Pedro Gallina-Madera🇬🇧🇨🇿🇭🇺🇳🇱 @progressiveslug

For us. For fairness. Politics isn't working. For far too long. Put big light on. Barm cakes. Putting the heart back into communities. The Smiths. But not Morrissey, obviously. People up and down this country. Decency. Hard working people. Communities. Picky teas. For our city-region. For all city-regions. Everton. Next door but one. Since 2001. Buses. Yellow buses. Hard working buses, up and down this country. Price caps. Price freezes. Giving back. Not taking enough to begin with. People are sick and tired. Wealth tax. Fairness. Tax land, tax money. Tax wealth. Tax growth. Tax growth to make growth. We're all immigrants, aren't we? No more being in hock to the bond markets. Increase borrowing. Increase spending. Doorsteps. What I'm hearing on the doorsteps. Good touch for a big man. We do things differently here. Wherever here might be. Politics of that which we have in common is moreso in common with unity than that which divides us can divide us from us. Chippy tea. Sad smile. Grass. Selfies. Fourteen years of Tory hurt didn't stop me dreaming. Jogging by the motorway. Like my grandad and his grandad before him. Chuckle. Little chuckle. Well, some people might say that. Guitars. Music. Nothing more esoteric than Elbow. I like Oasis, but I don't condone all the fighting and wouldn't like them now. Bricks. Houses. Terraced houses. Council houses. Ordinary people. Ordinary people like you and me, who haven't got embarrassing comments in their past because they've barely said anything of note. Politics, eh, who'd go into that? No, I wouldn't say I'm a saviour exactly. But the Labour Party has to be saved and I'm the only one who can do it. Milquetoast? I'm not really familiar with the term, but I like milk and I love toast, haha. They serve toast in the breakfast clubs, and we should honour Sir Keir's legacy really. Fantastic Prime Minister. Just not for very long. I love this country that I love, I'm very patriotic. But the flag is divisive, and we need to have a debate about that. A debate about whether or not it's divisive, about which I have no opinion. I went to Cambridge, and I'm not afraid to admit that. Ordinary lad done good. I've seen the system from the inside. I've seen the system from the outside. I've seen the system from Merseyside. It's not working. Not for ordinary folk like you and me. I'm a man, and I'm not afraid to admit that. But it is divisive, and we should have a debate about that. The North. People say it's grim up north, hah, maybe that's why we're more realistic up here. We know the problems people are facing, because we're the ones what's facing 'em. Regional inequality is something I'm passionate about. It's not fair that pints are only £7 in Manchester when pub landlords in London are raking in much more. Minimum wage for pints. Get young people earning, so we can tax them. Doe eyes. Glasses. I'm a bit older, a bit wiser, a bit heavier, haha. Ask me mates, they'll tell you. Don't ask them, actually. They're made of cardboard. I've always cared about equality. Sharing is caring, as my kids say. I think my wife taught them that. As PM I will do everything in my power to put every town in this country on the map. Of this country. Manchester feels half the world away. I've been lost, I've been found, but I don't feel down the back of the sofa for loose change. Not a bad idea though, in fairness. Fairness. Barrow-in-Fairness. In fairness, fairness isn't a bad idea to be fair. I'm from Wigan, me. As honest as can be. Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. Change. Believe in change. Believe deeply in unspecified change. And hope. Hope deeply for belief in unspecified change. Keep calm and carry the shopping back from the car in one go. For Andy. For us. Forever.

So if you’re doing your GCSEs and you have a birthday early in the school year you can use Youtube to revise, but if it’s late you can’t… Doesn’t seem terribly fair.

The interchangeable use of Europe and EU is a large part of the problem…

António Costa @eucopresident

8 months ago

What I see is that there are so many people trying to undermine Europe. Why? Because the EU is strong. And we are working to make it even stronger. We have taken bold steps to build the Europe of defence and enhance our strategic autonomy. We have stood by Ukraine’s side, as

