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

Clarkson ripped into NHS with his characteristic “I know best.. end of” attitude, then climbed down bc guess what.. suddenly he needed them urgently

The same morally bankrupt git who boasted in papers of buying his farm as an inheritance tax dodge

Then led a protest until he got called out on air❗️

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 7m

Two certainties in life are water is wet and Reform lie incessantly❗️

Tice admits £90 Billion (not million) of tax cuts PROMISED in their Manifesto wouldn’t happen❌
8 Reform County Councils will raise Council Tax after promising to cut it❌

Supporting them is like giving an arsonist a box of matches

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

BBC News's Lyse Doucet, "After two years of sustained attacks on the infrastructure of Gaza"

"90% of the territory now lies in utter ruin"

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 26m

Trump is the spoilt, supremely self centred, obnoxious little boy no one liked.. that a few tolerated in order to get what they could out of him… the trouble is he got to be President of the USA

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Given the abject horror that has taken place you'd think, for once that Trump wouldn't make it all about himself. But like a stuck record, there he is... going on about himself

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Cindy Carlson💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @ccarlson.bsky.social · 38m

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 21h

When Farage and I were growing up (similar age) Russia was the enemy, we were both in cadets, Russia was the Army’s foe

Villains in Movies & books were Russian.. those who helped Russia were traitors

Since 2010 Farage has been on Russian TV at least 17 times talking the West down
#FaragePutinsPet

Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny

The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece

www.theguardian.com

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Thru A Glass Darkly @thruaglassdarkly.bsky.social · 35m

Damn! I wish the Greens, NPSL, DSA, etc., in the US would get together and form a single large party with a cohesive plan to REPLACE the Democratic Party.

@sanders.senate.gov is not running again. Maybe he & Kashama Sawant could lead it and help create a singular party.

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 17h

Why hasn’t the fact the @greenparty.org.uk now has 100,000 members for the first time been all over the BBC, Sky, ITV etc❓

Doah of course they only report good news for Reform, Tories and ignore the rest❗️🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 33m

😂🤣

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 33m

Worth remembering by the time Farage first appeared on Russian TV Alexander Litvinenko had been poisoned in UK dying in agony, along with 13 other suspected Russian hits..

Yet Farage the “patriot” jumped into bed with them❗️

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 21h

When Farage and I were growing up (similar age) Russia was the enemy, we were both in cadets, Russia was the Army’s foe

Villains in Movies & books were Russian.. those who helped Russia were traitors

Since 2010 Farage has been on Russian TV at least 17 times talking the West down
#FaragePutinsPet

Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny

The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 43m

Agreed

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 44m

I’ll say.. I’d have got the butler to sort it but it’s his day off 🤷🏼‍♂️😁

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 21h

When Farage and I were growing up (similar age) Russia was the enemy, we were both in cadets, Russia was the Army’s foe

Villains in Movies & books were Russian.. those who helped Russia were traitors

Since 2010 Farage has been on Russian TV at least 17 times talking the West down
#FaragePutinsPet

Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny

The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 17h

Why hasn’t the fact the @greenparty.org.uk now has 100,000 members for the first time been all over the BBC, Sky, ITV etc❓

Doah of course they only report good news for Reform, Tories and ignore the rest❗️🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 47m

Well I’d say recent cases in point is Russia having invaded Ukraine, incursion into polish airspace, uk airspace, uk waters, taking out hits on uk soil etc 🤷🏼‍♂️

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 50m

Yup

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

When Monday morning starts by discovering the power shower has made an indoor pool under the bath from a pipe you can’t quite reach to tighten.. so you must become Contortion Man try and mop some water up

Despite a plumber who came last Thursday telling you it was fixed❗️

So you’re late for work🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

a man is dancing in a hallway in front of a shelf full of film reels .

Alt: a man is dancing in a hallway in front of a shelf full of film reels .

media.tenor.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

Smart move, having just had a shower, I got my arms filthy, and hands, on the dirty soaking wet floorboards under the bath

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

Just in case any of you were starting to think I’m a one trick pony, posting about Reform all the time.. I can cook too 😁

Anyway.. about Farage though 😂😂

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 19h

I love a Roast as much as the next person, but tonight I came over all Italian..

So it was Gnocchi with smoked pancetta, lemon, Parmesan and garlic cream sauce, wilted baby spinach, and toasted pine nuts.. ohh and a little extra Parmigiano Reggiano and I’m not gonna lie.. it was bellissimo❗️👌🏼😋

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 5h

An ice lolly on a hot summer’s day in the Sahara lasts longer than a promise by Reform/Farage and yet the hard of thinking still support them.. overlooking the lies because they love the anti migrants rhetoric❗️🤦🏼‍♂️

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 6h

When Reform promise you savings on your council tax bill, what else could you expect

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

Yes they did, it’s a question of priorities, there’s their own, not the publics

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 5h

When a Reform campaigned for Kent Council they promised to cut council tax, improve education, fix the roads plus social care etc

They’re raising council tax ❌
Raiding £2 million from the education budget ❌
Done zip for social care ❌
Roads still have same potholes & flooding issues ❌

#ReformLiars🤥

Frustrations grow as path continues to flood year after year

Questions are being asked about an ongoing flooding problem at a popular park that no one seems willing to fix.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3h

When Monday morning starts by discovering the power shower has made an indoor pool under the bath from a pipe you can’t quite reach to tighten.. so you must become Contortion Man try and mop some water up

Despite a plumber who came last Thursday telling you it was fixed❗️

So you’re late for work🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

a man is dancing in a hallway in front of a shelf full of film reels .

Alt: a man is dancing in a hallway in front of a shelf full of film reels .

media.tenor.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 5h

True that

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 7h

Going great then 😂😂

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

Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid because. why should kids have an Education when grifters gotta grift

They’ll also raise council tax despite pledging during election to cut it. They are 1 of 8 Reform councils going back on that promise🤥

They’ve removed Pride flags as promised..

Reform-run Kent council plans £2m school budget raid

Leaders say proposals fly in face of pre-election pledges to identify efficiencies from 'DOGE' unit

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 16h

Much as Clarkson gets on my goat he has Farage’s mark👇🏼👇🏼

‘His numbers don’t add up’ - Jeremy Clarkson rips Nigel Farage for avoiding questions on economy

Jeremy Clarkson blasted the Reform leader for 'scuttling back to small boats' whenever he's pressed on the economic impact of his policies.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Ramplkev @kevr.bsky.social · 16h

So now let's get them up to 1 million, eh? You know what to do.

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 17h

Why hasn’t the fact the @greenparty.org.uk now has 100,000 members for the first time been all over the BBC, Sky, ITV etc❓

Doah of course they only report good news for Reform, Tories and ignore the rest❗️🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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