John Petrie
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Pro Europe, hoping for a better world.
#FBPE
Same name and image on Twitter
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BremainInSpain
1 day ago
Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table
@jondanzig.bsky.social
eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/25/b...
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Brexit: How Britain was out-negotiated
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badl
https://eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/25/brexit-how-britain-was-out-negotiated/
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@DemocracyHere
2 days ago
🤡🤡🤡 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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When the BBC made this appointment it was not by accident. You can see the shift in news reporting since it was made. BBC News is now GB News lite
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Reform. They will tell you one thing then do something else.
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Nanner
12 days ago
Let’s keep reposting this.
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This week: Hillsborough Law Employment Rights Law Google £5Bn investment in UK AI £1.2Bn investment from US Banks But Mason, Coates, Rigby et al only want to talk about Starmer under pressure.
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White Male Republican Mormon Guns from an early age. But Trump blames the radical left. Am I missing something?
15 days ago
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This is why grammar is so important.
16 days ago
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Angela Rayner did the right thing standing down. But the rank hypocrisy of some of those criticising her just stinks. Farage's tax affairs and property portfolio needs close scrutiny. And what about the rest of these.....
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Josiah Mortimer
26 days ago
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems
www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
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Idiots deface memorial to Cornish war dead with St George's flag
Cornwall Council's leader, who lives near the defaced clock tower, slammed the 'mindless vandalism' as 'disrespectful' and insulting 'to the memory of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice...
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mindless-vandalism-st-georges-flag-10465522?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=ebx_ig_linkinbio&fbclid=PAVERDUAMi9lpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp7hf4OQ0mSYLoDYp3wuA5D18dypZvjAd6FcuXUFzdbpUa-juoNSov_j9x_bx_aem_K9pn-NzYxv6q2EUvoSIduA#Echobox=1756737799
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TeeDixie 📎
26 days ago
OMFG please all vote for Gary Lineker! (And the other good ones as well)
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Byline Times
26 days ago
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
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Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/sacked-expelled-or-in-the-dock-all-the-reform-uk-councillors-nigel-farage-has-lost-in-just-four-months/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Trump may think he is the big cheese that can change the world order. President XI is rather showing that it has not worked out as Trump expected.
26 days ago
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Only followers of cricket will understand the drama and tension. Woakes goes into folklore regardless of the result.
#bbccricket
about 2 months ago
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Russ Jones
about 2 months ago
Kemi Badenoch believes everybody's identity is assigned at birth, and nobody should be able to change how they self-identify later in life. Except for her, of course.
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Kemi Badenoch: I don't identify as Nigerian any more
The Conservative Party leader says she has not renewed her passport for the West African country in years.
https://share.google/iypUG9X10tfGE2rKi
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Thomas
about 2 months ago
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#MondayMotivation
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#FBR
#FBPE
#Resistance
#StrongerTogether
#KindnessMatters
#Motivation
#Bluecrew
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These are the same people that want Burka's to be banned because people should not cover their face. They haven't thought this through.
about 2 months ago
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Reform Party UK Exposed
about 2 months ago
Reform councillor steps down after a month so wife can enter garden competition
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2535593...
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Reform councillor steps down after a month so wife can enter garden competition
Tony Hewitt was a Reform councillor on Ferryhill Town Council in County Durham for a month, but he resigned.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25355939.ferryhill-reform-councillor-tony-hewitt-steps/
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Pete Buttigieg has a point
about 2 months ago
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Many of the issues facing this country, including the new levels of divisiveness, all started with Brexit. The worst decision this country has made.
about 2 months ago
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Reform Party UK Exposed
about 2 months ago
Not true, Nigel: Farage makes bogus claim about £1m council savings
www.nnjournal.co.uk/p/not-true-n...
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Not true, Nigel: Farage makes bogus claim about £1m council savings
Exclusive: A fact check of Farage’s national TV claim shows he is making up the numbers
https://www.nnjournal.co.uk/p/not-true-nigel-farage-makes-bogus
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This was never intended to be an instruction manual for the 2020's but it sure has similarities in the US (MAGA) and UK (Reform).
2 months ago
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I remember when Trump visited Scotland (Turnberry) before and received this welcome. The brilliant Janey Godley (RIP). I wonder how he will be received this time.
2 months ago
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Police say Farage is lying. Who would have thought it.
