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mja66

@mja66.bsky.social

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🇬🇧 Lefty, liberal, woke, pro-EU, anti fascist/racist, do-gooder Green & loving it. He/him. Incurable music/history/news/politics/cinema/F1 geek. Highly skilled at tpyos. Be nice or instant 🚫 Life really is too short.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · Mar 13

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2h

Smotrich just saying now he's not having it.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

Urgent winter clothing appeal for UK baby banks.

In 2024 charity distributed 6,752 coats, 14,163 pairs of shoes, 2,857 blankets, 1,472 items of bedding and 45,220 pairs of socks to families in need.

Low wages/benefits; high energy, water, grocery costs; unchecked profiteering take toll.

London baby banks appeal for urgent donations ahead of winter

Baby banks in London say supplies are running low due to more families facing increased financial pressures.

www.bbc.co.uk

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 3h

Again, the beleaguered customers foot the bill whilst shareholders talk shite about investment and continue raking it in. The scam continues.

Why is the very stuff of life even subject to competitive practice?

If the Tories had found a way to privatise air would Labour still allow it?

#WeOwnIt

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills Millions of households in England will see their water bills increase by even more than expected, after the competition regulator gave the green light for five water suppliers to raise charges to customers – but rejected most of the companies’ demands. An independent group of experts appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally decided to allow the companies to charge customers an extra £556m over the next five years, it said on Thursday. That was only 21% of the £2.7bn that the firms requested. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 13h

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Cats are the best thing ever.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 15h

Yep...

Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badenoch appears to be getting plaudits for a speech in which she breezily claimed to have found £47,000,000,000 in savings.

The inconvenient truth is that these numbers are nothing more than a fantasy.

This really is Liz Truss's party now.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 17h

Surprised you lasted two minutes. Kudos!

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 21h

I've read the article, thanks. Including the bit about 23 million chickens being farmed in the catchment area. Where I lived for some years.

As anyone else who lives there and takes an interest in this knows, it isn't just arable farmers causing the problem.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@pritzkerposting.bsky.social
#Chicago
#Illinois

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen first hand how the Wye in Powys/Herefordshire has turned from a pristine, thriving ecosystem to what is basically an open sewer.

This vandalism will continue for as long as there is a demand for mass produced meat because our governments are on the side of corporate money, not nature.

Whom.it

whom.it

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Easily.

Be seeing you!

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - Trump authorises deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago
www.bbc.com/news/article...

@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@pritzkerposting.bsky.social
#Chicago
#Illinois
#IStandWithChicago

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - Robert Jenrick's Handsworth comments branded 'totally wrong' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At the time of the last census, 195 of 196 people in Robert Jenrick's Herefordshire village were white.

Some unintegrated 'ghettos' are more acceptable than others, it seems.

Robert Jenrick's Handsworth comments branded 'totally wrong'

A business leader says the area is

www.bbc.co.uk

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

The Johnson/Cummings purge was supremely effective. No talent or credibility left. No ideology or philosophy.

Do the Tories even know themselves what they're for?

Opportunistically whining about an immigration issue they themselves cultivated via Brexit and dereliction.

We're watching their end 👏

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Morning...

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - Thousands join biggest-ever UK environmental lawsuit over river pollution
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've seen first hand the collapse of the Wye in Powys/Herefordshire from pristine environment to toxic sludge.

Those who have caused and enabled this destruction must be accountable.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.com

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

It really is the strangest phenomenon. I can't fathom it.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

I never thought I'd see the day when the Conservative Party would be led by a woman of colour.

I never imagined that the Conservative Party would be led by a woman of colour who cravenly panders to racists in her own party in a desperate attempt to sustain her authority.

I've seen both now.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Really? That's crap.

I've only had three or four trolls and blocked them. Only one was a complete bumhole.

It must be the quality of my feed 🙂

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned he lives in a village where, according to the most recent census, 165 of 166 residents are white.

So much for his wanting integration.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this...

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Othering, hate, whingeing and continuing austerity not getting bums on seats?

Strange, that.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

All going to plan.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

Affectionately, of course.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

I also note where he made those comments. At an event hosted by my former MP, Wendy Morton, at her constituency office at Aldridge & Brownhills.

Wendy, who was previously chosen by Liz Truss as Chief Whip of course.

Small world.

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