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Lover of Sports, BBQ, Coffee & House Music. Political spectator, supporter of honesty & integrity. Hater of Brexit & Tories. Shih-tzu slave #rejoinEU
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Time for the UK to re-join the EU. Brexit was Putin's wet dream. Time for us to decide who we want to align with: a) a fascistic dictator in the USA, or b) a group of reasonably-democratic neighbour states, who broadly share our values? Then, admit Ukraine to the EU and NATO. #RejointheEU

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wonder why Trump is throwing Ukraine under the bus and siding with Putin? Russian mafia oligarchs financed all his properties and kept him in business. It was money laundering on a massive scale. They literally own him. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

💥Peter Kellner: "I quite like using numbers to make sense of the what is going on. Yet sometimes they are not enough. If they were, the fact that Brexit has cost Britain’s economy 4-5% of GDP would be a major national scandal." A 🧵 with some of the most exposing stats from Peter's latest blog👇 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Victoria Derbyshire replaced Laura Kuenssberg on her own show and she was 1000x... infinitely better. RT if it is time to replace the Laura Kuenssberg show with the Victoria Derbyshire show.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

A letter posted 2 years ago. As true today as it was then. And so it goes on. And on. And on. A country divided and diminished because its politicians chose to lie and then - when it went tits up - couldn’t risk telling the truth.

submitted 68 days ago • 28 comments

No undeserved praise No obeying in advance No normalization No sane washing Just calling out a failed businessman, exceedingly corrupt president and convicted criminal for what he is And-although you left out the $454 fraud judgment and sexual abuse verdict Well done, @vanityfair.com

submitted 71 days ago • 157 comments

"I can't see a model for the future of humanity that I like coming out of China, India or The States. But I can see it in Europe."

submitted 72 days ago • 42 comments

Does anyone else out there think daily, ‘WTF is going on in the World!’ I’m currently listening to news agents about people dumping milk, but this awful story about girl murdered by parents, Trump, Farage, Gaza, Romanian elections, everywhere you look, madness, are we living in unprecedented times?

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Immigration is now 300% higher than when we had free movement as part of the EU… Brexit never made sense

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Amerikaski

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is no Twitter 4 years ago. I’m content. Bye X, it’s been emotional but you dead to me 🖕

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if all his picks are as qualified…. Jeez though. What’s happened to the US? It’s like watching an old friend having a mental break down, a mid-life crisis & joining a cult.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Can someone tell me why the Farmers weren’t pissed off at the very people who have made them poorer with their Brexit, for hijacking their demonstration today??

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments