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Debbie Lough
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Costumer, milliner, embroiderer.
You can take the girl out of the Tyneside council estate, but you can't stop her saying 'aDvocado'.
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Given what certain leaders are trying to do, just to say...
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Check out Led By Donkeys' latest video - beach art in Wales that's visible from space...
The words "Don't buy a Tesla" in block caps, and the silhouette of Musk doing a Nazi salute, raked into the sand of a Welsh beach, filmed from above, with the sea in the background. There's a tiny Tesla car at the bottom left, which is the vehicle used to rake the design (bought by the owner before Musk's outing as a fascist).
March 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Adapted for today...
The Hemingway quote, altered to America and Trump, and Putin and Russia... "There is the great danger and the great difference. France is a country and Great Britain is several countries but America is man. Trump, and Russia is a man, Putin. A man has ambitions, a man rules until he gets into economic trouble; he tries to get out of this trouble by war. A country never want a war until a man through the power of propaganda convinces it Propaganda is stronger now than it has ever been before. Its agencies have been mechanized, multiplied and controlled until in a state ruled by any one man truth can never be presented."
March 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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It's more than that. It's not just the hate.

Michael Rosen got to it...
Screenshot of a poem by Michael Rosen "Fascism: I sometimes fear... I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
March 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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It is.

Cos meanwhile in Britain... (The interesting one is the Reform voters, the far right, cos you'd think they'd love Trump.)
Polling data from the UK, broken down by the way people voted in the 2024 general election, showing Zelenskyy's popularity increasing as Trump's declines.
March 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Or it's continued defence, just saying...
Screen shot of a Facebook post: 3 years ago Debbie Lough Apparently, Russian bank assets held in the UK amount to the equivalent of around 10% of the UK economy. And we're still the 5th/6th largest economy in the world. Can you imagine how that would rebuild Ukraine if seized, or how many refugees it would help start afresh after losing everything.
March 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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If it helps...

On a bus stop in London.

(But apparently we don't have free speech in Britain...)
The ad board at the end of a London bus shelter. Text on the poster reads "Elon Musk is a bellend, Signed, the UK
March 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I don't think we do in the long run.

Pretty much everything exists without the US.
A graduated grey background with four flags. Top left the EU flag, top right a proposed Canzuk flag, bottom right, the Ukrainian flag, bottom left, the Commonwealth flag. Beneath them, the words 'Remind me again why we need the USA?' in a dark blue scrolling font.
March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Or this one...

(Calling him a penis, in case "bellend" isn't used in the US.)
Sign on a bus stop in London, reading "Elon Musk is a bellend. Signed, the UK
March 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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How about we stand together to make the USA irrelevant in the world.

Don't buy US products.
Three flags in a column, against a white background. Top, the EU flag, middle, the Ukrainian flag, bottom, a proposed Canzuk flag.
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I feel a reminder of him being burned in effigy at Lewes for bonfire night is appropriate.

Given it's the traditional night in Britain for the burning in effigy of traitors (it'll be 420 years this year)...
An effigy of Donald Trump in a dark blue jacket, and white underpants, (with Hillary Clinton's head under his arm), standing in a dark field... The effigy is on fire. From Lewes, 2016
March 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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And this is where we need to remember that not all Ukrainians are loyal to Ukraine.

And not all Ukrainians Russians who made a fortune in Russia then took (bought?) British citizenship are loyal to Britain.
In July 2019, Temerko was quoted by Reuters, based on a series of interviews with him conducted in the course of three years, as applauding Brexit, endorsing Boris Johnson's bid to lead Britain out of the EU, lauding senior Russian security officials (including the current and former heads of the Federal Security Service such as Nikolai Patrushev), and proudly recalling his past work with Russia's Defence Ministry during the Yeltsin era. Temerko was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (present-day Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union) on 9 September 1966.[8] In 1987, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building (MIEM). He also graduated from the Institute of Public Administration in 1999
March 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Fuck that.

Can we have it back, please...
March 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Can we have it back, please...

Seriously, everybody contact your MPs.
Make them pay attention.
A projection on the White Cliffs of Dover. A blue background with a single yellow star, and the words in yellow "This is our star, look after it for us."
March 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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No.

It was the US, UK and Russia.

Russia violated by invading.

The US is violating it by trying to economically coerce Ukraine.

Of the three, only the UK is proving worthy of trust.

UK stands with Ukraine
March 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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This is my flag.

And 100% agree.
The Union Jack / Flag Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
March 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Since Trump like to think he's a king, I'd just like to remind people how a real king does it.

This from 2024
Plain text on a white background "The determination and strength of the Ukrainian people continues to inspire, as the unprovoked attack on their land, their lives and livelihoods enters a third, tragic, year. Despite the tremendous hardship and pain inflicted upon them, Ukrainians continue to show the heroism with which the world associates them so closely. Theirs is true valour, in the face of indescribable aggression. I have felt this personally in the many meetings I have had with Ukrainians since the start of the war, from President Zelenskyy and Mrs Zelenska, to new army recruits training here in the United Kingdom. I continue to be greatly encouraged that the United Kingdom and our allies remain at the forefront of international efforts to support Ukraine at this time of such great suffering and need. My heart goes out to all those affected, as I remember them in my thoughts and prayers. CHARLES R."
March 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Half a Ukraine flag on the left, half a Union Jack on the right. Over them, the words "Welcome to the UK, Mr Zelenskyy... Here, you'll be treated with respect."
March 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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From World War Two song my Nana used to sing...
Background of the Ukrainian flag, blue top half, yellow bottom half. At the top in yellow text 'Slava', at the bottom in blue text 'Ukraini'. Between the two words of the slogan, in black text, "All men must be free, March for liberty with me. Brutes and braggarts may have their little sway, We shall never bend the knee."
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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And Zelenskyy is still showing he has more grace, humility and leadership in his little finger than there is the entire US government...

From the BBC live feed:
February 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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And she continued to be right up to the end.

RIP.
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Perfect timeline serendipity...
Also, Trump and Vance are cunts.
Screenshot of Jon Cooper's post, with Susie Dent's word of the day below it. "Word of the day is 'huff-snuff' (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart."
February 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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There was a whole comedy series in the 1940s, broadcast in German by the BBC into Germany (they couldn't stop radio waves), taking the piss out of Hitler and the Nazis.

Plus The Great Dictator.

Plus
February 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Ah, those were the days... When we could go and eat our Texan bars together, and warm ourselves by the heat from the latest IRA bombing, and maybe get some exercise at a Poll Tax Riot, or a Race Riot, or swearing at a skin head, or running away from the glue sniffers at the play park...
February 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM