Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 1hTrump puts himself at the centre of what looks like a gay bathhouse. 251 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 3hGreat to hear an unambiguous pro-European argument being put making the case for UK membership of the EU. And listing the damage to & diminishing of the UK by Brexit. 051 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 4hMusk and Trump are enemies of democracy & appeasers & enablers of Putin. 001 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 6hTrump's Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is gone after FIVE DAYS. Lasting less than half the time of Anthony Scaramucci: ELEVEN DAYS. A new measurement of political incompetence: a Zacharia making a Truss (49 days) seem like a lifetime. 000 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 6hThe SNP board at annual conference on "what would you like to see in an independent Scotland" has lots of positivity & worthwhile ideas. But this could have come from 2014 & it underlines the lack of thinking, work & progress by the SNP on independence since the 2014 indyref. 100 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12hExactly. The most fundamental local govt reform ever planned post-1945 reduced to a fringe meeting. Proposals that came from nowhere; not mentioned in the SNP conference; and have zero buy-in from anyone. All evident of a ministerial class out of touch, out of ideas, going through the motions. 061 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12hHow Scotland is governed is just as important as the abstract of independence; indeed the two should be in relationship: the former making the latter real. Here is an informed takedown of how truly awful the SNP's local govt power grab plans are. sceptical.scot/2026/10/scot...sceptical.scotScottish council reorganisation? ‘Get it right next time’Scottish Government ‘reform’ plans won’t work, says Keith Yates, so try again, get it right next time. 040 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12hStrange that the SNP Annual Conference over three days has not found any time to debate the SNP's own proposals for far-reaching local government reform. These would dramatically centralise power & diminish any last vestige of local democracy. Guess the SNP doesn't want attention drawn to them. 4115 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14hAnother calm, rational take-down from Sunder Katwala of the Reform-Restore descent into a narrow, exclusive, ethnic definition of Englishness. Very good thread. 031 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15hThe Scottish Govt's local government plans propose the effective abolition of Dumfries & Galloway. The creation of a huge South of Scotland as one of 6-10 strategic authorities. None of this is worthy of debate at SNP conference or being nationally debated. Covered by this week's Galloway News. 032 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The Richard Tice defence: "It's called the real world." 021 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The new Farage & Reform line: ITV are the problem for daring to expose the vile racists & sexists in a party whose leading public figures punt racism & sexism everyday. How dare ITV connect the two. 3149 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Kemi Badenoch's Tories pose as the defenders of free speech & a free media. But it all just posture & rhetoric. The reality judged by actions is that the Tories do not believe in free speech & a free media. 035 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Reform racist snowflakes. Nigel Farage suggests race row Reform candidates may have been "provoked." Truly pathetic. It seems being Nigel Farage means never saying sorry or taking responsibility for your role in debasing public life. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...huffingtonpost.co.ukNigel Farage Suggests Race Row Reform Candidates May Have Been 'Provoked'The party’s leader has been accused of “making excuses” for their behaviour. 021 0
Reposted by Gerry HassanAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPxwapo.stSecret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroomThe records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity. 14723121081 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been jailed for FIFTEEN YEARS for 18 counts of sex abuse. Donaldson was leader of the hardline unionist DUP for three years & was a key player in the endless Brexit negotiations. A spectacular downfall for someone who dared to lecture others on morals. 1105 0
Reposted by Gerry HassanJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026🔴 Reform UK’s Richard Tice’s Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits Quidnet REIT, which Nigel Farage’s Deputy controls, made a pre-tax loss in 2025, but still paid shareholders more than three times its adjusted earnings bylinetimes.com/2026/10/15/r...bylinetimes.comReform UK's Richard Tice’s Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling ProfitsQuidnet REIT, which Nigel Farage's Deputy controls, made a pre-tax loss in 2025, but still paid shareholders more than three times its adjusted earnings 58459 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The socialists are rising in America. @newsweek.com raising the age old spectre of the Red Scare. Just because some Democrats are questioning the rigged political and economic system. 032 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A Reform councillor said he wants King Charles beheaded because he is a secret Muslim. Just your run of the mill extreme right-wing racist conspiracy theory garbage. 162 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Reform apologist Tom Montgomerie is talking crap saying the OTT racist, sexist comments of Reform councillors is just a few bad apples. What he is missing is the increasingly racist language of Zia Yusuf & Suella Braverman. Reform legitimates racism. #peston 0134 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Reform engulfed in yet another scandal as ITV film multiple Reform councillors & candidates making racist, sexist & violent remarks. No accident that Farage has failed in THREE political parties to build a proper party with professional vetting processes. www.itv.com/news/2026-10... 185 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The myth of the Thatcherite economic miracle is central to today's right: Tories & Reform. It is a mirage. Growth across the 80s (2.6%pa) was lower than the 70s (2.7%). What fuelled 80s prosperity was North Sea oil, privatisation, council house sales & an explosion of household debt. 0103 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This is an inappropriate way for the #BBC to report the trail of Russell Brand as an alleged sexual predator. Under the moniker: Fame under Fire. All making it about Brand's celebrity status. Rather than his actions. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... 2164 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Greens and parts of the left have some serious thinking to do about Israel & Zionism & how they talk about Jewish people. “The Greens have lost their party. And they aren’t going to get it back. This is who they are now" says Danny Finkelstein. