Chenes #FBPE #WASPI @lestroischenes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"Mariana Mazzucato has gone viral after saying what Farage and Boris Johnson did over Brexit was “a crime”."
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