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Tuition Fees - How Labour Changed The Truth.

Tuition Fees - How Labour Changed The Truth - Saga News

Between 1962 and 1997, students didn’t pay for university. Unthinkable now, but it’s true. Since 1945 it had been commonplace for local authorities to cover the cost of tuition for students, and it...

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

6 months

please can we stop pretending the national flag is some far right symbol

MsAlliance

@MsAlliance

6 months

This just came through our door. The OH: “I thought it was from Reform, but it’s Labour.”

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malta voting to join the uk and then the uk not annexing it is one of the stupidest things we’ve done

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@BenjaminOCall

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Starting with you

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧

@TRobinsonNewEra

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Mass deportations needed

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on may 7 2015, former lib dem leader charles kennedy lost his seat to the snp. 4 weeks later he sadly passed away due to medical effects of alcoholism. just over 9 years later the lib dems have won the most seats in 100 years and have regained his seat. this is for you charlie.

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if only you had the power to build, idk a high speed rail line. you’d need a job like, maybe the secretary of state for transport or something. idk i think that’d be helpful

Louise Haigh

@LouHaigh

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On my (delayed) train to London to deliver the Second Reading of the Public Ownership Bill 🚆 🚉 🚄

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he’s such a 2019 conservative -> 2024 lib dem voter isn’t he

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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🔴 Jeremy Clarkson has banned Sir Keir Starmer from his new pub, claiming that he is out of touch with the rural community. Read more here 👇

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2 months

we’ve found it. a guy who was satisfied enough with the coalition that they actually voted lib dem

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

6 months

you’re only allowing them to claim it as theirs. the british flag is a work of art and should be used in campaigns!

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@BenjaminOCall

3 months

the green party would’ve opposed the train line being built

Phoenix(They/them)

@SalazarPhoenix8

3 months

Other parties have battle busses, @TheGreenParty has battle trains 💚💚

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there were people worried it would set a precedent of other parts of the empire gaining the full rights of british citizens. wish we’d actually pursued full rights for any colony which wanted to stay british

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2 months

okay it is at least a little bit funny that we beat what i thought we could achieve with a perfect campaign

Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

6 months

Looked into the data, what does an absolutely perfect lib dem campaign look like? here it is. 68 MPs.

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

3 months

I hate to break it to you but 90% of lib dem meetings involve everyone being bladdered

Calgie

@christiancalgie

3 months

Ed Davey says the government “don’t know where their arsehole is” to punters outside one of his locals Follow our election liveblog here

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3 months

the greens are just about getting round to the idea of nato

Josiah Mortimer

@josiahmortimer

3 months

Sir Ed Davey says of the Lib Dems "we are the most pro-European party in British politics". I imagine the Green Party may have something to say about that...

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@bluelionpolitix robinson is literally the worst possible candidate

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@CoKeynesian .su still exists just in case they ever return

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6 months

@IrisLibre exactly. you should love your country but that doesn’t mean you should think it’s the only thing we should be concerned about

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@BenjaminOCall

3 months

cry me a fucking river we colonised a quarter of the world, having a large population of immigrants is a consequence of that. you can’t masquerade as a patriot if you subscribe to ethnonationalism despite the country being founded as a multi-ethnic kingdom

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1 month

remember when tommy robinson finished behind change uk

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@nikicaga they’ll get 14 medals and make it even more cursed

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

6 months

Looked into the data, what does an absolutely perfect lib dem campaign look like? here it is. 68 MPs.

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@BenjaminOCall

7 months

The biggest downgrade any constituency has ever had

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29 days

I’d rather live under communism than fascism

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧

@TRobinsonNewEra

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We live under communism, many of you just don’t realise it yet

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@BenjaminOCall

2 months

Well… now the general elections finished, i’m delighted to be able to announce i’ll be standing as the liberal democrats candidate for pype hayes for birmingham city council. i’ll be working tirelessly for the next 2 years to improve pype hayes. @brumlibdems

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3 months

@RealAlbanianPat @DonovanEckstrom @Wikipedia yeah and they should be banned for doing this without consensus on the chat pages. they do it everywhere it is so so ridiculous

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@BenjaminOCall

2 months

houses on top of train stations is genius btw

Sam Dumitriu

@Sam_Dumitriu

2 months

Here's a quick housing win for Labour. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has the power to approve 97 mid-rise homes and a hotel on top of Hampton Court train station. The Planning Inspectorate have recommened approval.

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2 months

My benchmarks: <40 - disappointing night 40-49 - about expectations 50-62 - good night 63-69 - fantastic night >=70 - absolutely unbelievable, knight ed again. sir sir ed davey

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@BenjaminOCall

6 months

For all the faults of the empire, its lasting legacy of integration of different cultures is massively impressive. Anyone can succeed in britain. that’s something to be proud of.

