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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦

@janmatthews.bsky.social
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🇪🇺 Massive EU Rejoiner #FBPE 🧡. Half Scottish, half Londoner. U3A member. Keen traveller. Work as an SA aka an 'extra'. No DMs please.

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🇬🇧🇨🇦 @richard-breakfast.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If there is a contest now, Labour will pull itself apart. Membership will want Rayner. MPs will want Streeting. Public want Burnham but he can’t stand. They won’t want Rayner or Streeting. FFS
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congratulations to The Green Party and Hannah Spencer for such a strong victory in Gorton and Denton - Matt Goodwin seems to be blaming a dirty tricks campaign of the Greens persuading people to vote for them by having policies people wanted to vote for
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thank god. A great win for Hannah Spencer and the Greens, for #GortonAndDenton and for progressive voters. Made even greater by the huge Reform sulk. And the fact that the hateful Goodwin got whooped. Now Labour, look to your left because you will not win from the right. We’re sick of that failure.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
#NeverForget
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Perfect.
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Says it all 😭
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
White House is considering a National Day of Memorial if Donald Trump dies. Sources say, "Well everyone is going to take the day off and party, so we have to make it look like they are mourning."
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Judging by their actions & words re Brexit it must come as a complete surprise to most of our politicians, incl Labour. Why else would you vow to keep up the red lines that protect the framework of this complete disaster, preventing the "medicine" that would undo most of it without rejoining the EU?
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
FFS these warmongers need to stop. I genuinely despair.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 12/06/2025
Half-time pep talk. resistrebelrevolt.substack.com/p/be-the-flo...
It seemed unbelievable that our history had been on an upward track of more and more progressive
freedoms--only to CULMINATE (or regress) into
someone like Donald Trump.

But I knew that it wasn't going to end there. It
couldn't.

So I began protesting to write that third paragraph
in the history books: the paragraph that says:

we fought back.

I don't know what our protests can do to his
presidency now.

But over the next four years--that third
paragraph gets written by us.

We have the choice to write into history that even if
our own democratic process was flawed enough to
commit this wrong to its own people.... we didn't
take it lying down.
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JosephWelchVI @josephwelchvi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I can tell you from vast experience that when police are given additional authority, power or equipment, THEY WILL IMMEDIATELY ABUSE IT. Changing the name from Police Officer to Law Enforcement Officer and training them in Command and Control instead of de-escalation creates a degenerate mentality.
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mjc63.bsky.social @mjc63.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Reform is just a distraction from how awful the tories were, Reform is just a symptom of how easily the general public is misled, it's depressing 😕
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Technically Speaking - Free Radicals @gailberenger.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The reasoning behind government wanting us to “ask AI” for information is simple, so they can feed AI propaganda answers and it will lie for them. No more direct access to unfiltered data. No thank you.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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Ray @ray-pugwalker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I waited so many years for a Labour government and I am SO disappointed. The worst thing is I hated the Tories for saving money by putting their boots on the necks of the poorest and now Labour are doing exactly that. No wonder people are deserting the 2 main parties. Shame on you.
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Spot on. What a mess.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 29/04/2025
I love you my Canadian brothers and sisters. Thank you for showing up. You give us decent Americans hope.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Robert Newton @roberttnewton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reading some of yesterdays newspaper headlines: "China halts all Rare Earth Exports to USA" "China suspends Boeing Deliveries" I'm thinking............ Donald, you didn't have the cards!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft dodged $278bn US corporation taxes over 10 years. Paid 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average. Profits shifted to low/no tax jurisdictions. Same companies operate in the UK, dodge taxes, create social squalor. Force companies to publish tax returns.
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‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It's comforting to know this is fake. It's terrifying to realise it's incredibly believable.
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HGVancouver🇨🇦 @hgvancouver.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Look America your grandpa is clearly out of his mind but his mania is so normalized you keep continuing like it’s okay?If any other democratic world leader did this they would be OUT. No confidence vote. Bye. Think about that. Only dictatorships keep nutbars like this in power. Figure it TF out.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Shocking realisation but some very valid points in this article.
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
You know what to do…👇 Pass. It. On. For. The. Loser. ✨
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I don’t think the Government will be thanked at the ballot box for being weak towards a bully, and bullying towards the weak. Punching down on welfare recipients while pleading with Trump for a trade deal is an instant ick. So fwiw, I think I do support retaliatory tariffs.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 15/03/2025
Who said the Germans have no sense of humour?
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faoileanngrinmhar.bsky.social @faoileanngrinmhar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So last week money was tight Labour had to pick the pockets of disabled and unemployed people but this week there's sufficient headroom to cut taxes to multinationals who turn over millions in profit to placate an untrustworthy American president ??
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 30/03/2025
Trump now threatening to take Greenland, by force if necessary. Time for Starmer to choose to be Churchill not Chamberlain & follow Carney’s lead. Labour will need to #TaxTheRich in ways outlined by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social to fill the economic tariff hole. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
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Anschluss - Wikipedia
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
😂😂🤣😅
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Canada has an economist as Prime Minister and Mexico has an environmental scientist and Dr of Philosophy for president. Meanwhile the USA has a rapist con artist and Soviet sleeper agent as their president.
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a man in a suit and tie is making a surprised face and saying oh wow .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a surprised face and saying oh wow .
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😡😡😡😡😡
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Edwin Hayward nails it yet again.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 18/03/2025
Say it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU... If we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years. Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century. Start today please. We owe it to the future.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This
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Jan the Gran 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🌻🇨🇦 @janmatthews.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What gets me is that a lot of those seemingly supporting Russia are brexshitters. Voting leave for 'are sovrinty' but happy to support an aggressive invasion of another sovereign nation. I despair at the stupidity.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
💙 if you stand with UKRAINE? 🇺🇦
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a blue and yellow heart with the words we stand with ukraine written on it
ALT: a blue and yellow heart with the words we stand with ukraine written on it
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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This. It just makes me want to cry. Wtf is 'Christian' about Republicans? Nothing that I can see 😔
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“RUSSIA CAN STOP THE WAR ANYTIME BY LEAVING UKRAINIAN LAND.”
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This is great advice.
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Judith @jdmwisdom.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Yet again BB hits the nail on the head! The man is a genius.
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