Owentheblues
@owentheblues.bsky.social
Goldwing rider, drummer and all round grumpy old man but lover of all things Brecon Beacons, Bruce, Bolan, Broncos, Bulldogs, Bradfield and Bristol Rovers.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
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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
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.
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Wales, UK nach Regenschauer nur mir dem Boot gefahrbar.
Massive flooding due to the River Monnow overflowing in Monmouth, Wales, UK 🇬🇧
t.me/Disaster_New...
Massive flooding due to the River Monnow overflowing in Monmouth, Wales, UK 🇬🇧
t.me/Disaster_New...
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Wales, UK nach Regenschauer nur mir dem Boot gefahrbar.
Massive flooding due to the River Monnow overflowing in Monmouth, Wales, UK 🇬🇧
t.me/Disaster_New...
Massive flooding due to the River Monnow overflowing in Monmouth, Wales, UK 🇬🇧
t.me/Disaster_New...
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Today we remember one of British Speedway’s greats, SIMON WIGG, 25 years after his passing. 💚
#HullNeedsSpeedway
#HullNeedsSpeedway
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Today we remember one of British Speedway’s greats, SIMON WIGG, 25 years after his passing. 💚
#HullNeedsSpeedway
#HullNeedsSpeedway
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Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Stasis, sanctimony and the liberal paradox. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog with such Brexit news as there is, but mainly analysis of what 'responsible Farage' tells us about the tensions in Reform and what the BBC row tells us about Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/stas...
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🏴 Wales has been “hurt hardest” by Brexit amid a “mess” of trade barriers, cultural blockades, and a “fading” Welsh presence in EU relations, Senedd committees have warned.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185
Wales 'hurt hardest' by Brexit as politician warns: 'We are in a mess'
The EU remains Wales' biggest trading partner
www.walesonline.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🏴 Wales has been “hurt hardest” by Brexit amid a “mess” of trade barriers, cultural blockades, and a “fading” Welsh presence in EU relations, Senedd committees have warned.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185
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In case you missed it
Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In case you missed it
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Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.
Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.
These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.
Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.
These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.
Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.
These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.
Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.
These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.
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Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
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"This is insane. Turnout 50%. Up on 41% in 21. Young Plaid organiser telling me of all the texts and DMs from apolitical friends that they’re turning out to stop Reform."
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Caerphilly byelection result live: Plaid Cymru beats challenge from Reform UK to win pivotal Welsh parliament vote
Party that wants Wales to become independent seizes constituency from Labour and resists a fierce challenge from Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"This is insane. Turnout 50%. Up on 41% in 21. Young Plaid organiser telling me of all the texts and DMs from apolitical friends that they’re turning out to stop Reform."
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
It’s time for a REAL Russia report
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It’s time for a REAL Russia report
Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s time for a REAL Russia report
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Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
October 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
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October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62
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The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll
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POLL: Is Reform's migrant visa plan racist?
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October 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wow.
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
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September 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Wow.
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Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation.
"Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation.
"Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2
September 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2
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OTD 49 years ago - England's Peter Collins 🏴 became the first British World Speedway Champion 🏆 since Peter Craven had won in 1962.
Fellow Englishman Malcolm Simmons 🏴 finished second with Australia's Phil Crump 🇦🇺 finishing third.
#HullNeedsSpeedway
Fellow Englishman Malcolm Simmons 🏴 finished second with Australia's Phil Crump 🇦🇺 finishing third.
#HullNeedsSpeedway
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
OTD 49 years ago - England's Peter Collins 🏴 became the first British World Speedway Champion 🏆 since Peter Craven had won in 1962.
Fellow Englishman Malcolm Simmons 🏴 finished second with Australia's Phil Crump 🇦🇺 finishing third.
#HullNeedsSpeedway
Fellow Englishman Malcolm Simmons 🏴 finished second with Australia's Phil Crump 🇦🇺 finishing third.
#HullNeedsSpeedway
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Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”.
Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂
Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂
September 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”.
Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂
Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