#FarageRiots
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Essex Police denies taking pro-migrant protesters to asylum hotel
Essex Police says it is not
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8nzn3ne9o
2 months ago
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When I see the daily outbursts from Reform mouthpieces, I am rather pleased we have a Prime Minister that simply gets on with work.
2 months ago
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So Trump visiting the UK from 17-19th September. I am guessing that Janey Godley will be getting a lot of coverage during that time. She would approve.
3 months ago
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As long as Ghillane Maxwell is in prison, I don't think there is much doubt that Epstein trafficked girls and those that want to pretend that there is not a list are probably on it.
3 months ago
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This is what you can get when 36.32% of the population don't vote. This is what happens when people say "they are all as bad as each other". Not voting has consequences.
3 months ago
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Kwarteng says he wouldn't cry in the Commons. Maybe not, but what he and the Tories did in the Commons made millions of people cry as they suffered the consequences.
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
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Establishing what can only be referred to as concentration camps, in the USA, in 2025, is something I find deeply disturbing. What happened to humanity.
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Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention centre in Florida Everglades
Administration officials say the new facility will speed up deportations, but local politicians and environmental groups have raised concerns.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2zzdmrd9qo
3 months ago
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The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer marking the highest level of employer confidence since November 2015. Hiring, wage growth outlook improves as employers regain optimism. But no coverage on the BBC or Sky News of course not.
www.wionews.com/business-eco...
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UK business confidence hits nine-year high amid easing trade tensions
The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer rose by one point to 51 per cent this month, marking the highest level of employer confidence since November 2015. Hiring, wage growth outlook improves as employers ...
https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/uk-business-confidence-hits-nine-year-high-amid-easing-trade-tensions-1751261762108
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Letter in The Times today. He has a point you know.
3 months ago
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It must be very tiring thinking up something to be angry about every day - especially in a heatwave. Nonetheless, Richard Tice has decided to be angry about - Wimbledon umpires.
3 months ago
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Ralph Janik
3 months ago
I don't know what to say. Honestly, I don't.
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Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them
Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/title/00000197-6464-db73-aff7-7d6c5af30001
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BBC Question time demonstrating BBC bias both against the Lib Dems and for Reform. It is so blatant, no effort to hide. A location with a Lib Dem MP & Lib Dem MSP and no panel representation. But the must have Reform token councilor gets a seat.
#bbc
#LibDem
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦
3 months ago
Victory will be ours, Russian soldiers shout as they victoriously crash into trees.
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Sam Bright
3 months ago
These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths 👇🏻
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These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths
The migration debate is based on blatant, provable falsehoods.
https://writesbright.substack.com/p/these-two-charts-expose-nigel-farages?r=7emt6&triedRedirect=true
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Josiah Mortimer
3 months ago
Well done Lib Dems. Politico: "MPs will vote on Labour’s plan to [allow] foreign state ownership of newspapers at 15%, after Lib Dem MPs scuppered the govt's attempt to pass secondary legislation without a full vote (on the nod)" We'll see which MPs are happy with legislating for the Telegraph...
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For those of you interested in the law or justice, the 1 Crown Office Row Law Pod UK has now reached 1 million listens. Over 200 thought provoking discussion topics.
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3 months ago
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Whenever Starmer is on the international stage, he shows what we have been missing for the past decade. May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, didn't come close and neither would Badenoch or Farage.
3 months ago
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Liz Truss sends a cease and desist letter to Starmer for saying she crashed the economy as it is damaging her reputation. Truss has no reputation to damage. She will always be the Prime Minister who crashed the economy, lost out to a lettuce in longevity, and lost one of the safest Tory seats.
9 months ago
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For those who don't know what the Streisand Effect is, you will after Liz Truss's cease and desist letter today.
#liztrusscrashedtheeconomy
9 months ago
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Adam Bienkov
9 months ago
Car crash briefing with Kemi Badenoch spokesman in which he - Couldn't say if she'd ever raised grooming inside govt (having never mentioned it in the House) - Admitted she hasn't spoken to any survivors - Refused to condemn Elon Musk for attacks on Jess Phillips and said she's still a "fan" of his
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Jim Pickard
9 months ago
one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
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I assumed after the Tory leaders debacle of the last government, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, that they could only be better this time. Badenoch is proving me wrong.
9 months ago
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This is known to all MPs (and media). Let's see how many choose to ignore this in the debate today and on social media.
9 months ago
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James O’Brien
9 months ago
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
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