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@BenjaminOCall

2 months

@IrishPatri0t the french rioted after winning the world cup in 2018 and then rioted after losing it in 2022 too hahahaha

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@Nexier boy do i have news for you

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Give me one reason why everywhere in blue shouldn’t become one country

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@TrueSlazac I do love the online rhetoric that anyone I don’t like = Hitler. Stalinists have a lot more in common with Hitler than any liberal

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2 months

completely and utterly insane that we turned a conservative majority of 23,015 into a lib dem majority of 17,155 in 9 years

Secretary of State for Levelling Down

@ProgDirectorate

2 months

this was kind of a foundational moment for where we are now

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> do nothing > win > be gareth southgate, pic unrelated

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@TrueSlazac 🇷🇸

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@BenjaminOCall

8 months

To apologise would be to say he was complicit in the scandal, which he wasn’t. He still wants compensation, he still wants it fast. A situation 13 years ago he was mislead on is not a reason to demand resignation. He was the first to actually attempt to find out anything

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

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Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News' @PaulBrandITV

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@ajsb04 worst PM we’ve ever had

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the party has evolved since 2015, and i’m sure charlie would be incredibly proud of what we’re fighting for and what we’ve achieved. his legacy will always live on.

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@mrfolider racism being the reason the uk got so powerful, and then also being the reason it lost most its power is some deserved irony though

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4 months

My final prediction for the 2024 uk general election

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@socdemAdam i don’t think germans get to vote in us elections

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@KULUZEBSKl he would’ve supported brexit over farming, not over migrants

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2 months

Never meet your heroes etc etc. Lovely seeing @EdwardJDavey in Stratford upon Avon!

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Vote cast, that’s at least one for the lib dems!

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72 actually

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@CharlieInBrum banter timeline is greens losing pavilion but winning their three other targets

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2 months

are they just making up tories now

British Electoral Politics

@electpoliticsuk

2 months

NEW: James Cleverly, Kevin Hollingrake and Mel Stride are all likely to stand in the Conservative leadership contest. Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick are all expected to stand too.

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@nickchef88 no? nationalism isn't an economic doctrine

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@jayden_r7 ffs

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2 months

wow. beyond our wildest dreams. congratulations to all 72 of you, and thank you to all 630 liberal democrats who stood. results like this will improve countless lives.

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

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Some figures from YouGov for lib dems to be happy about: 15% overall 23% (!) amongst 18-24 16% 25-49 (2nd in both groups) 17% ABC1 (2nd) 9% 2019 Lab 7% 2019 con 19% remain 23% rest of south (2nd and only 6 points off first) 16% london (2nd) 11% midlands 11% scotland (3rd)

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

2 months

You’re bragging about 6% of the vote in your strongest region lmao

Daniel WhetstoneSDP

@WhetstoneSDP

2 months

Like that time I got 500 more votes than your party?

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areas which vote lib dem were the least apathetic towards politics. clear evidence lib dems both have the most fun and are the best party

Election Maps UK

@ElectionMapsUK

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The 2024 General Election if Not Voting counted as a vote for the 'Apathy Party': Apathy: 611, 40.3% LDM: 22, 7.3% LAB: 13, 20.1% GRN: 2, 4.0% CON: 1, 14.2% RFM: 0, 8.5% Others: 1, 5.6% Apathy majority of 572.

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@nikicaga also this is literally tony blair

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@CordialCordiak malta has a lower GDP per capita than the uk, and also a lower GDP per capita than the uk excluding london

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really making use of the private likes

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Even as a royalist, i see this as wrong. Our MPs should be swearing allegiance to the people of the united kingdom, not to the king. Clive Lewis merely exercised his right to freedom of speech, doing this only adds oxygen to republicanism.

The Royalists

@TheRoyalistsUK

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We are pleased to see that Clive Lewis MP has been forced to retake his affirmation of allegiance following our complaint to the Clerk of the House of Commons. MPs must not be excused from the common allegiance that binds our nation together.

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cyril smith, simon danczuk and george galloway. has a constituency ever had that bad a list of former mps?

Michael Glasper

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Just updating the Wikipedia entry for Rochdale.

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I do wholeheartedly believe that the lib dems are currently to the left of labour

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@BenjaminOCall

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@DaveyBiden2024 describing peronism on the political spectrum is impossible. it’s like schrödinger’s ideology

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@BenjaminOCall

5 months

The effort’s been put in, the numbers have been crunched, and here it is; the 2010 United Kingdom General Election under a completely proportional electoral system.

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

6 months

Here it is: my prediction for the next general election with margins.

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being a lib dem is just kind of insane. never thought i’d be sitting in a pub with a former MEP in the middle of my a levels

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@TrueSlazac 200,000 members for a political party only promoting the rights of autistic people. Brazil once again proving they are the best country in the new world

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@nikicaga unfortunately you live in paris so opinion is invalidated

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@Spawn_In_Games if it cost more to maintain it cost more to maintain. finances shouldn’t have anything to do with respecting self determination

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@BenjaminOCall

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sorry to anyone in wales, scotland, northern ireland or cornwall! you don’t get to vote if you only speak your native tongue!

