Chris Smith
@ledredman.bsky.social
Retired Engineer #FBPE
Life long anti Tory and Anti fascist
Tactical voter but not for Brexit parties like Labour
Life long anti Tory and Anti fascist
Tactical voter but not for Brexit parties like Labour
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Chris Smith
@ledredman.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."
The USA is no longer a reliable ally for Europe. We must build a European defence capability which is totally independent of the Americans. It will cost European taxpayers to do so, but we must stop fooling ourselves that Trump would ever honour the NATO article 5 commitment.
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My Substack: 12-Hour's On In This Peace Farce That Exposes More About Trump's Administration, Than It Resolves About Ukraine.
My Substack: 12-Hour's On In This Peace Farce That Exposes More About Trump's Administration, Than It Resolves About Ukraine.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
open.substack.com/pub/shaunpin...
My Substack: 12-Hour's On In This Peace Farce That Exposes More About Trump's Administration, Than It Resolves About Ukraine.
My Substack: 12-Hour's On In This Peace Farce That Exposes More About Trump's Administration, Than It Resolves About Ukraine.
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It’s not that complicated, people.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s not that complicated, people.
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👇🏼Back in 2022 Farage called Truss’s budget “The best Conservative budget since 1986” as Financial Markets went into freefall
Today he calls Reeves budget👇🏼 “devastating” as the Financial Markets applaud it
So what does this tell us❓🤔
Farage knows less than F*ck All About Economics 🙄🤡🤡
Today he calls Reeves budget👇🏼 “devastating” as the Financial Markets applaud it
So what does this tell us❓🤔
Farage knows less than F*ck All About Economics 🙄🤡🤡
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
👇🏼Back in 2022 Farage called Truss’s budget “The best Conservative budget since 1986” as Financial Markets went into freefall
Today he calls Reeves budget👇🏼 “devastating” as the Financial Markets applaud it
So what does this tell us❓🤔
Farage knows less than F*ck All About Economics 🙄🤡🤡
Today he calls Reeves budget👇🏼 “devastating” as the Financial Markets applaud it
So what does this tell us❓🤔
Farage knows less than F*ck All About Economics 🙄🤡🤡
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I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions.
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm hearing criticisms of the end to the two child limit, because it was done just to mollify Labour backbenchers, at a cost of £billions.
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
I remember another govt delivering a referendum on EU membership, just to mollify restive backbenchers. That's costing way, way more... A little perspective?
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She’s just asking questions.
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
She’s just asking questions.
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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Farage has told some major porkies over the years but this really must be the most stinking, wretched falsehood of all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Farage has told some major porkies over the years but this really must be the most stinking, wretched falsehood of all.
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The i Paper: Leaked recordings prove Putin is making Trump his puppet
inews.co.uk/news/world/l...
inews.co.uk/news/world/l...
Leaked recordings prove Putin is making Trump his puppet
The Witkoff tape reveals how much the game has changed - US diplomacy now appears to centre around flattering and stroking the ego of Donald Trump
inews.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The i Paper: Leaked recordings prove Putin is making Trump his puppet
inews.co.uk/news/world/l...
inews.co.uk/news/world/l...
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Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
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Well, that's the end of the Witkoff farce.
Once again we're reminded that the way to secure the freedom of Ukraine and the security of Europe is for Russia to be defeated.
With a faltering economy Russia can be defeated.
Tougher sanctions and more financial & military support for Ukraine. Now!
Once again we're reminded that the way to secure the freedom of Ukraine and the security of Europe is for Russia to be defeated.
With a faltering economy Russia can be defeated.
Tougher sanctions and more financial & military support for Ukraine. Now!
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated there can be no talk of concessions or backing down from key objectives in the so-called "special military operation." A clear signal that Moscow isn't planning to shift its course anytime soon.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Well, that's the end of the Witkoff farce.
Once again we're reminded that the way to secure the freedom of Ukraine and the security of Europe is for Russia to be defeated.
