Reposted by SlimwashermanBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thinking about the impact of the triple lock on the state pension can be confusing as there's a number of interacting moving parts (earnings, inflation, 2.5%). 🤷♂️❓ But here's a visualisation that hopefully might help...1/5 44029
Reposted by SlimwashermanBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...Put those together and the result is that over 15 years the triple lock has pushed up the state pension in cash terms by more than growth in average earnings and more than the increase in prices...4/5 1147
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Chris Mason is texting his mates on live telly. Fuck sake 000
Reposted by SlimwashermanByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🟣 SUBSTACK Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair By @adambienkov.bsky.social Read below. ↓bylinesupplement.comAndy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of DespairThe Prime Minister’s emotional and expansive speech opened the door to a genuine shift in our politics, argues Adam Bienkov 33512
Reposted by SlimwashermanRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron. 103564200
Reposted by SlimwashermanDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195122200
Reposted by SlimwashermanAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle. 2730958
Reposted by SlimwashermanJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well. 55376110
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Danny Tommy Robinson both arrested on one day 👌 Sweet. 031
Reposted by SlimwashermanPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia 791341380
Reposted by SlimwashermanOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Footage appears to show Danny Tommo slashing an RNLI boat 149582308
Reposted by SlimwashermanJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428081169
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bloke in QT audience talking about AI danger, to paraphrase, "we were supposed to frazzle cos of the ozone layer, still here. Then there were global warming, we're still here. I think it's just a scam so we by some defence system so we're not frazzled to death." We're not going to make it, are we? 001
Reposted by SlimwashermanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails" 17823517783
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagine the furore if "unelected" Burnham had completely ripped up the manifesto that Labour and Starmer had won the election with and taken a different route.(Even if manifestos generally explode upon contact with real life) Jenrick, Yusef, the Mail would have been baying for a general election. 000
Reposted by SlimwashermanSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire 12389122
Reposted by SlimwashermanAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The same people who were rending their garments when Lord Alli bought a dress for Starmer's wife, screeching 'WHAT INFLUENCE IS HE BUYING?' now look voters in the eyes and insist the crypto bros giving them £72m want nothing in return. By all means, take the donation, but stop taking the piss." 9523147
Reposted by SlimwashermanOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In fact there's been a whole series of events over the last decade including one terrible and very high profile suicide and sexual assault associated with those barracks. And this. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/soldier...thelondoneconomic.comSoldier convicted of raping a sleeping woman in his barracksThe woman said: “He has taken not only the last two years of my life but the incident will be part of my life forever.” 215327
Reposted by SlimwashermanOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...oxfordmail.co.ukSoldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilianBradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders 851352442
Reposted by SlimwashermanJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good straightforward reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Musk's promotion of Restore/Rupert Low/civil war in the UK. Lots of detail, no polemics. The BBC could and should do this. Why doesn't it? archive.ph/eTOS5 14288116
Reposted by SlimwashermanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 519153125867
Reposted by SlimwashermanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it? 1259190765820
Reposted by SlimwashermanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. 23767622520
Reposted by SlimwashermanMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/09/2026AI leaders: “We need to slow down, we may have created something hurtling us towards the extinction of humanity.” Mike Johnson: “Now hold on there, let’s not be too hasty. What if China extinguishes humanity first?” 46644154
Reposted by SlimwashermanFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Two crypto billionaires donated £36 million each to Reform UK, how does that compare to donations in European countries? 79751
Reposted by SlimwashermanFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/09/20262020: Ben Delo, "Last year I signed The Giving Pledge, pledging to give the majority of my wealth to good causes over my lifetime" 2026: Ben Delo donates £36 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK 2722788
Reposted by SlimwashermanFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Awks - when Reform UK complain about the establishment but are also funded by the establishment Have a peek at this article by @adambienkov.bsky.social www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-... 6359137
Reposted by SlimwashermanWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy. 601452378
Reposted by SlimwashermanSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it. 43799249
Reposted by SlimwashermanJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump 11348123
Reposted by SlimwashermanOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party" 45526147
Reposted by SlimwashermanAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now 14623531203
Reposted by SlimwashermanHumanists UK @humanists.uk · 11/09/2026Jess Phillips delivers an emotional speech about her mother who thought deeply about her death, but was denied the choice of an assisted death with her family @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social 614221
Reposted by SlimwashermanJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes. 14639421375
Reposted by SlimwashermanRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123741266
Reposted by SlimwashermanJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas 323896304
Reposted by SlimwashermanAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026JFC, the Telegraph description reads: "Fresh from their 'stop the boats' demonstration in Dover on Saturday, masked protesters board a train as three female passengers, unconnected with the men, look on." And the title is - I kid you not - "Race for the train". AREN'T MASKED RACIST MILITIAS FUN? 76621201
Reposted by SlimwashermanRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A suggested statement for Andy Burnham. 271051351
Reposted by SlimwashermanAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Farage, a man who was doing Cameo videos for £70 a pop as late as March 2026, apparently turned up to a meeting to discuss a half-million donation and "wasn't really listening". What utter contempt he has for the very democracy, country, and people that he claims to love. 371471341
Reposted by SlimwashermanDaniel Bruce @danieljbruce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Reform UK foreign donation allegations: @transparencyuk.bsky.social’s @duncanhames.bsky.social analyses the @channel4news.bsky.social findings with @lbc.co.uk’s @mrjamesob.bsky.social #UKPolitics 312740
Reposted by SlimwashermanContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Friday Cartoon 😃 1592802480
Reposted by SlimwashermanLBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The news about JL Partners/Reform UK justifies my long held belief that almost all of these polling companies are fraudulent and/or corrupt. I've been going at them for a long time. 2249
Reposted by SlimwashermanPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836011429
Reposted by SlimwashermanSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox. 2041965542
Reposted by SlimwashermanJo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Probably too much to ask but it would be useful if we could keep in mind that this is a global bond sell off and therefore unlikely to be driven by UK policy. 815328
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Man, Chris Mason is a massive bell end. Just go to GBeebies and be done with it. 020
Reposted by SlimwashermanFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Mark Fairhurst, Chair, Prison Officer's Association, "We had 2,400 more staff in the 1990s than we do now, and now we're locking up twice as many prisoners" "The Conservative government closed 23 prisons, lost over 10,000 cell spaces, imagine if we had those now, we wouldn't be in this mess now" 13270105
Reposted by SlimwashermanSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige. 772449723