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CllrAndyOddy

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺Local socialist councillor. Governor at Euxton Primrose Hill Community Primary https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/119309 . Father who is saddened by hate in the world . Firm believer in democracy, ethics and just doing the right thing. Data geek

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · Apr 12

A refresh of my values (for anyone who cares) @bladeofthes.bsky.social got me thinking with a recent post about financial interests so a new page has been added to cover the role/stds expected in public life. As a school governor for 20 yrs and a cllr for 7 I’d like to think I meet such standards

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Followers from my old Twitter a/c (now mothballed) and BlueSky will know my values but for anyone who doesn’t here they are. I have refreshed with an additional pledge that no elected politician shoul...

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 7h

To all the Americans who are or have been on “No Kings” demonstrations today - THANK YOU from the rest of free planet earth. The power of the people is the supreme power.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 7h

Spot on with the click bait. News driven by ad revenue is no longer reliable - there is a heavy bias towards stories/personalities that will get clicks and Farage is gold - solid gold

CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 9h

Slowly but surely the topic of BRI-entry is raising its head. Starmer has mentioned it, Reeves has and now Bailey. But damn, it’s slow. Very slow. But getting the idea into the national psyche and normalising it takes time.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12h

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning?

Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19h

I will keep banging on about this…

…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.

To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 12h

As usual (sadly) we need to follow the money. Someone, somewhere is paying and someone is benefitting. Money is always the root cause. Always.

CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 18h

You’re welcome. The sad things are that it needs saying at all and that those in power are either oblivious to the consequences of their policies (ergo unfit to govern) or blindly trusting “it’ll all work out” (ergo unfit to govern)

CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

A Reform majority in the HoC is the UKs worst nightmare. Starmer is enabling it, enhancing it and making it an inevitability the longer he stays in No 10. Polanski is a hope, a beacon of light - but he’s a long way off an 80 seat majority. Labour could be doing amazing things. But they aren’t.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

Starmer is a reactor, not a leader. He drives forward on nothing, he turns every time he is asked to. Worse, he doesn’t care and he stamps on those who do - hard. His time is up. He has to go. I had such hope last year. Now I have despair that this man’s inability to lead will give us a RefUK govt

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

But Starmer does non of these things. He bows to the press barons, the tech billionaires and when they say jump he merely asks “how high?” It’s pathetic, it’s embarrassing and it is what happens when you have no moral compass, no direction, no vision and no plan to help those most in need of help.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

Starmer could tackle the press barons head on with Leveson part 2. He could tackle the energy pricing system that makes us pay gas prices for electricity. He could tackle the water companies unwillingness to invest THEIR capital made from our money in cleaning up our rivers.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

Starmer could do something about it - he could tax assets, increase public spending, build council houses, kick start the economy, insist war criminals are held to account, start the rejoining EU debate, combat the immigration lies, clean up social media

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

Starmer is empowering RefUK by normalising their “blame game”. Starmer blames the disabled, farmers, pensioners, those who are anti-genocide, protesters. He could blame the über-rich, their tax havens (which Labour created in the 60s), the MSM for their inability to report facts and challenge lies.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19h

The normalising of racism and hate are my biggest disappointment in Starmer. He has a massive majority and can literally pass any laws he wishes. He has an unrivalled capacity to effect real transformation. Instead, he spends his time tinkering at the edges, picking on the needy, bowing to the rich.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21h

So much quibbling over the OBR and the fiscal rules feels like an attempt to find an institutional fix to a political problem: the need for tax rises on middle earners.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 20h

Just jumped on to the Express website to read Calgie’s biog - basically a weasel - but noted the liberal use of so many physically incendiary words in so many political story headlines -“explodes”, “blasts”, “bombshell”. The press have so much to answer for in relation to why UK plc is a clusterf**k

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 20h

“In less than a week, Nathan Gill’s former assistant Llŷr Powell will be standing as a Reform candidate in a Welsh parliament byelection in the south Wales seat of Caerphilly.”
The electors in Caerphilly know nothing of this story.

The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP

Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20h

Meet Nadia Sass.

This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.

Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 20h

If ever a story showed the need for a different lens on the world than we get from mainstream media this is it - credit to @thenerve.news

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20h

Seriously.

You think if Keir Starmer had been cultivated by this woman, there would be tumbleweed across entire UK media?!?

We are stuck in a right-wing news-sphere & this story proves how dangerous that is.
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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Saturday folks. Let this put a smile on your face and give hope to those defying Kings and tyranny today

9/11 Revisionist (@911revision)

Hope this puts a smile on your face today.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 1d

For all those saying sport has no place in politics … checks notes… apartheid South Africa’s Afrikaans regime was brought down by sporting boycott and Russia is out of most world sport. Israel is different why exactly?

CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 1d

Binge watched Zero Day starring Robert De Niro on Netflix. It’s America 2020s in a nutshell. The only missing character is Trump

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A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 1d

I guess Starmer will be kicking off over this next. Surely Sweden could just have drafted in more police - seems the venue owner didn’t want to put its staff at risk.

Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

The Swedish government described the situation as alarming and said it has put in place a number of efforts to increase security for Jewish organisations, institutions and events.

Sweden cancels Jewish film festival over secuirty concerns

The Swedish government described the situation as alarming and said it has put in place a number of efforts to increase security for Jewish organisations, institutions and events.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 1d

Really surprised at the volume of progressives posting about Andrew Windsor. His lack of titles will make not one jot of difference to our country or its people nor his quality of life. It may minimally deflect embarrassment from his elder brother.