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abebourne1.bsky.social
Old man, living in Málaga who still wants a fairer, peaceful world. Reverse Brexit and stop banging on about immigration, they're humans too. Oh! and cricket, golf, tennis and Leicester City
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Removing “don’t knows”: That’s 64.4% to 35.6%, the British public think it was wrong to leave the EU - by 62.2% to 37.8%, they want to rejoin the EU 61% of Britons say that Brexit has been a failure - who do they hold responsible? Conservatives: 88% Johnson: 84% Farage: 67% May: 66% Sunak: 64%

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

I’d love to know what Macron knows and what he just told Meloni. That’s one hell of a reaction. #G7

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Thames Water’s £4bn rescue deal just collapsed… and so should the idea that private equity can run our essential services. £20bn in debt, rivers full of poo, and shareholders pocketing billions. Privatisation is a shit show - Thames is the ultimate proof of that.  buff.ly/x47yFyY

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

In which @jonnelledge.bsky.social hits the nail on the head. The people who read newspapers are generally the over-65s, the broadcasters and the political class. There’s a line that travels directly from the Mail, Sun and Telegraph through the BBC, ITN and Sky to Westminster. It is entirely ruinous.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

The Right Wing Hate Speech Religious Fundamentalists who fund transphobic activism in the UK are now pivoting to anti-abortion activism. As we always said they would - because their agenda of policing patriarchal norms is the same. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Then.... now.

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned

submitted 31 days ago • 59 comments

In case you missed it ... This is the electoral truth about Brexit that for some reason Labour continues to ignore. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 63 days ago • 11 comments

You don't get this sort of segment on Fox. Eye-opening.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

never forget that thick, racist or both describes a surprisingly large constituent of voters

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

🚨🚨 #brexit's disastrous impact on the #NHS led to 1485 extra deaths per year, according to a new academic study, particularly due to qualified EU nurses leaving and being replaced by more unskilled staff. #brexitshambles www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments