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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 1d

So we can now talk about how stupid it was to remove the roof on the eve of a storm but not do anything about replacing it? Not sure it’s really a huge step forward to be honest.

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Rats in a sack …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Another evening huddling round a candle to keep warm then!

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 1d

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR

Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Almost as though their promises had no grounding in reality - now where have I heard that before from Fartrage and his acolytes?

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 3d

200+ years on and we’re still surrounded by morons …

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 3d

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 3d

I shall be sitting in the dark warming a can of beans over a nightlight for my supper

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another decent person dies and Trumpleshitstain still stalks the earth. God wherefore art thou?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK’s DOGE is DEAD

EIGHT Reform UK councils are considering raising council tax because they haven’t found anything significant to cut.

That’s TWO Reform UK local election pledges broken.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform MS branded ‘part timer’ after declining spot on education committee

Reform MS branded 'part timer' after declining spot on education committee

Emily Price Reform’s only Senedd politician has been branded a “part timer” after refusing to join the Welsh Parliament’s education committee. South Wales East MS Laura Anne Jones is now the only...

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 4d

Private Eye always gets it. It’s becoming clear to me that MSM journalists care more about themselves than the story. #ukpolitics

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 3d

And still sheeple think that Fartrage speaks for them …

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3d

A typical British worker would need to save all of their earning for 52 years to become wealthy, new research has found.

Typical Brit must save entire lifetime's worth of earnings to become wealthy

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah - sure!

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 4d

Is it too much to hope that Trumpleshitstain is one of that number very soon?

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully all the Reform supporters will pile in defending his right to ‘free speech’ …

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 5d

Has Trumpleshitstain exploded in a puff of orange smoke yet? Today is shaping up to be a good day!

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 5d

She says that in about 50 years time her grandkids will find them in the back of a cupboard and they’ll be worth a fortune …

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 5d

Has Trumpleshitstain exploded yet?

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t wait to turn 65 in November and wave goodbye to all those pesky brain cells taking up valuable space between my ears …

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 6d

And there was me thinking that you were supposed to be able to see out of your back windscreen …

Michael Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#FBPE🇺🇦 🐧 @michaelpowell.bsky.social · 7d

It was a case of trying to shut the stable door when the horses were about to bolt though - too little too late