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3 hours ago the Brazilian Supreme Court rejected any challenge to the election results.
Just now Flavio Bolsonaro has dropped his objections.
Lula is President it cannot be stopped, and Flavio Bolsonaro will be going on trial for corruption.
And then to jail.
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#bbcbreakfast
Brexit has not been “reopened because of Andy Burnham”, but because:
- it’s turned out to be a costly mistake
- geopolitics shows we can’t rely on the US, but need to work with our neighbours with whom we share common interests
- the public has turned against it
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One interesting snippet from Hancock’s evidence to the enquiry. He whined about a bottleneck preventing the distribution of PPE. Not a shortage of staff or vehicles but, you won’t guess so I’ll tell you, all the PPE was kept in one giant warehouse that only had one door. So loading it onto trucks took forever. You can’t make this shit up.
Yes, if bin liners were good enough he shouldn’t have paid out £100’s of millions for PPE equipment to self and cronies, lovers, family of lovers, friends, other politicians etc.
£37B for track and trace and no tracking and tracing of that money either.
The Chancellor authorised and signed every cheque without due diligence, whilst Johnson was in charge, and Hancock ran the Department including all the elected lobbyists.
They all are accountable and should face criminal investigations, fines and jail for manslaughter by being deliberately negligent.
If we let it go we create a rod for our own backs and the behaviour will be repeated by subsequent governments.
You can already see the signs the way they are claiming expenses as if the PAYE taxpayers have a magic tree of money.
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If the European Union is good enough for 27 of our nearest neighbours, why not for the UK?
If the EEA/Single Market is good enough for 30 of our nearest neighbours, why not for the UK?
If Reciprocating Freedom of Movement (the 4 freedoms) is good enough for 31 of our nearest neighbours, why not for the UK?
If the/a Customs Union is good enough for 28 of our nearest neighbours, why not for the UK?
If the Schengen CTA is good enough for 30 (soon to be 31) of our nearest neighbours (inc our own British Overseas Territory), why not for the UK?
If a closer, more convergent relationship to the EU27 is good enough for all - apart from Russia & their new bedfellow - shown in @JohnRConstable 's schematic below, why not for the UK?
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All that money for lovely sets and flags and high production value but the momentum has gone …. It was the money wot did it Nige. Only yourself to blame …
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‼️ Andy Haldane says reopening Britain’s relationship with Europe would create a “huge dust cloud of uncertainty”.
But he’s confusing causing the damage with repairing it.
Brexit created uncertainty bc Britain was dismantling its relationship with its largest market while nobody knew what would replace it.
And then Brexit erected new trade barriers.
The OBR still estimates those barriers will leave UK productivity 4% lower in the long run than if we’d remained.
Removing barriers, restoring market access and giving businesses a clear route back towards European economic integration is not simply repeating 2016 in reverse.
**Brexit created the problem.
🆘 Fixing Brexit is not another Brexit.**
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POST OFFICE JAILED AN INNOCENT WOMAN
Imagine. You run a small @PostOffice in Hull. You show up every day, you serve your community, you do the job. Then one day a computer program called Horizon decides you owe £59,000 that never existed. A computer program with a known glitch problem.
Post Office didn't check the software. It just marched Janet Skinner @Janetsk20073533 into court in 2007 and got her jailed for 9 months. She served 2 behind bars. She lost her house. She lost her job. She lost her name in the eyes of her own neighbours, all because nobody in a position of power fancied questioning a machine.
Here's where any decent organisation would stop digging the hole ... The Post Office kept digging.
A year after she walked out of prison, they hauled her back into court again, this time chasing her for "proceeds of crime."
Proceeds of a crime she never committed, calculated by a system that couldn't add up in the first place. Bold strategy from the people who broke the calculator in the first place.
Less than two weeks after that fresh nightmare finally ended, Janet's body gave out completely. Neurological collapse. Paralysed from the neck down.
Doctors told her she'd never walk again.
She spent a year in a wheelchair and two years learning to walk. She says her own immune system turned on her. Years of fighting a system that refused to admit fault, and in the end it was her own body that surrendered first.
