Edward Harkins
@edwardhar.bsky.social
Active citizen & writer, housing, economics, culture, politics, Company Member The Citizens theatre (Glasgow, Scotland).
Sensible thinking UK people should commend this Brexiter contrition, & congratulate more Brexit recantations. The more, the nearer that Britain dawdles toward reversing Brexit.
Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused.
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Sensible thinking UK people should commend this Brexiter contrition, & congratulate more Brexit recantations. The more, the nearer that Britain dawdles toward reversing Brexit.
When will those who were Brexiters or Brexiteers have the self-respect & self-awareness to know they were shafted? Brexit, Flags, taking our country back, taking back control; it was a con, all of it.
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
When will those who were Brexiters or Brexiteers have the self-respect & self-awareness to know they were shafted? Brexit, Flags, taking our country back, taking back control; it was a con, all of it.
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Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch
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A complete refusal to even speak to the elected government of Scotland yet some bullshit throw away line about how a guy she couldn't identity and who's name she only just read out for the first time sorted out Scotland getting funding from our own fucking taxes.
Party of devolution, yet hole.
Party of devolution, yet hole.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A complete refusal to even speak to the elected government of Scotland yet some bullshit throw away line about how a guy she couldn't identity and who's name she only just read out for the first time sorted out Scotland getting funding from our own fucking taxes.
Party of devolution, yet hole.
Party of devolution, yet hole.
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One sentence.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One sentence.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
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Just a tiny snapshot of the countless articles exposing how disastrous PFI was…It was universally recognised as a failure. 🚫💸
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Just a tiny snapshot of the countless articles exposing how disastrous PFI was…It was universally recognised as a failure. 🚫💸
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
Classic racist bigot in the pub reply on causing offence, ‘Oh it’s just a bit of banter, can’t you people take it?’.
What does Farage & Reform stand for?
The kind of racism where the perpetrator gets to decide if they're being hurtful or insulting.
The kind of racism where the perpetrator gets to decide if they're being hurtful or insulting.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Classic racist bigot in the pub reply on causing offence, ‘Oh it’s just a bit of banter, can’t you people take it?’.
Crivens, who said British ‘70’s were all brown & cream?
Butlin's Filey, Yorkshire, The Gaiety Bar, photo by David Noble, c.1970. Camp closed 1983. I went in 1960, aged five.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Crivens, who said British ‘70’s were all brown & cream?
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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And there we have it, privatization is whats planed for our SNHS if they get their grubby hands on it, we already know shes had quite a few meetings with the privet health care company's 😡. www.thenational.scot
Jackie Baillie backs Wes Streeting's NHS private sector plans
SCOTTISH Labour’s deputy leader has suggested the Scottish Government should follow Wes Streeting’s plans for heavier involvement of the private…
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
And there we have it, privatization is whats planed for our SNHS if they get their grubby hands on it, we already know shes had quite a few meetings with the privet health care company's 😡. www.thenational.scot
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Ummm…huh? You’re not Enron you say? No one said you were, but “The lady doth protest too much!” #econsky
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
Nvidia Says It’s Not Enron in Private Memo Refuting AI Accounting
In a private memo to Wall Street analysts, Nvidia says its business “does not resemble historical accounting frauds.”
www.barrons.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ummm…huh? You’re not Enron you say? No one said you were, but “The lady doth protest too much!” #econsky
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
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'On The Origin Of Species', a book that changed the world forever, was published #onthisday, 1859. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contained within, didn’t just revolutionise science, it had a profound impact on how we view ourselves and our place in the natural world. What a wonderful man.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'On The Origin Of Species', a book that changed the world forever, was published #onthisday, 1859. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contained within, didn’t just revolutionise science, it had a profound impact on how we view ourselves and our place in the natural world. What a wonderful man.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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ITV News, "Did you racially insult pupils at school?
Nigel Farage, "I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
ITV News, "I don't understand what you mean?"
Nigel Farage, "You wouldn't do"
Nigel Farage, "I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
ITV News, "I don't understand what you mean?"
Nigel Farage, "You wouldn't do"
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ITV News, "Did you racially insult pupils at school?
Nigel Farage, "I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
ITV News, "I don't understand what you mean?"
Nigel Farage, "You wouldn't do"
Nigel Farage, "I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
ITV News, "I don't understand what you mean?"
Nigel Farage, "You wouldn't do"
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Farage really on the ropes there.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Farage really on the ropes there.
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The truth about MTG: She’s timed her departure 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, after having made millions of dollars trading weapons stocks on insider information while in office. Meanwhile, she’s still voting to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The truth about MTG: She’s timed her departure 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, after having made millions of dollars trading weapons stocks on insider information while in office. Meanwhile, she’s still voting to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Yes, & so timely in Tierney’s career, but then what then came next in the last seconds of the game from Kenny McLean, what a classic goal! True Hampden glory for all.
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yes, & so timely in Tierney’s career, but then what then came next in the last seconds of the game from Kenny McLean, what a classic goal! True Hampden glory for all.