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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹@cornishskipper.bsky.social |
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Cornish, Offshore Yacht Skipper, focussed on anti-Tory, pro-EU, supporting #RejoinEU activities & accounts. I #FBPE
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🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶List of United Kingdom Liberal Democrat MPs
“Seventy-two Liberal Democrat members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 general election.” 🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Who will be the key figures in Keir Starmer’s government?
“Here are some of the politicians, advisers, union leaders, business figures and policy experts who are set to hold key positions or wield influence.” archive.ph/2024.07.05-2...
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“Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy. This is a moment to savour the worst of Tory sour breath being sucked out of politics…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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#ToryWipeout2024
Thank you! youtu.be/aYMy2qdNPF0?...
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“Ed Davey has hailed the Liberal Democrats' "exceptional" results as the party won the highest number of seats ever…the exit poll's prediction of a 61-seat win for the party has been surpassed, with 71 seats by 8am”
2 LD seats won (back) in #Cornwall news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...
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Can’t get over Akshata Murty standing there like a subservient, mutilated zebra whilst simultaneously reminding everyone he forgot to take an umbrella last time. Quite bizarre.
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Historic wins for the Green Party as they take 4 seats and come second in 6 more. They’ve quadrupled their representation in parliament‼️
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹
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It’s brilliant news indeed. He’s worked tirelessly in this campaign and North Cornwall returns to the Lib Dems. Cornwall has kicked out the Tories! Very happy.
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Jayne Kirkham in Truro & Falmouth
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Andrew George in St Ives
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Noah Law in St Austell & Newquay
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Anna Gelderd in South East Cornwall
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Ben Maguire in North Cornwall
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#Cornwall has kicked out the Tories‼️
4 Labour & 2 Lib Dems 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to Perran Moon in Camborne & Redruth
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“Put aside damage #Brexit has done to our economy, a slow puncture that will cost us billions until the day it is reversed. Think instead of the demons it unleashed, the poison it released into the bloodstream & how casually it was done.” #ToriesIntoThird www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Thames Water tests for vomiting bug contamination as families fall sick…
South West Water said on 14 May that the water was safe to drink before reversing this advice a day later.”
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry Food poisoning up & now water is not safe‼️🆘 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Human faeces in our rivers is putting the public in danger and the risk will increase without action…a "public health priority as well as an environmental one"”
#TorySewageParty #ToriesCostLives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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“'Ignore Tory fibs - Starmer on course for bigger landslide than Blair'
The more desperate the plight of the Tories becomes, the more they will resort to smears, falsehoods & gutter politics - public are sick & tired of Sunak clinging on to power” #GTTO www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“How the occupants of No 10 brought us austerity, #Brexit , Partygate and an economic crash…If you’re feeling nostalgic, or just possibly a little angry, here is a recap of the lurches, plunges and nausea of 14 years on the Tory rollercoaster.” #GTTO www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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Or to a pro EU pro PR party. Game changer. A long shot this time I think but my preferred outcome - Lib Dems as the official opposition.
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“A vote for the Liberal Democrats in many areas at this election is the best way to defeat the Conservatives” North #Cornwall ‼️
Vote @BenMaguireNC ‼️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“a national poverty crisis, the longest NHS waiting list in memory, more food banks than McDonald’s & a national economy that is once again the “sick man of Europe”, the party that delivered this hare-brained plan is pretending it didn’t happen.” #Brexit archive.ph/2024.05.31-1...
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70% say the economy is worse off because of #Brexit
“Brexit is doing severe damage to the UK every single day…“There’s a reason that the current government’s election campaign has not talked about Brexit benefits - because there are none to talk about.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/just-o...
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“Tory scandalous spending hits £130 billion ‼️- £6 bn blown in 2 months..biggest new entry on the list was for the £4.7 billion cost of new #Brexit border checks…wasted cash enough to fund Starmer’s six key pledges more than five times over” #ToriesOut www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Major general election poll predicts total #ToryWipeout in #Cornwall - if enough of us #VoteTactically ‼️
Vote ‼️ Labour in Camborne & Redruth, Truro & Falmouth, St Austell & Newquay, SE #Cornwall
Vote ‼️ Lib Dems in N #Cornwall & St Ives
#ToriesOut www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
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“Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to wait months to start essential cancer treatment, with deadly delays now “routine” & even children struck by the disease denied vital support…” #ToriesDestroyingTheNHS #VoteTactically for a #ToryWipeout www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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‼️“How the Lib Dems might double their seats” ‼️
#StIves & N #Cornwall both predicted to go to LibDems if enough of us #VoteTactically
In #StIves vote @AndrewGeorge_
In North #Cornwall vote @BenMaguireNC
#ToriesOut #ToriesUnfitToGovern www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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“Four in five locum GPs in England unable to find work…first challenge for the next government will be to find a way to keep the GPs we already have in the NHS. To run a bath, you first must put in the plug; this is basic workforce planning.” #ToriesOut www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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Long shot 🤞
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“local authorities took out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates of interest in the aftermath of Truss’s catastrophic mini-budget, according to official figures that reveal more about the long-term cost to the public of her 49 days in office.” #ToriesOut www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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NHS in crisis: Hospital ceilings collapse causing seriously-ill patients to flee‼️
Get out & vote out the #ToriesDestroyingTheNHS ‼️#VoteTactically www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“The £40billion price tag of five years of Tory chaos & "waste" is laid bare in a damning dossier..it includes 118 examples of the Conservatives' "waste, sleaze and chaos" since 2019 - spanning Sunak's time at the Treasury and in No10” #ToriesUnfitToGovern www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“The prime minister, who would be the first sitting leader of the country to lose his seat, told confidants ahead of a Conservative rally on Tuesday he thinks the vote in Richmond and Northallerton is too close to call.”
#VoteTactically for a #ToryWipeout www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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COME OFF IT, PRIME MINISTER! @RhonddaBryant then Chair of the Privileges Committee, dismantled Sunak but PM didn't apologise for failing to make important announcements to MPs in the Commons, as required by the Ministerial Code.
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
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"We believe the Liberal Democrats will be a much better Opposition. An Opposition who will push for proportional representation instead of pushing to let sewage be dumped in our rivers." #VoteTactically for a #ToryWipeout2024
stopthetories.vote/keyseats
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“Funding per pupil is now at 2010 levels…while teacher pay the same real-terms level as 2001. Investment in England’s ageing school buildings is 25% lower in real terms than in the mid 2000s, the IFS analysis says.” #ToriesUnfitToGovern #ToriesOut www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Here’s how Labour will tackle sewage. “Tories are turning a blind eye to illegal sewage dumping putting thousands of people in hospital, & allowing water companies to dump sewage inc in Britain’s most famous landscapes and National Parks”
#TorySewageParty labour.org.uk/updates/stor...
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“number of discharges into the country’s waterways increased by 🆘54 per cent ‼️in 2023, making it the worst year on record…Meanwhile, water firms continue to pay out huge salaries to their CEOs and millions in dividends to shareholders.”
#TorySewageParty inews.co.uk/news/dumping...
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“We have a political opportunity of a lifetime. If we coordinate our tactical vote we can push the Tories into third place & the @libdems will form the official opposition. This will change the conversation & our country for a generation.” #VoteTactically www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“General Election tactical voting guide: How to ensure Tories finally ousted - Mirror Online
E.G. “Where Lib Dems and Greens should vote Labour to unseat the Tories in marginal seats” #VoteTactically www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“General Election tactical voting guide: How to ensure Tories finally ousted - [E.G.] Where Labour voters should vote Lib Dem to unseat the Tories” #VoteTactically www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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General Election tactical voting guide: How to ensure Tories finally ousted - Mirror Online
E.G “Where voting Green will get rid of the Tories” #VoteTactically www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Former DUP leader “Jeffrey Donaldson faces further 7 sexual offence charges…he will now face 18 charges: one of rape, four of gross indecency & 13 of indecent assault. The charges, which are believed to relate to two alleged victims, span1985 & 2008.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
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“Bathing status is no guarantee the waters are safe to swim in, however. Last year, testing by the Environment Agency found that England’s three river swimming areas all had “poor” status due to pollution.” #TorySewageParty #VoteTactically www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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"The Opposition's role is to scrutinise & question the Government. We believe the Liberal Democrats will be a much better Opposition who will push for proportional representation instead of pushing to let sewage be dumped in our rivers." Ed Davy for LOTO ‼️stopthetories.vote/keyseats
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“Conservative headquarters has told more than one Cabinet minister they will lose their seat to the Liberal Democrats and that campaign resources will be redirected to defend other safer areas, people familiar with the matter said.” Ed Davy for LOTO‼️ archive.ph/2024.06.29-0...
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“Keir Starmer has said a new Labour government would have to stave off a rise of the populist right by urgently restoring faith in British politics through “deeds, not words” and making a material difference to people’s lives.”
#VoteTactically #ToriesOut www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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"The Opposition's role is to scrutinise and question the Government. We believe the Liberal Democrats will be a much better Opposition. An Opposition who will push for proportional representation instead of pushing to let sewage be dumped in our rivers." stopthetories.vote/keyseats
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“UK general election live: Rishi Sunak says he believes he will win despite poll projections”
Well he “believed” in #Brexit & look how that turned out 🙄
Bring on a #ToryWipeout‼️Would love to see them kicked out so far they’re not even the opposition🤞 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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