If there's all this uproar over AI I wonder what the reaction will be when they announce they have perfected the ability to upload brain patterns? #Bobiverse
I'm confused. All these people convicted for posts they made on Social Media, mostly under the Communications Act 2003 and yet Bob Vylan won't be charged even though his comments were transmitted, and some group called Kneecap will not be charged over encouraging fans to kill their MP! theguardian.com/music/2025/jun…
This makes me puke, it really does. If this were the #Conservatives, the internet would be aflame with derision and calls for the PM to go, yet this backsliding wimp still hangs on. But here's the more important question. If Labour is not going to cut the Winter fuel allowance, and is not going to recoup any money from the enormous benefits bill. Where is the money coming from to pay for all these manifesto promises?
P.S. How many houses have been built? I suspect that's another objective that this smoke-and-mirrors #Labour government hasn't achieved. #Politics
So, Backslider Starmer has done yet another U-turn, this time over the gravy train that is PIP. What sort of party did you all vote for that when it starts to get a bit rough, its leadership surrenders? Let's hope the Russians don't start threatening us. news.sky.com/story/government-…
The drive (the first one in the image) has failed. I must have messed up the install by logging into the Pi and trying to investigate from there rather than logging into the OMV UI. Cut a long story short, after a fresh install, it's working, although I need to get another 2TB drive and rebuild the RAID1.
I'm so angry I could explode! Not at the 1000 illegals, but all those deluded sheep who derailed every solution the Tories put forward. Accused the Conservatives of every racist crime under the sun for trying to do something about it, the #press and the Internet raged against the #Conservatives, and now that #Labour has lost control, nobody says a word. Why is that? Is it because nobody can say a bad thing about Labour? Whatever happened to accountability? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqze…
𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 let anyone out or turn when you're driving. You can guarantee the arse-wipe you let out will be driving a roadsweeper refitted with a reasonably decent car body. Failing that, they'll drive 100 yards down the road and will want to turn right, holding you up again! Then there's that aomeba who is waiting to turn right across the front of you, only there's someone who wants to come out of that turning, which means the two of them are now sitting there and playing: "After you, no after you, no after you, no after you." while you sit bollocking yourself for attempting to do a good deed for the day.
Is the @BBCNews determined to see the driver of the car in Liverpool murdered? Because they seem to be pouring petrol on the story on an almost hourly basis. Maybe they're upset that it's not been labelled a terrorist attack? bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yqp4yp88…
For crying out loud's sake! 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘁𝘀 Seems my #Friendica is not broken. Now, all I need is to find out is that all the tokens I reset no longer work. #LeSigh
So basically, the UK is paying France for French police to stand on the beach and watch their problem leave French shores for the UK. You brokered a cracking deal there, #Labour. What's your response, @Keir_Starmer? I know, the easy, lazy option of cracking down on LEGAL immigration, taking everyone's attention away from the illegal.
And this is called: "Government Misdirection" It's not legal immigration that's the problem, although it probably needs an overhaul. It's the illegal immigration that they need to address. By doing this, #Labour hopes to shut everyone up complaining about "All these bleedin' foreigners"
In my book, anyone who wants to come to the UK and pay tax is more than welcome. It's all the fighting-age men landing on the Kent coast who are not.
So let me get this right. He sticks two fingers up at the UK, calls us all racist, even though there's a video of him in his younger days being racist, and didn't he attend a party wearing a swastika? He flounces off to America, telling Oprah that he couldn't get any help with his mental welfare while conveniently forgetting he was the head of a mental health charity. He takes the UK government to court to get them to pay for his security if and when he decides to visit us, and when that doesn't work, he tells everyone he wants to be friends with his dad after slagging King Charles off to anyone who will listen.
It's really simple. If you don't want Reform to gain ground, then you—yes, you! —Need to start looking at the issues they're winning on and think of ways to satisfy the voting public. Do that, and Reform's pledge to do something about it will be weakened. Throwing your rattle out the pram while screaming "Fascists!" or "Nazis!" isn't working anymore and doesn't help solve the very real problems people are feeling and Reform is feeding off. politico.eu/article/nigel-fara…
I love how people are going around saying: "But six votes, they won by six votes! It's not a massive victory." 🧠 "Erm, you do know Labour had a huge majority, don't you? Reform just pissed it away with their six votes." 🤦♂️
So I had our dog's anal glands expressed last night. The procedure literally takes two, maybe three minutes, and if you don't watch them, they try to use Hibiscrub as a lubricant! I wonder how they'd feel with soap up their backside?
£27.00 Pets at Home charges, and that's not even a vet; it's a nurse! Twenty-seven pounds to stick a finger in and waggle it about a bit. I phoned our local White Cross Vets; they want an eye-watering £47.00
It's no wonder dogs and cats are dumped everywhere. Nobody can afford them, what with the price of food, groomers and extortionate vet bills for the most simple of procedures.
Yep. The average bill now if you have a prescription is £100+ We have to get the dog done every few months as one of his anal glands doesn't empty itself very well, so at £27 a time, we're looking at roughly £216.00 a year. The groomer is just under £50 a time, which is around £500 a year, and what with his food, treats, toys, etc., we're easily looking at £1500 a year.
Dear TV viewers. Be very careful what the #BBCNEWS shows you with these PIP claimants being interviewed and saying how they don't know how they'll manage. 𝗡𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 has been assessed yet! So nobody knows who will lose what. #MediaManipulation bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5drv…
Not sure why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist over this. Obviously, bombing people needs discussing. What does need looking into is dumb arse Michael Waltz for inviting Jeffrey Goldberg to join the channel. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd9e…
So it's mainly PIP? Which, tbh, is riddled with abuse from what I've seen. Shaking up the #NHS and now scrutinising the benefits system. At this rate, I might have to start voting #Labour 😱🤯 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd2p…
Does anyone fancy paying £50 for missing an #NHS appointment? Admittedly, these are Tory think tank suggestions, but it's got to happen. Getting rid of tiers of management isn't the ultimate answer. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/1…
#Labour has spent the last fourteen years telling you that the #NHS is underfunded and understaffed. Screaming that there are not enough doctors and nurses, what do they plan to do now that they are in power? Take a scalpel to the NHS. 🤦♂️ theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has confirmed that cuts are on the way for the welfare bill. It comes as the chancellor is looking to save money for the public purse.
The problem with the UK is that nobody wants to pay taxes. They all believe there is this enormous body of '𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦' who can supposedly be squeezed to pay these taxes for them, but more importantly, that it's the government's place to provide everything for the population free of charge.
TBH, I could kick myself because I was already thinking yesterday morning, "I bet Trump stops sending weapons." If I had posted that thought on social media, I'd have beaten all the journalists to the scoop.
🤔 So, if it can defend itself, why does it need America's help?
Europe is fooling only the gullible if people think they stand a chance without US help. I wonder how brave Starmer would be if Trump announced a withdrawal from Europe.
British Army: Approximately 83,010 personnel Royal Navy and Royal Marines: Approximately 32,610 personnel Royal Air Force (RAF): Approximately 32,610 personnel
Just under 150,000 in total. Russia has just under 3 million personnel on active duty.
France has 290 Nukes, while the UK has 225, with a plan to reduce that to 180 by 2030
It can't, because it made the choice of outsourcing it's security to America, which unfortunately elected a fascist who can't be trusted. They are just trying to keep Ukraine free until we can step up Spitfire production, like last time. Trumper is playing the part of Vichy France and Germany and Russia have swapped places.
Clearly, I'm the only one in the circles I move in who finds it disgusting that Starmer was telling us that the Tories had left a black hole of 22 Billon and that he was going to have to take away pensioners' fuel allowance, increase struggling business NI contributions, which starts next month and now he's pouring money into supporting Zelenskyy who started the trouble in the first place.
I also see (In Private Eye) that Labour is resurrecting PFI agreements within the NHS. I thought it was the Tories who wanted to sell off the NHS? Yet another lie that the Internet doesn't talk about. It's Labour that loves contracting out.
Prior to Zelenskyy, the government was pro-Russian, and everyone, including Putin, was happy. Zelenskyy comes along with a smile, a song, and a comedy sketch and tells everyone it would be great to be European and join the EU. Putin says, "Fuck that for a game of soldiers. I'm not having them garlic eaters on my doorstep, and they promptly invade.
You are free to interpret the chain of events differently.
Given that Ukraine has only been independent of Russia for 34 years, I'm reasonably confident that most Russians feel it is still part of their country. I didn't say that Putin was right to invade what I am saying is if you poke a dog with a stick, you should expect to be bitten.
The EU is just as guilty as Zelenskyy IMO. They should have known the shitstorm they were causing. It's incredible how: Albania: Applied in 2009 Montenegro: Applied in 2008 North Macedonia: Applied in 2004 Serbia: Applied in 2009 Turkey: Applied in 1987
And the EU has dragged its feet, and yet when Ukraine applied, it was almost fast-tracked.
I don't really care if people hate Putin, or think he's a dictator or evil incarnate. Folk need to take a moment and look at it from the Russian point of view. This is an expansion towards Moscow as far as they are concerned.
This proves that leaders are indeed a bunch of feckless kids. European politicians, including Friedrich Merz of Germany, said that Europe needs to work towards independence from America politico.eu/article/friedrich-… and then next thing the UK's Kier Starmer says that Donald Trump, i.e. America needs to play a firm role in Europe. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c625ex282z…
Surely that's why we "took back control", so we didn't have an EU army and centralised decision making? This is literally Brexit delivering on its promises At least, it's Keir delivering on Brexiter's promises.
