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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE

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Brexit refugee living in Italy. Singer, writer, teacher, director and Italophile.

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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I listened to the Today Programme today (unusually). Charles Moore is living on a different planet. 1st he stated that inequality in the UK had fallen over the last 40 years. Actually, it's the opposite. Then he said Burnham owed his education to Thatcher. Um, no. He benefitted from free education
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A case of reaping what you sow... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants
Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He became PM in July. Parliament has been in recess most of the time since. I think it's a bit early to come to conclusions but I'll be very happy to reconsider in a few months.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm not sure they need to be worried about beating Zack Polanski. I'm not a Labour supporter, BTW, but I do think the situation has changed with the arrival of Burnham. voteclimate.uk/constituenci...
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Holborn and St Pancras Constituency 2026 – VoteClimate
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No, actually, because I'm fluent in Italian.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Actually, it has.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Council elections aren't the same as parliamentary by-elections. Besides, Keir Starmer was still PM and incredibly unpopular at the time.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump's US has been turned into a scary Police State. Why are we having anything to do with it? We shun North Korea and isolated Saddam's Iraq and Ghadafi's Libya for such abuses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He really wasn't. He was calling Zack out on his posturing.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What "accommodating approach" to Trump? Have you not noticed that we have a new PM?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Labour aren't worried. It's perfectly normal for big beasts to visit constituencies during by-elections especially in a constituency formerly represented by a PM.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would like to think that this piece of shit's mother is embarrassed by him. Sadly, I fear she holds many of the same views. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Small boat arrivals are ‘wealthy men’ who do not deserve help, says Reform’s Danny Kruger
The fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claims
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We wouldn't be in this situation if the Tories hadn't privatised everything and then failed to invest in infrastructure. It's the same story every time they're in power. They never invest for the future. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Speed up electricity grid upgrade or else face higher bills, warns UK watchdog
National Audit Office says failure to implement £70bn modernisation would also hold back economic growth
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Isn't promulgating such climate denialism a security risk? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
David Cameron's disastrous referendum should have contained a requirement for a super majority; as should any proposal for major constitutional change. On the other hand, Brexit has at least produced one of the most pro EU movements in Europe.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The percentage of 18-30 year olds (most of whom weren't allowed to vote in 2016) who want to rejoin is 85%. The overall percentage is rising all the time.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't think anyone believes that cherry picking is possible. Most people want to rejoin the EU even if that means accepting Schengen and the Euro. Maybe, long term, the disaster of Brexit will actually make the UK grow up and behave as a proper member of the club.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They're keeping up the pressure on the Brextards who created the problem in the first place. I'm pretty sure they know it won't be acceptable to the EU as a standalone issue but it all contributes to moving the UK towards rejoining.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Mostly because they're trying to maintain enormous buildings which are money pits. Let them close or be pulled down and everyone complains about the church not protecting our heritage. You can't have it both ways.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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MAGA Country Music on Instagram: "So the question remains, what’s more insane: the president’s inglorious exit from the Air Force One, or the fact that he left the press corps as sitting ducks?"
34K likes, 1,976 comments - magacountrymusic on August 12, 2026: "So the question remains, what’s more insane: the president’s inglorious exit from the Air Force One, or the fact that he left the pres...
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Facts Matter…. And She Doesn’t
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Of course it should be but he doesn't care. I suspect he only visited Jaywick for the first time during this campaign.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Absolutely. The other parties really need to grasp the nettle and deal with the real issues facing people who live in places like Jaywick. They can no-longer be taken for granted and left behind (and should never have been so). Time will tell whether Burnham rises to the challenge.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They'll believe anything he says but, fortunately, they represent a minority of UK voters.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I expect a robust anti Farage campaign during the real by-election!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
While the actual joke candidate got almost half that number (9,455). I think there's hope for Clacton. More to the point, Binface is more popular nationally than Farage. The latter is on the slide: a downwards direction which will gain speed after the investigation results are announced.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
347. Fewer than the Rejoin EU candidate!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oo. I didn't think to look at that. I'll go and check now.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2/2 I think we should be supporting Clacton to make a better choice next time (hopefully, soon after the results of the investigation are declared).
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm not sure that's entirely fair: Binface got 27% of the vote in a 43% turnout. That's pretty remarkable for a joke candidate against the "saviour" of the UK. Also, he's made a fool of himself by lying about the police's "advice" not to attend the count. 1/2
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Disappointing. I can't believe they're still sticking to those wretched "red lines." It really is time the UK government grew up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour seeking ‘deeper relationship’ with EU under Burnham, new minister says
Exclusive: Hamish Falconer wants ‘sense of renewed pace’ in post-Brexit talks while staying within Labour’s red lines
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This needs sharing far and wide so that we can make 13th August Bin Day! youtube.com/watch?v=ujHp...
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Clacton Express: Binface 2026
YouTube video by Count Binface
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Glorious! open.spotify.com/episode/6QT3...
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200. Count Binface: Nigel Farage's Biggest Threat?
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Episode
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Still the nasty party, then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exactly. I only read it because I was looking forward to a barny!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Joe is clearly far more patient than me. I'd have had severe problems restraining myself in any conversation with Phil. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dining across the divide: ‘He didn’t change my mind on anything – but he did give me a lift to my car’
A prospective Restore Britain voter and a Green-supporting Chinese immigrant found some common ground over small-boat crossings, but where did they land on foxhunting?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
But Reform IS Farage. Like UKIP it'll implode without him. Whilst this would be good, the knuckle draggers will go to Restore.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Interesting results in Manchester. Reform is definitely on the slide 21% of first preference votes seems to be going in the right direction (IE, down). I do think, however, that it's time to introduce compulsory voting. And move polling day to Sunday. Thursday is ridiculous in this day and age.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Absolutely my favourite time of day. Evening sun on Monte Coscerno.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
OK, if you won't take my word for it, maybe you'll take the word of the Royal Family itself: www.royal.uk/royal-family...
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The Royal Family name
People often ask whether members of the Royal Family have a surname, and, if so, what it is. Members of the Royal Family can be known both by the name of the...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The official surname of the Royal Family is Mountbatten-Windsor. Sussex is their honorific, since he is the Duke thereof, in the same way that William is William Wales. He will, of course, cease to be that when he ascends the throne.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Has he forgiven Andrew? He's stripped him of all his titles and exiled him to Norfolk. Seems pretty harsh.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I don't understand what you're saying. By convention, British women take their husband's surname at marriage. This makes her Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor. She is a performer, however, so will want to use her stage name.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I begin to hope that we really might see the end of Frog Face's political career soon.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Really? The guy who says all the problems facing the UK are the result of 40 years of failed neo-liberalism? He's only been PM since Monday. Can't you give him some slack? Or do you want him to fail?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I find myself, once again, wondering about that report into Russian interference in the referendum, which was quashed by Johnson. The logical conclusion of all this law breaking is that Farage, Cottrell and Johnson (and probably many more) should all be in prison.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There were lots of reasons why she almost lost that election.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE @maestroc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
They really aren't representative. Plenty of Eastern European countries have as bad, if not worse, a problem: Russia above all.
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