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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 17h

They don't have the capacity to produce much, and will have far less when Ukraine brings their ballistic missiles on line.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In fairness James, she'll be rather happy at finishing ahead of Reform, for the first time in this parliament.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A fifth of leave voters consider themselves liberal yet voted to leave the EU?? I think AI will get self awareness way before those guys.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The undead hauling themselves from the grave.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think that's right, but I also think it is entirely possible that as part of any accession process Ireland suggests/supports (I wouldn't put it stronger) UK being in Schengen.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't believe being left or right matters if, and only if, there is a commitment to the EU project (or at least a commitment not to dismantle it). All parties have said they won't leave the EU (AfD excepted) and all will want the UK's contributions. The EU trancends electoral cycles.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The law is not vindicating rights, it is prosecuting the law. In this case it being illegal to kill. The real question is not only punishment for breaking the law, but also, IMO, to restore societal cohesion.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When one is dead, one is dead. There is nothing to protect. Killing anyone else does nothing for the original victim. It's retrubutive justice which tends to desensetive society to violence.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's what I mean, Colleen will not benefit from Pike's death.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Big picture or go home... 100%

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brilliant piece. Do try to read, even though it is behind a paywall.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A stunning and moving piece. It captures effortlessly the agony this political play is reawakening. Congratulations.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andrew Neil, a person I don't pay much attention to these days, was sobering on BBC Newsnight last night. Sadly I tend to agree with him: any referendum to return will be every bit as divisive as the first and it will take up the entire bandwidth of any government.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Her victim will not benefit from her death.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RN policy is not to leave the EU nor the €. But it will make Brussels sweat for consensus. The sooner we get QM voting the better.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IMHO FPTP is not democratic. I think we in the EU would be creating a rod for our own back if we take the UK back in with this electoral system. A move of relatively small % of voters could see a Reform government sometime within 20 years. Hopefully Burnham's move to change the system actually does

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The EP 2024-29 is made up of 266 seats Centre right and Right, 266 seats Centre left and Left. I have found that MEP returns does not necessarily reflect TD (MP) returns.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...the European social security pass, or right to repair legislation, or global minimum corporate tax directive, or affordable housing initiatives, or farn animal protections, traceability of breeding (cats and dogs), ecodesign directives for product sustainability. "right wing club" ? 🤔

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Talking of over simplification... Would a "right wing club" enact the EU's green policies? Or crackdown on greenwashing, or corporate sustainability directive, or AI safeguard act, or fair labour package, or Platform work (gig economy) directive, or pay transparency directive, or ...

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

View from influencial MEP (Italian, didn't catch his name) on Radio 4 just now is that UK would be like any candidate nation, but since regulatory alignment is still strong and economies similar levels, he'd expect accession to go quickly.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given his emphasis on a 'Made in Britain' initiative in his speech this morning, I guess Labour has given up trying to be part of the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gave up listening to the Two Matts a while back (ironically, Niall's post might make me check out this ep.) They have slowly moved right. Last time I checked they were at the 'pragmatic Conservative' stage. Sounds like they are now approaching the 'Farage may have a point' stage.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lol. Get off the fence! But you are correct, a wealth tax, alongside capital gains tax, increased council tax on properties >£1.5, gambling tax, energy windfall taxes will go a long way. But the real game changer is getting back into the EU.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Patrick Freyne in today's Irish Times on RTÉ's The Traitors Ireland. A short sentence with a record number of truisms.

Photo of part of Patric Freyne's piece on The Traitors Ireland. It reads " RTÉ's version is better than the BBC's, because being a colonised people makes you sneaker"

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They are only €35m in debt. I don't disagree with a boycott, but people gotta get real with the repercussions

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Will those 160 chip in circa €3000 each to compensate?

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are the EU. And you do have to change. Massively.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In that case good luck being outside as a 3rd country for a long long time

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In that case you are not even in the pool. Good luck with trying to get Brussels (us) to take you seriously.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Get yourself a) a Proportional Representation electoral system b) a written constitution which any referendum is advisory and c) >80% want to rejoin (including Schengen and €) and then we can negotiate knowing it is not futile.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Again you don't get it. Why on earth should we negotiate anything that can be turned upside down as a result of a single general election. I get that the slim majority of UK people would like to rejoin. But if Reform are put in that's immaterial and redundant. Why should we take that chance?

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You don't get it. FPTP is far too volitile. If rejoining the EU is not wholeheartedly supported by <80% of the UK population, why should we take the chance that at the next election reform get a majority and decide to leave? We don't want shit from a Brexit II again.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To get back in 52% is way too few. Who in their right mind would allow in a country in that would flounce again out with a 2% switch Other countries have PR, or written constitutions, or media which has not been hijacked The UK is a structural basket case. You need to _prove_ you are trustworthy

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Get rid of those red lines, all of them, with the proactive and positive support of 80% of the electorate, and we'll take you seriously.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lol. You think the UK just has to choose from its own menu

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's absolutely futile while those red lines are maintained by Burnham, and violently anti EU voter are about 25-30% of the electorate

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The dogs in the street know Brexit was a moronic decision. We know that. They know that. Everyone knows that. Now then: What. Happens. Next?

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The greatest trompe d'œil created by Netanyahu is to persuade voters that he is comparatively moderate and that only for him Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc would go nuclear. It's time the Israeli electorate realised Netanyahu is leading them down a path from which there may be no recovery.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They (the electorate) have had 18 years to wise up.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do criticise the Israeli govt. And I blame the Israeli electorate for voting them in time and time again. Don't talk to me about the Russian "electorate". Their cowardice has handed their country to a kleptocratic dictator.

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Richard Kavanagh @richkav.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not wide enough. But if this government is voted out on the 27th Oct, I'll be delighted (and gobsmacked)

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