Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Free speech? Really? It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job. 645139562633
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times @adambienkov.bsky.social www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...adambienkov.co.ukReform Dog Bites Media ManThe British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage 62842264
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s Critical National Infrastructure (energy, water, transport, health, comms, etc)… …so there is now a strong case for renationalising.northwestbylines.co.ukWhy renationalising the UK’s critical national infrastructure is vitalNothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s critical national infrastructure, so there is now a strong case for renationalising 20621183
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The IMF urges UK govt to end the pensions triple lock and charging for NHS treatment. Condemning pensioners to poverty and denying healthcare to low/middle income families is part of the right wing agenda. How many will be killed by neoliberalism? Anything to avoid taxing corporations & the rich.theguardian.comReeves should consider ending pension triple lock and charging for NHS treatment, says IMFChancellor is advised to give herself more leeway in the next budget before adjusting taxation or spending 39397177
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2025England Water chiefs’ pay rises by 5% to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over sewage dumping. Failure and abuses rewarded. The only effective remedy is to permit employees and customers to vote on exec pay. No major party supports democratization of water.theguardian.comWater chiefs’ pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over pollutionTotal remuneration at companies in England and Wales – many of them under scrutiny for sewage discharge – was £15m in 2024-25 7253121
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Over one in five 18-24 yr olds support the Lib Dems Become a member of the Lib Dems: As a member you can: ✔ Decide our party policy. ✔ Stand for election and choose our candidates. ✔ Vote in future Lib Dem leadership elections. Become a member today www.libdems.org.uk/join 85227
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Who would have guessed www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wil...thelondoneconomic.comDespite promises, Reform now say council tax cuts 'not going to happen'One Reform council leader said he'd cut taxes 'on day one' of assuming office. You'll never guess what happened next... 48695237
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Why we need electoral reform. 243
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 17/07/2025The problem with Starmer coming the hard man is that it brings to mind Vince Cable's comments about G. Brown trying to be Stalin but looking like Mr Bean. Or, if you prefer, our latest PM makes John Major look like Sid Vicious 5308
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 17/07/2025One reason water companies feel able to delay bringing in hosepipe bans & drag their feet on fixing leaks is that successive governments have allowed them to pump water from rivers when reservoirs get low. But that water is taken from wildlife. 2/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comEngland’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levelsExclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades 25733
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 17/07/2025When rivers get low & warm like this: - the pollution in them gets more concentrated - fish & other water creatures have less oxygen to breathe - pathogens from sewage have perfect conditions to grow - algae grow too much too fast - blocking out light & air for wildlife 1/3 27241
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 17/07/2025What A Surprise 35710
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Leon Duveen 🔶️🟣 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @leonduveen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Great to see Labour implementing Lib Dem policy! 093
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/07/2025If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it. 1401575457
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Younger voters are begining to abandon Labour and are flocking to the Greens and Lib Dems [Tories and Reform remain unpopular] YouGov crosstabs • 18-24 voting intention 🔴 LAB: 28% (-13) 💚 GRN: 26% (+8) 🔶 LDM: 20% (+4) 🟦 CON: 9% (+1) ➡️ RFM: 8% (-1) +/- vs. GE2024 Fieldwork: 13-14 July, 2025 1310148
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We should be having a debate about how British incompetence put the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk. Instead we're having a debate about 'how many criminals they let in'. Tells you everything you need to know about where we're at as a country inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...inews.co.ukShockingly, the Tories did the right thing on secret Afghan asylum planThe initial error was egregious, but the response was, at least, morally clear-sighted and practical 371053266
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comHigh water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George MonbiotIn its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 701686699
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 17/07/2025“I mean, (Brexit) was just a terrible con, it was a real con, and (the fact) that Nigel Farago (Farage) still exists anywhere and is taken seriously is appalling to me." www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...standard.co.ukMonty Python’s Eric Idle says Nigel Farage being ‘taken seriously is appalling’The comedian will return to the UK in September for a solo tour. 412736
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/07/2025"Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to London on Thursday is the latest sign of a new world order, in which European nations are uniting amid growing instability." We can’t rely on the US - it’s time to strengthen ties with the EU. 🇪🇺buff.lyGermany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Meet to Cement Ties as U.S. Steps BackChancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to London on Thursday is the latest sign of a new world order, in which European nations are uniting amid growing instability. 28423
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says studydesmog.comReform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says StudyReform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in... 31428294
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 14/07/2025UK water companies had no debt when they were privatised. They've not invested in a single new reservoir in 40 years yet have acquired truly crippling debts by borrowing money to pay out huge dividends. Let them go bankrupt and nationalise the assets not the debts. 17477203
