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Jim Johnson

@jamesmcneile.bsky.social
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Sheffield, UK but born in Speke. Evertonian, STH 1968/69! The world is a dark place trying to brighten it up with a wide variety of tastes, art, music and creative stuff.

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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... The PL allowed #Chelsea to grow into a mega club despite the money source being corrupt so it already had form when it allowed the #MCFC purchase.
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Ever feel you’ve been cheated? Consequences could be profound after Manchester City guilty verdict | Jonathan Wilson
The Premier League could be hit hard by the aftermath of this case, while Manchester City fans may know they took 30 years to recover from a guilty verdict of illegal payments in 1906
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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snicho.bsky.social @snicho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Democracy”! “Sovrintea”! “Taking Back Control”! UK politics…ripe for manipulation & to be bought by foreign agitators. Beggars belief.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴 NEW Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests the world is merely emerging from a "mini ice age"
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/... Apathy lets these people in 23.9% turnout this is a flag waving constituency & they turfed the Labour candidate out
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Reform UK victory at NE Derbyshire council by-election tips the scales of power
Derbyshire Reform UK councillors have been celebrating after their successful candidate in North East Derbyshire District Council’s by-election for the vacant Eckington South and Renishaw seat has hel...
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#EFC ##Everton the media campaign to oust Pickford never stops…the Guardian seems to delight in undermining him at every opportunity!
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Other over performances - Greens by 7 and Lib Dems by 6 on high streets with places that sell matcha. Reform and Labour where there is a Kwik Fit and high streets with Wetherspoons lean right, with Lush lean left. Greggs, McDonalds and Primark pretty much bang on average.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK Didn’t Thatcher call people like Jim ‘moaning minnies’ ? Here’s a man with more wealth than anyone could ever spend yet he looks miserable and blames everyone else for his misery!
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Worcester College honorary fellow has become the largest donor to any UK political party after giving £36m to Reform UK. Ben Delo, who studied at the college, was appointed to the position in 2018 following a donation of £5m to endow two teaching fellowships, in maths and computer science.
Ben Delo (Anne Schwarz Photography at Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to kick the controversial US tech giant Palantir out of our NHS and police! 🚨 Their £330m contract is a total bust: the tech is rubbish, staff are boycotting it, yet they still have access to our private health data. Tell him to end the contracts here:
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2... The son of the heir to the throne has followed his father & uncle to Eton College an opportunity missed to try & change the class elitism.
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Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit
Bridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agenda
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sir Ed Davey just brought up this alarming scoop at PMQs
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#ElNino #MontyDon #Endofworld
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... A fascist trick is to convince people of some golden past it’s hard to believe that people could be nostalgic about the old East Germany but like Farage these people spin lies
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Far-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority
Alternative für Deutschland surges to victory in Saxony-Anhalt as Friedrich Merz’s CDU slumps to disastrous result
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"There's actually a wonderfully simple way to save Birmingham taxpayers the entire £2.6 million: Don't attach 20,000 bloody flags to council lamp posts without permission in the first place" via Truth Against Hate and bill Raise The Colours for their removal!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=EXNl... #EFC Another CF that we didn’t buy! Troy Parrot
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HIGHLIGHTS | Real Betis 1-0 Real Madrid | Troy Parrott the hero as Betis stun José Mourinho's men
YouTube video by Premier Sports
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... #EFC
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Moyes reveals he has never spoken to Everton owner but is defiant after transfer blows
David Moyes has not spoken to the Everton owner and chairm, Dan Friedkin, in the 20 months since he returned to the club as manager
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
4 September 1933 | A German Jewish girl, Margot Steinberg, was born in Berlin. In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Black and white portrait of a young girl, wearing a patterned sweater.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Should Britain use state troopers to tackle ongoing disorder in Middlesbrough? - LBC Could someone explain to me where in the UK do we have ‘state troopers’ ?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Along with the Reform Party itself, the pollster JL Partners, which did not disclose, as it should have done, that the Reform Party commissioned its polling, has questions to answer (The pollster has close links to the Conservative party and its bigwigs frequently frame issues in RW partisan terms)
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Another Brexit disaster but #Sweden should be ashamed of this.
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Wife of British man at risk of deportation from Sweden calls on Burnham to intervene
Case is latest in string of post-Brexit deportations from country, which has been criticised for high refusal rate for British people to remain
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform up against 'complainants' society', Farage tells BBC #BBC 6pm news & Farage gets prime time you just give up….
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Small-boat arrivals fall to six-year low - The Telegraph Not sure how the Telegraph reports in a sensible way.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
31 August 1938 | A French Jewish girl, Betty Erdelyi, was born in Rouen. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 February 1943 in a transport of 998 Jews deported from #Drancy. She was among 802 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with curly hair, sitting on a chair in a garden.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 27/08/2026
Andy Burnham’s influence with the EU will be stronger if his team reaches an early decision on whether the next Labour Party manifesto will commit the UK to joining the customs union, the single market or the European Union itself.
