Richard Wellings
@RichardWellings
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Libertarian economist. Editor of A Beginner's Guide to Liberty and author of three reports on HS2.
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Joined September 2009
Turning off street lights to cut emissions is insanity. Their obsession with Net Zero is now turning into a clear threat to public health and safety – and it is only going to get worse:
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They're wrecking the economy on purpose. By weakening and demoralising the UK, they hope to make it easier to push the country back under EU control.
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The Budget was deliberately designed to harm the economy. The globalist "elite" want the UK to do badly after Brexit to make it easier to push the country back under EU control, and to deter other nations from leaving the bloc.
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Shocking footage of French police assaulting unarmed protesters, including a medical volunteer who is there to help the injured. When will EU leaders condemn the Macron government's widespread human rights abuses?.#GiletsJaunes #ActeXIV.
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Watching this appalling footage of French police beating up a defenceless female protester reminded me of when Spanish police brutally assaulted voters in Catalonia. Are they trained to behave like this on the continent?
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They're forcing small-scale landlords out of business in order to transfer the rental sector to elite-controlled financial institutions. Owner-occupiers are going to be the next target.
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It's a repeat of the diesel scam. They're sucking people in with subsidies and tax breaks, before they tell us "EVs are actually really bad for the environment" and impose new charges and restrictions. The real goal is a big reduction in car ownership.
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The Budget was designed to damage the economy. It was deliberate, not ignorance or stupidity. The pro-EU establishment want the UK to do badly, to make it easier to push the country back under Brussels' control.
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They're determined to destroy the middle classes by stealing their property, savings and investments, using a combination of high taxes, costly red tape and inflation. The stolen assets will be transferred to the financial "elite", not the working class.
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Huge bills are precisely the point of pay-per-mile, which will no doubt be charged on top of road tax, fuel duty and ULEZ-style levies in cities. The real goal is to restrict ordinary people's mobility by forcing them out of their cars.
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They stopped new reservoirs and now there's a water crisis. They forced power stations to close and now there's an energy crisis. They switched land to biofuels and now there's a food crisis. See how the green agenda works yet?.
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French police used massive amounts of tear gas on anti-government protesters in Toulouse earlier - another day marked by shocking government violence. Perhaps if this happened 6,000 miles away in Hong Kong the BBC would report it. #GiletsJaunes #Acte31.
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Brutal French police grab a female anti-government protester by the neck and force her to the ground. Still waiting for EU leaders to condemn the Macron government's violent repression. #GiletsJaunes #ActeXXII.
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It turns out EU boss and forced jabber Ursula von der Leyen is a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.
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The real reason speed limits are being lowered across the UK is to delay journeys in order to "nudge" people out of their cars - part of the wider agenda to restrict ordinary people's mobility. The policy is likely to backfire in terms of saving lives.
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The EU's failure to condemn the human rights abuses of the Macron government speaks volumes. This alarming clip appears to show French police repeatedly smashing an anti-government protester's face into the pavement: #GiletsJaunes.
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They're going to impose punitive road tolls on top of fuel duty, road tax and other charges. This is key to their plan to restrict mobility by making it hyper expensive to move around - increasingly trapping people in tightly controlled 15-minute cities.
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French police drag an anti-government protester across the ground, then appear to punch him repeatedly. For some reason the media are almost completely ignoring the numerous human rights abuses of the Macron government.
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The boiler tax is a bad policy, poorly designed, and has already been shown not to work. By reviving it, Miliband and his team are demonstrating they are driven by bizarre, ideologically inspired targets that don’t make any sense:
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Is it a deliberate BBC News policy to under-report the chaos in France? If similar anti-Trump protests were taking place across America no doubt it would be their top story. #Brexit.
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Just one of many shocking scenes in Paris today: French police punching anti-government protesters and attacking them with batons - including, it seems, volunteer street medics there to treat the injured. #GiletsJaunes #ActeXVIII.
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John Major wrecked the British economy with the ERM and his premiership was a disaster, lurching from crisis to crisis. Given this long record of failure, why does the BBC keep giving his anti-Brexit campaigning such enormous publicity? .
