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#FBPE 🇪🇺 Left leaning, Arsenal supporting. Love music, nature, my dog 🐶 tolerate my cat 🐈‍⬛ Save our 💙 NHS. 🚫 DMs 🚫 Crypto

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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It’s been a tough week in Cornwall, and all we see in National News is no water in Sussex and Kent 🤬 Try having no power, no communication and no water. I was living in South East England in 1987, the only difference to that storm and Storm Goretti 2026 is the 250 miles between us.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
No such thing as a political donation, it’s a You Owe Me.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The biggest con in uk political history, & 52% fell for it #Brexit
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Putin won with Brexit, don’t let him win with Ukraine! #NATO #EU 🇺🇦
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Trump & Putin insist that Ukraine never join NATO, it’s one of their key demands to end the war. If Ukraine were a member of NATO, that would also end the war. I know what one would benefit Ukraine & Europe the most!
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
She’s absolutely right, if only Trump saw it like that. Another way is for all NATO members to invite Ukraine to become members.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I completely agree. So why are we having Digital ID? It’s a hackers wet dream! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack: ministers must pay more attention to this growing risk | Editorial
Editorial: Cybercriminals pose a seismic and increasingly sophisticated threat to businesses and national security. Yet Britain seems remarkably ill-prepared
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Farage agrees with Putin on everything, including leaving the ECHR. Why would the UK want to join a group that includes Russia and Belarus?
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The only European countries not in #ECHR are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Russia, and the Vatican City. Why on earth would it be a good idea for UK to join them?
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
How come this doesn’t get the news coverage that the Manchester synagogue attack received 🤔
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Currently people are working illegally with no NI or tax code. How will no ID change that? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Keir Starmer says digital ID cards are an ‘enormous opportunity’ and will make it tougher to work illegally - UK politics live
Prime minister says plans for a new digital ID held on people’s phones will become mandatory to prove the right to work
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I have just read “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, 1914. This from Andy Burnham over a century later shows what an incredible book it was. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m not against this, but higher rate should be 5p increase and additional rate 10p. Also if they go down this route, threshold should be raised to 15k to help lower paid & pensioners. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Reeves urged to take 2p off employee NI and add it to income tax in budget
Resolution Foundation says move could raise additional £6bn a year and ‘level the playing field’ on income tax
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Smoking is dangerous www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Man survives after clinging to high-speed train in Austria after getting off to have a cigarette
The man grabbed on to the outside of the train at St Poelten, west of Vienna, and was later taken aboard after it performed an emergency stop
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I agree, income tax needs to rise, but don’t clobber the basic rate workers. 2p basic rate 5p higher rate 10p additional rate What income would that generate? Anyone? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit, thinktank says
NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
No 6 wasn’t such a factor at the time. It’s now possibly the single biggest factor! #rejoinEU
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Promising NOT to increase income tax was always an error. However, if they freeze the threshold further, it will be another error. People are fed up with the low paid, inc Pensioners, being targeted. Tax those who can afford it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Reeves says she cannot rule out autumn tax rises after ‘damaging’ week
Exclusive: Chancellor says she never considered resigning and warns ‘there are costs’ to welfare bill U-turn
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If Labour extend freeze on tax threshold, we all pay, including low earners & pensioners. If they must increase income tax, hit the top end. Increase Higher & Additional rate tax. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
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Reeves expected to freeze income tax thresholds to raise funds after welfare U-turn
Government’s concessions over welfare cuts leave chancellor with a growing hole in her budget
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
About time! I live close to a reservoir, from Nov to May water is pouring over the dam and out to sea. The rest of the year we are threatened with hose pipe bans 🤦‍♂️ #WaterCompanies www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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First new reservoirs in England for more than 30 years given go-ahead
‘Nationally significant’ status granted to reservoirs in East Anglia and Lincolnshire with seven more planned by 2050
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
So when is the Orange Fellon going to have words with Putin? 🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Deadly missile and drone strikes batter Kyiv for second night
Other Ukrainian cities and regions also hit with nine people reported killed at the same time as Russia and Ukraine are conducting a major prisoner exchan
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
And the charges to customers are still increasing. Nationalisation now!