With a faltering economy Russia can be defeated.
Tougher sanctions and more financial & military support for Ukraine. Now!
Once again we're reminded that the way to secure the freedom of Ukraine and the security of Europe is for Russia to be defeated.
With a faltering economy Russia can be defeated.
Tougher sanctions and more financial & military support for Ukraine. Now!
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Von der Leyen says the European Commission will soon present a legal text for the reparations loan.
"To be very clear – I cannot see any scenario in which the European taxpayers alone will pay the bill. This is also not acceptable."
"To be very clear – I cannot see any scenario in which the European taxpayers alone will pay the bill. This is also not acceptable."
Sanctions relief? No, says Ursula von der Leyen.
"Europe must keep up the pressure," she says. "For Russia, any peace deal is about permanently redrawing maps. It is about returning to great power relations and spheres of influence."
"Europe must keep up the pressure," she says. "For Russia, any peace deal is about permanently redrawing maps. It is about returning to great power relations and spheres of influence."
'Europe must keep pressure on Russia', von der Leyen says
The EU Commission president called on Europeans to step up pressure on Moscow and warned that despite its stated intention to engage in peace talks, "Russia's mindset has not changed".
www.euronews.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Von der Leyen says the European Commission will soon present a legal text for the reparations loan.
"To be very clear – I cannot see any scenario in which the European taxpayers alone will pay the bill. This is also not acceptable."
"To be very clear – I cannot see any scenario in which the European taxpayers alone will pay the bill. This is also not acceptable."
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Nigel Farage hasn’t ‘fought the far-right’ at all…he’s absorbed them like the toilet paper he is! #Newsnight
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Nigel Farage hasn’t ‘fought the far-right’ at all…he’s absorbed them like the toilet paper he is! #Newsnight
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🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
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US ambassador to NATO Matt Whittaker, whose prior career has focused on marketing men's urinals, says that Putin has the upper hand in negotiations, because that's what Trump wants. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ambas...
Trump’s Own Ambassador Admits Putin Has Upper Hand in Peace Talks
Even Trump’s allies know Putin is calling the shots as usual.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US ambassador to NATO Matt Whittaker, whose prior career has focused on marketing men's urinals, says that Putin has the upper hand in negotiations, because that's what Trump wants. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ambas...
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The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
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Will Nigel Farage explain why his last pick for First Minister of Wales has just been jailed for taking pro-Russia bribes?
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Will Nigel Farage explain why his last pick for First Minister of Wales has just been jailed for taking pro-Russia bribes?
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "The attack on wokery is all a distraction from protecting the power and wealth of the super rich"
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "The attack on wokery is all a distraction from protecting the power and wealth of the super rich"
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“.. the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan” demands that a substantial share of $300 billion of frozen Russian state assets “be carved up between Washington and Moscow .. This has apparently disappeared from subsequent versions, but there’s no mistaking the intent.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“.. the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan” demands that a substantial share of $300 billion of frozen Russian state assets “be carved up between Washington and Moscow .. This has apparently disappeared from subsequent versions, but there’s no mistaking the intent.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
Woman With Ties To Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Family In ICE Custody
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
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This captures the Trump era perfectly: an American operative advising a Kremlin official on how to manipulate the U.S. president through simple flattery.
“Call him a man of peace.”
Our foreign policy isn’t diplomacy anymore, it’s ego management.
And America can’t survive another term of it.👇
“Call him a man of peace.”
Our foreign policy isn’t diplomacy anymore, it’s ego management.
And America can’t survive another term of it.👇
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This captures the Trump era perfectly: an American operative advising a Kremlin official on how to manipulate the U.S. president through simple flattery.
“Call him a man of peace.”
Our foreign policy isn’t diplomacy anymore, it’s ego management.
And America can’t survive another term of it.👇
“Call him a man of peace.”
Our foreign policy isn’t diplomacy anymore, it’s ego management.
And America can’t survive another term of it.👇
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
