Erwin van der Stap
@vanderstap.co.uk
Dutch migrant, living in England, firmly in favour of PR, LGBT+ and particularly trans inclusive. Not affiliated to any party. Ex business owner
#FBPE
#FBPE
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This is very good.
One conclusion at the time of the EU referendum was that 'it's NOT the economy, stupid', but this article puts together a deeper and longer view of the relationship between economic growth and liberalism and suggests 'it was the economy, stupid' after all.
One conclusion at the time of the EU referendum was that 'it's NOT the economy, stupid', but this article puts together a deeper and longer view of the relationship between economic growth and liberalism and suggests 'it was the economy, stupid' after all.
January 23, 2026 at 8:46 AM
This is very good.
One conclusion at the time of the EU referendum was that 'it's NOT the economy, stupid', but this article puts together a deeper and longer view of the relationship between economic growth and liberalism and suggests 'it was the economy, stupid' after all.
One conclusion at the time of the EU referendum was that 'it's NOT the economy, stupid', but this article puts together a deeper and longer view of the relationship between economic growth and liberalism and suggests 'it was the economy, stupid' after all.
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“Take back control” and give it all to a deeply narcissistic, malignant, unreliable and corrupt American President who is dementedly destabilising the West and siding with Putin to do so.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 AM
“Take back control” and give it all to a deeply narcissistic, malignant, unreliable and corrupt American President who is dementedly destabilising the West and siding with Putin to do so.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.
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Oh no! Mark Carney has been disinvited from the Board of Piss. Disaster!
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Oh no! Mark Carney has been disinvited from the Board of Piss. Disaster!
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More details about 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos make an already sickening story even harder to stomach. The preschooler from Columbia Heights, Minnesota was taken by ICE in his own driveway, still wearing his little Spiderman backpack and a blue winter hat with floppy bunny ears,
January 23, 2026 at 7:17 AM
More details about 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos make an already sickening story even harder to stomach. The preschooler from Columbia Heights, Minnesota was taken by ICE in his own driveway, still wearing his little Spiderman backpack and a blue winter hat with floppy bunny ears,
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So lying about his Clacton home and stamp duty was an accident?
His racism and antisemitism was just 'banter'?
His 17 breaches of the parliamentary code 'inadvertent'?
His offshore banking was 'unfortunate'?
When will the media hold Farage to account?
His racism and antisemitism was just 'banter'?
His 17 breaches of the parliamentary code 'inadvertent'?
His offshore banking was 'unfortunate'?
When will the media hold Farage to account?
January 23, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Conversion therapists. Should be banned
🚩🚩🚩Massive red flags against any therapist who is actively promoting their services on the “Beyond Trans” anti-trans hate group website.
They sit alongside notorious ‘gender critical’ transphobes who aggressively lobby for the removal of trans rights!
Full list 👉🏻 beyondtrans.org/therapist-di...
They sit alongside notorious ‘gender critical’ transphobes who aggressively lobby for the removal of trans rights!
Full list 👉🏻 beyondtrans.org/therapist-di...
January 23, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Conversion therapists. Should be banned
I don’t wish this fate on anyone and feel very sorry for his family, but shouldn’t this be another reason why councils and police should ban this moronic and divisive activity?
Paul John Lumber: Bristol man died after falling from ladder while tying Union flags to lamp posts at night
Paul John Lumber, a married painter and decorator from Bristol, had been drinking alcohol while watching his football team, Bristol City, last November.
news.sky.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:33 AM
I don’t wish this fate on anyone and feel very sorry for his family, but shouldn’t this be another reason why councils and police should ban this moronic and divisive activity?
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.
January 22, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.
Over 100,000! Amazing. Well done everyone, but please keep going
Wil I see 100,000 before I go to bed?
🚨NOW OVER 96,000 SIGNATURES!
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 23, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Over 100,000! Amazing. Well done everyone, but please keep going
Wil I see 100,000 before I go to bed?
🚨NOW OVER 96,000 SIGNATURES!
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Wil I see 100,000 before I go to bed?
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Nearly there!
You know what to do
You know what to do
🚨NOW OVER 96,000 SIGNATURES!
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.
KEEP GOING!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Nearly there!
You know what to do
You know what to do
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Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it
A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council.
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A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council.
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Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it
A new report confirms that Tesla has reduced its workforce at Gigafactory Berlin by roughly 1,700 employees over the last...
electrek.co
January 22, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it
A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council.
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A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council.
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457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
We should hear this from Starmer. He cannot let the mango shitgibbon insult those fallen servicemen. But well done Emily
Fiona Bruce, "President Trump said the troops NATO sent to Afghanistan stayed off the front line"
Emily Thornberry slams Donald Trump #BBCQT
"It's an absolute insult"
"An insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan"
"How dare he say we weren't on the front line"
"How dare he"
Emily Thornberry slams Donald Trump #BBCQT
"It's an absolute insult"
"An insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan"
"How dare he say we weren't on the front line"
"How dare he"
January 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
We should hear this from Starmer. He cannot let the mango shitgibbon insult those fallen servicemen. But well done Emily
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via Truth Against Hate
January 22, 2026 at 8:49 AM
via Truth Against Hate
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Also worth noting the racist nonsense from Policy Exchange and completely invented/fantasy numbers from the Centre for Policy Studies, which - yet again - make basic errors in interpreting the data. [3/3]
January 22, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Also worth noting the racist nonsense from Policy Exchange and completely invented/fantasy numbers from the Centre for Policy Studies, which - yet again - make basic errors in interpreting the data. [3/3]
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Ok! Mar-a-Lago
Vance: If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.
January 22, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Ok! Mar-a-Lago
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22 January 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Vera Matteman, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
January 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
22 January 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Vera Matteman, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
I just learned that there are 74 Dutch footballers playing in the top leagues of England, Spain, Italy and France, almost half in England. E should be able to get a decent team together from that, shouldn’t we?
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I just learned that there are 74 Dutch footballers playing in the top leagues of England, Spain, Italy and France, almost half in England. E should be able to get a decent team together from that, shouldn’t we?
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So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
January 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Karoline Leavitt announced that Belgium joined Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’. Belgium’s foreign minister responds.
It would be utterly disrespectful to the tens of thousands of UK troops and hundreds who have given their lives if the UK Prime Minister did not rebuke this ridiculous rabbling of the senile old bastard in public and in the strongest possible terms
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
It would be utterly disrespectful to the tens of thousands of UK troops and hundreds who have given their lives if the UK Prime Minister did not rebuke this ridiculous rabbling of the senile old bastard in public and in the strongest possible terms
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457 British troops.
You evil, senile bastard.
You evil, senile bastard.
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
457 British troops.
You evil, senile bastard.
You evil, senile bastard.