Reposted by ScouseDogMumloriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Does anyone else EVER wonder how some leaders EVER get voted in? When they are, automatically become immune to laws WE have to abide to???GOOD LORD, if we did a tiny fraction of corruption Tories did we would be banged up. WHY does society SIMPLY ACCEPT THIS WAY OF THINGS?? 042
Reposted by ScouseDogMumMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”eastangliabylines.co.ukFight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracyFascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future 1212812894
Reposted by ScouseDogMum🌸🌷🌼LilSausageFactory🌼🌷🌸 @lilsausagefactory.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Gonna staple his* bollocks to his ears, stick a metal bucket on his head, and parade him round town clanging said bucket with a fucking baseball bat. Can someone get Starmer to ban sales of fireworks to people who peel bananas with their feet? *Definitely 051
Reposted by ScouseDogMumDame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 27/12/2024What people think Covid is: A bad cold that sometimes causes the elderly or vulnerable to die. What Covid actually is: A SARS pathogen that causes vascular damage (even in mild cases) resulting in health issues, either now or in the future, regardless of age or health status. #LongCovid 515366
Reposted by ScouseDogMumDame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I suffered organ damage & long-term health issues from Covid. People be like: IT’S VACCINES! 👉 I got Covid in March 2020. Pre-vaccines. 👉 YOU WERE OLD OR SICK! I was 39, fit & healthy. (Not that it should matter.) 👉 IT’S RARE! Over 100 million worldwide. That we know about. So far. #LongCovidmedia.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with the words but written on the bottomALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words but written on the bottom 1527271
Reposted by ScouseDogMumJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 28/12/2024General hatred, bigotry, prejudice, racism, misogyny, and antisemitism. Elon, the felon, and the Heritage Foundations’ ideologies are rooted in patriarchal, white Christian nationalism. A country of conservative white Christians where the wealthiest men rule. 311215
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAnonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 28/12/2024The world’s richest 1% captured nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created in 2024, while millions still struggle to afford basic necessities. Inequality isn’t just rising; it’s skyrocketing. 16668223
Reposted by ScouseDogMumDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 28/12/2024UK spending on those with most needs compared to other nations If you are unemployed, need a state pension, require social care or other form of incapacity, the UK is not generous by any definition Health spending is also lower than other countries It’s the healthy & wealthy making the decisions 58364
Reposted by ScouseDogMumGraham Barber @grahambarber.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Future historians will look back on water privatisation as being one of the biggest con tricks ever carried out. Shareholders (mostly overseas) and executives have enriched themselves, while infrastructure has deteriorated and the consumer has suffered a declining service. Please tell me I'm wrong! 4235
Reposted by ScouseDogMumTrish #AbolishTheMonarchy #FreePalestine @tr1shw.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Nor OFGEM either 🤬 031
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAlgarve Celtic @algarveceltic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024neither OFWAT or OFCOM fit for purpose 2101
Reposted by ScouseDogMumPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/12/2024England's water companies fined just £2 since 2021 for breaching regulations. OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines. So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends archive.ph/iIugAinews.co.ukWater companies fined just £2 for rule breaking despite record sewageOfwat has been accused of not acting quickly enough to issue fines against water companies for sewage dumping 38667360
Reposted by ScouseDogMumFade to black ⚫️ @fade-to-black.bsky.social · 24/12/2024This covers the next four years perfectly. 0486
Reposted by ScouseDogMumClaire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Sorry, but there’s absolutely no evidence that this government cares about the poorest in society, the old or the most vulnerable. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong. 8384
Reposted by ScouseDogMumBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25 22495209
Reposted by ScouseDogMumFiona Turner @fifi65.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Just don't get why this hasn't had more signatures. Everybody seemed to care enough about a dignified death. Not so much dignity in their lives, months before that last breath. 043
Reposted by ScouseDogMumMark Hughes @unsungheromark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... I'm asking everyone that has followed me to please ask their followers to sign this petition verify the email then pass it on,I'm one terminally ill man asking for help do please also ask them to follow & support me . To all of you I wish you a happy Christmaspetition.parliament.ukPetition: Automatic fast track benefits for anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness.I call on the government to automatically fast track anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness, not just those in their final year of life, so they can get essential financial support. We think this wo... 045
Reposted by ScouseDogMumJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Massive Brexiter says what now? 567112191517
Reposted by ScouseDogMumEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It's never a 'crack down' on corporate crime... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comStarmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crimeAfter a rocky start, PM sets out ‘next phase’ covering economic growth, NHS backlogs, energy, and a ‘bobby on every beat’ 1421787
Reposted by ScouseDogMumThe Squeaky Wheel @thesqueakywheel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024“Maybe it’s possible that a lifetime of struggling with basic daily living tasks means I just didn’t develop the skills I need to do this job efficiently.” thesqueakywheel.org/needs-writer... 061
Reposted by ScouseDogMumOlly Glover, MP 🔶 @ollyglover.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Vehicles parked on pavements remains a persistent issue for many pedestrians, especially people with a vision impairment or other disability. That's why I'm supporting the #GuideDogsUKcampaign to make pavement parking illegal. It was a pleasure to meet Jessica and her gorgeous Guide Dog 091
ScouseDogMum @scousedogmum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024@justice-miller.bsky.social OMG...another Monk fan. Yaymedia.tenor.coma man is dancing in a living room with a fireplaceALT: a man is dancing in a living room with a fireplace 010
