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Mark Freedman

@markfreed.bsky.social

Music, Sport (especially football), cats, politics in small doses. Work in a library. No DMs. No Farage, Trump or Corbyn supporters. After being insulted, I will go with Centrist Dad/soft left. And keep away from political morons. Father of an Autistic son

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Their option/choice. They can’t complain now.

2/9/2025, 11:14:55 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 11:13:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Parody Keir Starmer (@parodypm.bsky.social) reposted

In Clacton, the search for Nigel Farage enters its 424th day.

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2/9/2025, 7:28:02 AM | 423 92 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks the best he has for ages.

2/9/2025, 11:05:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted

You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

1/9/2025, 9:59:19 PM | 331 153 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely they won’t. Purists don’t cooperate with anyone.

2/9/2025, 11:01:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Certainly not the same as Putin lovers Your Party.

2/9/2025, 10:58:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad for the middle ranks. They will recruit well, and then have their best players taken again.

2/9/2025, 10:57:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LaindonFeminist: Grassroots Labour Comms (@viviane49.bsky.social) reposted

At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least three facing criminal investigations, Byline Times can report. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

2/9/2025, 9:21:26 AM | 59 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed.

2/9/2025, 10:56:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol😀

2/9/2025, 10:48:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

They are also full of splitters, and could easily fall apart.

2/9/2025, 10:47:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t see it. The Public School dominated Your Party are only interested in certain foreign policies. The Greens would be foolish to work with them IMO.

2/9/2025, 10:45:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Blackburn and Wanderers. Knew that one from a pub quiz!

2/9/2025, 9:08:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Why? She has little to do with him at the best of times! Hoping that he departs?

2/9/2025, 9:06:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Followed by a nice cup of cofveve.

2/9/2025, 9:05:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 9:04:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

If Starmer lasts that long.

1/9/2025, 2:23:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Must be because of woke.

1/9/2025, 2:21:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably in the bunker. White House or Golf Course.

1/9/2025, 2:18:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Could they cut him down the middle and then he could play for both?

1/9/2025, 2:15:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently his father was a toolmaker😀

1/9/2025, 2:12:29 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely.

1/9/2025, 2:11:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Will be……

1/9/2025, 2:10:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Can he fuck off back to South Africa, or preferably the moon?

1/9/2025, 2:10:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

He was hardly going back to Chelsea!

1/9/2025, 2:08:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Welcome to social media…

1/9/2025, 2:07:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Goodbye Beatle. You never really cut it at Spurs.

1/9/2025, 2:06:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social) reposted

okay that's a good quote

1/9/2025, 1:34:35 PM | 106 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Can Brighton keep anyone?

1/9/2025, 2:05:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

An ancestor of JD Vance?

1/9/2025, 2:04:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

He allegedly had a stroke. The biggliest stroke.

1/9/2025, 2:03:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

If only…

1/9/2025, 2:02:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Cheers.

1/9/2025, 2:01:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

There is plenty of patriotism to be proud of. The 2012 Olympic opening ceremony showed it. Labour just don’t have a clue how to utilise it.

1/9/2025, 2:01:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Martin Peters?

1/9/2025, 1:59:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Shearer according to other answers.

1/9/2025, 1:55:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Alf Common, Alan Ball, Trevor Francis. Not sure of the last one.

1/9/2025, 1:54:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Muted the clown in the end.

1/9/2025, 9:19:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

How will you raise the money and get through the bureaucracy?

1/9/2025, 7:06:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

To be a contrarian, a goalless draw at Anfield would have been seen as a good result. A moment of genius won it.

1/9/2025, 6:52:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Missed Palace.

1/9/2025, 6:48:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

So what’s your plan?

1/9/2025, 6:47:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Fatality.

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31/8/2025, 10:34:15 PM | 19414 4278 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

A stroke? No thoughts and prayers here.

1/9/2025, 6:44:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep, agree.

1/9/2025, 6:43:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 6:42:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Football can be harsh. Ederson has been marvellous for them over the years. But that’s how the business works I guess.

1/9/2025, 6:42:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

They have very different policies. Plus the Public School cadre of Your Party would not cooperate with anybody. All they care about is particular aspects of foreign policy, of their choosing.

1/9/2025, 6:40:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

BTW, Labour hadn’t been in power for 14 years until last year.

1/9/2025, 6:37:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

So where is any evidence of this training, by any government? Reform can shout but they wouldn’t do it either.

1/9/2025, 6:36:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Speeding up the process for legal migration would at least make the right’s arguments more incomprehensible, although obviously they will keep them going, Brexit was obviously going to see many Eastern Europeans replaced by Indian people and others. But that ruins their narrative.

1/9/2025, 6:34:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet how would the NHS, Care etc survive without migration?

1/9/2025, 6:31:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 6:30:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jane (@localnotail.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

always good to check the edit history on Twitter as they can sometimes be revealing What Douglas Carswell has written today is awful bad in its final form, but his original tweet was worse He's not correcting a typo "From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free" just showed his hand

Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell From Epping to the sea, let's make England Abdul free 5h [Quote tweet @GBPolitics] NEW: Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled that asylum seekers can stay in a hotel [@DailyMail] Last edited 1:27 PM · Aug 31, 2025 60.9K Views Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free [Quote tweet] @GBPolitics *NEW: Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled that asylum seekers can stay in a hotel [@DailyMail] 1:25 PM Aug 31, 2025 509 Views There's a new version of this post. See the latest post
31/8/2025, 3:31:39 PM | 131 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep, vile man and years past his peak.

