Sharpie
Cat Dad. Sometime supporter of Carabao Cup Winners. Hillwalker. Probably “woke”. Sometime korfballer. Music, gentler politics, food and travel. And history and architecture.
North-eastern England.
- There’s certainly a type of person to whom Reform is appealing isn’t there? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- They’re naively stupid aren’t they? Has Qatar just given them the jet, like “sure it’s worth $440m but we’ve got a load just kicking around so you might as well take one, you’ll be doing us a favour taking it off our hands”? Qui bono?
- Reposted by SharpieBrits on immigrants:
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- Reposted by SharpieBehold! A Puffin is sat in your feed. Adorable.
- Good.
- Chapeau pour le shithousery. And it seems to have worked.
- Someone needs to do a really really good dramatisation of The Count of Monte Cristo to make up for the fact that I’ll never be able to watch the Gérard Depardieu version again (at least not without wincing).
- Not a very good justification for criminal/unconstitutional behaviour but one that seems to stand again and again. “He’s rich”. Ok, let’s let him do what he wants then.
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- Reposted by Sharpie“To be called ‘woke’ in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult “ - Pope Leo XIV
- If Robert Jenrick is backing you, you’ve probably gone down the wrong path.
- 🚨 NEW: Robert Jenrick backs PM with claim UK already an ‘island of strangers’ in some places “Aggressive levels of mass migration have made us more divided... for example central Bradford - 50 per cent of people were born outside of the UK”, he said Full story ⤵️ www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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- Reposted by SharpieIf you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.
- Reposted by Sharpie‘Island of strangers’ and ‘rivers of blood’ are close cousins. I can barely believe a Labour government would go there.
- Reposted by SharpieWhen the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.
- Reposted by SharpieThey set fire to a hotel where refugees were forced to live, attacked mosques and homes, stopped people driving into an area if they weren’t white. “grievances” remember violent racism is always our fault
- Reposted by SharpieLabour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
- Maybe - just maybe - we can have a conversation about immigration that doesn’t hinge about the benefits that *we* get.
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- Reposted by SharpiePeople have genuine, serious, concerns which need to be recognised and addressed. The problem is they keep being told that these concerns are caused by immigration, and when you are struggling you will take what you can as a reason. This isn't to say people are stupid or racist, just struggling. 1/
- If anyone in Suffolk can spare a combine harvester, there’s some Led By Donkeys-Style fun to be had. Mostly involving the word “Cunt”.
- As the child/grandchild of immigrants I will find it difficult ever to vote for Labour again.
- Would anyone like to draw up some more impeachment articles? What more proof do you need?
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- Reposted by SharpieThis analysis takes anxieties as if they emerge in a vacuum. Sometimes, real leadership involves being open with people that their anxieties are a chimera. It's not just ceding the intellectual ground, it's creating it as if it were natural. Starmer is Farage's most useful ally...
- Reposted by SharpieThe Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
- Increasingly unsure that the UK electorate will get the message.
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- Reposted by SharpieWhen will Starmer learn that no matter how good his Nigel Farage impression gets, it won't save him from wipeout at the hands of Reform? Here's another idea - how about doing the work that's needed to actually make people's lives better? 🧵
- Reposted by Sharpiea society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant
- Jo Cox spoke about us all having “more in common”. I hope she’d be ashamed of what the Labour Party is seeking to become.
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