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Melbourne!
WWII aviation aficionado, modeller, disillusioned Tory and (just about) still an Aeronautical Engineer. No PMs.
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Melbourne!
Communities are being terrorised and terrified. I’m on a WhatsApp group where folks are talking about streets to avoid. Streets we grew up on. And yet it’s apparently unreasonable to hope that a theoretically centre-left Prime Minister might offer some moral clarity and moral leadership.
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Is Patrick a squirrel, too?
‘People have been f**ked by the system’ The Scottish govt pledged that by 2025 this country would be a workers paradise. Well, it’s 2025 and that pledge has turned to dust I investigate the reality of workers lives and the sham that’s the ‘fair work’ policy www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542875...
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Here's Wulfie!
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Great! As they should have.
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Has the abuser been arrested yet?
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Not to scale. Your brain case is about 5 foot in diameter.
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I don't disagree, but I don't see a credible alternative at the moment.
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I think that is part of being a man of a certain age.
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No idea. She has principles, but is a serial protestor, rather than a leader.
Archibishop of York, "We should actively resist the isolationist short term knee jerk, in this case, send them home" "Nigel Farage is saying the things he's saying but he's not offering any long term solutions to the big issues which are convulsing our world which lead to this"
What Zoe says👇🏽 Why aren’t asylum seekers allowed to work?
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And replace him with . . . ?
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”👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
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Absolument!
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'Bof. Désolé.'
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Almost like there's some agenda being played out, eh?
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
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Of course he should resign. So what is the significance of Sanders saying it? 🤔
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Politicians - or Farage & Reform.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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I am, absolutely, going to come out ahead on the price of breakfast. It's my moral duty. "Another mini pain-au-chocolat? Don't mind if I do."
Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”. The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
From another place
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Slightly?
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This rings true.
So, anyway. Polish lad I work with asked me about the whole flag thing. My take? Fat blokes with incredibly small penises could be better employed.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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So, we should instead trust the shills, the ideologues and the no- nothings? Got it.
No it bloody doesn’t, and no they bloody don’t.
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Ah, bonnie Scotland.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
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When do middle managers ever? They do what Directors tell them- if they want to stay in post
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Was he trans? Didn't think so.
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Once Trump, through his greed, narcissism and naivety, has delivered what Project 2025 wants, he'll be got rid of (suddenly, the media will be full of senility stories, or a tragic fall). A real dictator will then be 'democatically' installed. It may not necessarily be Vance.
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Signed. If you're a Brit and care about fair political representation, you should too.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
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A vital service, well performed. 👏
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And the media.
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
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Appearances be Ed Davies?
Appearances on standard BBC question time: Nigel Farage: 38 Jeremy Corbyn: 1 Now tell me the BBC don't have an Agenda...
“Millionaires may not be fleeing the UK in droves – but there are reasons these stories persist” I.e. the self-interest of servants of the wealthy paying “journalists” to lobby for them theconversation.com/millionaires...
A heat map of where people have signed for fair coverage and an end to over platforming of REFORM. There’s support for better coverage of ALL our parties across the UK. If you’re in one of the lighter shaded areas & haven’t signed, sign now & pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage helped cause this problem in the first place" "Brexit has meant we're not able to force the French to take illegal immigrants coming over on small boats back"
Well done Calum Miller
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Won't matter if TACO disagrees.
Let me shock you - it is possible that UK taxpayer money given to the Taliban may end up being used to fund attacks on the UK. If I were a government minister, I might be making that point very loudly indeed.
Just imagining the media reaction if Labour had proposed a deal that involved giving UK taxpayers' money to the Taliban.
Defending human rights is the right thing to do. But it’s also – despite the impression you might have from politicians and the media – the *popular* thing to do: a majority of the public supports human rights and doesn’t want to leave the ECHR.
I wish they’d stop giving Nigel Farage the oxygen...” “Of publicity?” “No, just the oxygen….” (Probably best to file this one under ‘cue fury from free speech absolutists who can’t believe how despicable the left is although it’s ok when we do it can’t they TAKE a joke for gods sake….’)
What's interesting is that Jonathan supports Ukraine's fight for Europe, but doesn't expect the UK to do even the bare minimum, like vote for pro-Europeans. Instead he expects Europe to change its laws to suit Britons, damaging the unity of the very thing Ukraine is fighting to join.
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If true, about time! When are they going to mention his lying, gritting and racism?
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I've signed. Have you?
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🙄
"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"
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The point for him, I guess, is they're not "just like him".
Man who creeated the problem positioning himself to solve the problem. Channel crossings are rising because of Brexit, but his solution is to dump rights for all of us www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/
Watch what Dem politicians saw about this. This is a purported firing. It’s illegal. Treating it as real signals weakness.
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SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Where are all those 2nd amendment GUNNUTS that needed weapons to stop a federal takeover....crickets.......🦗🦗🦗
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
How? How did the ‘Island of Strangers’ speech stand up for ethnic minorities? How did telling us you were listening to the far right mobs attacking asylum-seeker hotels stand up for ethnic minorities?
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Wulfhelm is an anagram of psycho c*nt.
At least one Labour MP has the cajones to speak up
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"Short on facts". And sanity.
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Almost like he doesn't care.
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Butt-hurt baby hates the truth
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Already praying.
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Doesn't the sun shine on the S side of the wall? Painting the N side should just make it a better radiator.
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Very nice!
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What do I do if my MP is Suella Braverman?
I am still very angry about Brexshit. So there is no way in hell I want a Farage Govt. That bastard has already done alot of damage to our country with his racism and Fascism.
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Bird strikes will only be a problem if they rear-end you.
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Also fair. Forgive my snark, which is informed by empirical experience. Born in Scotland, long-time resident in England, so my kids have English accents. When we visit my parents', the reaction to these is . . . mixed. Most are welcoming, true, but a sizable minority aren't.
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Fair point. I wondered whether your tolerance for immigrants extends to the English as well. Does it?
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Can you please answer the question?
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Does that include the English? Honest question.
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I thought the sun shone on the S side of the wall?
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Imdeed. One of the few. Shame the tolerance doesn't extend to English ppl.
I've said it before and I will say it again. The same people that want you to work until you're 75 won't hire you after 50.
Lucy Connolly who tweeted about setting fire to hotels (later deleted) is being labelled a political prisoner by some. If I or a person of colour suggested setting fire to places where majority white people were staying or any people for that matter, would I or they be afforded such status?
Just ask..Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics....
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
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Indeed. She was a self-confessed criminal.
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Happy birthday Ukraine
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Make America Dumb Again.
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😪
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I fear you're absolutely right.
Got told I don't look like a scientist. Quick reminder: science is a way of thinking - a method. It's not an aesthetic. There's no one way to look, or be, a scientist.
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"I" gave . . . What a narcissistic pr*ck.
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People are a curse. Religion is but one outlet for it. There are many others.
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Fair enough.
Not a word on WHY people seek asylum/ appeal, properly funding the system or even, gasp, making it easier for people to apply where they seek refuge fleeing war, climate chaos, bad govt, discrimination, torture, forced conscription, religious or political persecution... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yes?