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@ledredman.bsky.social

Retired Engineer #FBPE Life long anti Tory and Anti fascist Tactical voter but not for Brexit parties like Labour

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Trump will be panicking now that firms will be announcing price cuts " because the tarrifs are scrapped".

20.02.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Andrew Epstein Defense Not Believable" by Rick McKee.

"Andrew Epstein Defense Not Believable" by Rick McKee.

"Andrew Epstein Defense Not Believable" by Rick McKee

20.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

20.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5387    πŸ” 1490    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 39

I'm English but my ancestry includes Welsh, Irish and border Scots. I know who I am. I'm a European and these people are bigoted cunts.

20.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie is right - people should act more like immigrants from northern Europe who came here in small boats.

20.02.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of β€˜inappropriate comments’ Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved β€˜minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, was accused by a young woman working at GB News of making inappropriate comments which she viewed as sexually harassing, the Guardian can reveal. The junior staffer complained to HR last year alleging Goodwin had made inappropriate comments, one regarding her appearance, sources say. Goodwin, 44, volunteered an apology after the complaint had been raised. Continue reading...

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of β€˜inappropriate comments’

20.02.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 21
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Professional grifter who never had a proper job in his worthless life, and does sweet FA as an MP will force unemployed youths with ADHD into work, whilst slashing the minimum wage..

Multimillionaire Farage is sooo of the people 🀬

20.02.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

If Americans cannot see now that this man is dangerously unstable and insane then there is no hope for the country.

20.02.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

β€œA federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

20.02.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2151    πŸ” 1249    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 43

Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC.

Let me get this straight:

Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds?

Release the Epstein files.

20.02.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5478    πŸ” 1721    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 79

A few brave journalists like @carolecadwalla.bsky.social alla.bsky.social have shouted from the wilderness, so we've known about Oligarch funding, Putin's meddling & frontman Farage.

While #EpsteinFiles bring fresh disclosures, in UK's media landscape this will likely gain little if any traction.

20.02.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Just try going after a Jeffrey Epstein in Britain Huge legal costs and bad laws make it much harder to expose the rich and dodgy in this country

Edward Lucas is dead right. If Epstein had been British he’d never have been exposed. Our libel law is an ongoing disgrace.

www.thetimes.com/article/1786...

20.02.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6

The US and UK designed a constitution for West Germany in 1945 that was intended to be robust against fascists. Sadly they did nothing to strengthen their own constitutions.

20.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly for Andrew Windsor unlike the American criminals in the Epstein files Trump cannot pardon him.

20.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fat orange shitgibbon is starting to lose. When the hyenas who want his job smell decay they will finish him off.

20.02.2026 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tesla is a failing car company propped up by promises of future profits from robots. But the robots are crap too. The whole thing is a con.

20.02.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brexit was funded by the enemies of our country. They got what they paid for.

20.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The unBrexited Britain that could have led Europe London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld, instead of a spectator to decisions it once helped to shape

This is something I had wanted to write for ages, but 10 years on from the Brexit vote made the most sense.

What would Britain still inside the EU look like? Incredibly powerful, is the answer.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-t...

20.02.2026 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

The USA will suit itself. The rest of the world is working out how to protect themselves from fascism being exported from the USA with tech oligarch money.

20.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Asbestos killed my father. Many will die because Trump is an evil bastard.

20.02.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Rachel Reeves be forced to raise taxes over falling immigration? Rapidly declining net migration figures could eliminate the headroom the chancellor established in the budget if the OBR downgrades its forecast

Migrants -both from EU and elsewhere -are more likely to be in work than the UK-born.

As @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social says, lots of other moving parts, but other things equal much lower migration means tax rises or spending cuts.

www.thetimes.com/business/eco...

19.02.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

With the exception of telecoms perhaps, every UK privatisation has been a disaster. It has always resulted in higher prices and worse customer service.

20.02.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When will every major UK rail operator be nationalised? Here’s the full list of operators and the dates they will be taken over by the government.

One thing other countries can learn from the UK is how terrible an idea privatizing rail is. The UK will renationalize the railways (and has already done so for many lines), and we will hopefully stop receiving spam from all the individual operators.

They need to renationalize water next.

19.02.2026 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

It hasn't won them back a single Reform voter and has pissed off a lot of potential Labour voters. Total insanity.

20.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

20.02.2026 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 21

No it's Baseball by a distance.

20.02.2026 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The constant effort to name everything for himself goes beyond his malignant self-importance. He wants us to pay for the branding rights, too.

With Trump, it’s always a grift for himself.

20.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 675    πŸ” 297    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 31
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Well done to Emily Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social and the then BBC Newsnight team for their work all those years ago.

19.02.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

The FT has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft.

www.ft.com/content/4310...

20.02.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

FWIW if you are the kind of man who thinks swearing at MPs in Walthamstow town centre is best way to express your political preferences, can I at least ask you wait until my kids are out of earshot first.

You might feel I am fair game for such abuse, but they are not.

20.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5

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