gec236.bsky.social

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@gec236.bsky.social

EU 🇪🇺 Travel/music/food/tv/animals/art Brexit is insane 🤦🏻‍♂️ Tories/Reform - 👎 Save the NHS ffks 🙏

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UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre. Record profits for oil companies and tax take by govt. Also tells story of deindustrialization: In the 1970s the UK had 18 oil refineries, now 4. We are rightly moving to renewables but economy still left vulnerable. Any national planning?

bbc.co.ukUK diesel prices top £2 a litre for first time, RAC saysThe rise in global oil prices has been pushing up the pump prices of petrol and diesel in the UK.

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"I'm telling you those cameras need to go!" Caller Edward believes the ULEZ bomber is a 'hero' and his 15 year prison sentence is harsh.

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Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

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Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.

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Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

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🔎 From the archive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake Shocked by the NYT revelations about how Tether, with the big Reform Donor Harborne, its biggest investor, makes money avoiding sanctions for Russia? There's more...

bylinetimes.comNigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD StakeReform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation

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🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

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Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."

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1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Thank you. I think it comes down to these three points. Criminal damage that endangers life at sea - assuming that the UK has jurisdiction. But I am no lawyer or prosecutor, so whether the criminal threshold has been met would be a big part of this.

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That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.

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Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows. No curbs on rents. Shortage of social housing. 2.8m council homes sold since the 1980s, not replaced. Low wages, 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Poverty is a political choice.

theguardian.comPay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap growsWirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London

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Mark Carney, "Let me take this opportunity to say plainly what Canada proposes" "We should deepen our people to people ties, allowing our youth to work study and live where they want on either side of the Atlantic"

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President Obama, "Imagine if I had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press corp. You're laughing but this is what's happening" "Who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"

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'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.

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Free Speech latest...

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.

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This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

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Imagine how much of a deluded bellend you must be to attack brave volunteers putting themselves in harms way to save lives. Absolute cowards threatening RNLI staff and volunteers. Solidarity with the RNLI ❤️ rnli.org/support-us/g...

rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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🚨 NEW: RNLI has now temporarily closed its Portsmouth station after staff and volunteers faced "physical abuse" and doxing over bringing migrants ashore

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Mark Carney, "Freedom and life must be earned every single day" "Every day" "Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."

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Wake up people!

The i Paper @theipaper.com

Opinion | The list of things Nigel Farage will do for money is long, unedifying and, in the week that we learned of £72m being donated to his party by a couple of cryptocurrency billionaires, surely worth revisiting 🖋️ @mrjamesob.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/arcDMCk

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Former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill was jailed for bribery. Current leader Dan Thomas has stepped down after being arrested on suspicion of assault . What is it about Reform UK that attracts such "outstanding citizens"?

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Dan Thomas, the leader of Reform in Wales, has stepped down after being arrested for assault and coercive behaviour. This is very much in the noble tradition of leaders started by his predecessor, Nathan Gill, who had to step down as he couldn't do the job from prison.

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Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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Helen Whately on Sky News: "We want to bring down the tax burden on working people. Kemi has asked her economic unit for a fiscally responsible way to bring down inheritance tax, another tax that hits hard working people hard." One of the dumbest people in politics. Liz Truss levels of stupid.