barryweststand.bsky.social
@barryweststand.bsky.social
Orient supporter since 1957. Season card holder. West Stand.
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The Speaker of the house has excellent comic timing.

Starmer at PMQs: "We will continue to go after the fraudsters, the grifters and the con artists, no matter who they are or where we find them!"
Mr Speaker: "Nigel Farage!"
July 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’

Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
June 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Kevin Maguire: If you lift kids out of poverty, their lives will benefit. If you employ more teachers you improve education. If you employ more doctors & nurses you improve the NHS. But if you build a few more submarines are we really any safer? #GMB
June 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
May 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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While so many continue to pretend that it’s not fascism that we’re seeing in the US, here’s Trump continuing his policies of Gleichschaltung. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
The order says that
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Corbyn's posited corporation tax level was 35%. Seems like a lot I know, after all he was a dangerous extremist, but we could try it? Wait, did I say "Corbyn"? I meant Thatcher. Thatcher's lowest corporation tax level was 35%. Corbyn posited 29%. Silly me!
February 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy.

“It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”
March 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Just watched the Trump Gaza video and whoever wrote a couple weeks ago about generative AI being the new aesthetics of fascism could not have asked for a better case in point
Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza'
YouTube video by Guardian News
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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It suddenly occurs to me that when people like Vance talk about “free speech” (which makes no sense in the context of what Trump/Musk are actually doing), what they actually *mean* is “free data” as in “free flow of all your personal & health data into US “AI””. www.disconnect.blog/p/jd-vance-c...
JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe
The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies
www.disconnect.blog
February 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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It falls to the left to see off the far right oligarchy. 'twas forever thus.
Can Trumpism be defeated? Absolutely. Here’s how | Bernie Sanders
What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Mansfield are saying that the match against Orient is available for streaming abroad but there’s nothing on the Orient website. Why?
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.
February 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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An astonishing transformation
January 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Check the date on this shocking story.

And then ask yourself why Nigel Farage and Elon Musk haven’t been tweeting about these people.

You know why. They know why. We all know why.
January 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM