Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 8hIt's about time we ended the triple lock on MPs gold plated pensions, guaranteed above inflation pay rises and extortionate expenses 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Foreign actor was behind plot to siphon off some diesel. 🤣 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Unless they can teach it to drop kick parcels over your gate, it'll never catch on. share.google/GXaSFPndq26O...share.googleTwo-legged delivery robot takes to streets of Barnsley in Tech Town trialIris will take to the streets of Barnsley delivering small parcels. 011
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We have one of the lowest pensions and highest retirement ages in Europe. 1 in 6 pensioners live in poverty. Burnham wants to scrap the triple lock to shovel millions of public money into the off shore tax havens of the private equity companies who've bought up all the care homes. 033
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Unless Deliveroo have offered him a job I seriously doubt it. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So whose signing up for Burnham's Starship Troopers?🙃 100
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Who knew we were getting Forest Gump as our new PM? He'll need to keep running until the next GE to raise anywhere near enough money to fix all the things his government won't be funding. 010
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026And while this was happening Labour were flying spy planes over Gaza providing real time intelligence to facilitate the mass killing of civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comSecret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new filmTestimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026All the politicians who called for the head of West Midlands chief constable for keeping racist football hooligans off the streets of Birmingham are strangely silent about Kent's chief constable allowing fascists to set up road blocks in Dover. 021
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026'Politicians Should Wear Sponsor Jackets Like NASCAR Drivers' Robin Williams. 011
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So let me get this straight. The government wants us to stockpile food in homes at risk of being burnt down and flooded, in case they get burnt down or flooded. Because they have no strategy for mitigation or adaptation beyond "You're on your own mate, deal with it." 010
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is insane. Just two of the UKs planned data centres will emit more carbon that ExxonMobil’s UK operations. At 2C of global warming 2 billion people die at 3C 4 billion die. These data centres are incompatible with human and a habitable planet. share.google/LhM52cx7t4Ww...share.googleTwo planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis findsExclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Britain is going to go to COP31 in November and demand a global ban on disposable BBQ's to halt global warming isn't it? 🤔 100
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Imagine being PM at pivotal moment in human history. Having the opportunity to show bold and decisive leadership as humanity stares into the abyss of climate collapse. And the best you can come up with is asking retailers for a voluntary ban on disposable BBQ's. FFS. 031
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Sod the eclipse, I'm more interested in seeing it rain again! 020
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Just think kids when you decide to pass the time breaking into a billionaire's doomsday bunker, to eat its inhabitants, by chatting about the summer of 26, no one will believe it was that cool back then. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Think I'm going to give the remake of Billy Elliott a miss. He'll have a Kestrel on his arm next. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The biggest threat to capitalism is people who have enough time,and energy to engage in critical thinking. That's why the entire capitalist system is designed to ensure you're engaged in a constant struggle for survival and continually stressed out and exhausted. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I always thought Trump was a bit of a pussy. 🤣 011
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Imagine valuing our national parks so little they have to do this to survive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPeak District National Park partnership with Skoda criticisedSkoda installs adverts for one of their new cars on Peak District National Park signs. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Call me old fashioned, but I much preferred football when it was a game of two halves and half-time was barely long enough for the manager to swear at the players and throw teacups round the dressing room. 020
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The real driver for the West's obsession with increasing military spending is climate change. It's about holding back the millions of climate refugees and keeping a lid on dissent at home while taking what capital needs by force until the whole edifice collapses around us. 010
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tuchel admits late substitutions cost England the game. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In a few thousand years from now archeologists will uncover the looted remains of the billionaires doomsday bunkers and marvel at the stupidity of those who thought they could wait out the climate chaos they unleashed and the even greater stupidity of those who let them. 000
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026As we "celebrate" the 250th anniversary of American Imperialism crushing the hopes and dreams of millions at home and around the globe, it's worth remembering that all empires eventually crumble and fall. 010
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026UK: Household energy bills will have to rise to pay for people using fans. France: EDF gives £69m to schools, Nurseries and care homes to invest in air conditioning. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comGreat Britain’s grid operator warns again over power supplies in heatwaveNeso asks generators to provide extra electricity on Friday evening to meet demand from fans and air conditioning 100
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 19/06/2026You can pour billions of litres of raw sewage into a river and billions of pounds into shareholders pockets, secure in the knowledge they will do absolutely nothing to you, but God held you if you clean a river without a permit! www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...mylondon.newsMan facing up to 2 years in prison for clearing rubbish from East London riverPaul Powlesland, 40, and a group of volunteers filled over 200 bags of rubbish from the River Roding in Barking, East London 021
Richard Alonzo @redrichard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Looking forward to Keir Starmer issuing an apology in the House of Commons for all the snide remarks he's made at PMQ's and elsewhere about this. 151
Reposted by Richard AlonzoSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"This government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. Frankly I'm deeply ashamed" Labour peer Peter Hain in the Lords in July last year 351565560