@rob53.bsky.social
Married, retired, splits time between U.K. and France. #UKEUFriend
Who's really draining the public finances? 💸
The UK hasn’t been “colonised by immigrants” — it’s been hollowed out by greedy billionaires shifting profits offshore & dodging their taxes. People like... Sir Jim Ratcliffe. 👀
"In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds
Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future.
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
All Filton 24 activists have now been acquitted of aggravated burglary.
This government has done everything it can to demonise the Palestine movement. It has failed.
History will be kind to those who tried to stop the genocide. It will condemn those who aided and abetted it.
Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
Freezing weather caused 2,500 UK deaths as pensioners struggle to heat homes
Hundreds of people died in their homes during freezing temperatures last year, laying bare the “awful reality” facing many pensioners living in cold and damp homes
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.
This is the real story of Britain’s decline: an extractive class that squeezes money out of our island anyway they can, shifts profits offshore, dodges taxes, demands govt handouts, underpays staff, defunds our public services & then points the fingers at migrants.
10/10
INEOS received £120m in state aid last year to keep its Grangemouth plant running.
And now Ratcliffe is lobbying for taxpayer‑funded infrastructure to boost his plans for a new stadium for the football team he owns 25% of, Manchester United.
9/10
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
NEOS appears to be involved in the sort of classic profit‑shifting tactics that helped drain an estimated £14bn from the UK last year.
But whilst it’s happy to minimise what it pays in. It has no such issue taking public money... 8/10
So why’s he saying it? Well, maybe so we don’t stop to ask whether "deeply pro-British" billionaires like him are contributing fairly?
In 2020, Jim moved his tax residency to Monaco, saving himself (and robbing our public services of) £4 billion...
6/10
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
His “9 million on benefits” line is also misleading.
Yes, 8.6M people in the UK receive Universal Credit but...
2.2 million of them are in work, so really we're subsidising corps paying insufficient wages.
Like those paying minimum wage (Jim)... 👀👇 4/10
www.theguardian.com/society/2020...
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s recent comments about migration weren’t just wrong, or offensive, they were a distraction.
There’s a reason billionaires keep stoking anti-migrant sentiment, here’s what they don’t want you to realise… 🧵1/10
BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer responds to Reform UK’s “shocking” plan to scrap the Equality Act
19.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 355 🔁 116 💬 29 📌 13
How did you feel about having your EU citizenship taken away?
#RejoinEU
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
That should tell you all you need to know about Reform UK
18.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 317 🔁 111 💬 14 📌 3
All checks at the crossing point between Gibraltar & Spain will be scrapped for estimated 15,000 people who across in both directions every day.
It also removes all physical barriers, checks & controls on goods between Spain & Gibraltar meaning Gibraltar, becomes part of the EU’s single market
Are you on or close to minimum wage?
Yesterday Reform announced they will reduce minimum wage, if they get into power.
Are you willing to support them & risk a pay cut when you could support Labour who have repeatedly increased it by more than inflation
#NeverVoteReform
Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.
Freedom of Movement wasn’t “open borders”.
It was the freedom to study, work, fall in love, care for family, and live part of your life across Europe without visas or limits.
We lost something huge.
If you agree, repost this and reply: “Bring it back.”
#SaveFOM #RejoinEU
Freedom of Movement wasn’t some “perk”.
It was a normal right that millions of ordinary British people used responsibly.
To work.
To love.
To study.
To care for family.
To live in two places.
And we lost it for absolutely nothing.
If you want it back, follow me.
#SaveFOM #Brexit
In opposition the Labour party strongly supported mandating swift bricks in new homes. Last November,in a move which shocked conservationists - the Labour government used a three-line whip to vote down a House of Lords amendment to make the bricks mandatory for new buildings
youtu.be/raLUpWrdOuQ?...
Reform are bad flipping
Farage’s new team of former Tories can flip sides all they like.
They're still the same failed Tories who trashed the economy, hammered mortgages & lost control of our borders.
#NeverVoteReform
Farage’s shadow cabinet should Reform get in government.
Farage’s frontbench of failure, packed with failed Tories, including Robert Jenrick & Suella Braverman, who spent over 3,000 days in government trashing our economy, hammering mortgages leaving Britain worse off.
#NeverVoteReform
We need to stop saying:
“Bet they voted for Brexit”
And start saying:
“Isn’t it wonderful people are fed up of Brexit”
Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was
“no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable”
So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?
They thought we’d stop after one letter. They were wrong. 📢
Corridor care strips patients of their dignity. We’re demanding a real plan from the Health Minister and need you to send our letter AGAIN to ramp up the pressure.
It takes 30 seconds: 🔗 bit.ly/end-corridor...
They’re absolutely right.
It’s just one of the reasons why it’s really not worth getting anxious about opt outs until such a day as the UK might apply to rejoin.
#ITVYouthTracker EU referendum voting intention for 16-25 year olds
✅🇪🇺 Join the EU: 83%
❌🇪🇺 Stay out of the EU: 17%
Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year-olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February 2026
