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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18h

Then fix it.

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy.

Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

Give us time. It'll be fine

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

It's shite losing to them, but let's not pretend it was sometime it wasn't.

We were the better team, we deserved at least a point, we're disjointed and lacking cohesion.

You drop points in autumn when you sign 5-6 starters. It's just a thing and it was unavoidable.
#lfc

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

VVD literally our furthest forward player

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

We don't need some good fortune, just need less bad fortune
#lfc

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

I think I need a purge of my #lfc accounts. More heads falling off than a 18th century France

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Lady SG @ladysg.bsky.social · 1d

Sums it up for me #Redsky

Viktor Fagerström @viktorfagerlfc.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Oliver's view on "the rules" today

a man with a beard says the code is more what you d call guidelines than actual rules

Alt: a man with a beard says the code is more what you d call guidelines than actual rules

media.tenor.com

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Sam @blessedwithpace.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Oliver "doesn't see" an awful lot, for a guy whose job heavily involves seeing things

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Garrett @lfcgarrett.bsky.social · 1d

Been a while since I've seen a half of football officiated this one-sidedly

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

Any explanation why the ref didn't stop the game for the head injury?
Seems like something they're meant to be big on
#lfc

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

For all those who don’t vote wisely. Repercussions can roll on for decades.

Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief

Andrew Bailey confirms what we've all known for years.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 2d

HTF did we lose to this sh*te?

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely appalling from Jenrick. It’s completely untrue and there’s no way he doesn’t know that.

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 2d

The jenrick football thing is just more evidence of nostalgia for something that didn’t exist and you would hope it might set off alarm bells among followers but more prob won’t

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Dan Kennett @dankennett.co.uk · 5d

FINALLY a political message from the government that I'm ready to run through brick walls for me
Repeat after me:
Brexit was a clusterfuck
Brexit was an omnishambles
Brexit was the biggest act of self-harm in British history

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Brexit has been destructive to our economy, and has cost us £140 BILLIONS already.

Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."

Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 7d

I wouldn't, watch him even before his dog whistles, he's just not my kind of TV, but I will watch most things PAR is in, so I'll give it a go

Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 7d

It's doubly mad because rylan's involvement is a major negative and will put many people off

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 8d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 10d

Abolition of stamp duty would be worth £80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a £900,000 second home in Clacton

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 10d

It's like a protection racket.
Give me a prize for being pro peace or I'll go to war with you.

Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 10d

Trump “may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy” if he doesn’t get the Nobel peace prize!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 12d

How will they fund it?
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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Tory Policy Announcement Shocker 😱

They plan to abolish stamp duty which will benefit (drum roll 🥁🥁) London and the rich

That’s not like them at all to look after the rich and shaft everyone else.. this is earth shattering.. it’d be like Farage & co being exposed as philanthropists, not grifters

Tory plan to abolish stamp duty ‘will benefit London and the wealthiest the most’ – as it happened

The Social Market Foundation thinktank says council tax reform and a property-based tax would be more sustainable and fairer

www.theguardian.com

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Alex McGuinness @alexmcguinness.bsky.social · 12d

I can see the point for non fiction. Most non fiction books I read could easily lose a third. A good central concept clearly padded out for word count. Not sure if I'd trust it to know which third though.

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