Phil Pinfold

Phil Pinfold

@philfold.bsky.social

Nice bloke, softly spoken, Europhile #FBPE, modeller, cat wrangler, polite politics, observable reality and evidence based kinda guy.

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Big UK banks pocketed £29.2bn in six months while our bills went up! A windfall tax on bank profits would raise £19bn for our schools & NHS. But banks and their lobbyists are trying to hard to block this. Sign the petition today tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

you.38degrees.org.uk#TaxTheBanksYears of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

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In every measure, it is clear that Brexit has done more harm than good. ⛔ 16,000 companies have completely stopped exporting to the EU. ⬇️ Exports to the EU are down by nearly 20%. 🌍 It has weakened us on the global stage. ♥️ It's time to restore our EU membership.

Gosh, I wonder what could possibly have driven this person over the edge so they're found dead a week after being solidly the lead story in the news cycle despite unproven alegations? Black person MAY have exagerated a CV? ...that's the story. #WhoIsTheBBCNewsEditor?

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And this is the top story? Unproven allegations of an exaggerated CV? What could the #BBC have against this black professor at Cambridge who has already resigned I wonder? Can't fathom it...

And this is the top story? Unproven allegations of an exaggerated CV? What could the #BBC have against this black professor at Cambridge who has already resigned I wonder? Can't fathom it...

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To those who are still peddling the line that the EU would never want us back. This is nonsense. Polish PM Tusk said he was “dreaming of a Breturn”; Finnish President Stubb “Brexit was a colossal mistake & UK should rejoin”; Spain’s PM Sanchez, would “definitely like to have the UK back on board”

internationalbusinessnews.co.ukRejoining the EU quickly is a realistic prospect - International Business NewsWritten by Richard Corbett, ex Lab. MEP Faced with opinion polls showing that the UK public increasingly wants to rejoin the EU, those who are still hostile to this are peddling the line that the EU [...

Less than 2,000 signatures to go. Let's get a debate going. We really do need to #RejoinEU

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

Blimey. This petition is now is now at almost 98,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 today and have that debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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>88,800 now. 🚀 Lovely. I think we’re going to do it.

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

Yep! Excellent! I see some berk tried to disconnect the screen. Glad the police protected it. Sometimes the truth is inconvenient to racists and nationalists. #FreedomOfSpeech

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

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At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

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“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse” Oh it really can. You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse. Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.

Here's a thing that's becoming commonplace in #Nottinghamshire with our #Reform ( #Refuk ) council. Traffic cones placed by locals to warn of dangerous potholes. Sooo many folk reporting damaged cars now. Council sprays a pothole, fills it badly weeks later, but ignores the two whoppers next to it!

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🏦 The Bank of England reported in October 2025 that Brexit had led to a 3-4% hit in employment. 📈 To boost opportunities, Britain must foster growth in our economy. 🇬🇧🇪🇺The easiest way to get growth is to align our goods and services with the EU.

news.sky.comUnemployment hits highest rate in nearly five yearsGetting a job is likely to be harder than before, as redundancies increase and the number of unemployed people per vacan

Don't forget we have a march to #RejoinEU coming up on 20th June. See you there!

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

Brits would decisively support rejoining the European Union if a new referendum were held, according to the latest polling from YouGov, with clear majorities emerging across all age groups – especially among younger voters www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...

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It says a lot abiut the intellectual heft of Farage fans that 13% of them want to reverse his only policy achievement.

Bremain in Spain@bremaininspain.com

Should the U.K. join the EU? A clear difference between people who want to move society forward, and those who wish to drag us backwards.

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About Rejoining: I have no doubt our younger generations will adopt the Euro and Schengen in good time. But until they do, they're not the make or break issues that some say they are. In my experience, people who say that either don't want us to rejoin or don't want us to talk about rejoining. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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A scandalous act of vandalism if allowed to happen.

Melissa Chemam@melissaontheroad.bsky.social

And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

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The main argument against rejoining the EU is that it would "embolden Farage". Bullshit. It would expose Farage. It would force him to oppose the majority of voters, remind them that his last "Great Crusader" left us poor and powerless, and force him to admit he wants us to remain that way.

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We don’t have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to ‘get Brexit done’ are never held to account for the damage they’ve caused… and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out. They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.

Miles King@milesking.bsky.social

Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood. Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

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Russian hybrid warfare has targeted every aspect of UK statehood: from the MOD, to the NHS, to the BBC. No single party has either the credibility, nor the capacity to fully investigate the breadth and depth of Russian interference. Only a judge-led, statutory public inquiry will suffice.

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good to see this Switch Party? Stand Again! petition has doubled in the past 24 hours petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social

By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party, a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their elected official. #ukpol

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