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Retired UK civil servant. Loves sci-fi and fantasy (book, TV and film), languages, LGBTQ+ history and baking.

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All the usual suspects are blaming Starmer for taking two weeks to get HMS Dragon to Cyprus.

Hey guys, it's a warship. Not a cruise liner.

The fleet was massively reduced for a decade by the Tories and the remaining cash poured into two massive penis substitutes masquerading as aircraft carriers.

06.03.2026 11:25 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 8
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WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

05.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 1866 πŸ” 1039 πŸ’¬ 138 πŸ“Œ 104
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Friendly reminder that while all this geopolitical madness is going on the planet merrily keeps heating up. Source: buff.ly/OylcIxg

06.03.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Badenoch doesn’t do facts❗️She doesn’t do intelligence or telling the truth either.. she’s a Tory so what do we expectπŸ€₯

Here she attacks Starmer for not funding defence

In fact defence spending has increased by Β£5 billion under Labour with plans to make it 2.5% of GDP rising to 3%

Facts ehβ—οΈπŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

04.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1
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Vacancies at the Peace Pledge Union Thank you very much for your interest in the Peace Pledge Union. If you would like to find out more about volunteering, please visit our volunteer opportunities page.Staff vacanciesJob Title - Communi...

The Peace Pledge Union are advertising for a p/t Communications Manager, deadline 29 March - could this be you?

www.ppu.org.uk/vacancies

05.03.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sun headline about Β£500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Sun headline about Β£500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his faultπŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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04.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 541 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 59
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

05.03.2026 07:35 πŸ‘ 4366 πŸ” 1455 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 79
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The inconvenient TRUTH about social media. History happens to catch up with you in the end #TrumpTheWarCriminal and your ILLEGAL #TrumpsEpsteinWar.

03.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 3086 πŸ” 1047 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 45
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But foreign-owned media and non-British donations to Reform UK Ltd. are just tickety-boo?

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02.03.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Ridiculous lazy Trump rubbish from Nigel Farage. You lost, get over it.

Just so you have it, here's why postal votes are a good thing and who they help:

- It enables military personnel and overseas citizens to vote.
- Helps carers.
- Helps elderly people vote.

01.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying β€˜Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

02.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 1155 πŸ” 463 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 21

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1. US & Isreal begin strikes with no clear legal basis - UK stays out of it.
2. Initial strikes fail to bring swift end and Iran strikes back.
3. Those retaliatory strikes start to target civilians (including UK ones) and UK military/bases. 🧡 1/4

02.03.2026 09:22 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 12
A hand holding a trans flag in front of a background in the trans colours, and stickers reading 'Take our survey' and 'Responses from all genders welcome'. Headline reads: How has the Supreme Court’s gender ruling affected you one year on?

A hand holding a trans flag in front of a background in the trans colours, and stickers reading 'Take our survey' and 'Responses from all genders welcome'. Headline reads: How has the Supreme Court’s gender ruling affected you one year on?

PinkNews launches survey on impacts of the Supreme Court’s gender ruling, one year on ➑️ https://bit.ly/4u4cf0E

02.03.2026 11:20 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

02.03.2026 11:44 πŸ‘ 1353 πŸ” 371 πŸ’¬ 290 πŸ“Œ 166
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28.02.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly why postal votes must never be taken away, they’re a lifeline to many people who otherwise would be unable to vote

Currently 9.6 million people have a postal vote & if Farage ban’s it, a huge chunk will loose their Democratic right to vote due to not being able to vote any other way

01.03.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!

Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds

But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🀣

Right, let's get started...

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01.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 744 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 54

A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account.
Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

01.03.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 862 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 5
Farage posting on X about wanting only British citizens to vote (Yet more racism, discrimination and hate from him).

Farage posting on X about wanting only British citizens to vote (Yet more racism, discrimination and hate from him).

Farage & Reform are such bad losers.

Their failure to win the seat was down to the majority of voters rejecting their hate because Gorton and Denton is a progressive place.

68% of voters voted Green, Labour or Lib Dem.

We can’t let their racism, discrimination & hate win!

#NeverVoteReform

01.03.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah yes: foreign born Britons destroying the politics of the Kingdom:

01.03.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

01.03.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 1627 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 21

Yaaaaay!!

27.02.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that.
Don’t be that voter.

26.02.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 1215 πŸ” 410 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 10
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Because nothing says Christian more than stripping employment rights, women's rights, destroying the NHS, creating a UK equivalent to ICE and now controlling people our religious choices Danny Kruger.

25.02.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 3

"Reform UK has set out plans to deny new council workers guaranteed pensions and to combine 98 local authority pension schemes into a Β£500 billion giant fund that would β€œpatriotically invest” in Britain." [Times]

25.02.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 7

From all I've read about this woman, this comes as no real surprise.

25.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/25879821.nigel-farage-defends-schedule-missing-meetings/

Nigel Farage has missed every meeting about regenerating Clacton.

t.co/b27KKz53Bp

25.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 827 πŸ” 396 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 35

BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms

JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

24.02.2026 07:16 πŸ‘ 1866 πŸ” 823 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 55

Oh wow, this is great.

Labour will announce today that every single Criminal Crown Court in England and Wales will be funded to hear as many cases as possible next year to deliver faster and fairer justice for victims.

Usually the funding is for a set number of days.

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24.02.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 190 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 4