Jennie Down

Not looking for followers, just here to stay informed and try to make sense of the world we live in.

[Jennie Down @JennieDown]

@UndisScot Plockton

[Jennie Down @JennieDown]

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[Thomas | Less Noise, More Delivery @TomSoede]

The interesting thing here is not that everyone suddenly loves Starmer.

It is that outside the Westminster/media bubble, many people seem to understand something very basic:

A country cannot rebuild itself through permanent leadership panic.

Stability is not glamorous.

It does not trend as easily as drama.

It does not feed the pundit class in quite the same way.

But after the Tory circus — five prime ministers, endless faction fights, mini-budgets, resignations, scandals and collapse — stability matters.

You do not have to agree with every decision Starmer makes to understand that.

You do not have to think he is charismatic to understand that.

You only have to ask one question:

Would another leadership war really help the country right now?

For many people outside the bubble, the answer seems to be no.

Country first cannot just be a slogan.

Sometimes it means giving a Prime Minister with a majority the time and space to govern.

If this speaks to you, please repost it — not for me, but for someone who is tired of chaos being sold as politics. And - yeah you guessed it - follow me.

[Thomas | Less Noise, More Delivery @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very “just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Needs to stop NOW.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

A good question @nationalgriduk we all know the importance of protecting hedgerows especially at this time of the year with nesting birds. So why now? 👇

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[WAFL Dread 2 @TVFox1986]

Poll: Your preference for Labour leader/PM... Pls repost afterwards for better outlook... #Leadership #Labour #FridayFeeling

[Tim Chapman @IslingtonChap]

This video should be compulsorily broadcast onto every screen in the country. TV and mobile phone, on loop until the danger passes. https://t.co/qdic4CBNem

[Joshua Silver @eyejosh]

Please repost if you agree that it would be extremely unwise for Labour to remove Keir Starmer right now

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh

[Jennie Down @JennieDown]

@UndisScot Kyle of Tongue causeway

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Hi @wessexwater have you seen these photos and issue regarding swallows being blocked from their nesting site? @Stephen47629998 can you tell @wessexwater the address so there is no doubt. And @wessexwater could you remove the mesh so the swallows can get back home?

[freckles68 🍃💚 🍃 @Freckles68.bsky.social @freckles681]

Lets get these young lads to their target to help save Penrhos @WriterHannahBT @writethewrongs2 @DeborahPitman @LoveGrowingVeg @Vernia @CarlBovisNature @BHAPottingSheds @DeborahMeaden @aligreen9999 @natalieben please share and if you can donate something FAB !

[Jennie Down @JennieDown]

@UndisScot Carrbridge

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Reform UK quotes in the banned Labour political broadcast.

It was banned by Ofcom, so please share far and wide!!! 👇👇👇

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

It's only fair to give credit to @networkrail for doing the right thing... even with huge public outcry, I've had personal experience of big companies just riding it out, putting out PR statements & doing precisely nothing, so well done to them.👏
Swifts still have a home!😊🐦

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

Thanks to @networkrail and everyone involved in this campaign to restore swifts traditional nesting places. It demonstrates that these brave little birds, who journey here each Spring from sub-Saharan Africa, are admirable, precious, and loved by many.

[Deborah Pitman @DeborahPitman]

1/6 The news that Network Rail will drill open the blocked nest entrances at Chapel Milton Viaduct means that, hopefully, six swifts will be able to return safely to their historic nest sites and once again rule the skies above Chapel Milton.