JonnyExists
@jonnyexists.bsky.social
I have been known to breathe in (and occasionally out again), without thinking about spaceships.
Can't wait for the UK government to give this man all of my medical and financial records
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Can't wait for the UK government to give this man all of my medical and financial records
I imagine you'd just use the Guardian of Chaos title, no?
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I imagine you'd just use the Guardian of Chaos title, no?
The Times published it, but that also comes under the bracket of "right wing fake news"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
The Liz Truss Show: ex-PM launches ‘the home of counter-revolution’
The former Tory leader promises to take on the ‘free speech crisis’ and confront issues ‘others tiptoe round’ in the episodes on YouTube
www.thetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Times published it, but that also comes under the bracket of "right wing fake news"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Name the prison he ends up in after him.
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Name the prison he ends up in after him.
Labour could have reformed the rotten media ownership and party funding in the UK on day one, restricting both to UK tax residents only. They chose not to.
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Labour could have reformed the rotten media ownership and party funding in the UK on day one, restricting both to UK tax residents only. They chose not to.
Labour don't get a free pass. If they implement shit policies and stick to failing Tory ideologies they deserve criticism.
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Labour don't get a free pass. If they implement shit policies and stick to failing Tory ideologies they deserve criticism.
I'm no expert, but tearing up loads of financial regulations right when everyone's expecting the AI bubble burst to take down the global economy out in the next few years seems a bit.... not ideal.
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm no expert, but tearing up loads of financial regulations right when everyone's expecting the AI bubble burst to take down the global economy out in the next few years seems a bit.... not ideal.
Yeah. Astonishingly, we've not spoken in years.
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yeah. Astonishingly, we've not spoken in years.
Can we pass a law that any newspaper willing to print this kind of toss is no longer allowed to call themselves a newspaper?
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Can we pass a law that any newspaper willing to print this kind of toss is no longer allowed to call themselves a newspaper?
There's still a brown woman behind the tills at Tesco, so it won't be enough.
And when there isn't a brown woman at the tills at Tesco there'll be one who looks like she might be trans or gay, so they'll move on.
They can never, ever be appeased. So never ever try.
And when there isn't a brown woman at the tills at Tesco there'll be one who looks like she might be trans or gay, so they'll move on.
They can never, ever be appeased. So never ever try.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
There's still a brown woman behind the tills at Tesco, so it won't be enough.
And when there isn't a brown woman at the tills at Tesco there'll be one who looks like she might be trans or gay, so they'll move on.
They can never, ever be appeased. So never ever try.
And when there isn't a brown woman at the tills at Tesco there'll be one who looks like she might be trans or gay, so they'll move on.
They can never, ever be appeased. So never ever try.
There is not a line. There are criteria.
The EU would benefit from a return to UK participation in the Single Market. Certainly without also having to deal with the UK in the decision making process.
Frankly if I were them I'd consider parking the UK in that position for now to be the best outcome
The EU would benefit from a return to UK participation in the Single Market. Certainly without also having to deal with the UK in the decision making process.
Frankly if I were them I'd consider parking the UK in that position for now to be the best outcome
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There is not a line. There are criteria.
The EU would benefit from a return to UK participation in the Single Market. Certainly without also having to deal with the UK in the decision making process.
Frankly if I were them I'd consider parking the UK in that position for now to be the best outcome
The EU would benefit from a return to UK participation in the Single Market. Certainly without also having to deal with the UK in the decision making process.
Frankly if I were them I'd consider parking the UK in that position for now to be the best outcome
(FWIW I also suspect Switzerland will end up with all of its bilaterals consolidated into a single comprehensive treaty, assuming it doesn't just finally join in full)
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
(FWIW I also suspect Switzerland will end up with all of its bilaterals consolidated into a single comprehensive treaty, assuming it doesn't just finally join in full)
This is why I suspect a comprehensive bilateral agreement that basically mimics Norway's arrangement but doesn't let the UK push EFTA around is more likely.
The EU won't want the mess of hundreds of bilateral agreements that it has with Switzerland again.
One single all-or-nothing SM treaty.
The EU won't want the mess of hundreds of bilateral agreements that it has with Switzerland again.
One single all-or-nothing SM treaty.
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is why I suspect a comprehensive bilateral agreement that basically mimics Norway's arrangement but doesn't let the UK push EFTA around is more likely.
The EU won't want the mess of hundreds of bilateral agreements that it has with Switzerland again.
One single all-or-nothing SM treaty.
The EU won't want the mess of hundreds of bilateral agreements that it has with Switzerland again.
One single all-or-nothing SM treaty.
Could potentially rejoin just the Single Market either via EFTA or by a comprehensive bilateral agreement that is FAR less complex than the Swiss arrangement.
