mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on Tommy Robinson charged with harassment 2 days ago:
He was in then out now he’s in out shake it all about!
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 5 days ago:
I don’t pay or accept cookies 🤔. Maybe I’m special?
- Comment on Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker 5 days ago:
Wasn’t he going to quit anyway after his last debacle?
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 5 days ago:
Wait, the guardian is paywalled now? Is this supposed to help with the typos?
- Comment on Labour peer apologises for writing to UK Treasury to promote crypto firm he advised 1 week ago:
Oops 🤫
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 1 week ago:
Labour would rather this than have to change the voting system. PR came up in the last party conference and they just said, “Naaaah”.
Keep voting red vs blue everyone!
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 1 week ago:
He’s a nonce
Words. What do they mean? 😂
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre's untimely death leaves unanswered questions 3 weeks ago:
Yes. And sorry for being snappy. It’s been a hard week 😔.
- Comment on Kneecap apologises to families of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox 3 weeks ago:
The Tories and Jo Cox’s husband.
- Comment on Kneecap apologises to families of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox 3 weeks ago:
I imagine they’ll say:
We were just messing. You know. Calling for our boyos to murder one of your MPs. But just for the craic, like. No offence.
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre's untimely death leaves unanswered questions 3 weeks ago:
speaking truth to power
God I hate this phrase. It’s an Americanism that has bled into British culture and now politics. Utterly meaningless. Achieves nothing but making people feel like their making progress but aren’t at all.
Oi M8 ur a cunt!
Dave, woah. What are you doing?
Speaking truth to power, innit.
The truth element is so broad it could apply to anything and the power bit is so vague it could also refer to anyone. Bland catchphrase politics. Yuk.
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- Comment on Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs 3 weeks ago:
I thought about posting this but thought it might stir up too many violent emotions. You’re a braver man than me… or woman… or non binary person.
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 3 weeks ago:
Mr Graham, from Carlisle, and Mr Carruthers, of Wigton, Cumbria, have each denied two counts of criminal damage.
Why am I not surprised. 'ang 'em!!!
- Comment on UK Government warns British lawyers about possible american sanctions over advice to ICC in Israel case 4 weeks ago:
Archive link for those of us already sanctioned by the US.
- Comment on Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon 4 weeks ago:
The person in 6,161st place eventually took a case to the Supreme Court of the UK, so…
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 4 weeks ago:
Labour is too expensive here. Especially for something like fabrication of solar panels. Unless GB Energy wants to subside the industry for a decade or more? We can automate a lot of it but we’ll still be more expensive than countries in developing markets.
- Comment on Macron ‘to make state visit before Trump’ as UK seeks closer ties with Europe 4 weeks ago:
It started with a shoulder touch, but blossomed into something else!
Hopefully the UK and France both pegging the US. Ahhhh one can only dream.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 weeks ago:
No. Keir Starmer.
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 5 weeks ago:
Archive link but unfortunately still in the devil’s tongue 🤪.
- UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC Newswww.bbc.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal 5 weeks ago:
This is precisely what we voted a Labour government to do… 🫤
- Comment on Supreme Court to announce ruling on definition of a woman 5 weeks ago:
I feel this section heading is the pertinent one:
How did we get here?
Just fucking treat people equally with respect and legislate on that basis. Are you a person: yes. Fine then you should be treated with respect. Job done.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 5 weeks ago:
I’d like to see some of that wealth 🤑
- Comment on 'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says 5 weeks ago:
Not what I was thinking but I do like those answers.
- Comment on 'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says 5 weeks ago:
At this stage Richard Branson should put in a bid for it. I’ll give you two guesses what the company will be called 🤣.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 5 weeks ago:
Our government won’t let us. 🥴
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 1 month ago:
There is the occasional day or two a year where the sun has been observed…
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t think it from that gloomy picture but Ambleside is a really nice town. Top visit!
- Comment on Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway 1 month ago:
The people in charge are very good at taking advice. Advice on how to make money off of the tax payer.