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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 10h

Oh trust me.

Do any political campaigning talking to Joe Average, and this kind of thinking is verging on normal!

It's both hugely entertaining and jaw dropping.

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Dyou think we should ask for it on Pick of the Week?

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoy. Shouty Brummie complains loudly about the Royals...

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Get yourself a copy of Alchemy and take everything you say about Mark Knopfler back.

One of the best live recordings ever - Knopfler is amazing live.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

The Aga-ny of it.

I'll get ma coat.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 2d

Another day another #Spiked pundit on #BBC. This time: Ella Whelan on #bbcaq. Spiked are right-wing shock jocks funded by the Trumpian Charles Koch. Profiled on the BBC all to provide clicks when Spiked offer no substance & nothing constructive to public debate.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Writing for The Telegraph these days isn't an improvement on Spiked, either!

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but it doesn't really matter.

The whole monarchy debate is always answered by a single question.

Why?

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 2d

Those eedjits on Bute would have a field day.... There are pretendy pictures of wanabee Stuart kings all over Bute Hoose.

I suspect this side of the the Scottish mainland it would draw on Rangers/Celtic lines.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 3d

Not certain I'd mate with him.

Nada sexy about any of that look.

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 4d

That is a glorious mix of wit and irritation.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 4d

When is this going to be addressed for the shit show it obviously is?

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 5d

Actually it looks like fun.

That said I bet he's a bit too convincing in the role....

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 5d

Habit.

And press moguls.

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 5d

He's a Wet. No harm in that - I was able to tolerate the patriarchal Tories of the 80s before Hayek too full stranglehold

Sad to see Ken Clark hasn't taken up cudgels as well

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 6d

For Brits this just schoolday rounders gone mad.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 6d

I watch silently. Need to see what's doing, but not engage with the buggers

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 7d

That's a fabulous bit OF workaday typesetting.

Very impressed by the use of the long S. (those tied characters making up ~st).

The fonts are a bit battered as well - and I love the crappy kerning between WA.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 7d

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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 7d

🙌 Huge double digit lead for Scottish independence in a latest poll.

🔎 This is a (+3%) boost in a month, from the same pollster.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The harder we work, the stronger the movement.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.

[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].

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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown

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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.

[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives

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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage

[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]

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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?

FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.

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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.

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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that

FARAGE:
Absolutely!

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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?

FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!

PRESENTER:
Ha ha

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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.

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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]

FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey

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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...

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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:

*Am I the only option for Britain?*

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[Cut back to studio]

PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that

FARAGE:
Absolutely!

[ends]

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 8d

Actually it's one of the reasons we are a bit of a pain in the arse for the EU. More UK squabbles.

Generally agree with you on the Euro, mind. The Scottish 'deficit' would make us ineligible to join on Day 1. I don't know of any EU country that has, actually.

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed with all of that. The GF agreement will be salt in the wound here too, although the Scotland-England border is far less circuitous than the NI one.

Right at the moment the indy debate is squabbling about currency (as usual), but the real test will be the border for goods.

Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 8d

Ireland has always been out of Schengen, and because of the G Friday agreement will continue to. Scotland would similarly share a border with England.

I'm not certain of how the UK excused itself. Sadly Brits do refer to the 'British Isles' although I bet many can't say why or how it applies.

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 8d

Same in Denmark.

BTW I am not a British exceptionalist. I have no issues with the aquis, and never have. It's just the EU is very good at accommodating issues and fudging requirements.

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