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Sally Luxmoore

@sallyl.bsky.social

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🇬🇧 Carer. Dog lover. Anti lies, greed & hypocrisy. Fools not suffered gladly. Love intelligence & sense of humour. Atheist. Hate Tories. Waspi. Electoral reform. Pro EU. #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Happy to block: MAGA /Crypto / ✝️✡️☪️ +DMs / no profile/posts / creepy men.

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ok. I am SO SO SO disgusted by Elon Musk that I have finally deleted my Twatter account.
I know- I should have done it earlier, but I did like what it used to be and there are still accounts that I liked that I can't find here.
Anyway, it's done.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 4d

Reform managed to shed a remarkable eight councillors in September alone, and have lost 24 since May, for a range of bizarre reasons.

Doncaster and Durham lead the charts for councillor drop outs, losing four apiece since the May elections.

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 37m

🤣🤣🤣 Surely not?! 😬

Richard Mills @richardmills18.bsky.social · 23h

Are you suggesting a link between #Reform and #Russia?

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 1d

NEW💥: In breach of parliamentary rules: Reform UK’s Richard Tice...

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. So the cult leader has to fall.

Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

This may well happen, but I think not yet.

Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. It's going to take a while.

Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

This is an important point. The EU will never allow us back in if there's still a chance that we might leave again.
Farage has to be taken out of the picture. Reform has to be seen to fail.

Chris Clarke @listerthrawn.bsky.social · 1h

We're cooked really. What would rejoin negotiations look like with the spectre of a Farage government in 4 years? EU likely to prefer we come back in 4 years to try it if we see him off. Labour pivoting to rejoin would boost Farage immeasurably too I fear.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 4h

"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.

"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 4h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 2h

Britain can't have sustainable growth without Rejoining the EU.

See www.amazon.co.uk/Rejoin-EU-Mr...

#RejoinEU #Brexit #Britain #Labour

Rejoin EU : Reboot Britain

Buy Rejoin EU : Reboot Britain by Cook, Mr Peter, Ward MEP, Ms Julie, Clutterbuck, Dr Charlie, Hindley MEP, Mr Michael, Nowak, Ms Wendy, Cawthorne, Mr Paul, Knott, Mr Terence, Ekins-Daukes, Mr Adrian, Forrester KC, Mr Ian, Sampson, Mr Mark (ISBN: 9798305106251) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves

It’s about time!

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 3h

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

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Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 1h

Well yes, but first you need to make it the salient issue, perhaps Labour perceive that Brexit is actually now Farages weak point, it puts him on the defensive. Once we get there, perhaps we can talk about what to do about it instead of banging on about small boats.

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Elio España @elioespana.bsky.social · 3h

What is encouraging, though, is the pre-emptive Reform panic that they will *at last* face some political accountability for Brexit. The shrill defensiveness is a good indicator that being allowed to skate on this question for nearly 10yrs has been an absolute gift to them. Correction long overdue.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies.

Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging.

Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet.

The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals

globalwitness.org

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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 4h

IMF lowered its forecast for #Russia growth in 2025 to only 0.6%.

In April IMF estimated 1.5% - In July they projected 0.9%

Russian economy expanded 4.3% in 2024

IMF projects Russian inflation will rise to 9% this year

#Ukraine #UkraineWar

Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 4h

#UkraineWar, Day 1,329: #Trump — #Putin “Has Got to Settle This War”

#Ukraine

eaworldview.com/2025/10/ukra...

Ukraine War, Day 1,329: Trump - Putin "Has Got to Settle This War" - EA WorldView

Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin "has got to settle this war" because 44 1/2-month invasion of Ukraine has been costly failure for Kremlin.

eaworldview.com

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3h

Ukraine has successfully cut off all rail and shipping of fuel to Russian occupied Crimea and Kherson.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3h

Your submarine fleet is WEAK, Russia! It's WEAK!

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3h

I laughed for about 5 minutes straight after watching this video for the first time.

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

😬😂

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Pete @countzerorepeat.bsky.social · 3h

UK media. Ask Labour about the Chinese, don't ask Farage about Russian bribes, or mysterious bankrolling of Leave. If you do minimise it, laugh it off. Repeat the process for Russian money swilling through the Tory party.
The majority of the British media stinks.
It's as bent as a corkscrew.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming.

Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table”
Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
itv.com

The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 1h

I think he's going to be in trouble at Oxford after this sort of publicity... His college won't like it.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 2h

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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