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Born in Europe, still living in Europe but in the UK. Voted left all my life. Now voting Greens. I play the flute badly. Worked for the NHS for 40 years. Brexit has been a disaster. Tyneside!! Scantily dressed followers will be blocked.

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Tell you what Jim.

If the UK has been colonised by migrants, come back, pay your fucking taxes and support the country you purport to love.

No? Whatโ€™s that? Youโ€™re happy in Monaco where they donโ€™t impose personal taxes on their residents?

Funny that.

Tax dodging, unpatriotic racist.

13.02.2026 07:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 338    ๐Ÿ” 106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Iโ€™m not playing this stupid game with Reform or any of their multimillionaire groupies, vilifying immigrants and moaning about the benefits bill from their tax havens and Dubai penthouses. Then lying about what they said and why.

Reform is a racist party. Relying on racist votes for power. End of.

13.02.2026 07:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 822    ๐Ÿ” 228    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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The stark contrast is set to raise a simple but incendiary question: who is truly paying for Britain?
Racist POS Ratcliffe, or people coming here from all over the world helping to build Britain? #UKNews

12.02.2026 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 514    ๐Ÿ” 278    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid ยฃ4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. Heโ€™s an embarrassment to the club and game.

11.02.2026 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1225    ๐Ÿ” 297    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Mate, it was 1066. Move on.

11.02.2026 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2743    ๐Ÿ” 427    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 286    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
Sky News: Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the countryโ€™s richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.โ 

Sky News: Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the countryโ€™s richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.โ 

Totally wrong. Totally out of step with British values. He should apologise now.

11.02.2026 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 872    ๐Ÿ” 143    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Zia Yusuf tweet: 'Bangor University have banned Reform and called us racist, transphobic and homophobic". 

Bangor receives E30 million in state funding a year, much of which comes from Reform-voting taxpayers.

I am sure they wonโ€™t mind losing every penny of that state funding under a Reform government. After all, they wouldnโ€™t want a racistโ€™s money would they?'

Zia Yusuf tweet: 'Bangor University have banned Reform and called us racist, transphobic and homophobic". Bangor receives E30 million in state funding a year, much of which comes from Reform-voting taxpayers. I am sure they wonโ€™t mind losing every penny of that state funding under a Reform government. After all, they wouldnโ€™t want a racistโ€™s money would they?'

Reform's Sarah Pochin (the one who complained about brown people being in adverts) wrote to Bangor university's student debating society asking to be hosted. They said 'no thanks, you're a bit of a racist, we don't like those' & now Reform are threatening to shut down the entire university!

10.02.2026 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Remember the squeaky noise of the tapes?

10.02.2026 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform
By Henry Saker-Clark
The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back
Reform UK.
Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD
Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets".
Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week.
They included pledges to cut
VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs.
The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents.
In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs"
He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade.
"You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters.
"However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry"
Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.

Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children heโ€™ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldnโ€™t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
(iPaper)

10.02.2026 07:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1560    ๐Ÿ” 600    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 168    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54
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Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue Englandโ€™s largest council tax rise Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

09.02.2026 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah. Well. *surprised face*

What did farmers expect? (Not to mention the Johnson et al Tories, BXP/ ReFukโ€ฆ.too dim and too arrogant to listen to and understand expert advice spelling this out)

07.02.2026 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

07.02.2026 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage on GB News blaming Putin for the Epstein Files.

We know who he works for.

06.02.2026 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 182    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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โ€œItโ€™s potentially the biggest political scandal of this centuryโ€

As MPs force Keir Starmer to publish files about Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador Skys Beth Rigby provides a detailed summary of how we got here

05.02.2026 07:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 180    ๐Ÿ” 56    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 89    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

Yup, I agree

05.02.2026 07:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament,

"10 years on from Brexit"

"In a world that has changed so profoundly"

"Europe and the the UK need a new way of working together"

"It is time to exorcise the ghosts of the past"

"Reset our partnership"

"And find solutions together"

04.02.2026 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 813    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Polish FM Sikorski:

Putin still believes he can win. Any misunderstanding within the transatlantic family encourages him to explore our weaknesses.

02.02.2026 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 217    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Cartoon: no lineups for Melania compared to a huge lineup for root canals.

Cartoon: no lineups for Melania compared to a huge lineup for root canals.

Globe and Mail cartoon

02.02.2026 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15232    ๐Ÿ” 4408    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 392    ๐Ÿ“Œ 254

The Trump Kennedy Center lasted less than two months

02.02.2026 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6129    ๐Ÿ” 934    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 353    ๐Ÿ“Œ 79

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: โ€œWe depended on the big stick of the United States โ€” and now we see that the man with the big stick can also use it against us.

โ€œWe have never seen this before: that the United Statesโ€ฆdares to threaten us with the big stick.

โ€œThis is a turning point.โ€

01.02.2026 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 492    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Money well spent.. Bravo.. ๐Ÿ‘

01.02.2026 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ahahahaha

30.01.2026 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Department of Justice โ€˜did not protectโ€™ Trump when reviewing Epstein files, says deputy attorney general โ€“ US politics live Todd Blanche says โ€˜we didnโ€™t protect anybodyโ€™ in the files as he announces release of 3m more documents

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

30.01.2026 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You one of the highlights of Bluesky Mr Bear

29.01.2026 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Neither Reform UK nor Matt Goodwin Speak for the Working Class Both can only ever speak about it - usually from London studios - while advancing policies that would actively hurt it.

"gap between who they say they are & who they actually are runs right through the Reform Policy platform,
the longer & closer you scrutinise their policies, the more you realise . .nothing there is truly a plan for improving the lives of working-class communities".
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

28.01.2026 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

But the fools don't realise they're fools - most think they're wise!

28.01.2026 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cuba is a Socialist country and one of the poorest in the world suffering under a 60+ year economic blockade by the richest country in the world.

Guess which one has better healthcare, life expectancy, literacy, lower infant mortality and every type of crime.

It ain't the USA.

28.01.2026 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 465    ๐Ÿ” 149    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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โฌ‡๏ธ "The Member for Clacton is warmly welcoming people who spent 14 years undermining public services, who wrecked the economy, who botched Brexit, and who then got booted out by the British people in 2024."

๐Ÿ˜ฒ "Mr. Speaker, their latest recruit was so bad, she managed to get sacked by Liz Truss!"

27.01.2026 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 438    ๐Ÿ” 126    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Matt Goodwin says this is "a chance for the hardworking, law-abiding, tax-paying people," such as his boss, Nigel Farage, who doesn't do his job in parliament, lied about why he avoided constituency work, admitted to breaking 17 laws last week alone, and still faces questions about tax avoidance.

27.01.2026 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 543    ๐Ÿ” 139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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