ScouseLakes
@scouselakes.bsky.social
Politics, The Archers, fancy frocks.
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Well if your politics are racist, then…
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Well if your politics are racist, then…
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Won’t anybody think of the second home owners?
On the bright side, sales of tiny, tiny violins are soaring.
On the bright side, sales of tiny, tiny violins are soaring.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Won’t anybody think of the second home owners?
On the bright side, sales of tiny, tiny violins are soaring.
On the bright side, sales of tiny, tiny violins are soaring.
They seem like a really nice couple, dammit. #EscapeToTheCountry
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
They seem like a really nice couple, dammit. #EscapeToTheCountry
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
You can tell this is a lockdown-ish special. The distance between Sonali and the couple is ludicrously wide. #EscapeToTheCountry.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You can tell this is a lockdown-ish special. The distance between Sonali and the couple is ludicrously wide. #EscapeToTheCountry.
“The NHS recommends pregnant women stay fit and active to help them adapt to their changing shape and to cope with labour.” Not sure doing it up a mountain is quite what they had in mind, though…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wythburn Valley rescue for heavily pregnant woman
Keswick Mountain rescue team say they nervously discussed wilderness childbirth when called out.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“The NHS recommends pregnant women stay fit and active to help them adapt to their changing shape and to cope with labour.” Not sure doing it up a mountain is quite what they had in mind, though…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’ve just booked to see Squeeze and Billy Bragg (next year!) at Blackpool Opera House!
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’ve just booked to see Squeeze and Billy Bragg (next year!) at Blackpool Opera House!
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I know which one I prefer. So do the bond markets.
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I know which one I prefer. So do the bond markets.
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I see all the headlines today refer to ‘Benefit Street’
What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work.
No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC.
First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.
What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work.
No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC.
First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I see all the headlines today refer to ‘Benefit Street’
What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work.
No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC.
First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.
What they don’t tell you is 60% of those on benefits are in work.
No outcry on those employers not paying enough or concocting hours to enable people to claim UC.
First it was immigrants. Now it’s those on benefits.
Radio 4 papers review is horrible. No surprise there.
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Radio 4 papers review is horrible. No surprise there.
Listening to a BBC World Service programme on tips. Shocking to hear that particularly in the US people really rely on them - some say they make up 2/3 of their wages.
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Listening to a BBC World Service programme on tips. Shocking to hear that particularly in the US people really rely on them - some say they make up 2/3 of their wages.
A bit mifticating.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A bit mifticating.
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Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
Big news in the new town I grew up in is that a scumbag couple nicked a pub Christmas tree, actually ripping the lights out of the wall!
Then they drove off with it in the back of their car.
Then they drove off with it in the back of their car.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Big news in the new town I grew up in is that a scumbag couple nicked a pub Christmas tree, actually ripping the lights out of the wall!
Then they drove off with it in the back of their car.
Then they drove off with it in the back of their car.
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I mean I've been very critical of the government and of Starmer and Reeves but I am actually a Labour member for a reason and this *is* a Labour budget with Labour values, and yeah I'll take that for today thank you very much.
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I mean I've been very critical of the government and of Starmer and Reeves but I am actually a Labour member for a reason and this *is* a Labour budget with Labour values, and yeah I'll take that for today thank you very much.
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Ask yourself, how long would Keir Starmers premiership, or political career last, if this was "his" history?
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Ask yourself, how long would Keir Starmers premiership, or political career last, if this was "his" history?
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“We are ramping up sanctions on Russia…
We are freezing known Russian assets…
But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton.”
We are freezing known Russian assets…
But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton.”
Reeves aims a searing ‘Russian assets’ gibe at Farage
Rachel Reeves used her Budget speech to jab at Nigel Farage, invoking Russia amid renewed security concerns
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“We are ramping up sanctions on Russia…
We are freezing known Russian assets…
But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton.”
We are freezing known Russian assets…
But let me be clear, I don’t actually mean the right honourable member for Clacton.”
Oh. Amber! What have you done? #TheArchers
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh. Amber! What have you done? #TheArchers
Oooh, that alt text copy button really worked and I no longer have to type out by hand, which I really was doing before 🤦♀️
#Budget2025
#Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Oooh, that alt text copy button really worked and I no longer have to type out by hand, which I really was doing before 🤦♀️
#Budget2025
#Budget2025
How can you not recognise the Chancellor of the Exchequer?! #HouseOfGames
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How can you not recognise the Chancellor of the Exchequer?! #HouseOfGames
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I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
Moving to the country in search of lit footpaths might not be the most sensible idea… (she says, speaking from Cumbria). #EscapeToTheCountry
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Moving to the country in search of lit footpaths might not be the most sensible idea… (she says, speaking from Cumbria). #EscapeToTheCountry
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Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.