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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE@maestroc.bsky.social |
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Brexit refugee living in Italy. Singer, writer, teacher, director and Italophile.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I think you'll find people have been talking about it since almost the moment he was inaugurated. Whether or not he has declined physically and mentally since then is irrelevant. The idea that he's too old is planted in voters minds. Unless he steps aside, Trump will win.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Sorry it's lifted from the other place but you can watch it on your browser. Fabulous come back from Bercow against the hideous little frog.
x.com/implausibleb...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I'm sharing this article not just because I agree with the content, but because the accompanying photo makes Ann Widdecombe look like an unhinged old man. That's what hate does to you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I'm in two minds about solar farms because I think we need the land for food production and there are plenty of other places that they could be installed; carparks, for instance. This is about wind farms though.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I don't think it was about the land owners: they make a packet from them. It was all the middle aged Tory party nimby members.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Yes, sadly a lack of education means they're easily swayed by culture wars and racism. The 8% of higher educated people who voted for them must just be bigots.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Figures
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I'd love to see the level of educational attainment for Reform voters. We've known for years that the higher your educational level, the less likely you are to vote Tory. I wonder where Reform voters come on that scale.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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She's barely human.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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All men, all white and all very unattractive.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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He won't be able to make the UK the country with the fastest growing economy if he stays outside the EU. Reality will hit soon.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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A piece of information about which no-one (except the morons in Clacton who voted for him) can be surprised.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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The "monstrous thing" here is Braverman herself.
I'm glad I live over 1,000 miles away so there's no danger of breathing the same air as her.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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What, he really exists?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Looks like AI to me.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I love this headline!
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Much longer than that. It came up during the election campaign. Unbelievable.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I wonder how Nige feels this morning? More to the point: whether Giorgia is feeling rather isolated having lost two of her mates in recent days?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I always thought Shirley Williams was correct. They should have agreed to support the government when necessary (remembering that the financial crisis was ongoing) and allowed it to take its natural course, which would probably have meant another GE after about six months.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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The numbers didn't add up. Even a Rainbow coalition, which would have had to include the DUP (!) would only have produced a minority government.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I thought that's probably what you meant but I've never heard the expression "shooglie peg"
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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But the Conservative Party was only formed in 1834, so it is the worst vote ever.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Worst Conservative vote ever?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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What does that even mean?
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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What a shame the anti IDS vote was split. Still, a small disappointment on an otherwise brilliant night.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Exactly
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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and how does he think he's going to move closer to the EU without at least rejoining the SM? They've already said they're not going to reopen negotiations of the withdrawal agreement.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Indeed. Ridiculous.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Sad but not surprising. And now, with Starmer saying he doesn't think the UK will rejoin the EU in his lifetime, there's even less reason to vote Labour. Yes, yes, the Tories need to go but...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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"crestfallen Cruella." Love it. Sadly, she is not likely to be one of the ones departing.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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What a prat. I'd have voted LibDem anyway but this underscores that decision.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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✨GrumpySteff ✨🇬🇧🇪🇺🇿🇦✝️
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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TBH most funerals in church are far more celebrations of a life these days, though I agree that there is also more solemnity. I found the humanist one I attended just seemed to lack something. Anyway, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Vote tactically; for whichever party is most likely to defeat the Tory in your constituency.
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Dave Hutchinson
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‘I am picking up a sense that however much the rest of Britain may feel it dislikes Truss, there are people in South West Norfolk who have disliked her longer, harder, and with greater specificity.’
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Nigel Farage will be setting up something similar soon.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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and the same evening...
youtu.be/RhBYzNv4N_E?...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Led by Donkeys up to their usual brilliant standard.
youtu.be/KBoDiuN2WoY?...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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He seems, conveniently, to have forgotten about all those times when UKIP plants were discovered in the QT audience; to say nothing of the fact that he appeared on it far more than anyone else for years up to the referendum.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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It's a shame Labour have stood back in Clacton because I'm beginning to wonder whether, actually, he could be defeated there.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Oh yes.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Indeed. And he seems totally un self-aware about the fact that he appeared more often on QT than anyone else for years!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Ah. Diddums.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Good Morning. Rose "Palais Royal" looking gorgeous on my terrace.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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😱
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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Come on: if we really try, we can get the LibDems to overtake the Tories!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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I remember when my parents, who had always thought Thatcher was some sort of saviour (we had constant arguments) finally woke up to how terrible she was and voted LibDem in the 87 election. Mum also stopped reading the Mail! Such a feeling of achievement!
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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LibDems as the official opposition is my dream. Having had dreams shattered many times since May 1979, let's hope they finally come true.
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
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When Fartage is in parliament (and, let's face it, he's likely to win in Clacton: very odd place), he'll be subject to far more forensic attention. It's already happening and we're seeing how he crumples.
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