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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

@oldmanbigkid.bsky.social
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Old man, big kid. Socialist. Made in Yorkshire. Unofficial Welshman. Retired Town Planner, Graphic Designer. Pretend musician, guitarist & luthier. Lapsed photographer. TwitterQuitter. Apprentice 3D printer!

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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Polanski pressured to resign because the Green party ‘lost’ an election (came second to Labour, but not Badenoch whose party came third?
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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Be careful tomorrow! #eclipse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/solar...
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Solar eclipse 2026 warning from man with lasting eye damage
Peter Smith damaged his eyes by watching the 1999 eclipse without suitable glasses.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Welcome to the Shitehouse.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The fact that Trump, his daughter and the Kuchners are involved in the FIFA debacle tells you everything that’s wrong with it. This is nothing to do with football and everything (only) to do with money.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Seriously though, what is the point of Tom Bradbury on ITV 10 o’clock news reporting ‘live’ outside Downing Street? I mean why?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When does Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ start?
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You have to love the British sense of humour Sound up
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Will Clacton notice they have no MP this morning?
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/07/2026
The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I regard myself as part of the establishment. How do cast my vote in the election of Farage v the establishment?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Maybe it’s just me, but If you choose to resign a seat as an MP, you shouldn’t get to stand in the resulting by-election. Enough of this performative bollox in order to avoid proper parliamentary scrutiny. Farage’s base don’t give a toss whether he’s done wrong or not.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So the BBC et al allow Farage a totally unchallenged platform. Totally unacceptable.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage know his base in Clacton don't give a toss about any potential wrongdoing.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He's doing a Trump. He's claiming that if he wins Clacton it doesn't matter what he's done wrong.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Really? Clacton will judge his guilt or innocence? Is that how it works?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm sorry, why do the BBC allow this blatant party politacal broadcast? Yet he claims to be demonised by the media?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage is a bigger cunt than I thought.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage opposed Levison! Free Press he championed!
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage - demonised by the media? Fuck off.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage - "outside income" A £5m gift is not 'outside income'!
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”
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ItsmeMadi @itsmemadi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sidoti’s words say everything; no need to summarise. 🤬🤬 #Genocide #Genocide #Genocide #Genocide #Genocide #Genocide #ChildKillingMonsters
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Left: President Trump, "It will last for at least 50 years, if you had a knife you can't even cut it" Right: President Trump, "We have a 300 foot slit, probably a boxcutter or a knife of some kind" Is there anyone in the USA who still believes Trump?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If they filled the Reflecting Pool with water before the paint had fully cured then it occurs to me that driving over it before they filled it with water wasn’t the best idea?
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Where did you hear it Daz? Was it the voice in your head?
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CathySchott @atlantacathy2.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nigel Farage didn't comment on this, not once. He didn't even comment on it when one of his Councillors was fired by Reform for celebrating this attack. Not a single word because the offender was the WHITE type of offender.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Trump is now up there with Marcos and Ceaușescu except we know the names of a lot more of his co-conspirators in this corruption. In Trump’s case it all takes place under their ridiculous attempt of the illusion of democracy.
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy Bank Holiday! Here’s a tongue-in-cheek #parody song about #nigelfarage accepting a massive gift from a #crypto billionaire and then hiding from a #BBC interview - to the iconic tune #500miles of the legendary Proclaimers … We’re calling it: “Five Million Quid” 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶 youtu.be/z5A0qpWUrfg?...
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"5 Million Quid" - Marsh Family parody of The Proclaimers "(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles" on Farage gift
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention. And he doesn’t have to do it formally to defy Congress, he can do it with actions that they can’t stop.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸 '𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁' 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 Fixed it for you Greater Manchester News
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸 '𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁' 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement. I think this is Israel.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
😡😡😡😡
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sick of British media reporting on Trump’s comments about Starmer from the prospective that it is justified and somehow a fault of Starmer’s ‘diplomacy’. Whereas they should be reporting it for what it is. The ignorant, uneducated comments of a school bully who can’t get their own way.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can just say things.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Nigel standing up and supporting Clacton.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My grand-daughter Emmy’s debut single is live! 😄 open.spotify.com/album/786D38... Gran
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I Tried To Tell Him
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In a world with or without Trump, be more Springsteen than Minaj.
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John Hilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @oldmanbigkid.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
No way Trump wrote that!
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 30/01/2026
Trump officially picks Warsh as Fed Chair

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. Kevin currently serves as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Partner of Stanley Druckenmiller at Duquesne Family Office LLC. Kevin received his A.B. from Stanford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has conducted extensive research in the field of Economics and Finance. Kevin issued an Independent Report to the Bank of England proposing reforms in the conduct of Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom. Parliament adopted the Report's recommendations. Kevin Warsh became the youngest Fed Governor, ever, at 35, and served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011, as the Federal Reserve's Representative to the Group of Twenty (G-20), and as the Board's Emissary to the Emerging and Advanced Economies in Asia. In addition, he was Administrative Governor, managing and overseeing the Board's operations, personnel, and financial performance. Prior to his appointment to the Board, from 2002 until 2006, Kevin served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Executive Secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, Kevin was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Morgan Stanley & Co., in New York, serving as Vice President and Executive Director. I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is “central casting,” and he will never let you down. Congratulations Kevin! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP



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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Farage ‘Britain is Broken’ (So let’s hire everyone who broke it)
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