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Steve McCann
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Retired lecturer living in Ledbury. Welsh Irish. Graduate in Italian. Socialist getting more left wing as I get older. Life long anti-fascist.

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Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔

So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.

A masterclass in hypocrisy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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FFS!!! The project's been hacked by crazy idealism. Why does nationalisation have to come with shoving a tacky flag in our faces? Might as well paint human blood over the trains for that disgusting red. BAD start to the day and a coming headache every time I see one of those trains. NOT happy!
Trains to get Union Jack-style makeover under nationalisation plans | LBC
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the move
www.lbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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NEW

Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law

How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
emptycity.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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This is the best music video ever created. I will not be taking questions at this time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25s...
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (Official Video)
YouTube video by AnnieLennoxVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant."

Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Finally, a foe worthy of her talents.
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The pressure keeps mounting on Farage.

At what point does he become a liability to his party?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to ‘come clean’ over alleged election spending breaches in Clacton
Reform campaign accused by ex-councillor of falsely reporting expenses during Farage’s run to become MP last year
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Seen a lot of comments about Reform voters not caring what Farage said at school, which is probably true.

But you've also got to consider people who aren't going to vote Reform but you want to turnout or vote tactically against them.
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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One of the good things about history is — if you look back at Europe 100 years ago (entre deux guerres) or 200 years (entre revolutions) or 700 years ago (entre la guerre de cent ans) — we live in an incredibly successful and peaceful experiment in pooled sovereignty. F*ck M*sk
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Confirming what we knew already - Boris Johnson was a disastrous Prime Minister who should never hold public office again!

#trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone520
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December 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.

This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Does that mean that British journalists will finally quit the Nazi site?

How about the British Government?

Why is it feeding the Nazi site?
If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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They are LIARS and they have serious problems with numbers. ‼️💯‼️
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:

"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."

All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Some folk ask... "Does War and Peace take a long time to read?" Well put it this way, it takes about half the time it took to do the World Cup draw last night.

#FIFAWorldCup
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.

Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:

"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The Deep State is a conspiracy theory.

I know we all find Truss amusing, but I find it deeply concerning that you've got an actual former Prime Minister even saying this stuff.
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The right try and distract us by constantly talking about immigration.

Cost of Living, the NHS, the climate crisis - let's keep them on the agenda.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"

"Today we have 46,000 a year"

"And do you know why?"

"Brexit"

"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"

*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right.
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM