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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3h

#Farage promised freedom and left us chained to debt.
Covid bonds, weak trade, lost investment, now the budget bleeds.
Every tax rise should carry his name. #faragetaxes
He wanted sovereignty. He delivered insolvency. He lied, He walked away. #RejoinEU is the solution not ReformUK.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3h

We were told #Brexit would save billions.
Instead it cost billions, and the Treasury scrambles for every pound.
Wages stagnate, taxes rise, services fall.
The public pays for Farage’s fantasy. He complains it’s not the right sort of Brexit. He walked away. We pick up the tab. #faragetaxes #rejoineu

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3h

The budget pain is not bad luck. It is Brexit’s bill.
A weaker pound, slower growth, higher borrowing costs, all made in the referendum.
So when you pay more tax, remember who sold the dream.
The architect of this austerity the creator of this scenario , the maker of these taxes…was Nigel Farage.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3h

The state of the UK economy is a wound made by more than one blade. Brexit is one of the deepest cuts. It is real, persistent, structural. And Nigel Farage is one of the ones who picked the knife first.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3h

The sins of optimism, the lies of promises, the failures of policy: they all compound. If we wish to recover, we must name all the causes, not pretend one was harmless.

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brianev @brianev.bsky.social · 17h

Any second hand fridges for sale?
Just asking!
#Farage #politics
youtu.be/5o7vNuROrfk

Russian Bribery Case Spooks Farage

YouTube video by A Different Bias

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 17h

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 20h

Abolition of stamp duty would be worth £80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a £900,000 second home in Clacton

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

11800 is their ceiling to report individuals or corporates to government but it would seem they have many undisclosed donors locally and nationally giving just below that figure.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Because of the separation of local/regional units, any revenue raised at that level is excluded from the central party’s figure. Thus, the central accounts understate the full revenue base of the Green movement.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

The central accounts do not provide a line‐by‐line public breakdown (in the easily accessible summary) splitting out “membership subscriptions,” “small donations,” “large donations,” “public funding,” etc.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer was right Farage hates Britain

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

“Quakers recognise that of God in every living being. We work to build peaceful
relationships between individuals, communities and nations, and to nurture life
on this planet. We strive to live in ways that are consistent with the peace we
seek.” quaker.org.uk/documents/th...

quaker.org.uk

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

War is terrible and unforgiving. When societies choose violence to solve problems they must not be shocked by the brutal reality it produces. Killing journalists, sexual violence, attacks on hospitals are part of how modern total war is fought. The only moral choice is to exhaust every peaceful path

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Polls show a country without direction.
People want hope, not half-measures.
The right offers identity, the centre offers excuses.
Until courage replaces compromise, populists will keep the crown and call it democracy.

An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

The centre is drowning in its own caution.
Labour manages, Greens moralise, Tories moral-collapse.
Reform just shouts.
But shouting wins when everyone else whispers.
If the left cannot agree on purpose, the right will decide it for them.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Labour, the Tories, and the Greens now level.
Three parties fighting for the same middle ground.
Reform holding the right with iron certainty.
When the centre fractures, the extremes feast.
We’ve seen this before. We called it the 1930s.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump called Epstein a friend before he called him a monster. They moved in the same rooms, laughed at the same jokes, fed on the same sickness of power. America forgave it because money always buys amnesia. But rot that deep never dies. It just runs for office.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

This is my #FBPE starter pack. I've added about 60 more accounts, so it's now up to 300.

Bit by bit, I'm adding accounts from my Rejoin EU list, which I've built up over the last ten months.

Please share. Strengthen our network.
go.bsky.app/PtsPYaW

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Great stuff nick I follow many on here but a fair few had followed me and I got the chance to mass follow back. Thanks

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Where is the movement worth following that understands both the rage of the street and the reality of the balance sheet?

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to say “tax the rich” and we should. But rebuilding a nation also means rebuilding trust, credibility, and a plan for growth that isn’t written on a placard.
Because slogans don’t balance budgets. Vision does.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

Anger is justified.
People are poorer, colder, unheard. Protest is the language of despair.
But behind every protest sits a spreadsheet.
The government is paying off billions in Covid-era bonds sold at high interest. That debt chokes public spending and limits reform.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

You can chant, protest, rage. But someone still has to pay the debt. The Covid bonds still bleed interest. The Treasury’s trapped. The public want change, the market wants payment. There’s no revolution without arithmetic. We need a plan, not just a placard.

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