Val Andrew

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Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Can’t believe this is true 🤷‍♀️

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Woo hoo 🎉 couple of very lucky guesses!! It’s going to be a lovely day 🤗 Have a great one everybody 👍

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Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five” Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.

It’s time for a public inquiry.

'The Most Powerful Individual in Britain' – Peter Oborne on Morgan McSweeney

Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times reporting exposes how Keir Starmer's chief strategist is driving a Labour Government towards defeat by the far-right

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Absolutely right - the alternative based on current polls is unthinkable !

Obama is Exactly 💯 Correct !
And ROEVEMBER Is Just Around
The Corner.......

Damn right !

Agree and don’t think she did herself any favours this morning on Sky with Trevor Phillips - came across very ‘shouty’ 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think he meant to send troops to Poland 🤣🤗

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So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

Canada vs England 13–33

Player of the Match Sadia Kabeya

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A deserved win, the Red Roses get their 3rd title and everyone that's not English (me included) is crying now. Canada barely able to advance and link passes, wasting their few chances. The English defence stood strong and dominated the set pieces, specially the scrum

Right out of the Trump playbook 😨😩

All sounds very familiar - they ‘sold’ the voters a Brexit that looks totally different in practice - they’re all self interested snake oil salesmen 🤦🏼‍♀️

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

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Better week but boxing and film let me down 🤷‍♀️ Have a great weekend 👍❤️

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Reform's plan for a benefit clampdown Sir, Regarding Reform's plan to ban foreigners from claiming benefits ("Farage visas would make it harder to settle in the UK", news, Sep 22; "Time's Up", leading article, Sep 23), in my small company for the past ten years we have employed, on a yearly average, 32 eastern European people, two of them in senior management positions. They all pay British taxes and have had little or no unexplained absences to date. Sick leave for them is extremely low. As far as I am aware, none of them is claiming benefits for dependants. These diligent people provide compassionate care for their clients, living with them for a few weeks at a time. During the pandemic they were responsible for ensuring zero transmission of the virus to people in their care. I feel utterly ashamed that many of them will be reading about Nigel Farage's plan on their various social media platforms this morning. Chrstina Sell Managing director, Arbour

Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
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Thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia since Putin’s invasion. 
 
I stood with President Zelenskyy today at the UN to focus the world's attention on these horrific war crimes — and to strengthen our international efforts to bring these children home.

Over almost an hour, Trump delivered a speech that, even by his standards, was chock-a-block with lies, nonsense and divisive vitriol.

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor.

I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.

Oh wow, I, am, so, surprised...