Sign in

GudbuyTJayne

@gudbuytjane.bsky.social
54 followers 129 following 62 posts

Optimist, pragmatist, realist, humanist.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage. So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.
2821345369
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: The new Representation of the People Bill is here. The Bill aims to "restore trust in our democracy" - but it doesn't even touch the voting system that leaves millions unrepresented. 60% of Brits want to scrap First Past the Post. Tell Starmer to include electoral reform in the Bill ⬇️
actionnetwork.org
The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
28557
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Left: Lisa Nandy, "At a time when the lines are being dangerously blurred between fact and opinion, the BBC stands apart" Right: That time Lisa Nandy lied repeatedly in parliament about police advice on Maccabi, conflating public safety with antisemitism
1918354
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Labour's Clive Lewis's scathing criticism of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules
1612636
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 04/10/2025
This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵
photo of a man, Trevor fisher, in his hospice bed this week, filmed by channel 4 news
8192111
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The people telling me on Twitter that in the UK I'd get arrested for tweets and the people thinking Hegseth is righteous for this is a circle.
Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members. They're getting sacked for not being cute enough about dead Charlie.
716917
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎉 Yes Newcastle!!!! 🙌🏼 And we keep on winning new seats! 💚 Sarah is going to be a brilliant councillor and I'm really happy to see this. 🚀 it's an amazing time to get involved: Join.greenparty.org.uk
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.
931061
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our broken #FoodSystem - the most vulnerable suffering the most, for a lifetime #PublicHealth www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
thetimes.com
Ultra-processed baby foods ‘set children up for life of obesity’
A study finds that parents are being misled by the food industry into thinking processed baby food is healthy for their infants
47138
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske.
792156305087
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
All this really tells us is that Labour loses elections when unemployment goes up. Conservatives were in power for 27 of the 30 years with the highest unemployment rates since Labour was founded. On its own, that doesn't tell us much either. But Badenoch's statistic gives a very misleading picture
44812
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Reservoir Dogs was 1992, not 1994. Pulp Fiction was 2 years later, not 11 years later. Jesus Christ, @theguardian.com, whatever wretched AI rubbish you’re using in place of proper journalists, it ain’t working. Switch it off.
91942529
GudbuyTJayne @gudbuytjane.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
010
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Arrested today for placing stickers on an ATM, outside Barclays Bank in Belfast, and speaking about the children being starved in Gaza? "I'm a 72 year old Jewish grandmother." Now, in police custody. This is Belfast....now watch how this goes......
114331
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Victory for wild camping at the Supreme Court! The verdict is a relief– but Dartmoor remains the *only* place in England & Wales where the public has a right to wild camp Labour must now pass a new right to roam act to defend & extend the public’s access rights www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping
13619151
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A May evening at Luskentyre
867550
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Chris Arundel @chrisarundel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In one week Keir Starmer has heaped abuse upon essential foreign workers, disgusted lifelong Labour supporters, angered academics, been condemned by religious leaders, been ridiculed in the press, sent packing by the PM of Albania, and propelled armies of voters to Nigel Farage. Please let this end!
37017
GudbuyTJayne @gudbuytjane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW. ✍️ Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
actionnetwork.org
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...
010
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"It's just the weather" Hottest May Day on record #GlobalBoiling
bbc.co.uk
UK weather live: Record broken for warmest start to May, Met Office confirms
Most of England and Wales are sweating it out, but it's expected to get cooler across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
152
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump's Ukraine plan hands territory to Russia, minerals to the US. Ukraine gets a 'ceasefire', not long-term territorial integrity. Putin wants greater Russia and will not recognise Ukraine's right to exists as a separate nation. Which former USSR country next? Why is Trump so one-sided?
cnn.com
Analysis: Trump’s own strange and tepid wording illustrates his one-sided Ukraine peace plan | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s intense pressure on Ukraine and deference to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is extinguishing any lingering notion that the United States is an evenhanded peace broker.
2312852
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I cannot fathom why there isn't sufficient media coverage of Starmer's Faustian pacts with Synthesia, Blackrock, Blackstone, and Palantir. These companies are criminally corrupt destroyers and infiltrators of UK democracy.> 1/4
20399224
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
UN Humanitarian @unocha.org · 17/04/2025
As atrocities and the aid blockade continue in #Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are being repeatedly displaced. Shelters are overcrowded. People are left with nothing. "A message to the whole world," pleads one Palestinian woman: "Open the crossings for us." Watch. 🔽
27841
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)
Twitter post asking: Should we be told where we can walk out
dogs?
Yes or No
Above a screenshot of a news headline: 'This is an Islamic area now. Don't walk your dogs here': Police probe sign in east London park
431207582
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 26/03/2025
Labour have chosen to make poor people poorer rather than - Rejoin the European Union - Stray from arbitrary fiscal rules - Tax the inconceivably wealthy - Borrow to invest in broken public services* *National debt is at 95.5% of GDP. In 1947 when the NHS was established, it was 238%.
27635214
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Mark James @rabbitman22.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Female Red Breasted Merganser out on the estuary at Hayle #🪶 #cornwallbirding #ukbirding #birdphotography #ukwildlife #🦅
1252
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today’s dose of natural beauty comes in the form of February light at Wastwater. An unforgettable sunset! #LakeDistrict
422220
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Wow, wow, wow. What a sunset just now on the Isle of Harris. Lenticular clouds glowing pink over the Harris hills!
1537304433
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Subscribe by midnight tonight for our first mail out Subscribe.bylinetimes.com
27930
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts. UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher. Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%. Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average
24488287
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
18953254
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is great. hacker News is an under appreciated source of news. Do more of these PLEASE !
512131291
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
27807991318771
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The rich bribe politicians, disguised as donations, to get their way, limit public choices. 50 families hold more wealth than half of the UK population. Top fifth have 63% of wealth. Bottom 50%, 5%. Make giving/receiving political donations a criminal offence. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
leftfootforward.org
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
32999495
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Siobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
131,000 social care vacancies in England alone Let's think why: 🔴 Very poor wages 🔴Lack of career opportunities 🔴 Split shifts with home care companies meaning many work 7am till 10pm 🔴 No travel time or petrol paid by many firms Why would people choose those employment conditions?!
29426157
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Trickle update…
24819249
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
10326455330800
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#Privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us, particularly the most vulnerable, pay
16433
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Well this happened even sooner than I thought… bsky.app/profile/writ...
311533
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The Russian army captain involved in a missile strike on a funeral in Hroza, Kupiansk, which killed 59 civilians including an eight-year-old, has been critically injured in a “mysterious explosion”, Ukrainian intelligence reports. Captain Konstantin Nagayko was caught in a blast in Shuya city.
1313619
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.
341195357
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Our broken #FoodSystem is a serious #PublicHealth issue www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show
Admissions for vitamin or iron deficiencies up by more than 10% year on year and as much as tenfold on 1998-99
1012364
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 30/12/2024
Be aware that if you install ITVX on your mobile, it also secretly goes ahead and installs a browser extension. (The fact that it is deactivated by default is immaterial. It's the principle that matters. And who's to say a future update to ITVX won't activate it?) support.itv.com/en_us/what-i...
118937
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
UK'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.uk
UK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality Trust
New 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 GudbuyTJayne
Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Amnesty International report finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza They conclude that Israel has ‘unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity’ A full arms embargo must be implemented to stop UK complicity
02511
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
💥 Cross-party MPs call for a 'National Commission for Electoral Reform' 📰 Report by the new All-Party Parliamentary Group for @appgfairelections.bsky.social out now! 📈 New group has over 100 members and is backed by senior Labour and Conservative figures 🧵 1/7
theguardian.com
Dozens of new Labour MPs join group pushing for electoral reform
Exclusive: All-party parliamentary group on fair elections argues proportional voting system would help restore trust
7283149
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What happens when government that wins 33% support from people who voted gets 100% power? Great dissastisfaction. #Democracy - parliament that reflects that views of people; it would be a good idea @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Who are the 2 million demanding a general election? Crunching viral petition numbers
Starmer insists he’s ‘not surprised’ by election petition with two million signatures as he rules out another vote
74017
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Verity Milligan @veritymilligan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Backlit rain over Applecross in Torridon. Windy, righteous, powerful, awe-inspiring. Scotland never disappoints. #Scotland
The wind was howling over the bleak emptiness of Bealach Na Ba in Torridon, NW Scotland. At the summit, on the plateau, low cloud consumed the view. Snatches of landscape appeared here and there, small lochans reflecting the sky, bright against the dark.

