Kevin dodds

Retired Firefighter, 30+ years in the job. now a member of the Fire Authority as a Councillor in Gateshead for over 32 Years.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 BOOKMARK THIS clip for the next time someone tells you “Brexit was never properly implemented”.

Nigel Farage on Question Time in 2016 explaining what Brexit would actually mean.

End EU free movement. ✅
Britain controls who comes here. ✅
Australian-style immigration system. ✅
Open Britain to people from the Commonwealth and elsewhere rather than preferential EU migration. ✅

He said this would relieve pressure on GPs, schools and housing and improve our quality of life.

Brexit happened. Those immigration powers came back to Westminster. Migration subsequently shifted dramatically from Europe towards the rest of the world.

You can’t simultaneously claim Brexit wasn’t implemented and complain about the consequences of the immigration system Brexit enabled.

👀 The question isn’t whether Brexit was implemented. It’s whether what Farage promised Brexit would achieve actually worked.

[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

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[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Did you know that Conservative Peer Lord Black of Brentwood

Asked a Private Notice Question on Alaa Abd El-Fattah

On June 4th 2025?

Question: What action are they taking to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British citizen Alaa Abd El-Fattah?

Then follows a near 17 minute back and forth with different members of the House of Lords asking what the UK gov is doing to help secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Your reminder that key Conservatives who campaigned for his release include Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, James Cleverly and Ian Duncan Smith

Oh, and his citizenship was approved when Priti Patel was in charge of the Home Office

While Labour picked up the baton and carried on to help secure his release, never forget that it's the Conservative party who initiated the process for his release, which today is criticising his release, even though they stared the process for it

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2025: Priti Patel says Labour adopting Erasmus is a betrayal of Brexit

2020: Priti Patel was Home Secretary when her boss Boris Johnson said Erasmus would not be taken away because of Brexit

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2025: Labour's Nick Thomas-Symonds says the UK is returning to the EU Erasmus program

2020: That time Boris Johnson said that the UK would not leave Erasmus as part of Brexit

Any Brexiter who says UK back in Erasmus is a betrayal of Brexit, should remind themselves that the chief Brexiter Boris Johnson said Brexit would not take the UK out of Erasmus

Well done Labour for doing this

Now investigate Russian interference in Brexit

[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2023: Rishi Sunak admits that they dropped regular government scrutiny for the PPE VIP lane

2025: Dodgy furlough, bounce back loans, and Eat Out to Help Out, also created by Rishi Sunak, caused billions more in fraud

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson's scheme cost the British taxpayer billions

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
@libdemdaisy

[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

Today is Armistice Day, 2 minutes Silence will be observed at 11.00am we will remember them.

[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

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[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Free breakfast clubs are boosting attendance and improving behavior in some schools according to head teachers. There is no doubting this policy has been a huge success for Labour in its first year in government

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2016: Boris Johnson making the case for Brexit, "Let us take back control of our borders"

2025: Dame Angela Eagle, "We have had no prospect of returning anybody to France since Brexit, as the Withdrawal Agreement didn't contain any kind of returns agreement"

[Rachel Taylor MP @RachelTaylorMP]

No plan, no policies, and a council in chaos. Three months in, it's clear Reform are failing Warwickshire.

[Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones]

As I’ve always said. When it comes to the populist right you need only ask one question: how?

Turns out they have “no idea”.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Former Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden wants UK bands to have touring rights with the EU

Chris Bryant, "If only he had been a minister in the previous government where they failed to take the deal that was on offer from the European Union"

In 2019 Richard Holden said he wanted to get Brexit over the line... In 2020 the Conservatives rejected an offer from the EU for UK bands to have touring rights with the EU

Richard Holden is literally complaining about the thing he rejected when in government

[Kevin dodds @Kevindodds8]

Gateshead Council’s Environmental Services Teams out in Bensham this morning. A huge thank to these teams of men and women who work tirelessly to try and keep our area clean and tidy, please everyone lets do our bit to help, we can all make such a difference, thank you.