Peter Brasher
@peter0162.bsky.social
Father of daughters, nature / animal lover (esp dogs), environmentalist, probably left ish / woke. I may be old but I got to see the best bands live. Despise facism, racism, corruption and liars in public office. Rejoin EU, free Palestine, fvck Trump.
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Reform UK, if you've got no brain they might seem OK.
But if you're awake lying shysters gripping Mein Kampf and on the take.
Is all you will see of these terrible fakes.
But if you're awake lying shysters gripping Mein Kampf and on the take.
Is all you will see of these terrible fakes.
January 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reform UK, if you've got no brain they might seem OK.
But if you're awake lying shysters gripping Mein Kampf and on the take.
Is all you will see of these terrible fakes.
But if you're awake lying shysters gripping Mein Kampf and on the take.
Is all you will see of these terrible fakes.
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My latest piece on Substack examines the UK duopoly’s rollout of SEZs, and CPTPP free trade deals and reveals how both are connected with Investor State Dispute Settlement ( ISDS)
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
January 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My latest piece on Substack examines the UK duopoly’s rollout of SEZs, and CPTPP free trade deals and reveals how both are connected with Investor State Dispute Settlement ( ISDS)
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Trickle update…
January 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trickle update…
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The rich bribe politicians, disguised as donations, to get their way, limit public choices.
50 families hold more wealth than half of the UK population.
Top fifth have 63% of wealth. Bottom 50%, 5%.
Make giving/receiving political donations a criminal offence.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
50 families hold more wealth than half of the UK population.
Top fifth have 63% of wealth. Bottom 50%, 5%.
Make giving/receiving political donations a criminal offence.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
leftfootforward.org
January 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The rich bribe politicians, disguised as donations, to get their way, limit public choices.
50 families hold more wealth than half of the UK population.
Top fifth have 63% of wealth. Bottom 50%, 5%.
Make giving/receiving political donations a criminal offence.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
50 families hold more wealth than half of the UK population.
Top fifth have 63% of wealth. Bottom 50%, 5%.
Make giving/receiving political donations a criminal offence.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
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In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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“Mr Farage. One more thing. Something’s bothering me. For months you’ve licked Elon Musk’s backside as you thought he’d give you loads of money. Now, he’s recognised what most of us already knew. That you don’t have what it takes. Which makes you look an idiot, Mr Farage.
Sir?”
Sir?”
January 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Mr Farage. One more thing. Something’s bothering me. For months you’ve licked Elon Musk’s backside as you thought he’d give you loads of money. Now, he’s recognised what most of us already knew. That you don’t have what it takes. Which makes you look an idiot, Mr Farage.
Sir?”
Sir?”
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Iceland will now have a referendum on accession talks with the EU. 🇮🇸 🇪🇺
Maybe time for Norway, UK, Greenland & Canada to move in the same direction to shore up our common European values.
🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
Maybe time for Norway, UK, Greenland & Canada to move in the same direction to shore up our common European values.
🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
A new change in Iceland’s government means that joining the EU is back on the cards for Iceland.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Iceland will now have a referendum on accession talks with the EU. 🇮🇸 🇪🇺
Maybe time for Norway, UK, Greenland & Canada to move in the same direction to shore up our common European values.
🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
Maybe time for Norway, UK, Greenland & Canada to move in the same direction to shore up our common European values.
🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
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Emmanuel Macron denounces Elon Musk's "unacceptable interference" in European democracies by supporting "a new reactionary international".
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
Macron is the 4th European leader in the last 24 hours to speak against Musk, following Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre.
Action must follow words.
January 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Fascinating and terrifying thread from @jennycohn.bsky.social on Peter Thiel of Palantir/co founder of PayPal, funder of Patri Friedman (grandson of right-wing economist Milton Friedman) who is CEO of Pronomos Capital. Free cities are coming, SEZs are the gateway drug.
www.pronomos.vc/people
www.pronomos.vc/people
January 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Fascinating and terrifying thread from @jennycohn.bsky.social on Peter Thiel of Palantir/co founder of PayPal, funder of Patri Friedman (grandson of right-wing economist Milton Friedman) who is CEO of Pronomos Capital. Free cities are coming, SEZs are the gateway drug.
www.pronomos.vc/people
www.pronomos.vc/people
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x
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
January 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Reform MP Nigel Farage has been paid £189,000 for a part-time job as a “brand ambassador” for a gold bullion firm, register of MPs’ interests confirms. Follows story by @rowenamason 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reform MP Nigel Farage has been paid £189,000 for a part-time job as a “brand ambassador” for a gold bullion firm, register of MPs’ interests confirms. Follows story by @rowenamason 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“I don’t suppose you have a copy of ‘Plastic Patriotism’ by Nigel Farage do you?
