Billy Ruffian
@captainbilly.bsky.social
Old sea dog. War pensioner, LFC, old lefty, more 'woke' every day. Way left of Starmer.Broken and grumpy. Bah humbug!
If they can throw Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the kings brother, out of the gang, then the same could happen to any of them! Marvellous! Merry Christmas. 👏
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If they can throw Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the kings brother, out of the gang, then the same could happen to any of them! Marvellous! Merry Christmas. 👏
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A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack
Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.
2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.
3) join.greenparty.org.uk
Merry Xmas!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
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Thinking of everyone, especially in the LGBT+ community, estranged from their parents; I hope you have made your own family with someone who loves you. Warm thoughts to you today from all at Maugham Towers.
December 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Thinking of everyone, especially in the LGBT+ community, estranged from their parents; I hope you have made your own family with someone who loves you. Warm thoughts to you today from all at Maugham Towers.
Michael. You're very clever and witty but you don't need to take the piss out of her; she's a self parody! 💩😂
December 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Michael. You're very clever and witty but you don't need to take the piss out of her; she's a self parody! 💩😂
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English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Does anyone know where maggie thatchers grave is? I'm busting for a pee!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Does anyone know where maggie thatchers grave is? I'm busting for a pee!
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2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
Today (21/12/2025) is the shortest day of the year. Yay! From here, days get longer, more light in the world, less darkness. Let's have a party! 🥳
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Today (21/12/2025) is the shortest day of the year. Yay! From here, days get longer, more light in the world, less darkness. Let's have a party! 🥳
No wonder the Aussies take the piss out of us. Perhaps the next time we play an Ashes tour, we should send some cricketers? 😢
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
No wonder the Aussies take the piss out of us. Perhaps the next time we play an Ashes tour, we should send some cricketers? 😢
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Very well said Richard.
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
Six years after it was scrapped, Erasmus+ is coming back. As our Campaigns Manager, Richard Kilpatrick, explains, this goes far beyond university exchanges, supporting schools, youth programmes, vocational training and deprived communities across the UK.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very well said Richard.
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
This really is spot on. 👏👏👏
I'm watching the third test; temind me again. Why did we drop Ben Foakes?
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I'm watching the third test; temind me again. Why did we drop Ben Foakes?
Nigels ignorant army of wankspanglers has 600 new reasons to hyperventilate today.
I bet GB News is thrilled.
I bet GB News is thrilled.
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Nigels ignorant army of wankspanglers has 600 new reasons to hyperventilate today.
I bet GB News is thrilled.
I bet GB News is thrilled.
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This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
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1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. 🧵 1/10
www.earthroverprogram.org
www.earthroverprogram.org
The Earth Rover Program
The Earth Rover Program unites scientists, farmers, and innovators to monitor, understand, and restore soils worldwide. Advancing food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity through open scien...
www.earthroverprogram.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. 🧵 1/10
www.earthroverprogram.org
www.earthroverprogram.org
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Farage thinks I'm a maniac?
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Farage thinks I'm a maniac?
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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No one can be surprised by the rank hypocrisy of Murdoch's 'Trump is a feminist hero' and 'Ending Roe v Wade was right' Times. But worth noting the difference between when it gets what it wants from the judiciary and when it doesn't.
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No one can be surprised by the rank hypocrisy of Murdoch's 'Trump is a feminist hero' and 'Ending Roe v Wade was right' Times. But worth noting the difference between when it gets what it wants from the judiciary and when it doesn't.
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Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'Mujtaba Rahman, of the Eurasia Group risk consultancy, agreed. “The US is now officially committed, alongside Moscow, to interfering in European electoral politics to promote nationalist and anti-EU parties of the far right,” he said.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
European Council president warns US not to interfere in Europe’s affairs
The new US national security strategy codifies a seismic shift in transatlantic relations, say experts
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
'Mujtaba Rahman, of the Eurasia Group risk consultancy, agreed. “The US is now officially committed, alongside Moscow, to interfering in European electoral politics to promote nationalist and anti-EU parties of the far right,” he said.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen.
Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice.
youtu.be/uF40KyuRp8Q?...
Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice.
youtu.be/uF40KyuRp8Q?...
Why moaning isn’t campaigning, and how we could really change the world
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen.
Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice.
youtu.be/uF40KyuRp8Q?...
Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes, proposing reforms, and then doing the maths on the finances to show how they would work in practice.
youtu.be/uF40KyuRp8Q?...
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'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019."
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019."
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dear James. Please don't direct me to a paywall for a paper that disgusts me.
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Dear James. Please don't direct me to a paywall for a paper that disgusts me.
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The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.