We’re now in a straight fight against fascism. Ex Armed Forces. Ex Aerospace CEO. Dislikes Brexit/Reform/Tories. Likes F1, wine, Europe. Slava Ukraini. No DMs
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Liberal Britain fails to recognise that the ruling class have skilfully managed to convince the working class that their problem is due to immigration & Islam, having already convinced them it was all the fault of the EU. We’re heading for full blown fascism & the left is asleep
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
Russian strikes on Ukraine today are truly horrific. A train station in Dnipro, downtown Chernihiv. A father crying over the body of his child. Children screaming for a dad who is now gone.
And no reaction from the US, which is the most involved in making a "peace deal." Nothing from Trump at all.
It creates such a scary, dangerous reality, one where russian oil refineries are protected, but Ukrainian children simply walking the streets of their cities are treated as fair targets. One where the aggression is supported and rewarded and the resistance is judged.
I’m horrified by the world I find myself in. This is not how you make peace deals, this is how you betray your allies and throw them to the wolves.
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
What the hell is wrong with the sports world? You have to be completely morally blind to think this is acceptable on any level.
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- Sanna Marin- Former PM of Finland
"If we had provided weapons in time, if we had provided the equipment and financial support the country needed in time, I don't believe we would still be in this situation.
The outcome of the war in Ukraine is our choice.”
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Great woman and I agree with every sentence
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Europe is still watching...
How much longer will these people suffer?! Winter is comming!!
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
#bbcqt
Freedom of Movement is NOT an unconditional right under EU law: it is conditional on finding a job or being self-sufficient i.e. not being a burden on taxpayers. Otherwise there is no right to stay.
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
‼️ Well said @campbellclaret 👏
“Brexit has taken 6-8% out of our economy.
If we had not left, the chancellor would have had £90 billion more to spend today. He could’ve doubled the defence budget and added 50% to the health budget as well.”
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
Andrey Gyurov:
"We don't want our children to live in the fear, dependency, and poverty of the past. We want a Bulgaria that looks to the future, a European Bulgaria, free and proud."
I stand with Andrey Gyurov.
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🇧🇬 The entire PES family stands firmly behind @IlianaIotova Iliana Iotova as Bulgaria heads into the decisive presidential runoff this Sunday!
A true social democrat dedicated to justice, solidarity, and European values, Iliana continues to break barriers as Bulgaria’s first female President.
Wishing her the very best of luck on 1 November - onward to victory!
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
This Oleshky ceasefire was just a propaganda stunt conjured up by Putin to help the Republicans in the mid term elections. – at Brighton, England
🚨 Melania Trump @FLOTUS , where are your humanitarian guarantees? Is the rescue of Ukrainians becoming yet another Russian propaganda spectacle?
On October 29, Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communications reported indications that civilians were being transferred from Russian-occupied Oleshky to Russia without the international oversight previously agreed upon.
Ukraine’s Ombudsman has not yet confirmed these reports. However, the allegations themselves demand an immediate, independent investigation.
Who guarantees that civilians can freely choose where they are evacuated?
Where are the independent international observers?
Do Ukrainian civilians have an unrestricted opportunity to return to Ukrainian-controlled territory?
And why is Russia’s state news agency TASS distributing footage of this operation while questions about independent oversight remain unanswered?
We have already witnessed the consequences of Russian occupation in Mariupol, Bucha, Izium, and Kupiansk.
The world must remember the documented crimes against Ukrainian civilians, forced displacement, and violations of international humanitarian law.
Oleshky must not become another such case.
On October 23, the White House presented Melania Trump as a mediator of a humanitarian agreement.
But humanitarian diplomacy is not about press releases, carefully staged photographs, or political credit.
It is about people’s safety, their voluntary consent, independent monitoring, and their right to return home.
Melania and Donald Trump, Ukrainian civilians are not tools for building your political reputations.
If agreements have been violated, those violations must be documented, investigated, and those responsible identified.
If civilians are forcibly transferred or deported, those responsible must be held accountable under international law.
We demand full transparency regarding this humanitarian operation, independent monitoring, and public explanations from the United States concerning the security guarantees provided to Ukrainian citizens.
Russia has no right to turn the suffering of people trapped under its occupation into evidence of its own supposed “humanity.”
And no international mediator should allow humanitarian operations to be used to conceal potential human rights violations.
Ukrainian civilians have the right to freedom, safety, and to return home.
Not to become part of another propaganda spectacle.
#Oleshky #Kherson #Ukraine #Russia #MelaniaTrump #Trump #HumanRights #ForcedDeportation #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #StandWithUkraine
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
Somewhere there's a British student who won't apply to a European university.
A freelancer who won't pursue a European client.
A family who won't make a home abroad.
They may never realise what they've missed.
That's what makes the loss of Freedom of Movement so cruel.
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
Britain’s food security problem goes further back than Brexit to 1964.
Think of the economy as a wildlife 🦁 park. After the war, Britain put fences around strategically important food production. We understood that farmers needed to remain viable because the country needed to eat.
Then in 1964 we increasingly embraced the idea that removing the fences and exposing everything to ever fiercer competition would make everything cheaper.
EU membership subsequently kept some substantial fences around agriculture through the CAP, common standards, market protections and a huge neighbouring market.
But Brexit removed many of those fences.
And now we’re feeding more and more of the wildlife park to the lions 👉the corporations and enormous pools of capital with the scale to survive conditions that smaller businesses cannot.
But eventually the lions run out of things to eat.
The independent shops disappear.
The family businesses disappear.
The farms and farmers disappear.
Ownership concentrates.
Competition diminishes.
Communities hollow out.
Eventually you have created a desert.
A resilient economy is an ecosystem.
If policy allows its most powerful inhabitants to consume everything else, eventually there is very little life left to sustain it.
🚨 🚩 The Brexit earthquake didn’t begin in 2016, it began in 1964.
That year, Britain 🇬🇧 scrapped Resale Price Maintenance. A huge political earthquake that everyone has forgotten about.
It was sold as giving consumers lower prices. What it actually did was shift power dramatically from manufacturers and small producers to giant retailers.
Tesco and the supermarkets won big. Independent shops, high streets, and primary producers (including farmers) began a long, slow decline.
This was the moment we started prioritising cheap imports and corporate scale over domestic production and resilience. The foundations of today’s broken food system, where farmers are squeezed and we rely on fragile global supply chains were laid then.
Brexit was the latest tremor in a 60-year earthquake.
The end of high streets and the hollowing out of British industry didn’t start with Brexit or EU membership, it began in 1964 when Resale Price Maintenance was scrapped.
That decision empowered giant retailers to undercut everyone else, shifted power away from producers, and encouraged reliance on cheap imports. We lost the ability to protect and nurture our own manufacturing and farming base.
This resulted in a consumer economy that worked while we were rich but left us vulnerable when times got harder. We don’t make enough, we can’t afford to make enough, and food security is now at risk.
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
There's nothing quite like Tory hypocrisy.
The man who co-authored the Truss budget that crashed the economy, and remained silent when the Tory government he was in devastated Britain's armed forces, bleats about defence spending.
@griffitha @Conservatives @KemiBadenoch
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Trump, Vance, Musk, Farage, Yaxley-Lennon, Le Pen, Mélenchon and the AfD all serve the foreign policy agenda of the regime that commits these crimes against Ukrainian civilians. – at Brighton, England
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
The day a British Prime Minister announces an intention to rejoin the EU, things begin to change.
Businesses reconsider investment. Diplomats open conversations. Opportunities emerge.
We wouldn't need to wait until accession to start benefiting from a different direction.
Richard T #FBPE #FBPPR retweeted
And there it is!
The co-author of the Truss budget bleats about the national debt.
Pity he didn't care about it when he crashed the economy.
Pathetic hypocrite.
@griffitha @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @alexburghart
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Well said @SKinnock 👏
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Badenoch has forgotten that Thatcher sold off the family silver, Cameron ruined public services with austerity, Johnson ruined the economy for a generation with his Brexit deal. Then he pissed £billions up the wall with dodgy Covid loans and PPE contracts.
Then we had Mad Lizzy!
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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
