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Mark Cockerton

@markcockerton.bsky.social

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45 years in NHS. Had enough of the appalling racism and Islamophobia on Twitter, which is unchecked. Follow back nice friendly folk (racists need not apply). Up the Tigers!

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Nov 29

If you are proud to be everything that the Daily Mail hates, repost this and follow everyone else who does so.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · 17d

“Australia, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and USA won’t let me into their country as I’m a threat to their national security given my string of clinical convictions”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · 23d

“I’M IN LONDON.
HAVING TO SHOUT AS THERE’S 3 MILLION PEOPLE HERE WHO SAY THEY’RE TAKING ARE CUNTRY BACK”.

Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · 23d

“I want are cuntry back. I’ll have an onion bhaji and a couple of those delicious looking pakoras while I’m waiting for you to get deported”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 31

“On my way to roundabout painting training, I saw some of my voters hanging flags outside homes and businesses of people who looked a bit foreign. I stopped to help. Unfortunately my trousers fell down and my penis got tangled up in the flag for a while.
It’s not what it seems”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 30

“So, what did you do this weekend?”.
“Well, first of all I got pissed in Wetherspoons. Then I rose up and decided to take are cuntree back”.
“Wow! What did you do”.
“Well first of all, I shouted at a hotel. Then I painted are flag on a roundabout”.
“Err…”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 29

“It’s Nigel. He’s offered me a job painting roundabouts”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 29

“If you don’t work hard at school you’ll end up going to Wetherspoons at 8 in the morning and then going out to paint roundabouts”.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 25

You’ll have taken that blue and yellow flag out of your window after Sunday.

Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Whatever patriotism is, it certainly isn’t encouraging hate of a fellow human because of their race, religion or heritage, while waving a flag.
Pass it on.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 25

My heart goes out to Lucy Connolly’s daughter. You can only imagine what she has been through for over a year.
Then when she finally gets her Mum home she sees her trying to monetise hate instead of putting that behind her and rebuilding family life.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Aug 23

No to racism.
Yes to humanity.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 21

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 20

Loving this Clacton tourist poster.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 20

“TV appearances by Farage, sir. You hope you’ve seen the last of them but still they keep coming.”

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 18

If I’d spent 14 years neglecting a house, burdening it with debt, not fixing the leaking roof, failing to modernise it and left nasty things hidden in the long grass, I wouldn’t criticise the new owners for not fixing everything in a single year.
But then, I’m not Kemi Badenoch.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 18

Nigel Farage. What first attracted you to not wanting to lower the voting age because you know most young people aren’t racist?

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 18

Rishi Sunak. What first attracted you to calling a General Election the day after a judge said the super injunction covering up the Tory’s Afghan debacle should be lifted?

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hey, it’s humid, mind. I’m sweating like a Reform MP hearing about the migrant return agreement with France and praying it doesn’t act as a deterrent and reduce small boat crossings.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 9

Strange isn’t it?
Those who voted for Brexit and say they don’t have any regrets?
Even though Brexit supercharged the small boat crossings which were virtually nonexistent before?
You never hear those people offering to take those asylum seekers into their own homes do you?

a close up of a gauge that says hypocrisy on it .

ALT: a close up of a gauge that says hypocrisy on it .

media.tenor.com

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Who is old enough to remember the Daily Mail cheerleading for Brexit? The same Brexit that ended the Dublin Agreement, and lost the U.K. access to the EU fingerprint system? The same Brexit that supercharged small boat crossings which were negligible before then?

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 6

“Reform MPs sir. Horrible buggers fighting amongst themselves, no discipline or plans. Just 4 of them left but you’d think there were thousands of them by the amount of coverage they get.”

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 6

Mr Farage. Just one more thing. Reform’s first MP, a former Corbyn supporter had been suspended by the Tory party for being racist. Rupert Lowe was expelled. Now McMurdock is being investigated for dodgy Covid loans. Is there something rotten at the heart of Reform? Mr Farage?

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 6

What’s that Skippy? They’ve started to investigate dodgy Covid loans? Best if my lot keep their heads down for a while? Thanks Skip.

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Mark Cockerton @markcockerton.bsky.social · Jul 6

It’s from Nigel. He needs someone to count how many MPs he has left. He’s asked me to help!

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