Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialSouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We want OUR #FreedomOfMovement back! #RejoinEU #JoinEU 420581
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.social@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK 2820756
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 8hI'd feel sorry for them, but they brought it on themselves, didn't they? I just hope we can watch and learn! 000
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17hFrom the new Private Eye 421909696
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19hFailures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.bbc.co.ukRoyal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobsThe postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027. 77662328
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20h“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏theguardian.comDrax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flightsExclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year 20568231
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities 1541768737
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Bare-faced lying is just fine: few people fact- check, so .. 000
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But carry on giving him more money instead of wasting that 10 seconds it takes to find an alternative supplier.. 000
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. 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 581067340
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own 451369566
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialKnitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nothing changes, everything stays the same 021
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don't throw insults around. Ever. Except 'Richard Stupid Tice' seems really necessary. 000
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech 22386101
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've spent the last however many years going ' just be more Labour'. Andy is definitely doing that at the moment. And that will be a huge relief to a lot of people. Lots to do, though 021
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.leftfootforward.orgThis is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardshipSustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population 971889707
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm one of that group and struggle on the pension. Of course it needs to rise to the level of other European countries. But I support this move. I think many others will, too - at least if they rely on their own judgment and not the populist screamers. 170
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument) 1926164
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Actually pretty funny when you consider that they could benefit significantly from this. 2352172
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026That Burnham speech was fucking brilliant. 9556860
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none. 23132721209
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The last few times I got asked, I said ' inequality'. I think that lies at the root ( no doubt not the only root) of the fear of immigrants coming and somehow leaping over me in this fantastically precarious society 020
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund. 16921348
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips. 341533329
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Orbi et urbi is rather his thing..and looks like this orb is in the Urb.. 000
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes, my father. He came as an art student in 1939. He was never interned though. All his stories were of fire- watching in London. There's a lot I don't know / can't find out! 041
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thanks for this. As the daughter of one of those fighting age immigrants I never heard about it before! 121
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyonestatic.klipy.comWW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic StorefrontALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront 411257560
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go. 751935432
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026But if we SAY there's no connection, then there's no connection- OK? Subject closed! 010
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What's happening is that the very worst of us are hitting on the very best of us. How vile can we be? 000
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"This week Nigel Farage was back in the GB News chair for the first time in around six months. The leader of a political party, and a sitting MP, with his own nightly show in prime time." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends 631142431
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialDcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I will post this again for context. The difference between a billion and a million dollars 18039271588
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sadly, not too many people understand that. ( I always use the seconds /days/ years analogy. I tell people how many days a million seconds is, and then ask them to guess a billion. Nobody ever says a year...let alone 32! As for a billion...) 000
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Leader of Reform in Wales has quit, Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd has defected to Plaid Cymru and now three councillors in Durham have resigned. Just another day on our unstoppable march to power. 321040304
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I agree. I'm just hopeful that we're not stupid enough to let him win. 020
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Britain isn't broken, though. Farage is as you say, but he won't succeed. 220
Reposted by @melbiro.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415mol.imUS flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse imagesThe ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25. 111072994127
melbiro.bsky.social @melbiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't think that's an age. I think it's a state of mind. I'm well over 70 and am sometimes so wild I even have an espresso after dinner! I sleep the same whether i drink coffee or not: a lot less than when I was young, but plenty for now! 000
