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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 9h

The President of the United States is a child rapist & batshit crazy malignant narcissist…

He doesn’t want to go to jail so he never wants to leave office…

He is trying to foment civil war so he can evolve a police state & forego elections…

BECAUSE. HE. IS. A. CHILD. RAPIST.

#NoKings on 10/18

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 21h

Heavens!
Fancy that cutting ourselves off from our main market had a negative effect on sales.

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JimKent @jimmykent.bsky.social · 21h

"There will be no downsides to Brexit, only a considerable upside". Just like Diana Ross, we're still waiting.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 21h

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%.

UK exports also grew. By 0.89%.

That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 1d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

A dangerous post-Brexit world

Britain risks being an unwitting victim of EU-US trade wars

buff.ly

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 3h

Being a member of the EU was always an advantage for the UK in exports to the rest of the world outside the EU.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 21h

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%.

UK exports also grew. By 0.89%.

That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 1d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 1h

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 2h

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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of Today this a.m. BBC's Amol Rajan talked over & distorted what Nina Græger of the Peace Research Inst. was saying - that Trump's other policies have to be considered. Rajan: (paraphrase) 'Of course other candidates would have to be considered as well'
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 10/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Iona Brand @mikeiona.bsky.social · 1d

Bribes from Russia.
Let's make sure the whole Quisling & traitor thing is front & centre with Nathan Gill.
Because I'll bet Farage also benefited.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK Media is very interesting, Angela Rayner who tried to avoid tax was on the TV and in Media every day of the week.

But Reform UK's ex-Welsh Leader pleads guilty to Bribery Charges.

And we need to forget about it instantly.

Can't be having bad PR for Reform.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 1d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK Media is very interesting, Angela Rayner who tried to avoid tax was on the TV and in Media every day of the week.

But Reform UK's ex-Welsh Leader pleads guilty to Bribery Charges.

And we need to forget about it instantly.

Can't be having bad PR for Reform.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Another of the Trump puppetmasters Russell Vought has been busy seizing the chaos of the government shutdown to advance the Project 2025 agenda.

The sacking of federal workers now has its own acronym - RIF. Reductions in Force.

Trump official says federal layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown

www.cnbc.com

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 15h

Even now the British media hides behind euphemism: "displaced" "conflict" "offensive" "war". Genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinians displaced to southern Gaza begin journey home as ceasefire comes into effect

Thousands walk north along coastal road after Israel-Hamas agreement puts stop to fighting for first time in six months

www.theguardian.com

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 23h

Jenrick has that quintessential Tory look of someone who enjoys a draught of hypocrisy every day and feels better for it.

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nickequipechasee #TuckFrump @nickequipechasee.bsky.social · 1d

It's what the Hard Right do, they use and abuse the system until they get the Power they want, and then they Kill it.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

Three cheers for Article 10 of the ECHR. Right, Mr Jenrick?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23h

superb - Robert Jenrick is supporting the case of asylum seeker, who is appealing against a public order conviction, using the ECHR bsky.app/profile/rola...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 17h

They've been firehosing this vapid arsegravy for decades and the failure of their bogus thinking is visible from space. Yet on they go pumping out various permutations of the same utter junk. Pathetic.
So, whose eyes to catch? The gossiping goldfish 9f the Westminster bubbleheads heads obviously.

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 20h

After before the Tory conference, a BBC journo explained that their policies would be designed to catch attention. That's not what policies are for! Clickbait politics, as I call them, are indeed dangerous

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Chris Medland RIBA AMICE @chrismedland.bsky.social · 16h

If a working class kid from a council estate had Johnson’s moral compass he wouldn’t have ever been out of prison. But he gets away with it, every single time.

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Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 16h

BLOG: Politicians' lies are a disease in our democracy. We are FAR too accepting of lying by our leaders, perhaps a legacy from feudal times, when they could get away with anything. It should not be this way. Here is a reform proposal to make politicians work for us: www.jandehn.com/post/politic...

Political lying is out of control

Lying in Western politics has assumed unprecedented scale and severity. Democratic reform is urgently needed to resurrect political integrity.

www.jandehn.com

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