Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Agree with what you say but when governments ‘acknowledge legitimate concerns’ it’s usually sir Humphrey speak for ‘but we’re going to ignore them’. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yes during lockdown but traffic was normal during the volcano. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I live within 50 miles of four airports. When aircraft were grounded during the Icelandic volcano and during lockdown, the air quality improved noticeably within a few days. 110
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ashby de La zouch is another fictional place. You can follow road signs to it and through it never see it. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reform voters won’t care. I honestly think that if Farage went round their house and took a dump in their airing cupboard they’d still find an excuse to vote for him. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Agree. As someone who watched his 100 year old granddad starve himself to death .. 021
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Those pushing the adapt message are the ones who think their money will keep them safe. They are of course deluding themselves. The men with guns they hire to protect themselves will adapt better than the soft rich. 040
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Radical plans die on an alter called realism which is just a crude disguise for greed, self interest and corruption. 1111
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Once the lie is out there no amount of debunking will get it back. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Around our coast, they’d need to be deshittification plants as well. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think he also gets a pension for his time as an MEP. 151
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The mentality in Britain seems to be “hope for the best and if the worst happens we’ll muddle through as best we can”static.klipy.comGeneral Melchett's Funny 'BAAAH'ALT: General Melchett's Funny 'BAAAH' 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Also £3k to fix a dent? Outrageous. I’m guessing that’s at a stealership? 230
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Do you know where it happened? Worth checking if anyone has CCTV. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Notice that you never see policies of the Green Party etc as banner headlines unless they’re trying to rubbish them? Our media is controlled by people who want a Reform government. 1170
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’ve just visited a customer in Brecon and there’s a haze of smoke over the area. The hill tops are on fire and all of the grass is yellow. It’s hard not to feel apocalyptic. 040
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Because the Greens and Polanski don’t represent elements of the Ruling class. Nasty Nigel might go through with his plan to scrap the BBC charter because they’re left wing, woke and hate him. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’ll lay any money the farmers are still blaming Badgers. 031
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026No dairy cows in the fields near our house and the badger population seems to have increased over the summer - or at least the setts are much more visible. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026You haven’t though - what happened when the speech was given? It was twisted to compare with Enoch Powell. The speech writers should have anticipated that right wing enemies would do that. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Yes I agree. But someone with political nous would have anticipated the concoction of outrage. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I remember when I was an adolescent and being told that I’d change my ideas as I got older. Here I am am on the cusp of retirement and no - I still think being nice to each other for the greater good is a great idea. 1310
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026You’re missing the point though? If they didn’t know that not would evoke the response it did then they were naive and if they did they were dog whistling. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It’s not what I believe. I’m just saying the speech played straight into the hands of those with a right wing agenda. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I know what it says and I agree with the context - but did no one among the speech writers sit down and say how will a hostile media twist this? If they didn’t they are politically naive … 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Well if they didn’t know they have no place in political speech writing. 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I know what you mean and that was the way I took it but you know the advisors who wrote that soundbite knew how it’d be received. 210
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I’ve already heard that veganism is bad for meat animals! 140
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Actually no. There are people who don’t bother to vote and there are people who vote Reform as one in the eye for the lying political class. Nobody really believes Farage Ltd would be any different. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026They don’t stop to think that the men with guns they hire to guard them will end up taking everything. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A lot of those 70’s jobs were semi-skilled and paid well. Personally, I’d rather work in a shitty 70’s factory than an Amazon warehouse. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Is there an age you get to when every belief and principle suddenly turns on its head and you become a reactionary Buffon? I’m 64 now and I need to know! 160
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It also works to divide people too. “Look someone’s getting something for nothing”. 020
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026People I know in Manchester thought he did rather well? What do you think he did wrong? 100
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I’ll reserve judgement. I know a few people who know Burnham and he seems to be well thought of. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I’m no longer in the Labour Party but to be on the new leaders back from the off … 200
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A story that on other social media that will be greeted by the Wetherspoons science brigade with 🤣 and how it’s only summer and 1976 was much worse and how they no someone who was run over by a bus but registered as a Covid death. 020
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It doesn’t matter if I do because the people who they’re trying to appeal to either don’t know or don’t care. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 03/07/2026If he condemns Israel he’ll be labelled an antisemite before the ink is dry. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It could be like jury duty - you get a month as head of state signing shit off. 110
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Why do we even need a president? Ceremonial or otherwise? 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Why do we even need a head of state - executive or otherwise? 210
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Thanks for the 😆 laugh. Starmer always looked like he was desperately holding a fart in just in case it was more substantial. 000
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Because that requires doing something real rather than a token gesture that sounds good as a soundbite but actually doesn’t work in practice. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026And seeing as they own the media and the politicians, there’s no way to change it from within. 010
Mick McDermott @mick-mcdermott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026By the definition used by current politicians, Ted Heath was left wing along with all of the other postwar Tory leaders including Churchill. 120