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...thetimes.comLeft’s obsession with Zionism has historyUnforgivable Green conference vote dates from the inability of Marxists to tolerate Israel as a home for Soviet Jews 010 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026After many false alarms the first real appearance in two years of the Keminaissance. Like its companion the Burnham Bounce it is small & fragile & will not witness the return to two party politics. But it is bad news for third placed Farage & Reform. HT @moreincommonuk.bsky.social 031 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026From: Kenny Farquharson www.thetimes.com/article/8486...thetimes.comPR voting could put SNP in mix at Westminster but party has reservationsThe Nationalists are a one-trick pony focused solely on independence and ill-prepared to join a centre-left governing alliance in the United Kingdom 200 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026What does the SNP do to pass the time as it "waits for independence""? One thing it does not do on the evidence post-2014 is think seriously abt independence. Abt why Yes lost in 2014, abt the hard choices, how the world has changed since 2014, & how to speak to the Scotland not convinced. 394 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A rising number of voters think the Greens have a significant problem with antisemitism (34%): the same percentage who think Reform have a significant problem (34%). 010 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Reform MP Suella Braverman made a solemn affirmation holding the Buddhist Dhammapada text - doing so most recently when elected as a Conservative MP in 2024. There was then no controversy or questioning of this. 032 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Richard Tice does come across as if he is desperately trying to deflect from yet another huge Reform scandal. No accident that Farage has never ever successful run a political party for any length of time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=23je...youtube.comRichard Tice: "Can I Fart Without Someone Recording Me?" | Reform UK Hits Back At ITVYouTube video by TalkTV 101 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A section of the British right-wing never bought into democracy. Now it is more explicit. Calvin Robinson wants to disenfranchise millions of men & women. Returning to a narrow & elite franchise based on religion & household last seen pre-1832 Reform Act. Reversing 200 years of greater democracy. 270 0
Reposted by Gerry HassanRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13/10/2026U.S. diesel futures surged 5% Tuesday, hitting their highest level in weeks despite Trump’s deal to import diesel from Russia—NBC News 26358114 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The US economy and the huge debt mountain built by out of control spending by the two Trump administrations is going to come home & shake the US economy. Below: IMF projections for the G7 show the scale of the US deficit in 2031 & the UK with the lowest deficit. 011 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026No major public support for Suella Braverman's ethno-nationalist definition of Englishness. 73% say that non-white England players are English; 11% say they are not. Even 62% of 2024 Reform voters say that non-white England players are English; 19% say they are not. HT @moreincommonuk.bsky.social 020 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is a superb, succinct & convincing demolition of the politics of Farage & Reform by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social. Reform are a party without policies on the economy, public services or the structural challenges facing the UK. 0101 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is like a spoof of a bad 1970s sci-fi film. The self-anointed master race are so convinced of their infallibility that they destroy themselves by believing their own hype & embracing life-threatening behaviour. The Boys from Palantir. 061 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"We are killing the country with kindness" say Camilla Tominey of the Telegraph abt this report. Which is some kind of sick joke about the UK. Maybe the Centre for Social Justice need to rethink their modus operandi. 100 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Really pathetic that in 2026 there are lots of folk who think it appropriate to say "yes I am a racist." And who do so with fury, indignation & intolerance for any view other than their own. Sad & damning not just of social media but also UK politics. 382 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026And my second nine taking it to a top 18. #my9albums my9albums.com 040 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Farage's Reform are nothing but a Trump tribute act now. Out of desperation. Not strength. Today Farage has used the same words as Trump in 2016 to dismiss Russian state interference calling it a "Russia hoax." While Zia Yusuf wants a UK ICE: state sponsored thuggery & brutalism. 1322474 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The British racist right are now even more illiberal, authoritarian and openly racist than Enoch Powell was in his infamous 'rivers of blood' speech of 1968. Some descent by Restore Britain & Farage's Reform. 061 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Farage is using the exact language Trump used in 2016: saying that any allegations of Russian state interference which are well-documented are part of "the Russia hoax". Farage & Reform: now dismissing the threats against UK democracy posed by Putin. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comBurnham a ‘liar’ over Russian interference in Brexit campaign, says Farage – UK politics liveReform UK leader claims there was no interference, saying ‘the Russia hoax has run all the way through this’ 031 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Boris Johnson shows everyday that he was never cut out for politics, statesmanship & leadership despite his high regard for his own qualities. Below headline: Johnson three months ago. 073 0
Reposted by Gerry HassanTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The Tories’ line-to-take on this - namely that it’s plagiarising policy they announced last year - is nuts: even if it were true, it’s utterly at odds with Badenoch’s attempt at Conference to convince voters that there’s a fundamental difference between the Conservatives and Reform. #MakeYourMindUp!bbc.co.ukReform would suspend asylum system for parliamentary term if in governmentAll asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation. 4529 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Where now for the self-proclaimed "greatest football league in the world"? Now party to the greatest sports scandal in UK history. And one of the biggest in the world of sports history. All possible while the Premier League, FA & UK legislators were asleep at the wheel. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukManchester City: A statement win but does it carry weight in a season of limbo?Manchester City record what they will view as a statement win at Liverpool - but is it a statement that carries any weight during a Premier League season in limbo, asks Phil McNulty? 020 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Liverpool 0 Manchester City 3 as Man City confirm they are shameless, without any decency & humility & really do not care abt being industrial scale cheats. This is a crisis of the Premier League and English public life much wider than one club or football. 0162 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How are the public, politics and media aided by former elected politicians & legislators for life sitting in the House of Lords pretending that they are journalists? Even more so when they continue to take the party whip. 0103 0
Reposted by Gerry HassanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction. 30391864020 0
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026John Swinney is a transitional leader after the Sturgeon era. He lacks the political will to be honest abt independence & absence of serious work post-2014. He is also dishonest on Burnham & pensions saying "we’re now going to lose our pension." This is not leadership. #bbclaurak 030 0