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Brendan May

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Sustainable business entrepreneur, investor, board member & advisor to companies around the world. Environmentalism should be pragmatic, fact-based and honest. Found mainly in London & SE Asia. Politically centrist, as remote from extremism as possible.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · Nov 14

Ah, Bluesky, where you can post a video of you playing music with your child without 50 people immediately replying ‘Hope you both die soon, you Libtard’.

Bliss. ✨

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 14h

Huge respect to Lord Heseltine, stoically turning up, at 92, in that racist sandpit of halfwitted baby freaks, to teach them some history, remind them what an electable Tory party looked like and tolerate inanities that must be insufferable for a political titan of his standing.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 15h

Badenoch’s Leader’s speech will actually be a Leaver’s speech.

Bye 👋

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

This is like one of those pics you used to see in the Guinness Book of Records.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the approach of saying really stupid things every day will *definitely* eventually pay off, about the same time that hell freezes over.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 3d

The Tory strategy seems to be “let’s pretend we are even more unpleasant than Reform”.

Apart from that fact it won’t work, it’s pathetic to watch this insincere, hollow posturing.

Imagine living in that sort of head.

Reform will be beaten from the centre, or not at all.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 3d

Israel upping its stellar PR game still further by inviting, er, Tommy Robinson to visit.

I can’t think of any entity with poorer communications skills, with the possible exception of the time Eric Pickles objected to being kept from his lunch by the Grenfell Tower inquiry.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 3d

It’ll be all white on the night.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 5d

There’s more coverage of Lucy Connolly’s inane, incoherent musings on the definition of racism than on Jane Goodall’s lifelong travails for humanity and the planet that sustains it.

No wonder we’re fucked.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 5d

What a peculiar response to a tragedy from Suella Braverman’s husband. Why are these people so weird.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 6d

Well, they’ve stopped one boat.

Good job.
#ppescandal

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 6d

You’ll find me over there, on the other side of the street, picking up various internal body parts after I explode with hollow laughter.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

“We aren’t racists”, cry the party who not only invited Lucy Connolly, convicted for inciting racially motivated violence, to its conference, but interviewed her on stage, chat show style, as if she was the most heroic freedom fighter the world has ever seen.

Sod off, racists.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

Political journos are all noting how surprising it is that it’s now all about Starmer v Farage, not Starmer v Badenoch.

Except it’s not surprising at all, given the very same journos have been platforming this poundshop Alf Garnett for years, when he wasn’t even an elected MP.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

In other news, the Tory party is dead, so there is that.

Boris Johnson killed it.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

Starmer is currently totally obliterating Reform and all its racist supporters and I hope everyone watches it.

He’s on fire. 🔥

#LabourPartyConference

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

This is absolutely risible from a man who has incited so much division. Trying to pretend we are on the verge of a Kirk-style assassination. It is actually disgusting.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 8d

Not sure why we’re even debating whether Reform are racist. They literally made Lucy Connolly, convicted for urging people to burn down migrant hotels, the star of their conference.

We should call them out unapologetically for what they are: a racist party that attracts racists.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 8d

Andy Burnham seems like a very decent man who does a great job in his current role. But no one with any knowledge or serious influence thinks he would make a good PM.
All he’s currently doing is helping Farage and making himself even less popular in the Labour Party as a result.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 11d

I for one am absolutely shocked, stunned, etc

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 12d

No doubt again people will say they knew what they were voting for, as the UK is reduced to a bubbling cesspit of culture wars, racial division, loss of all remaining influence in Europe and the world, and in which people think taping upside down flags to urinals is patriotic.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 12d

Incredible to think that people risk their lives for treacherous journeys spanning thousands of miles on land and sea to get here, all so they can try and eat a swan.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 13d

Quite weird that at a time of vast scientific breakthroughs in treating or curing many previously unmanageable diagnoses there are people who are actually stopping taking paracetamol.

Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13d

Superb news showcasing the wonder of medical science.

Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.

This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.

One medically retired patient has now returned to work.

Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 14d

Reform and the far right are nostalgic for the world war in which Britain was fighting to stop people rather like them from taking over.

It’s amazing to watch.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15d

Breaking news: The UK will be hit by the highest inflation in the G7 this year as the country absorbs the impact of higher payroll taxes, an increase in the minimum wage and rises in regulated prices, OECD forecasts have shown. on.ft.com/4gASB69

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 18d

Waxed Lemon, who seems to need a holiday every few days because his endless attention seeking is so exhausting, has now been deported from first Colombia then Panama.

Good to see these countries controlling their borders to keep the undesirables out. 😂