Valleys Bloke ♿️ 🏴
@valleysbloke.bsky.social
Just an ordinary bloke. Family,music,nature,current affairs, anti tory. Not as old as I look but old enough to know better. I don't tolerate idiots.
Nadolig Llawen everyone
December 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Nadolig Llawen everyone
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Of course Reform Flagship Kent County Council should blow £100K of taxpayers money on political assistants (aka friends & family) when they’re
Slashing adult services for 18,000 vulnerable pensioners, disabled & sick❌
£60 million over budget❌
Ramping up Council Taxes❌
It’s all about priorities❗️😡
Slashing adult services for 18,000 vulnerable pensioners, disabled & sick❌
£60 million over budget❌
Ramping up Council Taxes❌
It’s all about priorities❗️😡
Reform defends plan to back £100K pot for KCC political assistants
The ruling party at Kent County Council faced accusations of "hypocrisy" of wanting to take the money while claiming to deliver savings for Kent residents
www.kentlive.news
December 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Of course Reform Flagship Kent County Council should blow £100K of taxpayers money on political assistants (aka friends & family) when they’re
Slashing adult services for 18,000 vulnerable pensioners, disabled & sick❌
£60 million over budget❌
Ramping up Council Taxes❌
It’s all about priorities❗️😡
Slashing adult services for 18,000 vulnerable pensioners, disabled & sick❌
£60 million over budget❌
Ramping up Council Taxes❌
It’s all about priorities❗️😡
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PFI building at hospital ‘is a fire risk
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Whittington Hospital staff are being offered pay-offs to quit their jobs before Christmas
@marisharay.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @hinabokharild.bsky.social @unisontheunion.bsky.social
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Whittington Hospital staff are being offered pay-offs to quit their jobs before Christmas
@marisharay.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @hinabokharild.bsky.social @unisontheunion.bsky.social
PFI building at hospital ‘is a fire risk’
Patient wards are ‘decanted’ after inspection by the fire brigade
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
PFI building at hospital ‘is a fire risk
buff.ly/YEZhVXw
Whittington Hospital staff are being offered pay-offs to quit their jobs before Christmas
@marisharay.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @hinabokharild.bsky.social @unisontheunion.bsky.social
buff.ly/YEZhVXw
Whittington Hospital staff are being offered pay-offs to quit their jobs before Christmas
@marisharay.bsky.social @ldhealthandcare.org @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @hinabokharild.bsky.social @unisontheunion.bsky.social
Dear Rachel
Did you hit the disabled so that you please the farmers and other land owners?
Did you hit the disabled so that you please the farmers and other land owners?
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Dear Rachel
Did you hit the disabled so that you please the farmers and other land owners?
Did you hit the disabled so that you please the farmers and other land owners?
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Bet365 CEO collects £280m (£104m salary + £176m dividend), pre-tax profits down from £627m to £349m.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Bet365 boss receives at least £280m in pay and dividends despite profit slump
Denise Coates’s gambling empire reports turnover of £4bn in year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bet365 CEO collects £280m (£104m salary + £176m dividend), pre-tax profits down from £627m to £349m.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
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UK govt U-turns on plan to raise inheritance tax for farmers, increases threshold for full relief from £1m to £2.5m.
What was the point of defending the policy for months? Same for winter fuel payment cut, two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts.
Self-inflicted political damage.
What was the point of defending the policy for months? Same for winter fuel payment cut, two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts.
Self-inflicted political damage.
Ministers raise inheritance tax threshold for farms after backlash
U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
UK govt U-turns on plan to raise inheritance tax for farmers, increases threshold for full relief from £1m to £2.5m.
What was the point of defending the policy for months? Same for winter fuel payment cut, two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts.
Self-inflicted political damage.
What was the point of defending the policy for months? Same for winter fuel payment cut, two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts.
Self-inflicted political damage.
Stunningly beautiful
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Stunningly beautiful
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Reform UK Ltd showing how much they truly care about the British people.
Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Reform UK Ltd showing how much they truly care about the British people.
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Sept 2024, Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm who claim to be “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last 3 years.”
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-wall-s...
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-wall-s...
The Wall Street Takeover of London Housing: How Labour Sold Out Renters to Blackstone
While The Guardian reports “viability issues,” Chancellor Rachel Reeves is engineering the largest transfer of British housing to American finance capital in history
europeanpowell.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Sept 2024, Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm who claim to be “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last 3 years.”
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-wall-s...
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-wall-s...
Is it time to crack open the Quality Street yet ?
(or whatever your choice is)
(or whatever your choice is)
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Is it time to crack open the Quality Street yet ?
(or whatever your choice is)
(or whatever your choice is)
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Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago.
