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John Blackman

@johncblackman.bsky.social
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Ex Forces, Ex Firefighter, Ex Union Rep. Not interested in computer games or those offering financial advice. Retired, living a lovely life in Benalmadena with my gorgeous wife. Not ranting doesnt mean I dont care. If youre nice to me Ill be nice to you

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
London
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Once, just for a fraction of a millisecond, like the appearance of a Higgs Boson, Boris Johnson was right.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Boris Johnson endorsing Donald Trump last October with one of the great Freudian slips of all time
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Helen Maguire MP 🔶 @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
JD Vance is erasing the hundreds of British troops who gave their lives in Iraq + Afghanistan from history. Six of my own regiment, the Royal Military Police, didn’t return home from Iraq. This is a sinister attempt to deny that reality. Vance has demeaned his office.
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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Think the apt reply to Vance would be for newspapers tomorrow to list the names of the hundreds of our armed forces personnel who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan on their front pages.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
And I haven’t heard a word of thanks from weasel Trump OR Vance for it, OR any respect either. I do see contempt for valour and plenty of disrespect, tho’.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is SO GOOD Trump aides will be busy ensuring he doesn’t see this bang on sketch m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...
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Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/03/2025
For the Kremlin, Donald Trump is making all of Vladimir Putin’s dreams come true in Ukraine
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Russia Delights in the Dressing Down of Zelenskiy in Oval Office
For the Kremlin, Donald Trump is making all of Vladimir Putin’s dreams come true in Ukraine.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is brutal. Donald Trump is only interested in money and power. President Zelenskyy is trying to save his people and country. Russia and US have agreed to carve-up Ukraine, Russia getting territory and US getting mineral wealth. Trump is no ally for any country.
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Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting - follow live
A joint news conference is cancelled after the US president calls his Ukrainian counterpart
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RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It's not just the coroner who is concerned! Bring back doctors now! #NHSCrisis
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Coroner warns about NHS physician associates after misdiagnosis and death of woman
Pamela Marking, suffering severe stomach issues, diagnosed in hospital with nosebleed and sent home by PA
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Stephen J.Reid @stereid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Makes yer proud to be British
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Spotted in Britain, on the road. #Swasticar #Tesla #ElonMusk #BoycottTelsla #TeslaTakedown www.teslatakedown.com
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Exploited migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours. Workers not paid for in-work travel, time spent moving between workstations, team meetings, receiving instructions on equipment use. Employers violating employment rights. Need effective enforcement, not deregulation.
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‘Exploited’ migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours
Call for investigation into unfair payment for labourers on seasonal visa scheme
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James Taylor @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sophy Ridge calls out President Trump's lies, "Donald Trump said Ukraine should never have started the war, that is not true, and it should be called out"
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17/02/2025
what the **** "As European leaders prepare to meet in Paris for an emergency summit on Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there's no role for Europe in any peace talks. www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...
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Ukraine war: Europe holds US summit in Paris as Russia heads to Saudi for talks with US - live updates
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.
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Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds
Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Exactly this!!!👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4... We will not accept peace deal reached without Ukraine, Zelensky says - live updates - BBC News
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We will not accept peace deal reached without Ukraine, Zelensky says - live updates
Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday before announcing they had agreed talks to end the Ukraine war could start
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@uklabour.bsky.social dont ever tell us pay rises are unaffordable!!!😡🤬 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Watchdog recommends £2,500 pay rise for UK MPs
Under Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority’s proposal, a backbench MP’s wage would rise from £91,346 to just under £94,000
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
2019-2024: £44bn lost to fraud in UK Govt depts under the Tories - often run by members now in Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet. Contracts for cronies, PPE procurement, COVID loans & furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out, R&D tax credits. Ministers ignored concerns. Who is called to account?
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Kemi Badenoch's top team ran departments that gave £20k a minute to fraudsters
New analysis reveals that since 2019, over £44 billion of taxpayer money was lost to fraud in departments under the Tories - often while they were run by members of Ms Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Londoner in Colchester @jetraven.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Nigel Farage’s nephew has avoided a jail sentence after admitting upskirting a woman in a Co-op shop in south London. www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2488393...
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Orpington's Joseph Farage fined for putting phone underneath woman's skirt at Co-op
Joseph Farage has been fined £576 after he was convicted of 'upskirting'.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Why is our taxpayer's money going to the Royals in so many ways? Empty Dartmoor prison pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year & has another 24 years left on its lease Charities which the Royals are patrons of also pay millions to them in rent Make it make sense www.thetimes.com/article/ddf3...
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Dartmoor jail that pays Duchy £1.5m a year may never reopen
Riddled with rats, HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Can anyone advise? In UK NS&I require probate to release the max amount in the name of my dad, now deceased. 99.9% of his estate went to my mum so no need for probate. Used on line contact forms for solicitors only for them not to contact us. Anyone?
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Why .. who were you thinking about ? 🍊
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines. Then sewage dumping increased 20x. Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe. Now it is by far the dirtiest.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned. Prime duty of MPs is to serve the people, not corporations or their bank accounts. Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
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MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.
'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/12/2024
Clean Up Politics. Public funding of all elections and no foreign money. I’ll be the Donor calling for an end to Donors - similar to the millionaire calling for more tax…:)
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
How it started, How it's going.
Composite screenshot of tweets by Elon Musk. 

