Tilly Burns
@tillyburns.bsky.social
Holding power to account. Questioning the narrative. Speaking truth to British politics. #UKPolitics
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Tilly Burns
@tillyburns.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Exactly — the most expensive lie ever told, and we’re all still paying for it.
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Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.
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Labour MP, “I’ve never heard of Zohran Mamdani.”
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Labour MP, “I’ve never heard of Zohran Mamdani.”
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Might Brexit, by any teensy-weensy chance, have anything to do with 'the dire state of the financial sector'? And won't investors of all types flee from UK if Reform ever get into power? Just asking....
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Might Brexit, by any teensy-weensy chance, have anything to do with 'the dire state of the financial sector'? And won't investors of all types flee from UK if Reform ever get into power? Just asking....
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Reform UK Warwickshire Leader branded 'coward' after refusing rival chance to speak
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Leader branded 'coward' after refusing rival chance to speak
Warwickshire Council's meeting turned contentious as leader Cllr Finch halted rival Cllr Kondakor's speech, igniting accusations of bias and political discord
warwick.nub.news
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Reform UK Warwickshire Leader branded 'coward' after refusing rival chance to speak
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Mostly Brexit as deregulation was founded on the misconception that only Brussels regulates rather than this being a global phenomenon that incredibly even includes supposedly free and easy (ha!) Singapore. A flawed premise that therefore couldn't succeed.
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Mostly Brexit as deregulation was founded on the misconception that only Brussels regulates rather than this being a global phenomenon that incredibly even includes supposedly free and easy (ha!) Singapore. A flawed premise that therefore couldn't succeed.
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Rachel Reeves suggests that she may have to raise taxes in the budget. It’s one option that’s on the table, yet she gets attacked for it when it’s the Tories’ economic failure from austerity, Brexit & crashing the economy that means any goverment in power now would have to make these hard decisions
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Rachel Reeves suggests that she may have to raise taxes in the budget. It’s one option that’s on the table, yet she gets attacked for it when it’s the Tories’ economic failure from austerity, Brexit & crashing the economy that means any goverment in power now would have to make these hard decisions
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Rachel Reeves saying we all have to do our bit by raising taxes in the upcoming budget, why don’t you start with the rich, hun
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Rachel Reeves saying we all have to do our bit by raising taxes in the upcoming budget, why don’t you start with the rich, hun
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Reform UK 5% Council Tax Hikes confirmed in:
➡️ Durham
➡️ Kent
➡️ Warwickshire
➡️ Worcestershire
➡️ Leicestershire
➡️ Lincolnshire
This is after Farage promised to slash council tax bills & not raise them!
#NeverTrustReform #NeverVoteReform
➡️ Durham
➡️ Kent
➡️ Warwickshire
➡️ Worcestershire
➡️ Leicestershire
➡️ Lincolnshire
This is after Farage promised to slash council tax bills & not raise them!
#NeverTrustReform #NeverVoteReform
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reform UK 5% Council Tax Hikes confirmed in:
➡️ Durham
➡️ Kent
➡️ Warwickshire
➡️ Worcestershire
➡️ Leicestershire
➡️ Lincolnshire
This is after Farage promised to slash council tax bills & not raise them!
#NeverTrustReform #NeverVoteReform
➡️ Durham
➡️ Kent
➡️ Warwickshire
➡️ Worcestershire
➡️ Leicestershire
➡️ Lincolnshire
This is after Farage promised to slash council tax bills & not raise them!
#NeverTrustReform #NeverVoteReform
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Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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The richest 1% has increased in wealth by more than £2tn since 2010, nearly £3,500,000 each while everyone else's wealth decreased or flatlined
Less than 10% of them vote for Labour
There is a very easy way to raise a huge amount in tax by taxing people who don't vote for them
Less than 10% of them vote for Labour
There is a very easy way to raise a huge amount in tax by taxing people who don't vote for them
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The richest 1% has increased in wealth by more than £2tn since 2010, nearly £3,500,000 each while everyone else's wealth decreased or flatlined
Less than 10% of them vote for Labour
There is a very easy way to raise a huge amount in tax by taxing people who don't vote for them
Less than 10% of them vote for Labour
There is a very easy way to raise a huge amount in tax by taxing people who don't vote for them
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What chance of properly funding the NHS when the Health Secretary has accepted £270,000 from those with links to the private health care sector?
