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Roger Morgan

@roger65m.bsky.social

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The UK belongs in the EU. Global problems can only be solved with global cooperation. Despise Brexit, fascists, Farage, Trump and Musk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade.
Look at what he does, ffs.
Look at his tax affairs.
Look at his grifting.
Look at his lies.
Look at his prejudice.
Look at his allies.
Look at his manifesto.
Look at his Brexit.
He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

Nigel Farage (photo)

Nigel Farage says 'there's every chance of general election in 2027'
Reform UK leader says party needs to be ready for early election and vows to 'stop the boats' within two weeks if elected
UK politics live - latest updates
Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 10

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · Aug 9

Despicable behaviour by this government using language and messaging that will further embolden the racist thugs

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · Aug 1

Similarly depressed about my new blue passport that will be arriving shortly

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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · Jun 25

BREXIT BLEW A HOLE IN PUBLIC FINANCES.

Starmer’s plan is to get pensioners, poor families and the disabled to fill it.

“The government can only significantly offset Brexit losses, or eliminate them, through reintegration with the European economy.”

WE NEED TO REJOIN!!

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Jun 3

Water bills up 360% since privatisation. That's all you need to know.

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · Jun 3

The utter stupidity and hypocrisy of people who voted for Brexit so that the UK could control its borders, but who still expect another country to do it for us. Mind boggling!

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Nigel Farage wants to leave the ECHR to make YOU considerably poorer.

No state pension.
No minimum wage.
No state benefits.
No maternity pay.
No holiday pay.
No sick pay.

And ultimately, no NHS.

Nigel Farage is not on your side.

Wake-up!"

via Sarah

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · May 21

I think Mr Tombs needs to learn how to spell Farage

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · May 17

The RW papers, which already scream Brexit betrayal on a daily basis, will dial their criticism up
to 11 as soon as Labour changes a single atom of our relationship with the EU.

Given that, they might as well go for something spectacular instead of these tiny nibbles. It won't change the reaction.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · May 16

Legitimising far right rhetoric is just doing Farage's job for him.

My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.

We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.

youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...

Do They Actually Want Farage To Be PM?

YouTube video by Supertanskiii

youtu.be

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · May 14

Absolutely

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · May 6

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

• Re your article (Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform, 3 May), the insistence of this Labour government on responding to the perceived threat of Reform by aping it on the issues where it is strong is utterly mind-boggling.
I don't think any electable party will be more anti-immigration than Reform. The portion of the electorate for whom immigration is the one issue they care about won't be persuaded to vote Labour by it pledging to reduce asylum applications from international students. It's a ludicrous idea and, at best, only serves to reduce the distinction between the two parties.
In reality, Reform is weak on almost every conceivable area: the economy, the NHS, Donald Trump, Brexit... the list of vulnerabilities is almost without limit. Yet the government chooses to engage on the only ground on which Reform is sure-footed. It's utterly bizarre.
How is a party with five MPs, fewer than 800 local councillors and no actual policies allowed to dictate the agenda in this way?
Richard Repper
Frome, Somerset

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · May 5

When you give an example of something you don’t have to list every possibility to make your point!

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · May 5

How come Australia 🇦🇺 and Canada 🇨🇦 can see through right wing populism, yet in the UK 🇬🇧 people vote for the cesspit that is Reform??? 😩

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · May 5

What’s next - tariffs on foreign novelists? He is an idiot.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · May 2

Labour needs several million buckets of ice-cold water poured over their head and the nation's church bells ringing in unison as a very loud wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it.

People voted for hope and change and vision not Reform lite and the same old Tory shite.

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

Let’s just remind ourselves about Farage’s big meal ticket idea again. And no, this isn’t about how the Tories did it, this is just Brexit reality. And Farage would make the deal *even worse*. Pariah status, unreliable, ruined UK howling about immigration and moaning that everything is broken.

Independent front page. Jan 2025

Five years on, the true cost of Brexit

£30.2bn
Cost of Britain's divorce settlement from the EU (HM Treasury) - not counting any ongoing impacts to the economy

£27bn
Drop in goods exports to EU in 2022 alone due to the introduction of trade barriers since Brexit (LSE) with food, agriculture and fishing among worst-hit sectors

15%
Long-term hit to
UK trade (OBR) as revealed in
Budget forecast

£2.8bn
Annual decrease in UK food exports to the EU
(Centre for Inclusive
Trade Policy)

6 in 10
Britons think
Brexit has gone badly (YouGov) and 12% believe it has gone well

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Tonnes drop in seafood exports to the EU since 2019 (Marine Management Organisation)

3.6m+
Number of immigrants into UK since the end of BU free movement
(ONS) despite claims it would reduce the flow

56%
Proportion of dairy producers
struggling to find workers (Arla)

1,227,800
EU nationals who left the UK between 2016-21 (ONS)

16,400
Number of businesses that stopped exporting to EU due to Brexit trade rules (LSE)

1/3
Drop in EU students at UK universities

2.3m
Net migration since end of free movement

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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · Apr 28

🫵You belong in Europe.
Always have.
Always will. 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺

Believe in the EU?
📲 Follow us.
🖊️ Volunteer.
📣 Be part of the fight to Rejoin.

#RejoinEU #BrexitRebels #TeamEU

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 27

“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train”

Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says

Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · Apr 25

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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Roger Morgan @roger65m.bsky.social · Apr 22

The path they’re taking is so depressing. Are they trying to guarantee that they will lose the 2029 election?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Apr 11

Starmer: Why are we polling so badly?

Staff: Well, we're not aligned with the mood of the country on Brexit.

Starmer: It's baffling, isn't it? I've no idea why.

Staff: Well, we're not aligned with the mood of the country on Trump.

Starmer: So odd. Very very odd. No idea why it's happening.

etc.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Apr 7

A Government official said today, "We are not going back on Brexit."

Do you want to go back on Brexit, I do, and most of the UK does too.

It doesn't matter what they want, it matters what you do.

That's democracy.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Apr 4

Trump's actions have demonstrated that he is perfectly happy to tear up conventions and treaty obligations on a whim.

Why should Starmer make a slew of harsh concessions, including potentially on digital services taxation, food safety, free speech etc. to get a "deal" that could be binned any time?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Apr 3

Given that just 4.25% of the world's population lives in the United States of America this might be the moment for the 95.75% of the rest of us to leave them to it.

Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Mar 28

UK not entering trade war with US, says Starmer.

Wrong assessment. Trump has declared trade war. Extra tariffs on UK steel, motor trade. Trump demanding tax cuts for US corporations operating in the UK.

Appeasement is futile. Don't become the 51st state. Join the EU. Carve a common future.

UK not 'jumping into trade war' with US, says Sir Keir Starmer

The UK is in

www.bbc.co.uk

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · Mar 27

Excellent work by Everyone Hates Elon 👏🏻

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · Mar 27

Do you know what would raise money and help businesses in the UK @labouruk.bsky.social ?

Yep. You got it

Rejoining the EU

It’s not fvcking rocket science but here you are still pandering to a tiny minority of supertwats and uberracists because you think they’ll keep you in power.

They won’t!

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