So how does this story end? With an apology? A cheque that actually matches what she lost? Of course not.
In 2025, after everything, the compensation scheme handed her an offer worth around 15% of her claim.
Janet called it an insult. I'd call it a joke, except nobody's laughing, least of all the people who wrote the offer letter from the comfort of a job that still exists.
9 months in prison for a bug. 2 years in a wheelchair for the stress of proving her innocence. A payout that wouldn't cover the damage to her health, let alone her life. And somewhere, the people who signed off on her prosecution are still drawing a pension.
Nobody who signed off on any of this has lost a house, a job, or a night's sleep. They got promotions. She got a wheelchair and an insulting cheque. Accountability had every chance to show up here and chose not to..
SOURCES
@BBCNews @itvnews and others.
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🔴'Many WATER companies are near #insolvency, so they want to hike our water bills again.
The government must say NO. If they can't survive, let them go bust and take them into public ownership FOR NOTHING.
👉SIGN up to support our campaign for public ownership of water: vist.ly/5kxts
- @We_OwnIt
Many water companies are near insolvency, so they want to hike our water bills again
The government must say NO. If they can't survive, let them go bust and take them into public ownership FOR NOTHING
Sign up to support our campaign for public ownership of water: vist.ly/5kxts
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This is the point I was making last week. If Nigel Farage doesn’t recognise Kassam’s comments are racist, what was all that stuff over vetting the councillors about. Overt racism is openly accepted within Reform. From the leader down.
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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
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Lula "We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."
So many countries have this problem and need to slay this beast.
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 We are reversing Brexit.
The UK and EU are working on British access to “Made in Europe”.
Ahead of the November summit, the UK will be offered a special EU deal.
An interim deal should pave the way for future UK membership.
We have never been closer to a stronger UK–EU union since Brexit
We are only a few years away from reversing the disaster of Brexit.
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@CastletonLee asks a simple question. Money taken from subpostmasters went into Post Office accounts laid before Parliament, year after year.
If the shortfalls came from Horizon, those accounts can't be right.
Who is checking them now?
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We need to rejoin - retake - our place at the top table of Europe.
We used to be one of the biggest and most influential members of the richest trading bloc in the world.
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It's a good job Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 for water bills on her parliamentary expenses. If she had failed to declare a ten quid overpayment on Universal Credit, she'd have been in serious trouble then.
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🔴 This is how we finally move beyond Brexit.
Neil Kinnock says @andyburnham is “treating the citizens like the adults they are” by opening an honest debate about Britain’s future relationship with Europe.
And he is absolutely right to put freedom of movement into that debate.
Kinnock argues that with Britain’s ageing population, freedom of movement is essential if we want stronger growth, buoyant tax revenues, quality public services and greater security.
Meanwhile Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds confirms officials will be talking to the EU about what the future options for Britain’s relationship could be.
✅ This is the conversation Brexit politics prevented us having for ten years.
❎ Not: What did people vote for in 2016?
But: What relationship with Europe is in Britain’s interests now and what do today’s British people want?
Set out the facts. Set out the choices. Set out the trade-offs.
Then trust the British people to decide. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Exclusive: Neil Kinnock praises Andy Burnham's Brexit debate for 'treating citizens like adults'
Former Labour leader tells @MirrorPolitics : "The PM is showing how an honest discussion can take place in a democracy where vital national decisions involve the whole electorate. He's treating the citizens like the adults they are."
He adds: "If we want buoyant revenues, quality public services, economic advance, and security it's clear that freedom of movement is essential."
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/b…
David Symons 3.5% #FBPE #FBPPR #NAFO retweeted
Not only the care homes. What about hospital staff forced to wear bin liners? We* clapped on Thursdays. Bus drivers died. In Jan 20 Hancock told the commons we were the best-prepared country on the planet.
Deaths per million:
• S Korea 693
• UK 3,404
Source: Wikipedia
*not me
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The Daily Mail has compared HMRC to the Stasi. Given that the newspaper is legally domiciled in Bermuda and its hereditary billionaire owner is based in France, precisely to minimise UK tax, they should surely STFU.
