Wycombian
@noahbeery.bsky.social
Public servant for 45 years, now retired. Born 🏴 half 🏴 & absolutely pro 🇪🇺 & 🇺🇦
We must leave a positive legacy for our children & grandchildren. #FBPE #RejoinEU #ProportionalRepresentation
No DMs please.
We must leave a positive legacy for our children & grandchildren. #FBPE #RejoinEU #ProportionalRepresentation
No DMs please.
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But.. but .. but Corbyn was left wing.. not right far right wing like Farage so of course he got crucified
Farage was just using nice, inoffensive racist words the right will say🤷🏼♂️
Farage was just using nice, inoffensive racist words the right will say🤷🏼♂️
Remember when Jeremy Corbyn wasn't antisemitic and the media crucified him for it?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
But.. but .. but Corbyn was left wing.. not right far right wing like Farage so of course he got crucified
Farage was just using nice, inoffensive racist words the right will say🤷🏼♂️
Farage was just using nice, inoffensive racist words the right will say🤷🏼♂️
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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This is what an evil crook looks like.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is what an evil crook looks like.
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Several non-London MPs pointed out to me that almost no one in their constituencies would be affected by the Mansion Tax.
It's a clearly redistributive policy - largely moving wealth from London to council areas outside the capital. Easy sell for Labour MPs outside London (prob. even within tbf).
It's a clearly redistributive policy - largely moving wealth from London to council areas outside the capital. Easy sell for Labour MPs outside London (prob. even within tbf).
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Several non-London MPs pointed out to me that almost no one in their constituencies would be affected by the Mansion Tax.
It's a clearly redistributive policy - largely moving wealth from London to council areas outside the capital. Easy sell for Labour MPs outside London (prob. even within tbf).
It's a clearly redistributive policy - largely moving wealth from London to council areas outside the capital. Easy sell for Labour MPs outside London (prob. even within tbf).
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Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
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Just to note that Stephen Delahunty for @bylinetimes.bsky.social reported on the strange PPE deals for Luxe Lifestyle and Ayanda within months of the Pandemic
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow
👉 17 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/02/l...
👉 20 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/17/r...
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow
👉 17 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/02/l...
👉 20 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/17/r...
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just to note that Stephen Delahunty for @bylinetimes.bsky.social reported on the strange PPE deals for Luxe Lifestyle and Ayanda within months of the Pandemic
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow
👉 17 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/02/l...
👉 20 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/17/r...
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow
👉 17 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/02/l...
👉 20 July 2020 bylinetimes.com/2020/07/17/r...
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No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
Making Russia pay: the EU’s plan to rebuild Ukraine
A proposal to loan Ukraine billions in frozen Russian assets has split members of the EU on the right course of action
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.
100% 👇🏻
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
100% 👇🏻
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We need a curriculum that is relevant to our young people, that they can relate to, and which gives them a sense of pride and place.
Where are we heading with the National Curriculum?
We need a curriculum that is relevant to our young people, that they can relate to, and which gives them a sense of pride and place
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We need a curriculum that is relevant to our young people, that they can relate to, and which gives them a sense of pride and place.
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Less "DOGE" more "D'OH"
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Less "DOGE" more "D'OH"
All the credibility of Nick Leeson…
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
All the credibility of Nick Leeson…
🤣👏🏻
Don't want to jinx it, but my first day at the OBR seems to be going really well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🤣👏🏻
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Spot the difference: How we thought AI would destroy us v how it will actually destroy us….
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spot the difference: How we thought AI would destroy us v how it will actually destroy us….
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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The OBR apologises for the leak, claiming cock-up. Good time to take a look at the OBR again though. It’s a George Osborne wheeze designed to make it more difficult for Labour.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The OBR apologises for the leak, claiming cock-up. Good time to take a look at the OBR again though. It’s a George Osborne wheeze designed to make it more difficult for Labour.
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Putin rejects his own plan (the one he fobbed off on the oblivious Americans as a "U.S. peace plan") by attacking in every direction on the invasion battlefront in Ukraine.
The Russians don't care if their insane demands are accepted or rejected. They'll wage war no matter what.
The Russians don't care if their insane demands are accepted or rejected. They'll wage war no matter what.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Putin rejects his own plan (the one he fobbed off on the oblivious Americans as a "U.S. peace plan") by attacking in every direction on the invasion battlefront in Ukraine.
The Russians don't care if their insane demands are accepted or rejected. They'll wage war no matter what.
The Russians don't care if their insane demands are accepted or rejected. They'll wage war no matter what.
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Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
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No fan, but when they’re right they’re right.
Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “It is very difficult to find a more stupid American Secretary of State than Marco Rubio."
Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “It is very difficult to find a more stupid American Secretary of State than Marco Rubio."
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
No fan, but when they’re right they’re right.
Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “It is very difficult to find a more stupid American Secretary of State than Marco Rubio."
Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “It is very difficult to find a more stupid American Secretary of State than Marco Rubio."
This 👇🏻
A government should try to regard its manifesto as a serious and sincere statement of intent, not a document to be interpreted as if it’s a wish made to a cursed monkey paw.
Bloviating about “trust in politics” in this climate is nonsense. The public don’t trust politicians because that’s sensible.
Bloviating about “trust in politics” in this climate is nonsense. The public don’t trust politicians because that’s sensible.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This 👇🏻
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a Government with huge majority who would make difficult but positive decisions to benefit us all… oh wait…? AND treated us like adults when justifying the need for better public services, instead of pandering to bankers & right wing MSM
The government’s stated number one goal is growth.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
If the Government do go ahead with the mooted plan in here to (effectively) remove workplace pensions from salary sacrifice schemes I am genuinely a little in awe of how bad their "growth strategy is."
www.ft.com/content/ca5e...
www.ft.com/content/ca5e...
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a Government with huge majority who would make difficult but positive decisions to benefit us all… oh wait…? AND treated us like adults when justifying the need for better public services, instead of pandering to bankers & right wing MSM
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Labour seems frozen by “twin fears…that swing voters would freak out if they thought Reeves was a tax-and-spend fiend or Starmer might smuggle remainer convictions into Downing St”
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Labour seems frozen by “twin fears…that swing voters would freak out if they thought Reeves was a tax-and-spend fiend or Starmer might smuggle remainer convictions into Downing St”
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The side of the bus said Brexit would save us £350m a week, but new figures show it’s COSTING us £250 A DAY!
But tell me again why PIP payments are destroying the UK economy.
But tell me again why PIP payments are destroying the UK economy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The side of the bus said Brexit would save us £350m a week, but new figures show it’s COSTING us £250 A DAY!
But tell me again why PIP payments are destroying the UK economy.
But tell me again why PIP payments are destroying the UK economy.
Farage clearly delighted by his handiwork… 😡 he is a Traitor in every sense.
Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Farage clearly delighted by his handiwork… 😡 he is a Traitor in every sense.
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Brexit's damage is even worse than previously calculated.
It's cost between 6-8% of UK GDP per capita over the last decade, a hit of between £180bn and £240bn, new government research shows.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It's cost between 6-8% of UK GDP per capita over the last decade, a hit of between £180bn and £240bn, new government research shows.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Brexit's damage is even worse than previously calculated.
It's cost between 6-8% of UK GDP per capita over the last decade, a hit of between £180bn and £240bn, new government research shows.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It's cost between 6-8% of UK GDP per capita over the last decade, a hit of between £180bn and £240bn, new government research shows.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums