missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Imagine taking part in a poll and voting to 'not vote'. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There have been black people in the UK for over 2000 years. On Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, to Nelson's HMS Victory and every battle since. The black community in Toxteth can trace its roots back over 400 years. 29010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My daughter, born in the UK to white parents also born in the UK did a DNA test for one of the gene websites, and the result came back 4% English. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the event of a sweep, it won't be the Democrats - who hardly speak with one voice - that will concern Trump, but Vance and Rubio who will be weighing up their chances of succeeding him, probably sooner than later. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That is essentially what he set out, and there will be more with his ten year plan. They seem to want to do good, but there is no money without breaking the manifesto, and things have changed a lot since those pledges were made, ie before Trump. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He can't because Labour promised not to do this in their 2024 manifesto. 300
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And to think their next game in the PL is at Anfield! The Kop is going to be very, very loud. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I doubt it as they promised not to end it in the 2024 manifesto. 111
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unfortunately my local cinema showed Part 1, but is not showing Part 2. 110
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reform have already said they would introduce £50bn cuts in welfare targeted at disability benefits. And btw men in black shirts carted disabled people off, including children to be murdered in Nazi Germany. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You think that would stop them? Not one single AS could enter the UK and still they would have a problem. And if not with AS it would be the disabled or unemployed. Scapegoating the most vulnerable groups is the point. As in 'we're not the problem, they are.' 120
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And when autistic or mischievous teens do a spot of hacking , the US demands they are extradited and jailed...for ever. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I agree, however reading the comments below a BBC story about the threats from Russia, etc, seems people just don't believe the threat is real. Words like 'distraction', or 'a poor excuse to raise taxes', featured a lot. Plus the Reform bots saying the solution is to stop helping the Ukrainians. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Well, air traffic control in Washington DC has started using AI this week! 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And yet in Brighton, loads of great independent places. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When Andy Burnham contested Makerfield there was lots of comment - including some in newspapers - about him not being a local, when he could actually walk to a polling station in the constituency in less than half an hour from where he has lived for 25 years. 020
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yep, having developed many, many docs, and returnable hit series that have won awards, created jobs, sold around the world, it now seems my job can be done by AI. 020
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Happy birthday, enjoy your evening, and stay safe. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Before Musk's takeover, the racists and holocaust deniers used to be banned, and that helped maintain a standard of what is acceptable in society. Now, people free to express every kind of bigotry openly. And I am not even on X but have noticed that people are full of rage. 1170
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very soon, Putin is likely to severely test NATO, then we will see whose side Trump is really on. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I thought we were creating closer ties already. Given that Le Pen or Bardella are likely to win the Presidency next year, and the financial and political chaos that will cause the EU, we might be glad not to be in it. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026As sales pitches to potential investors go, letting it be known that should they do so, it could bring about the end of civilisation is certainly novel. 020
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Country star, actor and philanthropist, is for me, the absolute best epitaph anyone could wish for. RIP Dolly. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If it makes you feel any better, as a Brighton fan I can tell you we start well, and then never win in December. 030
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And yes, I know none of the above happens in reality. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Like him and his mob haven't been saying for years that asylum seekers are put up in luxury hotels, given free health, generous benefits, and jump the social housing queue. 110
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yes, some bad things have happened however, we don't drag children out of their homes and put them in detention centres; we have had 3 mass shootings (ie more than 3 people) this century, (compared to the US of over 300 this year, so far); we have universal healthcare, better food standards... 1140
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The family were also British citizens. 130
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Their proposed Great Repeal Bill will do all of that, and plenty more. Workers will have no rights. Renter rights will be scrapped, and equality laws and employment standards. 130
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hitler outlined his blueprint in 1925, and did people then believe he really meant it? 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026But that would require water companies a) to supply water, not a given with South East water, and b) not pollute the seas. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I am sorry that Reform's announcement has caused you upset. It is a horrendous policy, and like you, I have been worried by the narratives on SM it stirs up about how people with serious disabilities and illnesses should be the focus of cuts. But they won't win. Take care. 020
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I guess this councillor read the policy. Most Reform followers won't, and seem reassured that they will be alright, it will be just the 'scroungers' who will lose. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Most are still in denial. The likes of Lee Anderson are telling them it won't affect the severely disabled, when their own document shows their benefits wld be cut by around £9500 a year. 3 million wld lose the lot. The motability scheme wld be scrapped. 150,000 carers allowance scrapped... 130
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Reform fans are telling themselves that nothing will change for the severely disabled. I have read the policy. Those in receipt of higher amount of both Pips will lose £788 a month/ £9450 a year. They are scrapping the motability scheme too. No carers allowance for 150,000. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026When you come from a working class background as he did, there is no safety net. Combine that with the huge amount of publicity with his face below every headline, and where do you go? You can't disappear to a Swiss health retreat as Fergie did. 170
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Normal people would agree with them, but a lot of the Reform mob are already moving to Restore, and in their tiny minds they would not be accepted as such. I hope they don't reap what they sow, as that is not a Britain I want to live in. 010
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We all have our delusions, but Muhammed Zia Yusuf thinking he could be leader of Reform, I mean has he met any of their followers? 150
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Someone tell them Churchill didn't hold an election during WW2. There were no GE's from 1935-45. And while they are at it, the more recent news that Russia has been surveying our underwater cables, with the view of cutting them. 110
Reposted by @missthesmith.bsky.socialDale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/08/2026Just dropped a bit of a bombshell on Newsnight, Faisal slightly wide eyed, understandable. This is a new approach to north sea oil and gas....:) 66725
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Watch this piece from tonight's Newsnight with Dale Vince: bsky.app/profile/dale... 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I saw it. Really interesting idea, and I truly hope you win the argument with Andy Burnham to make it happen. Good luck. 060
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I watched this - It's an interesting idea, and that it could bring bills down too, and help pay pave the wave to net zero - as he said, its win, win, win for everyone. Hope Andy Burnham can make it happen. 000
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Meant 'their' not there. Sorry, I have been horrified at the reporting of this, and seeing Reform supporters on SM telling concerned people that the cuts won't apply to them if Reform got in when they most definitely will. 040
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There plans are far worse than the BBC are reporting. Pips will be scrapped completely. So will the health element of UC. And the motability scheme. There will be a top, payment of £429 for the most severely disabled, a loss of over £1000 a month, and it will be means tested 140
missthesmith.bsky.social @missthesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This, and their latest pivot to proposing stopping EU nationals from claiming benefits is a distraction from yesterday's proposal to scrap PIPs for 3 million people, and motability cars - which has not been well received by their supporters who rely on these benefits to get by. 000