Driving out of the gloom on the way down, looking over Applecross, a rain shower darkened the horizon, swallowing the mountains. Yet, light found a way, illuminating the rain from behind, silhouetting the shapes of Torridon’s mountain ranges and placing the far shoreline in stark contrast the foreground. 

Battling the wind, and trying not to lose the car door, I braced against the elements, using my trusty telephoto to capture the glorious light before it disappeared. In this place the weather changes quickly. It blows right through you and takes with it a small segment of your soul, replacing it with salt, sea and a sense of vastness, a landscape carved by the elements. A small moment in endless time.
2058257
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A map view, as it asks for a postcode
1279
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Absolutely nothing to do with Viscount Rothermere owning vast tracts of land. Nope, nothing to see here, as @guyshrubsole.bsky.social will happily confirm, I am sure. whoownsengland.org/2020/01/04/t...
071
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"1% of the population own half the land in England...the media have portrayed a very distorted view of the countryside, how land is used & who owns it" Great to speak to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the #ClarksonTax protests - watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...
youtube.com
'Small farmers deserve support but not tax-dodging landowners' | LBC analysis
YouTube video by LBC
521234447
Reposted by GudbuyTJayne
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m now hitting @bsky.app each morning before all others and spending a lot more time here. We’ve had other social media platforms come along over the past couple of years but nothing I’ve seen is changing habits as quickly as this one. In just 7 days it’s become my go to first platform for news
3188237642