31/8/2025, 6:49:59 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Your bum is on fire?

31/8/2025, 6:48:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Playing golf I would imagine.

31/8/2025, 6:46:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s Trump. Why is anyone shocked?

31/8/2025, 6:44:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he mad enough to go to Man Utd?

31/8/2025, 6:43:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 58george.bsky.social (@58george.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 4:59:00 PM | 14 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Like the English game needs that scumbag back.

31/8/2025, 6:43:23 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Very much so.

31/8/2025, 6:42:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Because it is so poorly applied and still gets loads wrong. It is also totally inconsistent (handball etc).

31/8/2025, 6:41:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Tennis is clear cut. A lot of football decisions are subjective.

31/8/2025, 6:40:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean that you are not a hooligan? That is most disappointing Stephen😀

31/8/2025, 6:39:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly.

31/8/2025, 6:34:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh the far left definitely do. But people forget the quiet centre, who would just like things to show visible signs of improvement.

31/8/2025, 6:30:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Olivia Coleman remains a National Treasure…..

31/8/2025, 6:27:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 58george.bsky.social (@58george.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 5:17:42 PM | 50 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

TBH I can see it happening. His puppet masters are getting sick of his unpredictability. They are cool with ICE, but the economy tanking and his even more erratic behaviour will cause Thiel and co worry. Vance is more pliable. They also won’t want his coke addled son in 2028.

31/8/2025, 6:24:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Vigilant (@thevigilant.bsky.social) reposted

Republicans want to legalize pedophilia - Missouri GOP Sen. Mike Moon defended child marriage, citing a 12-year-old's lasting marriage. Democrats condemned it as disgusting, opposing Republican resistance.

31/8/2025, 5:21:21 PM | 19 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Poor Pep. How sad😀

31/8/2025, 6:20:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

He seems to be winning over a lot of Dems. Let’s face it, the candidate will be an oldish white guy and a female VP, and amongst American friends he seems more popular than Newsom.

31/8/2025, 6:19:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

You had me at ‘her true ability’.

31/8/2025, 6:17:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Improving the economy, housing and the NHS would be useful. The more people focus on Reform’s issues, the more attention they get.

31/8/2025, 6:15:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS!

31/8/2025, 6:13:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Helmand East?

31/8/2025, 6:13:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad and pathetic isn’t it.

31/8/2025, 6:12:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t see myself voting for the Taliban personally. Banning music and sport doesn’t appeal to me. Of course they have other significant faults…..

31/8/2025, 6:12:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

No idea but I don’t open DMs. It’s possibly what it is referring to. I’m sure you can swear!

31/8/2025, 6:10:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t see it. FPTP will do for them. Labour will play on being safer with what you know (hopefully with some achievements!) and that will probably get them a reduced majority. Although 2029 is a long way off.

31/8/2025, 6:06:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus the comms are absolutely appalling.

31/8/2025, 6:04:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Were they really swing voters though? Sound like Corbyn fans to me. I detest Reform, but anyone with half a brain could see that Salisbury was no ‘false flag’ operation.

31/8/2025, 6:01:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

People are more flexible with their voting than in the past, and going economically to the left and socially to the right (to an extent) is not a vote loser. But where are the economics to the left? People won’t necessarily switch directly to Reform (a one man band) as many seem to think.

31/8/2025, 5:59:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. It’s insane.

31/8/2025, 5:54:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel really free😀

31/8/2025, 5:50:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Although Konate and Szoboszlai were superb and Liverpool had clearly worked on nullifying Arsenal’s set pieces. They seem to have the knack of winning even when playing poorly (the Newcastle game especially).

31/8/2025, 5:49:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Hayward (@paulhayward.bsky.social) reposted

James Milner, 39 - still scoring in the Premier League 23 years after his first one...

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31/8/2025, 2:31:15 PM | 25 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope not!!

31/8/2025, 1:57:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Perhaps he could appear in Clacton occasionally. Nah, I am just being silly. Still, the fools voted for him.

31/8/2025, 1:56:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Sarah Murphy (@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social) reposted

What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is… (Sunday Times)

Farageto raise Lucy Connolly case in US Harry Yorke Deputy Political Editor Nigel Farage will tell senior allies of President Trump this week that the imprisonment of Lucy Connolly over a tweet during the Southport riots is a
31/8/2025, 6:29:05 AM | 657 229 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

It doesn’t fit the BBC narrative anymore sadly.

31/8/2025, 1:52:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼😁 (@patrickopatrick.bsky.social) reposted

You don’t see this👇🏼news pushed by the BBC on its main news page like they “report” when Farage opens his mouth or a migrant lands etc.. #RightWingScum put a Union Jack on a Mosque to intimidate them.. So its leaders put it in a window saying 'This is our flag... we are proud British Muslims”👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼

31/8/2025, 10:17:34 AM | 741 242 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Russia?

31/8/2025, 1:51:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. He could have done that and gained respect.

31/8/2025, 1:50:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Anything subjective shouldn’t be touched by VAR (other humans) IMO. It becomes inconsistent, petty, and annoying for everybody. Keep it for offsides. Even ‘clear and obvious errors’ seems to have lost any meaning. Plus all the angles and slow motion distort things.

31/8/2025, 1:49:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Blair and Ashdown were moving towards it until Blair won a landslide. Then it quickly went away. Of course the Tories benefitted in the long run. Labour won’t go for it even if 95% of the membership wanted it, because they are deluded.

31/8/2025, 1:43:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Freedman (@markfreed.bsky.social) reply parent

Up Farage’s backside.

31/8/2025, 1:40:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view