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@bartha_adam

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If you’re unable to read in English, you probably shouldn’t vote in the UK.

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more elections. i want more

BBC Wales News

@BBCWalesNews

2 months

BREAKING: Vaughan Gething has announced he will resign as Wales' first minister Follow all updates live:

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Why I’m Voting Liberal Democrat in the General Election

Why I'm Voting Liberal Democrat in the General Election - Saga News

On July 4th, people up and down the country will be heading to the polls to elect the next parliament of the United Kingdom Many are expecting this to be the election where the Conservative Party is...

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This is very good. We should be doing the same in the UK. Drug use is not a crime, its a health problem, and the only way to combat it is to decriminalise and regulate drugs, and to provide safe spaces for people to be able to access drugs on their road to recovery

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@TrueSlazac inflation was way higher for ages and the economy has stagnated. they’ve also just taken the piss with the rules and conventions in our political system

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@BenjaminOCall

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@TrueSlazac Did Mexico just not give anyone the vote or something? Less than 19,000 votes is crazy

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@TrueSlazac cdu to the right of the csu tells you all you need to know without even looking at the other positions

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this was absolutely insane by the way

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@BenjaminOCall

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Nine years ago, we lost one of the finest men this country had ever seen. Rest well charlie.

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@BenjaminOCall

6 months

this isn’t me being optimistic or wishful thinking, this is purely what are the seats we could win given an absolutely perfect realistic campaign. orkney and shetland are included in this but just are out of frame. a result like this would likely see us as the opposition.

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@JC_0223 Bring the system back

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@BenjaminOCall

4 months

does this guy want young people to switch to the greens and lib dems

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

4 months

🚨NEW: Keir Starmer says Rosie Duffield is right to say only women have a cervix [ @Telegraph ]

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@slawoid you can absolutely get by, yes

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considering that’s what he was elected on that’s an entirely fair label?

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

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@edcmpbl “Gaza independent MP.” Do you really think that’s acceptable?

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oh he’s definitely stealing it hahahahahaha

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

3 months

🚨 NEW: Wes Streeting says "the Lib Dems and other parties have good ideas" on social care "There is plenty of blame to go around but I want to have a different politics on social care" #BBCLauraK

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why would anyone want this system

Nick 🐋

@TossupReport

2 months

Here it is, the eagerly anticipated map of the 2024 general election if it were held under STV. Bear in mind, I estimated the transfers by hand, and I tried to factor in tactical voting but I'm not sure I did it very well, so that might explain some of the disproportionalities.

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@BenjaminOCall

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It was a resounding success when the world saw birmingham in 2022

night brain

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do you have the slightest idea of what the world seeing Leeds or god forbid Birmingham would do to british global standing

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possibility for HUGE gains in cornwall, devon, hampshire, surrey, worcestershire, oxfordshire, wiltshire, shropshire and cambridgeshire based off of the general election. the hard work cannot stop.

AlBrew

@AlexanderBrewis

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Forgot how blue it was lol... Hahaha

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@BenjaminOCall

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@nikicaga I have spent a concerning amount of time finding Celtic languages from England we should revive

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@_JeanLannes she’s back in labour now

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how has he managed to turn the campaign into a holiday paid for by the party hahahahhaa

insane moments in british politics

@PoliticsMoments

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Ed Davey conducts an ITV interview from the baseline (2024)

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@jacktism_ SFL when someone’s a millionaire: 😡😡😡 SFL when someone suggests not giving millionaires benefits supposed to be for people in poverty:😡😡😡😡😡

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@BenjaminOCall

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Photo from friday night, you might’ve assumed John would be disappointed with the result but he was absolutely delighted with how the campaign went. We brought fun back to Sutton Coldfield. Wishing John the best of luck in whatever seat decides to take him, they won’t regret it!

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can we just stop referendums full stop outside of independence referendums

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

1 month

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has used his maiden speech to call for a referendum on the ECHR

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@TrueSlazac So true. Us zoomers are the real victims. We had to live through twitter

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@BenjaminOCall

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@nikicaga he’s gonna get so much revenue from this

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@BenjaminOCall

4 months

If ed miliband won the 2015 general election

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@BenjaminOCall

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@punishedprabrit britain is the centre of the world

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@BenjaminOCall

2 months

2nd amongst remoaners?? we’re so back

YouGov

@YouGov

2 months

How did Remain and Leave voters vote at the 2024 general election? Remain voters Labour: 47% Lib Dem: 17% Conservative: 16% Green: 8% Reform UK: 3% Other: 8% Leave voters Conservative: 37% Reform UK: 28% Labour: 19% Lib Dem: 7% Green: 3% Other: 5%

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Benjamin-Robert🔶

@BenjaminOCall

3 months

Hi everyone, we’ve seen a few people expressing interest in helping us campaign in Sutton Coldfield! If anyone is interested in helping out with canvassing or delivering then feel free to drop me a DM or email me at bensuttonnorthbrum @gmail .com Thanks, Ben