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Facts really do matter more than opinion. Experts are to be listened to. There is honour in the truth and dishonour in falsehood. Woke and proud to be so😁

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 14d

The system is owned and run by the mega rich to enable them to get richer.
If we, those who have to rely on work, were united we could change that.
Instead we fight amongst ourselves.
We need to put aside our political differences and concentrate on what we have in common.

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 1d

Then you already know why pursuing to rejoin at this moment is pointless.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 1d

There still isn’t sufficient public support for rejoining & until there is what would Starmer gain by announcing something that isn’t in his gift to deliver?
What we desperately need are closer and closer ties to try to regain some advantage we have lost. By agreeing to FOM we could gain much more.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 1d

The problem when we have a right wing press & media. It’s always negative reporting for Labour.
The far left is as bad, instead of celebrating any wins they concentrate on the negatives.
This Government isn’t perfect but compared to the last 14 years, it’s a huge improvement and that’s something!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

The Labour government has already delivered or is making progress towards around two thirds of its manifesto pledges.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 1d

The political scientist Anthony Salamone suggested 60%
The Brexit referendum should have had a threshold, but of course it didn’t.
In fact 37.5% of those eligible to vote took us out of the EU ( not 52%) on a wafer thin margin.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

Current polls show just 36% of people in the UK strongly support rejoining.
That’s an awfully long way from 60%…

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

Willing to join as a country yes, consistently above 60% wanting to join, it’s been suggested.
It’s not in our gift to join, that will be dependent upon a unanimous approval.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

By accepting FOM for a start, by continued public support for rejoining, by agreeing to accept more ties to the EU, the Euro for instance.
By our media supporting public opinion, in being pro EU.
So before we talk about rejoining we need much closer ties first.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think they are in the business of punishing people either, but equally no country wants to waste time, money and effort.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t consider us like a country trying to join for the first time, because we were stupid enough to choose to leave. It was a hard, painful and destructive process that the EU will not be keen to ever repeat.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 2d

I’m using judgement, considering we need unanimous agreement of all EU members to join.
Obviously to rejoin we would have to show considerable long term commitment and long-lasting majority public opinion in favour of rejoining on considerably less favourable terms than we did before.

Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 3d

The problem when you announce policies before thinking about them, but then thinking about stuff isn’t really UKIP/Reform’s strong points. It’s all about the emotional response, the hatred and blaming of “others”

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 3d

Brexit can’t be reversed.
We have jumped out of the aeroplane, you can’t jump back in.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone in the country should know this name

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 3d

Because the EU won’t countenance us rejoining.
With Reform polling to be the next Government, there is no chance.
All the time there is a good chance we will leave again why would any other country let us join?
Even to gain much closer ties we will have to accept FOM, I doubt that will come soon.

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 3d

Those responsible for wrecking the country, lying about the false benefits of Brexit, causing huge financial harm to us all, should be held responsible and held to account.
By “preserving Brexit” do you mean actively pursuing to re-join the EU (pointless at the moment) or to gain closer ties?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This Is Fascism

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 4d

About time those responsible for dragging us out of the EU, removing our EU citizenship and wrecking our country,all to promote their own personal ambitions, were held to account.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 4d

About time those responsible for dragging us out of the EU, removing our EU citizenship and wrecking our country,all to promote their own personal ambitions, were held to account.

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 4d

Yusuf in September: “People in the senior leadership team have never really heard of Gill.”
Farage now: “I’ve known Gill for 20 years.”
How many of Reform UK’s Kremlin rats have taken terrorist-state Russian bribery? #ukpolitics

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 6d

The Tories are heading towards extinction because once you've fed voters with enough far-right poison, they vote for the real fascists, not your pale copy. They vote for the leaders, not the Tory followers scrabbling along after them.

You defeat fascism by fighting it, relentlessly, tooth and nail.

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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 6d

Nominations closed at the end of January and Trump was only returned to office that month.

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 6d

Morning all
Sunak is still an MP
still has access to government documents/thinking.
Worrying influence? 🤔
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.co.uk

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