Squeezy John
@johnspiers.co.uk
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John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers … Folk music, allotmenteer, socialist, half a century old.
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imincorrigible.bsky.social
Integration - some facts that will never cross the racist Robert Jenrick's lips.

#CPC25 #C4News

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omaromalleykhan.bsky.social
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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sundersays.bsky.social
The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk
The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists
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Have you seen the recent polling? The political/media class pretty much dictates what the British people vote for.
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Given how badly Kemi Badenoch is doing her job here, she’d be wise not to talk about the validity of other people’s jobs!
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"So you're laying waste to people's jobs, but you don't know how many?"

Kemi Badenoch plans to get rid of 'quite a lot' of civil servants.

She doesn't have the exact figure, but she assures Nick that she's 'looked at it'.
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eddwilson.bsky.social
BBC News finds it easy to move from the fall of another French cabinet to considering the future of the Fifth Republic, but can hardly mention Trump's unconstitutional militarisation of Democratic cities and threats of the Insurrection Act. Promoting mixed martial arts on the other hand...

#r4today
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We need immigration to make our economy make sense given our productivity, demographics and needs.
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Oh yeah ... I forgot to add that the Tories want to expel legally permanent British residents based upon their race and country of origin.

Regardless of how actually evil this is, it helps no-one, no white British patriot will be better off because of this!

It's thick as well as stupid!
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Oh yeah ... I forgot to add that the Tories want to expel legally permanent British residents based upon their race and country of origin.

Regardless of how actually evil this is, it helps no-one, no white British patriot will be better off because of this!

It's thick as well as stupid!
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If you don't think that the Overton Window has shifted right in recent years ... here's Reform AND the Tories going beyond what the BNP suggested in 2005.

They want to expel legally permanent British residents.

Frankly I weep every day for what my country has become.
jdportes.bsky.social
David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.
davidherdson.bsky.social
This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )
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Fuck it ... I've been pretending that I'm too good for it lately ... but I want to go to the fair ... It's Abingdon Fair this week and even though I'm not a teenager and I don't have little kids anymore ... I still want to go.

I think they're brilliant.

Don't make me go on my own.
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Still disappointed that the Allotment Life feed can't differentiate between the UK allotment meaning a plot of land you rent for a small amount to grow vegetables ... whereas we're often made to look at the US meaning of allotment - an amount of money allocated to something boring. #AllotmentLife
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I hope everyone else is enjoying conference season 🤣
Loads of conference pears!
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It's been 5 years ... so I'm asking the question now ... what the fuck happened to Dido Harding?

You remember the one ... given £37 billion to implement test and trace during Covid with absolutely no accountability ... a test and trace system which never happened.
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🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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He means white. Pure and simple. English, but ignoring the last 80 years of immigration while embracing the white European immigration of Italians, Jews, Irish, Huguenots, Walloons, Romani, Jews again, Normans, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Romans, Celts and Beaker People.
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I'm a folk musician and traditional music is an oral tradition, an intriguing story of people moving as part of the struggle of life, taking the best tunes and songs and stories from wherever they came from or visited and adapting them for the lives they lived in the now ... whoever they were.
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No Dan ... don't give up ... you're the sane one here.

Places change people as much as people change places ... it was ever thus ... if you make a place your home and engage with/add to the community there, you are from that place.
thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Ethnicities. And identities. Are. Made. Up.
We get to choose.

Someone can be a Leeds native, a Yorkshireman, a Brit BUT not English.

Just take me out and throw me in the sea. I’m done.
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I fucking loved Janey Godley ... she's missed every day.
sturdyalex.bsky.social
I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.

Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
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Nope ... they're talking about deporting people with "indefinite right to remain" status ... but when pressed on the matter they confirmed that they wouldn't enforce that when it came to European people with the indefinite right to remain.

For European ... read more likely to be white.

Racist!
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I honestly don’t know why Reform and Nigel Farage are upset about being called racist … they say racist things, hang around with racists and they have clearly racist policies.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck … how dare you even suggest it’s a duck!!
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A lot of my stuff goes to our community fridge.
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.

Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.

And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
secret-labour-mp.bsky.social
Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
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Scroll to the end to hear Nigel Farage telling the truth.
secret-labour-mp.bsky.social
Here’s something that should never disappear….

Nigel Farage (in the company of Nathan Gill), being quizzed by Channel 4’s Matt Frei.