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Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Nigel Farage told GB News viewers he didn't buy predictions of a Trump defeat. Musk hasn't spent $450m on election "for fun" he said. "We're in for a surprise"
So we were: on the sheer size of the anti-Trump vote
comment.press/shellacking
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
If you believe this you will believe in Fairiesโฆ
๐บ๐ธ Democrats are showing surprising STRENGTH in 8 key Senate races, and several traditionally Republican states are suddenly looking competitive.
โข North Carolina: Cooper +11
โข Maine: Jackson +5
โข Michigan: El-Sayed +4
โข Texas: Talarico +4
โข Ohio: Brown +2
โข Iowa: Turek +1
โข Kansas: Hamilton +1
โข Nebraska: Ricketts and independent Osborn TIED
Democratic candidates lead in 7 of the 8 races surveyed, although several margins are extremely narrow.
With the midterms just days away, control of the Senate remains a central battleground.
Source: YouGov / Writer: Samuel
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Now weโve seen whatโs happened in the USA when you elect a narcissistic populist funded by billionaires who spreads disinformation, division and hate can we PLEASE not do it over here?
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
BBC still too timid on the prospective UK-EU trade deal on food, drink, lifting phytosanitary checks. Exposes bogus Global Britain rhetoric and empty Truss trade deals, underlines imperative of friction-free trade with nearest neighbours and opportunity for growth. So this is an economic as much as a political story!
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Of course, we donโt know how word about the VIP lane filtered out nor what was said. Whatever it was, it led to a feeding frenzy attracting piranhas like Mone & Barrowman. No one told me, nor you, nor the guys who actually supplied PPE. One hears about burner phones & deleted WhatsApps & the mind conjures up all kinds of unsavoury things.
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
๐คฆโโ๏ธ WATCH: @JamesCleverly who hopes to be London Mayor where 67% want to rejoin the EU ๐คก
His extraordinary argument? Britain canโt rejoin the worldโs largest trading bloc, with an estimated potential 6% boost to GDP, because we might have to leave a trade deal on the other side of the world worth about 0.08%.
Thatโs a 75-fold difference.
Why should Britain rule out a far bigger opportunity to protect one of Brexitโs tiniest claimed gains?
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
No matter how much Leave voters wriggle, here is Brexit reality:
1) Exiting the EU has cost us ยฃ400-500 billion in forgone GDP growth
2) ยฃ150-200bn in foregone tax collected
3) The SUM marginal gain of post-Brexit trade deals is essentially ยฃ ZERO
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
So let me get this straight.
Suella (Conservative Home Secretary 2022 - 2023) felt so strongly about the betrayal of the Boris Wave that she stood as a Conservative candidate in 2024 and then sat as a Conservative MP for a further 18 months before jumping ship.
Stacks up ๐ค
The Boriswave was the greatest betrayal by the last Conservative government.
Itโs why I left the Conservatives.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Braverman served as Attorney General under Johnson and Home Secretary 2022-23 amid the immigration surge called the Boriswave. She remained a Conservative until defecting to Reform in Jan 2026 after the 2024 election.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Brโฆ
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/โฆ
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Canโt we put Hancock in the dock & ask him how known, reputable PPE suppliers were passed over for his mate who owned a pub. Gove could tell us what experience Michelle Mone had in the industry.
A TOY company and two GIN distillers amongst companies referred for providing Covid PPE via the "VIP" lane...
No wonder the Tory govt didn't want to release this information!
@i_pinkwolfie @feistywomankent @AndrewW66619812 @RaveCozensHardy
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Tory MP James Cleverly attempting to argue that we canโt rejoin the largest trading bloc on the planet (that could provide a 6% inc. in growth), because weโd have to leave a trade agreement on the other side of the earth that gives us about a 0.08% boost to GDP
#politicslive
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
And around ยฃ1bn of the ยฃ1.7bn spent on PPE from VIP suppliers was wasted on supplies later deemed unfit to use.
