John Doran
@chippy7.bsky.social
Was @johndoran1 in the other place. Woking LibDem. #FBPE
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Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
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Palestine Action were close to getting their proscription lifted so their panel of judges have been replaced by pro-government and Zionist judges.
Not very subtle, is it?
Not very subtle, is it?
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Palestine Action were close to getting their proscription lifted so their panel of judges have been replaced by pro-government and Zionist judges.
Not very subtle, is it?
Not very subtle, is it?
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🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🚨BREAKING -- A new UN report has found Israel's annihilation of Gaza has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
All with the UK government's support👇
unctad.org/publication/...
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Well that sums up Gibb’s unsuitability for the job perfectly. And Mason’s
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Well that sums up Gibb’s unsuitability for the job perfectly. And Mason’s
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Labour seems frozen by “twin fears…that swing voters would freak out if they thought Reeves was a tax-and-spend fiend or Starmer might smuggle remainer convictions into Downing St”
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Labour seems frozen by “twin fears…that swing voters would freak out if they thought Reeves was a tax-and-spend fiend or Starmer might smuggle remainer convictions into Downing St”
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But, the foreign state that benefits most from Brexit inaction is Putin’s Russia.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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#R4Today news as an aside - Reeves expected to announce new oil + gas drilling licenses 😡
FGS they listened to Deform on migrants, now listening to them on #FossilFuels
Rolling over for the right wing + big business was not on my bingo card for a so-called Labour government despite low expectations
FGS they listened to Deform on migrants, now listening to them on #FossilFuels
Rolling over for the right wing + big business was not on my bingo card for a so-called Labour government despite low expectations
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#R4Today news as an aside - Reeves expected to announce new oil + gas drilling licenses 😡
FGS they listened to Deform on migrants, now listening to them on #FossilFuels
Rolling over for the right wing + big business was not on my bingo card for a so-called Labour government despite low expectations
FGS they listened to Deform on migrants, now listening to them on #FossilFuels
Rolling over for the right wing + big business was not on my bingo card for a so-called Labour government despite low expectations
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Clothing Bans and Logic
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Clothing Bans and Logic
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Brexit: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350m a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250m a day in 2025. That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Brexit: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350m a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250m a day in 2025. That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
leftfootforward.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
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Hello, have you got a copy of "How to racially abuse people so they feel all warm & cuddly afterwards" by Nigel Farage ?
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hello, have you got a copy of "How to racially abuse people so they feel all warm & cuddly afterwards" by Nigel Farage ?
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To my dying day, I shall never understand why racists are so upset about being called racists
If being called a racist is offensive to you, then stop being racist
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If being called a racist is offensive to you, then stop being racist
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
To my dying day, I shall never understand why racists are so upset about being called racists
If being called a racist is offensive to you, then stop being racist
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If being called a racist is offensive to you, then stop being racist
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
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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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Voting #reformuk is like asking the bull to tidy up the china shop.
* #Farage fought for Brexit
* Farage got Brexit
* Now the same idiots who bought his Brexit lies want to put him in charge of recovering from the unrecoverable clusterfuck that is Brexit!
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
* #Farage fought for Brexit
* Farage got Brexit
* Now the same idiots who bought his Brexit lies want to put him in charge of recovering from the unrecoverable clusterfuck that is Brexit!
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Voting #reformuk is like asking the bull to tidy up the china shop.
* #Farage fought for Brexit
* Farage got Brexit
* Now the same idiots who bought his Brexit lies want to put him in charge of recovering from the unrecoverable clusterfuck that is Brexit!
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
* #Farage fought for Brexit
* Farage got Brexit
* Now the same idiots who bought his Brexit lies want to put him in charge of recovering from the unrecoverable clusterfuck that is Brexit!
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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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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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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Donald Trump is the greatest intelligence operation ever conducted by a foreign nation.
Putin has gotten almost the complete destruction of the United States. Government apparatus from simply getting a couple hookers to pee on Donald Trump.
Putin has gotten almost the complete destruction of the United States. Government apparatus from simply getting a couple hookers to pee on Donald Trump.
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Donald Trump is the greatest intelligence operation ever conducted by a foreign nation.
Putin has gotten almost the complete destruction of the United States. Government apparatus from simply getting a couple hookers to pee on Donald Trump.
Putin has gotten almost the complete destruction of the United States. Government apparatus from simply getting a couple hookers to pee on Donald Trump.
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This was a debate on HMOs at South Kesteven District Council. Here’s the Reform bench.
There’s a by election on the 11th December for SKDC.
It’s probably sensible not to vote Reform if you want people who actually turn up and do their jobs.
There’s a by election on the 11th December for SKDC.
It’s probably sensible not to vote Reform if you want people who actually turn up and do their jobs.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This was a debate on HMOs at South Kesteven District Council. Here’s the Reform bench.
There’s a by election on the 11th December for SKDC.
It’s probably sensible not to vote Reform if you want people who actually turn up and do their jobs.
There’s a by election on the 11th December for SKDC.
It’s probably sensible not to vote Reform if you want people who actually turn up and do their jobs.
In case you missed it ...
Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Whether Farage is racist “depends on how you define it” apparently.
Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity”
Racist then.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity”
Racist then.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Whether Farage is racist “depends on how you define it” apparently.
Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity”
Racist then.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity”
Racist then.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Please don't link to the torygraph.
As part of the English Devolution Bill that comes before the House of Commons this week Lib Dems are tabling an amendment to stop the Government cancelling local elections in May 2026 across a range of councils. Democracy delayed is democracy denied.
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
Starmer under pressure to reverse Rayner’s local election delays
Vote to be held on Tuesday on putting off ballots in nine areas, in a plan branded a ‘denial of democracy’
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Please don't link to the torygraph.
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As part of the English Devolution Bill that comes before the House of Commons this week Lib Dems are tabling an amendment to stop the Government cancelling local elections in May 2026 across a range of councils. Democracy delayed is democracy denied.
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
Starmer under pressure to reverse Rayner’s local election delays
Vote to be held on Tuesday on putting off ballots in nine areas, in a plan branded a ‘denial of democracy’
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
As part of the English Devolution Bill that comes before the House of Commons this week Lib Dems are tabling an amendment to stop the Government cancelling local elections in May 2026 across a range of councils. Democracy delayed is democracy denied.
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da476f3...
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The latest bot-talking-point on X and FB, spread via Reform groups, seems to be "Doctors, Nurses, and engineers don't arrive by small boat".
Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA
Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The latest bot-talking-point on X and FB, spread via Reform groups, seems to be "Doctors, Nurses, and engineers don't arrive by small boat".
Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA
Only problem with that is... some do exactly that. ~AA
I think my MP @willforster.bsky.social in Woking would be up for this.
Ah yes, indeed, the excellent Helen Maguire. We have an endorsement of the book by Lord Dick Newby. Please send Helen a copy of the new book. Now that the silence is breaking on Brexit it's time for the Lib Dems to pivot towards applying to Rejoin fully www.amazon.co.uk/Reboot-Brita...
Reboot Britain : Brexit RIP: A better Britain in a better Europe for a better World: Amazon.co.uk: Cook, Mr Peter, Clutterbuck, Dr Charlie, Hindley MEP, Mr Michael, Knott, Mr Terence, Ward, Ms Julie, ...
Buy Reboot Britain : Brexit RIP: A better Britain in a better Europe for a better World by Cook, Mr Peter, Clutterbuck, Dr Charlie, Hindley MEP, Mr Michael, Knott, Mr Terence, Ward, Ms Julie, Nowak, M...
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I think my MP @willforster.bsky.social in Woking would be up for this.