A short overly simplified thread on the complexities of getting a work visa in Italy post Brexit teapawt.net/katrussen/status/13434…
Will the @bbc be speaking to ex-sports reporter and Piddington resident Rob Bonnet about NIMBYism?
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
We want to sincerely congratulate Nigel Farage.
For defeating a man with a bin on his head.
In a by-election that he called.
To avoid questioning over receiving an unreported £5 million pounds.
From an offshore, crypto-bro billionaire.
That hasn’t achieved anything.
As he can still face an inquiry over the donation.
Meaning this entire farce has been a complete waste of time.
Nigel – well done.
Check out the resume on this absolutely not a scanner, definitely.
She works with a Elon at DOGE and Tesla, apparently and is really big on online security, so naturally just slides into my DMs as unsolicited messages on X are the epitome of safe online conduct
@NataliaCstaa
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
it’s remarkable just how much populist right wing rhetoric can be so easily disproved by the govt
“we are being taken over by the immigrant invasion”
- net migration has fallen 80%
“labour love the small boats”
- channel crossings are down 45% on where they were this time last year, and deportations are up 41% under labour
“our streets are no longer safe under labour”
- homicides now the lowest they’ve been in 50 years, and knife murders are at a 10 year low
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
We’re not delusional. There hasn’t been an explosion. Trans people started to step out the shadows around 2015 when equality and diversity were viewed as good things. In 2017, the US Values Voters (Religious Right gathering) told delegates that the battle against gay rights was now lost. Gays were too accepted. Instead they should concentrate on attacking trans. Fearmonger about men in bathrooms. Sports. Infiltrate online women’s online chat sites. Scare users. Tell gay people they would now have to sleep with the opposite sex. By sowing discontent and trying to separate the T, LGBT would collapse. All this said publicly from the podium. And it’s exactly what happened. Worked beyond their wildest dreams.
I'm loving the American right losing their sh*t that the Supreme Court read the constitution correctly and ruled that a nation of migrants is made up of migrants.
#birthrightcitizenship
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.
Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.
Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.
Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:
• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.
• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.
• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.
• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.
• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.
• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.
• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.
• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.
• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.
• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.
• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.
• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.
• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.
• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.
• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.
• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.
• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.
• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.
• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.
• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.
• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.
• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.
• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.
• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.
People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
🚨 Many older British expats on the Costa del Sol are selling up or feeling trapped after Brexit.
They face the 90/180-day rule, loss of easy NHS access, pension complications, and visa worries.
A growing number are leaving or regret the move.
Meanwhile, Polish migrants (who still enjoy full EU free movement rights) are moving in, buying properties, and setting up businesses, replacing the departing Brits.
Brexit consequences for retirees who thought life in Spain would be straightforward.
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants”
They’re going through a legal government process.
That’s legal.
Burning out houses, inciting violence, tweeting racism.
That’s not legal.
Replying to @NASA
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
A man was violently stabbed to death.
The murderer was arrested and convicted.
One of the murderer's family members was also convicted of aiding and abetting him.
No, I am not talking about poor Henry Nowak; I am talking about poor Mohammed Algassim, a Saudi Arabian student, here to learn English, who was murdered in Cambridge by a drunken, coked-up, white Englishman.
If you are astute enough to go to the BBC News website, then click on "England",
then click on "Local News",
then click on "East"
then click on "Cambridge"
you will find a report on it...
#TwoTierOutrage
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p…
Hunter Biden coming out on the offensive, with receipts, is one of the best things on social media right now
Replying to @retirenow59
Yes I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year over four years. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.
If you’re outraged about that, where is all your outrage now?
Kushner's Affinity Partners holds roughly $5 to $6 billion. Close to 99% of it comes from foreign sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia. The UAE. Qatar. Over $90M in fees annually.
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
Replying to @retirenow59
Yes I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year over four years. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.
If you’re outraged about that, where is all your outrage now?
Kushner's Affinity Partners holds roughly $5 to $6 billion. Close to 99% of it comes from foreign sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia. The UAE. Qatar. Over $90M in fees annually.
Every Labour politician thinking they could do a better job than Starter, forgetting the right wing media smear campaigns that will be focused on them once they become PM
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
Today is a beautiful day!
The UK has officially signed its return to Erasmus+.
British students will once again study across Europe, feeling closer to our shared continent
A wonderful victory for all who believe in the bond between the UK and EU
Erasmus+ welcomes the UK home
Let me tell you some things about Italians that Trump fails to understand: Italians are all Catholic. Even if they don't go to church, they are ALL Catholic. Even if they are not actually Catholic, they are ALL Catholic. It's everything here. And the Pope will always come first
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
On this day in 1957, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Rome.
They laid the foundations for today’s European Union.
United in diversity, then and now 🇪🇺

ALT General high up view of delegates from the six European Nations seated during the signing ceremony: In the front row from left to right, the signatories, for Belgium, Paul-Henri Spaak, Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers, for France, Christian Pineau, Maurice Faure, for Germany, Konrad Adenauer, Walter Hallstein, for Italy, Antonio Segni et Gaetano Martino, for Luxembourg, Joseph Bech, Lambert Schaus, and for the Netherlands, Joseph Luns and Johannes Linthorst-Homan
Katherine Russen #FBPE #FBR #Facciamorete🇪🇺 🇬🇧 retweeted
Referendum defeat leaves Italy's Meloni looking more vulnerable - Via @BBC:
Meloni vowed to press on after losing a vote on constitutional reform many turned into a referendum on her government.

















