@eddierigger.bsky.social
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.
It's called "Carswell's law."
It's called "Carswell's law."
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year.
It's called "Carswell's law."
It's called "Carswell's law."
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Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.
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Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism.
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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October 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism.
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.
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That’s a good line. More please.
Labour Party spokesperson on Danny Kruger MP’s defection to Reform UK: "Every Conservative who defects to Reform ties Nigel Farage more closely to their record of failure. Nigel Farage can recruit as many failed Tories as he likes – it won’t change the fact that he has no plan for Britain."
September 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
That’s a good line. More please.
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Michael Gove, "I think people in this country have had enough of experts"
"From organisations.. I was talking about the IMF, the IFS, some people might add the WHO"
Just a former government minister mocking the World Health Organisation 🤷♂️
"From organisations.. I was talking about the IMF, the IFS, some people might add the WHO"
Just a former government minister mocking the World Health Organisation 🤷♂️
September 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Michael Gove, "I think people in this country have had enough of experts"
"From organisations.. I was talking about the IMF, the IFS, some people might add the WHO"
Just a former government minister mocking the World Health Organisation 🤷♂️
"From organisations.. I was talking about the IMF, the IFS, some people might add the WHO"
Just a former government minister mocking the World Health Organisation 🤷♂️
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What Gove fails to mention is that all the experts who warned that Brexit would be an enormous act of economic self-harm have been proven to be correct, and the people like him who predicted unicorns frolicking in the sunlit uplands have been proven to be delusional.
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What Gove fails to mention is that all the experts who warned that Brexit would be an enormous act of economic self-harm have been proven to be correct, and the people like him who predicted unicorns frolicking in the sunlit uplands have been proven to be delusional.
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In case you missed it ...
These cuts to welfare due to Austerity 2.0 wouldn't even be on the table if we hadn't left the EU and the Single Market. The Brexit madness is costing us lost revenue, lost taxes, lost funding, lost investment, and so much more!
#SingleMarketNow 🇬🇧🇪🇺
These cuts to welfare due to Austerity 2.0 wouldn't even be on the table if we hadn't left the EU and the Single Market. The Brexit madness is costing us lost revenue, lost taxes, lost funding, lost investment, and so much more!
#SingleMarketNow 🇬🇧🇪🇺
July 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In case you missed it ...
These cuts to welfare due to Austerity 2.0 wouldn't even be on the table if we hadn't left the EU and the Single Market. The Brexit madness is costing us lost revenue, lost taxes, lost funding, lost investment, and so much more!
#SingleMarketNow 🇬🇧🇪🇺
These cuts to welfare due to Austerity 2.0 wouldn't even be on the table if we hadn't left the EU and the Single Market. The Brexit madness is costing us lost revenue, lost taxes, lost funding, lost investment, and so much more!
#SingleMarketNow 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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“How can chanting five words provoke more outrage than Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza?” @petertatchell.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/peter-t...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/peter-t...
PETER TATCHELL: How can 5 words provoke more outrage than Israel's mass killing?
No-one at Glastonbury is going to kill an Israeli soldier as a result of Bob Vylan’s words. It’s protest rhetoric - says human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell
www.mirror.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“How can chanting five words provoke more outrage than Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza?” @petertatchell.bsky.social
www.mirror.co.uk/news/peter-t...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/peter-t...
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Orban banned it, so even more people turned out
Budapest Pride! Sent from a friend on site. ❤️
June 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Orban banned it, so even more people turned out
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The four-term Socialist PM of Albania on the 'very dark place' called Brexit Britain:
"80% of the things that are said, written or accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that would have been totally unacceptable before Brexit. Totally ridiculous. Totally shameful.”
"80% of the things that are said, written or accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that would have been totally unacceptable before Brexit. Totally ridiculous. Totally shameful.”
UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is ‘in very dark place’, Albanian PM warns
Edi Rama said things that would have been inconceivable a decade ago are now normal in the UK
www.independent.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The four-term Socialist PM of Albania on the 'very dark place' called Brexit Britain:
"80% of the things that are said, written or accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that would have been totally unacceptable before Brexit. Totally ridiculous. Totally shameful.”
"80% of the things that are said, written or accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that would have been totally unacceptable before Brexit. Totally ridiculous. Totally shameful.”
