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Married, Dad, Granddad, Retired automotive engineer,Socialist, ex Labour, NHS, MCFC, all things two wheels
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Not learning from one’s mistakes indicates something🤔

I don’t want to hear another word from Farage about foreign interference. Hypocrisy you can see from space and I haven’t heard a single broadcaster call him out for it.

Ah, Feargal Sharkey is here! 🦋 Lovely. Please follow him and reshare this post to alert others.

Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage) Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1% All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.

Most Brits will look at the US reaction to the assassination of United Health’s CEO & think “thank god we don’t have that system, where insurance firms try every trick to deny care even to ppl theoretically covered”…& have no idea that United Health is already “helping” NHS manage access & provision

I stupidly imagined’Change’ meant a reversal not a more radical reinforcement of Tory policy

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain. A war on the poor, sick, old, disabled. 16.1m have disabilities, 2.8m chronically ill, 6.34m await hospital appointments, 16m live in poverty. No war on corporate welfare, no wealth taxes or redistribution. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

There is no “oven ready” trade deal with the US waiting to be signed - in fact, given the recent history of “oven ready” deals in the UK, you should be extra weary of anyone claiming that such a thing exists.

Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”

"What do you farm mate? Arable, beef? "Outrage"

The NHS that Nigel Farage wants to destroy 👇