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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3h

Draft Tory legislation on removing indefinite leave to remain is insane.

Would chuck out those not earning over £38K - including many pensioners!

+ social protections seems to include child benefit, so load of people with (British!) kids!

They'd remove my sis & mum who've been here 50 years.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 2h

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 17h

Nigel Farage has, very clearly, broken parliamentary rules. Will any journalists challenge him on it? Via Private Eye

COINCIDENCE CORNER

3 October: The Observer contacts Reform UK leader Nigel Farage for comment over why he has not updated his register of interests since May, despite continuing to work second jobs and parliamentary rules requiring interests be declared within 28 days. A spokesperson for Farage responds: “All declarations have been made for any earnings outside of Parliament.”

3 October: Farage registers more than £120,000 of earnings, from making speeches in May and June and presenting shows on GB News in July and August, which he received more than 28 days earlier (ie before 5 September) – meaning he is in breach of parliamentary rules.

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 1d

I hope your advice reaches IDS:

bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 3d

To be (too?) fair, he's not blaming his mental health for what he said.

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 3d

@andrewbeasleyfootball.com

Ominous?

Where are we at now?

M Mistry @solvethemistry.bsky.social · 3d

Gameweek 8 Arsenal Update

@MU - D➡️W +2
vLU/LC - W➡️W +0
@LFC - D➡️L -1
vNFFC - W➡️W +0
vMCFC - W➡️D -2
@NU - L➡️W +3
vWHU - L➡️W +3
@FFC - D➡️W +2

Last/Current Season Difference: +7

Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 3d

But the advantage is obvious in tennis.

Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 4d

What are the defenders doing? Actually, what is that whole team doing?!

Nice chip but that's playground level.

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 6d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

these people know how extreme they are

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 9d

Going to university never occurred to him. “I had to get a university standard of education by study in my own time without the benefit of actually attending,” he writes.

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10d

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 11d

In any normally functioning democracy, Farage’s political career would now be over. You would have to invoke unbelievable levels of naivety and stupidity for Farage to dodge this one - and sadly for him such qualities are not on the person specification for the job of Prime Minister.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12d

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 13d

Why is it so popular?

The market is so demand side driven, prices will just increase to the same level won't they?

Good for sellers I guess...

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 13d

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 14d

So "it" hasn't already happened.

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 14d

What's coming is (potentially) a Reform gov.

Which, as bad as Labour have been, will be exponentially worse.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 14d

Yes. For them.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15d

A large number of far right actors who have been arrested, including leaders of these rallies, have convictions of domestic and/or sexual abuse, including of children. This is something that ought to be front and center whenever these people are talked about.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL6RCE...

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Guardiaoscura @guardiaoscura.bsky.social · 15d

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Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 15d

I'll await the knock at the door.

Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 15d

OMG, does she think it means uncertain?!

And that you have to go to come back!

Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 15d

Has anyine tried:

"I support Palestine.

Action now!"

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