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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 10h

This is a club I have belonged to for many years - it is comforting to know I am in such good company

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 10h

A last resort of a moral coward?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 13h

From Sunday, Brexit will deliver a big highly visible slap in the face. Hopefully that will bring it deservedly back into the news.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 13h

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 13h

Does this explain why tRump put Netanyahu in his box and, accidentally or by design (I suspect the former) hopefully achieve the ending of the plight of the people of Gaza? Wow!!!!!

Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 18h

As they say - you couldn’t make it up if you tried

Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 18h

Hegseth - the byword for a man who truly knows no shame - clearly had his conscience cauterised at birth

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 21h

Pathetic - no humility or ability to show any statesmanship

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 22h

A little known fact about Andrew Tate is that he has shilled for Putin. That might be why Farage likes him. Of course, it might just be that Farage thinks a sexual predator and abuser of teenage girls is a good chap.

Either way, Farage couldn't care less about the safety of women and girls.

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Govts repeatedly prioritise corporate interests over the public interest, citing innovation and growth as the pretext.
Deregulated free zones are the most sinister and pernicious form of corporate overreach designed to exit democracy and bypass public participation in the decision-making process.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 2d

Britons back staying in ECHR by 46% to 29%, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 2d

This eejit is so hysterical he is even getting high on his hysteria

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Abolishing stamp duty would put a £24.5 billion a year black hole in Government finances by 2030, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 2d

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk A reminder to Kemi Badenoch of the real reason our NHS moved from the best in the world to halfway down the international league tables between 2010 and 2024. Sir Michael Marmot explains below👇

Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sir Michael Marmot evidences Tories’ “malicious” 14year disinvestment in the NHS. George Osborne underfunded NHS to claw back the cost of saving banks. Sunak was one of the team who broke those banks. Patients still pay for his profits - with their lives. The obscenely wealthy must make restitution.

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Gareth Thomas @gareththomas.bsky.social · 2d

James O'Brien's work providing amusing commentary on @LBC currently being undone by ex Scum hack Natasha Clark coming on and saying how good Bad Enoch's speech was. Pay what it takes, bring back Theo.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch clearly suffers from short term memory problems - this is usually an indication or precursor of some variety of dementing decline - I suppose that is consistent with their demented policies

Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 2d

An industry that their Brexit bulls^^^ had a good go at wrecking when musicians and orchestras also faced huge difficulties in touring in Europe - this was a huge contribution both to soft power and financial gain - disgusting ignorance on the part of Fartage and his Brexit cult

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC - through their right wing journalists - have betrayed the nation on the news front - there are still some good programmes eg ‘More or Less - Behind the Stats’ - so currently I would like to see the leaders of the news service dismissed and the service overhauled to see if it can work

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 2d

The current iteration of Tory leaders should realise their ignorance is on display with every word uttered and every waste of breath used to pronounce them - on t’other hand it’s worth the waste of breath as their ignorance bank is vastly overdrawn and illustrative of their unremitting stupidity

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Angela McP @angelamac.bsky.social · 3d

How sad - the hate filled grudge bank that makes up the bulk of this individual’s personality must mean that no humanity can ever be deposited in his bank and he will die drowning in a lake of his own bile - on top of which he is a moral coward - what a legacy he will eventually leave 😱

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

How on Earth is that man still in a job?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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