deepvalleys.bsky.social

deepvalleys.bsky.social

@deepvalleys.bsky.social

Retired educational professional. Head of Dept, Senior Examiner GCSE and A level. Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate. Writer. FBPE https://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-class-divide-76308.html https://philosophynow.org/issues/153/Plaiting_Gravy

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#Stanley v York tomorrow. Just 2 points separate these two top teams (how great to say that!!) Stanley going great guns, balls into the box faster than the opposition can count them! C'mon #AccringtonStanley

#Nationalism is, by definition, a divisive creed, dividing one individual from another, one group from another, instilling hostility. Listen to what #Einstein, a man who'd experienced nationalism, said. nationalism is "an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind". #RejoinEU Better together.

WOW! #Stanley on FIRE. Stanley 3 Gillingham 1. Two goals from Woods and one from Mols sank Gillingham. Stanley started like a hurricane, shots into the box and corners raining in. Great stuff. C'mon #AccringtonStanley

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Ultimate Brexit outcomes, from best to worst: - Rejoin the EU - Rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union - Rejoin just the Single Market - Rejoin just the Customs Union (To be clear SM only is better than CU only.) Anything not on the list above is just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

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👏 Khan gets it. Britain must rejoin the EU. 💷 Membership of the EU will deliver a £92bn boost to our economy. British businesses will see a £43bn boost to their exports too. 🧠 It really is a no brainer.

thelondoneconomic.com'Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled... we must rejoin the EU' - Sadiq KhanThis is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as i

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First EU reactions to Burnham suggestion that UK might rejoin EU: French President Macron: “Welcome back” Spanish PM Sanchez: Brexit was a “huge loss” for both the UK and the EU, and if Britain takes a decision to rejoin, Spain will “open its arms” again to the British people.

shorturl.at/U1H8H All polls suggest that the UK is ready to #RejoinEU. Remember the damage that #Brexit has done - GDP per Capita: Reduced by 6% to 8% compared to a comparable synthetic basket of advanced economies. Business Investment: 12% to 18% down. #RejoinEU NOW!

shorturl.atFAQ: Why is EU membership the most popular UK-EU relations policy in 628 seats? - Best for BritainA new megapoll shows that EU membership is the most popular UK-EU relations policy in all but four (628) parliamentary seats in Great Britain- the latest evidence that the UK is ready for a renewed co...

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#FBPE is not a cheap tool to get more followers; it's a sign of solidarity among progressives in their fight against populism & hatred. We support the EU and democratic values and cooperate with other movements. Ultimately, it's not the hashtag but the content of one's timeline that is important.

fbpe.euWelcome to the FBPE movement - FBPE - Follow Back pro EUFBPE is a non-profit movement. A network of all those across Europe who support the EU & fight political extremism: #FollowBackProEU and the acronym #FBPE.

Overwhelming pressure to #RejoinEU -Canada says it wants a deep partnership with the EU -Australia says it wants same - UK opinion polls show record number wanting to Rejoin EU -TUC calls for govt red lines to be scrapped Brexit reduced UK GDP by an estimated 6% to 9%,roughly £100 billion! RejoinEU

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Surely this is not hard to fix? All it needs is a clause in the legislation that permits an organisation such as a union to collect any number of individual donations below a defined cap and pay the aggregate to a political party. PROVIDED such contributions are auditable and fully voluntary.

Andy #Burnham took over as PM he made noises about capping political donations to £500K, then reducing further. He now seems to be resisting pressure to carry this out We must stop characters like #Harborne & #Farage using politics for their own ends. shorturl.at/JvbF4 #MoralityinPolitics

shorturl.atBurnham accused of U-turn after initially backing political donations cap to fall below £500kExclusive: Campaigner says PM wrote in email he believed £500k cap should be reduced over time to guard against undue influences

The brass neck of #Farage & the Tories knows no bounds. They want to subject immigrants to punitive measures when they are responsible for the problem. The botched Brexit deal has resulted in over 200K people having crossed the Channel in small boats, up from zero before the referendum. #RejoinEU

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“No amount of headline-chasing, or following Reform to the extremes can hide the damage the Tories did to our housing system” So v bored of the rightwing elbowing each other out of the way to be the most racist, the most vengeful. It’s all so deeply inadequate. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

independent.co.ukTories unveil ‘unworkable’ plan to evict foreign nationals from social housingConservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals

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Jon King probably has all the pillow cases and duvets he needs and then some. He won’t have racist thugs terrorising him in his home, threatening to burn it down. He won’t be permanently worried sick and fearful for himself, his family and his future. Still not sure how he sleeps at night though.

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Jon King of the Express has contributed this news report amid the vigilante mob violence in Thetford www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2237...

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Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)

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Whilst Andy Burnham has found the time to opine on such vital issues as 'vertical drinking', and whether a bread roll should be called a ‘barm’, he has not found the time to comment on some of the worst racist violence on Britain's streets in the postwar period www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...

adambienkov.co.ukIllegitimate Concerns: Andy Burnham's Non-Response to the Thetford Pogrom Is His First Big FailureWhilst happy to opine on 'vertical drinking' and whether bread rolls should be called 'barms', our new PM has had nothing to say about three days of horrific racist violence on our streets

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Farage should be in prison. Lowe should be back in obscurity, chuntering around his land and moaning that his life of staggering privilege is being messed up by having to see some brown people. And Musk - who pays Lowe to foghorn out his fascism - should…. I’ll leave it there.

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“Lowe's language is the language of expulsion… So while Lowe struts around his acres, people in Thetford are having their windows smashed and facing chants of "we want them out".” It’s Farage’s language too though. Two cheeks. Same arse. www.independent.co.uk/voices/ruper...

independent.co.ukRupert Lowe is becoming the most dangerous useful idiot in BritainNigel Farage has been given some brief breathing room in the race to the bottom of Britain’s far-right thanks to his nemesis, Rupert Lowe, writes David Aaronovitch

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I understand the softly-softly-red-lines-in-our-manifesto approach but I also think it’s tediously prolonging the agony of this game of let’s-pretend-Brexit-wasn’t-a-monumental-fuck-up. The world is very different to 2016. Brexit Britain is going nowhere fast. Time to get real and say so.

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“But just hours after Farage suggested the possibility of working with Estonia on this, the nation ruled out any deal”… confirming that, yet again, Farage is just making up shit as he goes along… Frankly embarrassing to ever believe a single word he says. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

thelondoneconomic.comReform's prisons policy already falling apart as nation rules out dealThe Estonian government has ruled out working with Reform on their plan to deport foreign criminals in UK prisons.