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The BBC is giving massive and sympathetic coverage to the protests in Hong Kong. Meanwhile it has almost completely ignored the huge protests against EU favourite Emmanuel Macron. #GiletsJaunes.
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Some 400,000 individuals are attending COP28 in Dubai, creating the biggest carbon footprint of any of these jamborees yet. The smell of hypocrisy in the air is almost as strong as the odour of burnt jet fuel:
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The establishment is planning to force ordinary people off the roads and out of their cars, largely restricting their lives to "15-minute cities." A strategy of political manipulation is being used to impose this new feudal system on the public:
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Shocking scenes from France today, with police flooding central Nantes with tear gas and blasting anti-Macron protesters with water cannon: #GiletsJaunes #Acte44.
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The chaos in France hasn't just been confined to the big cities. These shocking scenes are reportedly from Évreux, a medium-sized town of around 50,000 people in Normandy: #GiletsJaunes.
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The case for vaccine passports is built on lies, and serves a wider elite agenda, just like the war on Iraq.
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BBC News seems to be under-reporting the chaos in France again. If there were similar protests against say Trump or Putin every weekend the coverage would be endless.
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Echoes of fascism as Spanish police investigate Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola after he expressed support for Catalan independence #Catalonia.
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The Prime Minister appears to be using Covid-19 as a pretext to follow the World Economic Forum’s dystopian "Great Reset" agenda, also known as "Build Back Better". It’s not really about public health or a virus.
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This shocking footage appears to show French police beating up journalists during the Yellow Vest protests last week. When will the BBC and other major media start properly reporting the appalling human rights abuses of the Macron government?.#GiletsJaunes.
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Just when you thought he couldn't sink any lower, it emerges that Tony Blair has been briefing Emmanuel Macron on how to force Britain to stay in the EU: #Brexit.
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Spain behaving like a Latin American dictatorship as it prepares to take control of Catalan TV station #Catalonia.
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French police are now attacking journalists and vloggers who attempt to film their often brutal behaviour towards anti-government protesters: #GiletsJaunes.
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Electric cars are not "zero emission" and the government should be ashamed of misleading the public like this.
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BBC fat cat Gary Lineker goes on massive anti-Brexit rant calling for a second referendum – a week after hitting out at politicians who talk about football:
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Even by the BBC's standards, its biased TV coverage of Greta Thunberg's visit is appalling. There seems to be no attempt whatsoever to present views that challenge the radical green agenda.
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What's the point of the Mayor cycling to his destination if he has to be followed by a massive Range Rover carrying his bodyguards?
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Spain's drift towards fascism continues as judge orders detention of two Catalan pro-independence leaders #Catalonia.
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Biased BBC News describes supporters of a clean Brexit as "hardliners" and leaving the EU on WTO terms as "crashing out". Time to scrap the Licence Fee and close down this propaganda outfit.
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Yet more shocking police violence in France. When are EU leaders going to condemn the widespread human rights abuses of the Macron government? .
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People should boycott these vaccine passport trials. If they participate they are complicit in the government's assault on privacy and the chilling long-term agenda of compulsory digital IDs.
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If Gary Lineker had been promoting "right wing" or politically incorrect views, the biased BBC would have silenced him and probably sacked him years ago. #Brexit.
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Unfortunately 2023 is going to see a ruthless push to impose the Great Reset, including plans to severely restrict ordinary people's mobility. More and more cities will be affected, as council puppets follow their orders from above.
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This isn't about road safety - it's about "nudging" people out of their cars. As part of the agenda to restrict the public's mobility, they're deliberately making driving more stressful and unpleasant, as well as creating delays.
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Climate change will be used as a pretext to crackdown on Bitcoin, when the real reason is that it threatens the financial elite's money-printing scam.
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Yet more footage emerges of French police assaulting peaceful anti-government protesters. Strange that this brutal crackdown has received so little media coverage in the UK. #GiletsJaunes.
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Chaos in Paris today as police charge at anti-government protesters and attack them with batons. Has this been on the BBC yet? .#GiletsJaunes #MayDay.
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The Conservative Party has been hijacked by anti-conservative globalists who support big government, crony capitalism, cultural transformation and the radical green agenda. They are working for the transnational elite, not the general public.
