Neil Oakman 🔶️

Free speech?
Really?
It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.

Reform Dog Bites Media Man The British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage

How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times
@adambienkov.bsky.social
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Why renationalising the UK’s critical national infrastructure is vital Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s critical national infrastructure, so there is now a strong case for renationalising

Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s Critical National Infrastructure (energy, water, transport, health, comms, etc)…

…so there is now a strong case for renationalising.

perfectly put.....

Reeves should consider ending pension triple lock and charging for NHS treatment, says IMF Chancellor is advised to give herself more leeway in the next budget before adjusting taxation or spending

The IMF urges UK govt to end the pensions triple lock and charging for NHS treatment.

Condemning pensioners to poverty and denying healthcare to low/middle income families is part of the right wing agenda. How many will be killed by neoliberalism?

Anything to avoid taxing corporations & the rich.

Water chiefs’ pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over pollution Total remuneration at companies in England and Wales – many of them under scrutiny for sewage discharge – was £15m in 2024-25

England Water chiefs’ pay rises by 5% to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over sewage dumping.

Failure and abuses rewarded.

The only effective remedy is to permit employees and customers to vote on exec pay. No major party supports democratization of water.

Thatcher

Over one in five 18-24 yr olds support the Lib Dems

Become a member of the Lib Dems:

As a member you can:
✔ Decide our party policy.
✔ Stand for election and choose our candidates.
✔ Vote in future Lib Dem leadership elections.

Become a member today

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Despite promises, Reform now say council tax cuts 'not going to happen' One Reform council leader said he'd cut taxes 'on day one' of assuming office. You'll never guess what happened next...

Who would have guessed

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wil...

exactly this

Why we need electoral reform.

The problem with Starmer coming the hard man is that it brings to mind Vince Cable's comments about G. Brown trying to be Stalin but looking like Mr Bean. Or, if you prefer, our latest PM makes John Major look like Sid Vicious

England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades

One reason water companies feel able to delay bringing in hosepipe bans & drag their feet on fixing leaks is that successive governments have allowed them to pump water from rivers when reservoirs get low. But that water is taken from wildlife.

2/3

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When rivers get low & warm like this:

- the pollution in them gets more concentrated
- fish & other water creatures have less oxygen to breathe
- pathogens from sewage have perfect conditions to grow
- algae grow too much too fast - blocking out light & air for wildlife

1/3

What
A
Surprise

Great to see Labour implementing Lib Dem policy!

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

Younger voters are begining to abandon Labour and are flocking to the Greens and Lib Dems

[Tories and Reform remain unpopular]

YouGov crosstabs • 18-24 voting intention

🔴 LAB: 28% (-13)
💚 GRN: 26% (+8)
🔶 LDM: 20% (+4)
🟦 CON: 9% (+1)
➡️ RFM: 8% (-1)

+/- vs. GE2024

Fieldwork: 13-14 July, 2025

what do the other 31% think? Do they think??

Shockingly, the Tories did the right thing on secret Afghan asylum plan The initial error was egregious, but the response was, at least, morally clear-sighted and practical

We should be having a debate about how British incompetence put the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk. Instead we're having a debate about 'how many criminals they let in'. Tells you everything you need to know about where we're at as a country inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.

Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.

This week's column.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Monty Python’s Eric Idle says Nigel Farage being ‘taken seriously is appalling’ The comedian will return to the UK in September for a solo tour.

“I mean, (Brexit) was just a terrible con, it was a real con, and (the fact) that Nigel Farago (Farage) still exists anywhere and is taken seriously is appalling to me."
www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Meet to Cement Ties as U.S. Steps Back Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to London on Thursday is the latest sign of a new world order, in which European nations are uniting amid growing instability.

"Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip to London on Thursday is the latest sign of a new world order, in which European nations are uniting amid growing instability."

We can’t rely on the US - it’s time to strengthen ties with the EU. 🇪🇺

But PR should be the FIRST step. Everything else is just tinkering around the edges. However welcome it is.

Explains a lot....

Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in...

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

UK water companies had no debt when they were privatised. They've not invested in a single new reservoir in 40 years yet have acquired truly crippling debts by borrowing money to pay out huge dividends. Let them go bankrupt and nationalise the assets not the debts.

"Fucking hell, Farage. At least I dressed my lads properly..."

Reform MP James McMurdock resigns whip pending ‘business propriety’ investigation Allegations in Sunday Times say MP took out government loans during the Covid pandemic for businesses with no employees

Reform UK MPs are nothing but a bunch of cheats, bigots, liars & grifters

McMurdock took £70,000 in loans in 2020, which it said were from the government’s COVID Bounce Back scheme in 2020. He borrowed £50,000 for one business, which had no employees and negligible assets until the Covid pandemic.

Thoughts and prayers don’t stop mass shootings, and they don’t stop climate disasters either.

This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate.