Tom Fegredo

Manchester based Motion Designer. Twitter is where I like to moan about stuff.

[Tom Fegredo @TomFegredo]

Cheers to the MEN for putting this together!

[Manchester News MEN @MENnewsdesk]

Beautiful footage of our city

[Tom Fegredo @TomFegredo]

@PoliticoTeacher I 100% think the greens shouldn’t stand a candidate. The stakes are too high. (Speaking as a Green voter btw)

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

It is interesting that dissent on foreign policy is almost invariably slandered as support for the foreign state to which we are being urged to be hostile. When it is in fact a desire to keep my own country out of needless danger.

[Tom Fegredo @TomFegredo]

@Paulbrexit72 @OliDugmore Sincerely wishing you all the best, Paul. The fact that our society has become so divided is a tragedy

[Tom Fegredo @TomFegredo]

@Paulbrexit72 @OliDugmore How very unkind

[Niz @NizMhani]

🚨BREAKING:

The "Board of Peace" launches its first war....

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

@TheBritLad This isn’t the Green candidate. Knowingly publishing lies about a political candidate is a criminal offence - it breaches Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983. I’d hope it’s acted on here.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

“Why is this relevant to Britain, why should I care?”

Because, besides anything else, the same political faction in American public life that openly celebrates this stuff wants to remake the global order. They don’t value your life if you disagree with them.

[Stella Tsantekidou @Stsantek]

Many owners of such properties believe they earned it and will squeak like pigs if you tell them to pay more tax to improve the society that allowed for such a vulgar windfall.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?

The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I admit it: that’s the first time I’ve cried over a party political broadcast.

Years of fear, hate, insecurity, death.

This was like coming up for air

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Reform is led by Londoners who haven’t had a lifetime of using railways in the North.

So I suppose it’s no surprise that they think it’s fine for us to be stuck with a second-class railway while the south gets modern, high-speed lines.👇🏻

We have higher ambitions for the North.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Have you ever been arrested before?"

"No. It's a farce. Do I look like a terrorist? For 40 years I've been a nurse & have never had a speeding ticket. That's why I'm here today, to highlight its just a ridiculous law"

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government:

One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience.

But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structural. Over the past 40 years, Britain has built a society in which consumption, status, and proximity to wealth have become defining features of the political class. The gravitational pull of money is now so great that even those who arrive in Westminster with the clearest sense of purpose find their heads turned.

Angela’s story is not unique. She came from humble beginnings, but the wealth that circles political life today is more concentrated, more brazen, and more intrusive than in the past. The old checks and balances, party rootedness in mass membership, trade union accountability, a press less entangled with oligarchic interests, have all weakened. Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position.

The mechanism is subtle but relentless. It is not corruption in the brown-envelope-under-the-table sense. It is the slow, almost invisible turning of heads. You are introduced to those who walked this path before you, former ministers who now sit comfortably in boardrooms or on the payroll of consultancies with six and seven-figure salaries. You are invited to corporate boxes at sporting events, to private dinners, to concerts and premiers. Lavish clothes or spectacles can be “within the rules,” provided they are declared. But by then the damage has been done.

The message is implicit but unmistakable: play the game, listen to us, and you too can enjoy more of this. The logic creeps into your personal life. You stretch to buy the house that can host the right gatherings. You measure your worth by the standards of a world that equates success with possessions and proximity to privilege. And once you are on that path, it is hard to step off.

This is, of course, a simplification of a complex socio-economic and political process. But as someone who came from a council estate myself, I see it all around me in Westminster. And it is not going to be changed by media witch-hunts, the tutting of ethics advisers, or even the occasional burst of public outrage.

As Gladstone once warned, “Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.” But in our current system, what is morally questionable is too often normalised, excused, and rebranded as “just the way things are.”

Real change will only come from a collective decision to choose a different path: to stop outsourcing our state to private interests, to end the revolving door between government and corporate boardrooms, to challenge the idea that the role of politics is to serve vast concentrations of wealth.

We can choose differently. We can once again put community, solidarity, and public service at the heart of our political life. We can insist that worth is measured not in the size of one’s house or the company one keeps, but in the contribution one makes to society and the integrity with which one serves.

Until we do, until we decide as a polity to hold up those values rather than the glittering prizes of private gain, hese scandals will not just recur. They will define the very character of our politics.

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 13 Examples of Elon Musk's Far-Right Amplification - Debunked.

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right propaganda about the UK on an hourly basis.

From hoaxes to conspiracy theories to open incitement, Musk has turned his 225M-follower account into a pipeline for racist lies and anti-democratic rhetoric. Let's have a closer look... 🧵👇

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Labour outflanked on civil liberties by…… @thetimes

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

For years I tried to engage thoughtfully in Middle Eastern controversies.I repeatedly visited Israel, travelled also to the West Bank,Gaza,Jordan,Iraq,Egypt and Iran:Now I'm speechless.I can see no sense in anything going on.Why do fools always end up in charge?

[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

We were told Labour is listening, but anyone on the doors in Runcorn would have heard voters complain about winter fuel allowance, cost of living and general Govt incompetence. But rather than address these issues it engages in race to bottom with Reform
https://t.co/d3JZPQhuvu