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Mark Poarch
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Politics, faith, culture. Allergic to right wingers and all types of fundamentalist. Posts may contain punctuation. Bristol/South Gloucestershire #FBPE #RefugeesWelcome #LUFC
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Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Whose side are they on?
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’

'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.'

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...
John Major labels Brexit an 'act of collective folly'
John Major has launched a devastating attack on Brexit, branding it an "act of collective folly."
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Newly-elected Lib Dem president @joshbabarinde.bsky.social tells me he'll be "the last line of defence against Reform".

The Eastbourne MP plans to "campaign hard" to offer "solutions of hope and optimism that bring our communities together rather than tear them apart".
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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If Starmer wants to stop a leadership challenge, he just needs to change direction. It’s not hard. Have the brains to realise that the Blue Labour approach is failing dismally.
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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But more to the point - offering asylum to people fleeing war or torture or persecution is what decent nations do. It's what defines us. Without that it's just a race to the bottom.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

wapo.st/448fDw6
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.

And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.

THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Reading the Telegraph article about the Tory pile on accusing the BBC of left wing bias. Seems orchestrated. And no doubt the BBC will shift more to the right, even though a lot of people have concerns it is already enabling right leaning viewpoints, particularly their coverage of Reform.
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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"What is the origin of your name, Farage?

Frosty interview on a popular Bulgarian TV show in 2013

Farage admits his family were asylum seekers from France - presumably crossing the Channel in small boats...

+ Farage is probably the French version of the Arabic surname Faraj
"What is the origin of your name, Farage?

Originally, we were persecuted protestants from France, who fled...

There you go

Who fled in fear of our lives"

Farage's family were asylum seekers who crossed the Channel in a boat from France 🤷

Frosty interview on a popular Bulgarian TV show in 2013
Защо английски политик плаши сънародниците си с нас?
YouTube video by Boyko Vasilev
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.

So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This needs to go national
Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋

Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK.

The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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If *anyone* still thinks this grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv and his grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv mates are in this for them, then they need to be sent this. Every day.
Farage is literally laughing his way to the bank and betraying this country as he goes.
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Why the Caerphilly by-election result shows Nigel Farage's party is much weaker than most of the coverage of Reform suggests
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...
The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM