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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 EU Membership & PR, AI=no creativity, No; Fascists,Bigots, Charter Cities,SEZ’s, Genocide,ReformUK Dyslexic. Cancer survivor. Sea Swimmer. Ageing disgracefully. Swears a bit too much. ExX. QuietRioter

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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 2d

Farage told many proven lies about the benefits of Brexit. He now wants us to leave the EHCR to stop the boats, this is another lie it won’t . Before Brexit we could send many asylum seeker back across the channel automatically.
Farage and his lies stopped that. Small boats are Farage’s legacy.

Picture of an inflatable rubber boat full people one a grey sea, over written with the following text.

THE DUBLIN AGREEMENT - IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Before Brexit, the UK was part of the Dublin system. That meant: if someone crossed into the UK by small boat, but they had already claimed asylum in France, Italy, Germany or wherever they first arrived, the UK could legally send them straight back.
Simple. Fast.
Thousands of returns every year.
But when we left the EU, we left Dublin too. Now we've got no automatic right to return anyone. Every case has to be argued, one by one - and most go nowhere.
So next time you hear "Stop the boats," remember this:
BREXIT TORE UP THE TOOL THAT ACTUALLY STOPPED THEM

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 6h

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t...

The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students

If you read only one article about what happened to the students, teachers and schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this is the one. Ashana Bigard is a parent of students in New Orleans. …

dianeravitch.net

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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 4h

It taken them this long? What the hell is wrong with them? It was obvious it would fail before anyone voted to leave it stay.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 6h

"Having foisted it on the rest of the country, even Conservatives now say Brexit has failed.
All you can say is… thanks!!!!"
www.bestforbritain.org/conservative...

Conservative voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

The Conservative Party’s flagship policy - Brexit - has been a failure according to people intending to vote for them at the next election.

www.bestforbritain.org

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KL Starr @kcl65.bsky.social · 1d

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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 6h

Shame on the UK, the shame of Brexit is growing.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 7h

Is this what they mean by a Brexit benefit? “Unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism.”

In 2023, EU agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations outside a group of mainly rich countries within the OECD for an initial 2.5 years - the UK has no such ambitions in place

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 6h

Politicians should always leave education to the experts, decisions based political ideology has no place in education, unless you are a Fascist, when it ceases to be education and becomes instruction. Politicians don’t understand that the process is more important than the end result.

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Pam Wilkinson FBPE 🌹👻🌪️ @skully17.bsky.social · 9h

What an insult Kemi.

My degree in English taught me History, analytical thought, nuance, expression, humanity, psychology, the sheer joy of the written word.
None of which you demonstrate.

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Mevrouw Vos @lillieg.bsky.social · 13h

Going to the jobcentre with Mr Vos so he can prove who he is, that he has settled status, lived, worked & paid taxes here for more than 26 years etc etc. All those things that would be one click with an ID app that gives you access to services etc. Instead it's a whole folder full of printouts 🙄

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 10h

any court that says otherwise has outlived its purpose

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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ScotLassie(Extremist apparently😁) @scotlassie.bsky.social · 12h

England doesn't seem to understand, its own constitution.
NEWSFLASH!...You're not sovereign, you never have been. King Chuck is sovereign. He lends it to his parliament. You live under a monarchy. You're subjects, not citizens.
#AbolishTheMonarchy

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 13h

An absolute tragedy that we took ourselves out of the EU block. A tragedy that will continue to punish us, destroy our jobs and Finnish our lives and our children’s lives. Unforgivable. ( As is the austerity that triggered it)

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 14h

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: Pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell is that something you're open to doing?

SEX PREDATOR: Who are we talking about?

CNN: Ghislaine Maxwell

S.P: I haven't heard the name is so long.
I can say this I'd have to take a look at it. I will speak to the DOJ

CNN: She's convicted of child sex trafficking

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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 11h

Calling her batshit crazy is an insult to bats, but batshit crazy she is!

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James Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr · 12h

Badenoch wants to do away with the study of society and human interaction.

It speaks volumes.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15h

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CXr...

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 12h

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/10/r...

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from 'Family Friend' Who Ships Arms to Israel

The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP

bylinetimes.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15h

Work and Reform in the same sentence?

Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 15h

One foot out the door. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Tories should work with Reform, says shadow minister

Andrew Rosindell admitted his Romford seat would ‘almost certainly’ fall to Reform UK at an election

www.standard.co.uk

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kevinanthony.bsky.social @kevinanthony.bsky.social · 15h

The UK steel industry is in distress ….. Let’s be clear if the UK had not left the single market and customs union the steel industry would not be subjected to EU tarrifs … but #r4today won’t mention the greatest act of economic self harm #Brexit @mrjamesob.bsky.social
#gmb
#c4news

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

To me, being "proud" of the country I'm from, includes acknowledging all the awful stuff we've done, and learning from that.

If we don't do this, we end up going round in cycles where we keep making these huge mistakes and atrocities... Like we are now

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you ⁦‪Laura Thornton‬⁩ ✊🏼

“After Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist” - We do indeed, our homeland hangs in the balance.✊🏼🇬🇪

www.justsecurity.org/122040/georg...

After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist

Georgians will fight for their democracy. The ruling party is now one more paranoid, insecure dictatorship that knows its days are numbered.

www.justsecurity.org

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14h

This was always more of a CJEU question.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

The EU's General Court has upheld the EU/US arrangements for transfers of personal data to the US. Analysis by Dr Samira Allioui: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The General Court of the European Union upholds the Data Privacy Framework

Dr Samira Allioui , Research fellow, Centre d'études internationales et européennes, Université de Strasbourg Photo credit : Ibrahim...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

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