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George Carty
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Deleted X account November 6th 2024 #DestroyX Deleted Facebook account November 9th 2024 #DestroyMeta In Faragist-occupied County Durham
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 25d
Let's shut down this fascist bastard's megaphone in the UK and EU!
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 6m
They're obsequious to wealthy Westerners, but treat their non-Western immigrants little better than slaves.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 9m
I think "second-class citizens" is too generous to describe how Gulf Arab states treat non-white immigrants.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 38m
Farage's voters are people who love the Britain of the past while hating the Britain of the present.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 43m
So mostly the first of my two possibilities then?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1h
Is this just a case of Reform making promises they couldn't keep, or is it a case of them actually screwing up and making the council's financial situation worse than it was?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1h
I remember noticing how the nearest house to my local golf course had a pro-Tommy Robinson "DON'T FUND TERRORISM" sticker in its window.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2h
While university graduates were indeed far more likely to have voted Remain, it doesn't explain the difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK, which was a result of Scotland having superior _school-age_ education (especially for the working class pre-1990).
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 14h
The Holocaust _killed_ Jewish anti-Zionism, while the expulsions of Jews from the Arab world _buried_ it.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 17h
Aren't they different in one key respect: if they win a national election there's a reasonable chance that there won't BE any more free and fair elections?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 17h
Same as the reason he's big in India: "the enemy of our enemy (Islam) is our friend."
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 17h
I'm guessing though that this was pre-Holocaust though?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 22h
You're saying that anti-immigration viewpoints were marginalized in the past by media self-censorship: what reason did the media have to do this?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 22h
Doesn't Liverpool's anomalously-high Remain vote in 2016 (a consequence of the city boycotting the Sun for a reason unrelated to the EU) demonstrate the influence of the mass media?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 22h
Sounds a bit too much like the KPD's "Nach Hitler, uns" for my liking!
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
I thought it was more down to Islamophobia (Hindu Indians like Sunak and Nigerian Yoruba like Badenoch both have their own grudges against Muslims) than Victorian/Edwardian racial beliefs.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
Isn't referring to the "Chornobyl" nuclear disaster a bit like referring to "Oswiecim" death camp though?
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
Liechtenstein is in a CU with Switzerland instead!
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
Norway (and Iceland and Liechtenstein) are in the EEA and EFTA but not the CU.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
I deleted my X account rather hastily in a fit of rage after learning of Trump's re-election win, even though I'd only been using Bluesky for a few days at that point!
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
Wouldn't surprise me if the Conservative Party rank-and-file membership (who have the final say in picking their leader) is a de facto Reform fifth column these days.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
And perhaps those who truly hate the EU may have noticed how Russia's war on Ukraine was a response to the Revolution of Dignity, which itself was driven by Ukrainian desire to join the EU.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d
The "Starmtrooper" reference is strange given that Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader throughout the Brexit negotiations.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2d
Because there was still time then to push for a better deal, while there wasn't when it was Johnson's deal that was up for a vote.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2d
Is it possible to rejoin the SM (ie the EEA) _and_ the CU, without rejoining the EU itself?

My understanding is that EEA without EU requires EFTA, which is incompatible with CU.
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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2d
If South Shields had a mosque even then it was likely established by the town's Yemeni community: is it because of them that South Shields people generally are dubbed "sand dancers"?
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