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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 21h

Yep - this the way of the Right - preservation of self. Society can take care of itself (unless they’re our workers in which case we just need to keep them ticking along).

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 21h

Knowing they had next to no chance of winning the GE, the Tories went on a spending spree to leave Labour with tax bombs to deal with. The worst thing is it took Labour 18 months to face this. They should have blamed the Tories week one and swallowed the pill then. Now they own it!

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 1d

More performative crap

Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 1d

The UK? Bit wishful thinking there lmao

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 3d

It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.

Agree? Add your name 👇🏻

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

writesbright.substack.com

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Andrew A @aavey.bsky.social · 3d

substack.com/@carolecadwa...

We need to talk about Russia

So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 3d

Seems to me there is no longer simple left or right - there’s Social and Anti-social!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
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Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 4d

80% of men in the US are circumcised. 8% in the UK. Yet verified autism per capita is about the same. Go figure (but lads - on that note, leave it there, don’t cut it off please - evolution had its reasons!)

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 4d

Sky News not worrying about sitting on the fence as usual.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

What will you tell your children when history judges the times we live in?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 4d

AI, create a 1/7 scale model of Mussolini…

donald j. trump is giving a speech at the indiana state fairgrounds in front of american flags

ALT: donald j. trump is giving a speech at the indiana state fairgrounds in front of american flags

media.tenor.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told @bylinetimes.bsky.social it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about Gill’s pro-Russian statements

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Pro-Russian Sympathies Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about Gill's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 5d

Weightwatchers Biggest Tryer Certificate?

Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 5d

Trump won't be here next year anyway. His massive posthumous monument carved on the edge of a mountain in the Rocky's probably will be, so maybe they can slap one on that?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 7d

When any party says they are going to abolish a specific tax (eg Tory’s and Stamp Duty) - ask yourself what additional tax are they introducing (or existing increasing) to replace it with?

Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 7d

The moths have not been kind to Lamb Chop.

Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 10d

And the winner of the Czech election is…. Putin!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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