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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
As a supporter of Scots independence, my initial reaction is “bring it on!” With so many parties fighting for such small percentages of UK votes, the SNP can leverage the critical support from their MPs to put into No 10 the UK party offering Scotland an independence referendum.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Now Starmer/Labour have “broken the ice” after 9 year silence from all UK politicians publicly showing a willingness to move towards EU - could now it embolden LibDems to be much more aggressive in pushing their pro-EU policies? Or will it just be more bungee-jumping and water-slides from Ed Davey?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank for your reply. May I ask who do you think will break cover first? Rejoin SM/CU or EU is technically LibDem official policy, but even LibDem politicians still terrified to openly discuss anything that sounds like moving towards rejoining EU…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If remainers/rejoiners can fully understand *why* Brexiters can still garner such support (even with every relevant economic/immigration/public-services datapoint showing their Brexit has been a disaster), rejoiners can effectively target this point in their campaigning for optimum results…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
But *why* is that hare still running when the data since 2016 is so bad? Is it due to Brexiters tying their deluded economics with anti-immigration rhetoric? UK voters concerned about immigration are simply happy to ignore the appalling Brexit economics - if they think it means less immigrants?..
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Do you think Starmer will have learned that no matter what he does to try and placate Brexiters, he will never be able to do enough to prevent their endless criticism? And if he has learned this, will it enable Starmer to be bolder with moving UK closer to EU?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
One quick question if I may… Starmer clearly timed India & US agreements, and vitriolic immigration speech, just days before EU summit hoping they would placate Brexiters from backlashing against yesterday’s EU agreement… But Brexiters’ backlash happened anyway…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Loved this! Getting Starmer to this point often seemed like everyone was trying pointlessly to get one of those supertanker ships to change course before it crashed. But you did it! Thank you. A big Best for Britain donation on its way this payday…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Although on X, it’s a masterclass on Brexiter attitudes from @mrjamesob.bsky.social that’s well worth watching…. x.com/lbc/status/1...
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LBC on X: "“You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?” “I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.” James O’Brien is less than impressed with Brexit voter Richard. https://t.co/QnMnikXxHP" / X
“You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?” “I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.” James O’Brien is less than impressed with Brexit voter Richard. https://t.co/QnMnikXxHP
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
They can still fish, but they can no longer hinder other UK industries from accessing the huge opportunities for growth in the EUs massive 500-million consumer market. £1.4 billion a year is nothing - if it stops Farage constantly preventing UK companies accessing EU markets.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Brexiters like Farage can moan about their fishing industry nostalgia - but if all the 18,000 employed in fishing are offered £80K a year to accept UKs closer relationship with EU, almost all 18,000 will ignore Farage and happily take the cash….
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
That £80K annual payment to all in UK fishing industry would only cost £1.4 billion a year… less than 1% of UK creative sector annual revenues I’m UK architect working in creative sector. Would forgo 1% of revenue to open all work opportunities made possible to me in EUs vast 500-million pax market
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Money talks - and it’s a tiny industry. Just pay them off. If all 18,000 employed in UK fishing were offered an £80K salary for life for accepting the terms of this EU deal - most would drop fishing in a heartbeat - and immediately accept the £80K…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
These 18,000 can fish or not fish, but they get £80k a year to stop other UK industries from being permanently shackled by their God-awful Brexit. This scheme stopping rest of UK being hit by Brexit due to “British fish” would cost less than 1% of UK creative sector annual revenues.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It would be much easier - and much cheaper - for UK to agree to EU deal enabling the £125 Billion UK creative sector to thrive…. then using less than 1% of creative sector annual profits, UK pays all 18,000 employed in UK fishing an £80K salary a year to do nothing….
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Surely any UK journalist with an ounce of integrity can easily put this point to Brexiters who moan constantly in interviews about “British fish”???…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Everyone agrees UK creative sector (employing 2.3 million Brits and earning £125 Billion a year for UK) has been very negatively hit by Brexit. But Brexiters want to sacrifice the £125 Billion British creative industry for UK fishing that employs just 18,000 and earns only £1 Billion a year?…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
All this times so close to his EU summit with von der Leyen this coming Monday…. It seems that Starmer only willing to take steps moving UK towards EU that will be announced on Monday (upsetting Brexiters) by flooding UK media agenda with other news designed to appeal to Brexiters.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
And yesterday, Starmer in Albania pretending he’s got plans to deport failed asylum seekers to third countries - again, trying to appeal to right-wing Brexiters. (Though Albania quickly denied such plans)…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I’m convinced it’s all too coincidental… Signing trade agreements with former colonies… Vitriolic language on immigration... All succour for right-wing UK media and Brexiters. And all just days before Starmer’s long-planned EU summit…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I guess we’ll know more on Monday when Starmer meets VdL. (If this will be Starmer’s approach to every incremental step UK makes towards EU, we’ll all be subjected to a barrage of toxic language and policy coming from No 10 each time any potential new agreement with EU comes onto the horizon)
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Now we have media “leaks” of Tory Brexiter Chris Philip criticising Brexit… Starmer is clearly terrified of UK’s right-wing media. It seems Starmer will only take steps moving UK towards EU (that will annoy Brexiters) by flooding UK media with other news designed to appeal to Brexiters.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m convinced, most probably incorrectly, it’s just all too coincidental… Signing trade agreements with former colonies… Vitriolic language on immigration... All succour for right-wing UK media and Brexiters. And all just days before Starmer’s long-planned EU summit…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
