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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈

@jrloakley.bsky.social
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Class 1 HGV Driver, pragmatic centrist, Former Civil Servant at HMTreasury and Parliamentary Comms Manager. Runner fundraiser on behalf of Mind - the mental health charity (not affiliated). Views are my own.

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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Never forget the 34th rule of aquistition; “War is good for business”. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/...
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Trump pledged to be a 'peacemaker' in the Middle East — now the United States is entering a new war
Five months ago, President Donald Trump promised to be a peacemaker and a unifier. Tonight, the United States attacked Iran, hitting three nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Trump administration is working to erase LGBT+ history. And what’s worse, he has LGBT+ supporters clapping him on believing they’re somehow protected from his prejudice.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Disappointed in Labour. Instead of countering the Reform bull crap on immigration, they’ve followed the Tory route of pandering to it. This country is doomed, and it seems the only salvation is the LibDems and the Greens.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Hi all, tomorrow I’m running the Bristol Half Marathon for Cancer Research UK, in memory of Lou who left us last year. If you could spare a few £ towards this great cause - one I know touches millions of lives - I would be hugely grateful. With love! 🌻💙 #ForLou www.justgiving.com/page/louisef...
justgiving.com
Doing it for Lou 🏃🏻‍♀️💙🌻🏃🏻
Help Katie Flook raise money to support Cancer Research UK
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Ah yes, because nothing screams “helping ordinary people” than scrapping second-home taxes, which will help… *checks notes*… 3% of the population, who are… *checks notes*… in the top 15% of wealth distribution.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Fact check: Beales went into administration in 2020, closing all of its stores. A new set up company called “New Start 2020” reopened one store in Poole. Its owner, Tony Brown, is an open supporter of the Conservatives. He never once criticised the Tories during Govt when the chain collapsed.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hey, if anyone had to win to show the level of incompetence that ReformUKLtd can achieve, it’s Andrea Jenkyns. Let’s be grateful that Reform are only winning positions which aren’t monumental, but still demonstrate how terrible they are once in a role of authority.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
He can keep it closed - we don’t want him!!
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Incredible; decades of child abused didn’t destroy the Catholic Church; Pope Francis telling people to be kind to each other, did. And yes, she’s MAGA. Say no more.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The best part of #OblivionRemastered is Patrick Stewart as Emperor Uriel Septim!
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Reform voters: “stop the boats - look after our own!!” Also reform voters: “your kids can eat bread and 1 tin of spaghetti hoops for a week for breakfast you lazy sh*ts”
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Please don’t tell me I was the only one to have a crush on Danny Walters? (Tiger Dyke in Benidorm) 😅😅
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
You know how I know people “of faith” are simply using said faith to justify their hatred and prejudice? Because many of them aren’t sad to hear Pope Francis died, and for the next pope to “not be woke”. They disliked him for his views, more than they liked him for his faith. Think about that.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Wait - so EU members can make trade deals within the EU??? Anyone want to tell Brexiters??
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You can try and legislate people out of existence, like they tried to do to gay men once upon a time, but we still existed, thrived and survived. To my trans friends, you will too. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Are you a prejudiced bigot? Have you been kicked out of a bigot-party because you got too much attention as part of your grifting? Then why not try starting yet another far-right party! Benefits include; • Being party leader • sense of egotism • income from sheeples • make your own name and logo!
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Who wants to tell her?
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Reform UK Ltd before the EU referendum (when they were UKIP) said that we wouldn’t lower food standards. They then said Trump would be a great ally to the Uk. As Reform then campaigned to “support our farmers”. Now they advocate Trump’s bullying to accept lower food standards and harm our farmers.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Why? Apart from increasing costs, millions of us across the world have lost THOUSANDS in pensions as a result of market plunges.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The same evening, LibDems gained two seats from Labour in two separate authorities. Reform came third in both. Yet this is the spin the right-wing media blow out.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Why is it that the people complaining bitterly about Boevaer in cattle feed, are supporting food imports from the US which is flooded with dangerous chemicals and ingredients? Make it make sense?!
