Retired Teacher and one time Political activist. Now political 'activity' largely confined to Twitter. Have stood for both Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
Wales, United Kingdom
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'Reform/Restore seem determined to keep Labour in power by fair means of foul. Splitting the Conservative UK vote iis exactly what Labour needs.'
PS: No party 'own' any votes..
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Hamas released a video showing them digging up Gaza’s water pipes and electricity lines—to turn them into rockets.
If you’re upset about Gaza’s lack of a sewage system, direct your outrage where it belongs: at Hamas.
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Posted by the Scottish government at 11.00am precisely on Remembrance Sunday. Not a single post all day about the remembrance events.
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1.3 million Britons laid down their lives in the two World Wars.
Their sacrifice protected this country, and our way of life, from evil despots.
Implying that this has anything to do with an EU student exchange scheme is unbelievably crass and deeply insulting.
Minister says ‘we owe it’ to those who served to ‘repair’ relationship with bloc
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Nick, do you have any fucking shame?
You're suggesting that a man who resides in Doha just wrote a credible report which shows that Israel is behind anti-Muslim hatred?
Seriously, do you have any fucking shame or an ounce of decency in your body?
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“British exports to the EU in food and drink, live animals, plants, seeds, timber and all other products covered by SPS rules are worth £15bn a year; our imports from the EU in the same categories come to £51bn.
The EU is plainly the demandeur here. Indeed, it should be biting our arm off for a deal. Although its negotiators (and the self-loathing poseurs in this country who unhesitatingly side with them) are trotting out all their old clichés about cakes and cherries, the fact is that the EU can agree to mutual recognition of SPS. It has done so, for example, with New Zealand, on the sensible grounds that New Zealand’s food standards are in no sense ropey or barbaric.
So why have Eurocrats to agree a similar deal with Britain, thereby guaranteeing its farmers access to their largest export market? There is, I’m afraid, only one answer. They have been holding out for a British government despairing enough, demoralised enough and dogmatic enough to agree instead unilaterally to follow EU rules in perpetuity. To their delight, they have now got one.”
For the PM, reaching agreement matters more than what’s agreed – so he’s pretending every concession is a win
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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Disgusting. Lisa Nandy doubling down on Laura Kuennsburg show this morning, saying that we owe it to our veterans to have the Erasmus+ scheme with the EU.
Absolutely disgusting, trying to leverage dead servicemen as an excuse to rejoin EU schemes. Beyond the pale.
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“Hi babe, I don’t know why I’m writing this, because I really hope that this letter doesn’t get to you.
Because if it does, that means I am dead.”
Gunnar Lee Thornton wrote this before he died serving in Iraq. This is the saddest, most moving thing I have heard all day.
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The Weimar hyperinflation of 1923 wasn't just an economic crisis; it was the systematic destruction of Germany's middle class and the social order that held society together. When the government chose to finance its deficits by printing money rather than raising taxes or cutting spending, it unleashed a monetary catastrophe that would reshape German society forever.
By November 1923, it took 4.2 trillion marks to buy a single US dollar. Teachers, engineers, and civil servants who had saved their entire lives watched their nest eggs become worthless overnight. A lifetime of prudent saving couldn't buy a loaf of bread, while speculators and debtors who had borrowed heavily found their debts evaporated by inflation.
The psychological trauma went far deeper than the economic devastation. The German middle class had built their identity around thrift, hard work, and delayed gratification. Values that hyperinflation made not just useless but actively harmful. Those who had played by the rules were punished, while those who abandoned fiscal responsibility were rewarded.
This wasn't merely monetary policy gone wrong, it was the foundation for the political extremism that would follow. When money loses meaning, society loses its anchor, and people become desperate enough to embrace radical solutions. The lesson remains: sound money isn't just about economics, it's about preserving the social fabric itself.
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So @lisanandy announces a clearly political Brexit related policy in a press release about Remembrance Sunday
If that’s not crass and vulgar enough…
When other politicians and those in the armed forces criticise her, she accuses *them* of ‘politicising’ Remembrance Sunday, and piously claims we shouldn’t discuss politics on such an important day
Have I described this little gas lighting gem of hypocrisy correctly?
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This is one of the most disgusting posts I’ve seen today. Why do Reform think it’s acceptable to politicise today. Utterly appalling.
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Remember when Hamas made their own PR video showing them digging up pipes in Gaza and using them to create rockets to fire on Israel?
Well now they have no water and sewage system and they have flooding and guess who is to blame for that?
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Pol Pot. This piece of shit killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979, somewhere between 25 and 33 percent of the entire population. He did this by applying an ideology to its logical conclusion. Ideology always has a conclusion; socialism's conclusion is death.
The Khmer Rouge abolished money in 1975. Completely. Banks closed. Markets dissolved. Currency became contraband. They then abolished private property, forcibly relocated urban populations to collective farms, and set central planners the task of organizing rice production for the entire nation. The result was predictable: mass starvation beside the rice fields. Planners cannot coordinate production without prices. Prices require private property and voluntary exchange.
Pol Pot studied in Paris during the 1950s, absorbing French Communist Party doctrine and Maoist agrarianism. Western universities provided the intellectual scaffolding for the killing fields. Coercion requires enforcers, tribunals, and eventually mass graves; Cambodia's are at Choeung Ek.
Every collectivist experiment reaches this same point, because central planners cannot solve what free exchange solves automatically every second of every day.
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We should not forget Lisa Nandy called for The British Army to be replaced with a “gender balanced and ethnically diverse” peace force.
In her defence, Lisa Nandy is incredibly stupid.
On Remembrance Sunday Lisa Nandy has claimed that no one in Britain has had to fight a war since WW2.
What about the 7,193 British soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in conflicts ranging from the Korean War to Afghanistan?
While she erases their service, the country will never forget their bravery.
Remembrance Sunday is a sacred day, not to be cynically used by Labour to justify closer ties to the EU. Whatever the merits of their argument - and I believe reopening the Brexit wars is both a colossal waste of energy and a strategic disaster when national sovereignty is more important than ever - this is not the day for it.
It’s disappointing that Nandy and Andy Burnham, who presumably agreed to this, have failed so badly to meet the moment.
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Lets be honeat they are scum. Just scum
Celtic fans boo during Remembrance Sunday minute's silence as referee forced to cut it short thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/1…
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For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:
1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.
2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.
3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.
4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.
5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.
6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.
7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.
8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.
9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.
10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)
11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.
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Most people supporting other Parties or none will be happy that Mr Farage was invited to lay a wreath as part of the moment of national unity that Remembrance brings to the fore. But to use this to post divisive partisan nonsense is despicable and Mr Braverman should be ashamed.
When you assume you're party is more 'patriotic' than your political opponents, particularly at a Rememberence Parade, you need to engage you brain cell and take a long hard look at yourself.
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This crank says if he had cancer he would fast for 30 days
If you are unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer, please see an oncologist
And eat
Don't recall Farage asking for this when polls favoured him..
Yes please so that my Lord @LordAshcroft - it’s important credibility is retained in this very important polling service. This is well off piste.