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English Bob 🇺🇦

@deepstatepotato.bsky.social

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#RejoinEU Reform and MAGA are a cancer Ex-American, perched on a rock in the English Channel Vernacular woodwork, steel guitars, old motorbikes, Scotch whisky Yes, my cat _is_ judging you

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy 2025 - let's get this party started!

X- LePen
Trump
Putin
Farage
Musk

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French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96

Le Pen - an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration - founded the far-right National Front in 1972.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h

Daisy Cooper, "Will the Prime Minister Keir Starmer ask our security services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy"

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Grateful Dad @dibbleysdad.bsky.social · 2h

Cuteness 11/10

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 2h

The more important question is who stands to profit from it.

Profit from war crimes.

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'Worse than starting from scratch': how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?

BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4h

Finally. Let’s start holding Farage to account for the relentless shitshow that is Brexit.
Because..
“What could be more elementary than asking voters to judge a candidate on their previous assurances? What more basic function of democracy could we ask for?”
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Labour admits Brexit was terrible. Now it’s time to act

For years now, the economic situation facing this country has been buried in the small print

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 3h

It's not bizarre to me.

Look at who and what they are: a facade of liars, lying to those who voted to be lied to.

English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 3h

I think it needs to be understood that Reform voters are HAPPY that Brexit made people poorer.

Same as MAGA.

Understand, they just want to hurt you by bringing you down to their level. Nothing more. They do not want a better life - they want YOU to have a bad life.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 3h

shocked

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Michelle Mone-linked firm fails to pay back £122m over PPE breach

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 7h

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 1d

For those who feel obligated to tell me "you can't just rejoin", please do try to be a little less literal in your thinking, and reactionary in your posts - save yourself, and me, the aggro.

English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 7h

so, let me get this straight:

- farage and the tories broke the economy with brexit
- so WE have to pay for it now, and _forever_
- because labour will not fix the economy by rejoining the EU

i give up. i totally, and completely give up. it's on their heads.

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Rachel Reeves says she is looking at tax rises ahead of Budget

The chancellor also said she was considering further measures on public spending, in a bid to put the UK's finances on a firmer footing.

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 9h

Her eyes have always been mad

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

I presume that orchestra people have vicious stereotypes about clarinetists that could be deployed here. I once heard three performers riff on violists for ten minutes and it was frightening.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses.
Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 10h

Where does the fine money go? Who benefits?

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Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets

It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 11h

If Brexit is a large part of the problem .........

It's time Labour joined the dots.
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves hints at tax rises and spending cuts in upcoming Budget

Chancellor Reeves fails to accept responsibility for economic woes as she blames impact of Brexit, austerity policies and ex-PM Liz Truss's mini-budget

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

Labour's Rachel Reeves thinks we're all stupid

After admitting that Brexit is costing us 4% of GDP

She suggested the UK-EU reset is mitigating that

It's not

0.13% GDP gain from UK–India deal
0.05% GDP gain from UK–US deal
0.3% GDP gain from UK–EU reset

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 12h

i keep saying this to people who say 'we need a wealth tax'.

no, we don't. we just need the wealthy to pay the taxes they already should be paying.

tax reform, now!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

If the rich had to pay the same 47% tax as you have to pay when you earn over £125,140 (45% Income + 2% NI).

It would bring in £250bn a year.

Even taxing the rich at the same rate as everyone else brings in a fortune.

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 1d

#FunFact: Sorbo became a hateful paranoid right-wing fool after getting brain damage.

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English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know how they keep a straight face - it's breathtaking, really.

English Bob 🇺🇦 @deepstatepotato.bsky.social · 20h

"The radical left has no sense of humour"

"Just boys being boys"

"I like beer!"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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