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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

But Brexit is on Farage. He fought tooth and nail to get it and had no plan whatsoever. Then resigned from UKIP and let Tories deal with it who also had no plan, so he could say it’s the wrong Brexit.The economy sun, so any taxes needed to prop it up ultimately can be traced to him. #faragetaxes

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 1d

RejoinEU not ReformUK

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

It'll soon be 10 years since the Brexit ref. So much has changed since then. If Brexit is the cause of our economic problems, as the government now admits, then surely we need to ask ourselves whether we want to carry on down the Brexit road or turn around and head back to the Single Market and EU.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

Technically he isn’t right, he campaigned heavily and vociferously for Brexit without any kind of plan and then resigned as leader of UKIP shortly after the Brexit vote, stating that he had achieved his political ambition of getting the UK out of the EU and wanted his life back.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

This just isn’t true: fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

Kindness is not weakness. It is strength with a conscience. We’ve built a politics that rewards cruelty, where shouting wins airtime and empathy is mocked. But a country that cannot value decency will never rebuild trust. The hardest power is the humane kind.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

We ask politicians to be perfect when what we need is kindness. This Puritan hunger for magical purity helps no one. The left demands saints, the right demands loyalty. But the maypole was banned once too, and joy went with it. A little imperfection built with care would serve us better.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

Russian Bribes, No Plan For Brexit, Ruining the UK Economy. #Faragestaxes

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Suz MacLeod @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 2d

Brits don’t really do ‘rejoicing’, let alone ‘rejoicing in the streets’ but I swear to God (we’re all Americans now🙄) that if Starmer were to as much as hint that the UK is finally taking steps back toward integration with ‘Europe’, there would be a sigh of relief loud enough to be heard everywhere.

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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 2d

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

Isnt it time the party of government made the simple statement that #RejoinEU not ReformUK is the answer

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

#Farage is great at protesting but not at planning, at complaining but not coordination, at criticism but not consideration. For years he led the cry for #Brexit bur never had a plan Then the Brexiteers went to negotiations with nothing. No plan, no purpose, no clue. #RejoinEU, not ReformUK.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

#Farage promised freedom and left us chained to debt.
Covid bonds, weak trade, lost investment, now the budget bleeds.
Every tax rise should carry his name. #faragetaxes
He wanted sovereignty. He delivered insolvency. He lied, He walked away. #RejoinEU is the solution not ReformUK.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

We were told #Brexit would save billions.
Instead it cost billions, and the Treasury scrambles for every pound.
Wages stagnate, taxes rise, services fall.
The public pays for Farage’s fantasy. He complains it’s not the right sort of Brexit. He walked away. We pick up the tab. #faragetaxes #rejoineu

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

The budget pain is not bad luck. It is Brexit’s bill.
A weaker pound, slower growth, higher borrowing costs, all made in the referendum.
So when you pay more tax, remember who sold the dream.
The architect of this austerity the creator of this scenario , the maker of these taxes…was Nigel Farage.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

The state of the UK economy is a wound made by more than one blade. Brexit is one of the deepest cuts. It is real, persistent, structural. And Nigel Farage is one of the ones who picked the knife first.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 2d

The sins of optimism, the lies of promises, the failures of policy: they all compound. If we wish to recover, we must name all the causes, not pretend one was harmless.

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brianev @brianev.bsky.social · 3d

Any second hand fridges for sale?
Just asking!
#Farage #politics
youtu.be/5o7vNuROrfk

Russian Bribery Case Spooks Farage

YouTube video by A Different Bias

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 3d

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

Abolition of stamp duty would be worth £80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a £900,000 second home in Clacton

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3d

11800 is their ceiling to report individuals or corporates to government but it would seem they have many undisclosed donors locally and nationally giving just below that figure.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3d

Because of the separation of local/regional units, any revenue raised at that level is excluded from the central party’s figure. Thus, the central accounts understate the full revenue base of the Green movement.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3d

The central accounts do not provide a line‐by‐line public breakdown (in the easily accessible summary) splitting out “membership subscriptions,” “small donations,” “large donations,” “public funding,” etc.

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 3d

Starmer was right Farage hates Britain

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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