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JabezRose

@jabezrose.bsky.social
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Deeply distressed by Brexit and what 14 years of Tory government did to my country. Aghast at Trump’s idiocy. Hoping for better. Spending my days between London and Istanbul. Interests: politics, future of work and education ,food, cricket,rugby,travel.

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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/emmanu...
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Emmanuel Macron Takes Aim At Brexit And Tells UK: 'You Were Stronger With The European Union'
The French president said he wanted his country and Britain to work together more closely.
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Who the heck is running the Labour Party operation. It’s inept to the point of embarrassment. Shockingly and perhaps terminally bad for this government. So sad. So much goodwill being squandered.
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Here’s one for the “Two tier Kier” brigade…..
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Claims of two-tier policing during 2024 summer riots ‘baseless’, report finds
Police response to disorder after Southport murders was ‘entirely appropriate’, says home affairs committee
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Back at you Trump……https://www.theguardian.com
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Britain needn’t be cowed by wrecking-ball Trump, it should seize opportunities in Europe, Canada and beyond | Will Hutton
Keir Starmer can help redefine global trade while strengthening new – and old – alliances
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#UniteTheLeft @unitetheleftuk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
It’s 7.25pm and it’s not dark!!!! Woo hoo!!!
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a bunch of yellow flowers are growing in a field with the words happy spring
ALT: a bunch of yellow flowers are growing in a field with the words happy spring
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Vance: “Speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it’s important to protect the security of the entire world.” Of course you do…..🤣
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.theguardian.com Another big thank you to all of you who voted for this Brexit shambles.
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.thetimes.com. Well done Brexit!
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British arms industry blocked from €150bn EU defence fund
The money must be spent on weapons from EU-based defence companies, ruling out suppliers in the UK, Turkey and the US
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland
Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde
Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Well worth the read…..Viva Canada!
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
As someone in one of those so called ally countries the thing that really pisses me off is that millions of men and women from all over the world have fought and died fighting for both the alliance and ideals that Trump is now trashing. It’s irredeemable.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Trump says Ukraine 'more difficult' to deal with than Russia.. Yeah I bet.. it’s always much harder forcing a sh*t deal on someone who doesn’t want it than take orders from your boss❗️
bbc.com
Trump says Ukraine 'more difficult' to deal with than Russia
It may be 'easier dealing with' Moscow than Kyiv, the US president told reporters in the White House.
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Is Trump an "unreliable ally"? No. You can only be an unreliable ally if you are an ally.
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Vindication for Sadiq Khan I think! And one in the eye for all the dimwitted camera vandals driving their noxious cars and vans through London’s streets.
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London air pollution down since Ulez extended to outer boroughs, study finds
Levels of deadly pollutants have dropped, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.theguardian.com
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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hmm…. Not something you will read in the Daily Mail. “Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says”
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Did Trump get Musk’s permission before saying that he thought Kier Starmer was “Doing a good job”?
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Are you listening Kier?
theguardian.com
First Brexit, now Trump and Musk: ignorance is back with a vengeance | William Keegan
The aggression from the Tesla billionaire is new; but Britain has years of experience in the consequences of falling for misleading promises
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Made me smile on a day when not much else did….
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The UK should negotiate a new customs union deal with the European Union, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said. He argues it is needed to boost Britain's economy and its ability to deal with the incoming Donald Trump presidency from a position of strength👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK needs to rejoin EU customs union, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey
Sir Ed also called for Donald Trump to be given a state visit to the UK, but only if he delivered support for Ukraine.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution. Rise caused by parents ferrying children in Range Rovers and SUVs, not using public transport. The rich cause most of the carbon emissions, don't bear the social cost. Tax the rich. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Quite why are Labour (Starmer)so timid in calling out Brexit and laying bare the multiple harms it has inflicted on us - from the economy to loss of free movement opportunities? Rejoin single market and customs union (if EU will have us) www.theguardian.com
theguardian.com
Fall in UK trade with EU should spur rewrite of post-Brexit rules, says IPPR
Thinktank’s report details decline in trading position and also calls for new strategy as Trump takes power in US
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Mindy Schwartz @mindyanns.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Let’s never forget who came to our aid…and who has done nothing but spew lies and threats.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Massive pressure building on the government over the Youth Mobility Scheme vote today!
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Labour MPs told to 'put their money where their mouth is' and back EU youth mobility scheme
The Lib Dems are seeking to put pressure on Sir Keir Starmer for an EU youth mobility scheme, saying it is a "no brainer" for economic growth.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Jeremy Clarkson used his show to vilify badgers as scapegoats for bTB and has allegedly wiped them out on his own farm. He’d hate it if people ‘RT'd’ this and signed the petition to end the Badger cull.. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What a thoroughly nasty man Elon Musk is. No-one elected him. He’s just a huge troll sat on a pile of gold, chuckling about what kingdom he can smash up next.
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"Elon Musk has told (UK) voters to contact their MPs to urge them to back the plan to hold a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal". Who does this limited little man think he is to tell us how to run our country.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/01/2025
Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
So the rich but dimwitted, racist is increasingly being told to F off by the elected leaders of mature democracies. No lessons to be had from the likes of this idiot Musk.
theguardian.com
Emmanuel Macron joins growing criticism of Elon Musk in Europe
French president accuses world’s richest man of intervening directly in continent’s democratic processes
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🔴Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
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Kemi Badenoch's Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader's refusal to criticise the X owner's dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Mind your own businesses and leave the UK alone.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/01/2025
Watching GB News is a bit like being cornered by a pub bore, writes @gavinesler.bsky.social. Few of us care about the output. But some are paid to care about the channel—and one of them is the regulator: (From the archive) www.prospectmagazine...
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GB spews
What I learned watching Britain’s most ghastly television news channel—so you don’t have to
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I accept that the first 6 months of Labour has been less than uplifting….but whenever I think back to what was, I cut Starmer et al a lot more slack.
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
These mindless thugs are the natural constituency of Farage, Trump et Al. They shame us all. www.theguardian.com/life
theguardian.com
‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation
Four months on from the far-right violence that shocked the UK, what happened to the men living in a hotel that was targeted?
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Dear Daily Telegraph, just remind me. When did Labour assume power and inherit a broken economy, ramshackle infrastructure and hollowed out public services? Oh yes…. July. Must all be their fault then 🤨https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/23/economy-stagnated-after-l
telegraph.co.uk
Britain on brink of recession after growth revised to zero
New figures reveal GDP flatlined between July and September
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Revealed: Brexit has reduced UK exports by £27bn, new report claims
A report by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has revealed that small businesses have been worst hit by a £27bn drop in exports caused by Brexit
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FieldsOfGold @fieldsofgold.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I don’t care how many cases against him get dropped, delayed or buried. He’s guilty as sin and the whole world knows it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Oh god. The inevitable Daily Mail tantrum at a Labour govt edging towards a slightly less ruinous relationship with our own continent. What do these idiotic nationalists want? Permanent hostility? Endless cost and loss? ‘Betraying’ Brexit is an act of patriotic necessity now, you howling clowns.
Front page headline:

