🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR

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[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

Here's a segment of @DanielJHannan claiming that Vote Leave had a one-million page plan. ▶️

https://t.co/HHjYSLI4YA https://t.co/Qz3qa4xywq

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

If you're using a combine harvester on a chicken farm, you're probably doing it wrong.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jeremy Clarkson, "A tractor, £200k, a combine, £500k, the equipment costs a fortune, and if you try to price what you're selling there's just a lot of moaning"

"You get people saying, I'm not going to pay that, I can get a chicken from abroad. Yeah, you can. But it's so full of chlorine, it tastes like a swimming pool with a beak"

"There's very little money in farming, very little... And then, we got the budget"

"I know a lot of people took a kick on the shin with that budget.. You lot got a knee in the nuts"

"Rachel Reeves has told us 72% of farms are going to be unaffected by this"

"I've just been interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire from Newsnight.. She was trotting out nobody is affected, Rachel Reeves said so"

"Since when was the BBC the mouthpiece of this infernal government?"

"For the sake everybody here and for all the farmers stuck at home paralysed over a fog of despair of whats been hoisted upon them.. I beg of the government to be big, to accept that this was rushed through, it wasn't thought out, it was a mistake"

"That's the big thing to do, admit it, and back down"

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

The right-wing media (Aug.-Oct. 2024): "How dare Starmer accept donations and freebies - it stinks of corruption and sleaze!"

The RW media (Nov. 2024): "How dare Starmer snub the tradition of an honorary (free) club membership - he's spitting in the face of all golfers!"

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Who wants to take a bet that - if the Trumps ever leave Pennsylvania Avenue - it will turn out there's a discrepancy between the value of tariffs levied by US Customs and the figures reported by the US Treasury?

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

@SarahAndCo3 To be fair, 14 pages of lines and squiggles is more than we had as a plan for Brexit from Vote Leave so keep on dreaming.

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

When it collapsed - due to some…err… alternative accounting practices - the black hole left behind by Enron was about US $75 billion.

[Rick Taylor @OhRick4]

I want to know why Elon Musk was afraid he'd go to prison if Trump lost

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@OhRick4 Well, there are many - some of whom hang around on YouTube - who believe (and make quite persuasive arguments) that his primary investment is a house built on sand heading for a collapse that will make Enron look like a rounding error at a church bake sale.

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@Andie00471 The consumer impact is at the effect at the end of the supply chain.

Between the port of entry and the ultimate purchaser, every company in the chain will require a hike in working capital which will often have to be negotiated with an understanding bank.

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After just one part, the #Dispatches special on royal finances on @Channel4 has me wanting to brick the television.

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

Nothing says "I'm relaxed about my voter numbers and confident about winning the election!" than fantasising about having the critics from your own party executed by a firing squad and launching a frivolous and vexatious $10bn (!) lawsuit against a major TV network.

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Florida has a population of 600,000 people of Haitian background and 5.5 million Hispanics which includes 1.1 million people with a Puerto Rican background.

The GOP's leading Skeletor tribute act won his US senate seat in Florida by 10,000 votes.

[🇺🇦 John Robie 🇪🇺🔶🇪🇺 #FBPA #FBPPR @FanaticRealist]

James is right.

Time for the Streisand Effect to be used for good.

[James Chapman @jameschappers]

It would be amusing if someone at @washingtonpost leaked the editorial endorsing Harris that was apparently spiked. It would now get far more readers than it would have otherwise.

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Ironic, considering Amazon started life as the world's biggest bookstore, that Jeff Bezos as propretor of WaPo appears to be missing a spine. Kitty Graham and Ben Bradlee would be spinning in their graves at Bezos' craven cowardice.

#BoycottAmazon

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Is everybody looking forward to the wit and wisdom of 'Dame' Andrea Jenkyns on tomorrow night's #hignfy ?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Happy 100th birthday, President Carter! Thank you for your friendship, your fundamental decency, and your incredible acts of service through the @CarterCenter. Michelle and I are grateful for all you’ve done for this country.

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'Malcolm' calling into @mrjamesob smashing the likes of 'Honest Bob' Jenrick - "he's just a chiseller" - out of the park on @LBC.

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@DickMackintosh Very Jack Bruce.

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Watching the Milly Dowler documentary on Channel 5 reminds anybody blessed with the gift of critical thinking that the press - particularly the Murdoch titles - got off lightly for phone hacking .

Labour really should commit to #Leveson2 and regulatory reform of the press.

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@RepClayHiggins (R-LA03) appears to have decided that he (presumably with some assistance from fellow MAGA travellers) can appoint Trump as [resident and Vance as VP without the tiresome need for elections, counting votes, or certifying the results.

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@Angel41527796 Dim recollections of listening to 'Leaving On A Jet Plane' on my first transistor radio - a Pye powered by a PP3 (?) that did medium- and long-wave - when I was about 7 or 8.

Ditto The New Seekers, Zager and Evans, and The Archies.

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Farage's story as to why he hasn't opened a constituency office and why he doesn't hold surgeries is indicative of an unwillingness to take the responsibilities of his role seriously.

It also doesn't explain why he isn't responding to constituents' e-mails and letters.