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Proud trade unionist. Hate tories. Rejoin euro zone. Lifelong Labour supporter. Hates tax dodgers.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 1d
Once again, why aren't the media bringing this to people's attention. Imagine if starmer did that. They seem to give charlatans and grifters a walk over. I wonder why.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 2d
So they're intending to bring in someone outside of politics to serve in government.... wonder where they got that idea from 🤣
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
Corrupt chancers urged to come up with an economic plan that isn’t utter bullshit. So, no tax cuts and austerity on steroids for a country already stuck in Farage’s Brexit dead end.
But hey, some super wealthy industry big (k)nobs will come on board to help con the little guy.

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Times Farage to abandon manifesto's big plans for tax cuts Extracts: Farage will break with his manifesto pledges of £90 billion in tax cuts as he attempts to bolster his party's economic credibility. The leader of Reform UK will promise not to reduce taxes before reducing spending, deep cuts to the civil service and a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure in his first big speech on the economy next month. "Reform will never borrow to spend, as Labour and the Tories have done for so long; instead, we will ensure savings are made before implementing tax cuts. I will have more to say on all this in the coming weeks." Speaking on the campaign trail before the Caerphilly by-election to the Welsh parliament on October 23, he did not respond to demands to name his shadow chancellor but suggested he would soon be able to draw on backing from the business community. Several high-profile figures from industry have privately indicated they would be willing to serve in a Reform cabinet, party officials said Farage said: "We will be launching between now and the budget, a new campaign — an economic campaign ... it's going to be very impactful. It'll another high-profile individual coming into politics from outside of politics, who's been supremely successful in their world." Promising a "total change of attitude" on the economy, he said: "We are not a party dominated by corporate thinking. The Tories and La-bour are both dominated by corporate thinking." The IFS has questioned whether Reform's economic plans are credible warning last year that the party had overestimated how much it could save through spending cuts: "Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up." Right-leaning think tanks have also urged the party to set out more credible policy. The Institute for Economic Affairs last month called for Reform to "put some serious economic policies on the table".
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 3d
Exactly
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John #GTTO #FBPE #REJOINEU #FBPPR @rcamatrix.bsky.social · 4d
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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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 4d
So the luxury jet donated by Qatar was an unconditional gift was it? 🤣
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 6d
Some of us are amazed that our elected members of parliament take on 10 paid jobs too. And swan off to the states whilst parliament sits. While the rest of us would be sacked for gross misconduct for not showing up at work.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 6d
Eh Farage ..how about this actually being about Neville supporting the same people who pay his wages .. millions of us white middle aged football supporters AGREE 100% with him on this !!!!
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 6d
They're well and truly fu...d looking at that lot.🤣
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6d
It's the end of the Conservative party, but the moment has been prepared for
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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 6d
A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d
Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 8d
The mask slips
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d
After spending an entire morning defending his suggestion that there are too many non-white faces in the UK, Robert Jenrick ends his speech with the line: "Let's take our country back".
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 8d
Yes its always best to wear a suit and tie whilst climbing ones ladder.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 8d
Bet that's the first time he's climbed a ladder?
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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 8d
Rupert Lowe-Life shows that since leaving Reform he still can’t shrug off performative stunts, so he posts a pic of himself hanging a flag on a lamppost in Scarborough..

He could do constituent surgeries, visit a care home a community centre but nah.. he vandalises a lamppost 🙄
Rupert Lowe life hanging a flag
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 9d
Well worth a watch. Sums it up very well.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 9d
Absolutely brilliant from Neville ! Please listen and pass on !
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 9d
👏 ⁦‪Gary Neville‬⁩

Worth watching the full video on the abuse of our flag.

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/gary...
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 13d
Exactly that
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 14d
I’m old enough to remember when Farage told us only a clean break from Europe would solve this country’s problems and Brexit was the only answer.

10 years on and the impact of that vote is being felt from Lands End to John O’Groats and now that lying cvnt is trying to convince the same people
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 13d
Thick as pigshit springs to mind
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David the Kamado 🚙💨 @kamadodavid.bsky.social · 13d
Classy.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 13d
Why did it take 5 years?presumably the money is long gone. Unlike the post office horizon scandal bringing the police in immediately. Good luck chasing those hundreds of millions salted away in offshore trusts.
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13d
“I’m pleased to see that, after five years... some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/f2e9
PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project
The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 16d
Is this the new keystone cops movie? All that money, manpower and resources when they could have just ordered a pizza.
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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 16d
WOW! ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap this food delivery worker but the guy was too fast for those ICE agents! 👏🏽🔥
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🖇️Patty_M57 📎 @patty--m57.bsky.social · 20d
💢SAVE and SHARE
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · 24d
The land of the fee
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Fascism.link @fascism.link · 24d
Never trust a Republican.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · Aug 31
Wake up people
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · Aug 31
Clayton “MP” Fartrage is skipping the return to parliament next week to fly to the USA.

If he were a kid skipping the start of the school year there would be fines and sanctions flying around.

No doubt he’ll be bad-mouthing the UK again although he doesn’t need to leave the country to do that.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · Aug 31
Clayton “MP” Fartrage is skipping the return to parliament next week to fly to the USA.

If he were a kid skipping the start of the school year there would be fines and sanctions flying around.

No doubt he’ll be bad-mouthing the UK again although he doesn’t need to leave the country to do that.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Aug 25
They proudly waved their flags, and then everything got all better...
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · Aug 22
Saw enough of his anti union tactics when he was leader of Manchester city Council.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Aug 22
Stringer is a Brexiteer.

Self-damaging stupidity is what Brexiteers do.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · Aug 21
Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, urged Sir Keir Starmer to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · Aug 19
Spot on
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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · Aug 19
Choose one night to send ALL DRONES and a couple of FLAMINGOS (new missiles) to the CRIMEA BRIDGE

Don’t wait for a possible peace agreement

#MOG8
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · Aug 18
Donald Trump, like his envoy Steve Witkoff, is always influenced by the last person he talks to. On Saturday that was Putin; in the Oval Office today it’ll be the scrum of European leaders who are there to protect Pres Zelenskyy from the treatment he got there in February.
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tonto123.bsky.social @tonto123.bsky.social · Aug 18
Spot on analysis john.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · Aug 18
Donald Trump, like his envoy Steve Witkoff, is always influenced by the last person he talks to. On Saturday that was Putin; in the Oval Office today it’ll be the scrum of European leaders who are there to protect Pres Zelenskyy from the treatment he got there in February.
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