Alan Mearns
@alanmearns1
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For UK in EU. For truth in politics, social justice & action on climate change.
Joined September 2012
We fought so hard for the PACT Act and millions of Veterans have received this benefit the Republican budget cuts $23 billion from PACT Act funding. -@jonstewart we need your voice again to save millions of Veterans care. #RepublicanCutsHurtVeterans
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Worried about the influence of 'toxic' foreign dark money on British politics? Support Democracy for Sale’s crowdfunding campaign so we can clean up the system https://t.co/0NnIVOqDxm
#GE24
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British democracy is broken. Trust in politics has never been lower - but we ha… Peter Geoghegan needs your support for Help Us Fix Britain's Broken Democracy
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It's time for all sensible folk to steer clear of X too. It's now just an echo chamber for Musk's brand of ego-driven sociopathic cult madness. I'll be on #Bluesky 😃 https://t.co/14n8R0tKuW
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The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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The ”General Election” Petition is complete, 100% bullshit. Bots from all over the world. increasingly looking like another American financed Cambridge Analytica fraud job. This time, don’t just dismiss it, investigate it.
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This is what a statesman looks like @SamCoatesSky - and Starmer didn’t leave early to do an interview!
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This isn’t journalism @SamCoatesSky, this is trolling. Grow up. Starmer is doing what we expect of a PM who is rebuilding relationships after years of isolationism from the Tories (they only ever visited Rwanda) @SkyNews you can do better than this childish tabloid nonsense.
How much time has Keir Starmer been out of the country? Since Sept 1 Keir Starmer has been in: Ireland 1 day Italy 2 days Washington 2 days Berlin - 1 day Brussels - 1 day UNGA - 3 days Samoa - 5 days Budapest - 1 day France / COP - 2 days Next week G7 - 4 days 22 days on
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I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners
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It could have been better designed, but Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tweak will help farmers with mud on their boots, says farmer Guy Singh-Watson
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Spot on @Bonn1eGreer on #bbcqt The whole ‘special relationship’ thing is an excruciating very one-sided British obsession. Remember the long promised Brexit free trade deal? Waken up. The UK needs a special relationship with the EU, not the USA. #Trump
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@DavidLammy The next time @ChrisMasonBBC tediously asks about your previous remarks about Trump, show him this: “JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now, he is Trump's vice president-elect”. https://t.co/k665xNNs2E
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Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, JD Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump.
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Guess who bought thousands of acres of farmland to avoid inheritance tax?
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These two ruined our futures and those of our children, made us all poorer, destroyed our economy and made us a worldwide laughing stock. They should never be forgiven.
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Jo Coburn peddling untruths on #PoliticsLive. Increasing ‘Employers NI’ is not a “betrayal of @UKLabour’s manifesto commitment not to raise taxes on working people” @Jo_Coburn and it is totally misleading for you to repeat over and over again that it is. @BBCNews #BBCbias
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Everyone must watch all 8 minutes and 24 seconds of this speech by Michelle Obama. It might be the finest I’ve ever heard on the topic of abortion rights, as well as the stakes in this election for American women…and the men who love them. Share widely. https://t.co/GJOa3OZJxD
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Why are these financially broken monopolies allowed to pay record bonuses & dividends while pumping shit into our lakes & rivers Time to act @EnvAgencySE @SteveReedMP Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges
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Third of total comprises bonuses at Severn Trent as indebted Thames nearly doubles payouts to executives
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The @DailyMailUK is a poisonous rag and an utter embarrassment to this country. It's time we stopped allowing foreign ownership of our media - corrupting our country from the outside. Time to act @lisanandy
#Rothermere #RupertMurdoch
After the meeting today with Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron on the Middle East & Ukraine. Keir Starmer takes a question from the Daily Mail. “Prime Minister, do you regret going to the Taylor Swift Concert?”
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Reading this article - UK lagging behind the rest of Europe, low investment in new medicines R and D Imagine for a moment if the European Medicines Agency @EMA_News was still UK based We must #RejoinEU @mikegalsworthy @SanofiUK #Brexit
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Paul Hudson, the Briton in charge of the French drug firm, is a big believer in the potential of AI to transform healthcare
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Someone please explain to me why two tickets to a Taylor Swift concert is such a big fucking deal, a gift from a person who had no interest or expectation of getting any political advantage in it? Jeez. It’s not like Starmer gave her a Peerage. That’s usually the Tory thing.
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