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Soapbox-carrying, copy-writing, beard-sporting, pint-sized Yorkshireman.

Manchester, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
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This cannot be possible. We were so reliably told by the professional right wing bore commentariat on this website that people will simply not use shops if they cannot drive up to the front of them.
🚨 NEW: Oxford Street has seen a 28% spending increase since it was pedestrianised two weeks ago
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The relative generosity of the UK here 😂 Would literally help everyone, least liked in return.
Different nations. Different languages. Different histories. But when a crisis hits, Europeans are willing to stand by one another. This is what European solidarity looks like. Eurohope. Eurosolidarity. 🇪🇺
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I notice they didn't ask the OG ally
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We're getting there
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Oh Manchester United
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It's funny but I genuinely don't want them to be *this* shit because I want that stadium masterplan to go ahead. Be good for the city. Pull it together.
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Yet another of these tweaks from govt that feels reasonable and long overdue to the vast majority. And where Burnham's opponents are then tripped into opposing it because they feel like they have to - and end up sounding really out of touch. Mastering the art of this now.
Conservative response to govt plan to require employers to advertise salaries
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Anybody who's been out of work and/or job hunting in the last few years will have no truck with the line from the Tories. Zero.
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Nothing to see here - just a Restore councillor springing to the defence of a convicted rapist. "Protect our women and girls" indeed.
How can anyone trust this corrupt TWO-TIER British justice system? Russell Brand was just found guilty after years of media attacks and a full on witch hunt. Funny how the real pressure only kicked off once he questioned the elites, rejected the COVID narrative, and publicly found Jesus as his Lord and Savior. They dug up old claims from decades ago, when he was living a very different life, and turned it into a show trial to silence a man who got off the establishment script and started speaking truth. Two tier justice is real, the powerful get protection, while anyone who challenges the system and turns to God gets targeted. This is why so many people have zero trust in these institutions. Stay strong, Russell.
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Can you even *begin* to imagine if the left reflexively jumped to the defence of high-profile sex crimers exposed within their ranks - as sections of the right now do?
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Two years of this shit to come yet. Trump (albeit unintentionally) committing to the first and only good, gracious act of his entire life by ensuring the GOP ends up buried for a generation lmao.
Donald Trump is legit on air right now talking about his ballroom renovation in his first televised remarks since the Republican Mid Term election defeat. "It will be most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world." His "let them eat cake" moment.
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There will now be a temptation in many parts of Europe, including the UK, to think that things will eventually go back to normal with the US and that Europe can stop its reluctant shift towards strategic autonomy. That would be a serious mistake.
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Worth watching in full honestly
The "Blue Wave" is not materializing. Guam FLIPPED from Blue to Red. Election Day turnout in Florida, Texas and Nevada is exceeding Presidential levels in some areas. Get out and Vote, stay in line and we Win.
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Every time I put a towel on the spare bed for a guest I whisper an apology to Alex Polizzi
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Reform lot have been using "well just wait until the budget" as cope since July btw 😂
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 31% (+3) RFM: 22% (-1) CON: 21% (+2) LDM: 8% (=) GRN: 8% (=) RES: 5% (-2) SNP: 2% (-1) Via @BMGResearch, 28-29 Oct. Changes w/ 23-24 Sep.
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I think the previous celebrity series went SO well organically that the producers were lulled into leaving more to chance and allowing bigger risks. They'll course correct next time I'm sure.
Richard E. Grant blurting out that he's a traitor Joe Lycett begging to be recruited James Acaster giving up and ruining the penultimate roundtable All three things broke the game. Farce of a series. @BBC producers had a nightmare #celebritytraitors
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Twitter and social media bot armies not being real life etc etc
In terms of perceived fairness, the 2026 Budget is the best received since Rishi Sunak's March 2021 Budget Oct 2026: +25 net fair Nov 2025: -27 Oct 2024: ±0 Mar 2024: -5 Mar 2023: -2 Nov 2022: +1 Sep 2022: -38 Mar 2022: -21 Oct 2021: +9 Mar 2021: +39 Mar 2020: +40
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I got such a sharp pang of second-hand embarrassment off this.
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage blames "staff incompetence" for a half empty hall at Reform UK's event in London
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Jenrick clapping like a seal through a grimace.
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Replying to @patrickjfl
Lula now above a 90% chance of winning.
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Truly feels like there's just no coming back from the Trump second term for the US. And to think there are over two more years of stuff like this to come yet.
Trump on Nobel Prize: Norway has become a shithouse country actually
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I just feel like that odour of a lack of dignity and decorum is just going to stick with me - viscerally - for as long as I'm alive.
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Utterly convinced the "I love winter and the clocks going back. Give me cosy nights under warm blankets with a pumpkin spice hot chocolate with rain lashing the windows and a £700 gas bill" people are just people who don't leave the house and they like feeling less bad about it.
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Don't think I even want to speak it into existence but... if the average settles down close to this; we're going to the polls.
🚨 NEW from @Ipsos_in_the_UK: Labour lead the Conservatives by 8 pts 🚨 Labour 32 (+5) Conservative 24% (+3) Reform 20% (-3) Lib Dems 9% (+1) Greens 8% (-5) Restore 3% (nc) Other 3% (-2) 1,109 GB adults interviewed online 15-22 October 2026
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Wild this.
Your based and redpilled youth, sir
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