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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 8h

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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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 1h

The best way to defeat Reform is for millions of people to hear a version of this message:

"Farage's Brexit made you poorer. Don't let him do it again"

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 5h

“They make a desert and call it peace”
I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

“They make a desert and call it peace”

I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 10h

How would you feel if:

- you ended up with a Reform MP after the 2029 General Election

- who only got 20% of the vote

- and over 50% of people in your constituency had voted LD/GRN/LAB/YP

- and this happened around the country giving Reform 400 MPs and total power

Don’t forget FPTP.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses.
Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10h

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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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12h

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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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 11h

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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, but if he didn't have the courage to speak what he knew to be the truth about Brexit to the people who elected him, then he's been putting his career above the country all along. How are we supposed to trust him on the NHS or any other issue now? He lost all credibility.
#BlueLabour

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Author is a "senior policy researcher" at The Prosperity Institute, which used to be known as the Legatum Institute

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Letter to the editor:

If Germany stripped British residents of healthcare, the UK would be outraged.

So why tolerate such proposals here?

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Kate Walters @katewaltersartist.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad you’re speaking up about Brexit. It’s a horror story.

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on Zach Polanski turning out to be rather good at this politics lark.

1. By raising issues like wealth tax, and Brexit, he has not so much shifted the Overton Window, as re-opened the awkward loo window that over-looked the garden, but has been rusted shut for the last decade

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care

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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

Nice from @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT this morning on Brexit and the Tory talent pool. Would suggest that a similar refusal to engage with the world affects current Tory policies on climate and indeed immigration, to similar effect…

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