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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 19m

Thick people shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Why should mine and my grandchildren’s futures be determined by people that don’t understand .
Exactly what happened with brexshit

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 23m

Not with reform and tories running local services

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 24m

Remember when you used to take your pet to the vet, and it just cost a couple of tenners, then they introduced vet surgeries and pay plans and the costs soared, people being charged £30 for two paracetamol just because they can,
The reason I don’t have a dog now is the scare of vet bills

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 26m

When are people going to learn
Privitisation is about a tiny minority getting immensely rich at the expense of the majority
Just look at Royal Mail as a prime example reducing staff closing offices automation and one shitty call centre for the whole country

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 29m

So what will that do ? Close it down ? Fine it ? Stop them ?
Nah they will just carry on

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John #GTTO #FBPE #REJOINEU #FBPPR @rcamatrix.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve got no time whatsoever for Tony Blair but the BBC scraping the bottom of the barrel for knocking copy on the LP is so on message for them. Compare this with the absolute silence over the relationship between Nathan Gill and Farage.

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 11h

When they fail they will blame labour

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 13h

Anytime he wants to change the address on his company and come back and pay his taxes he can then be in discussions
The cheek of the extremely wealthy
Making his fortune out of manufacturing in the uk - but doesn’t want to pay tax
Yeah agree - he can fuck off

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 13h

141 greens 169 liberal 271 Tory 350 labour

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 13h

Out of 2000 people asked 450 are reform voters no other party was represented as highly as reform
You can only wonder where they do the surveys

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

Or
I house he lives in London
2 nd Clacton - dubious ownership who registered for ctax?
2 houses in Kent owned by thorn in the side - farages company ( tax avoidance ? )
Rented out or second home ctax ?
House in Surrey rented out
Since 2016 Farage bought 4 houses
Brexshit sure working for him

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

He will be paying a fortune in second home council tax
I do hope he’s registered on all of his five residences, councils can charge 2-3 times the basic council tax

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

Nigel Farage says something needs to be done about about Second Homes to stop them from destroying tourist villages.

It's another lie, because Farage has a Second, Third and even Fourth Home.

And he will never tax himself.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

I didn’t enjoy it , I just see flat stompy feet

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s hope the uk crime agency has enough evidence to bring criminal charges against both of them

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

As should
Johnson - I’ll die in a ditch
Sunak - eat out to die
Hancock - send the old sick to nursing homes with no ppe
Gove - quick pals form a Q I’ve got billions to spend

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 20h

Lots of noise surrounding the Common Tart and her lardy lover, yet total silence around the Thieving Toffs

www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

UK's anti-corruption tsar accused of defending COVID ‘cronyism’

Exclusive: Tory MP husband of Test and Trace boss Dido Harding criticised for appearing to blame ‘transparency measures’ for delaying government's COVID response

www.opendemocracy.net

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

Yes money paid first , but when goods arrived unfit for purpose why didnt government ask for a refund ?
They could have done that before borrowman created the dodgy transfer to a trust
fund for his kids
I’m positive it was deliberate otherwise why hide the money

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

Make racist anti black inciteful comments first
Then disappear when the actual truth comes out

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14h

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

I love jimmy , he danced well for a rumba

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 14h

Agree - hard choreography but just off for me

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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 15h

They can’t

Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 15h

They can’t without special permission from the government. I hope labour refuse everyone of reforms requests
Councils given special powers last year were all facing bankruptcy from 14 years of frozen funding
It’s about time reform learnt that delivering local services is hard as fuck

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