Reposted by ScouseDogMumDiogenes1147 @diogenes1147.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Trump pardoned Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, as well as his son-in-law’s father, Charles Kushner—who he just appointed as US ambassador to France. Sorry, but President Biden was right to pardon his son Hunter in order to protect him against Kash Patel’s weaponized FBI. 2328
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I wish the media spent half as long on the fact that Donald Trump pardoned Charles Kushner only to appoint him an ambassador as they did bashing President Biden for the Hunter pardon. 23988761759
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024What do you call it when a giant pigeon tries to seize power? An attempted coo 27788121
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024(ON A WALKING TOUR OF LONDON) TOUR GUIDE: This is the spot where, in 2019, someone threw a pound coin clear across the Thames TOURIST: How is that even possible? TOUR GUIDE: Your money went further back then 1051447
Reposted by ScouseDogMumSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Two words for certain types of people, should you need them: microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing. struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’. 982636450
Reposted by ScouseDogMumDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024‘It’s absurd that GPs can’t find jobs’ @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Yet there are the equivalent of over 3000 GPs (full time equivalent) available now Many are looking at options in other careers, private sectors & overseas Retention of experienced/trained GPs is vital #GeneralPractice #MedSky 49041
Reposted by ScouseDogMumBig Issue @bigissue.com · 03/12/2024Charities have urged the Labour government to scrap the two-child benefit cap “immediately” in order to meet its child poverty strategy targets. Learn more. ⬇️ buff.ly/4ig1qCW 0135
Reposted by ScouseDogMumKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 03/12/2024“The new Covid corruption commissioner has started an investigation into personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud.” Not a moment too soon. buff.lyCovid corruption commissioner gets to workTom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off. 811734
Reposted by ScouseDogMumSteve Parks @steveparks.me · 03/12/2024Will they have the power to follow the trail beyond the contracting entity, to the holding companies and people beyond? I fear many of the contracting entities were fly by night disposable limited companies that have since been liquidated. 131
ScouseDogMum @scousedogmum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It's not benefits that are an issue in the UK. It's super rich ripping us off with tax fraud/evasion & bailing out utilities & banks. We got austerity, they got richer. NHS & social care has been torn apart leaving us sicker & needing benefits coz we can't get treated soon enough to get back to work 010
Reposted by ScouseDogMumLyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 03/12/2024action.wemove.eu/signup/2024-...action.wemove.euFor an Ambitious Plan to Combat RapeAfter being raped by dozens of men over a decade, Gisèle Pelicot is defending all women by confronting her attackers in a historic trial. Shame must change sides: sign with me for an Ambitious Plan to... 2146
Reposted by ScouseDogMumLyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 03/12/2024actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...actionnetwork.org84% Hike for Sewage in Rivers? Tell OFWAT: Enough is Enough!On 19th December, OFWAT will announce one of the biggest water bill hikes in history. Despite overwhelming public opposition, water bosses are pressuring our regulator to approve a staggering 40% ave... 02613
Reposted by ScouseDogMumAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“A lot of the anxiety [around assisted dying] has to do with cultural, rather than legislative failings: how we treat older people, how we treat illness, how we treat incapacity, how we treat disability, how we value or devalue life. Those things require a cultural shift.” 514124
Reposted by ScouseDogMumE G Nomad @egnomad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024👏 When people say “we can’t put a price on life”, I can’t help but think we already do - it was called Austerity. No one cared then about pricing our spend on education/healthcare/areas linked to quality of life and survival rates; but explicitly bringing death into the equation seems too much. 042
Reposted by ScouseDogMumSandy Sneddon @sandy1924.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Norway used the money from their share of North Sea Oil to create this massive sovereign wealth fund. Successive British governments used theirs to fund tax cuts for the rich. 31359
Reposted by ScouseDogMumBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024In 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'. 10933141253
Reposted by ScouseDogMumFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Twitter is like a playground where the teachers are inside having lunch as chaos reigns outside, anything and everything goes Bluesky is like a Theatre production with an intermission, fabulous people and conversations on and off stage Sometimes I'll be in the playground, sometimes at the theatre 3758955
Reposted by ScouseDogMumYorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/12/2024Who would have thought these peaceful Yorkshire fields once formed the stage for one of the bloodiest battles of the War of the Roses (known at the time as the 'Cousins War'), in which the Yorkists emerged victorious? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/the-b...yorkshirebylines.co.ukThe Battle of TowtonA civil war that pitted two strands of the country’s royal family against each other, the War of the Roses was one of the most famous non-religious civil wars in European history 182
Reposted by ScouseDogMumSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I hope everyone is paying close attention to how the Hunter Biden pardon is being covered. If you wondered why Trump and his cronies can betray America and commit ceaseless crimes for years without consequences but Democrats can't right obviously partisan wrongs, the current media reaction is why. 813204485519
Reposted by ScouseDogMumPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies" www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 22893198
Reposted by ScouseDogMumRainwater @rainwater14.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Can you believe Van Gogh painted this while in an asylum?? It was his view of the night sky outside his window! -makes me want to check into one today! I can’t paint but I think I’d rather be in there with guys like this than out here with Elmo loonies! artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-st...artsandculture.google.comThe Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh - Google Arts & CultureVan Gogh's night sky is a field of roiling energy. Below the exploding stars, the village is a place of quiet order. Connecting earth and sky is the flamel... 36310