ie… Starmer strategy is to make small, incremental steps towards EU… but he plans to drown out each step in UK media with a barrage of toxic right-wing rhetoric and trade deal announcements with former colonies to please Brexiters.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Is the timing of trade deal announcements with India & USA, and this week’s vitriolic language on immigration, just days before Starmer’s long-planned summit with Von der Leyen, all part of Starmer’s strategy on moving UK towards EU?…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Farage sees Scotland as a northern English province and wants Scots parliament disbanded No Scot will put up with that Scotland as independent nation and EU member - while Farage goose-steps around England in red corduroy trousers getting Hitler salutes from his cretinous supporters Fine with me
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Not apologist. Just Scots independence supporter. Starmer’s strategy seems to be to ensure rabid English nationalist Farage becomes next PM. Scots loathe Tories. after 10 months of Starmer they also now loathe Labour. But they despise Farage even more. Farage as PM will unite Scots for independence.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Is the term “Git” common in America… thought it was just Brits who used it?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
OK chaps…. As I was telling Mr Sutcliffe, it’s well past 2am here and I’m getting rather sleepy. I’ve got an early train to catch tomorrow. Big meeting with clients in from Singapore… Been good to chat. Take care
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Let me guess Dave… is that poor man now dead because an American policemen shot him when he stopped at 7 Eleven to pick up a burrito in his way home after the game?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sorry Dave, I forgot… it’s America. Americans shoot people so often, they probably don’t bother keeping a record who they shot that day.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
How would I know you Dave? The only thing you’ve ever said to me is “loser” which also happens to be the same word your president proudly belches ten times a minute. I thought people got shot in America for not standing for the anthem? Didn’t that poor NFL player have to quit for taking the knee?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
To be honest Mr Sutcliffe, I live in a city surrounded by 10 million others. I take the tube to work, except when the weather’s nice when I take the riverboat past St Paul’s cathedral to alight at London Bridge where I walk to the office. I honestly don’t know what a jackass is. Is it like a donkey?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Understand the word “loser”? The same word that emanates from Trump’s mouth a dozen times a minute?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
So you’re Canadian and I’m British - arguing on an app about an election neither of us could vote in… God. I gotta get a life! It’s 2am here - and I think you’ve helped my insomnia as I’m now quite sleepy. Been good to chat. Take care.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“I pledge allegiance to the flag…” Christ almighty David. Have you finished yet???. Please excuse us while the rest of the world had to look for a bucket to vomit into.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hang on a minute… You’re American so probably have a Stars and Stripes flag in your driveway. Or perhaps even in your home office. I’ll wait a second so you can get up and give your flag a hug…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Here we go… another American happily calling people “losers” for having an opinion that differs from theirs… Christ, no wonder Trump got into the White House so easily by simply emulating 330 million infantile Americans. Let me guess… you’re going to start chanting “USA! USA! USA!” next?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you’re American Mr Git, Trump winning 2024 is simply the final instalment of a concerted, decades-long campaign to end democracy in USA. Things in US will get much worse before they get better. It will be generations until the US ever recovers.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Christ. It’s well documented Jill Stein was funded by Steve Bannon’s cabal to suck votes from the Harris - and full credit to Bannon, his plan worked! My 6 year old Labrador had a better chance of winning presidency than Cruz or West.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Harris - whose decades long career as a public prosecutor - was based on the principle of habeas corpus that Trump now wants to decimate in US. I suppose you blame Trump’s plans to dismantle habeus corpus from US judicial system on Harris too?
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
But by all means Mr Sutcliffe, let’s not hold Trump to account. Let’s all blame Kamala Harris.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Not just Canadians, but the entire world loathe both pro-Trumpers telling us he’s the second coming of Christ, or anti-Trump Americans telling us he’s harmless and just ignore him. Its hardly surprising no one in their right mind will now ever visiting US.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
You live in a nation who put a sociopath into the White House - for the second time - and you expect the rest of world to simply ignore the endless stream of batshit plans from the guy your nation just elected into its highest office…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I guess you’re American. Your president - the Commander in Chief of the world’s most powerful military and leader of the world’s richest ever nation - is in Oval Office telling the world that Gaza coastline is an ideal resort development opportunity if only Palestinians would just get out the way…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I totally agree. With such a pedigreed education and resume, she was practically incoherent in interviews - and without her reading from a script, no one could ever understand what point she was trying to make. HRC simply had the social skills of a turnip - should never have gone into politics.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thunberg’s naïve. Her not endorsing Harris contributed to Trump becoming president so he can now implement his plans to clear Gaza to build his huge casinos belching out fumes from their air-conditioned towers and his new golf courses draining all Gaza’s water just to keep grass green…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Harris ultimately raised over $1 billion for her campaign… A poxy £5 million from Israeli lobby is a tiny fraction of a percent of her total fundraising. The maths dictates she raised more from her various Arab American funders…
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Perhaps Starmer is hoping each incremental step towards EU will moderately grow UK economy, but when compounded together by 2029 general election, UK economy will be growing enough after decades of stagnation, UK electorate will no longer consider immigration to be a priority.
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Pete Howe @petehowe33.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Could all this indicate Starmer’s approach to reconnecting UK with EU? Quietly making small incremental steps moving UK towards EU, but drowning each step in the media with barrage of toxic right-wing rhetoric and announcements of non-existent trade deals with former colonies to please Brexiters.
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