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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺

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Geeky Scots/Irish Glaswegian ,bus driver of sorts . Celtic FC 🍀 ⚾️ 💙.LA Dodgers .Some photography. Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Free 🇵🇸 Mental health matters Choose kindness. 🐱 rule Unashamedly Liberal. No DMs .No cam girls and shit .

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · Oct 3

Every day is the stupidest day , until tomorrow.

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve just banned myself for a month after that appalling effort.

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 4h

In the end , it was all baloney ..

…. I’ll get my coat .

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

Farage is due to make a speech today about his new economic policy.. (having been laughed out of the room with his last one)…
Let’s just take a quick look at his ideological track record…
And then put all his ideas straight into the shredder.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Productivity
'The money machine is misfiring': City blames Brexit for UK's £20Bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

However, experts say it is increasingly clear that Brexit has played a significant role, exacerbating the post-2008 slump by hitting sectors with EU ties, and as the political turmoil led businesses to put investments on ice.
Erecting tougher trade barriers with the UK's largest partner is expected to cut Britain's long-term productivity by about 4% relative to a remain scenario. The OBR could update this estimate at the 26 November budget.
Business investment has flatlined since the Brexit referendum

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🙏 💙

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

Yamamoto just turned the Rodgers Centre into Canadas biggest library.

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 3:45 here in Scotland, I might miss work again later ..

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

Insane .

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

That press dinner , where Obama took him to the cleaners is required viewing on how to deal with him .

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

He leant into it .

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

Obama is a bona fide stand up comedian, Trump is just a fkn joke .

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 2d

Queens Park, Glasgow, today . Winter is approaching.

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 3d

Game 7 ticket prices..

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 3d

Once again, on behalf of Scotland, we apologise.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

Jaywick named most deprived area - again

A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England.
The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time.
Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham.

Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025.
The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home"
, the Tendring
District Council website said.
MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work
GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter
Damian Grammaticas >
Political correspondent
17 August 2024
Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP.
It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

This 30 bedroom Mansion Estate is supposed to belong to the Government.

Prince Andrew got it on a 75 year lease for just £11m.

What a ripoff.

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 5d

We were absolutely dominated , I’ve never seen the team so poor offensively. Yesavage was immense.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 5d

Schrödinger's Peace Deal.
#PlanetTaco

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say.

Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza kill at least 60 people, including children, local officials say

Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children. That's according to local hospital officials on Wednesday.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

Reform UK are pledging to change the law so MP's don't have to obey International Law.

Only the UK Laws which they are planning to completely rewrite.

If you are wondering what this is, we call it fascism.

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 6d

No 6 : complain to every media outlet that you’re voice isn’t heard , then get invited on , only to complain the whole interview that you’re voice isn’t heard .

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 6d

It's Populist Trick no.5: Motte & Bailey

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 9d

Mahers been susceptible to right wing framing of culture war issues for a long time now , his weak spot imo .

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 9d

Spreadable butter my @@@@ , my toast ended up like a jigsaw .

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Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 10d

Fastball all over the place.

Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @easterising.bsky.social · 10d

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands together .

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