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Retired teacher. Newly grumpy old guy. Living with stage 4 prostate cancer, encouraging all men of ‘my vintage’ to get regular PSA tests. #Earlyintervention

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Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

11.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 183    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 1
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Countdown: The steady shedding of Reform councillors and officials continues… – HOPE not hate Drunken displays, racist rants and dodgy deals are just some of the reasons that Reform councillors and officials are dropping like flies… While Reform UK...

❌ Far more than just one 'bad apple' Nigel...

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/10/countdown-the-steady-shedding-of-reform-councillors-and-officials-continues/

11.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 196    🔁 71    💬 13    📌 2
Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest. The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

11.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 915    🔁 295    💬 53    📌 18

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

11.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 1065    🔁 525    💬 46    📌 30
Centre for Welsh Studies | Our Agenda for Change

Have a look at the now defunct Centre for Welsh Studies. A pro Brexit think tank set up by Llŷr Powell, Reforms candidate at the upcoming Caerphilly senedd by-election and Matt Mckinnon head of comms at Reform. Gill was on their board and Powell worked for him in the. web.archive.org/web/20180110...

10.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

10.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 432    🔁 226    💬 34    📌 15

Excellent outcome

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Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

10.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 14200    🔁 7530    💬 249    📌 376

Well, well, well… 😆

10.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities Privatisation has failed.

Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

10.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 82    🔁 41    💬 7    📌 4
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 55136    🔁 22435    💬 1857    📌 2114
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Owning the battle for Portland

#ReleasetheEpsteinFiles

09.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 572    🔁 167    💬 32    📌 16
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Donald Trump has cut heath and human services in the US to give this lunatic, Argentine President Javier Milei $20 billion dollars while he pretends to he a rock star.

09.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 708    🔁 323    💬 93    📌 26

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

09.10.2025 05:51 — 👍 1195    🔁 310    💬 65    📌 19

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

08.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 4214    🔁 868    💬 232    📌 116

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

08.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 768    🔁 146    💬 50    📌 4
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

08.10.2025 07:36 — 👍 782    🔁 350    💬 38    📌 12

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

07.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 16261    🔁 4485    💬 397    📌 135

Agree. Agree. Agree.

08.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 4205    🔁 1639    💬 117    📌 45
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Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

06.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 1128    🔁 294    💬 112    📌 30

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

06.10.2025 19:21 — 👍 411    🔁 89    💬 14    📌 9

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

06.10.2025 23:17 — 👍 15041    🔁 5673    💬 523    📌 312
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

07.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 3384    🔁 1842    💬 121    📌 78
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

06.10.2025 23:00 — 👍 23306    🔁 14998    💬 802    📌 1052

Nigel Farage is owned by Russia. Vote Leave was illegally financed by Russia. Brexit was and is a Russian active measure to harm Britain and its home in Europe.

06.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 1059    🔁 345    💬 50    📌 17
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The Stories the Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You About Britain’s Corporate Takeover While you’ve been distracted by Nigel Farage, corporations have been quietly seizing control of Britain

What's happening behind those relentless headlines about immigration?
A Silent Coup where US corporations are restructuring the British State and commodifying the entire public sector.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

06.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 79    🔁 71    💬 1    📌 2

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

06.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 620    🔁 309    💬 25    📌 20

The closer than the Tories get to Reform, the more it makes sense for Labour to leave them to it and head back towards the centre. Stop bashing immigrants 24/7 and concentrate on the important stuff.

05.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 768    🔁 148    💬 40    📌 10
"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing."
Nigel Farage
"[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts."
Boris Johnson
"Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary
[surplus."
Jacob Rees-Mogg
"Milei is the template."
Kemi Badenoch
"Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer."
Richard Tice

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing." Nigel Farage "[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts." Boris Johnson "Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary [surplus." Jacob Rees-Mogg "Milei is the template." Kemi Badenoch "Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer." Richard Tice

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

05.10.2025 09:35 — 👍 776    🔁 359    💬 38    📌 15

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