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/07/2025Reform UK MPs are nothing but a bunch of cheats, bigots, liars & grifters McMurdock took £70,000 in loans in 2020, which it said were from the government’s COVID Bounce Back scheme in 2020. He borrowed £50,000 for one business, which had no employees and negligible assets until the Covid pandemic.theguardian.comReform MP James McMurdock resigns whip pending ‘business propriety’ investigationAllegations in Sunday Times say MP took out government loans during the Covid pandemic for businesses with no employees 1217779
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2025Thoughts and prayers don’t stop mass shootings, and they don’t stop climate disasters either. This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate. 1628192615528
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 05/07/2025This polling is still live, have your say: xd.wayin.com/display/cont... 1010955
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Get PR Done! @getprdone.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Congratulations to the Lib Dems on these by-election wins.👏 🗳These results encapsulate the problem with the first-past-the post voting system. 📝 But of course the Lib Dems are of course calling for a fairer voting system. #getPRdone #FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation 1109
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Reform UK leader Nigel Farage gets £8.4k helicopter flight paid by JCB www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...stokesentinel.co.ukReform UK leader Nigel Farage gets £8.4k helicopter flight paid by JCBUse our gadget to find out how many gifts and trips your MP has enjoyed 37227105
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Just Julie @pepperarnie.bsky.social · 05/07/2025We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9act.gpIf you agree the UK government should stop deep sea mining before it starts, add your name.Call on the UK to protect our oceans and stop deep sea mining before it starts. 174
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 05/07/2025There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers. What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.com‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formulaDoctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies 622287
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...skywriter.bluePage by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than 1217243
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/06/2025@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: "Voters want to see Europe prioritised" 🇪🇺 "This plan correctly identifies the importance of restoring frictionless access to reliable EU markets for farmers, but the gamechanger will be doing the same for all British industries" 16022
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/06/2025On the anniversary of the referendum, shall we discuss the effect on the economy? The lives of EU citizens in the UK and Brits in the EU? Northern Ireland? European security? Britain's global reputation? Nah. Let's talk about how it affected Gove's marriage.😱~AA #BrexitMemorial 42512116
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025There is no doubt that there is a massive opportunity on the centre right for the Lib Dems in the space vacated by the Tory Party. I would prefer them to aggressively occupy the space vacated by Starmer on the centre left as Layla Moran would have done. 142
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025As in the case of the Iraq war the Tories would have been behind Bush even more enthusiastically. Only the Liberal Democrats of the English major parties opposed the war. 285
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/06/2025The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...themoscowtimes.com 20243711182
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 23/06/2025I’m impressed at how accurate the OBR’s predictions of the cost of a hard #Brexit were. At the time this was considered a worst-case scenario, but here we are. #BrexitReality #BrexitBrokeBritain 23720
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/06/2025The people of Iran have suffered under a brutal regime for far too long. But a US President planning regime change in the Middle East feels like 2003 all over again. We’ve seen where that path leads and it does not end well. 1629361
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/06/2025The verdict, nine years on: “an unambiguous stagnation in investment.” “A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorialthetimes.comPredictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist 10267105
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2025Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇) 14937231936
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️🔶Phil Hutty @philhutty.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Another benefit of Brexit! In the EU we could simply send back about half of the boat people, because they had claimed asylum in the EU. Now of course we are “free” to keep them for years until they fail our asylum investigations!….. and the Tories knew that before we lefteu.now 23922
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Big Issue @bigissue.com · 17/06/2025Labour has been urged to set a target for how many social homes should be built through its new £39bn fund announced at the spending review.bigissue.comLabour told to set a target for how many social homes will be built 2114
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Sheffield For Europe @sheffieldforeurope.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Britain, you should be better than this. 2126
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Matthew Brooker @mbrooker.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Britain’s retreat from building public housing was a historic mistake driven by a market purism that has conspicuously failed www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comBritain's Housing Splurge Is Long OverdueThe Labour government’s plan to boost spending on affordable homes has the potential to pay for itself in wider economic benefits. 14917
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Lady Lawson @slawson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...you.38degrees.org.ukTax the super rich to stop cuts to public servicesAcross the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo... 052
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 12/06/2025Something broke the journalists and now they can’t write anything that isn’t ‘What does this mean for Reform at the next election?’ 16524108
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 11/06/2025With the BBC (ab)using licence payer money to focus on attracting Deform voters, it's time for better media regulation of our media! Here’s a petition for you! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Review traditional and social media regulationReview media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap... 46236
Reposted by Neil Oakman 🔶️I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Richard Madeley reads out a "tweet I read yesterday": "This is what happens when integration is rammed down your throats" A random tweet; not from the police or a local politician, but from a racist that Madeley found on the far right social media cesspit X. How is that "news"? #GMB #r4today 2216