Ben 🔰
englishdragon.bsky.social
Ben 🔰
@englishdragon.bsky.social
Husband, father of 3, pro EU, woke, worries about climate and inequality. Former Twitter PTSD survivor.
#RejoinEU #FBPE
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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it

We cannot allow them to rewrite history.

If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I had to log into the other place to check whether this was true. The hate speech warrior is still showing no signs of intelligence. Maybe that’s why he’s so heavily invested in AI?
January 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Reform, the Telegraph, Times & all other right wing foghorns will tell us that Net Zero is too expensive, while never examining the costs of not doing it.

Flooding risk will affect 1 in 4 English properties by mid-century, says report on.ft.com/3DgsLF9
Flooding risk will affect 1 in 4 English properties by mid-century, says report
Environment Agency says updated analysis has produced more pessimistic outlook of threat to homes by 2050
on.ft.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Brexit
“A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Woke is winning?
Which ideologies do Britons have a favourable view of?

Environmentalism: 64% favourable
Feminism: 56%
Liberalism: 41%
Socialism: 38%
Conservatism: 32%
Capitalism: 30%
Nationalism: 29%
Libertarianism: 24%
Populism: 13%
Communism: 10%
Anarchism: 8%
Fascism: 2%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 10, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Brexit ‘delivered the opposite of what it promised’, Angela Rayner admits

Hopefully we can now begin an honest & open discussion about the catastrophic impact Brexit has inflicted on the country’s economy

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ang...
Brexit 'delivered the opposite of what it promised', Angela Rayner admits
That might just be the sound of the penny dropping for the Labour government, after Angela Rayner took a swipe at Brexit.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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“When we left the European Union people were promised more money into the NHS, your living standards will be better and the opposite has happened”

Deputy PM Angela Rayner
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Reservoir Moggs.
December 1, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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😂
November 28, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Ed Balls
November 18, 2024 at 7:46 AM