Reposted by Jo WardRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country. 1645172766717
Reposted by Jo WardMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/09/2025get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions 471608340
Reposted by Jo WardSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The headline here should say: "Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded". (The increase is mentioned way down the article.) www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...thetimes.comMore than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on feesDepartment for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map 1091709710
Reposted by Jo WardDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025The UK's Reform party, which is funded by the fossil fuel industry and denies basic climate science, is informing energy firms that it will terminate renewable energy contracts. 36437
Reposted by Jo WardBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025What's the difference between, Feudalism, where Lords own everything and pay you so little you stay permanently poor. And Capitalism where Billionaires own everything and pay you so little you stay permanently poor? 1715650
Reposted by Jo WardKevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/06/2025On the Today programme, Kemi Badenoch tells Emma Barnett: “You are asking questions that are changing the very focus of what it is I’m talking about.” Yes, that’s how interviews work. 551161202
Reposted by Jo WardJack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages. 75139135055
Reposted by Jo WardBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Voting for Nigel Farage because you want things to get better for the Working Class is like voting for Jimmy Savile because you want to help kids. 17631182
Reposted by Jo WardAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free". Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors 1371316875
Reposted by Jo WardCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025All reports on this need to say that ‘small modular bucket reactors’ are *exactly* what Tony Blair’s patron, Ellison, is invested in!! Journalists can’t just transcribe this guff as if it’s on any way independent & credible. It is not. 16570157
Reposted by Jo WardAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space: “There are 450 million Europeans. We should not be crying out for 340 million Americans to defend us against 140 million Russians, who are not even able to defeat 38 million Ukrainians. 403120324048
Reposted by Jo WardPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/03/2025UK Govt to cut benefit spending by more than £5bn a year by 2029/30. Poor/Disabled hit. Silence on corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich. Aligning tax on dividends and capital gains with wages, and charging national insurance on the same can create £20bn surplus. Why hurt the poor?bbc.co.ukLiz Kendall promises to fix 'broken' benefits systemMeasures including restricting eligibility for disability payments are expected to save £50bn by 2030. 34306140
Reposted by Jo WardBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The upcoming budget appears to have cuts to Public Spending and to Benefits. But there is loads of money available from getting rid of Brexit or taxing the rich instead. RT if you want to tax the rich, and Like if you want to get rid of Brexit. 19774456
Reposted by Jo WardRobert Newton @roberttnewton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025It seems so obvious now........................ Xi Jinping wants to acquire Taiwan Putin wants to acquire Ukraine and Moldova, Poland, Lithuania etc. Trump wants to acquire Canada, Greenland, Panama etc. What wouldn't they align and cooperate ?? It's the new axis 032
Reposted by Jo WardTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Again, nice explanation of how Kemi's mind works: 1) Event occurs; 2) Event conflicts with her existing views; 3) Event cannot have occurred; 4) Assert that you've looked into it and it didn't happen. 919948
Reposted by Jo WardRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice. 3229208476693
Reposted by Jo WardJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/02/2025If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious. 2691618369
Reposted by Jo WardAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/02/2025In 2019 Nigel Farage's Brexit Party voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda, calling claims of Russian interference "scare stories" One of his MEPs was Nathan Gill, who has just been accused in court of taking bribes in exchange for defending Russia in the European Parliament 5619971006
Reposted by Jo WardJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 22/02/2025This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it. 40394044628
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Free market capitalisation in action. Same as free speech - they object when it is not in their favour 1278
Reposted by Jo WardPeter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I was privileged to meet former MEP Michael Hindley yesterday, someone who has done the hard work of actually working inside the EU over many years (rather than grifting). In this short video, Michael blows away a few myths. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQY... @hindleylancs.bsky.social #RejoinEUyoutube.comMichael Hindley, former MEP speaks on Rejoining the EUYouTube video by Peter Cook 36229
Reposted by Jo WardBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/02/2025They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, and paid holiday and sick leave. It would make them tens of billions a year. But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason. 12596264
Reposted by Jo WardHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Repost if BlueSky is now your main social media 🙏 361008700
Reposted by Jo WardBrendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I think this is a one term government, that might limp into a coalition with the LDs, if it's lucky. No big vision, poor policy making, zero comms ability. At a time when Reform UK is in the ascendency, it is extra worrying that what could have been 1997 looks a lot more like 1974. Urgh. 4425150
Reposted by Jo WardEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Despite what they tell you, no matter how hard they try, the film clip doesn’t lie… 45743370
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Despite all the shit going on at the moment - This is the one that worries me most at the moment. He’s triggering all my alarm bells (not just about his tan 😂) 110
Reposted by Jo WardPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/12/2024UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...equalitytrust.org.ukUK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality TrustNew data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest. 941771920
Reposted by Jo WardHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great. 44775443550
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 21/12/20245 authors I’ve read 5+ books by Terry Pratchett Jim Butcher John Connolly James Herbert Christopher Fowler 140
Reposted by Jo WardBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25 22495209
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I’m pleased they were prosecuted but the fine does not seem adequate & is definitely not enough to disincentivise other landlords from doing the same 110
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I wonder what could possibly be different about Dan that means he didn’t experience unwanted sexual innuendo from Gregg Wallace. Nice to see the boys sticking together as usual 🙄 130
Reposted by Jo WardPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely 15220531838
Jo Ward @goonerjo2201.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I’m overthinking my first post here as I feel it should be either insightful, pithy or funny - f*ck that, here’s a picture of my Daphne with her favourite toy 170