Retired, small business, Twickenham and Hants, TV and audio service engineer. “This is all the heaven we've got, right here, where we are.” Mark Knopfler.
Joined March 2012
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Our political class like to think they live in a world somewhere between ‘The West Wing’ and ‘The Thick of It,’ when in reality their world increasingly resembles HBO’s ‘Chernobyl,’ but without nuclear power.
Most of British government seems to be dedicated to just stopping voters knowing things our politicians don't want them knowing.
They've given up on governing so just obsess over comms and suppressing information!
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
My brief take on @GBNEWS re Labour's 2-tier social media ban for u 16s. Somehow Starmer forgot to ban Bluesky. They're such numpties: so keen to contol how plebs communicate, they forget to control their own comms & make their biases blatantly obvious.
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
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Blue Sky not blocked for obvious reasons, they need to be groomed somewhere.
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🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps
TikTok
YouTube
Snapchat
Instagram
X
Reddit
Facebook
Twitch
Kick
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
Embarrassing
We are going with the nearly human normal dad look, Prime Minister.
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Says Sir Edward Clype, the Mr Pastry of the social media age.
Nigel Farage has turned into Enoch Powell of the social media age.
He’s trying to excuse racist disorder and violence against police officers. He’s pushing the politics of grievance and division that goes totally against our fundamental British values of tolerance and decency.
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BBC News spreading misinformation live on air. The reporter asked the school children to raise their hands if they welcome the social media ban for under-16s.
None of them do.
The reporter then says it’s “most” of them that are disappointed. No all of them are.
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.
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Every shit parenting Karen delighted that the State has come to their rescue in the failure to parent properly is why this country is a shadow of its former self.
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It's often claimed that social media is producing a generation of inarticulate zombies.
But listen to this girl. Here she is on national TV without missing a beat getting across her points with confidence and good humour.
Too many people are reading into the joke at the end as if it's genuinely what she's going to do. If you think that, she is smarter than you. And she grew up with social media.
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Explains why Henry Nowak’s sister took down her insta repost of Robert Jenrick’s response.
🚨BREAKING: A government insider has told the Daily Mail that the government propaganda unit (Research, Information and Communications Unit) had threatened the family Henry Nowak after he was murdered by Vickrum Digwa to maintain pro-multiculturalism messaging.
"RICU made sure that the liaison team dealing with the family were well briefed."
This was obvious considering how every single Labour/Lib Dem MP and liberal media figure came out to parrot the line "why don't you care about the family's wishes, Mr Farage?"
"They are working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland's C3 intelligence unit to identify those posting the online 'calls to protest' in Belfast and other areas, as well as giving strategic messages to the police to ensure that the protesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change."
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
Top Reform source says they will “hang every single thing Burnham does to f— up the country around Restore’s neck. They will own him.”
Internal party maths shows 8% nationally would leave Restore seatless but deprive Reform of up to 75, derailing any hopes of a majority.
Others around Farage are more bullish, insisting it's more likely Restore will lose their deposit on Thursday than reach a double digit breakthrough
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
This is the video Andy Burnham doesn’t want you to see 👇
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I have a son roughly this age.
I can not ever imagine filming him in tears, and sharing that with the world, for political gain.
Why are so many people so weird these days 🤯
Some tricky conversations this evening about the impending social media ban.
‘I don’t even know who this government guy is’
‘Keir Starmer’
‘Keir Starmer, what does that mean’
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
This should trigger a fucktonne of arseholes.
Fantastic lmao
🚨 BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has ruled the decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful
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The Ragpicker ⚒️ retweeted
The bitterness on display from Ben & Rupert makes me think Nigel was spot on…
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All eyes now on the Makerfield result.
If Restore polls over 5% that would be a first in British political history. If it polls over 10% that would be seismic.
There can be no bleating from Reform. Restore’s existence is Reform’s fault.
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Weather Deniers klaxon.
Once again, no small boat crossing last week.
Labour promised we would sort out the mess left by the Tories and secure our borders.
There is more to do, but we are getting to grips with the problem.
Promise made. Promise being delivered.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Doctor Who: Jacob Rees-Mogg returns with another spooky serving.
This time, the Doctor travels back to Makerfield, only to be captured by the dreaded “Cyber People”, because apparently we can’t say Cybermen anymore.
And who is the new Davros?
It’s only Andy Burnham.
{satire}
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“Restore is a very dodgy party.”
Brendan O’Neill, Chief Political Writer at Spiked Online, speaks to Jeremy about his visit to Makerfield this weekend.
@jkyleofficial
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Restore vs. Reform
‘In order to win anything you’ve got to win over much larger swathes of the UK constituency’
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So Conservative voters are going to vote to install a hard left wing socialist Prime Minister, explain to me Nigel how that in anyway makes any sense and then tell me the uniparty doesn't exist to maintain the status quo ?
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