Grenobob
@grenowl82.bsky.social
Woke, left-wing, writer, anti-royalist, environmentalist, husband, father, and grandfather.
And so it begins again. The right-wing press trying to pit poor people against one another, to stop them looking at the real cause of their poverty. The tax-avoiding multinational companies and the non-dom billionaires and resident billionaires hiding all their money in offshore accounts.
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
And so it begins again. The right-wing press trying to pit poor people against one another, to stop them looking at the real cause of their poverty. The tax-avoiding multinational companies and the non-dom billionaires and resident billionaires hiding all their money in offshore accounts.
The frothing mouths will make it look like a snow storm if a strong fan kicks in.
Oh God! Fiona’s just told us #bbcqt is coming from Dover next week, with a focus on immigration 🙄 Think I’ll give that a miss
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The frothing mouths will make it look like a snow storm if a strong fan kicks in.
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Your Food is too expensive.
Your Energy is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive.
Mortgages are too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
The people to blame?
The billionaires who own it all.
Your Energy is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive.
Mortgages are too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
The people to blame?
The billionaires who own it all.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Your Food is too expensive.
Your Energy is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive.
Mortgages are too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
The people to blame?
The billionaires who own it all.
Your Energy is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive.
Mortgages are too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
The people to blame?
The billionaires who own it all.
I'd love a politician to put an actual figure on what constitutes an affordable home. I'll bet its nowhere near what most ordinary working people could dream of affording. That's why we need a million council houses built. They won't of course because too many politicians are also private landlords.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'd love a politician to put an actual figure on what constitutes an affordable home. I'll bet its nowhere near what most ordinary working people could dream of affording. That's why we need a million council houses built. They won't of course because too many politicians are also private landlords.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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The country wants a wealth tax on assets.
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The country wants a wealth tax on assets.
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.
They've got no actual argument.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Just another in the long list of Labour's broken promises.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just another in the long list of Labour's broken promises.
Scotland should be allowed to have an independence referendum whenever they choose, not whenever England decides they can have one.
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Scotland should be allowed to have an independence referendum whenever they choose, not whenever England decides they can have one.
If there is no Russian, Ukraine ceasefire, the West needs to keep supplying Ukraine with whatever it needs and it shouldn't be too long before economic realities either brings Putin to the table or brings him down.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If there is no Russian, Ukraine ceasefire, the West needs to keep supplying Ukraine with whatever it needs and it shouldn't be too long before economic realities either brings Putin to the table or brings him down.
If we outlawed political donations (bribes) then the Tories couldn't keep harping on about Labour's 'union paymasters' and Labour couldn’t keep on about 'billionaires buying the Tories.' And as a by-product, Reform would go bust without its Russian and right-wing US donors.
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If we outlawed political donations (bribes) then the Tories couldn't keep harping on about Labour's 'union paymasters' and Labour couldn’t keep on about 'billionaires buying the Tories.' And as a by-product, Reform would go bust without its Russian and right-wing US donors.
We also need to do everything possible to get rid of the class system.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We also need to do everything possible to get rid of the class system.
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Capitalism only competes when it is forced to.
What we have are monopolies, on Energy, on Food, on Housing, on Healthcare, on Public Transport...
They don't compete, they just charge as much as they possibly can.
What we have are monopolies, on Energy, on Food, on Housing, on Healthcare, on Public Transport...
They don't compete, they just charge as much as they possibly can.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Capitalism only competes when it is forced to.
What we have are monopolies, on Energy, on Food, on Housing, on Healthcare, on Public Transport...
They don't compete, they just charge as much as they possibly can.
What we have are monopolies, on Energy, on Food, on Housing, on Healthcare, on Public Transport...
They don't compete, they just charge as much as they possibly can.
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Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, mainly via the issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes are creamed off by profiteering private firms. That I object to
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, mainly via the issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes are creamed off by profiteering private firms. That I object to
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No. Trump is not working on a “peace plan” for Ukraine. He’s pressuring Zelenskyy to SURRENDER Ukraine and its citizens to Putin.
Words matter.
Words matter.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
No. Trump is not working on a “peace plan” for Ukraine. He’s pressuring Zelenskyy to SURRENDER Ukraine and its citizens to Putin.
Words matter.
Words matter.
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I'm looking at the comms coming from some Tarde Unions in response to the budget and it's obvious Trade Union members deserve better than this sycophantic cap dothing from the elected leaders.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I'm looking at the comms coming from some Tarde Unions in response to the budget and it's obvious Trade Union members deserve better than this sycophantic cap dothing from the elected leaders.
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
As always they make the poorest pay for the richest. PM Zack would turn that fact on its head.
April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
As always they make the poorest pay for the richest. PM Zack would turn that fact on its head.
Exactly. They don't acknowledge your existence if you aren't a threat to their cosy establishment cabal.
Name checked in the budget. Well done. You do have them worried.
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Exactly. They don't acknowledge your existence if you aren't a threat to their cosy establishment cabal.
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Brilliant and scathing. For too long budgets have been delivered in fear if the bond markets, and the bond markets don't care about poverty or inequality.
We need to do what is good for the country and its people, not the bond markets.
We need to do what is good for the country and its people, not the bond markets.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Brilliant and scathing. For too long budgets have been delivered in fear if the bond markets, and the bond markets don't care about poverty or inequality.
We need to do what is good for the country and its people, not the bond markets.
We need to do what is good for the country and its people, not the bond markets.
If no politician is jailed for the PPE VIP lane scandal, then there is definitely one law for the rich and connected and another for the rest of us.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
If no politician is jailed for the PPE VIP lane scandal, then there is definitely one law for the rich and connected and another for the rest of us.
Lots of people on incomes of £100,000 plus are complaining how the budget will make them a bit worse off. Try living on the state pension and working to top it up and then having a big chunk taken in tax because they add the state pension to your extra earnings and tax it all together.
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Lots of people on incomes of £100,000 plus are complaining how the budget will make them a bit worse off. Try living on the state pension and working to top it up and then having a big chunk taken in tax because they add the state pension to your extra earnings and tax it all together.
Instead of taxing billionaires more, Reeves is making pensioners like me who don't have a work's or private pension and must continue working to supplement the starvation level state pension, pay more tax instead.
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Instead of taxing billionaires more, Reeves is making pensioners like me who don't have a work's or private pension and must continue working to supplement the starvation level state pension, pay more tax instead.
Hearing John Redwood complaining that the Green Party's policies will drive deindustrialisation in the UK is rich coming from someone who served in a Thatcher cabinet which oversaw the biggest deindustrialisation ever in the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Hearing John Redwood complaining that the Green Party's policies will drive deindustrialisation in the UK is rich coming from someone who served in a Thatcher cabinet which oversaw the biggest deindustrialisation ever in the UK.
Has any other player been accorded such a reprieve? Or is it just for big names like Ronaldo that Fifa will bend their own rules.
Probation period to allow Ronaldo to play in the World Cup. The irony of it all.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Has any other player been accorded such a reprieve? Or is it just for big names like Ronaldo that Fifa will bend their own rules.
Starmer's Labour Party is just as useless and corrupt as the Tories they replaced.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Starmer's Labour Party is just as useless and corrupt as the Tories they replaced.