letsnotbecynical

Hoarding stamps cheers me up but I’m still p….d off with the Tories, the impending climate disaster, patriarchy, neoliberalism & so on. In short, super-grumpy …

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

I’m migrating from #twitter ( #X , now the #Ex ) to #BlueskySocial

Find me at https://t.co/ZLwRO991qB

I’ll stay here for a short time …

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

@Irina_exh Good old American values shown in this post …

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May the best comedian win #Claton #Farage

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

I rather like the idea of two comedians standing against each other #Farage #Clacton

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

@MattGubba @elonmusk So what do you know all too well?

If you research this you’ll see that the National Crime Agency works with Meta, X, TikTok and YouTube to identify accounts that promote criminality such as people smuggling.

Maybe you’re okay with criminal networks exploiting social media?

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid.

➡️ Profits of Doom https://t.co/IY93IKfwNc

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

Proof Richard Tice was wearing an upside down Union Jack on @bbcquestiontime The tv image on the left is blurry but you can just make out the blob of the finial that tops the flagpole at the bottom right of his badge. #FlagGate

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

The Clacton house ‘owned’ by @Nigel_Farage’s girlfriend is now under scrutiny.

They will be keen to paint her as just ‘his girlfriend’ but they will omit her history in politics and as a politician. And her history of helping Nigel move cash about.

She was originally a ‘professional acquaintance living at his bachelor pad’ who he denied he was having an affair with.

Well we know how that turned out:
https://t.co/npzurNkzHz

(And he then had a relationship with a vulnerable aide: https://t.co/sUQaS1rROr)

Farage and Paul Nuttall (yes now Deputy Chair of Reform UK) were then sanctioned and ordered to repay £200k of EU funds due to misusing them:

https://t.co/F951vQZR4k

Ferrari was of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), a eurosceptic thinktank.

The IDDE and the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE), the political party it is affiliated to, were accused of misspending taxpayers' money.

An audit by the European Parliament found the ADDE and IDDE used more than £400,000 of EU grant funding for the benefit of UKIP, in breach of its rules.

https://t.co/wR7nfpOnbS

She was at the centre of it.

She had her money frozen by OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office) for the channeling money into UKIP.

Since then, she’s not had a notable job LF Consultancy and the new name Baxter Laois haven’t done much.

https://t.co/m8cxgEYke3

Which makes buying a £850k house in Clacton, that she has no connect to, very surprising.

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

OUTRAGEOUS: The Government could bow to pressure from building companies to weaken a promise that new houses will be built with solar panels. Sign the petition demanding the Government stick to its guns: https://t.co/mMMXLrDBau via @38degrees

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Super informative, funny and savage takedown of the "carbon capture and storage" con, a non-solution to the #ClimateEmergency which just funnels more money into Big Oil's pockets - by @thejuicemedia, the good people who make these Honest Government Ads

#climate #greenwashing

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Rachel Reeves's budget promises "£3.9 billion of funding in 2025-26 for Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Track-1 project". That's money straight down the toilet, with many billions more to follow. It's infuriating. https://t.co/bXDZkX3cYK

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

I am deeply sickened by @UKLabour saying they will sweep away regulation. Regulation makes markets work, protects the weak from abuse, ends cheating, ensures fair employment practices and protects consumers. What don’t they like about those things?

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 https://t.co/GCyad2C3N4

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

The Museum of #Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats | Novara Media https://t.co/t1caLN5ahW

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The UK has abstained on a UN resolution demanding an end to Israel's occupation of Palestine.

A shameful chapter in this government's ongoing contempt for international law and the dignity of Palestinians.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Kemi Badenoch’s outrageous slur is an attack on democracy.

[letsnotbecynical @letsnotbecynica]

https://t.co/qsoeDQDsRB

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We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild it's land. Join me? https://t.co/0vGKUe2X8a via @38degrees

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

The spirit of Cable Street has been manifested across our country tonight. All over England people from different creeds and communities have come together to send a message to the racists: No Pasaran!

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Unsurprising that ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩ cuts winter fuel benefits and refuses to lift the two child limit. She has long believed in cracking down on welfare https://t.co/BXabCy9uom