That’s right. Foreword by Trump, 5 star review from Putin, paid for by €100 million from Elon Musk.
Do I want it? Do I f*ck!”
That’s right. Foreword by Trump, 5 star review from Putin, paid for by €100 million from Elon Musk.
Do I want it? Do I f*ck!”
December 19, 2024 at 3:43 PM
“I don’t suppose you have a copy of ‘Plastic Patriotism’ by Nigel Farage do you?
That’s right. Foreword by Trump, 5 star review from Putin, paid for by €100 million from Elon Musk.
Do I want it? Do I f*ck!”
That’s right. Foreword by Trump, 5 star review from Putin, paid for by €100 million from Elon Musk.
Do I want it? Do I f*ck!”
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The fucking irony.
This delusional narcissistic overflowing bag of dog shit, removed fraud from crime statistics so he could fraudulently claim crime rates were falling.
This delusional narcissistic overflowing bag of dog shit, removed fraud from crime statistics so he could fraudulently claim crime rates were falling.
November 30, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The fucking irony.
This delusional narcissistic overflowing bag of dog shit, removed fraud from crime statistics so he could fraudulently claim crime rates were falling.
This delusional narcissistic overflowing bag of dog shit, removed fraud from crime statistics so he could fraudulently claim crime rates were falling.
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Nigel Farage works for nomadcapitalist.com which helps millionaires/billionaires get 2nd/3rd citizenships in the UK while using Tax Havens so they don't pay any tax.
Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.
Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.
International Tax and Plan B Strategies for 2023 | Nomad Capitalist
Nomad Capitalist helps successful entrepreneurs legally reduce taxes, grow their wealth, and build a freedom lifestyle free from any one government.
Nomadcapitalist.com
November 28, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Nigel Farage works for nomadcapitalist.com which helps millionaires/billionaires get 2nd/3rd citizenships in the UK while using Tax Havens so they don't pay any tax.
Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.
Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.
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Clarkson and Farage in expensive tweed that’s likely never even seen a bush, protest for the privileged. Obviously.
Nobody cares about taxing private schools or inheritance.
Cry into a £50 note as I sit and feel good about how my Labour vote now means that NHS workers will be paid properly.
Nobody cares about taxing private schools or inheritance.
Cry into a £50 note as I sit and feel good about how my Labour vote now means that NHS workers will be paid properly.
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Clarkson and Farage in expensive tweed that’s likely never even seen a bush, protest for the privileged. Obviously.
Nobody cares about taxing private schools or inheritance.
Cry into a £50 note as I sit and feel good about how my Labour vote now means that NHS workers will be paid properly.
Nobody cares about taxing private schools or inheritance.
Cry into a £50 note as I sit and feel good about how my Labour vote now means that NHS workers will be paid properly.
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Ever wondered where British TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views?
Well it turns out a lot of them are being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump billionaires
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...
Well it turns out a lot of them are being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump billionaires
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...
The Pro-Trump Money Pushing Libertarian 'Young Voices' on British TV
Talent agencies funded by right-wing American fossil fuel billionaires are helping to funnel hard right views onto our TV screens
bylinetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Ever wondered where British TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views?
Well it turns out a lot of them are being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump billionaires
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...
Well it turns out a lot of them are being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump billionaires
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...
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I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”
...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.
...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.
November 18, 2024 at 6:15 AM
I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”
...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.
...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.
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How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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November 18, 2024 at 12:02 PM
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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Final thoughts today. My conclusion is that many in the US have no idea what's coming for it. Can't/won't believe. 'The institutions will hold'. 'There's always the courts.' Let's hope so. But the plan is shock & awe. Think high-profile scapegoats, a climate of fear, institutional cowardice.
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Final thoughts today. My conclusion is that many in the US have no idea what's coming for it. Can't/won't believe. 'The institutions will hold'. 'There's always the courts.' Let's hope so. But the plan is shock & awe. Think high-profile scapegoats, a climate of fear, institutional cowardice.
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Farmers and how only the super rich, less than 100 a year will be taxed, and still at only 20%.
November 17, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Farmers and how only the super rich, less than 100 a year will be taxed, and still at only 20%.
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Im not sure the New York Post has yet made it to @bsky.app so worth posting this opinion piece slamming the latest cabinet picks - from a hugely invested/ Trump friendly paper
November 17, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Im not sure the New York Post has yet made it to @bsky.app so worth posting this opinion piece slamming the latest cabinet picks - from a hugely invested/ Trump friendly paper
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...