They lied to courts, parliamentary committees.
Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal.
No one charged for conspiracy.
They lied to courts, parliamentary committees.
Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal.
No one charged for conspiracy.
Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago
The emergence of a document contradicts claims made by the Post Office over bugs in its IT system during criminal prosecutions.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago.
They lied to courts, parliamentary committees.
Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal.
No one charged for conspiracy.
They lied to courts, parliamentary committees.
Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal.
No one charged for conspiracy.
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#SPotTheScammer
@dadandsonlove.bsky.social horrendous account promoting incest - pics and video of what is claimed to be father and son sexual interaction.
Please report.
@dadandsonlove.bsky.social horrendous account promoting incest - pics and video of what is claimed to be father and son sexual interaction.
Please report.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
#SPotTheScammer
@dadandsonlove.bsky.social horrendous account promoting incest - pics and video of what is claimed to be father and son sexual interaction.
Please report.
@dadandsonlove.bsky.social horrendous account promoting incest - pics and video of what is claimed to be father and son sexual interaction.
Please report.
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Death rates rise when NHS England cuts back on nursing.
Higher deaths where hospitals replace nurses lower-paid staff.
NHS budget depleted by PFI, energy bills.
Hospitals lost 1936 nurses & 4240 support staff in this financial year.
Govt enacting barriers to foreign recruitment.
archive.ph/WnG4M
Higher deaths where hospitals replace nurses lower-paid staff.
NHS budget depleted by PFI, energy bills.
Hospitals lost 1936 nurses & 4240 support staff in this financial year.
Govt enacting barriers to foreign recruitment.
archive.ph/WnG4M
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 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Death rates rise when NHS England cuts back on nursing.
Higher deaths where hospitals replace nurses lower-paid staff.
NHS budget depleted by PFI, energy bills.
Hospitals lost 1936 nurses & 4240 support staff in this financial year.
Govt enacting barriers to foreign recruitment.
archive.ph/WnG4M
Higher deaths where hospitals replace nurses lower-paid staff.
NHS budget depleted by PFI, energy bills.
Hospitals lost 1936 nurses & 4240 support staff in this financial year.
Govt enacting barriers to foreign recruitment.
archive.ph/WnG4M
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Remember putin is admired by Nazzi Farrightidge
Racially motivated attack on Ukrainian girl ‘linked by campaigner to Reform UK’s anti-migrant rhetoric’
Racially motivated attack on Ukrainian girl 'linked by campaigner to Reform UK's anti-migrant rhetoric'
Martin Shipton A racially motivated attack on a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl in Caerphilly is being linked to the anti-migrant rhetoric of Reform UK in the recent Senedd by-election. Polina Rudakov was…
nation.cymru
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Remember putin is admired by Nazzi Farrightidge
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In the sixth largest economy, millions of Britons rely on food banks.
No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22.
Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.
No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22.
Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.
‘Bills keep going higher’: community ‘warm spaces’ on the rise in the UK
As places such as Walworth Living Room step in to help people in need, charities lament lack of government help
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In the sixth largest economy, millions of Britons rely on food banks.
No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22.
Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.
No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22.
Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.
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Hahaha
The Twelve Days of Christmas Confusion - Angel City Chorale
YouTube video by Angel City Chorale
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hahaha
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Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Jim Ratcliffe chemical firms received up to £70m of UK state aid in last four years
The government is preparing a £50m bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant, after Jim Ratcliffe asked for help in October
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
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Not just a lying corrupt racist fraudster ...
meme via Progressive Alliance Cornwall - against Reform
meme via Progressive Alliance Cornwall - against Reform
December 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Not just a lying corrupt racist fraudster ...
meme via Progressive Alliance Cornwall - against Reform
meme via Progressive Alliance Cornwall - against Reform
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Find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software from Palantir - a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza - and if so send an email demanding they say no to Palantir
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software from Palantir - a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza - and if so send an email demanding they say no to Palantir
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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This is a great shame.
The Commonwealth Games are moving off free-to-air television for the first time after a deal for next year’s event in Glasgow was struck with TNT Sports
Commonwealth Games move off free-to-air television for first time after new deal
The Commonwealth Games are moving off free-to-air television for the first time after a deal for next year’s event in Glasgow was struck with TNT Sports. The BBC has been the principal broadcaster of the Games since 1954 but Commonwealth Sport, the governing body responsible for the event, confirmed on Friday that it had reached […]
wp.me
December 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is a great shame.
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Ref UK supporters & Tory supporters do not think Ref UK is racist.
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ref UK supporters & Tory supporters do not think Ref UK is racist.
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BREAKING: Reform UK are bankrupting Kent County Council!
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
BREAKING: Reform UK are bankrupting Kent County Council!