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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Jake Berry jumps ship to Reform, stating that "Old Westminster politics has failed. But there's a better way." ... the same Jake Berry who spent 14 years conducting old Westminster politics (before losing his seat last year)! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ex-Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry defects to Reform UK

Earlier this week David Jones, the ex-Conservative Welsh secretary, also announced he had joined Nigel Farage's party.

Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

They (Labour) should reverse Brexit then... back in the single market will give a 4 to 8% lift in GDP (depending on forecasts).

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2025

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 07/06/2025

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Tories, especially under Badenoch, are in their final death throes of existance... at best, they'll be a 4th/5th place protest party in the English shires... and good riddance!

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I wonder if Musk knows whether the assassination attempt on Trump was real or not... that might be interesting to know.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Imagine what data (classified or not) that Musk must hold over Trump now after all the DOGE data-scraping... this is not going to be seismic.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm not sure many will have much sympathy

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Where's the 'fall' bit... any money paid back or convictions brought?

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Getting back in the EU single market/customs union would avoid the need for these welfare cuts... is Brexit going to eat its 6(?) Prime Minister?

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"You will also play into our quality ratings game so that we hold power over your annual performance reviews and overall career prospects". It's a wonder why more academics don't walk and build an open source model (esp. now that journals aren't actually printed).

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Have any Clacton constituents seen a marked improvement in their standard of living and/or lower crime, better services, nicer environment since voting in Farage as their MP?

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I can't see any other UK party holding a referendum on anything... it'll be in a party's manifesto to rejoin and then a defacto referendum via a general election.

Age is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010... let's hope the mobility scheme is challenged so that we can all benefit from it. The easiest way is a full rejoin, without delay.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

All the more reason to go further and faster to rejoining the EU! Perhaps Starmer is just dipping his toe to see the public's reaction before cracking on a bit more (hopefully). He'll have to drop his ridiculous mantra of 'no SM/CU/FoM' though.

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Yet we continue with winter fuel cuts, hammering the disabled, two child cap and WASPI debacle, to name a few... because there's no money! This wealth inequality can't continue.

Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Putting aside the legalities of it... 48.1% of the UK public didn't vote for Brexit in the first place... poll after poll shows that many of the 51.9% who did vote for it now regret it (and many have since died). Any party now harking back to Brexit being a good thing are doomed.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

There'll come a point, and soon, where Starmer's going to have to come off the fence and call Brexit out for the failure that it is... or make way for someone else who will be honest with the public.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I'm far more interested in (re)building strong relationships with the EU, including FoM... where you can trust the food standards and workers have protected rights.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Excellent summary... more of this is needed. Push back rather than Starmer/Labour's emulation.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Exactly, by Starmer trying to out-Reform Reform, it legitimises Reform's policies rather than challenge and crush them.

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks. Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them. Read the f*ing room. More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.

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Philippe Floppe @pfloppe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

He's just a 'shockateur'... the way to deal with him (and drive him absolutely crazy) is to completely and utterly ignore him... blank him, starve him of any attention, bandwidth, column inches. Don't let him live rent free in your head!

Might not be a popular opinion... but if I were Starmer, I'd use these local election results to hold a mini-reshuffle and move Reeves out of #11.

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Agreed... and also nationalise utilities (starting with water).

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All eyes on their ability to deliver now... How are things going in Clacton?... jobs, waiting lists, social care, housing, potholes, education, etc, etc... has their ReformUK MP transformed things for the better?

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Still one council to go and ReformUK just 4 councillors away from finishing on 666.

So Starmer rigidly sticks to no EU single market, customs union or FoM... stick to hard #Brexit... for fear of Reform making gains... now Reform makes gains! He has nothing to lose and all to gain by #RejoinEU.

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And only 1600 out of c.17000 councillors in England were up for grabs today. We shouldn't view these results as representative of a UK general election.

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It's quite clear now that the Tories are irrelevant. You must wonder what has happened to your old party!

Will there even be a university system in a few years, most of it is on the verge of going bust.

The only good thing about these results is that it will be crystal clear by the time of the next election that people's lives will not be transformed by empty Reform promises... potholes, care, crime, education, etc won't magically transform in Reform-run councils.

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I'd love to see how much money ReformUK put into these elections, who funded it and whether there was any influence/bias put into social media platforms/campaigns.

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