Angry keyboard enthusiast. Political & economic sarcasm with Scottish swearing. Pro-independence and EU.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Well done Joe for cementing the "one rule for them, another for the rest of us" sentiments which the populists are leveraging. Great job, you fucking idiot.
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Like almost every public civil engineering project in the UK, a vast waste of money and complete failure.
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"@AndyBurnhamGM is going to be disappointed".
Transport Secretary @LouHaigh says HS2 will not run to Crewe, adding that "phase one will be delivered, which is Birmingham to Euston".
#TrevorPhillips trib.al/wkmumC6
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Rachel Reeves is handing public service pensions to the private sector. Not surprising. Labour have handed everything to the asset managers who will continue to squeeze "shareholder value" out of every person on these islands.
We're being farmed.
The King wants to "celebrate" his birthday by opening two foodbanks. Poverty tourism.
Instead of opening foodbanks - which shouldn't fucking exist in the 21st century - he could use his considerable influence and wealth to ensure that foodbanks don't *need* to exist.
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Israeli arms firm Smartshooter says its high-tech gun sights are “one of the most useful new items being demonstrated on the battlefield” in Gaza. The British army is now using these sights.
👉 British troops using Israeli arms technology tested in Gaza declassifieduk.org/british-t…
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There were six months between Brexit vote & Trump’s election in 2016. I watched to see if US economic nationalist would change UK public opinion. It didn’t. Why ? Because Brexit & Trumpismo are similar: manipulation of aggrieved voters by rich men for their own benefit
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The Bloomberg hit piece on the German economy and collapse in investment is quite something & well worth reading entirely, but this is my favourite bit
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We’ve joined @seaspiracy, @RacingXtinction and around 80 Icelandic and international NGOs to ask Iceland’s president, @PresidentISL, to stop millionaire whale killer Kristján Loftsson’s application to slaughter fin whales from being considered before Iceland has an elected government again 👉tinyurl.com/84v3r6pn
ALT Image of a dead whale with the text: President Halla Tómasdóttir Please step in No decisions on whaling until government elected.
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Southern Water at risk of £6bn debt default in event of further credit downgrades
Controlled by private equity octopus Macquarie, borrowing more from hedge funds and private equity.
They are counting on govt bailout and extortionate customer bills.
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My blog today on the implications of the #USAElection2024 for trade relations and for the U.K. @UofGlasgow @UofGAsbs
NEW📢
Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli @UofGVC writes about the results of the 2024 US Election, warns of the potential for future trade wars, and notes it's now imperative that the UK re-evaluates its alignment with the EU as a large trading bloc.
Read 🔗gla.ac.uk/research/az/public…
ALT The US Presidential Election and the potential for Trade Wars, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, a photo of Professor Sir Muscatelli, and the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos.
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Reform MP Lee Anderson has been told to apologise in the House of Commons for "swearing twice at a security officer after his pass did not work" as he tried to enter parliament
Read more 🔗
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BREAKING: US Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver a speech conceding defeat in the presidential election to Donald Trump at 6 p.m. ET (2300 GMT), two sources told @Reuters reut.rs/3YSyYPD
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This is a sobering but necessary read. Some painful truths here. It wasn’t even close.
For those waking up in US, bewildered in Europe, what happened?
Have been on air for last 12 hours pouring over the data
Here it is
There's no silver lining for Democrats. Trump won everywhere. He's going to win the popular vote. He did better across the demographics. He grew his coalition, better with black voters, Latinos, young voters. The US become less racially divided by party. Harris underperformed Biden virtually everywhere.
Trump improved on his 2020 margin in 2,367 counties. His margin decreased in only 240 counties.
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Just sayin’ to all 🇺🇸 political experts, including those now congratulating themselves for being on the right side of a binary choice: It was NOT down to a few tens of thousands of votes in the swing states. It was NOT “ a coin toss” , as the Americans say. We collectively got it wrong.
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Grovel away🤮, but was this you too?👇
Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on your victory.
The UK has no greater friend than the US, with the special relationship being cherished on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 80 years.
We look forward to working with you and @JDVance in the years ahead.