Rational Brit #FBPE

centre left, republican, I believe in subsidiarity and proportional representation and independence for ScotlandI loathe racism and misogyny. NHS nurse of 46 years now retired. OU history student

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2026-07-25 07:56:45 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jul/19/x-scams-login-new-device-message-account-crypto-phishing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2026-06-25 08:02:27 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/25/us-fighter-pilot-strangled-woman-england-why-military-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other. Time for them and their bases to be gone. They’ve abused our trust for long enough.

2026-06-04 08:33:03 UTC

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2025-11-12 08:40:47 UTC

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/bbc-bias-memo-lobbyist-trump-tech-giants/
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2025-10-17 12:02:07 UTC

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All this and I understand our beloved chancellor is saying financial regulation is a brake on growth. Are we really going to replay 2008?

2025-09-07 10:58:50 UTC

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I also understand that Starmer’s Trump whisperer in chief, Mandelson, is saying that Brexit is good thing as it allows us to move closer to the US. And in other news Labour Grandees are saying that the provisions of the ECHR need watering down. Christ I might as well have voted Tory. George Monbiot is right, this relentless pursuit of the right wing vote by what was centrist party will lose them their base vote and give the keys of No 10 to Farage. Roll on Scottish Independence.

2025-01-06 09:22:48 UTC

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If he wants to bring the right media to heel, he has the answer- Leveson 2 and a big majority. He needs to start rattling his sabre instead of running scared.

2024-10-15 11:51:47 UTC

Unemployed could be given weight-loss jabs to get back to work, says Wes Streeting
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/14/unemployed-could-be-given-weight-loss-jabs-to-get-back-to-work-says-wes-streeting?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Why do anything about the root causes of obesity which seem to be peculiar to the UK and US when you can pay shed loads of money to a US big pharma company instead.

2024-10-15 11:47:49 UTC

What funding was promised at investment summit?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/14/what-is-the-funding-promised-at-labours-uk-investment-summit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Remember the days when our USP was access to the European single market and we could attract companies like Honda and Toyota to come and build factories in the UK?

2024-10-12 08:14:34 UTC

Courtesy of Resistance Newsday on Facebook
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2024-09-08 09:13:03 UTC

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Couldn’t agree more. They could do worse than read Skidelsky’s book, Keynes:The return of the old master.

2024-09-08 09:08:20 UTC

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My conclusion about Starmer’s pronouncements is that he has a lot of f*ckwit advisors. He needs to kick them into touch along with Tony Blair and revisit some Keynesian economics. And also lose Wes Streeting. The NHS needs the Lansley reforms to be undone not heavier reliance on the private sector. Aren’t the railways and water industry enough evidence that privatisation doesn’t work.

2024-08-12 08:47:45 UTC

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2024-08-11 10:09:04 UTC

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