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Republicans and right-wingers (specifically MAGA cultists) cried bl**dy m*rder over Zelenskyy not wearing a suit to the White House. Yet Kid Rock appears looking like an extra from fraggle rock and no one says a word…
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hilarious, but scarily i think it would actually work… youtube.com/shorts/PqzQE...
youtube.com
#Trump renames EVERYTHING #PUPPETREGIME
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
JD Vance is history’s most unpopular Vice-President, beating Dan Quayle and Spiro Agnew washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/21/j...
washingtonmonthly.com
J.D. Vance Is the Most Disliked New Vice President in History | Washington Monthly
The public isn’t taking to J.D. Vance's obnoxious style, which bodes well for politics in the post-Trump era.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
These adverts are worse than anything we made as 12 year olds in drama class. I honestly am bewildered at how they think this stuff is actually in any way fit for purpose. #TheApprentice
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Since WW2, America has pushed the narrative that the west relies on them for nearly everything, & we’ve been comfortable enough to let them assume that. Now Trump thinks he can use it as a ransom point, the west have bitten the bullet and said, “fine, we don’t actually need you” And it’s about time.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’ve seen more intelligence at a lodge meeting of the guild of village idiots.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I won’t lie, I didn’t vote Labour at the last election, but I had high hopes that they would restore human dignity and pride in Britain. Instead they have deepened the shame I have in this country, its Government, and the values we allegedly hold so dear.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Bon appetit! Pork fillet medallions on a bed of mash with roasted tenderstem broccoli and a brandy-mustard cream sauce 🧑‍🍳
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This: this is why we still need pride. Yes, we fought and won for our rights, but like any rights, they can be so easily taken away by those with malicious intent. The LGBT+ community is constantly under attack- and we’re going to push back harder than ever. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
theguardian.com
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ population
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I dont understand people’s mentality. They get rid of the Tories for their right-wing policies, then are surprised when a right-wing Labour Party does the same thing. Then they think the right way to go is support an even further right-wing Reform party?! If you want centre-left, back the LibDems!
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Right-wing shill, “Benonwine”, who used his profile for Waitrose wines, is complaining that Waitrose have now suspended him for using the account to spew hate, as an “affront to free speech”. Yet he repeatedly called for Lineker to be sacked,& now uses ECHR rights despite calling for UK to leave it.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Sharia law is not a “law”. It is a cultural or religion custom. The UK has its equivalent - “canon law”. The same right-wingers don’t even know about it never mind object to it.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill one million, it is a statistic”. ~ Stalin. Every deportation is the destruction of a family. And closer to home, it is another blow to the American economy. And his sheep lap it up as “good for them”.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Who pays €400 euros per head for a corporate away day and have no wine? Unbelievable how the candidates expect people to be satisfied with that. #TheApprentice
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Love her or hate her, you cannot deny Hillary Clinton was bang on the money when she said Trump was “Putin’s Puppet”.
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hillary clinton is smiling while giving a speech on cnn at 10:22 pm
ALT: hillary clinton is smiling while giving a speech on cnn at 10:22 pm
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’d have at least named him “Easter Edd” with the xtra D, so his name same some resemblance to the word “egg”. Great product, badly executed. #TheApprentice
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This episode is particularly bad. I’ve found myself with my head in my hands three times already and we’re 7minutes in. What’s the obsession with “Luxury” when it comes to candidates on these tasks? #TheApprentice
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Part of Trump’s plan involves importing eggs… which won’t make any difference to prices since he’s imposed tariffs on most of his trading partners. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump administration unveils bird flu plan as egg prices soar
A US bird flu epidemic has resulted in the deaths of tens-of-millions of poultry and strained the country's egg supply.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 Слава Україні 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump slags off all his ‘allies’ from Canada to Denmark, and yet praises dictators from Putin, to Jong Un. If there ever is a WW3, it will be because of Trump.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If Trump has proven anything, it’s that America can no longer be considered an ally to any other nation (except it seems, Russia). The days of America being the world’s Shepherd are well and truly over.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
God Trumpers are so thick. It’s not much different to the American EB5 programme. But whatever Trump says is sacrosanct 🙄
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reform candidate Derek Wilson has been arrested for suggesting *multiple times* that Keir Starmer should be assassinated. His family then complain that he has been treated unfairly for “simply posting his views on Starmer”. His daughter then proudly proclaims “I’m here for it” on Starmer being shot.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m afraid I have no sympathy for the Trump voters who now regret their vote. It hard to feel sympathy for people who voted along the line of “I thought he’d make other people’s lives harder, not my own”.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Tigger the tart is very comfortable tonight
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just waiting for Trump to do this.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Liz Truss is known to be the stupidest person in the Tory Party. And as you can imagine, that’s up against some pretty stiff competition.
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Joe Oakley 🏳️‍🌈 @jrloakley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Nadia was by far the worst candidate I’ve seen on #TheApprentice since Katie Hopkins. Arrogant, narcissistic, and utterly clueless.
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