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Husband, Dad, and Grampy; Woking FC, cyclist, a bit of drawing/painting, tai chi learner, modelmaker, trams, left leaning and a bit green.
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January 18, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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This confirms that Reform is simply a retirement home for disgraced Tories. Rosindell was investigated by the Met for alleged indecent and sexual assault, rape and misconduct in public office between 2002 and 2009 but the evidence was insufficient to prosecute. He seems a good fit for his new party.
January 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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In 2022, Rosindell was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault, sexual assault, rape, abuse of position of trust & misconduct in public office. He was repeatedly bailed. Charges were dropped.

Dropped charges do not mean innocence.

He’ll fit in well at Reform if defection rumours are true.
January 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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In case you missed it ...
January 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Trump is coming for the science data
Delete delete delete so people can live in ignorance with no data to back up essential climate action and to predict climate disasters to protect people eos.org/features/the...
The Looming Data Loss That Threatens Public Safety and Prosperity - Eos
Cuts to funding and staff needed to maintain trusted datasets of reference Earth system observations could limit their availability and quality, undermining hazard predictions and risk assessments.
eos.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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That Eton posho still thinks that.
January 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
BBC running another puff piece for Reform despite Fracknig Farage crying off an interview.
They really are supporting the fascists, and not even attempting to hide it.
January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Buying time for Ukraine and EU rearmament/decoupling from US over less critical issues was one thing UK Gov got right. Trump now forcing a break in the alliance: there are no easy or cheap options but cross party consensus on Europe and defence must be part of dealing with this large crisis.
Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation.

It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them.

Disastrous strategy by Labour.
January 18, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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It's now been four weeks since the deadline set by law and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
January 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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“Relatives say the shooting occurred at the door of the house, not out in the street during a scuffle. They also say the victim was not the man a federal officer tried to arrest in a traffic stop.”
Family of man shot by ICE in Minneapolis disputes key aspects of DHS account
Relatives say the shooting occurred at the door of the house, not out in the street amid a scuffle. They also say the victim was not the man targeted in a traffic stop.
wapo.st
January 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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It was girls. It was boys. It was women. It was men. And the regime continues to delay the release of the Epstein files. Because, in the pedo president’s words, ‘My friends will get hurt’.
Survivors deserve justice. Every predator & enabler requires consequences. NOW.
January 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Putin wannabe is now threatening Denmark with “tremendous tariffs” because they won’t agree to allow Greenland to be taken over.
January 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were made at her for not instantly following every order issued.

The new ICE threat to protestors is:

"Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."
“We Killed That Lesbian B*tch”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
Protesters are recounting federal agents using Good’s death to warn them off.
newrepublic.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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SEND Specialist nurseries for children in Leicestershire to be scrapped by Reform UK council

www.fosse107.co.uk/loughborough...
SEND Specialist nurseries for children in Leicestershire to be scrapped
Leicestershire County Council says it plans to stop using specialist nurseries for under 5's with additional needs by April 2027.
www.fosse107.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Nigel Farage, "Robert Jenrick.. This man is a fraud, this man is not to be trusted"
January 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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The original, showing from where it was stolen @trumpton.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Love this ! 👏👏👏
January 15, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Glad Jenrick has been booted out in disgrace, rather than being able to saunter over to Reform whenever he felt it would benefit him most.
But honest to god. These dismal, dismal people.
All conniving to screw the county over for their own power and enrichment.
Repulsively corrupt and inadequate.
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.

She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 12:51 PM