Dave Wilson
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Pro UK in EU. Climate concerned. Enjoys cycling and travels. Retired.
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I have moved from X (Duke Dave of the Shire) and have tried to follow many I followed on X. Give me a nudge if I have missed following you, and please follow back. Intending to shut down my X account by the end of this week.
about 1 year ago
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Andy Taylor
2 days ago
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Buck Frexit
2 days ago
So if youāre a graduate trying desperately to get a foot on the housing ladder, crippled with stupid marginal tax rates to pay back your escalating loan and you canāt afford the ridiculous childcare costs so you put off having children till youāve had a promotionā¦.youāll be hit by even more tax!?!
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Reform by-election candidate suggested people who donāt have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politicianās suggestion would āpunish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to chooseā, Labourās deputy leader has warned
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-matt-goodwin-children-tax-gorton-denton-b2914817.html
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO
3 days ago
"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices." ā George Monbiot
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Mark Chadbourn
3 days ago
If Starmer goes the last UK Prime Minister to complete a full term was David Cameron in 2015. So much for those who say proportional representation leads to instability.
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Otto English
3 days ago
Trump is seeking to undermine British and European democracy and anyone who takes the money and does his bidding should be called out fir what they are
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Otto English
5 days ago
Lift half a million children out of poverty... or save 5p off a pint... choices choices
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Otto English
5 days ago
Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage announces plans to slash vital benefit to fund 5p cheaper pints
Nigel Farage's party had promised to back scrapping the two-child benefit limit, but now Reform intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/live-nigel-farage-make-major-36662757
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Russ Jones
7 days ago
People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail. Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham. And then we're seriously fucked.
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Oliver
8 days ago
Reform Ltd's health insurance plan means that like in the USA well-off people are often bankrupted by health costs and millions of poor people who can't afford health insurance don't get treated, and if they get ill live in agony and die young "Wake up people....."
#SocialistSunday
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Peter Smith
10 days ago
You're seven years old and your mam has promised you a new toy. You're on your way to the toyshop when she meets an old friend and stops to chat. That's Donald Trump in this clip.
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Sue Wilson MBE
10 days ago
"We can't afford to waste another 10 years". Or 20. Or 30. Enough damage has already been down. We need to be back in the EU now, not in a generation's time!
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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I agree with Nick Clegg (and thatās the real Brexit problem)
A tainted messenger delivers the truth that Starmer still canāt bring himself to say
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-i-agree-with-nick-clegg-and-thats-the-real-brexit-problem/
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Chris Grey
12 days ago
This. I'm not a BBC-basher but IMO Mason is a poor political journalist. It's not that he's 'biased' per se, it's that he reports politics as a kind of giggly spectator sport and as such is preoccupied with spectacle, talking up 'exciting' events rather than analysing them. 1/2
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The Washington Post
13 days ago
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying āthe values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.ā
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Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that āthe values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the messageā of his Symphony No. 15: āLincoln.ā
https://wapo.st/3ZyBg62
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Gaby Hinsliff
13 days ago
oh no not gavin williamson, the most beloved tory mp since er suella braverman, seriously is Kemi paying Farage for this service
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Mitch Words
13 days ago
The Reformed Tories will turn a UK version of ICE against ordinary citizens who disagree with them in exactly the same was as Trump has in the USā¦š¬
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Paul Bernal
13 days ago
Just glance at Minnesota to see where this leads.
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Marcus Chown
14 days ago
Be in no doubt: the far right in the UK - Reform, Farage, Tommy Robinson and their supporters - are looking at what is happening in the US and saying: āThatās what we must have here.ā
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Marcus Chown
14 days ago
These ICE executions are an inevitable result of recruiting an army of inadequately vetted and trained people. Trump knew ICE would attract violent racists and psychopaths. He did not care because he wanted to deter opposition by striking terror in the populace. Itās what fascist regimes do.
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BladeoftheSun
15 days ago
Donald Trump's plan for Gaza includes everything but Palestinians. We call that Ethnic Cleansing.
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Bob Hawkins
15 days ago
It was murder,it was plain to see.. Hitler had his SA thugs on the streets,Trump the ICE.
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JamieJones77
17 days ago
#r4today
I never thought I see a US President belittle the ultimate sacrifice of allied troops who fought side by side with American Forces. He insults them all.
