pennineThe #Brexit disaster gifts more misery 4 the UK. As UK introduces new border bureaucracy on EU food & drink and imports. Many foods will be hit, higher prices beckon. No apology from #Johnson, the man responsible 4 the Brexit debacle. No apology from Johnson's sycophant #Sunak, he's too busy supporting divisive private schools. https://rb.gy/nrbvm1 #RejoinEU #ToryLiars #GeneralElectionN0W
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Former RAF pilot, current photographer (amateur) and website maker. Detest poor democracy (e.g. Brexit), probably "Woke", definitely egalitarian.
A very helpful read; not pleasant, but . . . https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/donald-trump-americans-us-culture-republican?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bob JamiesonTo: Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister
Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
The Government is sneaking in new powers to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.
It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government.
Petition:
Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Government - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error. It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government. Everyone wants fraudulent uses of public money to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to check the bank statements of suspects. But this is a major expansion of government power that takes away our financial privacy...
Ways the weasels at the Post Office avoid compensating their badly wronged sub-postmasters: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/11/hss_scandal/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Another Angry Voice
Rishi Sunak is talking bollocks about "maxing out" North Sea oil and gas
Under the current privatised energy set up drilling for more North Sea oil will neither improve energy security, nor bring down prices.
For as long as Britain’s energy market remains the ideologically deranged shambles of private corporations and overseas governments that it is, the idea of British “energy security” is an absolute fantasy.
Just in case the Climate Emergency had slipped out of mind … https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/nov/20/the-great-carbon-divide-climate-chasm-rich-poor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This Government postures rather than governing effectively. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/63942/david-allen-green-rwanda-asylum-supreme-court
nikolSo, Mastodon:
1. Not difficult to sign up for
2. Not difficult to use
3. Has an app like every other social media network
4. Not owned by world’s richest man
5. Not owned by a company whose main platform has been credibly accused of facilitating genocide by the United Nations
6. Not funded by the guy who made the last place, which sold itself to the world’s richest man
7. Doesn’t have a crypto thing going on
8. Free and open source
9. Administered by a crowdfunded nonprofit
10. Decentralized, portable, and interoperable
I’m writing this because it has been weird to watch some journalists and people who are fully aware of Facebook’s catastrophic history with things like disinformation,
https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/
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Normal Island News
Geneva conventions let British politicians off the hook
Turns out there are exemption clauses for war crimes
As I recently reported, there was concern among senior Tories such as Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and David Lammy that they might have accidentally incriminated themselves by cheering: “Yay! Go Netanyahu! Kill! Kill! Kill!”
