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Dr Charles Smith

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Heddwch Paz Peace Economist Chair, Wales 4 Europe Board, European Movement UK Clwb Alawon Cefn Cribwr Caerdydd Galician Sessions Lab & Co-op All opinions STRICTLY personal ¡No Pasarán! #FBPE #Breturn2EU #Independence4Europe Mi abuelo: bit.ly/3WdU49G

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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

05.10.2025 07:04 — 👍 4985    🔁 1695    💬 265    📌 70
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04.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 83    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 1
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

01.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 714    🔁 466    💬 39    📌 74

BLAIR ???
WTF ???
FFS !!!

#Gaza
#Palestine
#FreedomFlotilla

01.10.2025 23:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excellent opinion piece in this weekend's Financial Times
#Ukraine

28.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

26.09.2025 12:29 — 👍 788    🔁 459    💬 49    📌 98
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Five excellent letters in today's Guardian.
#RejoinEU

27.09.2025 08:04 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Has Trump even heard of Jesus?

23.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For the same reason they Farage on virtually every day? For the BBC it’s like a death wish

22.09.2025 22:22 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The blithering idiot who thought drinking bleach might be a great cure for Covid now not only knows the cause of autism but also has a cure.
Why are our news outlets even mentioning the ravings of this moronic bell-end?

22.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 43    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

They will do anything for growth but they won’t do that

17.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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At the @ukandeu.bsky.social
conference in Brussels today, Nick Thomas-Symonds made a good case for the UK-EU reset process. But many of the academics/diplomats/MPs/civilservants/trade associations/journalists present felt it was insufficient to change the dial economically. Much more needed!

17.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 42    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 1
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Sign our petition to pledge your support to join Erasmus+ Erasmus+ empowers students and young people to study, work and grow across Europe.

We’re getting close to 2,000 signatures! Please sign and share Wales for Europe’s petition to get Wales back into the Erasmus scheme👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺
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14.09.2025 10:29 — 👍 29    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 1

Calling for the violent overthrow of an elected government, and stating it's that or death.
What isn't "terrorism" about that?
Why isn't "Robinson" in custody?
Why isn't Musk being sanctioned?

14.09.2025 17:07 — 👍 47    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0

Trump blames "left wing hate speech" for gun violence.
I thought I recalled him publicly suggesting Hilary Clinton should be shot.
I thought I heard him calling a public official a "numbskull".
I thought he said some hateful things about Biden.
I must have mis-heard or imagined all this.

11.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Mainstream Labour

I have joined this democratic organisation and hope that enough EU-minded friends and colleagues will join to influence its policy on rejoining the EU. If "Rejoin" is an explicit ambition of the organisation this time next year I will renew.
#BrejoinEU

labourmainstream.nationbuilder.com

09.09.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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From now on, Labour has one mission only. It must focus on saving Britain from Farage | Polly Toynbee The hard right doesn’t speak for most voters. The progressive cause is not yet lost, but there is an urgent need for energy, purpose and clarity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Wise words from Polly Toynbee. She holds no punches and she always, always mentions the unmentionable (Brexit and its consequences) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.09.2025 07:46 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025 Stop Trump Coalition

Trump is NOT welcome in the UK.

stoptrump.org.uk/protest/

07.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera with the words that 's a treason in the background ALT: a man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera with the words that 's a treason in the background

Is he, a sitting MP, collaborating with a foreign government to undermine the UK?

04.09.2025 09:50 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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So Nigel, your beloved Brexit Britain is 'Awful' is it?

Time to say goodbye then.

04.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It's being called Farage's 'Talk Britain Down' tour.

Comparing the UK to North Korea.
Describing Great Britain as 'awful'.
Calling the UK an 'authoritarian' regime.

Instead he got called a 'Putin-loving free-speech imposter.' 😆

04.09.2025 09:37 — 👍 187    🔁 72    💬 13    📌 4
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Female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

Leading female politicians and artists reject attempts to link migration and sexual abuse

02.09.2025 11:46 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0

Ding-dong ding-dong,
Ding-ding ding-dong,
Ding-dong, ding dong,
Ding-dong, ding-dong....
Dong... dong... dong ....
This is the BBC and here is the news...
IMMIGRANTS! IMMIGRANTS!
FLAGS! FLAGS! FLAGS!
FARAGE! FARAGE!
BOATS! BOATS! BOATS!
I'M A TEAPOT!
YAKABOO!
YAKABOO!
YAKABOO....

02.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Just testing our new doorbell chime. Hope you like it.

#BrejoinEU
#SongofJoy

29.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's the trajectory we're on, very sadly

26.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Labour ministers are saying that the Reform Party's 1930s Fascist-style immigration policies are "unworkable".
I'd be more impressed if they also said they are "immoral", "cruel" and "un-British".

26.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

You are right. Shame on the BBC for being one of the worst contributors to the Reform-biased headlines

24.08.2025 22:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nicholas Winton - Wikipedia

Nicholas Winton - Wikipedia share.google/HywDAae33OC1...

24.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988
YouTube video by aggy007 Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988

Britain used to be a nation of Nicholas Wintons.
Now we're a nation of Nigel Bloody Farages.
What the hell has happened to us?

youtu.be/6_nFuJAF5F0?...

24.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Words and more words are not enough. If Starmer, Lammy and the rest of the Labour cabinet are not going to ACT to put a STOP to the war criminal Netanyahu and his turning Israel into a lying, murdering rogue state, they might as well not bother to get up in the mornings. Stay home and do less damage

22.08.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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