Julian O’Donovan
@julianod.bsky.social
#FBPE European, Rejoiner, Woke Leftie 🇪🇺🇦🇹🇩🇪🇮🇪🇺🇦
May contain typos. Runs on coffee. Biased against Brassicas. Happily migrated from elsewhere and enjoying the more wholesome atmosphere. No crypto. DMs? 👿
May contain typos. Runs on coffee. Biased against Brassicas. Happily migrated from elsewhere and enjoying the more wholesome atmosphere. No crypto. DMs? 👿
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MPs and peers could be forced to submit to criminal record checks under proposals submitted by a new Labour MP
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament
news.sky.com/story/parlia...
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament
news.sky.com/story/parlia...
Parliament urged to begin mandatory DBS criminal record checks on new MPs and peers
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament.
news.sky.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
MPs and peers could be forced to submit to criminal record checks under proposals submitted by a new Labour MP
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament
news.sky.com/story/parlia...
Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament
news.sky.com/story/parlia...
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Morning all!
Do please follow the APPG on Europe... newly on Bluesky.
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Do please follow the APPG on Europe... newly on Bluesky.
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Last night in Westminster, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Europe was launched.
We were joined at the opening reception by Minister of State for Europe, Stephen Doughty MP and the EU's Ambassador to the UK, Pedro Serrano.
We were joined at the opening reception by Minister of State for Europe, Stephen Doughty MP and the EU's Ambassador to the UK, Pedro Serrano.
December 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Morning all!
Do please follow the APPG on Europe... newly on Bluesky.
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Do please follow the APPG on Europe... newly on Bluesky.
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#BritishJournalismAwards is simply taking the piss. Kuenssberg is not forensic at all, and she is only determined to embarrass labour politicians and routinely lets Tory politicians off the hook
Winner of Interviewer of the Year is Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC - judges said she is “forensic, politely determined and never lets her subject off the hook” #BritishJournalismAwards
December 13, 2024 at 2:23 PM
#BritishJournalismAwards is simply taking the piss. Kuenssberg is not forensic at all, and she is only determined to embarrass labour politicians and routinely lets Tory politicians off the hook
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Welcome! We’re getting there ..
The House of Lords is now on Bluesky. Follow here for updates and content from the UK Parliament’s second chamber.
We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.
We will be sharing a range of content about the work of the House and members. If you have feedback or want to tell us what you’d like to see, please get in touch via Chat.
December 10, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Welcome! We’re getting there ..
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What #Starmer actually said:
"There's currently no case for rejoining the #EU, so #Labour will focus on making #Brexit work better". The operative word is CURRENTLY!
How can Brexit be better without rejoining the EU, Single Market or Customs Union? Closer alignment. It's implied!
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"There's currently no case for rejoining the #EU, so #Labour will focus on making #Brexit work better". The operative word is CURRENTLY!
How can Brexit be better without rejoining the EU, Single Market or Customs Union? Closer alignment. It's implied!
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December 9, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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I wish someone who is better than me at photo shopping would do an image of thousands of Farages queuing up at the US border under the strap line "Breaking Point"
December 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I wish someone who is better than me at photo shopping would do an image of thousands of Farages queuing up at the US border under the strap line "Breaking Point"
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Bloody sick of the ‘red line’ shtick. Where’s it ever got us?
Up shit creek. Announcing over and over again that we’d rather keep our broken paddles, thank you very much.
I know so much of it is for Daily Mail England. But ffs. Can’t we change the record now?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Up shit creek. Announcing over and over again that we’d rather keep our broken paddles, thank you very much.
I know so much of it is for Daily Mail England. But ffs. Can’t we change the record now?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reeves vows to stick to Brexit red lines after talks with EU in Brussels
Rachel Reeves became the first chancellor to join EU finance ministers for one of their meetings in Brussels since Brexit but made it clear she is not open to compromise for a new deal
www.independent.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Bloody sick of the ‘red line’ shtick. Where’s it ever got us?
Up shit creek. Announcing over and over again that we’d rather keep our broken paddles, thank you very much.
I know so much of it is for Daily Mail England. But ffs. Can’t we change the record now?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Up shit creek. Announcing over and over again that we’d rather keep our broken paddles, thank you very much.
I know so much of it is for Daily Mail England. But ffs. Can’t we change the record now?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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It's like they're doing their best to p*** off every category who voted for them to appease... Reform voters. Make it make sense...
December 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM
It's like they're doing their best to p*** off every category who voted for them to appease... Reform voters. Make it make sense...
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If it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU, then if we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
December 9, 2024 at 2:25 PM
If it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU, then if we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century.
Start today please. We owe it to the future.
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Ah, it will be ghost-written by someone else.
December 6, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Ah, it will be ghost-written by someone else.
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Labour published a new 48-page "Plan for Change".
It doesn't mention Brexit in the list of challenges facing the UK.
Indeed it doesn't mention the EU at all, except in one sentence in the National Security section.
It's a deeply cynical document that promises transparency but delivers a cover-up.
It doesn't mention Brexit in the list of challenges facing the UK.
Indeed it doesn't mention the EU at all, except in one sentence in the National Security section.
It's a deeply cynical document that promises transparency but delivers a cover-up.
December 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Labour published a new 48-page "Plan for Change".
It doesn't mention Brexit in the list of challenges facing the UK.
Indeed it doesn't mention the EU at all, except in one sentence in the National Security section.
It's a deeply cynical document that promises transparency but delivers a cover-up.
It doesn't mention Brexit in the list of challenges facing the UK.
Indeed it doesn't mention the EU at all, except in one sentence in the National Security section.
It's a deeply cynical document that promises transparency but delivers a cover-up.
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Seeing as it's the feast day of St Babs of the Blessed Explosions, the patron saint of going out with a bang, an inexhaustive list of boats that went boom...
Starting with one of the victims of France's infamous Poudre B.
Liberté! Fraternité! Calamité!
Starting with one of the victims of France's infamous Poudre B.
Liberté! Fraternité! Calamité!
December 4, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Seeing as it's the feast day of St Babs of the Blessed Explosions, the patron saint of going out with a bang, an inexhaustive list of boats that went boom...
Starting with one of the victims of France's infamous Poudre B.
Liberté! Fraternité! Calamité!
Starting with one of the victims of France's infamous Poudre B.
Liberté! Fraternité! Calamité!
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December 4, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social,
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
December 1, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social,
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list
Or…
Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet
Yours,
The people of this country paying attention.
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Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."
RT if Mick is right.
RT if Mick is right.
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."
RT if Mick is right.
RT if Mick is right.
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"I continued reading to the expected rejection of my application and was caught in my tracks when I realised that I had been accepted as a foreign-born Irish citizen... Enclosed was the certificate itself. I was surprisingly emotional and I felt a sudden and deep connection."
This is beautiful. ❤️
This is beautiful. ❤️
A Brexit benefit that helped me trace my Irish ancestry
How applying for an Irish passport allowed me to avoid the complicated travel restrictions inflicted by Brexit and trace my Irish ancestry
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 9:35 PM
"I continued reading to the expected rejection of my application and was caught in my tracks when I realised that I had been accepted as a foreign-born Irish citizen... Enclosed was the certificate itself. I was surprisingly emotional and I felt a sudden and deep connection."
This is beautiful. ❤️
This is beautiful. ❤️
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“No, you won’t get any youth mobility.
Because even though I won easily… I still feel I have to do what the people who lost think.”
Because even though I won easily… I still feel I have to do what the people who lost think.”
November 29, 2024 at 6:57 PM
“No, you won’t get any youth mobility.
Because even though I won easily… I still feel I have to do what the people who lost think.”
Because even though I won easily… I still feel I have to do what the people who lost think.”
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BREAKING: Trump threatens tariffs on Scotland unless they immediately outlaw their national pastime of hurling insults at him.
In particular:
"Mangled apricot hellbeast"
"Clueless numpty"
"Weapons-grade plum"
"Toupeed fucktrumpet"
"Witless cocksplat"
In particular:
"Mangled apricot hellbeast"
"Clueless numpty"
"Weapons-grade plum"
"Toupeed fucktrumpet"
"Witless cocksplat"
November 27, 2024 at 3:15 PM
BREAKING: Trump threatens tariffs on Scotland unless they immediately outlaw their national pastime of hurling insults at him.
In particular:
"Mangled apricot hellbeast"
"Clueless numpty"
"Weapons-grade plum"
"Toupeed fucktrumpet"
"Witless cocksplat"
In particular:
"Mangled apricot hellbeast"
"Clueless numpty"
"Weapons-grade plum"
"Toupeed fucktrumpet"
"Witless cocksplat"
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I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I?
Like if you do
RP if you really do
Like if you do
RP if you really do
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I?
Like if you do
RP if you really do
Like if you do
RP if you really do
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I remember during the Brexit referendum that leading Brexiteers *insisted* that they were not isolationists and little Englanders.
They *were* team players, but it was just the EU was wrong.
But then they wanted out of Single Market… then ECHR…
…and now UN and ICC too.
They are not team players.
They *were* team players, but it was just the EU was wrong.
But then they wanted out of Single Market… then ECHR…
…and now UN and ICC too.
They are not team players.
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I remember during the Brexit referendum that leading Brexiteers *insisted* that they were not isolationists and little Englanders.
They *were* team players, but it was just the EU was wrong.
But then they wanted out of Single Market… then ECHR…
…and now UN and ICC too.
They are not team players.
They *were* team players, but it was just the EU was wrong.
But then they wanted out of Single Market… then ECHR…
…and now UN and ICC too.
They are not team players.
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Turn away from Trump and look to EU for trade, say voters
Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58% chose Europe and just 34% the US
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58% chose Europe and just 34% the US
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Turn away from Trump and look to EU for trade, say voters
Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58 per cent chose Europe and just 34 per cent the States
inews.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Turn away from Trump and look to EU for trade, say voters
Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58% chose Europe and just 34% the US
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58% chose Europe and just 34% the US
inews.co.uk/news/politic...