@montyg.bsky.social
Keeper of an allotment, servant to an entitled dachshund, lover of good food
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“Appointees are certainly not supposed to use their privileged position to advance the interests of paying clients.”
But some peers do - as was proven this week.
4 & 5-month suspensions are inadequate - serious breaches should incur serious consequences.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But some peers do - as was proven this week.
4 & 5-month suspensions are inadequate - serious breaches should incur serious consequences.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the peers lobbying scandal: Lords reform is a vital step for restoring trust in democracy | Editorial
Editorial: Although some appointees make valuable contributions, the absurd archaism of the second chamber of parliament has to be addressed
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Appointees are certainly not supposed to use their privileged position to advance the interests of paying clients.”
But some peers do - as was proven this week.
4 & 5-month suspensions are inadequate - serious breaches should incur serious consequences.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But some peers do - as was proven this week.
4 & 5-month suspensions are inadequate - serious breaches should incur serious consequences.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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This is Melissa Hortman, on June 14, 2025 she and her husband Mark were murdered in a politically motived attack. She stood for environment rights, abortion rights and sensible gun control policies.
Can we please take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
Can we please take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is Melissa Hortman, on June 14, 2025 she and her husband Mark were murdered in a politically motived attack. She stood for environment rights, abortion rights and sensible gun control policies.
Can we please take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
Can we please take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
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Let’s remember her as well!
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Let’s remember her as well!
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Finally! This has lifted my spirits a little. Thanks for saying it. Out loud. Migration is good. Underfunding, inequality and unchecked profiteering are the bad things.
No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services.
That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.
September 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Finally! This has lifted my spirits a little. Thanks for saying it. Out loud. Migration is good. Underfunding, inequality and unchecked profiteering are the bad things.
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A mom who is a legal US citizen gets separated from her family by ICE GOONS after getting back home from a family vacation.
August 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A mom who is a legal US citizen gets separated from her family by ICE GOONS after getting back home from a family vacation.
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Hopeful thanks for adding me to this Saturday night Pride Pack! 🏳️🌈💜💙💛🫂♥️💚🧡🏳️🌈 Love it!💖✨️💕 go.bsky.app/LKTZEno
August 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hopeful thanks for adding me to this Saturday night Pride Pack! 🏳️🌈💜💙💛🫂♥️💚🧡🏳️🌈 Love it!💖✨️💕 go.bsky.app/LKTZEno
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We’re over 10k. Thx folks! Now, could we possibly get to 100kin 2 weeks? Wouldn’t that be something? 13th Sept is deadline. We want to hear ALL our parties regularly -not just one. We elected a parliament &parliaments regardless of opinion polls. Sign sign sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We’re over 10k. Thx folks! Now, could we possibly get to 100kin 2 weeks? Wouldn’t that be something? 13th Sept is deadline. We want to hear ALL our parties regularly -not just one. We elected a parliament &parliaments regardless of opinion polls. Sign sign sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
A few flowers brightening up the allotment 🌱
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A few flowers brightening up the allotment 🌱
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SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
August 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
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"4 journalists relentlessly covering the war from the first day"
Hind Khoudary reads out the names of the latest Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel - Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daka & Moath Abu Taha.
Hind Khoudary reads out the names of the latest Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel - Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daka & Moath Abu Taha.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"4 journalists relentlessly covering the war from the first day"
Hind Khoudary reads out the names of the latest Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel - Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daka & Moath Abu Taha.
Hind Khoudary reads out the names of the latest Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel - Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daka & Moath Abu Taha.
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Hind Khoudary: "Palestinian journalists right now are crying. If I show you my colleagues that are sitting between their reporting & live shifts they're trying to hold their tears, trying to find the words to describe what is going on. Our colleagues were killed live on air"
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hind Khoudary: "Palestinian journalists right now are crying. If I show you my colleagues that are sitting between their reporting & live shifts they're trying to hold their tears, trying to find the words to describe what is going on. Our colleagues were killed live on air"
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Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
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"Groups are making money off this ... the British taxpayer is paying excess to pay the profits of these companies, when that money could be invested into integrating them properly into the local community"
Ben Mclaine on companies exploiting refugees and the taxpayer.
Ben Mclaine on companies exploiting refugees and the taxpayer.
August 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Groups are making money off this ... the British taxpayer is paying excess to pay the profits of these companies, when that money could be invested into integrating them properly into the local community"
Ben Mclaine on companies exploiting refugees and the taxpayer.
Ben Mclaine on companies exploiting refugees and the taxpayer.
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If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like.
If you hate him, give it a RT.
If you hate him, give it a RT.
August 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like.
If you hate him, give it a RT.
If you hate him, give it a RT.
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Another thing I'm doing just now is taking cuttings of some of my plants. I do this every year with eg fruit bushes and perennial kale for other plotters, but this year the cuttings have to be taken off site, and some need potted up first. Yesterday, did 3 kales + 2 bramble plantlets. 🌱
#allotments
#allotments
As the end of my final season with an allotment approaches, I'm thinking of possibilities for 'guerilla gardening' in the margins of our woodland path, so this is timeous.
And I hadn't thought how bee-friendly can mean hoverfly-hostile.🌱
#insects
#plants
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And I hadn't thought how bee-friendly can mean hoverfly-hostile.🌱
#insects
#plants
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gardeners urged to collaborate to help moths and hover flies thrive in cities
Researchers found moths and hover flies are more negatively affected by urbanisation than bees
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Another thing I'm doing just now is taking cuttings of some of my plants. I do this every year with eg fruit bushes and perennial kale for other plotters, but this year the cuttings have to be taken off site, and some need potted up first. Yesterday, did 3 kales + 2 bramble plantlets. 🌱
#allotments
#allotments
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"... the military levelling buildings in controlled demolitions in multiple parts of Gaza city.. Israel destroyed 450 buildings in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza city in the last 9 days alone. That's almost 50 buildings destroyed every day. Its a colossal level of destruction"
August 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"... the military levelling buildings in controlled demolitions in multiple parts of Gaza city.. Israel destroyed 450 buildings in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza city in the last 9 days alone. That's almost 50 buildings destroyed every day. Its a colossal level of destruction"
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THIS IS WHAT WHITE NATIONALIST CHRISTOFASCISTISM LOOKS LIKE.....A DUMBASS POS.
August 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
THIS IS WHAT WHITE NATIONALIST CHRISTOFASCISTISM LOOKS LIKE.....A DUMBASS POS.
The 4th time this has flowered and the 1st time it has flowered on three stems🌱
August 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The 4th time this has flowered and the 1st time it has flowered on three stems🌱
The 4th time this has flowered and the first time I got three stems of flowers
August 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The 4th time this has flowered and the first time I got three stems of flowers
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🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.
We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.
New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.
New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics
The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.
We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.
New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.
New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
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This kinda thing.
I always hear, from folk I’ve known, them moaning about the baddy criminal immigrants,
and it’s like they don’t ever remember… that we both know…
They’d spent their youth as a rent-a thug & did a stretch or two in Winchester or Chelmsford
I always hear, from folk I’ve known, them moaning about the baddy criminal immigrants,
and it’s like they don’t ever remember… that we both know…
They’d spent their youth as a rent-a thug & did a stretch or two in Winchester or Chelmsford
This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.
August 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This kinda thing.
I always hear, from folk I’ve known, them moaning about the baddy criminal immigrants,
and it’s like they don’t ever remember… that we both know…
They’d spent their youth as a rent-a thug & did a stretch or two in Winchester or Chelmsford
I always hear, from folk I’ve known, them moaning about the baddy criminal immigrants,
and it’s like they don’t ever remember… that we both know…
They’d spent their youth as a rent-a thug & did a stretch or two in Winchester or Chelmsford
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Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump advisor, Robert Morris, was just indicted for raping a 12 year old girl.
March 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump advisor, Robert Morris, was just indicted for raping a 12 year old girl.
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