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After the deceptions that led to the Iraq War, which killed hundreds of thousands, you'd think the BBC would stop promoting the views of disgraced former prime minister Tony Blair.
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If they were really scrapping vaccine passports, the WHO wouldn't be signing contracts to build a global system of Covid certification. Most likely they're just waiting for another pretext to expand these totalitarian controls.
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In case you missed it, this 2012 article explains that creating water shortages was a deliberate government/EU policy, part of the green agenda. They could then blame the resulting problems on climate change and force the public to cut consumption.
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Over 11,000 families are forced to pay the BBC licence fee just to fund Gary Lineker's salary. The sooner this deeply unfair tax is abolished the better.
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Contrary to "green" propaganda, it isn't easy and convenient to travel by bus. It doesn't offer door-to-door journeys, often involves long walks and waits, and isn't suitable for heavy/bulky shopping. Cars are much better; bus travel is a backward step.
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French police swamped central Toulouse with tear gas yesterday to suppress anti-Macron protests. Similar scenes in Hong Kong are given huge coverage by the BBC, but then the Gilets Jaunes are against corrupt Western elites rather than Chinese ones.
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They're effectively going to steal a chunk of our pensions to fund the elite's green agenda - transferring resources to politically connected cronies, while impoverishing ordinary people. This can be viewed as another assault on the middle classes.
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The neglect of basic road maintenance is deliberate. They're pushing up motoring costs and making driving more dangerous and stressful in order to "nudge" people out of their cars - part of the transnational elite's assault on the public's mobility.
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French police beat and kick protesters during anti-government protests, one of numerous examples of police brutality and violent clashes today. I assume none of this has been shown on the BBC News. #Acte62 #GiletsJaunes.
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More shocking police brutality in France yesterday, as anti Macron protests took place for the 32nd weekend in a row. I assume this hasn't been shown on the BBC. #GiletsJaunes #Acte32.
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Shocking to see an elected leader in an EU 'democracy' ousted, then forced by threats to flee his nation #Catalonia.
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The government is blocking the supply of water needed for crops. Having created water shortages by stopping new reservoirs, it seems they now want to cause a food crisis - which they can also blame on climate change.
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Tony Blair's call for vaccine passports is being promoted in The Telegraph's "Global Health Security" section, which is partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You couldn't make it up!.
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France has experienced widespread social unrest under the Macron government, though this has been under-reported by the BBC etc. Yet more rioting took place last weekend, at a protest against the appalling brutality of the French police.
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Should television viewers refuse to pay the Licence Fee in protest at the BBC's pro-EU bias? #Brexit.
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Council Tax is a massive rip-off and scam. Much of the money is now spent on the gold-plated pensions and fat-cat salaries of local bureaucrats - many of whom are actively harming their boroughs with anti-business and anti-motorist policies.
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Pushing the UK closer to the EU will only condemn it to further decline. The EU model of high taxes, high spending, endemic corruption, and heavily regulated, rigged markets has been an utter failure.
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I'm so disgusted with the BBC's relentless anti-Brexit bias that I'm now thinking of cancelling my TV licence and moving to online content. Can't Sky or Virgin offer a purely on-demand package which bypasses the BBC tax?
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Punitive new road charges will soon be imposed whether the public like it or not. This has already been decided outside democracy at a higher level - part of the wider, transnational agenda to slash car ownership and severely restrict people's mobility.
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Ministers are deliberately sabotaging the UK's energy supplies as they enforce the elite's radical green agenda. The results will be permanently high bills; widespread fuel poverty; massive state handouts; economic stagnation and industrial decline.
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Protests against the Macron government took place in cities across France earlier today - for the 39th weekend in a row. #GiletsJaunes #Acte39.
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Has the BBC reported yet on the huge protests in Holland against plans to "reset" the country's farming sector in the middle of a global food crisis? This wouldn't be the first time the BBC has neglected "inconvenient" developments on the continent.
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Oil shortages are deliberately being created by windfall taxes, drilling bans and trade barriers. These artificial shortages will then be used as a pretext for yet another crackdown on drivers.
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Parliament’s shameless betrayal of voters over Brexit will not be forgiven or forgotten:
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A knighthood for Tony Blair would show utter contempt for the millions killed, maimed or displaced in Iraq. The fact this is even being considered shows just how warped and immoral the British establishment has become.
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It's a ridiculous idea to require new police officers to have a degree. This kind of credentialism just adds to burden on taxpayers and feeds higher education fat cats.
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The BBC's biased London News is continuing its endless stream of anti-Brexit stories. Tonight's installment was nonsense that Brexit could have a terrible impact on London's museums. Time to scrap the licence fee and close down this propaganda outfit.
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Engineered food shortages will be falsely blamed on climate change and used as a pretext to impose draconian controls and force people to completely change what they eat. This strategy of deception is used repeatedly to advance the radical green agenda.
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Spain behaves like a South American dictatorship as judge jails 8 members of deposed Catalan government #Catalonia.
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They're slowing down drivers deliberately, with scant regard to the economic costs, in order to "nudge" them out of their cars and discourage travel full stop. One strategy is to impose mile upon mile of roadworks (with no work happening).
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This shocking footage is a reminder of events in Catalonia two years ago, when police thugs beat up voters and corrupt courts jailed dissidents. As with Macron's brutal crackdown on the Gilets Jaunes, hypocritical EU leaders failed to condemn the abuses.
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The pandemic has exposed the ugly truth that liberal democracy is largely theatre, with the big decisions made by an unaccountable global elite and implemented by its puppets. And it's not just Covid - see also climate change.
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The Bank of England has now lost all credibility. Its addiction to the money-printing scam and cosy relationship with the financial elite are major causes of the UK's economic stagnation. There should be a wholesale clearout of its senior officials.
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The government is building a police state in which biometric digital IDs will be required to access jobs, housing and other key services. Vaccine passports are another stepping stone towards this dystopian future.
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Why does the BBC hardly ever mention the potential benefits of a no-deal Brexit, i.e. a) a bonfire of hugely costly EU red tape; b) cheaper goods due to freer trade with the rest of the world; c) ending direct payments from UK taxpayers to the EU?.
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The green agenda is really about transferring even more power to the elite and their institutions rather than saving the planet: .
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The BBC's relentless promotion of Joe Biden is sickening to watch, particularly given his disastrous policy record. But Biden of course shares the same agenda as the BBC, together with other BBC favourites Tony Blair and Emmanuel Macron.
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Warning - they're effectively going to steal part of our pensions to fund green businesses and other politically favoured enterprises. Expect big losses when it turns out many ventures are not viable and were cooked up to fleece investors.
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Shocking footage shows French police attacking a journalist and human rights observers during the continuing protests against the Macron government earlier today. I'm guessing this won't be shown on the BBC. #GiletsJaunes #Acte46.
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Yellow Vest protests against the Macron government have now been taking place every weekend for a year. In striking contrast to Hong Kong, the brutal crackdown by the French authorities has mostly been ignored by the BBC. #GiletsJaunes #Acte53.
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BBC News's 8pm bulletin devoted around 8 minutes to the crisis in Venezuela 5,000 miles away but I don't think even mentioned the nation-wide chaos in neighbouring France. #GiletsJaunes #VenezuelaCoup.
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Yes, the number of petrol cars will massively decline, but many motorists will be forced out of car ownership altogether, and won't transfer to electric vehicles. A big clamp down on mobility is the real plan.
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The crisis in Catalonia has exposed the European Union's massive lack of democracy #Catalonia.
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Council tax is a massive rip off. Much of the money is spent on fat-cat salaries for council executives and gold-plated pensions. And many councils actively make residents' lives worse with their policies.
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The BBC licence fee should be scrapped and replaced with a subscription model:
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French officials are "in disbelief" and "dismay" over the appointment of five German heads to the new EU Commission - and not a single French representative: #Brexit.
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20mph zones are really about "nudging" people out of their cars, not saving lives. Councils are imposing these limits despite the economic costs and public opposition. It's part of a top-down agenda to restrict people's mobility.
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French police choked the centre of Toulouse with tear gas earlier today, as protests against the Macron government took place across France for the 48th weekend in a row. #GiletsJaunes #Acte48.
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There is more to vaccine passports than meets the eye. Their real purpose is to condition the public into accepting the widespread and routine use of privacy-destroying digital IDs:
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