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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

‘You’ve stolen my happy retirement’: the letter shaming Rachel Reeves www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/in... Well worth reading by anyone with a hard earned private pension

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‘You’ve stolen my happy retirement’: the letter shaming Rachel Reeves

Pensioner who faces £1m tax bill on his modest savings urges the Chancellor to think again

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Labour’s British building boom not possible, construction authorities say f7td5.app.goo.gl/oGdV2h Sent via @updayUK Labours pipe dreams shown up as unatainable

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment www.disabilitynewsservice.com/activists-as... The answer is simple. Labour are as bad as the Conservatives in many respects They both have the same civil servants to deal with

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Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment

Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among hundreds of t…

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Americans can hurt the billionaires that are supporting Trump by organising boycotts of all of the companies that they own By not purchasing their goods or services, but buying from their competitors instead, will harm their bottom lines They don't like to lose money or see a lack of growth

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

1,000 days of tears and buck-passing: the evidence from the Post Office inquiry’s key witnesses www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... Prosecute every single one of these individuals in the same ruthless fashion that they undertook their campaign against Post Masters and Post Mistresses

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1,000 days of tears and buck-passing: the evidence from the Post Office inquiry’s key witnesses

As the long-running inquiry into one the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history wraps up, we review the evidence from key players

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Recession warning as UK economy SHRINKS in blow to Reeves's fiscal agenda www.gbnews.com/money/recess... I don't like saying "I told you so", but........"I told you so". An incompetent Chancellor, Prime Minister and Government. Lead by Donkeys! We got what we deserve

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Recession warning as UK economy SHRINKS in blow to Reeves's fiscal agenda

A recession is defined as happening when a country's economy experiences two quarters of negative growth consecutively

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

All civilisations come to an end History shows the reasons to be greed and excessive control As my children used to say....."are we nearly there yet?"

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Founding Fathers, today, would be packing their bags and leaving on the first plane or ship they could get passage on before January 6th They would be hanging their heads in shame and despair at how their democratic utopia has been destroyed and is being turned into a corrupt dictatorship

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💙 R Gale 💙 @rayleengale.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

They ain’t that bold! 😆

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Trump got into power originally on the promise to drain the swamp People didn't understand that he was intending to get rid of the grifters who were in power at the time to replace them with bigger grifters When will the penny finally drop that the American system is totally broken beyond repair?

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Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸 @sisterswendy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yep. If only voters could have known...

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GayleC @gaylechilled.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

LOL. I enthusiastically endorse this proposal.

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GayleC @gaylechilled.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Jim Wright perfectly nails hatefulness to the bathroom wall.

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

'Rachel Reeves is on a mission to make every statement meaningless' f7td5.app.goo.gl/nd2Zt8 Sent via @updayUK The truth is out, if you care to read it. The Chancellor and Prime Minister both lie, are controlled by unions, and are only interested in power, not the benefit of the people

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Steel is just the start: Britain is now incapable of producing anything physical www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12... Finally, some one realises the folly of successive governments, etc. The UK has been screwed by Governments, Industrualists and Investors.

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Steel is just the start: Britain is now incapable of producing anything physical

Bringing the benighted steelmaker back onto the Government’s books would make Whitehall accountable for high energy costs

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

UK government announce that new assault ships will arrive in service in 2033 Having announced the decommissioning of our existing assault ships to save a few pounds, what are we supposed to do for the next 8 years? Pray that the Donkey's that lead us don't get us involved in a war for 8 years

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Rural boost: Government injects nearly £350 million into farming in boost to Britain’s food security www.gov.uk/government/n... Gross hypocracy The measures being imposed by the Chancellor from her budget will render this a total waste of money. There will be no farmers or countryside to support

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Rural boost: Government injects nearly £350 million into farming in boost to Britain’s food security

Government injects £343 million of funding into the rural economy last week, benefiting more than 31,000 farmers.

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

(borrowed image) The state of The Church of England Collapsing due to lack of faith bought on by management incompetence, political correctness and naval gazing

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I remember, towards the end of the Vietnam war, American veterans surrounding the Whitehouse perimeter wire and hurling their medals back at the President in protest I suggest that true American patriots do the same again with fully loaded dog poop bags on a daily basis following inauguration day

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Trump shows his distain for American institutions again He believes that his tin pot dunnie outhouse, Mar-a-Lago, is a fitting place to conduct state business and not a location in Wahington DC, the home of American democracy

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Chancellor should make budget savings; Put a stop to ALL outsourcing of services and infrastructure projects (close down all PFI's) and return responsibilities to central and local government departments PFI's take too much from budgets in NHS Defence Education etc. PFI's do not save costs

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Dozens of Post Office and Fujitsu staff investigated for perjury and perverting course of justice over Horizon scandal www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim... About time too. This scandal must end. ALL Post Masters / Mistresses should be compensated in full for their losses, interest and damages

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Dozens of Post Office and Fujitsu staff probed for crimes linked to Horizon scandal

A 100-strong national taskforce is probing staff at Fujitsu, the Post Office and legal professionals over crimes but no charging decisions will be made until after the public inquiry report

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Are we really about to see Labour make cuts in government spending? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12... This is the truth Labour is not only helping the UK to recession and bankruptcy, but they are also continuing with the previous government's cut backs . Glad we've got a Labour government now?

