Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 27/09/2026I know people that work in the sector. The pay and conditions are crap and the employers are greedy. Another area where privatisation has failed. 010
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 24/09/2026What did Bruce Willis say when he had his vasectomy? Snippy ki yay! 001
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 24/09/2026They have always made it deliberately difficult. Also the attaching of phone numbers is problematic due to the numbers getting recycled. 010
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 20/09/2026I'm hoping in that case, the MP I have to suffer doesn't turn up. 011
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 18/09/2026static.klipy.comGet outAlt: Man raising his arm with a pointed finger saying "Get out" 010
Reposted by Lee PorteAnna @annasels.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Because we definitely don't need people who understand Global Challenges and Global Development Challenges and Conflict, Security and Development, do we 🙄 002
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 16/09/2026A band D property at £1020.35? In Lutterworth the same band D is £2376.38 and in Marchwiel It's £2206.77. Seems like some undercharging has been going on. 100
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 15/09/2026Crap made in cheap countries designed to look like catwalk items and will last about 5 washes. 150
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 14/09/2026I misread that as Wormaid and thought I'd missed some sort of fundraiser. 110
Reposted by Lee PorteCat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Finally grasp the nettle and bring not just water but every critical asset that this country has, from data to health to housing, where people need it, under our control, owned by us" 🔥🔥🔥 @labourlewis.bsky.social says we need public ownership to tackle the risks facing this country 910743
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 14/09/2026No, because developers are incentivised to keep prices as high as possible. Only large scale government building will adjust the housing stock and markets. 010
Reposted by Lee PorteThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Lifestyle buyers of farmland have fallen to 11 per cent as farmer purchases hit a seven-year high.thelondoneconomic.comInheritance tax changes for farmers have intended impactNew figures show agricultural inheritance tax changes brought in by Rachel Reeves are having the intended impact. 17263103
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 12/09/2026Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 section 61 is of interest www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/4..., you don't have to take the money. Arranging is covered.legislation.gov.ukPolitical Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000An Act to establish an Electoral Commission; to make provision about the registration and finances of political parties; to make provision about donations and expenditure for political purposes; to ma... 020
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 12/09/2026Yeah, I've had to explain that one to some not British colleagues before. 011
Reposted by Lee PorteTerence Eden @edent.tel · 07/09/2026If any journalists reporting on tech-startups or financial shenanigans want to contact me, I think I have a story about a soon-to-IPO company possibly screwing over its early employees. 056
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 06/09/2026Not sure if lampposts are tested for flamethrower resistance. Might be a bit more pricey. 010
Reposted by Lee Porteonlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3729781280
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 05/09/2026BBC have a lot of covering up to do. E.g. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talksThe Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job. 030
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 04/09/2026What defines peak scenarios? Compute load? External temperature? 000
Reposted by Lee PorteSam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reform’s response to the Channel 4 doc: “Reform UK has a robust vetting process for prospective donors approved by the Electoral Commission.” The Electoral Commission’s riposte: “The Electoral Commission has not approved the donor vetting process for Reform, or any other party.” 1313862
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026Surely that goes to OFWAT, since they rubber stamp shit in rivers. 1120
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover filmInvestigation broadcast by Channel 4 shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform 150
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026It's an exclusive, so they have to wait to see the details. Then there will be the editorial briefing, and possibly legal too if you happened to run the poll results that are implicated. 1200
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukLabour intends to report Reform UK to police over alleged breach of donation rulesNigel Farage’s party took funding from a US firm for three polls it commissioned earlier this year costing £32,500, Channel 4 News reported 240
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026Well it's now up on the Independent and Metro having been posted in the past 20 minutes. 020
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026Well it was an exclusive that has only just broken. So they'd probably need a crystal ball. 130
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 03/09/2026I thought that was lie in front of a bulldozer. He's got form for bullshitting around heavy plant. 020
Reposted by Lee PorteSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating. 501202386
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 02/09/2026We're getting a new prison, to go next to the existing prison! Public rights of way closed because of unsafe crumbling bridge, potholes that have become new caving sites and overcrowded schools though. 010
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 30/08/2026Didn't they already do this with his Gulf of America nonsense? 1260
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 18/08/2026To be fair, it can't be any worse than letting LLMs go rogue on your DB. And they seem to really love that idea www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comClaude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business 020
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 18/08/2026We've been here before www.bevanfoundation.org/views/workfa...bevanfoundation.orgWorkfare - how about some evidence? - Bevan FoundationWorkfare has recently come under close scrutiny, and criticism aimed at some high-profile employers has culminated in a terse response from the Government. Detractors condemn workfare as [...] More 010
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk · 16/08/2026I guess the old hole or two in the roof and leave it won't work any more. 011