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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 16h

Political education in the UK is dire.
Ask how laws are made - no idea
Ask how the govt finances the country & many will say, through the profit & loss generated by the ‘economy’, either that or they don't think about it at all.
They don't know how taxation works or relate it to financing services.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22h

The Labour government needs a radical game-changing plan to turn round its dire polling – and re-joining the EU is the only way to do it, the Rejoin EU Party says.

Labour needs game-changing plan to re-join EU to transform dire polling, Rejoin EU Party says - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The Labour needs a game-changing plan to re-join the EU to improve its dire polling situation, says the Rejoin EU Party.

londonlovesbusiness.com

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 21h

Heather Cox Richardson's incomparable description of Trumpian hypocrisy, deceit, and greed :

#trumpshutdown #firstfelon #corruprion #kleptocracy

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Who made this? Brilliant.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22h

* Corruption Pecksniff can’t publish: Tory donor gets rich off asylum contract
* Polls show fears over immigration are media-driven, not real-life
* Tory HQ loses contact with 1 in 5 local parties

Read this and more in the latest diary ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Pecksniff: Evidence of corruption in refugee hotel contracts must remain unpublished

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 16h

Somehow I don't think he intends to leave any time soon.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 19h

Quick recce in Cirencester’s glorious church of St John the Baptist, before my talk later. One of England’s finest ‘wool’ churches.

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 16h

The shame of it.

Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 16h

He's not human. He's an AI assisted bot. Just look at his face. It isn't quite right.
Somewhere squatting behind a console is a thing with a very long index finger & a partially developed brain.
It must be found & confined.
If MAGA twats can believe that Trump is the 2nd coming, I can believe this.

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 16h

All that happens is that by 1st December I am totally bored by Christmas.

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 21h

One is tempted to think he is an idiot.
But surely he can't be that idiotic.
Does he think other countries will be completely inert & not respond to his assaults?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

Farage’s desperate use of the grooming scandal to political point score has backfired. ReformUK are not interested in the welfare of women

Nigel Farage facing calls to apologise to female survivors of grooming gangs

A group of women have said it was “categorically untrue” for Farage to have said they were not victims of grooming gangs

www.independent.co.uk

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

Is this not Farage in a nutshell…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say I am thoroughly depressed by our government’s inaction in the face of a foreign billionaire inciting anti democratic violence in this country. If we don’t stand up to one the next will conclude they can do what they like.

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 1d

How perceptions of the acceptable change over time!
This looks like a picture of les dames du demi-monde touting (pouting) for business.

Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 1d

I became disabled overnight unexpectedly. I was bedridden for 3+months & although I can now walk again, my mobility is limited.
It's changed my world view completely.
Lee Anderson should be very careful what he says & does. What happened to me could happen to him
One tiny virus is all it takes . . .

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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 2d

BBC 6 o'clock news caught on the hop by news that Reeves is off the hook on her rental licence.

Going ahead with pre-prepared and inaccurate whataboutery, ignoring the latest developments.

Quite irresponsible and unforgiveable.

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine Farage actually doing the work of a government minister let alone PM?

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Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 1d

Unstable, difficult to get into, awkward to manoeuvre.
Unsuitable for families, so families with a disabled member must have 2 cars
Can't ferry kids around
Can't give lifts
Does he want to keep the disabled confined so he doesn't have to confront disability?
Why else the urge to punish us even more?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

Antisemitism has been a near constant thread in right-wing politics in overt or latent forms, but many willingly excused it owing to the right’s staunch Zionism (rooted in geopolitical and Christian theological concerns). Recent events show why conflating Zionism and Judaism endangers Jewish people.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: 20 Jeffrey Epstein victims are urging Mike Johnson to immediately swear-in Adelita Grijalva.

STOP IGNORING THE EPSTEIN VICTIMS!

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