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Pro European activist. keep calm and carry on FBPE. Lib Dem + Labour + Greens together we can GTTO! Blocked by Daniel Hannon!

United Kingdom in the EU
Joined November 2018
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time. It is excellent. They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🚨Senior Tories and Sarah Ferguson named as people who fast-tracked firms into Covid PPE deals After a five-year legal fight, the government has finally named more than 30 senior Conservatives who referred companies into the Covid PPE VIP lane. Eight of Boris Johnson’s cabinet ministers appear, including Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart and Robert Jenrick. Matt Hancock is linked to 27 firms, Lord Feldman to 21 and Lord Agnew to 14. Michael Gove, Grant Shapps and Graham Brady are also named. Sarah Ferguson referred a small pharmaceutical company that shut down in 2022. Companies that got this fast-track treatment were ten times more likely to win contracts, yet large amounts of the kit later proved useless. The Covid Inquiry called the system inherently biased. Why did ministers spend five years fighting to keep the names of those who referred firms into this preferential system hidden from the public?
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Brexit was like walking out of your home for good on a warm, sunny day with no coat, no food and no supplies because you assumed the weather would never change. Then the storms came: Covid, Ukraine, Iran/Hormuz, climate extremes A decade later, Britain has discovered what happens when a country strips away its resilience. 🔥 The IFS says the 2020s are on course to be the worst decade for household income growth since records began in 1950. Typical working-age household incomes are forecast to FALL by another £1,050 by 2028-29. Britain cannot rebate its way out of this. 🧵 1/2 👇
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Very enjoyable evening in Warwick with an audience clearly supporting the idea that Brexit was a disaster and net zero is the only way to go. Nice of @libdemdaisy to be there on her birthday! We all drank to her health afterwards apart from @ZiaYusufUK who legged it with his status symbol bodyguard. Fascinating to see how he did not make a single positive argument for Brexit. They never do. He has lovely shoes though, but a very weak handshake which is never a good sign in anyone.
Tonight, Question Time is in Warwick Joining Fiona on the panel are Emma Reynolds, James Cartlidge, Daisy Cooper, Zia Yusuf, and Alastair Campbell Watch at 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds & the @BBCNews channel, 10.40pm on @BBCOne #bbcqt
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected' 30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.co…
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Patrick Stewart talks about Clement Attlee (best ever UK PM) winning when he was 5 and how he has been a Socialist ever since. Which terrifies Americans.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Gove began to reduce the education staffing in local authorities removing advisers from each LA as soon as he became education secretary, advised by Cummings 2010/2011. Small state politics.
Well the Tories didn’t move towards small state Govt in the 2010s in fact the state grew exponentially from 2016. And I’m not sure Osbourne and Cameron could be described as libertarians. They carried on the neo liberal ideology of Thatcher and Blair.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Replying to @libdemdaisy
@libdemdaisy speaking on BBC Question Time explains how freedom of movement would grow the UK economy.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
#bbcqt 👏👏👏 @campbellclaret "Brexit has taken 6 to 8 percent out of our economy. If we had not left the Chancellor today would have had £90 billion more to spend. The people who gave us Brexit.......do not fall for them because they are a bunch of conmen".
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
This is what HATE towards asylum seekers does. A pensioner - 65yo Mark Neville threw a petrol bomb at a migrant hotel.... Police said Neville was "motivated by hate" and the attack was "designed to terrify residents and the local community" Let that sink in - A petrol bomb!!! This is what happens when asylum seekers are dehumanised and turned into targets. When politicians use inflammatory rhetoric about vulnerable people, it has consequences. Lives are being put at risk. If you think this is acceptable you really need to seek help and check you aren't being radicalised by your algorithm and politicians.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP. 🎥 The Guardian
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
A reminder of when the Far Right went to Birmingham and got told to fuck off. Hilarious.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
One day these people will be dead.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Britain is NOT broken. #RejoinEU
Following the Budget, we learn that the welfare bill is forecast to rise by £19 billion this year. That increase alone is almost as much as the entire annual police budget for England and Wales. Britain is broken. Britain needs Reform.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
It would be very, very funny if Robert Jenrick loses his seat at the next election.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🤣🤣🤣🤣 James O Brien owns Farage
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
The real horror of Halloween. Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them. If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door: tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgeho… The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals. When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds. Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror? And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation. Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive. Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep. If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now. Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
And we both know that’s not true Nigel don’t we? I’m still waiting for the apology you were required to write to me… Though I won’t hold my breath
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says he didn't attend the Budget in Parliament to "avoid a physical altercation" "Given my prayer card [to reserve a seat] was removed, I was heading towards another physical altercation... being a quiet, shy and modest person, I decided against it"
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Since May 2010 Britain has been diminished by four things. The richest being allowed to evade & avoid paying tax. The politics which allowed Brexit. The incompetence & corruption of Gov during COVID. Tax averse rich using their extra profits to promote far right & fascist groups.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🔴DIDO HARDING: Test and Trace 'Did we ever get to the bottom of this❓ The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace, @didoharding.' - @LeftRig57257476 @Conservatives @UKLabour
Did we ever get to the bottom of this? The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace.
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