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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 17h

We had 40 years of drip feeding, with stories of straight bananas, fishermen wearing hairnets, and headlines like "Now the EU wants to ban your toaster".
All complete bs, of course, but it was ramped up to 11 during the Referendum campaign.
Papers were sanctioned in 1975 for lying (EEC Referendum)

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

Only slightly over ⅓ voted for Brexit, just under ⅓ voted Remain, the other ⅓ stayed at home.
Millions of Leave voters now regret their vote

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

"Most"? The doommongers are forecasting a Reform government based on only a possible 30% of the vote. Our skewed and archaic FPTP system MIGHT hand him 300 seats based on that %age

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Abe Drayton @abedrayton.bsky.social · 18h

The US should be taken as a warning for the people living in capitalist "democracies". Wherever you are, it CAN happen there.

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Abe Drayton @abedrayton.bsky.social · Jul 20

Fascists build power, in liberal democracies like the US, by pointing to the very real failures of capitalism, and blaming them on the least powerful people in society, to redirect attention away from the Henry Fords and Elon Musks who are actually causing the problems.

This is not a new pattern 1/

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 18h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right. Brexit was a disaster that broke trust and left Britain weaker. Now the same voices want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. We should have learned by now what happens when we trust them.

“We’ve gone through Brexit, an absolute disaster. Largely caused by Nigel Farage. A man with the audacity to then return to the main stage and say: I’ve got some other ideas for institutions you can leave. Horrendous!” Zack Polanski, Leader, Green Party

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely 💯 agree with Jasmine Crockett........

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 19h

Tbf …. getting Reform meetings confused with The Traitors is quite easy 🤨

AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 3d

Moscow’s Man ❓

#MemeForToday

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 19h

Reform have suspended 4 cllrs on Kent CC after the leaked video exposing their divisions.

Lib Dems say Reform's meetings "sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council."

"All that's missing is for Claudia Winkleman to appear & ask who they're going to banish next."

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

We wouldn't have room in our prisons. I still don't understand why Johnson didn't go to prison following the taped conversation with Darius Guppy

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Jinky @ynwa1888.bsky.social · 18h

Why would @teamlabouruk.bsky.social not put this in place instantly? Could it be they are just as bad as blue tories and so fkn corrupt that they would all be arrested? What happened to transparency?

Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 1d

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 19h

Is #Farage ‘a very bad dude’? Or worse?

This letter appeared in the Daily Post (Wales) on 20 October 2025. The writer says the description of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of Vladimir Putin as ‘a very bad dude’ are inadequate. Some of Mr Farage’s past connections to Russian media is mentioned.

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

Is it increasingly likely?
Reform is making a total hash of "running" the councils, losing at least one councillor every week since May. Kent is in disarray, Worcs. paralysed.
What people tell pollsters years ahead of an election is not voting intention, but to put two fingers up to the Gov't

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

If conditioned by decades of right-wing headlines like "EU to outlaw breathing" and "EU immigrants ate my hamster."
Those are jokes, but "EU tries to ban your toaster" was a very real front page

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

That's irrelevant. No one is saying Brexit is the ONLY cause of our economic problems.
It's an additional burden, unique to us, and entirely self-inflicted.
If not for Brexit, our comparative lack of dependence on Russian oil would have given us a huge advantage over Germany.

No.one

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

What we all knew....

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23h

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 18h

Scarce mention in the media of the fact that Virginia Giuffree was working in the "spa" at Mar A Lago before her 17th birthday.
Release the files?
No need, we have testimony. Why did Trump employ an underage girl at his private "spa"? 🤔
No Nobel Prize. He only deserves jail time. P Doh President

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

I'm British, I love the country, but not the climate

neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

If, like me, you do not work (I'm retired), boycott goods from pro Taco manufacturers. Take holidays in Canada or Mexico, not the US. Or visit the UK, as long as you don't hate cold, dark, wet autumn weather 😉

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

Well, if any nation represented "No Kings"...."Neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland". First World War slogan

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's nauseating speech at the Knesset was pure a*s-kissing. He virtually thanked Netanyahu (he calls him "Bibi") for allowing the Mango Mussolini to build Trump Gaza.
Other world leaders should have refrained from crediting Taco with a "peace deal" that Israel is already breaching

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

The UK probably would have protested more loudly, but we were a little distracted by our own Epstein Files saga, and the public humiliation and disgrace of the former Duke and Duchess of York, or plain Andrew and Fergie, as they will henceforth be known.
Andrew is still a prince, but through DNA

neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

I hear that Canada staged protests, too

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of countries were. But four UK cities were shown, so probably this was just part of a larger montage

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

I personally don't blame Harry for rebelling, even at great personal cost

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neilofsmeg.bsky.social @neilofsmeg.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not anti Monarchy, as such, but it's wrong to force a child to live out a set course from his / her birth.
Even the little children of William & Kate have no prospect of studying what they want to, having the career they want, and they will probably be "conscripted" into military service.

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