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Are we really about to see Labour make cuts in government spending?

And take on the public sector unions in doing so

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Chancellor of tge Exchequer, having set her preposterous budget, is now demanding that all government departments make savings of 5% 5% of the budget is equal to more money than this government gives to the Ministry of Defence to protect us all WE ARE TRULY BEING LEAD BY DONKEYS

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Thousands of police officers face losing their job, Yvette Cooper warned www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12... This government lies. Statement. We're going to increase numbers of police officers. Reality. We've got to cut numbers of police officers to meet budgets.

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Thousands of police officers face losing their job, Yvette Cooper warned

Chief constables tell Home Secretary they will be forced to make major staffing cuts because of £300m shortfall in funding settlement

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This government just does not get it after all this time The Btitish public were given a referendum.on leaving the EU The majority, by 4%, was to leave As far as I know, NOBODY HAS BEEN CONSULTED REGARDING GETTING CLOSER TO THE EU, OR TO REJOIN THE EU

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Once again, we hear that water companies wish to increase prices due to increased costs The increased costs are the massive National Insurance hike foisted on them by the Chancellor At the same tim, we are told that OFWAT, their regulator, uses the same consultants as the water companies LUNATIC

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So project 'nut zero' for the UK has taken another step along the path to delusional land. Sturmers government is now telling the MOD that all battlefield equipment, tanks, etc. must now be designed to go electric. How the hell do they expect that to work out? Render our troops inoperable?

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The Syrian armed forces retire from the buffer zone across the Golan hieghts as their infrastructure disintegrates. What does Israel do? A land grab. Not content with destroying and stealing the Gaza strip they're now plundering more land from their neighbours.

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm seeing great stories on the news feeds Tesla cybertruck frame breaks in half after hitting pot hole 🤣 Tesla cybertruck suspension collapses after hitting curb stone 🤣 and so it goes on What great marketing??

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

He will live in infamy because history is written by dispassionate scholars based on facts, not ideological political extremists living in their own reality. #NoNamesNeeded

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Missouri Republican Proposes £787 Reward and Bounty Hunter Programme to Track Illegal Immigrants f7td5.app.goo.gl/yvMM8V Sent via @updayUK McCarthyism returns to the USA

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Rachel Reeves will expose the rot at the heart of public sector pensions www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/re... If the Chancellor really wants to save money and reduce public spending, then she should put public pensions in line with private pensions Correct this great inequality

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Rachel Reeves will expose the rot at the heart of public sector pensions

The Chancellor’s recklessness threatens to kill off gold-plated schemes for good

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Rachel Reeves car taxes expected to raise billions for Labour with drivers left footing the bill www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/ca... The Chancellor is destroying car manufacturing and will prevent people from owning vehicles due to excessive taxes she is imposing. Where will the tax revenues come from?

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Rachel Reeves car taxes expected to raise billions for Labour with drivers left footing the bill

Office for Budget Responsibility estimates car tax changes will generate £8.8billion

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Rachel Reeves tells small business owner: ‘We are trying to help’ f7td5.app.goo.gl/vax6KB Sent via @updayUK The Chancellor, clearly, has never run a small business and has no understanding of the costs involved. NI is nit the only tax that small businesses are faced with.

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Richard Sykes @sykesmiddleman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

MPs claim £300,000 for energy bills amid winter fuel payment cut inews.co.uk/news/winter-... Gross hypocrisy. The second home allowances that help MPs get wealthy at taxpayers' expense should be abolished. Don't they know that the rest of us are enduring a cost of living cris?

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MPs claim £300,000 for energy bills amid winter fuel payment cut

Some MPs have stopped claiming for their energy bills or are weighing up their decision after a backlash to the winter fuel payment cut

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Paul Da Pork Hunt & Mr Moo (Friends with Larry) @paulcwgb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

SIR Starmer NEVER Had any of my trust in the first place! Irony > A Titled Sir as leader of a once Party For the Working class that had been folded into the club of elitists. Now has the additional Title of SIR Profiteering Master. Along with a tribe of Grifting Master Profiteers licking his arse.

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