This is a huge scandal.
๐ด EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE โVIP laneโ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more ๐งต
democracyforsale.substack.coโฆ
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
For goodness sake, stop the claptrap !
It wasn't the "botched Brexit deal" which "put up frictions and barriers" - it was Brexit itself !
It's like leaving a gym, then complaining you've "botched" no longer being a member because you can't use the apparatus !
@EmmaforWycombe
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
A reminder that Suella was heavily involved in the ยฃ700 million Rwanda plan which resulted in 4 volunteers being deported, backed Liz Truss in the leadership battle and resigned as Home Secretary because of an accidental breach of the ministerial code then sacked during her second go.
Oops.
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
.@KemiBadenoch tells @FraserNelson @SkyNews the Conservative Party is united with no member believing we should even consider rejoining the #EU
Really!?
Like all inadequate ideologically driven leaders she forgets its voters not party members who elect Govts. And there are millions of Conservative voters who voted #Remain & now find themselves being embraced by @AndyBurnham & rejected by Badenoch & her party
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
And not a single consequence for those involved in wholesale corruption.
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Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Another resounding success for Reform UKโs vetting process!
Asides from their councillorsโฆ.
Nigel Farage employed a rapist as his bodyguard during Clacton by-electiob and now Andrea Jenkyns is celebrating and praising an Epstein co-conspirator ๐
Hi @andreajenkyns, why did you delete the video of yourself with Paolo Zampoli talking about how you had just had lunch together?
Is it because you realised the House Judiciary Committee investigation stated he was โan active participantโ in Jeffery Epstein's alleged sex trafficking?
Or was it that the FBI said he arranged a modelโs visa before she was recruited to give a massage at Epsteinโs house, where Epstein allegedly raped her?
Or is it the civil lawsuit heโs facing over the alleged drugging and raping of Victoria Drake?
And you think heโs โamazingโ.
Thatโs a lot of promises youโre making there, Mayor.
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
๐จMore than 30 senior Tories named in newly released Covid PPE โVIP laneโ records after 5 year fight by Democracy for Sale. Among those named are eight members of Boris Johnsonโs cabinet, including Gove, Hancock, Raab, Jenrick. Also Sarah Ferguson and banking giant Santander.
๐ด EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE โVIP laneโ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more ๐งต
democracyforsale.substack.coโฆ
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Absolute scum buckets - Brexity reform Ratcliffe , And MAGA Glazers . All United's success came under those great 'Socialist ' managers - Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson
๐จ๐จ| NEW: Manchester United director Edward Glazer has donated $200,000 to Donald Trumpโs Republican Party ahead of the US midterm elections. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฐ
[@MattHardyJourno]
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
๐ฎ๐ช ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ช๐บ Something important is happening.
While ๐ฌ๐ง press are still fighting Brexit battles of 2016, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช is using its EU presidency to help rebuild the relationship between Britain and Europe.
British ministers are meeting their EU counterparts again. Food. Energy. Defence. Security. Migration. Trade.
And on 20 November @andyburnham meets EU leaders in Brussels for a summit covering precisely these issues.
This is how Brexit eventually gets resolved: not by endlessly rerunning 2016, but by confronting the problems Britain actually faces in 2026.
Food security requires European cooperation. Energy security requires European cooperation. Defence and policing require European cooperation. Trade and investment require European cooperation.
Geography hasnโt changed.
What has changed is that after a decade of Brexit, we have considerably more evidence about the costs of putting barriers between Britain and its closest neighbours.
Europe is moving on beyond Brexit and Britain has to decide to be part of it or face irrelevance.
Tim Fletcher #FBPE ๐๐๐ Wokingham on Sea! retweeted
Peter Mandelson was correctly removed from the Privy Council for bringing it 'into disrepute'.
The same action must now be taken against Matt Hancock, responsible for the generational slaughter in care homes during the pandemic.
โฌ๏ธSign our petition โฌ๏ธ
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