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John Pitchford

@johnnypapa.bsky.social
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I’m a retired railway signaller & RAF veteran who is left leaning, loves classic films both horror & comedy, I’m happily married with two great sons and try to look on the light side of life….i also support Derby County.

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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bridge On The River Pie
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#ASongOrMovieForFoodNames Bring Me The Bread Of Alfredo Garcia
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How a real politician & PM dealt with a heckler (no blood spilt)
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Nigel Farage walks into his G.P's with a frog on his head. "My my" said the G.P "how did you get that" "Well it started as a boil on my arse " said the frog.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I was so ugly as a baby, everyone used to stop my mum and say “what a beautiful pushchair…”
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The first chief of the British Secret Service revealed in his diaries that during WW1 agents used semen as invisible ink. His name was Captain Sir Mansfield Smith Cumming.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Im pretty sure it was Anne Widdecombe who said Michael Howard had ‘something of the night’ about him
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Isn’t Ed Miliband Jewish?
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
On the eve of the council elections with opinion polls pointing toward sweeping Reform UK gains is it too early to blame them for the state of the country? or do we wait a couple of days like they did for Labour? (Asking for a friend)
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I think better of him for doing that John
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I think until Trump apologises for his comments about NATO troops today both King Charles & the Prince & Princess of Wales future visit to the US should be postponed.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On the night of 28 Dec 1940 London became an inferno — “the Second Great Fire of London.” From the dome of St Paul’s, Daily Mirror photographer George Greenwell bravely captured the city burning all around him, recording the true scale of the Blitz while bombs were still falling.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Master Of Menace………..The wonderful Peter Cushing markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I’d like to see the Tories go ahead of Reform in the polls……..just to see the rats who deserted the sinking ship try to crawl back on!
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The US president said on Friday he had to act or else "Russia or China will take over Greenland", stepping up his threats about acquiring the Danish-administered territory. “We're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour," Mr Trump said. Has anyone told him they already have!
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Cheers Mal & you
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hope you have a great Christmas, this is Morecambe & Wise with Can’t Get Used To Losing You
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
For Remembrance Sunday
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If god forbid we end up with a Reform government in 2029 how many years will it take for the penny to drop that they can’t ’stop the boats’?
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
One thing you can say for France they do jail their convicted former presidents. news.sky.com/story/ex-fre...
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Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy enters prison for five-year sentence
Nicolas Sarkozy declared his innocence and held hands with his wife before entering prison to begin his five-year sentence.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This young actor went on to play Stan Ogden in Coronation Street. Bernard Youens (1914-1984) suffered a shrapnel wound to the leg during the battle of Anzio in 1944.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You too mate
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hope you’re ok mate, I’m fine, just not posted much on here lately, will try to post more👍
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am ok mate, hope you are too, post most stuff on the other place
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
😃👍
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Even with 20 or 30 MPs they will still get less media coverage than Reform’s 5.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My Grandma worked hard all her long life, in service from the age of 13 as a maid of all work (basically she did everything) & washing the pots, dusting & cleaning until she passed away aged 95 & she never had more than a few quid all her but then, she gave away money to anyone who had less than her
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I hope you can cope with the loss of your follower Reece, our thoughts are with you at this terrible time 😂
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“The way to control people is to frighten them, and to divide them. Divide them by race, by religion, by nationality, by class. And if you can set them against one another, you can control them.” Tony Benn.
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“I am not prepared to stand aside and see this country engulfed by the racial conflict which calculating orators or ignorant prejudice can create. (Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s response to Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers Of Blood’ speech 1966)
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
On this day in 1945
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’m doing the same now I’ve retired…brilliant isn’t it👍
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John Pitchford @johnnypapa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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