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mikedugdale.bsky.social
@mikedugdale.bsky.social
Pyrénées dweller; brexiled, guest house operator and occasional cyclist. Hates building hot tubs but it's too late to stop now.
www.pyreneescyclingcentre.co.uk
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Any eBike repair people on here?
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Can we get this flipping petition to 100,000?? We really need to know how Russia has fucked up our country and who enabled it ( farage? Just asking the question)
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Fuck any budget commentary.
This here is the post of the day.
Wouldn't that have required the culture secretary to do something?
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Nigel Farage here pioneering what he likes to think of as "nice racism."
I think you'll find you can only sell that to other racists like yourself Nigel.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Well, I like it and since I signed on Sunday it's gone from 7,000 to 35,561 signatures!
This one could get debated.
I can't help noticing that very Brexity folk and right-wingers are not at all keen on my petition. X’s algorithm isn't awfully enamoured either.

I can't think why?

Well, anyway. Could the rest of you please sign it & repost it repeatedly, to compensate?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, any chance you can promote my petition here on Bluesky as well as X, whose algorithms seem less keen on it, please?
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This one's doubling in signatures every day at the moment.
Have you signed it yet?
It's time to have a real enquiry into Russia's interference in UK politics, particularly in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

We know that UKIP MEPs like Farage and Gill were happy to spread Kremlin propaganda, but how deep was their relationship with the Kremlin?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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When was it the responsibility of BBC Board members to win the trust of certain political party voters???
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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It's not their responsibility to win the trust of any one group, it's their responsibility to report the news honestly, impartially and accurately
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Public Inheritance Grievance tax

Or PIG for short
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This petition is gathering headway, I think because knowledge of Putin's interference in our politics is spreading and causing disquiet.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
13,477 signatures.
It was at 7,000 odd when I signed this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Ministers: please take control. Commission a full, public-facing review into X’s harms: not just for communications, but for its wider impact on democracy. www.politicshome.com/news/article... 9/10
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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DfE today: Half a million more children in England will benefit from 'Best Start' free breakfast clubs from April - "relief to families struggling with the cost of living."

Applications open today for the next wave of 500 schools with 40% of pupils on free school meals to join the scheme.
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Lets blame immigrants!
Le bilan est sidérant :

- Explosion des revenus des ultra-riches :

En 2003, ils gagnaient en moyenne, 95 fois plus que les ménages les plus modestes. En 2022, c'est 167 fois plus.

- *Mais* réduction de leur taux moyen d'imposition :

De 29,2 % en 2003, il a été ramené à 25,7 % en 2022...
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Under its current chair, Ofcom has repeatedly refused to apply its rules to GB News, enabling the channel to pump out increasingly toxic & dangerous messages.

Ofcom is accountable to Parliament. It's time for MPs to investigate what’s gone wrong, and how things have been allowed to get this bad.
Ofcom receives complaints over GB News’ use of ‘racist’ statistics on migrant crime
"GB News peddled unverified and frankly racist statistics to thousands grounded in dodgy methods."
leftfootforward.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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it's not even the basic question of "can you get British net migration figures correct to within a single order of magnitude", it's also all the implicit secondary questions which are wildly important. Who's leaving? Where for? Why?
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Me too
I like immigrants.

I like their food.

I like their work ethic.

I like it they are different from me.

I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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This Will Fuck Their Heads Right Up…..
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
No-one talking about who killed Epstein yet?
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Superb nerd toy and all round useful gizmo for the rest of us. (Not me actually but hey)
I proudly present the internet's nerdiest and prettiest tax calculator.

Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Avoid #VOI ebikes in London. 1st time and last time on a voi bike. Very patchy coverage, gps tracker constanly cutting the motor off when cycling on a boundary. Cluncky automatic gearing.

Parking zones yes, but riding zones? Fix or will disappear soon.

Never again.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM