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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 13h

By giving local people enhanced powers to buy community spaces, more assets will be owned and shaped by the people who use them, love them and want to keep them in the community.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 21h

Another Reform UK Councillor has quit. Patrick Lambert has left after being suspended.

Two Northumberland Reform councillors suspended

Councillors Nicole Brooke and Patrick Lambert have the whip suspended pending a party investigation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 14h

Pointy finger on both hands today. Just awful.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 17h

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 14h

Yep, still voting for them at council by elections.

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 14h

Just like his leader.

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 18h

Cut out the excesses, yes, abolish, no. That would result in President Farage.

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Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 19h

The Skilled Workers' visa always required those on it to speak English to a B1 level. It looks like this has been increased to a B2. That's all that is happening here.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

None of that detail is in the announcement and required some digging.

I'm happy to be corrected by anyone if I've got it wrong but in fact from what I've read it's not that unreasonable... and isn't that different to what already existed.

Why this government wants to make enemies is another issue

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20h

Ex-Reform councillor warns party is ‘not ready’ for Government amid expulsion row

Ex-Reform councillor warns party is ‘not ready’ for Government amid expulsion row | Chronicle Live

The councillor has been involved in a spat with the party over attempts to bring a vote of no confidence in the party's leadership

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 20h

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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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Mason today loving the drama over an unproven spying allegation involving China and no serving politicians. And yes, there are questions.
Yet when it comes to a proven case of another foreign power paying multiple bribes to a criminal Reform MEP? Somehow he can't muster the enthusiasm.

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, but I think the emphasis is meant to be on "standard" rather than "A level" per se. I believe there is already a test in place?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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European Movement in Scotland @euromovescotland.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears. Headline on BBC News web site. This is wholly misleading. It was Robinson's lawyer who said the stop was unlawful, not the court. The court will rule on the case on 4th November.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

I thought so. But when you combine poor comms with an audience searching for reasons to be outraged you get the reaction we’ve seen on here today.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s mostly the gvmnt’s fault over their choice of words, but no, ministers are not (despite what much of BlueSky thinks) requiring migrants to have an English A-level. They are requiring B2 level English skills, which is what you have in French if you have A-level French. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1d

A useful reminder that everything isn’t quite as doom and gloom as some politicians and parts of the media might have you believe.

So, around two thirds of the government’s Manifesto pledges have either already been achieved or are on the way to being achieved.

www.joe.co.uk/politics/lab...

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

The Labour government has already delivered or is making progress towards around two thirds of its manifesto pledges, after just over a year in power.

www.joe.co.uk

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. Amazingly, Kit Malthouse gave a supportive and knowledgeable response. Eyeing up a leadership campaign? Badenoch is so graceless.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

Let's make sure everyone knows about the activities that senior Reform members have gotten up to.

These are not people we can trust to run out country.

Make sure people never forget!

(Originally posted by the Labour Party on Instagram)

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Jack London @jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Why would anyone trust anything these grifters say?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

www.theguardian.com

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve leaked this today thinking the country’s eyes are going to be elsewhere. Don’t let them get away with it.

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot take a political party tasked with managing OUR hard earned money seriously if they are going to announce a nonsense £90 billion tax giveaway only to dump it weeks later due to its total lack of credibility.

Reform UK Ltd will bankrupt this country.

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Tice tried to defend Reform UK’s “100 day plan” on Times Radio — but it didn’t take long for their economic fairy tale to unravel. youtu.be/9al2E0hofzM?...

Richard Tice’s 100 Day Fantasy COLLAPSES under Scrutiny

YouTube video by Bona Fide

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 2d

How times have changed. My only school trip was a day in St Albans circa 1958.

Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait for this Yorkshire Post article to be all over the front pages of the national papers.

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 2d

We were right.

Michael Gove has admitted that the 🇦🇺 & 🇳🇿 trade deals negotiated by the Conservatives did not protect Britain’s farmers

“I felt that we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working”
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Jenny Hall @jennohall.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason, if any more were needed, not to support Reform. Farage hand in hand with an American anti-abortion group.

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
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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