Martin M
@martinmcedin.bsky.social
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Retired. Irish via Scotland. Living mostly in Spain and during summer in Edinburgh.
News, centre left politics and travel ✈️
🚫Trump #FBPE #NHS #RejoinEU #Resist.
🇮🇪 🏴🇪🇸🇪🇺 🇺🇦
Retired. Irish via Scotland. Living mostly in Spain and during summer in Edinburgh.
News, centre left politics and travel ✈️
🚫Trump #FBPE #NHS #RejoinEU #Resist.
🇮🇪 🏴🇪🇸🇪🇺 🇺🇦
A beautiful December day in Southern Spain 🇪🇸
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A beautiful December day in Southern Spain 🇪🇸
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Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...
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We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
www.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
Personally I don’t one penny of my BBC licence fee or anything else going to Donald Trump! He can swivel.
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Personally I don’t one penny of my BBC licence fee or anything else going to Donald Trump! He can swivel.
Why is Charlie Kirk the headlines on UK news? Until 48hrs ago I had never heard of him. Can we have some UK news first please?! @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Why is Charlie Kirk the headlines on UK news? Until 48hrs ago I had never heard of him. Can we have some UK news first please?! @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social
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THIS is how to deal with Trump.
Carney, to Trump's face, on Canada becoming the 51st state: “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale."
Carney, to Trump's face, on Canada becoming the 51st state: “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale."
Mark Carney tells Donald Trump he can never have Canada
This is the brilliant moment that Mark Carney told Donald Trump that Canada will never be for sale.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
THIS is how to deal with Trump.
Carney, to Trump's face, on Canada becoming the 51st state: “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale."
Carney, to Trump's face, on Canada becoming the 51st state: “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale."
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When two Popes dislike you, it’s a divine sign.
May 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When two Popes dislike you, it’s a divine sign.
Sign in a bar…
If you’re drinking to forget, please pay now!
🤣
If you’re drinking to forget, please pay now!
🤣
May 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Sign in a bar…
If you’re drinking to forget, please pay now!
🤣
If you’re drinking to forget, please pay now!
🤣
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The thing they told us in 2016 was so good for us
Is so good that we should basically reverse it
Because being outside the EU makes us poorer
Is so good that we should basically reverse it
Because being outside the EU makes us poorer
May 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The thing they told us in 2016 was so good for us
Is so good that we should basically reverse it
Because being outside the EU makes us poorer
Is so good that we should basically reverse it
Because being outside the EU makes us poorer
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The Economist.
Who knew?
Who knew?
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Economist.
Who knew?
Who knew?
The US President who thinks he is the most important person on the planet just got trumped (sorry) by another American. I love it!
Popcorn at the ready 🍿
Popcorn at the ready 🍿
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The US President who thinks he is the most important person on the planet just got trumped (sorry) by another American. I love it!
Popcorn at the ready 🍿
Popcorn at the ready 🍿
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Now that the new Pope has been confirmed as anti-Trump / MAGA, we may be very well see a battle of good vs. evil in this timeline.
Pope has more followers too.
Pope has more followers too.
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Now that the new Pope has been confirmed as anti-Trump / MAGA, we may be very well see a battle of good vs. evil in this timeline.
Pope has more followers too.
Pope has more followers too.
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The Pope vs. Trump is like Jesus vs Lucifer.
May 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Pope vs. Trump is like Jesus vs Lucifer.
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The Pope, then Bishop Prevost knew what was going on, even in 2015 and called Trump out. We have an Angel vs Satin. Hoping the Angel is victorious.
May 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Pope, then Bishop Prevost knew what was going on, even in 2015 and called Trump out. We have an Angel vs Satin. Hoping the Angel is victorious.
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🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy
H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy
H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
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Not the first time this has been pointed out in the last 48hrs but any council employees now under Reform control, or even influence, needs to go online TODAY and join a union if not already a member.
May 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Not the first time this has been pointed out in the last 48hrs but any council employees now under Reform control, or even influence, needs to go online TODAY and join a union if not already a member.
Reform UK’s claim that teachers are demoralising children is absolute rubbish and is a grotesque slur on the teaching profession.
Get in the bin! 🗑️
Get in the bin! 🗑️
May 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reform UK’s claim that teachers are demoralising children is absolute rubbish and is a grotesque slur on the teaching profession.
Get in the bin! 🗑️
Get in the bin! 🗑️
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And are these diversity officers in the room with you now Andrea?
May 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
And are these diversity officers in the room with you now Andrea?
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Labour voters went to the LibDems and Greens…
“Labour can only survive by going left, and seriously so. There is nowhere else for them to go where voters might be interested in them.”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
“Labour can only survive by going left, and seriously so. There is nowhere else for them to go where voters might be interested in them.”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
One chart to tell Labour all it needs to know
This chart is telling. It covers all the local authority election results and comes from The Guardian:
The message is clear.
Tory votes and seats went, overall, to Reform.
Labour voters went to t...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Labour voters went to the LibDems and Greens…
“Labour can only survive by going left, and seriously so. There is nowhere else for them to go where voters might be interested in them.”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
“Labour can only survive by going left, and seriously so. There is nowhere else for them to go where voters might be interested in them.”
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
This is just beyond belief what sort of regime would act in this way? I’m speechless.
🧵This is the cruelty they don’t want you to see.
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This is just beyond belief what sort of regime would act in this way? I’m speechless.
This 👇
The racists and the idiots and the gullible are turning out to vote for Reform, and they will continue to do so.
But all the traditional Labour voters aren't voting for Labour because it isn't providing the things they want.
This is true, because the turnout was only 35%.
But all the traditional Labour voters aren't voting for Labour because it isn't providing the things they want.
This is true, because the turnout was only 35%.
May 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This 👇
Vive la France 🇫🇷
Thousands of protestors shut down Paris, France for May Day, they called for workers solidarity, an end to Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and an end to oligarchy. #3E #MayDay #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy
May 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Vive la France 🇫🇷
Starmer says he “gets it”, he clearly doesn’t.
May 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Starmer says he “gets it”, he clearly doesn’t.