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Apparently, Nadhim Zahawi doesn't like this 12-year-old article being shared, so please don't share it. theguardian.com/politics/201…
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Farmers voted for Brexit. Now they for Nigel Farage. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice I'm an ignorant twat.
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Michael Gove has finally admitted what Brexit really was. A lie that worked and was therefore justified👇 In 2026, Gove is still insisting the £350m Brexit bus slogan was “literally the truth”, even after years of fact-checking, economic evidence and public harm. He now says it doesn’t matter that the UK never paid £350m a week to the EU, or that the money was never “taken back”. Why? Because belief mattered more than accuracy. That is an extraordinary admission. Gove actually compares belief in the Brexit claim to religious faith, saying you can recite facts forever, but you’ll never convince the other side. Read that again. A former Cabinet minister is saying: • facts don’t matter • truth is subjective • emotional mobilisation beats evidence That’s propaganda. And here’s the part they still don’t want you to notice: Yes, NHS spending went up but from a smaller economy. Brexit amputated future growth. UK GDP per head is 6–8% lower than it would have been. Investment is down. Productivity is down. Trade is weaker. Spending more money after you’ve damaged the economy isn’t a “dividend”. It’s damage control. The £350m bus didn’t “fund the NHS”. It funded a political project that: • shrank the economy • hollowed out public services • stripped rights and protections • and now locks the UK into US-led deregulation And Gove knows it. That’s why he’s no longer arguing the numbers. He’s arguing belief. Brexit didn’t survive because it was true. It survived bc lying persuaded enough people (37% of the electorate) and the people who did it were never held accountable. That’s the real scandal. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
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31 Dec 2025
IT’S JUST SO BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS! Britain is just a bad bet when it comes to investment. Why? Well, who the hell would want to invest in a country which deliberately left the most successful market in world history? Who would want to invest in a country whose government thinks that a trade deal with Trump’s America is going to be more beneficial than rejoining the EU single market? Who would want to invest in a country that embraces neoliberal economics, and locks itself into perpetual austerity? Who would want to invest in a country that has become an industrial wasteland, that has deliberately destroyed its industrial base and hadn’t had a meaningful industrial policy for decades? Who would want to invest in a country with such a high levels of poverty and deprivation, a country where successive governments have ignored an inexorable rise in inequality and, out of choice, done nothing to halt it? Who would want to invest in a country with a political system that delivers governments that don’t represent majority opinion, a country that has been badly governed for decades by an abysmal, unimpressive and self-serving political class? The reality is that Brexit broke Britain. Until it’s undone, investment will be elusive as will growth. The politics that delivered Brexit and now refuses to undo it, is broken too. The duopoly that has governed Britain since the end of the war is dead. What comes next is uncertain. The disaster that is British politics could continue, and could get worse, but we are in a place which rarely occurs - politics has totally failed. Its big guns have been spiked. People need new political homes. What we have now is a unique opportunity for real change to happen, We have to make it happen. New political parties, new talent, new ideas, a new beginning. All we have to do is to recognise where we are, recognise the opportunity and embrace it. Let’s do it!
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The last thing this country needs is Nigel Farage Or Reform You're being conned
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Trump is Trash.
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"Now say The Black And White Minstrels made you do Nazi salutes and taunt Jews about the gas chambers"
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SO! The FIFA has awarded Donald Trump their first-ever fake MADE-UP 'Peace Prize' during the World Cup Draw! This is completely embarrassing for the world….🤣
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Praised Israel’s use of US weapons: “You used them very well.” Green‑lit strikes on Iran Sides with Russian aggressor Threatens military action in Venezuela Hints at “taking” Greenland Deploys national guard on own people …wins FIFA peace prize.

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Nigel needs a favour.
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30 Nov 2025
Hear, hear
Boris Johnson and Priti Patel. Two of the most uncouth and mendacious politicians ever - currently lecturing the nation on morals. A lack of style and substance is replaced by a level hypocrisy that is simply staggering. Devoid of any integrity. They have no SHAME. #BBCBreakfast
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30 Nov 2025
Nigel Farage : “If Brexit is a disaster, I’ll go live abroad.” It was. He didn’t. He stayed to sell you another lie. Daniel Lismore, on Threads. Spot on. threads.com/@daniellismore/p…
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Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real…
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign 
The judge described it as "sophisticated offending"and says the harm it inflicted is "profound" 
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in the European Parliament, where he was an MEP from 2014 to 2020
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‘Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat’ but also know there will be absolutely no accountability required of you or any serious charges brought to bear on your privileged, entitled, arrogant little head.
"Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat"
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