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Let’s make it clear: we, the majority that you won’t see on CNN, BBC, or Al Jazeera, Muslims and Arabs in the Middle East, don’t see Israel as the enemy. We don’t trust and will never stand with the Islamic regime in Iran. It wasn’t Israel; it was Iran that fired missiles at Mecca, the holiest site in Islam. It’s Iran that has illegally occupied three UAE islands since 1971. You think Gaza is bad? You’re out protesting for a cause you barely understand, trapped in trendy hashtags and fed propaganda by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who parrot Iran’s lies. So let me educate you: Not in Gaza, but in Syria, 656,000+ dead, 13.3 million displaced, 16.7 million in need of aid, and it’ll cost 250 to 400 billion dollars to rebuild what Iran’s militias destroyed. In Iraq, Iran dragged it into an 8-year war that killed up to 1 million people, and today, over 1 million remain displaced, with 88 billion dollars needed just to recover. In Yemen, Tehran’s Houthi puppets killed up to 377,000, starved millions, displaced 4.5 million, and left 21.6 million begging for food. 3,774 children were killed, 7,245 injured, all while Iran grinned behind closed doors. In Sudan, Africa, Iran sponsors and supports the Muslim Brotherhood-led army. Since April 15, 2023, they have killed 80,000 children and women through airstrikes using Iranian weapons and have starved 5 million people. And yes, you don't know about it. You didn’t even post about it. You see, even when you say "Black lives matter," you're a liar—because you did nothing for those Black lives in Sudan. Syria starves, Iraq limps, Yemen, Sudan bleeds, and yet no one protests. Why? Because you’re hostages to trends, blind to truth, and echoing narratives designed in Tehran and polished by the Muslim Brotherhood’s media machine. When we say we’re against war and for peace, we mean it. Iran doesn’t. It wants peace only inside its borders, while it exports war to every Arab family. And now it’s exporting terror to the UK and US, where MI6 and the CIA have arrested Iranian-linked terrorists. And let’s not forget, Iran begged for a ceasefire after just 12 days, yet ordered Hamas terrorists to reject one. Iran doesn’t care about Gaza, it cares about control. The real tragedy? Those filthy Muslim Brotherhood agents in Gaza sold their people to Tehran’s interests. We in the Gulf cherish civilized nations, those we embrace, normalize with, and build a brighter future alongside. But Iran? Its hands are still stained with blood. Its actions speak of destruction, not progress. Even when Tehran threatened Qatar’s sovereignty and we saw it as an attack on all the GCC, we stood firm, not for war, but for principle, for peace. So yes, Iran owes the region trust, apologies, and real repair. Not slogans. Not theatrics. A huge, massive, and meaningful change for the better. The Islamic regime in Iran shattered the Middle East and now wants applause? We’re not clapping. We’re done. Look at the UAE. We reached Mars. We aim for the Moon. We’re racing toward the next frontier: artificial intelligence, the oil of tomorrow. That is what progress looks like. So if you're going to copy something, copy greatness. At least try.

Absolutely *brutal* cut to Rosie Duffield by the Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit #PMQs

A brief summary of life in the UK: 27 million private sector workers support 9 million economically inactive people aged 16-64, 6 million public sector workers, and 13 million pensioners. If you suggest any part of this is unsustainable, people compare you to Hitler.

The UK has not cut its emissions in half. It has merely exported them to Asia. junkscience.com/2019/05/no-uk-… While creating a pointless energy crisis, raising energy prices and not improving the weather. Sorry @ClaireCoutinho, UK climate policy is a pointless disaster. @rishisunak telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/2…

As my old friend David Walsh once said: “We reserve the right to applaud.”

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*BLACKROCK NAMES ARAMCO CEO AMIN NASSER TO ITS BOARD LOL ESG

⚙️STEEL🧵 Pretty 👀 statistic: no other country save Venezuela has seen steel output contract as quickly as UK. Tempting as it is to cast this as “normal” it’s anything but… If u want to understand the nature of Britain’s economy right now u can’t do it without pondering steel…

These are just some of the many trades where insiders knew of moves before the public. There are literally hundreds of more we have exposed and highlighted. It is inexcusable. Someone always knows. To use tools to find these type of trades, check: unusualwhales.com/flow

Maybe it is after all…

Pedro Gallina-Madera🇬🇧🇨🇿🇭🇺🇳🇱 @progressiveslug

4 years ago

It isn’t.

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After a woman was thrown out of the Scottish Parliament for wearing a scarf in suffragette colours on Tuesday, Labour MP Thangam Debonnaire, Conservative MSP Rachael Hamilton and SNP MP Joanna Cherry all seek to make sartorial statements in the chamber. 💜🤍💚

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Still amazingly little interest from MPs that the financial wizards who gave us 2008 have been at it again with pension fund leverage & no10/11 had no clue of systemic risk til panic phone calls to BoE. What else is insolvent in Europe?

I guarantee that scotch eggs were mentioned more times than cancer at those dreadful Govt press conferences. And here we are now - a cancer crisis unlike anything we've ever seen. A complete and utter disaster. My piece on this damning pandemic legacy. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/1…

It isn’t.

Pedro Gallina-Madera🇬🇧🇨🇿🇭🇺🇳🇱 @progressiveslug

4 years ago

I hope Wild West twitter is back🌵

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I’m not sure orange juice in wine glasses should be allowed.

Why do people still like Harrods? It doesn’t even have a zoo any more🦓

I hope Wild West twitter is back🌵