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Oh look, the UKās Plastic Patriot with his bestie, who said that the U.K. could not be relied on to support the USA. When reminded about the conflict in Afghanistan, he claimed they were far from the front.
17 days ago
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO
17 days ago
"They stayed a little back, off the front lines"
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James OāBrien
18 days ago
457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.
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Rafael Behr
18 days ago
Starmer maybe rightly doesnāt take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed āoff messageā attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
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Steve Emm
18 days ago
To Trump and his fellow liars, the last and only time NATO was asked for help, it was the US asking... Now he insults the nations and their sons and daughters who gave their lives...
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Alex Hall Hall
22 days ago
As the famous saying goesā¦.āThe best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.ā Likewise, the best time to start weaning ourselves off dependence on the USā¦ā¦..
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Paul Brand
19 days ago
In his rambling history lesson, he has omitted the fact that the US is the only country ever to have invoked Article 5 of NATO, following September 11th attacks. NATO stepped up.
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Ok America, you can have everything never mind Greenland, if you only stop him talking.
19 days ago
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Otto English
21 days ago
The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
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Otto English
22 days ago
All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
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Molly Scott Cato
22 days ago
Greenland is at threat and European leaders will meet to discuss a unified response Will the UK even be in the room? This underlines the importance of reversing the disastrous decision taken 10 years ago and opening negotiations to rejoin the EU
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I dislike Boris Johnson immensely because of his self interest resulting in such a negative outcome for our country. However, I am conflicted regarding my dislike when I see the damage he initiated in the Conservative Party.
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John MartinšŖšŗš¶ #FBPPR š©āā¤ļøāšØ+š«š¶ Rtdš #GetPRDone
29 days ago
If Kemi Badenoch has a plan itās to conceal the fact that she doesnāt have a plan. Her verbal gymnastics are entirely about not having a lasting position on anything. Her position is in the moment and only in the moment. She clearly doesnāt think anything through to a conclusion.
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO
about 1 month ago
If Renee Nicole Good had been in the UK she would still be alive. Our police don't carry guns, so one of our officers would have stepped aside and her number plate would have been taken. In the USA an ICE agent appointed himself judge, jury and executioner, and his crime is supported by the regime
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I Am Incorrigible
about 1 month ago
Or you can choose to prioritise your physical safety, and simply avoid travelling to the US like the plague.
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A US government agent executes a U.S. citizen on a street in the US and the government back the agent. Why would anyone voluntarily travel to the USA?
about 1 month ago
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Bob Hawkins
about 1 month ago
The US has a base in Greenland & Iām certain would be granted more with discussions.. Trump wants its mineral wealth & Empire building.
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Molly Scott Cato
about 1 month ago
Blatant and brazen extortion Trump is behaving like a mafia boss We shouldn't get distracted by discussions about ideology His only ideology is greed
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John West
about 1 month ago
Days like this are a stark reminder that the UK undertook Brexit at historically the worst possible moment. Bloc politics is here to stay and fiddlearsing about with 2mm advances towards smoother customs arrangements with the EU is not the leadership Britain needs.
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Random Bits
about 1 month ago
If you're planning to vote Reform but can't afford private medical insurance, what is your survival plan?
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Caracas, twinned with Kyiv.
about 1 month ago
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Otto English
about 1 month ago
None of us are safe. Nobody. And that includes Americans. Not all leaders are the same - and it matters who sits at the top so a big screw you to the people who elected Trump and the people who are still saying that Harris would have been just as bad.
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Bob Hawkins
about 1 month ago
Shamima Begum is a problemā¦but shes a British problem.
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Suella De-Vil First Female Britain First MP (maybe) -parody
about 1 month ago
Well said Gary
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Phillips OBrien
about 1 month ago
Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.
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Buck Frexit
about 1 month ago
Donāt know who needs to hear this but ātaking back controlā from a Union youāre a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, itās relinquishing it.
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White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken
White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/17/trump-demands-british-supermarkets-chlorinated-chicken/
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Citizen Paul Templeman
about 1 month ago
There are many new recipients of Orders of the British Empire and Members of the Most Excellent British Empire today. Has nobody told them thereās no longer a British Empire?
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Otto English
about 1 month ago
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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Graham Simpson
about 1 month ago
Ditch Brexit divisions and forge closer EU ties as Trump 'unreliable", says TUC leader - The ridiculous Starmer red lines are well past their sell by date!
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