Though I agree full Rejoin is simply better.
Point is, if we never ask, we will get nothing. Ever.
Though I agree full Rejoin is simply better.
Point is, if we never ask, we will get nothing. Ever.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Could potentially rejoin just the Single Market either via EFTA or by a comprehensive bilateral agreement that is FAR less complex than the Swiss arrangement.
Though I agree full Rejoin is simply better.
Point is, if we never ask, we will get nothing. Ever.
Though I agree full Rejoin is simply better.
Point is, if we never ask, we will get nothing. Ever.
No he isn't. He's keeping exactly the same position while trying to get people who aren't barking mad on board through doublespeak.
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
No he isn't. He's keeping exactly the same position while trying to get people who aren't barking mad on board through doublespeak.
I'm not saying the government should dictate to the newspapers. Just that they should actively bar billionaires, especially ones with no stake in this country, from doing that too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm not saying the government should dictate to the newspapers. Just that they should actively bar billionaires, especially ones with no stake in this country, from doing that too.
"Nothings really changed. Of course, I spend every day complaining about my taxes going up, electricity going up, food going up, the unemployment rate, the queues at the airport, and the inability to return asylum seekers to France, but aside from that..."
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Nothings really changed. Of course, I spend every day complaining about my taxes going up, electricity going up, food going up, the unemployment rate, the queues at the airport, and the inability to return asylum seekers to France, but aside from that..."
The Heil were going to say that anyway, so you may as well call it out properly.
The line from the beginning should have been "Look, I'd love to be able to do XYZ, but unfortunately I can't do that because of Brexit".
Not "the botched Tory deal", but Brexit itself.
The line from the beginning should have been "Look, I'd love to be able to do XYZ, but unfortunately I can't do that because of Brexit".
Not "the botched Tory deal", but Brexit itself.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The Heil were going to say that anyway, so you may as well call it out properly.
The line from the beginning should have been "Look, I'd love to be able to do XYZ, but unfortunately I can't do that because of Brexit".
Not "the botched Tory deal", but Brexit itself.
The line from the beginning should have been "Look, I'd love to be able to do XYZ, but unfortunately I can't do that because of Brexit".
Not "the botched Tory deal", but Brexit itself.
(Also, ram through media ownership laws the instant you got into Downing Street, barring anyone tax registered abroad from owning any UK media, and forcing the ownership of large outlets to be dispersed. Would have saved yourself a lot of problems very quickly.)
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
(Also, ram through media ownership laws the instant you got into Downing Street, barring anyone tax registered abroad from owning any UK media, and forcing the ownership of large outlets to be dispersed. Would have saved yourself a lot of problems very quickly.)
But he whipped his party to vote for *precisely this deal*.
As always, it's a total refusal to recognise that the *concept* of Brexit was faulty.
Just continuing to blame the implementation and promise to tinker your way out of it is a fool's errand.
As always, it's a total refusal to recognise that the *concept* of Brexit was faulty.
Just continuing to blame the implementation and promise to tinker your way out of it is a fool's errand.
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
But he whipped his party to vote for *precisely this deal*.
As always, it's a total refusal to recognise that the *concept* of Brexit was faulty.
Just continuing to blame the implementation and promise to tinker your way out of it is a fool's errand.
As always, it's a total refusal to recognise that the *concept* of Brexit was faulty.
Just continuing to blame the implementation and promise to tinker your way out of it is a fool's errand.
My brother literally voted Leave to, and I quote exactly, "get the fucking p**is out"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
My brother literally voted Leave to, and I quote exactly, "get the fucking p**is out"
Is the fact that the benefits were both immediate and obvious not the entire reason we had the '75 referendum?
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Is the fact that the benefits were both immediate and obvious not the entire reason we had the '75 referendum?
Yes. It feels like some of this is a day one job as well.
Reforming energy pricing (eg. so that it goes off an average of the mix rather than just charging everyone the price of 100% gas) would be an easy win.
As would pushing up the tax free allowance by a few grand, paid for with CGT increases.
Reforming energy pricing (eg. so that it goes off an average of the mix rather than just charging everyone the price of 100% gas) would be an easy win.
As would pushing up the tax free allowance by a few grand, paid for with CGT increases.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yes. It feels like some of this is a day one job as well.
Reforming energy pricing (eg. so that it goes off an average of the mix rather than just charging everyone the price of 100% gas) would be an easy win.
As would pushing up the tax free allowance by a few grand, paid for with CGT increases.
Reforming energy pricing (eg. so that it goes off an average of the mix rather than just charging everyone the price of 100% gas) would be an easy win.
As would pushing up the tax free allowance by a few grand, paid for with CGT increases.