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Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s a money thing.
The right hate poor brown people. They hate poor white people too, but they are ‘useful idiots’ to be pointed at poor brown people and told that they are the cause of all woes.
They LOVE anyone with wealth though.
There is no colour bar to their appetite for money.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 15h

No. We have Reform, who are funded by MAGA people so they simply parrot Trumpian bollocks. They don’t even bother to Anglicise
it half the time.
Anyone looking at them from outside the UK would be amazed at how such a bunch of charlatans have gained popularity*.

*( it’s because of the media )

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 1d

What do these rightwingers gave against the NT ?

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 1d

Who’d a thunk that someone stupid enough to eat 3 kilos of cola bottles would turn out to be actually stupid.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 1d

Smells like DEI to me…

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

More likely that everything will just go to shit through incompetence, greed, hate and ignorance.
Reform can't even keep a promise / councillor for 5 minutes in their little local Govt fiefdoms. How on earth could they organise an ID system on a par with a dystopian sci-fi film ?

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

If that right wing Govt is Tory ( ha ha ) then they'll threaten it but never do it because they are lazy, if it's Reform they'll never do it because they are incompetent.
I don't think we have a right wing party in the country that could actively threaten our way of life through legislation.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

No offence to all the normal Americans, but I really wish the rest of us could just quietly close a door and leave them in a room by themselves for a while....

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and they'll report on ANYTHING but what what the actual Govt are doing...of course..

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

Farage is wanking MAGA off in America, so they've nothing else to report on.
Shame really, because every time they do go on the TV these days their polling drops.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

What is it with these AI supporters and their desire to not think about anything at all ? Are they too good for thinking ? Too lazy ? So precious and important that such a mundane task must be removed ? They are husks.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

I assume that Reform's counter would be 'one is too many', because they catastrophise everything.
I had a similar argument years ago about voter fraud. How 'one is too many', when statistically that 'one' doesn't even register.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

That took 2 minutes to find. Why can't 'journalists' do that, instead of just parroting Reform's lies ??

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...

How often does the European Court of Human Rights rule against the UK in removal cases?

The European Court of Human Rights has seldom ruled against the UK government in relation to the removal of people from the UK. Indeed, the Court rarely rules against the UK at all. It issued only one final judgment finding a violation of an ECHR right in a UK case in 2023 and one in 2024. Neither concerned immigration policy or deportation.

Since 1980, there have been 29 UK cases at the Court that have concerned either deportation (enforced removal of a foreign national) or extradition (removal of a person to another country for trial or to serve a sentence).

In 16 of these cases, the Court found that a planned deportation or extradition by the UK government would not breach the Convention and could go ahead. For example, in 2017, the Court held that the UK government’s decision to deport a Nigerian national who had lived in the UK since he was two years old did not violate the Convention: the individual’s long history of offending and the government’s legitimate interest of preventing disorder and crime outweighed the applicant’s Article 8 rights.

In the other 13 cases, the Court found that deportation or extradition by the UK government would violate the Convention and should not go ahead. This means that, on average, judgments of the European Court of Human Rights prevented removal of a foreign national only once every 4.5 years.

Four of these cases concerned the right to family life. For example, in its most recent finding of a violation relating to a UK deportation decision in 2020, the Court ruled that a Nigerian man who had been convicted of falsifying immigration documents could not be deported because it ran counter to the interests of his three young and financially-dependent children, all of whom were British citizens, and one of whom needed heart surgery. The other nine cases concerned deportation or extradition to countries where there was a substantial risk th…

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a reporter on Sky mention this, but caveated it with ‘but the number of people coming over has gone up’.
If this were the Rwanda scheme sending a huge 26 people away they would have nothing but praise for the Tories.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

Did he only get the job because he had his own uniform ?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

Racism seems to be taking off ? I am sure we used to export a lot of that..

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

Flag placement, but not flag manufacture...

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

You'll help replace them with Reform.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 3d

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

The Labour government has already delivered or is making progress towards around two thirds of its manifesto pledges.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

I must live in the alcoholics capital of the UK...the pub next to use is nearly always busy ( though it only opens in the afternoons tbf, and not at all on Monday ) and we have had 2 new pubs open in the last year...I thought they were supposed to be closing at the rate of 60 a minute or something ?

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

I voted for her too, but apparently Powell is the frontrunner ? If she wins and the party implodes into the old infighting and leftist ego wars again I’ll be quitting.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. I am aware of the opening times. When I moved it had different landlords. It now has music all weekend and during the week in summer, but I know when it’ll stop.
I am fine with the noise because of that
If they are going to be noisy until the early hours, I think that’s a bit unsociable.

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 4d

Yes I did. It was a quietish pub when I moved here, now it has music on 3-4 nights a week in the beer garden.
Like I said, at least now I know when it’ll stop.
All I want is some consideration for all of us that live next to it in the future, but that’s not something any one has any more is it ?

Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 4d

Great. I live next to a pub and it’s bad enough as it is, especially in Summer but at least you know it’ll all quiet down by 11:30. If there’s noise outside until 2 am or later I’ll never be able to sell this place, or live in it.
There needs to be residential restrictions.