The first from 2022 reads: "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally".

The second, from 20 Dec 2024, reads: "only the AfD [extreme right wing party] can save Germany"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Reeta Chakrabarti, "The gov has appointed 30 new Labour peers to the Lords" Joe Pike, "What is significant and notable about today's announcement is that PM Keir Starmer who has committed to eventually getting rid of an unelected upper chamber, has today announced a pre Christmas stuffing of it"
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Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Tribunal orders release of the confidential citations Boris Johnson supplied to justify giving peerages to Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell, following my 18-month FOI battle with House of Lords Appointments Commission.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK: "If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
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ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
And they lie, and they lie, and they lie . . .
Lie Kendall is standing with a woman from the WASPI organisation holding a placard saying,'I will work with WASPI to identify and deliver a fair solution for all women affected'
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 16/12/2024
✍️ Widow of Sheffield firefighter wants better health monitoring after husband’s tragic death A Sheffield firefighter’s widow is calling for better monitoring and recognition of cancer risks after his death 20 hours post-diagnosis By Amelie Parent @amelieparent.bsky.social
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Widow of Sheffield firefighter wants better health monitoring after husband’s tragic death
A Sheffield firefighter’s widow is calling for better monitoring and recognition of cancer risks after his death 20 hours post-diagnosis
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
5% of the Royal yearly income would end homelessness in our country……but instead we have to put up with this crap. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Prince Andrew pulls out of royal Christmas celebrations amid Chinese spy scandal
Alleged spy became close confidant of Duke of York is latest in a string of scandals involving prince
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
King Charles has decided to change his Crown logo from the one on the top, to the one on the bottom. This change could cost up to £50m, a brilliant use of our money.
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ℓουℓου 🕷❤ @skiptomyloulou.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Man will not join rest of family for Christmas at Sandringham because he's a nonce and has been fraternising with spies. Fixed it 👊🏼 news.sky.com/story/prince...
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Prince Andrew will not join rest of Royal Family for Christmas at Sandringham
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson will not join the rest of the Royal Family for Christmas at Sandringham, Sky News understands.
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I continue to be amazed that anyone is remotely interested in what this individual and his family gets up to.🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
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Prince Andrew will not join royals for Christmas at Sandringham as alleged Chinese spy named as Yang Tengbo - live updates
It follows his linking to the controversy surrounding the prince’s links to the Chinese businessman, now identified as Yang Tengbo.
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Johnson will never accept responsibility for anything. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Kim Hill Wants To Know: 'Are you always late?' - Hill meets Boris Johnson
An abrupt introduction set the tone as RNZ's Kim Hill sat down for a long chat with the former British Prime Minister, to ask if he's trying to "salvage" his career.
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John Blackman @johncblackman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I continue to be amazed that anyone is remotely interested in what this individual and his family gets up to.🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
bbc.co.uk
Prince Andrew will not join royals for Christmas at Sandringham as alleged Chinese spy named as Yang Tengbo - live updates
It follows his linking to the controversy surrounding the prince’s links to the Chinese businessman, now identified as Yang Tengbo.
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