The problem with the UK, and I don't think it is 'Party' specific, is that we still think we have the standing and the strength to influence other countries like the Americans can, which means we are shocked when Europeans don't take any notice of what we say or do for that matter hence the reason we are bending over backwards for Ukraine in the vein hope someone in Europe says "Good old Briton, you can always rely on them." It's also amazing that we have been running our military into the ground for the last ninety years. Starmer's announcement has probably been the first increase in funding for decades.
Of course, nobody is saying: "Hang on a minute. I thought we had a £22 Billion black hole? They're all a bunch of liars."
This happens under #Labour, and nobody says a word. If it had happened under a #Conservative government, the press and TV news would be screaming, "Tories attack the NHS!" remember, children, it's not about what you like but who you like.
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: My graphics card has stopped working. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: We'll reinstall the driver. 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: That didn't work. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: Hang on, how are you getting a desktop? 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: The one screen works but not the other. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: So the card is working? 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: I kicked the cable, and now the one screen doesn't work. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: So reinstalling the driver was pointless, you may have damaged the port. 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: I'll buy another card from Amazon. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: Umm? OK.
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: I fitted the new card, and that doesn't work either! 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: What? 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: Only one screen works! 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: I'm coming to you tomorrow, I'll need to physically see it.
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: It's working now.
I bet he'd pulled the cable out of the monitor, or he hadn't pushed the cable in enough. 😠🤦🙈
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson tells The Mirror the rollout of free breakfast clubs will soon begin to help struggling families and kids held back by scarring impact of poverty
People really need to understand what's going on. Zelenskyy's offer of resignation is worthless! The whole reason for Russia's invasion of #Ukraine is to stop Ukraine from joining the EU! Zelenskyy, to Putin, is probably irrelevant. His reason for invading is to ensure a buffer zone between Russia and the European allies.
So was Churchill but he was an inspiring wartime leader who gave his country hope when 'rationally' it should have surrendered. Zelensky is demonstrating that he's fighting for a noble cause; that political power isn't important to him, in stark contrast to The Donald.
That's not a very good example. Churchill came to power eight months after the war was declared and was given the push the moment the war was won. He spent most of his time begging other countries, especially America, to join in. "Come on in, the wars lovely."
Churchill was lucky that Roosevelt agreed to defeat Germany first rather than the country that had attacked them.
Churchill warned about Hitler for years but the Tories listened to those who said Mr. Hitler was 'a sound fellow' we could trust. He came to power when events proved he'd been right all along.
Winston made very dodgy decisions before WW2. He set the British Army on striking miners, the example Maggie followed with the police, right after giving them a big pay rise.
You mean the NUM that took money from Gadaffi? Miners who terrorised their own community, some of whom were simply trying to survive. Bussing in 5000 men at Orgreave is not a strike; it's a declaration of war.
Anyway You and I grew up in a world where we were indoctrinated with the view that the Communists, aka the Russians, were evil and wanted to destroy us all. We were told that while the UK and France could lob a couple of ICBMs at Smolensk, it was the Americans who truly kept us safe in our beds. I'd far rather have the US and Russia friends than at each other's throats.
You know when I said I hated bullies? There were no conditions on that. Scargill led a thug-army but when you are hungry and your only weapon is solidarity, I can understand the temptation to turn to violence. My parents were One Nation Conservatives, my maternal uncles were miners and NUM members. They were not Stalinists. They wanted the NHS, widows' pensions and changing rooms with showers.
The Russians did want worldwide Communism and America wanted Capitalist democracy. It's hard to understand how both arrived at authoritarian dictatorships while the environment goes to hell in a handbasket. Their leaders may be friends but they are both at Europe's throat now and the EU isn't sure we can be trusted either. I don't want to be on Putin and Trump's side.
I think Starmer needs to work towards Europe not having 'sides'. We could co-operate on what we agree on and ignore what we don't. That was what I wanted, for Europe, the British Isles, Great Britain and Scotland, instead of Indie-Yes/No or the Leave/Remain binary choices. That was childish. Those Eton lads aren't always as clever as they seem. You don't start a fight when you're outnumbered, even if you are Head Boy.
I'm not convinced Europe will ever treat us as equals or treat us fairly, for that matter. I'm gobsmacked that people are willing to hand over their country to Brussels so that they can glide through customs for two weeks in Ibiza.
I asked many people at the time of the vote why they believed so firmly that the European Union was good for Britain. None of them gave me very good reasons; they all seemed to have pretty unimportant personal benefits, such as the ability to take Benji the dog with them or work abroad while retaining British citizenship. Until, of course, Brussels does away with that, and we all become EU citizens.
I did vote to remain, mainly because I hoped the referendum may have given the EU a wake-up call to the extent they changed their disrespectful attitude. I never imagined that we would actually leave. It'll be at least twenty years before they allow us back, and even if they did, I guarantee they would punish us because France, for example, is very vindictive.
At least, it's Keir delivering on Brexiter's promises.
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