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34%
Reform can win total power with just 34% of the vote with our current system, First Past The Post (FPTP)
BUT with Proportional Representation (PR), Reform would need over 50% of the vote…
which the right wing have NEVER had in our electoral history.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reform can win total power with just 34% of the vote with our current system, First Past The Post (FPTP)
BUT with Proportional Representation (PR), Reform would need over 50% of the vote…
which the right wing have NEVER had in our electoral history.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward
Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
34%
Reform can win total power with just 34% of the vote with our current system, First Past The Post (FPTP)
BUT with Proportional Representation (PR), Reform would need over 50% of the vote…
which the right wing have NEVER had in our electoral history.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reform can win total power with just 34% of the vote with our current system, First Past The Post (FPTP)
BUT with Proportional Representation (PR), Reform would need over 50% of the vote…
which the right wing have NEVER had in our electoral history.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.
Good Morning.
Good Morning.
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.
Good Morning.
Good Morning.
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Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
June 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
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Morning, West Brits! 🇮🇪
Ready to join us next week, in the Dan Hannan Brexit Cinematic Universe?
Ready to join us next week, in the Dan Hannan Brexit Cinematic Universe?
June 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Morning, West Brits! 🇮🇪
Ready to join us next week, in the Dan Hannan Brexit Cinematic Universe?
Ready to join us next week, in the Dan Hannan Brexit Cinematic Universe?
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If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
June 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal
b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum
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France right now after some Australian “experts” continue to tell us we’re past it and deserved being stabbed in the back
June 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
France right now after some Australian “experts” continue to tell us we’re past it and deserved being stabbed in the back
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Brexit has eclipsed Suez Crisis
Its impact is deeper, touching almost every aspect of national life.
It has no obvious pathway for reversal or restoration.
It coincides with, and possibly accelerates, Britain’s slide into irrelevance.
Its impact is deeper, touching almost every aspect of national life.
It has no obvious pathway for reversal or restoration.
It coincides with, and possibly accelerates, Britain’s slide into irrelevance.
June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Brexit has eclipsed Suez Crisis
Its impact is deeper, touching almost every aspect of national life.
It has no obvious pathway for reversal or restoration.
It coincides with, and possibly accelerates, Britain’s slide into irrelevance.
Its impact is deeper, touching almost every aspect of national life.
It has no obvious pathway for reversal or restoration.
It coincides with, and possibly accelerates, Britain’s slide into irrelevance.
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After Suez, Britain realised it couldn’t act alone and chose to embed itself more deeply in NATO, the EU, and multilateral institutions.
Brexit Britain chose the opposite path — and finds itself just as constrained, but now with fewer allies and less leverage.
Brexit Britain chose the opposite path — and finds itself just as constrained, but now with fewer allies and less leverage.
June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
After Suez, Britain realised it couldn’t act alone and chose to embed itself more deeply in NATO, the EU, and multilateral institutions.
Brexit Britain chose the opposite path — and finds itself just as constrained, but now with fewer allies and less leverage.
Brexit Britain chose the opposite path — and finds itself just as constrained, but now with fewer allies and less leverage.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine
Les meilleurs porte-avions du monde 😂
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Les meilleurs porte-avions du monde 😂
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June 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Meanwhile in Ukraine
Les meilleurs porte-avions du monde 😂
👇
Les meilleurs porte-avions du monde 😂
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Of course, nothing has changed for our own producers exporting to the EU.
So they're now at a greater disadvantage (no incoming checks, full outgoing checks).
Begin slow hand clap.
So they're now at a greater disadvantage (no incoming checks, full outgoing checks).
Begin slow hand clap.
June 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Of course, nothing has changed for our own producers exporting to the EU.
So they're now at a greater disadvantage (no incoming checks, full outgoing checks).
Begin slow hand clap.
So they're now at a greater disadvantage (no incoming checks, full outgoing checks).
Begin slow hand clap.
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This is fun... Labour have given up on incoming border checks on fruit and vegetables, even though the SPS deal with the EU isn't finalised yet.
They're so eager to sell the benefits of the putative deal, they're willing to fake them. (The food won't ACTUALLY be safer.)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
They're so eager to sell the benefits of the putative deal, they're willing to fake them. (The food won't ACTUALLY be safer.)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
June 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is fun... Labour have given up on incoming border checks on fruit and vegetables, even though the SPS deal with the EU isn't finalised yet.
They're so eager to sell the benefits of the putative deal, they're willing to fake them. (The food won't ACTUALLY be safer.)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
They're so eager to sell the benefits of the putative deal, they're willing to fake them. (The food won't ACTUALLY be safer.)
www.gov.uk/government/n...