Pro European activist. keep calm and carry on FBPE. Lib Dem + Labour + Greens together we can GTTO! Blocked by Daniel Hannon!
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Yes! And I urge everyone who hasn't done so already to join the European Movement. europeanmovement.co.uk/
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
The poppy is a quiet symbol of remembrance. It is NOT a pay & display item to prove you’re more patriotic than others, a photo opportunity or a competition. Wear it quietly, or not all but please do donate, that’s the important part, not this performative, opportunistic wankery.
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James Cleverly’s claim that the UK couldn’t cut VAT because we were in the EU is wrong.
In 2008, while the UK was an EU member, the government cut standard VAT from 17.5% to 15%.
And in July 2020, during the Brexit transition period, the government cut VAT to 5% on certain hospitality and tourism services. EU rules allowed reduced rates on eligible services.
Covid and the war in Ukraine make Brexit’s precise economic impact harder to isolate. They don’t make it impossible to estimate: the OBR still forecasts that the UK’s post-Brexit trading relationship will reduce long-run productivity by 4% compared with staying in the EU.
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Confirmation of what I’ve been saying: the EU is open to Britain rejoining without having to join Schengen or the euro :
politico.eu/article/brussels…
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Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time.
It is excellent.
They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Brexit was like walking out of your home for good on a warm, sunny day with no coat, no food and no supplies because you assumed the weather would never change.
Then the storms came: Covid, Ukraine, Iran/Hormuz, climate extremes
A decade later, Britain has discovered what happens when a country strips away its resilience.
🔥 The IFS says the 2020s are on course to be the worst decade for household income growth since records began in 1950.
Typical working-age household incomes are forecast to FALL by another £1,050 by 2028-29.
Britain cannot rebate its way out of this.
🧵 1/2 👇
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Very enjoyable evening in Warwick with an audience clearly supporting the idea that Brexit was a disaster and net zero is the only way to go. Nice of @libdemdaisy to be there on her birthday! We all drank to her health afterwards apart from @ZiaYusufUK who legged it with his status symbol bodyguard. Fascinating to see how he did not make a single positive argument for Brexit. They never do. He has lovely shoes though, but a very weak handshake which is never a good sign in anyone.
Tonight, Question Time is in Warwick
Joining Fiona on the panel are Emma Reynolds, James Cartlidge, Daisy Cooper, Zia Yusuf, and Alastair Campbell
Watch at 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds & the @BBCNews channel, 10.40pm on @BBCOne
#bbcqt
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
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Patrick Stewart talks about Clement Attlee (best ever UK PM) winning when he was 5 and how he has been a Socialist ever since.
Which terrifies Americans.
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Gove began to reduce the education staffing in local authorities removing advisers from each LA as soon as he became education secretary, advised by Cummings 2010/2011.
Small state politics.
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
@libdemdaisy speaking on BBC Question Time explains how freedom of movement would grow the UK economy.
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#bbcqt
👏👏👏 @campbellclaret
"Brexit has taken 6 to 8 percent out of our economy. If we had not left the Chancellor today would have had £90 billion more to spend. The people who gave us Brexit.......do not fall for them because they are a bunch of conmen".
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
This is what HATE towards asylum seekers does.
A pensioner - 65yo Mark Neville threw a petrol bomb at a migrant hotel....
Police said Neville was "motivated by hate" and the attack was "designed to terrify residents and the local community"
Let that sink in - A petrol bomb!!!
This is what happens when asylum seekers are dehumanised and turned into targets. When politicians use inflammatory rhetoric about vulnerable people, it has consequences. Lives are being put at risk.
If you think this is acceptable you really need to seek help and check you aren't being radicalised by your algorithm and politicians.
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
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A reminder of when the Far Right went to Birmingham and got told to fuck off.
Hilarious.
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Britain is NOT broken.
#RejoinEU
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It would be very, very funny if Robert Jenrick loses his seat at the next election.
Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgeho…
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
ALT Eden, a patient admitted to Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.