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Left Twitter was phillwatson1970. Charlton fan. Star Trek fan. Brexit exile living in Switzerland. Believer in Occam’s razor, rationalism and Vimes’ Boot Theory
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I expect the media this morning will be asking this question to all the Reform MPs they interview today @mrjamesob.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

With Tice railing against ‘gold plated’ public sector pensions @mrjamesob.bsky.social no doubt he and the other Reform MPs will make an announcement that they will be withdrawing from the MPs Pensions scheme. I also await Farage saying he will now not take his £73k EU pension in 2027.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

So the media is fawning all over Reform after the by-election yesterday where they finished *check notes* Third

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Graham’s article @mrjamesob.bsky.social in the once great Daily Telegraph makes it clear I was right to leave the U.K. they don’t even try and hide their racism anymore. Bigotry has now became mainstream in the U.K.

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Well it seems @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social that Micheal Wolf was right all along in his interview with you and Rory in the Rest is Politics about Trump and Musk falling out. He got the timing almost done to the month.

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FB MAGA update MAGA ‘Illegal immigrants have no rights and should have no due process’ Me ‘Well I hope ICE knock down your door and deport you to El Salvador in a case of mistaken identity’ MAGA ‘How dare you wish hate me!’ Me ‘I’m only wishing what you want to do other human beings’ *crickets*

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Looks like @steverichards.bsky.social was right about Farage’s Political Parties always seem to implode www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I think lots of Americans today are finding out that if you fire lots of airport staff then unsurprisingly the airports don’t work nypost.com/2025/06/05/u...

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@steverichards.bsky.social This makes interesting reading on the failure of cosying up to the radical right, perhaps Starmer and Badenoch should be given a copy to read www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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What Trump is doing to Afghanistan and Iraq shows the danger of deciding to fight alongside the Americans. At some point they will screw you over

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Language in the right wing media is interesting @steverichards.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social Just last year papers like The Telegraph was using language such as undemocratic and out of touch for the House of Lords and today it talks about the House of Lords ‘battling’ with an unreasonable govt.

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BREAKING NEWS @sturdyalex.bsky.social Trump will now be leading in a series of new adverts. Trump is quoted as saying ‘After my beautiful SNL song which saved the show from cancellation I have decided to endorse this product to celebrate my tariff policies’ youtu.be/xnjcVvO40bg?...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Afternoon @jerilryan.bsky.social

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I have to admit to have given FB a second chance. Triggering the MAGAs is absolutely hilarious. I haven’t had this much fun since 2016 😂

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@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social

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Morning @mrjamesob.bsky.social It’s TACO Tuesday 🎉 Let’s make this a weekly event 😂

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @steverichards.bsky.social My Uncle last year asked if I would ever consider returning to the UK. As we moved to Switzerland in 2019, just before Brexit, and this was around Christmas, I said for the first time I said, 'I don't know.' The Tories were out, and I was optimistic

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment