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Phil Clemo

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Barrister. Dad. Lib Dem. Sunderland fan. Like a pint. One day I will make a load of pogs with Brian Noble’s face on them. You see if I don’t.

184 Followers  |  100 Following  |  605 Posts  |  Joined: 18.11.2024
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Sound as a pound!

28.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well I am profoundly happy with today’s football developments

28.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get in Jordan Pickford!!!!!

28.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine starting an actual war to distract from you being a horrible old nonce.

#iran #trump

28.02.2026 09:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Gorton and Denton byelection meant tactical voting to keep out Reform - isn't it time to get rid of slot machine politics with First-Past-The-Post?

Ask your MP to campaign for PR to be added to the new "Representation of the People" bill. (1 of 2)

28.02.2026 09:37 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

That photo looks like he’s just sat up after faceplanting a pecan pie

24.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everyone else can read this paragraph as well right? I feel like I’m high or something. Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart and Luka Modric? What the actual hell? These are the end times.

24.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Representation of the People Bill: Ask your MP to attend the debate and speak out for Fair Votes The Representation of the People Bill is a rare chance to renew our democracy - yet it ignores the voting system driving chaos and disillusionment. We need MPs standing up for fair votes in this upco...

The Representation of the People Bill is a rare chance to renew our democracy - yet it ignores the voting system driving chaos and disillusionment.

We need MPs standing up for fair votes in this upcoming debate. Urge your MP to attend: actionnetwork.org/letters/repr...

24.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not been good enough today. Lacked spark. Hard to put your finger on what the precise problem is.

#safc

22.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@hopenothate.org.uk

22.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Saw Operation Mincemeat at The Lowry in Salford this afternoon. Absolutely wonderful. Such clever stage production and a stunning display of versatility from so small a cast. Christian Andrews as Hestor stole the show for me. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house for ‘Dear Bill’. Marvellous stuff!

21.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Once you notice the links between Gareth from The Office and Putin you can’t unsee them

15.02.2026 09:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📮 Full text of the letter calling on the Government to engage with the growing risks First Past the Post now presents

✍️ Signatories include leading academics, political scientists and constitutional experts - including a former Chief Executive of the UK Electoral Commission

👇 Read it in full

14.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 49    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 3
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Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system

⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before

🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust

14.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 118    🔁 63    💬 2    📌 4

Mate I never use it. Don’t miss it at all. When people say “oh my god how do you survive without it?” it is just habit. There’s loads of stuff out there just as cheap and just as easy to buy AND you’re not funding one of the world’s most awful humans.

14.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’ve got that here in the UK too mate. Intolerant bigots trying to own the Union Jack. Piss right off. Not on my watch.

14.02.2026 09:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two things:

1) This is top quality punning. I mean bra-actual-vo

2) Am I going to have to be the person who says that ‘Igor Tudor’ is clearly a made up name and that that is obviously Nicholas Cage?

13.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t have time for any extra plans. My entire weekend is spoken for with trying to prise this amulet out of the grip of a Victorian mannequin I found in an abandoned monastery.

Probably just make some pasta after that.

13.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I tell you what mind Danny Zuko has let himself slide.

12.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Jim Ratcliffe is worried about the UK being “colonised by immigrants” then he could increase the population of white English speakers by 1 by coming back & paying his tax. I know there’ll always be clever tax arrangements but even 2 of the £4bn he’s avoided would transform say the court system.

12.02.2026 08:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jim Ratcliffe can get in the bin.

11.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On 11th February.

Some effort for any team that. For the team that came up through the playoffs that’s positively Herculean.

11.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

11.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sky presenter reflects on Trump's since-deleted video depicting Obamas as apes Sky News presenter Kamali Melbourne weighs in on a video shared online by the White House of the Obamas, which has sparked outrage after featuring imagery widely condemned as racist.

Very very powerful video on the Trump video showing the Obamas as apes.

This is a distraction ploy by Trump but it nevertheless behoves anyone with even the vaguest shred of humanity to call out this shameful racism and bring those who perpetrate it to justice.

news.sky.com/video/share-...

07.02.2026 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CW&C Lib Dems Condemn “Culture-War” Motions Ahead of 9 February Council Meeting Cheshire West & Chester Liberal Democrats have condemned three council motions set for 9 February, accusing their proposers of misrepresenting a children’s Storyhouse event and stoking fear over non-e...

Effective opposition is holding an administration to account and ensuring the delivery of services.

www.cwaclibdems.org.uk/news/article...

06.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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White House removes video shared by Trump showing Obamas as apes The White House initially defended the post before removing it hours later - blaming a member of staff for "erroneously" sharing the video.

He’s scared. This is distraction. It’s so unquestionably racist that he wants us all to focus on this at the expense of everything else. Yet to be released epstein files?

This is a man who hears the ice cracking beneath his feet.

news.sky.com/story/donald...

06.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My sister just sent me this.

Now THIS makes me proud to be British.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUXMaLm...

06.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reform UK's Welsh leader Dan Thomas announced by Nigel Farage at rally in Newport Dan Thomas will lead the party at the Senedd election in May, with polling showing Reform performing strongly.

Poor this from the BBC. They have a whole feed on Dan Thomas (no me neither) becoming the new leader of Reform UK in Wales and they haven't even bothered to tell us which hostile foreign power he is a spy for. Shoddy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

05.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do not accept that his ascension is inevitable. It absolutely isn't.

Fight.

Fight every day to stop him and to create a genuinely fair, decent, tolerant and prosperous country for everyone.

Nothing is inevitable. The bad guys, for that is what they are, do not have to win and this shows it.

03.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Burnley were rubbish but we were awesome across the park. Diarra, Brobbey, Le Fée stood out but we were great all over.

And Talbi. Good God son. That keeper has a family.

#safc

02.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0