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Melitoast
@melitoast.bsky.social
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Lib Dem, Mum, Cat Mom (Grand)Daughter of the American Rev, Earthling. Passionate Researcher.
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Melitoast @melitoast.bsky.social · Jun 20
The Divine Comdey, illustrated by Botticelli. The Map Of Hell. c1490

On the right, the 8th circle of hell where Dante & Virgil look into pits of demons & sinners.

Dante called this the Malebolge. The hell of moral decay, a collection fraudsters, seducers & those who abuse power for personal gain.
melitoast.bsky.social
You absolute coward, Kier.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer rejects EU customs union after Lammy comments
It comes after the deputy prime minister said countries in a customs union with the EU see benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
Why can't Brits see the public health warning that is Trumps Ugly Merica when sucking up Farrage BS?

He tanked our economy by driving thru the leave vote using fear and fantasy.

And yet voters crave more, always assuming he's the solution and never the problem.

Where does it end?
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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thebulwark.com
"Recently, I found myself asking: What would military theorist Carl von Clausewitz say about the quest for peace between Russia and Ukraine? Perhaps he might write a letter like the one below." ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social channels the "On War" author on Ukraine lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
melitoast.bsky.social
Reasons to get rid of the OBR, 1, 2, 3.
Screenshot from BBC NEWS re OBR... Praful Nargund, director of the Good Growth Foundation created to enforce austerity. But in its attempt to restore credibility, it has pushed us further down the spending-cut rabbit hole without an end in sight. "A body designed to police cuts is now being asked to referee a strategy for growth, and it simply isn't built for the task."
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Blackout for Black Friday! Add all and reshare.... spread the word!!
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November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Let's have a really good, long over due look inside Farrages gravy train club.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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libdems.org.uk
This Government has chosen to reject the single biggest thing it could do to turbocharge economic growth and repair the £90 billion Brexit black hole.

For millions of people struggling with higher bills this was a botched budget.
IMAGE: A BLACK HOLE. TEXT: Labour's Budget A £90BN BREXIT BLACK HOLE
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.

We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
melitoast.bsky.social
Urr this.
Time to make our local communities more resilient and connected. Farage will not and can not deliver that policy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
melitoast.bsky.social
🎊 congratulations Scotland!
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Oh what a game too! ✨️
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
LAUNCH OF WINTER SURVIVAL PACKS FOR UKRAINIAN FAMILIES
As winter sets in, Ukrainian families need our support more than ever...
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/family-win...
Winter Family Survival Packs
We want to provide 200 plus families in hard hit areas with humanitarian aid packs to provide the most basic but essential needs
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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timbale.bsky.social
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
One daughter crocheted it & the other persuaded the cat to wear it. Bless her patience, our Pinkle Purr!
Our cat, wearing a crocheted bonnet with holes for her ears to stick out. She gripping the sofa with her paws and waiting the photoshoot to be over.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
melitoast.bsky.social
Beautiful, beautiful Autumn!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
I cant say I relish amplifying a Murdoch product but this article brings it home how much danger the UK is in right now, in becoming a version of Ugly 'Merica.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
mattwalsh.substack.com/p/why-is-the...
Why is the BBC calling Mamdani radical left?
Accurate and impartial or echoing Trump's language?
mattwalsh.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
Another pic by torchlight. The last blooms of summer.
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
melitoast.bsky.social
More and more irregularities surfacing by the day 🍿

www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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plantpowered1971.bsky.social
You might be in a Cult!
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM