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Brighton BN9, UK of GB & NI
British🇬🇧 & Irish🇮🇪 Citizen🇪🇺
Liberal🔶
Atheist⚛️
Monarchist👑
Love wins🏳️‍🌈↕️🚭
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Contrary to what some people believe, it is possible to be left-leaning, patriotic and a monarchist.
This flag is not the preserve of the rightwing, it’s our flag, all of us in the #UK of #GB & #NI
#UnitedKingdom 👍
🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": The U.S. is reorienting its foreign funding program to export #MAGA ideology to Europe — and a growing set of far-right and conservative think tanks and political groups are lining up to take Washington’s money. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/maga...
The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund
The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.
www.politico.eu
February 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Gary Lineker added that Jim Ratcliffe can have a moan about immigration 'when he starts paying his taxes'.

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February 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
#NigelFarage (Man of the People!) backs #JimRatcliffe
It’s clear whose side #ReformUK Ltd. are on! (& it’s not yours, unless you’re very rich)
#ManchesterUnited
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by @MCY1X
I know, shocker! 😉

'Ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence, while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill...Others appear to use charity to burnish their public image, amplify their political voice, and protect their assets.'
inequality.org/article/true...
Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy - Inequality.org
How the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence — while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.
inequality.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
More interference in people’s lives planned by #ReformUK Ltd.
Why is any woman supporting this awful party?
#MattGoodwin
#Manchester
#GortonandDenton
February 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Typical #ReformUK Ltd. hypocrite!
February 13, 2026 at 10:01 AM
#ReformUK say they want ‘small government’ but then threaten to micro-manage.
They say they’re pro #freedomofspeech but then threaten those who don’t tow the party line!
#VoteReform get a Dictatorship.
#Farage #Tice
Threatening to put universities out of business – with all that would mean for students halfway through their degrees, or towns reliant on a major employer – if they don’t fawningly accommodate any regime-backed political nonentity who asks is the stuff of autocracy, not democracy.
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I’ll leave this here….
February 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Here is @itvnews.bsky.social report on Kent county council claiming cuts when they haven’t made them
February 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This is my Mum’s #electric immersion heater.
It doesn’t have #tempersture markings, just plus and minus.
Any clues to what it’s currently set to?
As the water seems to be extremely hot!
#electrician #plumber
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
#ReformUK Ltd. incompetence!

#Voters in #Kent must be delighted with their new #CountyCouncil 🙄

#KentCountyCouncil #KentCC
#KentCouncil #Reform
Refukkernomics...

Kentish Refuk paying off low interest loans (1.32%) using funds that were earning the council 4-5% interest...

So rather than saving £670k for the next 40 years as the Refukkers claim, they're actually losing £1.3m every year on the deal.

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February 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
#Voters in #Durham must be so pleased with their new #ReformUK Ltd. Council 🙄
#DurhamCountyCouncil
#DurhamCouncil
#DurhamCC
Durham Reform UK Council are making huge cuts to services. This is another one, and it’s cutting a service that had levelling up funding…

Plans for A68 Toft Hill bypass in County Durham AXED by council

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2584717...
Plans for A68 bypass in County Durham AXED by council over costs
Council leaders have approved plans to axe the long-awaited Toft Hill bypass in County Durham.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 AM
February 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM
February 11, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The #Swiss have got it right!
#Palantir
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today
Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
www.newscase.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Spotted on the London Underground….the Brits don’t miss 🎯!
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
But he’s not a ‘brown person’?!?!
#racism

www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/bri...
Brighton man jailed for raping and sexually abusing young women and children | The Crown Prosecution Service
www.cps.gov.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 PM
But he’s not a ‘brown person’?!?!
#racism

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jail for Burton man who raped and sexually abused children
Andrew Robert Pope, 56, is sentenced after he was convicted of multiple child sex offences.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:37 PM
But he’s not a ‘brown person’?!?!
#racism

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2584283...
Man sexually abused young girl for years
A landscape gardener from Horsham sexually abused a girl over several years.
www.theargus.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
He was 48 years old.

Forty-eight. That’s not “a life well lived.” That’s school drop-offs and unfinished plans. That’s six kids who still need their dad.

James Van Der Beek didn’t just play Dawson he grew up with an entire generation.
James Van Der Beek death: Dawson’s Creek actor dies aged 48
Star of popular 1990s teen drama and father of six revealed in November 2024 that he had privately been receiving treatment for stage 3 colorectal cancer
www.the-independent.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Would you vote for someone who not only didn’t live in the #constituency they were standing in, but didn’t even live in the country?
#DanThomas
#Reform #Wales #Cymru
#ReformUK Ltd.
#ReformWales
#ReformCymru
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM