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@gigsandgrounds.bsky.social
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I love gigs and groundhopping. Quite partial to whiskey and real ale too. Happily woke. Several not very careful owners and seen better days 😀 I may post without my reading glasses, so expect typos...

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 3h
Grant - I'm a fan but huge number of wasted passes today Kanu - looks short of what we need but doubt we've played to his strengths yet Samuels-Smith - I think he's the best crosser we have and improved a lot 2nd half Finneran and Tsaroulla - look full of confidence and form, should have started
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 11h
We are currently generating 100% of our electricity demand from net-zero sources, with a further 10% being exported (plus 10% more from legacy gas). At a cost of just £8.27/MWh. Yet the Tories and Refuk want to take us backwards to more fossil fuel pollution and higher prices... grid.iamkate.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Joe Palmer might as well just have my PIN 😀
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You've only got to look at their trousers...
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When 98% of people never have to pay a certain tax, it shouldn't even be a discussion.
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These clinate sceptics constantly bang on about 1976 without understanding how massively different that was to where we are now.
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've watched their u21 a couple of times this season and he's an impressive player, thats for sure.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Farage is using people whipping up hate to protect himself and his Brexit ..... that's all it's about." via We Demand UK
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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TuxedoAlbedo @jerryork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump wanting an American city destroyed. WTF??
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know it isn't Notts but it is Nottingham, McDonnell in the picture is from across the river.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suspended sentence for man found to have a collection of more than 114,000 indecent images of children. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this. They'll be SO angry... Just you wait... Any second now... ...
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My 9 albums #my9albums my9albums.org/s/f2193672bbd4
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reform’s world leading vetting excels again A Reform councillor stepped away from his cabinet role, over concerns re his alleged arrest Police carried out warrants at properties in Grimsby and Waltham, seizing suspected unlicensed prescription drugs and class A drugs. #ReformCrimsInc
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Reform UK cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council says Reform UK's James Sawkins remains a councillor.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😀
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In these challenging times someone might need these: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: SHOUT to 85258 Please share x
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cheers
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember that Farage deifies Thatcher and wants even more privatisation designed to make the super-rich wealthier and the rest of us poorer or destitute 'Absolutely everything rotten in the UK can be traced back to Thatcher' via St Helens Resistance
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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 02/10/2026
Have you visited Bo'ness? I never thought it would have so much to offer: a railway museum, a motor museum full of movie props from James Bond, Doctor Who, and Star Wars, you name it! Plus Kinneil House, witch trials, the Antonine Wall. Enjoy! :-) Repost pls youtu.be/T9sR1r7w9x4 #Scotland #history
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Why Is NO ONE Talking About Bo’ness?!
YouTube video by JourneyDude in Scotland
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A legal requirement concerning grandparents and German (as opposed to Jewish) blood was established under the Nuremberg Laws which Adolf Hitler introduced and enforced. ‘I’m not English. My parents weren’t born here. My grandparents weren’t born here’ Suella Braverman.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Personally I'm against ending the pension triple lock (preferring to #TaxTheRich to save money) but Farage's attack on Labour is utter hypocrisy ...
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder if sometimes Mason has the same effect as the nonce hat wearers on RNLI. He spouts shite and people join the party?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Judging by his councilors, most will have gone by that time anyway.
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah, I tend not to listen. Only because you generally don't find anything out. I was wrong this time 🤣
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got my A levels in 1986 and had a job lined up. At the time, a huge number of graduates were unemployed so I took the job. That also means I remenebr the power cuts of the 70s. Ah, the halcyon days they all want back. They didn't fight in 2 world wars for this!
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder if there'll be a friendly at the weekend, behind closed doors no doubt
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reform UK’s Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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Reform UK's Welsh leader works for firm that helps foreign workers migrate to the UK
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s leader in Wales works part time for an organisation that helps foreign migrants obtain visas to work in the UK, we can reveal. Helen Jenner recently took over from Dan…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After the Brexit referendum in 2016, Nigel Farage predicted that the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Italy. 2016 to 2025: each country has become more pro EU 🇳🇱 Netherlands - from 72% to 81% 🇩🇰 Denmark - from 62% to 85% 🇸🇪 Sweden - from 64% to 85% 🇦🇹 Austria - 37% to 51% 🇮🇹 Italy - 33% to 52%
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Walter Alvarez @walter2864.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bibi showing Trump how to get around pesky elections..
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rui Pinto will no longer be a protected witness under Portuguese authorities. This is getting dark, quickly
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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If people understood it, and the benefits of the money being put into care, it would be overwhelming. Instead, the bots and rags will fill the space with scare stories.
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NUFC #ManCity
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