Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/07/20252016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today" 2025: Nigel Farage, "This is broken Britain, nothing works" 47345131
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill. It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights. It’s Project 2025 26790233625
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Privatisation in a nutshell: Steal from us something we own. Sell us back an inferior service at a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services… @mrjamesob.bsky.social 513155
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025"It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." RIP, George Wendt www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...youtube.comCheers | Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the BarYouTube video by Peacock 1443479
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialAmee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Elon Musk announced today that he will significantly scale back on his political spending. HERE'S WHY: In a new poll, Tesla dropped to the bottom of America's 100 most visible companies' reputation ranking (95) and places last in Character, Ethics, and Citizenship. www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...axios.comTesla, SpaceX reputations crater in new Axios Harris Poll 100Tesla was near the top of the list four years ago, and now sits near the bottom. 1613838
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialBBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20/05/2025"Don't you have a nerve, when you were the party that allowed net migration to soar to almost a million people?" Victoria Derbyshire challenges Richard Holden MP on the Conservatives' criticism of the EU deal. #Newsnight 1013211
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 07/05/2025Anyone spot the problem? It's subtle, but it's there... 31881314
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialRaffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔 506184224978
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialRichard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Very sad to see this www.economist.com/graphic-deta...economist.comSchooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their alliesOur polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly 0117102581
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/03/2025Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen. You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals. And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you. 9159271089
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialDale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/03/2025Farage’s links to MAGA fascist Steve Bannon need to be properly investigated…buff.lyFarage faces formal complaint over donations from rightwing US PR firm | Good Law ProjectThe globetrotting MP for Clacton has been taking advice from a former spokesperson for the far-right agitator Steve Bannon, but he hasn’t declared it as a benefit. So we’ve complained to parliament. 10398149
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Just less rich. That’s all we’re asking. 10357161114
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is how the Swiss chose to protest against Donald Trump this week at Basel Fasnacht, Switzerland's largest annual carnival. 1024678
raymc.bsky.social @raymc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Russian hacking group Dark Storm claimed yesterday's X DDoS attack. Russian-backed collective disrupted service across multiple outages. Musk suggested Ukrainian origins in his response, contradicting cybersecurity experts who confirmed Dark Storm's responsibility through their Telegram channel. 010
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It imbues a gut level understanding about WHY the EU exists, rather than the technocratic explanations about the HOW. 1306
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialJonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 24/02/2025My thoughts on Farage. Full version here: youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?... 27689187
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...bylinesupplement.comBREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy ChiefByline Times has crashed due to a DDOS attack and the original story blocked: a former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman 731160811
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I’m George Takei and I approve of this message. 227014322129845
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Am I the only one who sees “patriotic” Farage supporting the enemies of Britain like Putin and Trump and wonders about his “patriotism”? 8599
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialGabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025🧵6/6 All this might be “difficult” but it’s better than letting the EU’s credibility evaporate, and it’s easier than fighting a huge war in the forests of Poland and Germany. Let’s not do that again. We promised ourselves that we wouldn’t. 1163479
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialDavid @zero-4.bsky.social · 13/02/2025George Monbiot on Ukraine/Putin: “It’s as if he’d come to the UK, he’d occupied Kent, Surrey, Sussex & then somebody else like Donald Trump comes along & says fine guys just live with that. These people who go on about sovereignty will sell anyone down the river” #bbcqt 3332123
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialSam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1 661887719
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialdave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt 1503319954
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/02/2025By almost every economic & financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK - the Office for Budget Responsibility says it will reduce the UK’s potential GDP by 4% in the long run by lowering the trade intensity of the economy & its latest report lays bare its catastrophic impact on trade 12450120
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/02/2025Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 13, 2025 ~ This will end badly. "The researchers, on board the ship Sarmiento de Gamboa, have observed columns of methane in the ocean up to 700 meters long and 70 meters wide" english.elpais.com/climate/2025...english.elpais.comMassive methane leaks detected in Antarctica, posing potential risks for global warmingA Spanish scientific expedition has discovered columns of gas emerging from the seabed. Geologists also warn about the possibility of huge landslides that could generate tsunamis 2224891
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Not everyone's a fan, but #StopFundingHate works... crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news 716848
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialBrendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025ABSOLUTELY STELLAR -WELL DONE BREXITEERS! Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks. Illegal meat, which has not been through proper health checks, is now available on "most High Streets" in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukIllegal meat on most UK High Streets, official saysPost-Brexit checks are undermining efforts to keep out potentially disease-ridden meat, official says. 13303159
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...youtu.beNO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by BrexitYouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 12836111786
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 30/01/2025It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio) 572369997
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMonty Dodge @montyofdodgington.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Spaffing hell!.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poec...youtube.comBoris Johnson says investigating ‘historic’ child abuse a waste of moneyYouTube video by Guardian News 12611
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism 28128
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMary McDougall @marymcd.bsky.social · 24/12/2024The UK govt should prioritise looking at DB pension surplus extraction to drive investment into productive assets, say asset managers. “This is a once in a generational opportunity to change the fortunes of the UK” on.ft.com/3P7aM6Gon.ft.comInvestors call for UK government to reform defined benefit pensionsOverhaul could free up billions for real estate and infrastructure, asset managers say 153
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Dear Keir Starmer, If you don’t do something, urgently, to stop Musk bankrolling Farage, you are signing the death warrant of UK democracy. 39428
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets. 912579966
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 20/12/2024“He doesn’t live here, he doesn’t pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" - 2018 “It would be a fantastic endorsement of our policies to save Britain and get Britain growing again" - 2024 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ric...thelondoneconomic.comRichard Tice comments on overseas donations come back to haunt him“He doesn’t live here, he doesn’t pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" - Richard Tice 611852
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Commons Library visualisation of the history of refugees: Syrians were the largest group of refugees in the UK in the years after 2011 1418366
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'. 792502871
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Russia has learned how to influence elections, EU’s top diplomat warns Kaja Kallas says today’s methods for evaluating the fairness of elections are outdated www.politico.eu/article/kaja...politico.euRussia has learned how to influence elections, EU’s top diplomat warnsKaja Kallas says today’s methods for evaluating the fairness of elections are outdated. 1232366941
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/12/2024Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆 503224921
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024With Farage back on Question Time last night... ...here is your reminder that Farage was on BBCQT a record-breaking 35 times before he became an MP. And, further, that the panellist selection on BBCQT has been heavily slanted to right-wing think tanks and commentators over the years.yorkshirebylines.co.ukAn open letter to the BBCDr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time 601169471
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says “We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants” Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyYyoutu.beReform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straightYouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 26822461863
Reposted by @raymc.bsky.socialFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/12/2024“Brave” decision on the day the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot in an apparently planned assassination. Have these 🇺🇸 insurers lost their bloody minds? 3019554
