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Newport born & bred. Salt & vinegar crisp enjoyer, Guinness partaker. History nut. Car & rail nerd. Politics dabbler. Newport County/Man Utd fan for my sins. ASD soul. Diagnosed w/ulcerative colitis 2018. Bod to 4 🐈‍⬛ Views own, not of employer. Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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We’re a friendly, positive bunch - honest!

1912 Exiles: Newport County podcast @1912exiles.com · Sep 7

As always, if you got a mention, you have to RT - it's the rules!

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1912 Exiles: Newport County podcast @1912exiles.com · Sep 7

😠 Ep240: Diet b*stard 😠

We throw this open to the listeners to get your views before, during and after the home game against #BRFC.

LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE
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#ncafc 🧡🖤
#UTG ⛽️

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Please Caerphilly. I urge you to do the right thing. See through the lies, vitriol and the deceitedness. No to Dic Siôn Dafydd.

Vote for hope. Vote for promise and prosperity. Vote for the Wales that we know it can and should be. Vote for control of our future and destiny.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #plaidcymru #ymaohyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Plaid Cymru Caerffili @plaid-cymru-bgcr.bsky.social · 1d

The Caerffili by-election on 23 October is an opportunity to send a message to the London-based parties.

Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle is the only candidate that will stand up for Wales and put Caerffili first.

#PlaidCymru #Wales #Caerphilly #Senedd

Lindsay Whittle Speaks at the Plaid Cymru National Conference #news #politics #wales

YouTube video by Plaid Cymru Caerffili

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 1d

Reform’s former Welsh leader, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Russia.

The people of Wales deserve full transparency about foreign interference in politics.

Those interviewed by counter-terrorism police in connection with the case should be publicly named.

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I’m aware.

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Strange. Thought he was bankrupt. And not just morally.

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Fantastic 💪🏻

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Not quite 52, but I am an imbecile.

Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 2d

Tag yourself. I am fatuous pauper.

Work, Work, Work

On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:

Colourist of artificial fish

Knight of the Thimble

Disinfector of railways

Examiner of underclothing

Invisible net maker

Electric bath attendant

Proprietor of midgets

Fifty-two years an imbecile

Knocker-up of workpeople

Maker of sand views

Gymnast to house painter

Turnip shepherd

Emasculator

Sampler of drugs

Fatuous pauper

Drowner

Count as female

Fish-bender

Goldfish-catcher

Cow-banger

Running about

Grape-dryer

Beef twister

Random waller

2015 Jeff Kacirk

Sellers Publishing, Inc.

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My response when I get people of a certain (wrong and light blue persuasion) “oh my grandparents fought for this country and would turn in their grave” -

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Certainly wasn’t expecting a Shrewsbury win.

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Putin’s Patsies.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4d

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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@1912exiles.com

OMG WE WON A LEAGUE GAME

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@1912exiles.com

Longest 8 or so mins left.

Hang in there lads.

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Sound ✊🏻

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No Opuku at all today? Apart from the finishing he did okay on Tues I thought.

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I thought we were good. Just need to finish it.

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ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is holding a boxing glove in his hand .

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That’s better.

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags - BBC News

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

www.bbc.com

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Keep going Zac, they’re clearly rattled 🤣

Happens when rats are backed into a corner.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Means that’s it’s working Zac. Keep going. They’re rather rattled 🤣

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Hardly surprised that dodgy Dave Thomas is involved in some way.

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Grifters hit themselves in confusion.

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Tee hee.

Jason🫘 @jaylax79.bsky.social · 4d

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Controversial take of the day -“Have Your Say” on the BBC website shouldn’t be a thing.

Constructive debate usually goes out the window straight away.

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Thick as cold stale porridge.