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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

W⚓️ Streeting

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

I guess talking about Brexit damage is a start. But insisting we make this shitshow ‘work’ and forcing taxpayers to pay for some of the inevitable and ongoing loss feels like a wildly illogical response to the problem.

Photos of Wes Streeting above article and Farage below…

Text: It comes after The Independent revealed in March that Brexit had cost UK business £37bn a year as the result of a 5 per cent drop in trade with the EU.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

What progress on this and how does it reflect the development you refer to?
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

Torygraph rewriting history. Who sold off the gas and oil fields?
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

This is pathetic.
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Whitehaven harbour's orange water to be diverted out to sea, under plan - BBC News

A taskforce led by a local MP approves proposals that would see a new pipeline built.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

Blue Labour. Growth without a care for people or nature.
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Residents say development plans are 'too much for one postcode'

Residents in a Sheffield postcode are being targeted by a “building frenzy” that threatens to destroy the green belt and cripple services.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 6h

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Fears for wildlife over York River Foss duckweed 'pea soup' - BBC News

Swans have been seen struggling through the water on York's River Foss due to the duckweed growth.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

If it had one... perhaps paternal, anti community, anti nature policies are at the heart of Labour. I hate the tribal cosy structures. FPTP creates right wing government.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

What… does Sky News believe the 12 year old girl may not be dead hence them putting it in quotes

I suppose if they’d been around at the time they’d have reported

The Titanic has “sunk” in the North Atlantic

Appalling attempt at journalism 🤦🏼‍♂️

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 1d

I guess 'is killed as a deliberate action as part of Israel's genocide against Palestinians' would be too long for the Sky News' headline, and someone thought 'dies' would be enough of a euphemism. Disgusting language.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Executives at BMW want to meet the chancellor about the car loans scandal.

Car companies resent paying compensation.

Auto companies lied about diesel emissions, resent paying victims.

Simple advice to capitalists - don't lie and cheat to boost profits, exec pay, dividends.
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BMW seeks meeting with Rachel Reeves over finance scandal bill

The carmaker, which faces a potential hit of over £200m from the mis-selling controversy, wants to discuss the implications of an industrywide redress programme

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

Jenrick is a lunatic. Fartage is a grifter.

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

In case you missed it ...
We never had a ref to leave the Single Market. So we wouldn't need one to rejoin it. You can be in the Single Market without being in the EU. Leaving the Single Market was therefore a POLITICAL decision made by a previous government. Later governments are not bound by it.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

Crazy country. Expect this in a tin pot dictator country.
Oh it is.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Michael @mgm5353.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is the ultimate bloke in pub politician who just gobs off without any knowledge of the subject.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'.

Brexit is the biggest self-harm. UK economy hasn't recovered.

Farage, the part-time MP, collects millions from 2nd/3rd jobs, full time MP pay+exps; often missing from the Commons.

Pushes hatred to grab power.

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

Sizewell C, which will cost £38bn (and rising) to build...
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'Major moment' as Sizewell C agrees nuclear fuel contracts - BBC News

Sizewell C is partnering with Urenco and Framatome to create nuclear energy at its forthcoming site.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

This is in bad taste.
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World leaders arrive in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh for Gaza peace summit

Heads of state and senior officials from several countries arrived in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to participate in an international peace summit on Gaza, Anadolu reports. Acc…

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

Low paid unskilled employment would go. Perhaps Blue Labour could invest in training and employment in useful occupations. NHS for instance. Train drivers. Post workers.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 21h

Happy to see them close.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Gambling industry holding UK govt to ransom.

William Hill joins Ladbrokes and Coral to warn Chancellor - increase tax and we will shut shops.

Happy to dodge taxes; not bear cost of harms inflicted on gambling addicts and their families.

Who governs - govts or corporations?

William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes

Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 1d

This’d be a canny move: raise the threshold at which inheritance tax applies to farmland from £1m to £5m (£10m for couples), ensuring it applies only to huge estates - but then remove the proposed discount (so IHT at 40%, not 20%)

Would call the big landowners’ bluff

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Farming community responds to rumours of an inheritance tax U-turn

Plans to introduce a 20% tax on estates worth more than £1m drew tens of thousands to protest in London earlier this year.

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andrewdandilly.bsky.social @andrewdandilly.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Farage and the Tories want for the UK:

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois

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