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Robert

@rhrlck.bsky.social
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Love my wife, kids, dogs, books, music, football (global version), Leeds United, more or less in that order. Unreconstructed socialist trying to hang on to sanity.

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What surprises me more is that the media happily trot out their words and opinions without pointing this essential paradox out.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More evidence of fighting age men swarming uninvited into our towns.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Strange that Reform ex-Tory Suella Braverman chooses to ignore that Nigel Farage never bothered with the inconvenience of a leadership election when he became leader of Reform. Or when Malcolm Offord was imposed as leader of Reform Scotland & Dan Thomas in Wales by Farage.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#LordHeseltine insisted that the right thing to do for the country would be to rejoin the EU, and tear down ‘the barriers’ which are hampering international trade. “#Brexit was a self-imposed disaster for this country," he wrote. #NigelFarage #ReformUK #BrexitReality #Tories
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
After 14 years in power, the Tories decide that the right time to abolish business rates is when they can't.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/05/2026
Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago. That is multiple times the cost of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools such as Eton College and of its young offenders institutions. ft.trib.al/MwQX4gy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
An Invention of Collective Nouns
 
A reckoning of spreadsheets.
A distraction of smartphones.
A prattle of podcasts.
A mispronunciation of scones.
 
A clique of photographers.
A heard of precedents.
An enjambment of
poets. A grope of presidents.
 
A pile of haemorrhoids.
A bunion of personal trainers.
A bout of estimations.
A condescension of mansplainers.
 
A stroke of geniuses.
A spot of adolescents.
An embarrassment of Richards.
A collection correction of pedants.


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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Woman "Flags went up before the potholes were sorted. You could not tell the truth if your life depended on it. So get your silly little racist flags and stick them where the sun doesn't shine. It's pathetic. You're pathetic" Lee Anderson "It's very nice to meet you" 🤣
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘The Power of a Homophone’.
The Power of a Homophone
 
“Sometimes the power
of a homophone
will just come out of nowhere
and hit you –
like being struck
by a ten ton truck,”
articulated Laurie.


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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The Art of the Deal.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Doesn't pay any tax in the UK because he ran away to the Tax Haven Singapore to escape the effects of the Brexit he helped create. Then he bought up hundred of millions of pounds of farmland to avoid tax, then cried when it was made taxable. James Dyson is a scumbag.
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Brexit remains unforgivable in the damage it’s done to our country, our democracy and to people’s lives. Ruinous stupidity, vengeful prejudice and political dishonesty. And Farage wants more of that. Threatening to tear up improvements to our Brexit deal and leave the ECHR. Jeezus, UK. Wake TF up.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks. But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof. They were held in prison for 3 days then deported. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.
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FPL Dabby @dabbyp.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The fact we have a 4 day weekend coming up and no Premier League football is a national scandal and the people responsible should be in prison
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is Britain. 25.3m Britons live below Minimum Income Standard. 3m malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Higher rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. Average real wage unchanged since 2008. Govts enslaved by the super-rich.
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Is Britain on the path to barbarism?
Dehumanisation of the people always unleashes personal and social tragedies
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Spartacuss - 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇨🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @elbowsuk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If that cunt Nigel Farage wasn't in parliament for the energy debate why the fuck did #BBCnews seek him out in another part of the country for his flacid opinion????? If he can't be arsed to attend parliament his opinion should not be courted. WANKERS!
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/03/2026
genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On Tony Blair’s intervention… 1) Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he… 2) It’s not “America asking”. It’s Trump raging… 3) Seriously now… STFU.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What an utterly disgusting and dangerous front page from the Mail today. Surely by now everyone can see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities and migrants to gain support. Everyone it seems except the Mail
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Nothing to see here…just more criminals buying their way out prison.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Reform UK Suella Braverman is blaming the Left for Brexit. She claims it was a Left Wing project, enacted by the Left. Despite Suella Braverman being in Government and even in the Cabinet as a Conservative as it happened. They think you are stupid.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/01/2026
Turns out the real threat isn’t immigrants - it’s blue zip codes.
FLA and TX have millions of immigrants.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
People try to ascribe motives, strategy and logic to Trump but it's not acknowledged nearly enough that he's simply a spectacularly stupid man who happens to be extremely rich and entitled with it and therefore has gained a lot of power. He's a very clear example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a twat who lives in Dubai who withdrew £3m from his company before liquidating it while owing £1.25m in unpaid tax.
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Robert @rhrlck.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Such an important point.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"I should just point out that this will be the 4th appearance since September for unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time. Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point
The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever. Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years. They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/11/2025
Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. Staggering economic self-harm. bit.ly/44faQch
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'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
It's funny because it's true.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If I came from a family that has held a seat in House of Lords for 7 generations and used it to protect their vast empire from Tax and Inheritance Tax. I probably wouldn't be complaining about free bus passes for Senior Citizens. You'd look ridiculous.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
How is he still invited on to shows - it is a bloody circle jerk www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
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The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
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dunnersmads.bsky.social @dunnersmads.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"I, state your name, do solemnly swear..." Unbelievable
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong. Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary. We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I presume this came from the top - giving the benefit of the doubt, even then , to not follow the New York mayoral race at a time when USA is increasingly a dictatorship would just demonstrate that your lack of interest in the world means you should not be in politics
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/11/2025
Which one is more English?
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