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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 54m

Okay Viktor

Just eff off and join Russia's stellar economic block then

24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 2h

🇭🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 “We do not want to be in the same union as the Ukrainians. Not in the military, not in NATO, not in economy of the EU”

- Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1h

Has Marjorie Taylor Greene been shot by a woke space lazer?

Or does she realise that Republican policies are going to make her voters poorer, angry and trash her political career

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Dillon: What happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Greene: I'm not willing to wear the Republican jersey, and I'm not willing to be a cheerleader. I'm not willing to allow millions of Americans, constituents in my district, to allow their premiums to double and triple starting in January of 2026.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1h

Can we all just go back to the eighties

Like in the Black Mirror episode - San Junipero

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1h

It is time to stop treated Reform UK as some sort of political pantomime who just create entertainment on the sidelines of politics

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2h

Letter sent to Nigel Farage by Patrick Sargent
Former Reform UK regional Chairman

He is surprised to find out that the limited company he joined:

• Has no democratic structure
• Is not a meritocracy
• Is a Farage vanity project
• Has no policies
• Is not a professional outfit

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 7h

Iceland

Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 7h

And no need to blow the boat out of the water

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 9h

There are no shale gas areas in Wales

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 9h

Rockstar Games are launching a new game franchise where you get to be an ICE agent, starting in Portland, Oregon

They are calling it Grand Theft Latino

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 9h

It's gotten worse

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

I think the police said 100,000 last month

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

But I thought Keir Starmer could "Make Brexit Work"?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Pity Carol Decker turned into a right wing nutter

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Last month tens of thousands of people joined Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" rally

BBC reports it was 150,000

Today about 100,000 join pro Palestine march

BBC reports 'tens of thousands'

Tens of thousands attend pro-Palestinian march in London

The demonstration comes a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

María Corina Machado should be careful if she ever visits the White House

Donald Trump is going to look at her Nobel Peace Prize and pocket it for himself isn't he

María Corina Machado post on X

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Is 🇺🇸 America Great Again? 🍱

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

I should make pasties with Lincolnshire sausages!

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

I have my Cornish side from my dad, and the Lincoln side from my mum

I have a standard English southern accent apart from the words gras and baf

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have an accent?

I once said wata to my my wife (not warter) when we visited Lincoln

She had no idea what I was saying

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

I went to A&E on a Friday evening once with a broken collar bone

Bloody nightmare, all the dunks and violent thugs get treated first

(Hit a pothole on my bike and ended up in a hedge)

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Immigration has become a core issue, not because it effects people's daily lives much, but because it is constantly rammed into the news feed as an existential threat

People say they want less immigration, but ask them specifics, like farm workers, care staff and nurses and their opinions change

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Most of the media is owned by billionaires, so tax breaks and no regulation are their agenda

People in the UK, and no doubt the USA, are most concerned by the cost of living, medicaid or the NHS and public services

Stuff that directly effects their daily lives

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 2d

It is following the USA

Right of centre publications like the Spectator and Telegraph have swung to the hard right, based partly on more digital subscriptions internationally

The BBC largely follows the right wing press, both of which are moving away from where most people are

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

BBC Question Time has shifted their audience makeup from

"The result of the last election" - pre 2024

To

"The current political climate of the United Kingdom"

Anything to skew things to the right

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 3d

They are actually holding a meeting about eliminating anti fascists

Think about that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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