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What the Burnham government should do in its foreign policy
The new government must avoid its predecessors’ habit of trying to do everything. Priorities should include advancing the UK–EU reset talks, defending the Euro-Atlantic area, and working with the EU t...
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What’s going on with @bsky.app ? My timeline is suddenly full of people who love Starmer? Weirdly in my view at the same time spewing hate on Burnham…. Bots everywhere!
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our democracy. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...
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Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system
Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo...
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202... ‘Non-EU citizens’ another Brexit bonus where are Farage, Johnson & co or maybe get Kate Hoey or Dan Hannan to explain….
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‘Pretty shambolic’: new EU border checks cause stress for UK travellers
Britons report that EES digital entry and exit system has led to frustration, visa mix-ups and long queues
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Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes it’s just a council by-election so we can’t read too much into it BUT after an historic loss in May LAB gain from REF. Penistone East by-election result: ➡️ Ref: 795 🔵 Con: 387 🟢 Grn: 59 ⚪️ Ind: 87 🌹 Lab: 1,728 ⚪️ Ind: 2 🔶️ LD: 70 ⚫️ Res: 218
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nigel Farage who was literally given a £5 million gift by a crypto billionaire wants to end "something for nothing" Britain
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... This highlights how dictators can’t stand alternative views …..
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Fifa chief sacked after criticism of Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan
The Fifa chief operating officer, Kevin Lamour, has been sacked after openly criticising Gianni Infantino’s ill-fated plan to sell parts of the World Cup to private investors
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Could someone in the US explain why a president who cites a communist threat all the time calls the president of the most despotic communist state in the world where people endure famine some kind of pal?!
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Trump orders cuts to South Korea joint drills despite warnings about Kim regime
President says he ‘gets along great’ with dictator but US officials say Ukraine war is boosting North’s capabilities
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@alexefctoffee.bsky.social I’ve just muted some idiot called Mister Agreeable and discovered you blocked him months ago & that he picks fights with other Blues which was unacceptable and plain weird to me!
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When people vote for political parties that want to undo rights & protections often won through blood & sacrifice….
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... This is a terrible story reflecting the never ending damage done by Brexit. Another Farage effect that the UK wider media ignores.
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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case
Horace Mason, 74, who has lived in Sweden for 25 years, faces being deported after court ruling
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Indonesia's government has labeled LGBT+ people a "national threat," fueling violence, raids, and vigilante attacks. No one should be treated as an enemy simply for being who they are. Sign to demand that this dangerous decree be repealed. a.allout.org/s/WNE9l/
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Indonesia: Protect LGBT+ People
Indonesia's government has labeled LGBT+ people a "national threat," fueling violence, raids, and vigilante attacks. No one should be treated as an enemy simply for being who they are. Sign to demand that this dangerous decree be repealed.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It doesn’t take long for links to develop from Farage to Cottrell to Abramovitch ….to Chelsea ? ….. #EFC where might this end? #EPL
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The usual suspects at the top except how are Tottenham affording this??? Plus our #EFC fan base are screaming like banshees at our lack of activity (RB) yet we’re near the top of this list!
A table showing how much Premier League teams have spent on transfer fees so far this summer
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Another great debunk from the brilliant @monkemma.bsky.social. I don't know how she has the energy/ patience but it is a huge public service: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/heatwaves-...
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Heatwaves Caused by Fall in Pollution? Not really...
What a study on European warming actually found and how it got twisted into a climate-denial talking point.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Gee this is vile anyone who remembers the horror of Dunblane knows that Rupert Lowe is spouting obscene nonsense. He needs calling out.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#BBC #Wimbledon why did Claire Balding have to embarrass herself asking Osaka whether she’ll watch England?
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Mirror ran a meaningless poll!
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nigel Farage Has Been Paid £270,000 To Promote A Gold Bullion Dealer www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
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Nigel Farage Has Been Paid £270,000 To Promote A Gold Bullion Dealer
The revelation comes amid calls for MPs to be banned from having second jobs.
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’m blocking lots on the ‘left’ today telling us who the bad guys are (Starmer/Israel/centrists/Burnham) whilst espousing hate and the same politics of division but no solutions as Trumpian nationalists sadly. The remnants of old style Corbynistas maybe I just don’t get it unless they are bots!
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Jim Johnson @jamesmcneile.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
‘Flip flop’ a term used by the Tories why use that specific term unless you are allied with them?
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...
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We must learn the truth about Nigel Farage’s £5m donation
The Reform leader should be made to understand that transparency is part of standing for high office
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