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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪

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Happily engaged, 47, Arsenal, Red Bull Racing supporter enjoy cooking, politics, current affairs and the British home front of the second world war - No DMs unless I know you 🌍United Kingdom

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 9h
🚨 POCHIN’S PROPERTY PANTO! “Second homes are hurting communities!” Two days later: That £800k one looks lovely. That anti-establishment revolution looks rather comfortable. #politicsintheuk #ReformHypocrisy
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13h
Liz Truss? Liz fucking Truss!?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 8h
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 10h
Does he like marmalade sandwiches? #bbcwato #wato
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 10h
Mugs buying other mugs #bbcwato #wato
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 10h
Cutting the number of families paying inheritance tax by half sounds in good until you realise it's a cut from 4.7% to 2.3% of estates. At the moment more than 95% of estates already don't pay inheritance tax so this is a tax cut for the rich #bbcwato #wato
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h
"People are looking through the shop window and they like what they see..." says Kemi Badenoch, of the Conservative party, which is currently polling at its lowest level in its entire history
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
"it's about who's side the conservative party are on" yeah your own #politicslive
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
"it's about who's side the conservative party are on" yeah your own #politicslive
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
Less than 5% pay inheritance tax, so she's lying by claiming it's paid "the length and breadth of the country" #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
There's an early release scheme and they happened under the last Conservative Government too and why because the last conservative government slashed spending on the prisons, probation service, courts and police #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
Badenoch: "defence is the first duty of government" shame the Conservatives spent 14 years gutting the armed forces isn't it Mrs Badenoch #politicslive #cpc26
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farage is hugely concerned that the Treasury isn’t getting taxes he claims are lost because tax dodging super rich are leaving UK Farage & Tice are passionate about tax going to HMRC Fun fact — both of them used off shore tax schemes to avoid huge sums of tax, they don’t see why they should pay it
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 11h
Britain's energy is some of the most expensive in the world because of the botched Conservative privatisations in the 1980s and the water privatisation wrecked the industry and Kemi Badenoch said that privatisation was "genius" #politicslive #cpc26
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h
A fortnight ago, Kemi Badenoch described the single market as 'a great thing'. Now she can't say that Brexit has been good for London. Probably just Kemi being Kemi. But still.
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
Her most angry attacks have been on Reform #politicslive #cpc26
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Where the MPs who backed Liz Truss in 2022 now sit in the Conservative hierarchy (and beyond)
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
That is a barefaced lie, the devolved government in the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland is not run by separatists, it's made up of Nationalists/Unionists/Alliance as a cross community government is required by law under the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
Aberdeen South was a turnout of just 38% so the Conservatives won on 19% of the constituency vote, just what their national polling level is #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
She talks about the problems in the country without one word of contrition that it was them who caused the problems in the first place #politicslive #cpc26
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“You didn’t protect my son!” Netanyahu heckled by the father of a 10/7 victim at a memorial ceremony. (Netanyahu was reportedly warned an attack was coming and did nothing — then said nobody woke him up that morning🤔)
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/10/2026
Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson Munira Wilson dissects the Shadow Education Secretary’s speech 🔍
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 16h
Man City in cheating shock The new Private Eye is out now.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1685 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The cover is a “Football Special” and reads “MAN CITY IN CHEATING SHOCK”. It shows Andy Burnham on a football pitch, with the captions “They’ve brought in a new defender!” and “He’s playing at No. 10!” The bottom of the cover reads: “YES! IT’S THE BOOTY-FUL GAME!”
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
The Conservatives are nearly 5% lower than at their election hiding in 2024 so they're not moving forward #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
Unlike the Conservatives and the other opposition parties the Chancellor can't just toss off policy he has to wait for the budget and since the Conservatives were only in government two years ago you'd think they'd know that #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 12h
Inheritance is paid by the beneficiary of the will not the deceased, so Matt Vickers is being disingenuous when claims it's the other way round #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 13h
How long does Kemi Badenoch think that the public will forget 14 years of Conservative Government, last time it took the voters 13 years to move on from 18 years of the policies of Maggie Thatcher #politicslive #cpc26
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 13h
Like her mother came here to give birth so she'd get a British birth certificate and passport
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
That's what the deputy leader of the conservative party said
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
People might not be accepting promotions because they don't want to cross income tax threshold, those would be the income tax thresholds the previous Conservative Government froze for four years #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
Tory tax cuts for Tory millionaires #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
Unfunded tax cuts, Kemi Badenoch isn't the heir to Maggie Thatcher but Liz Truss and of course the Shadow Chancellor was a Treasury Minister during the Truss mini budget madness #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
Although mason didn't mention it the Liberal Democrats have also promised to raise the income tax threshold and unlike Reform's back of a fag packet proposal theirs is workable #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 15h
Reform dropped in the polls so #r4today are again giving slavish coverage to the Conservative party
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 16h
The US brokered ceasefire hasn't actually delivered a ceasefire, so no chance of peace in Gaza #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 16h
When the United Kingdom had the death penalty if the person survived it was seen as an act of god and they were released. The United States should consider doing the same #ChristaPike #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 16h
Barack Obama should be the next Secretary General of the UN, that should piss Trump off nicely #r4today
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't worry Mr Cleverly you won't be London Mayor #bbcwato #wato
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you haven't read Badenoch's latest pamphlet, I don't blame you, but in it she launches an attack on the minimum wage. When so many people across Britain are struggling with the cost of living, it’s so tin eared. Same old Tories. They always want working people worse off.
An excerpt from Kemi Badenoch’s pamphlet, ‘The Right Way’.
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Of course Ukrainians should keep on attacking Russian infrastructure, if Russia hasn't got oil to sell Dictator Putin can't fund his illegal war #bbcwato #wato
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unfortunately there is a shortage of patriot missiles because of Donald Trump's stupid Iranian escapade #bbcwato #wato
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump says that the war on Iran will end the day after the mid-terms, he said the Ukraine war would end on his first day in office, how did that load of bollocks go #politicslive
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump isn't a candidate but both he and the Democrats have put him on the ballot paper #politicslive
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A mansion tax is being proposed because both Labour and Conservatives won't re-band home values for the council tax which are still at 1991 house prices #politicslive
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The state don't take everything in inheritance tax and Joy Morrissey is being disingenuous by saying that #politicslive
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Raising the basic income tax threshold is a much fairer way to cut taxes which is why the Conservatives aren't proposing that but what to cut taxes for themselves #politicslive
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