Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9hWall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful. 27571118
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16hIf you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.” 1030486
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudmimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All these glowing write up’s by the usual suspects, Peston, Rigby, Mason, regarding Badenoch’s speech. Not one asking where the money is going to come from for her ridiculous defence dome & billions upon billions of tax giveaways? Considering what Truss did, not pointing this out, is a disgrace. 2027560
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Badenoch says that Labour "don’t get a clean slate just because they have changed leader". Yet whenever she's challenged on the Conservatives' record in government, she dismisses the question on the grounds that she wasn't leader then... 611817
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudMy Cloudiest Suit @mycloudiestsuit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Chris Mason on #bbcnews somehow neglects to point out that the average house value in the UK still falls in the nil rate property band for IHT and that less than 5% of estates pay any IHT at all. So the BadEnoch big announcement is just another sop to the rich at the expense of the welfare budget. 092
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more. 1581332379
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudIreland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hitler’s goons did exactly the same in the 1930s. Attacking people, beating them up, killing them, throwing them in jail or "disappearing" them. 13012
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling." 13385113
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just watched an SME owner declare because he “took all the chances of setting up my own business I’m entitled to not declare my income or pay tax like other people” in the kind of bold way you only expect from criminals. 56112
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring. 511446548
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudWill Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026More than 1 MILLION UK adults who have never smoked are now vaping. That should set alarm bells ringing. “less harmful” does not mean harmless, and we still don’t know the full consequences of regular use. A public health time bomb being built in real time. buff.ly/rSWJl70buff.lyOne million UK adults who have never smoked are now vapersLatest statistics also show, for the second year in a row, more over-16s vape than smoke. 0177
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026BBC News were asking Conservative voters who they’d vote if the Tories weren’t an option, and it’s really made me realise just how little either I, or self-proclaimed Christians, really understand Christianity and its values. 17299
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural EnglandShadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth 771394441
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nigel Farage wants us to believe that ex-Tories responsible for 000s of austerity deaths who defected to Reform UK are going to fix all the problems they created "This poster was used in the 2024 election campaign 85% of the Tories featured defected to Reform after the election" via Barry James 1514081
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026On political parties and antisemitism. Worth remembering this Yougov/CAAS poll carried out in 2025. On the statement: 'Jewish people chase money more than other people do.' Green supporters agree 7%. Reform 24%. Conservative 17%. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/CA... 253
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times) 831886690
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant. 223139093472
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudRat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 04/10/2026Whatever you think of Burnham he is at least not stupid enough to announce “helping people earning over £100k a year with childcare costs so people are encouraged to work harder” as his main policy. 1111
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice." 2882547924
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So invading small boats are good now? 77112
Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Disgraceful. I hope he sues them. 110
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...dmitryopines.substack.comOn Legitimate ConcernsProblems, Policies and How To Parse Them 48324
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comUS withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groupsThe Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog. 53849588
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Since Braverman does not identify as English, its strange for her to insist that she could define for others the rules of an in group that she does not believe she can ever be a member of *and* to believe her intuition should trump a broad sustained consemsus amomg those who do identify as English! 810120
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia. 828854
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain 1031234270
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power 819525
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/10/2026If you're on a variable rate energy tariff and don't have a smart meter, don't forget to submit meter readings as soon as possible. (Since the price cap goes up today, you don't want to accidentally be billed for more units than necessary at the higher price.) 1154
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?nytimes.comOpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. ModelsEmployees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen. 691239563
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What’s remarkable is how so much of the coverage of Burnham’s speech today is focused on 2 policy areas: social care and pensioner income. What Burnham set out was far bigger than the policy commitments he made. It was a huge political realignment. Do we not have the capacity to engage with that? 5304
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 652464690
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is an outstanding point 21691157
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity. 55819200
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudMedoyid_ua @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burning the academy is the point. Moscow isnt after a building, its after the next generation of Ukrainian minds. Kill the future, not just the present. 0114
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudSimon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, well, well. Rules only apply to little people. 106938
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026The BBC is part of the problem... 24698260
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAngelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine carried out a massive operation to bring food to starving people in occupied Oleshky. 4,000 kg of food. 100 locations. Delivered by Ukrainian drones. I can’t read this without tears. 617049
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Magnificent trolling in Brum 76565109
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago. 78943295
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires 4223485658
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I reckon if someone made an AI-fake video of Farage on Newsnight saying these exact same words, no one would notice. 4016335
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudStella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’t let brexiteers tell you leaving the European Union has given us more control as a nation over what happens to us or power to stand up for ourselves. Join us this Sunday in Liverpool at the @labour4europe.bsky.social rally fighting for our nations interest and future with Europe. 3535795
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Zionists and their allies don’t like to hear the truth… What we have witnessed with our own eyes -and what the UN has concluded…. Is that ISRAEL IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE. They think their propaganda will brainwash us. Not a chance 32927
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘Dear sir/madam, to whom it may concern, we hacked one of your websites.’ Hilarious that OpenAI just sent an email to the public inbox of Services Australia, (and nearly two months after the hack) 2246
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest. 701383432
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026We've given the knuckle draggers way too much of the mic and now they've really pissed off the historians 833036
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda. 611252252
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudJeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I am the way, the truth and the code". 083
Reposted by Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProudBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Considering Burnham's attack on Russian disinformation at the UN, maybe we should take another look at this damning verdict on the (old) government's corrupt investigation into Russian influence during the Brexit ref. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 618797