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The British Press could learn a lot from the final press conference of Barack Obama "You're not supposed to be sycophants . . ." "You're supposed to ask me tough questions . . ." "You're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power . . ." #IfOnly
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
A reminder: Boris Johnson missed the first FIVE Cobra meetings at the start of the pandemic. Not fit to be PM. #LockHimUp #CovidInquiry #PoliticsLive
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And a cold wind blows over America as King Donald describes his own descent into madness.
Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.
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Committed a crime by viewing the worst indecent images of children which in themselves were created by another crime. What does it take for jail time?
🚨 LABOUR COUNCILLOR WALKS FREE FROM COURT AFTER POSSESSING THE WORST INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN A Labour Councillor has been given a 12-month suspended sentence for possessing indecent images of children deemed category A considered the worst. Tom Dewey a Labour Councillor for Hackney has avoided jail after admitting possessing indecent images of children. Recorder Jonathan Ashley-Norman handed down a 12-month suspended sentence, he said: Your actions have had a devastating impact on your life and your closest family.” He gave him credit for an early guilty plea He also ordered devices to be forfeited, told Dewey to pay £500 costs and put him on a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which will restrict his contact with children. Thomas Dewey, who was elected as a Labour councillor for De Beauvoir ward, was arrested by detectives from the National Crime Agency who seized laptops and tablets at his home in Hertford Road in Hackney, just days before May’s local elections last year. He had a “huge problem” with looking at indecent images of children from the internet for his own use, Wood Green Crown Court heard. Described by party activists as “ambitious”, he had worked at Hackney Council for nearly two years as a support officer for the Mayor and Cabinet office and for a consultancy advising on planning. He was the branch secretary for the De Beauvoir ward for Labour and had spent years campaigning for the party in Hackney. Last month, the 36-year-old admitted a charge of making five category A indecent images of children, a further charge of making 41 category B indecent images, as well as making 203 category C indecent images of children. Images are graded with category A considered the worst. Dewey, now of Hampshire, also admitted a charge of possessing 78 extreme pornographic images of children – an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person and having 1,523 prohibited images of children in his possession. The maximum sentence for the most serious charge is five years, depending on the number of images. Details of the images were not read out in court, but prosecutor Margia Mostafa said the content of the Category A images “are highly serious.” The starting point for the first charge is two years in prison but the steps Dewey has taken, along with his early guilty plea and remorse saw that cut to 12 months, suspended for two years. He received an additional six months for charge two, three months for charge three, six months for charge four, and six months for charge five, all suspended for two years and to run concurrently. Dewey also has to do 150 hours’ community service and 40 days of a “rehabilitation activity”. ,two days before his arrest at home in Hackney where he was “the sole occupant.” The NCA seized two laptops, two tablets and a hard drive and Dewey was arrested and cautioned at 7.03am. They had identified four “CyberTipline” reports which has user ID to a google drive and Dewey had uploaded indecent images of children to his personal account. Dewey was elected as a Labour councillor for the first time in the May 2022 council elections and resigned days later, triggering a by-election last July. Labour, which has a majority on the council, narrowly defeated the Green candidate in the by-election. The charges have caused upset amongst Labour campaigners who were unaware of the arrest until this summer.
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There's some real mental gymnastics going on in the MAGA mindset - hating 'socialism' but backing Trump's support of Putin's communism (gangster-style).
🚨 TRUMP CLAIMS UKRAINE HAS GIVEN AMERICA NOTHING IN RETURN FOR ITS SUPPORT! 🇺🇦 TRUMP: “Don’t tell me about Ukraine. We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. They’ve given us nothing!” NOTHING? SERIOUSLY? Ukraine is fighting a war against Russian aggression, weakening Moscow’s military capabilities and contributing to European security. Ukrainians are paying with their lives to defend their freedom. Reducing their sacrifice to a financial transaction is an insult to every Ukrainian fighting for survival. 🇺🇦
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Is it my birthday?
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF TRUMP BECAME THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT IN HISTORY TO GO TO PRISON?
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"Stripping those honours helps protect the integrity and value of the honours system." That's some claim for a system that rewards failure and sycophancy
King Charles III strips 15 people of honours - check the full list ift.tt/kvUEbJD
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What's not to like? 🤷🏻 Bring it on!!!
🚨 BREAKING: Mike Johnson: "If we lose the midterms — God forbid, if we lose the House majority — it'll be a real end to Trump's presidency."
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Well there's an incentive to get out and vote Democrat!!! 🤷🏻
If Democrats win they will spend every minute trying to jail Trump.
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The disrespect shown by America to its allies won't disappear when Trump leaves the White House or indeed this mortal coil. It will still resound around the world because of no-marks like Hegseth. Shame on them all.
Hegseth on Afghanistan: I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters. It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there. Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations. In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Community note
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths. t.co/x4tGhxJiF
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Hunted stag hit by a car - We've received confirmation of the sickening fate of a stag hunted by the Quantock Staghounds on Monday. @ASPolice it's past time for this hunt to receive a CPN. This could have been a fatality for the driver, and now somewhere there is an injured stag
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Post mortems suggest five Hen Harrier chicks found dead in nest on grouse moor in northern England had injuries consistent with being stabbed. New blog (warning - contains distressing info) ⬇️ raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
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Jeffery Epstein Victim: “I have spend the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffery & all the coconspirators did to me. I was raped repeatedly, I was raped 3x per day sometimes & I was not the only girl on that island. There was a constant stream of girls being raped over and over and over again” What does our government do? The FBI safely tucks away that client list and protects the child rapists NOT ONE CHILD RAPIST ON THE EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST HAS BEEN ARRESTED OR PAID FOR THEIR CRIMES #Epstein #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinIsland
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Government opens can of worms at TVCA Report in @FinancialTimes this evening that statutory investigation into Tees Valley Combined Authority is to be launched by government. Angela Rayner will be announcing it tomorrow.
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Bloody hell Sharron!!! Pot . Kettle . Black 🤷🏻
Exactly this! A large number of people voted to leave the EU purely because they wanted responsibility to be with Westminster where we can vote people out - not with unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on astonishing salaries!
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Of all the people who could cast some light on this subject, BBC Newsnight chose…Putin’s former spokesman?
"It's a direct lie... Either Prime Minister Burnham is lying, or the intelligence service of Great Britain." Former Putin spokesperson Sergei Markov says that the PM's claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum is "absolutely a clear lie." #Newsnight
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Pete 💙NHS💙 #FBPE retweeted
Johnson didn’t reply to @thenerve_news’s press inquiries. Harborne, through his lawyers, Schillings, threatened defamation proceedings but wouldn’t comment or explain what was defamatory. Harborne is suing @wsj for reporting on his ownership of Tether. 7/
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Harborne’s gift of £5m to Farage wasn’t his first act of generosity. He also gave £1m to Johnson *after* he left office. What for, you ask? Neither are saying. But in contrast to the flights, he did declare this. 2 months later he flew on Harborne’s jet to Ukraine 4/
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