Tim Crawford, GI4OPH

married to carmelita, 4 kids . Interests,amateur radio, chasing DX on HF/VHf. Music (Alt-country, folk, blues etc. Reading, Real ale. F1, &Liverpool FC.

[Whispering Bob's Archive @BHarrisArchive]

VIDEO: Bob on BBC Breakfast this morning discussing his health and stepping down from his radio shows...

https://t.co/rccqH1wWCp

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

New figures show Reform raked in £9m in 3 months, with Farage still in the hotseat for his £5m "gift" from billionaire Chris Harborne.

£4m came from billionaire Ben Delo, who was convicted for facilitating money laundering in the US, but pardoned by Trump.

https://t.co/6tXHKCqMjm

[Roy Sholay 🇲🇺🦤 @ephemeral1107]

One of the two men charged with public order offences outside the police station in Southampton has been charged with possession of a knife.
Imagine being such a prick that you go to protest knife crime by carrying a concealed knife. And why would you if it was “peaceful”?

[Disability Rights @TalkThatTalk_K]

No, because it’s literally not possible to make cards that would cover the range of services and necessities disabled people have to spend their money on every month.

For all those wondering why Jeremy Vine has an obsession for punching down on disabled people, it’s to cover his own tax evading grift.
He doesn’t want you all focusing on tax evaders and those who do dodgy shit like making their 10 year old daughter a share holder to get around paying their fair share…
Read below and share. He should be accountable.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

No truer words have ever been said.

[Music of Bob Dylan @BobDylanProject]

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[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Paul Webster @G7KVE]

For those who are not aware, the location shown is Aughinish, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland. 🇮🇪

I have no words to add here. Draw your own conclusions.

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

I find it kind of astonishing that people who were enraged about police officers being attacked at Manchester Airport went to Southampton last night to erm….attack police officers 🤔

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Perhaps Nigel Farage could give an emergency address on the following:
The £5 million 'gift'.
The £1 million 'gift' to stitch up the 2019 General Election.
The Clacton House stamp duty tax dodge.
The 17 breaches of the MPs code of conduct.
Where exactly has he been hiding.

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

When one of Brian Clough's players got concussed, the physio came over and told him the player didn't know who he was.

Clough, full of sympathy, told him to tell the lad he was Pele and get back on the pitch 😂😂

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

I’m old enough to remember when Farage’s UKIP were as hostile to Polish folk as they are to Muslims.

["YNWA" The Story of Liverpool FC @LFCHistoryShow]

The Reds began as a club 134 years ago today. John Houlding signed the Change of Name certificate, and our beloved club became "Liverpool Football Club". Here is the original badge which translates as - (God has given us these days of leisure) #LFC #YNWA #Liverpool #badge😍♥️🏆

[Brendan May @bmay]

Farage is a cancer on our country. He must never be allowed to govern, ever.

[ChetLFC 🔴⚪🟡 @ChetLFC]

#OTD in 1892...
3 June.
Company Number 35668 officially changed its name to "The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Company Limited".
#LFC
#YNWA
#JohnHoulding
#SimonJude
#LFCandAG
#Anfield

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Farage is sick.

He's just made an "emergency address" where he exploited the tragic death of a young person, Henry Nowak, to push his hate fuelled agenda and try to deflect from the very serious allegations of bribery and misconduct levelled against him.

Farage is scum.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Britain often debates the cost of disability benefits. It talks far less about the cost of disability poverty - worsening health, greater NHS demand, social isolation, housing pressures and lost economic participation. Poverty itself creates expensive consequences.

[Nick Raine @nick_raine]

At least 40% of #UniversalCredit claimants are in employment. They claim because their employers do not pay them enough. The overwhelming majority are working class women in low paid jobs, many work in care. The solution is a proper living wage not attacking the working poor.