Sue Cook
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Sue Cook
@suefc.bsky.social
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Retired head, who’s passionate about the need to work towards securing a better future for young people and the need to tackle child abuse and poverty. NSPCC volunteer, enthusiastic gardener and cook. Also, an avid reader with wide ranging tastes in music.
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Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story

Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"

It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Factionalism, farce and chaos dog Reform UK in the garden of England
All is not well in Kent for Nigel Farage’s party as the recent video of an incendiary meeting suggests
www.theguardian.com
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@libdems.org.uk smash Reform in yet another by-election 🍾🥳✊🏼✊🏼

Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle

It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔

Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼‍♂️
Fantastic result in Bromsgrove, congratulations to Sam Ammar and the local team!

Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)

No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
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"Moment GB News guest thrown off air after..."

Quoting facts
A broadly accurate account of my GB News interview with Martin Daubney 😉

“I’ve corrected you on this before, Martin, so let me do it again.” After he cited figures, Martin revealed they were out of time – and was forced to abruptly cut off the interview.

www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...
Moment GB News guest thrown off air after fierce immigration clash
GB News presenter Martin Daubney was forced to cut off an interview after clashing with Jonathan Portes over immigration
www.express.co.uk
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Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
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It is an utter failure from the BBC that it isn't clear whether the Conservatives are keeping their mass deportation policy.
BBC did not clarify the Philp policy much: failed to ask any of the key questions

- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill

- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands
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What is the point of our national broadcaster if it can't get the official Opposition to answer questions like this?
A real failure that a 6 minute BBC interview with the Shadow Home Secretary has simply failed to clarify
- whether the Bill in the Commons stands, or has been dropped?
- whether threat of removal to those currently with ILR stands, or dropping retrospective deportations of 430,000 people
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Well yes he’s the nominal defendant but it’s not as if he’s being sued (or suing) in his personal capacity. Legal actions against the government do survive changes of administration.

(David Davis sued the government in opposition then became a minister)
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"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.
Montie gives Pochin the benefit of his wisdom.
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80 years since the UN Charter entered into force, we celebrate #UNDay.

Both the European Parliament and the United Nations are committed to bringing diverse nations together to create a better world.

Here's to many more years of 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇳 cooperation!
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Co-op staff told to boost promotion of vapes after costly cyber-attack.

Why inflict misery, disease, disability, premature death for profits? What happened to Co-op's claims of ethical conduct?

Better ways to attract customers - cut profit margins, smarter stores, decent pay for motivated staff.
Co-op staff told to boost promotion of vapes after costly cyber-attack, document shows
Exclusive: Approach complies with law but some workers question whether it contradicts standing as ‘ethical’ retailer
www.theguardian.com
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ReFuk Election vote catching: “We’ll make efficiency savings and cut your taxes”

ReFuk reality “No we aren’t. We lied”.
Reform UK Councils
Council Tax increases

Durham: 4.9%
Worcestershire: 5-10%
Warwickshire: ~5%
Leicestershire: 3%
Kent: 5%
Lincolnshire: 2%+
Staffordshire: ~5%
West Northamptonshire: 5%
Derbyshire: 4.9%
North Northamptonshire: amount TBD
Nottinghamshire: amount TBD
Lancashire: amount TBD
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MH (continued)..... your face is right there on the front!'

NF: 'I came in after it was published'

Extraordinary. He was party leader throughout. He owns Reform. He *is* Reform.

MH tries to pin him on this as it's a 'contract'. Again he gets prickly & slippery: 'Have you seen the Conserva.... '
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After NF talks of a complete breakdown of trust in politics, MH starts moving onto Reform's own contract with the voters for the 2024 election (torn up by Farage weeks later).

NF (interrupting): 'I didn't write it, I inherited it.'

MH (incredulously): 'You were the party leader standing....'
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Listening to this (so you don't have to).

Unsurprisingly, Farage says he would end alignment with the EU. And he still thinks we can play hardball with the EU to get a much better deal - shades of 'they need us more than we need them'.

No question, he would take the UK to 'No Deal'.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the EU, and deporting migrants "nicely"

Read his interview with Mishal Husain ⬇️
Nigel Farage: Britain Has Had ‘Too Many Unifiers’
The Reform UK leader on dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the EU, and deporting migrants “nicely.”
bloom.bg
It’s a wonderful read!
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The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
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A quick history lesson on a particular ballroom.
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You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.

But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?

Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’

bsky.app/profile/then...
"It's democracy, but not as we know it"
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...
Film made by John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt
YouTube video by Lyn Cat Irv
www.youtube.com
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Nigel Farage, "I'm the only living human being in this country who has built political movements on a table like this with a telephone, a piece of paper and a pencil"

"I can build things"

"I can do things"

"My track record says that"
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Nigel Farage has gone "on strike" from PMQs, saying he won't return until he next gets a question

There's just one problem: Reform UK knows the rota for qus for the rest of the year.

His next question is on Nov 12

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Nigel Farage stages ‘strike’ despite date for next PMQs q...
Reform party leader has moved to the public gallery after claiming he is excluded from process in the chamber
observer.co.uk
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Some questions are apportioned before PMQs, and others can be secured by "bobbing" during the debate - but he could also apply for one

Acc to the Mirror, he hasn't applied for one since July
I can’t tell if you’re cross with West Ham or on behalf of Leeds and I am watching the match, although under duress and I know very little about football. Maybe the torrential rain can excuse the defending a bit?