James

@djimsta.bsky.social

Londoner who's spent his life building timber framed homes in the countryside, so best of both worlds. On the flip side. Absolutely horrified that my government are participating in a genocide and the only reason is profit, can't wait for the reckoning 🇵🇸

@cathobbs.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

10 DAYS TO GO

Thames Water's creditors are meeting on Thursday 29th October to approve yet another bailout (£2.4 billion this time) at the expense of their 16 million so-called "customers"

@andyburnham.bsky.social now's your moment

Time to take back Thames Water

weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...

weownit.org.ukAndy Burnham, block the Thames Water bailoutEnough is enough. We are sick and tired of Thames Water tumbling from crisis to crisis.
@djimsta.bsky.social

£21bn and he still has his hand out. That's someone who has no thought for his "subjects" and only gives a fuk about himself. The polar opposite of a benevolent King

@premnsikka.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Britons with savings of £16,000 are disqualified or severely restricted from receiving Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Income Support. No means-testing for the King. Royal family may be worth £21bn? It has 21 officially categorized royal residences, alongside 13 additional properties.

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...
@sturdyalex.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

@adambienkov.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

bylinetimes.comMysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity 'Transparency' Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds ItEXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it
@joiningupthedots.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Reform U.K. Sam Journet's post says Reform wants to protect the Green Belt and challenge the established political network. Yet the Wickford scheme is a major data-centre proposal on Green Belt land. CPRE Essex reported that Basildon councillors backed it in September.

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@dropsitenews.comReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Half a million Palestinians in Gaza will lose monthly food assistance as funding shortages force major WFP cuts ahead of winter, ABC News Australia reports. ➤ WFP is reducing its monthly reach from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. Families receiving 2 food parcels will now get one...

🚨 BREAKING: Half a million Palestinians in Gaza will lose monthly food assistance as funding shortages force major World Food Programme cuts ahead of winter, ABC News Australia reports. ➤ WFP is reducing its monthly reach from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. Families receiving two food parcels will now get one, and flour bags will shrink. ➤ Daily hot meals have fallen from 250,000 to 150,000. Some families in hard-to-reach areas will receive meals every other day instead of daily. Cash assistance for 75,000 families is being cut by 40%. ➤ WFP’s Carl Skau said traditional donors, including the U.S. and Europe, have reduced funding. “It’s not because the needs are down … it’s only due to the lack of funding,” Skau told ABC. ➤ Around 1.4 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse, including 200,000 in emergency conditions. WFP says it urgently needs $450 million for six months of operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
@shakethescales.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Considering our history, and the number of private jets these grifting jokers flew in on, I'm going to hazard a confident 'No!' in answer to this question...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comCan countries deliver on a deal to save the world’s plants and animals?Four years ago nearly every government on Earth agreed to protect nature. Now, as countries gather for Cop17, the pressure is on to follow through on those commitments
@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines.

#PoliticsLive

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@flyingrodent.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

The Tory leader tried to make a councillor out of a Neo Nazi criminal who had literally been *sent to prison for racist hounding of a Jewish MP*. When she couldn’t do that, she made him an antiracism advisor. That was, what, two months ago.a

Conservative Councillors' As...• X.com @CCACIrs Over 500 Conservative councillors have signed our open letter calling on Green councillors to stand up for British Jewish residents. The Green Party has declared "Zionism to be racism". Zack Polanski didn't stay to vote against it. And yesterday, he told Laura Kuenssberg he wouldn't overturn it: "I don't think this is actually controversial. We're asking Green councillors to disavow the motion, challenge antisemitism and reassure Jewish residents they'll be represented without prejudice. Silence is a choice.
@davidandress.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

This is Captain Hannah Graf, MBE. If she were still serving in the British Army today, she would have to start using the men’s toilets. Because a gang of bigots have captured the courts, and the government.

@nothoodlum.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

@flipchartrick.bsky.socialReposted by @djimsta.bsky.social

Not enough people know about this. Badenoch put Low onto the Public Accounts Committee.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Jawohl, mein Fuhrer. This is the man given a seat on the PAC by Badenoch.

Rupert Lowe A Restore Britain Government will do what needs to be done - civil unrest and rioting will inevitably follow. We must be ready for that, and the public must be prepared too. What needs to happen will be incredibly painful. But it is all absolutely necessary to save our home.
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