Jacqui / is on Nostr

Carer, Irish & European. There maybe ranting from time to time. I can be prone to swearing especially when #Brexit & #NIpolitics are mentioned. I love all things to do with #Belfast #Ireland & #Irishhistory & #IrishRugby #LFC #YNWA

Pictures are Achill Island landscape & Samuel Beckett Bridge (Irish: Droichead Samuel Beckett) is a cable-stayed swingbridge in Dublin, Ireland.

Last Notes

2024-09-09 06:31:13

If it is a French styled Revolution then I am all for it!
Especially on mornings like this when we get reminders of their greed and how much taxpayers money has been wasted & written off!!
#Labour could start with getting the money back of the likes of Mone, Harding and the rest, instead of picking on kids and pensioners!
As for Tom - leave the ECHR and screw over NI peace process again!
BBC News - We need a Conservative revolution, says Tugendhat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4lz3r3jzxo

2024-09-05 06:37:25

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My first step would be to remove the right of the heads of faith to sit in the Lords. Proper separation of church & state.
What is the argument against an elected upper chambers with term limits?
Remove any patronage from
the Prime Minister and stop them from rewarding their sycophants when they are booted out of office.

2024-09-03 06:36:11

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Those six haven't the brains they were born with! They haven't figured out that they were the problem that they are all now claiming only they can fix.
Whomever is left in charge of that steaming pile of 💩 that is passing itself off as the opposition - they should know this, we don't care what they say about anything because they are still lying.
Also, they will the 21st century version of Iain Duncan Smith, William Hague and Michael Howard!

2024-09-03 06:24:12

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signed* and it finally became what we know today as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1921 when the English partitioned Ireland.
So for me, when someone says 'British' or 'Britain', do they actually mean 'English' and 'England'? Since Brexit, thanks to an English Nationalist Government (Tory) Britain and British has become a synonym of Englishness.
Did that survey cover the whole of the UK or did they just ask people who lived in England? If it was UK wide

2024-09-03 06:10:39

Less pride in being British - I wonder why that could be??? #Brexit anyone and the quest for the revival of the long dead Empire!
Also, British is a political construct! You can be British because of the union between England and Wales, then it became Great Britain when the 'Act of Union' was signed*with Scotland & then it became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when that was
‘Somewhat more critical’: pride in Britain’s history falls sharply in survey https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/03/pride-britain-history-falls-sharply-social-attitudes-survey?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-08-18 08:20:49

Someone appears to be getting worried about the sunlight that is being shone on his income!
Yes, Farage isn't the man on the people that he likes to pretend he is, to get idiots in Clacton to vote for him while he lives his opulent lifestyle at their expense!
I would almost feel sorry for them but then I remember they knew he was a grifter and they still voted for him.
Consquences....
BBC News - Farage denies almost £100,000 a month GB News salary
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l1kk9xqnyo

2024-06-29 14:18:19

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It has been very different the way the media have been covering #Farage this time. There has definitely been more negative coverage of him and his limited company.
The Mail turning against, the Telegraph letting Tory ministers write negative articles about him - leads me to believe they know what damage he has caused since 2016.
He is taking a leaf out of Trump's playbook now that he is getting questioned about his unpleasant candidates and their views.
He's feeling the heat!

2024-06-29 14:03:29

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Also did anyone else think he looked shocking on the QT debate? (I know he isn't great looking to begin with) but I think the sunlight that is being shone on him at the moment is taking it's toll.
Or all the #hate & #bile that is in his DNA is finally starting to overwhelm him on the outside.
I don't think #ge2024 is going the way he expected it too.
Couldn't happen to a nicer man!

2024-06-29 13:58:01

It appears the #Farage is having a massive hissy fit - he has reported Channel 4 to the Election Commission & is refusing to go on Laura Kuenssberg Sunday show for the 'dishonest' Question Time audience - he wants an apology!
No Nigel it's called scrutiny and being questioned about your candidates behaviour. You just can't just do a poor impression of Trump and say everything was a set up or rigged against you. #ge2024
Pity the media hadn't done this in 2016, things might have been different

2024-06-22 09:05:47

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I acknowledge that many people who aren't rich, will make sacrifices for their children to go to private schools. They all won't be rich as the PM
However, it is a bit rich to hear them complain about possibly having to pay VAT on their fees, when the state schools the majority of kids attend, have been cut to the bone over 14 years, can't afford teachers and the buildings they sit in are falling down around them.
Labour's priority are the kids in state schools...

2024-06-22 08:41:06

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Private Schools have increased their fees year on year, as state schools have had their budgets slashed to the bone by the #Tories, and yet these parents complaining about #Labour putting #VAT on school fees, has managed to find the money for those increases and have never complained.
So forgive me if I don't break out the the world's smallest violin for them, now they are being asked to pay 20% VAT on their privilege.