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Daz @mrdaz.bsky.social · 14d

“How dare they call Reform racists!” -Reform Councillor.

*immediately infers that David Lammy is only in a job because of his ethnicity.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 4h

It's time Labour (and the Lib Dems and Greens) started hammering home the cost of private healthcare. If people saw what their monthly premiums would actually cost to cover them for all eventualities, especially 60+ with any adverse medical history, their own or family's, they'd soon wake up.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 4h

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 4h

This should be a wake up call for anyone naive enough to think Reform's plans for our NHS are motivated by anything except the greed of private equity companies.

First they came for the pets...

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Vets could be made to cap prescription prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose, CMA says, as it proposes shake-up including publishing treatment costs

www.theguardian.com

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 17h

It was obvious to anyone paying attention far longer ago than that.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h

Getting a Saline Drip in the USA cost $800, and your insurance doesn't cover it.

Using an Ambulance costs $1500+$100 every minute, Insurance doesn't cover it.

Do you want Private Healthcare, really?

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

And in other news the female (shock, horror!) Archbish doesn't have a name, according to the Torygraph's headline, which nevertheless managed to name her husband.

Misogyny, sisters, it's still alive and kicking.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this is scary.Tory anti abortionists Danny Kruger, Maria Caulfield and others jumping ship to Reform, and Moseley's great grandchildren marching through Soho last week were the advance guard.

Time to up our game, sisters.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

That's all fine, but how?

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 1d

That's true, but exposing those undermining our democracy at the behest of the fossil fuel industry and of Putin, whose interests it also serves, is a necessary part of that.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. I'm not a Corbyn fan, but remember his one off stint on Question Time, and Isabel Oakshott, now an immigrant in Dubai, contemptuously calling him a clown when he challenged her. I'm still shocked by that bit of gratuitous rudeness.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

Approaching my 77th year I'm nearing the end of my life on our beautiful, beleaguered planet, but I found this immensely reassuring this morning. Perhaps it will recover after all when we're no longer here to destroy it with our greed and carelessness.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

The volcanic island of Surtsey emerged in the 1960s, and scientists say studying its development offers hope for damaged ecosystems worldwide

www.theguardian.com

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

This needs to be kept front and centre of any challenge to Farage, or we'll be sleep walking into another act of national self harm even bigger and more dangerous than Brexit:

www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

That's true, he's a complex character, but his determination to save Liverpool from Geoffrey Howe's policy of 'managed decline' earned him a lot of respect in that city.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 2d

After the Salisbury poisonings Farage was horrified at the idea of sanctions against Russia because 'innocent Russians would suffer'. For a man much given to commenting about British sovereignty he was surprisingly quiet about the poisoning of Litvinenko on British soil too.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

Farage may be riding high in the polls now, but it's the performance of Reform councils that will sink him in 4 years time, along with his reluctance to come clean about his own finances. There's a lot more to come out about his Russian connections too.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

Be fair, she dug up Nadine Dorries and had her on, and she's a staunch defender of all the parties hosted by Boris at No. 10

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

With hindsight it's unfair that a clip of Michael Heseltine is cut into Rowan Atkinson's excellent parody. He was always one of the better Tories, hates Farage and Brexit, not to mention the Tory party's full fat fascist iteration under Johnson.

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

Fast forward to 2024 and the curious case of the Trump assassination...

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Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social · 3d

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

I very much doubt whether Farage has ever done anything for free, including Brexit.

Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

They dredge up the pantomime Dame-who-never-was-Dorries but somehow Laura Kuennsberg didn't have space to interview Zack Polanski last week? Hmm... 🤔

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

I'm due for mine + covid booster tomorrow and out of interest looked up all the jabs available on the NHS. We can now be protected from so many diseases that've been killers in my lifetime. What madness it is to refuse such blessings, while greedily stuffing ourselves with genuinely toxic fast food

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

I had a text message today about my free NHS flu and covid booster jabs. I'm also eligible for free shingles and pneumococcal vaccines, but if only we had a Vax to innoculate us against the MAGA madness across the pond.

Cat music @yanygal.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA erupts in anger and fear after Trump gets Covid booster and flu shot
open.substack.com/pub/unpresid...

MAGA erupts in anger and fear after Trump gets Covid booster and flu shot

After spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for years, Trump drops the devastating news on his base.

open.substack.com

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Rose Byrd @rosame.bsky.social · 3d

Can we exile him and Liz Truss to a remote, inaccessible, uninhabited island somewhere very very cold? Surely if ever two people were made to torment each other it's them.

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