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Step by step #EU
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
But what have Labour done for us? £16 billion of trade, from 3 deals. And in just under a year! No one said it would be easy after 14 yrs of Tory rule!
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Too late for some, but this is the kind of story that highlights how destructive Brexit has been. Those who have managed to survive, can now reap the rewards of the new UK EU deal. #BrexitDisaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal – but says it comes four years too late
Simon Spurrell was forced to sell his business because of £600,000 loss caused by Brexit red tape
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The entire population, bar Russia, knows that Putin is the obstacle to peace in Ukraine. If Trump really wants to make his mark on global peace, sit down with Putin & stop this pointless war! #UkraineRussiaWar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Ukraine war live: US secretary of state says ‘abundantly clear’ Trump and Putin needed for peace talks ‘breakthrough’
Marco Rubio says US president may need to ‘directly engage’ to determine ‘once and for all what it is the Russian side wants and whether peace is possible’
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Another Brexit Bonus? The con that just keeps giving! #Brexit www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Now is the time for both sides 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump will learn that you can’t start a tariff war & make you turns without consequences. China & other countries don’t like to be played with. #TariffWar www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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China raises US tariffs to 125% as Xi invites EU to team up against Trump ‘bullying’
Chinese leader canvasses Spain and other trading partners on how to tackle economic fallout as market turmoil continues
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Sign of the day 🙂 or at least one of them #HandsOff
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I’m convinced that UK 10% tariff is to drive a wedge between UK & EU. If we agree a deal with US, that’s our chance of rejoining gone, & Trump knows it. Starmer must be smart, it’s gonna hurt anyway but long term give me EU any day 🇪🇺 #Tariffs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem
PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Every April we expect utility increases but 36% on my water bill is outrageous. How can South West Water justify such an increase? Was £802 now £1097. Not an April Fools. #water #Utilities www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
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‘It’s relentless’: Britons react to April bill rises amid Labour’s benefit cuts
Increases in council tax, energy and water come less than week after Rachel Reeves revealed raft of cuts to welfare
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I agree with UK Youth Parliament. It’s down to Social media platforms to ensure the content they put out is appropriate for users, all users. Maybe some content should be age specific? These platforms have work to do & rules to make them comply. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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Banning us from social media is ‘neither practical nor effective’, UK teenagers say
UK youth parliament concludes tech firms should do more to protect users from violent and inappropriate content
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Bedenoch claims £4,000 council tax on expenses. Why?
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Water Bill increase of 35% wtf 🤬 was £802 now £1097. Thank you South West Water, OFWAT, and this Labour Gov who were supposed to be reducing our bills. #Waterbill
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Prepare for a U-turn. This would have been a disaster for Labour. Yes there are people who don’t work that could, but generally they’re not on PIP. Now sort your plans out for a wealth tax, & increase additional rate income tax too, ie over £150,000 #Budget www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people
Controversial plans to cut personal independence payment (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🇨🇦
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How surprising. It’s not like he’s annoyed anyone 🤣
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So no mass exodus after all. Who had that as a Pointless answer? I did. #VAT #Schools www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My wife and I bake a different loaf each weekend. Today it’s all my handiwork 🙂 White, mixed grain & spelt flour, plus Caraway seed 😍 #Bread #Baking
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Fair question. Here’s another. Will Trump reinstate intelligence info & weapons to Ukraine, or sit back & watch Putins Russia kill more and more Ukrainians, as they did last night?
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Time for UK to get back onboard #EU
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A Pointless celebrity about to be cancelled.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Calling all countries with a backbone.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
😀
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is the route we have to go. We can’t continue to take from people on low or even average income. I agree with this guy, I would also increase income tax on additional rate ie those earning over £150,000
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Trump says he wants peace in Ukraine, abd then cuts off intelligence and weapons to Kyiv, prior to more deaths at the hands of Russia. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Only Russia, Belarus, and North Korea disagree.
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
And so do I 🇺🇦
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Ian @ian-space.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump has been President for only a month. That should concern all of us.
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