PM accused of betraying historic 2016 vote to leave EU as 100-strong Whitehall unit is launched to tie Britain back to Brussels

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'SURRENDER SQUAD' TO UNDO BREXIT
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here is a photo of the most corrupt President in American history and Richard Nixon
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Tlazolteotl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tlazolteotl1519.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"We know exactly what the problem is. We'll say on live TV exactly what it is. But what we *won't* do is anything to risk upsetting the brain-dead binburners who voted for it, or the Tory gutter-rags. We'll just keep pretending we can make their Magic Brexit miraculously become real. Somehow".
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Absolutely go f**k yourself. Autism is not a "get out of jail free card" for being an arsehole. Do you know how hard so many autistic individuals work to fit in, to be treated "normally"? This type of crap makes it harder for all of us. Being autistic doesn't give you a pass to be a predator.
Autism to blame for my inappropriate actions, Gregg Wallace expected to tell inquiry
Friends of MasterChef presenter are convinced he suffers from neurodiversity condition that explains behaviour
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JabezRose @jabezrose.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Meidas+ www.meidasplus.com?utm_source=n...
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The ad-free home base for Meidas News, the fastest growing pro-democracy news network. Bonus articles, exclusive content, and interactive chats. Led by Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas, with exclusive a...
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Marc Folgate #FBPE @mfolgate.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "It has never looked more exposed to be Brexit Britain adrift somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic as the waves get larger and choppier." #joinEU
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Britain has never looked more exposed, adrift in the Atlantic in a world pulsing with perils
Sir Keir Starmer is confronted with several stark strategic dilemmas and they won’t be resolved by wishful thinking
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. Would we really want to take that path?
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