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Mister E
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Skier, cyclist, golfer, Villa fan, music aficionado, fiction-reader and volunteer for mental health & wellbeing charities. Exiled Brummie living in N. Yorks, believer in European values, solidarity & citizenship. "You're everywhere and nowhere, baby ..."
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Key words: 'affordable' and 'available'.
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.
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In order to ensure that extremes do not impose a Trumpian future on the UK, heed these words.
#Democracy #BrightFuture
In order to ensure that extremes do not impose a Trumpian future on the UK, heed these words.
#Democracy #BrightFuture
Well, we need to make sure that neither the #Tories nor the #Faragistas get in again.
'Could' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Given the amount paid in dividends since privatisation the govt could take these companies back for nothing, but the cost of putting things right would be of NHS proportions.
PR Hype.

Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines.

Firms still pay dividends, mega exec pay

Fines have been virtually abolished. Amounts handed back to firms for environmental improvements. They displace investment, improve balance sheet.

Must remove the profit motive. Nationalise.
Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines under new Environment Agency powers
Government consults on allowing regulator to use lower civil standard of proof and introducing automatic penalties
www.theguardian.com
Hang on a second: who put the 'Great' in Britain?! Come on, get with the programme!

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Whenever politicians push anti-immigration policies they should be made to repeat the definition of "reciprocity".

The levels of exceptionalist ideology it takes to think that targeting people from other countries doesn't risk biting you hard when those countries respond is pretty astounding.
Parties who aspire to power in the UK seem to need constant reminders that other countries exist, that British people live in them, and that those countries won't take kindly to the mistreatment of their citizens. (Only seven years after the Windrush scandal broke.)
Couldn't put it better myself. Some of us were saying this in 2015-6 ... and some were saying "Surely we wouldn't be that stupid, would we?"
#Brexit
“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage
www.mirror.co.uk
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The fact IDS is an idiot who doesn't check his own 'facts' does make him an easy target for ridicule.
I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏
Because he wasn't attending COBRA meetings?

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“If we don’t let violent football hooligans come to Birmingham then that would be antisemitic” — genuinely I think I’m losing my mind, what the fuck are they on about
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This is the state that Starmer and the government are supporting. One where settlers can attack Palestinians with impunity. Where a ceasefire means fuck all to the IDF.
And instead of condemning that state and making them a pariah he backs importing their hooligans!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestinian woman in hospital after being clubbed by masked Israeli settler
The attacker is seen striking the 55-year-old woman with a large wooden stick during the assault in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayaa.
www.bbc.co.uk
Quite right to call it out. The #MangoMussolini is out to humiliate #Europe, and backing #Orban is a perfect vehicle (as well as supporting Orban's re-election).
‘Political nightmare’: EU officials slam Trump–Putin summit in 🇭🇺 Budapest

The 🇪🇺 European Union sees the planned meeting between Trump and the 🇷🇺 War Criminal Putin in Budapest as “an insult,” 🇪🇦 outlet El Pais reported on Oct. 18
#Trump #Putin
#EU #US
📷 Its author
english.nv.ua/nation/eu-ca...
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Hey, I must have missed the part of this story where jewish Aston Villa fans were also being banned?

That must have happened right, for this story, this reporting, to not be as fucking ridiculous, brain-dead, and dog-whistle islamophobic as it currently appears?

Shame on you @theguardian.com
The #MangoMussolini wants to humiliate Europe, and Ukraine is a perfect foil for doing so. Europe needs to step up to the plate and provide more munitions to #Ukraine.
Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
And how would you advise the locals, #Milliband, as Tommy nine-names' stormtroopers pile into B6?! #Starmer and co have heightened the focus unnecessarily on this.
Katie Lam sounds pretty dangerous to me. Threatening to send home people who have a legal ILR is as impractical as it is illegal but offers a great soundbite.
#Faragistas
Mass deportations of legal immigrants are now the standard policy of the Tories. Very grim. And "mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" to me sounds more like a racist megaphone than a racist dog whistle.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
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"Listen love.." says Nigel Farage to Mishal Husain, someone streets ahead of him intellectually. A little glimpse into the Britain he wants to get back to.
Listen love, it's obvious I'm a mysoginistic cock.
Damn right. Media & politicians have failed to consider the effects of the inevitable 'pile on' by different factions, the impact on locals, their property and ordinary fans.
Everyone wants to conflate the threat of football violence with anti-semitism - it's reductionism combined with idiocy.
Bought that when it came out; Great record and great sleeve.