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GeoffAlan4

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Old, left wing, constantly amazed how stupid some people can be. Atheist these past 55 years. Please don't come bothering me with your gods. I have a slight age related tremor, so please allow me a few typos. UK based.

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I fear for my daughters due to the far right misogyny being used to recruit young boys and men in this country. Tragic people arriving on our shores looking for shelter need to be treated with compassion.

10.08.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a Plonker Rodney!

10.08.2025 09:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There are millions of families in our country in poverty, that can't feed their children.

We can't allow that and allow rich people not to pay a fair amount of tax.

10.08.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For me, the BBCโ€™s image choice here is reprehensibleโ€ฆ

โ€ฆit glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedomโ€ฆ rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.

09.08.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 533    ๐Ÿ” 162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our childrenโ€

We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of โ€œsend them out!โ€

09.08.2025 08:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1175    ๐Ÿ” 493    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: theyโ€™re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend

Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel

Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: theyโ€™re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend

By Steve Pottinger

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

10.08.2025 06:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 211    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Yet another Brexshit 'Benefit'!

10.08.2025 06:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Eleven more people starved to death in Gaza Strip, meanwhile our police have arrested 350+ UK protesters.

In what world does thus make sense.

Let me be clear, I've no time for murderous Hammas, I remember crowds cheering on the streets of Gaza after 9/11, and condemn both actions. Enough, Israel!

09.08.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gang bosses and gangland crimes Warning: โ€˜gangocracyโ€™ โ€“ populist power grabs and elite complicity echo fascism, risking democracyโ€™s collapse

โœ๏ธ Gang bosses and gangland crimes

Warning: โ€˜gangocracyโ€™ โ€“ populist power grabs and elite complicity echo fascism, risking democracyโ€™s collapse

By Tony Barta

09.08.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Brexit has been a success. Labour are slowly killing it During the long years of EU membership, our political establishment forgot how to run the country

This is absolutely bonkers from Frost. Absolutely no one believes this. Brexit has been a complete disaster for our economy, for business and for our global standing.

It's about time we reversed the whole thing.

08.08.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 384    ๐Ÿ” 105    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

08.08.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Let me think โ€ฆ

โ€ฆ do I want to return to coal mines and dinosaur rulers with Reform โ€ฆ.

Or

โ€ฆ. Be a progressive, forward thinking country with Labour?

How is this a hard choice for so many?

08.08.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 116    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Ten facts about โ€˜faithโ€™ schools Written by Richy Thompson One third of state-funded schools in England are legally designated with a religious character. Here are ten facts about what that means. 1.ย Most donโ€™t have to teach about ot...

Growing up without an imaginary friend.

humanists.uk/humanistlife...

09.08.2025 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s great that now that Palestine is entirely rubble all our leaders and the surrounding countries have the guts to *whisper* that itโ€™s a genocide and call to stop supplying arms!

We canโ€™t ever stop a genocide if itโ€™s only a genocide in hindsight, and you condemned everyone who tried to name it.

08.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1203    ๐Ÿ” 399    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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Birds of a feather...

09.08.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14372    ๐Ÿ” 4168    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 922    ๐Ÿ“Œ 288
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They promised to โ€œTake back controlโ€.
What they meant was:
๐Ÿ’ฉ Scrap EU protections
๐Ÿ’ฉ Let corporations police themselves
๐Ÿ’ฉ Government washes its hands of work and you ๐Ÿซต swim in sewage.
#BrexitReality #RejoinEU ๐Ÿšจโค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ’™
Join us. Rebuild ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง standards.

๐Ÿ”— therejoineuparty.com/volunteering
#RejoinEU

09.08.2025 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Starmerโ€™s team seen as โ€˜tired, same-again politiciansโ€™, says Labour peer Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievements

Agree on โ€ฆ.

1) that this Govt is seen as โ€˜tired same again politiciansโ€ - the personal donations scandal & WFP fiasco did that.

2) โ€œparalysis will set in, if ultimately the country thinks the bond market is determining the whole of our policy.โ€

It does.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

09.08.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again

"The straightforward explanation for Trumpโ€™s Confederacy fetish is that heโ€™s a virulent racist who wouldโ€™ve enslaved people himself. If you think thatโ€™s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."

08.08.2025 12:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3521    ๐Ÿ” 1103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 182    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73
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Some economists and researchers argue the UKโ€™s fiscal rules are too restrictive โ€” limiting long-term investment in health and care.

Read the Lowdown's article to learn more and revisit the dangers of PFIs๐Ÿ’ท

ย ๐Ÿ”— lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...

08.08.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UK hasnโ€™t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown The former prime minister backed reforms to gambling taxes in order to generate the ยฃ3.2bn needed to scrap the cap

UK hasnโ€™t seen poverty like this for 60 yrs, says Gordon Brown in call to scrap two-child benefit cap.

Tory govt imposed it. Labour continuing with it. Starmer removed whip from 7 MPs who opposed it.

What is the mentality of Ministers condemning children to poverty, blighting futures?

08.08.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 409    ๐Ÿ” 167    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

โ€œNetanyahu's plans to occupy the whole of Gaza are utterly abhorrent - and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.โ€

08.08.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS

POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR

by Our Apocalypse Staff
HELENA HANDCART

THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode.
It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services,
not to
mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed).
Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

08.08.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2896    ๐Ÿ” 1030    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 134    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
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You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

08.08.2025 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24957    ๐Ÿ” 7378    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 555    ๐Ÿ“Œ 380
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Why Reform UKโ€™s conspiracism should worry you Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy

Why Reform UKโ€™s conspiracism should worry you

Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy | Dean Conway

@centralbylines.co.uk

08.08.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 241    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Rupert Lowe has outdone himself ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ

08.08.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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70 questions the UK government must answer about Gaza โ€˜Mainstreamโ€™ journalists have failed to investigate the UKโ€™s complicity in Israelโ€™s genocide. Here is what every minister should be asked.

Q52 โ€” Why was UK military training still being provided to Israeli soldiers as recently as July 2025, considering that Israelโ€™s prime minister is under investigation by the International Criminal Court for war crimesโ“

www.declassifieduk.org/70-questions...

08.08.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 164    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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We found the waste, fraud, and abuseโ€ฆ

07.08.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14644    ๐Ÿ” 6117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 704    ๐Ÿ“Œ 311

Good on Germany.

08.08.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Netanyahu goes for the full Adolf!

08.08.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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