Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 7h

I see Trump Tax is about to be increased by 100% for Americans who want to buy stuff from places that make the stuff they want to buy.

1 3

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

130 770 2.4K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 9h

37 70

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

1.1K 7.3K 33K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17h

8 150 480

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

57 320 960

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder that ANTIFA is an opinion, not an organisation.

1 1

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

22 150 760

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember when America had a President?

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

1 4

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Who could possibly have guessed?

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 1d

I see once again that Farage is in the US, telling right wing fanboys how dreadful the UK is, and talking his usual bollocks about everything.
If this man ever becomes PM, our children will never, ever forgive us for giving him free reign to destroy the country.
He’s repellent, truly.

8 71 300

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

2 41 140

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

170 1.9K 3.7K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

"Stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour. A stupid person is thus the most dangerous type of person."

Carlo M Cipolla

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

18 56 220

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

59 400 1K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight possums xx

5 14 54

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. First time buyers are essentially already exempt. It's effectively a tax on the already property wealthy and property investors. Unless you're Jeremy Hunt wealthy and buy 7 at once of course, whereupon it all goes away.

1

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

Quite. Love to know which first time buyers are fretting over the 5% they might have to pay on anything *over* £300K they pay when the *average* of *all* UK houses is £270K. But maybe I'm forgetting the plight of the children of Tory donors with eyes for that perfect mews in Chelsea.

1 1

Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

No one seems to have mentioned that first time buyers don't pay stamp duty unless they are forking out more than £300K FFS (just in case you were thinking lettuce economics brigade actually wanted to help normal people).

3 6

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

180 410 1.3K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 2d

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only
2 were delivered in 5 years.
Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20).
In 1 year.
(FullFact Tracker)

17 130 200

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Takes some doing, but I think Kemi Badenoch has found the policies to tank the economy even quicker than Liz Truss if given the chance.

Fantasy tax and spending cuts plus trade chaos with neighbours from leaving the ECHR. Great stuff!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

6 32 130

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

16 89 430

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

84 500 2K

Reposted by Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 3d

Ofcom took *six months* to decide to take no action after thousands complained about this very blatant breach of broadcasting standards by GB News.

But perhaps the real surprise is that they investigated it at all… /1

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/g...

GB News' homophobic slur breached Ofcom code – but channel won't face any sanctions

Ofcom has said GB News breached its Broadcasting Code over the use of a homophobic slur, but have refused to sanction the channel.

www.thepinknews.com

7 82 220