Apparently maternal side were German political refugees and her paternal side were Dutch Jews who largely perished in the Holocaust.
So there you go.
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Apparently maternal side were German political refugees and her paternal side were Dutch Jews who largely perished in the Holocaust.
So there you go.
It's definitely a type. Portillo's dad fled Franco
22.10.2025 14:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's going to be especially unhinged this year I reckon
22.10.2025 14:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not sure but part of her family apparently fled Nazi Germany because they were trade unionists
22.10.2025 14:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Refugees even
22.10.2025 12:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Accuse me of nitpicking if you like but I was under the impression that the bigger issue was the rape and child abuse
22.10.2025 12:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The award lol
Forum posters are generally horrible Tories who dislike anything nice about Bristol
Genuinely I know a Rovers forum that will be furious about this
22.10.2025 12:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0JERMBLY CROBBINS! π€¬π€¬π€¬
22.10.2025 12:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NEW: Zack Polanski holds a news conference in Swindon to welcome in two more councillor defections to The Green Party.
Tom Butcher and Repi Begum follow Ian Edwards who made the move in Swindon Council last week.
Tbf they're right about them occupying a big void. The place where all their opponents are a bit rude and therefore exactly the same
22.10.2025 08:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0....π€·ββοΈ
22.10.2025 07:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't know but whatever it is it seems fishy
21.10.2025 20:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not sure what I expected next from US politics but "Democratic candidate for senator has Nazi tattoo" has definitely blindsided me
21.10.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Something very odd happened with the Twitter algorithm around the UK race riots last year when suddenly my entire "for you" feed went Nazi. Like someone had flicked a switch. And I suspect they had. Reckon something similar may have happened here
21.10.2025 18:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wanted out for ages due to politics etc but it just became unusable anyway. Binned it nearly a year ago and not missed it once
21.10.2025 18:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In 1990, BCFC stopped a goalbound Rovers shot on the goalline with a hand, we put away the rebound but the ref had already given a penalty. We scored the penalty.
We have not evolved it seems.
Today's pensioners are the same people who voted Tory throughout the 1980s and still do. The pensioners of the 1990s are different people with different life stories. HTH
21.10.2025 17:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Couple of Gitanes, a shrug, then off to work
21.10.2025 15:51 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Betting shops: antisemitic or not? Here's Lisa Nandy
21.10.2025 15:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very funny result for the Lib Dems here
21.10.2025 15:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fair enough but also Go Jays etc etc
21.10.2025 15:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You say this the day there's a non-US team in it for the first time since 1993 π
21.10.2025 15:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yup! I get Β£41 credit when my ticket sells. Individual tickets are a hell of a mark up!
21.10.2025 13:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's basically just general sale for members with tickets popping up as and when STHs realise they can't make it. I put mine up the other day and it sold in two hours. Defo worth looking at if you can stay flexible with your weekend plans
21.10.2025 13:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 04) For 20 years that man has been Farage. It is now also starting to be Zack P
5) Which of these two is actually directly addressing people's real concerns (food on the table, heating their homes etc) and their real humanity
Keep going!
Oh absolutely.
1) People are not 100% coherent in their politics. Not even you and me.
2) Lots of people are fed the fuck up with old style mainstream parties and are looking for the likeliest alternative
3) Lots of those people listen to the man they see on the telly kicking against the pricks