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
November 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What chance of properly funding the NHS when the Health Secretary has accepted £270,000 from those with links to the private health care sector?
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!
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Farage supports replacing the nhs with insurance-based healthcare. Americans spend twice as much as the UK, yet millions are without cover. The biggest US healthcare Co. challenges 1/3 of claims. It's a colossal scam that Farage's friends want to exploit.
Farage loves the poorly educated. #reform
Farage loves the poorly educated. #reform
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage supports replacing the nhs with insurance-based healthcare. Americans spend twice as much as the UK, yet millions are without cover. The biggest US healthcare Co. challenges 1/3 of claims. It's a colossal scam that Farage's friends want to exploit.
Farage loves the poorly educated. #reform
Farage loves the poorly educated. #reform
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Me calling NHS because I can't move my legs
Nhs 111: it is important you remain where you are
Me *Rose tyler * where am I going to go, Swindon?!
Nhs 111: it is important you remain where you are
Me *Rose tyler * where am I going to go, Swindon?!
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Me calling NHS because I can't move my legs
Nhs 111: it is important you remain where you are
Me *Rose tyler * where am I going to go, Swindon?!
Nhs 111: it is important you remain where you are
Me *Rose tyler * where am I going to go, Swindon?!
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NHS Scotland performance likely to be even further ahead as five examples of cover-up and distortion by NHS England managers is revealed talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/01/n...
NHS Scotland performance likely to be even further ahead as five examples of cover-up and distortion by NHS England managers is revealed
stewartb making this comment below, yesterday, reminded of how previously, he, I and others have revealed the trickery used by NHS England, operating in a Tory/competitive/managerialist culture, co…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NHS Scotland performance likely to be even further ahead as five examples of cover-up and distortion by NHS England managers is revealed talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/01/n...
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💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
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Labour was swift to condemn Sarah Pochin in unequivocal terms and has left Reform/the Tories on the back foot as a consequence.
October 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Labour was swift to condemn Sarah Pochin in unequivocal terms and has left Reform/the Tories on the back foot as a consequence.
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if brianna were alive today labour would be smearing her as a rapist, forcing her in to conversion therapy, and denying her existence.
also: she wasn't killed by her phone. she was brutally murdered by her transphobic class mates.
the way labour are exploiting esther ghey is disgusting.
also: she wasn't killed by her phone. she was brutally murdered by her transphobic class mates.
the way labour are exploiting esther ghey is disgusting.
It was an honour to join campaigners from Phone Free Education, a campaign by the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project – founded by Esther Ghey in memory of her daughter Brianna.
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
if brianna were alive today labour would be smearing her as a rapist, forcing her in to conversion therapy, and denying her existence.
also: she wasn't killed by her phone. she was brutally murdered by her transphobic class mates.
the way labour are exploiting esther ghey is disgusting.
also: she wasn't killed by her phone. she was brutally murdered by her transphobic class mates.
the way labour are exploiting esther ghey is disgusting.
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Hard to take Labour’s outrage at Sarah Pochin seriously when Starmer mimicked fascist Enoch Powell, calling us “an island of strangers” and claiming migration caused “incalculable damage”.
Labour is Reform with a red rosette.
Labour is Reform with a red rosette.
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hard to take Labour’s outrage at Sarah Pochin seriously when Starmer mimicked fascist Enoch Powell, calling us “an island of strangers” and claiming migration caused “incalculable damage”.
Labour is Reform with a red rosette.
Labour is Reform with a red rosette.
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The idea behind steel "clubs" is that countries with declining industries can sell to each other. It takes no more than a few seconds to work out the problem here.
Back to square one - what do we do about declining European demand for steel?
Back to square one - what do we do about declining European demand for steel?
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The idea behind steel "clubs" is that countries with declining industries can sell to each other. It takes no more than a few seconds to work out the problem here.
Back to square one - what do we do about declining European demand for steel?
Back to square one - what do we do about declining European demand for steel?
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Labour has given the green light to the largest number of major infrastructure projects in the first year of a Parliament in history. Also secured a record-breaking £150 billion in US investment to the UK which will create thousands of jobs & improve lives across our country.
#Labour
#Labour
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Labour has given the green light to the largest number of major infrastructure projects in the first year of a Parliament in history. Also secured a record-breaking £150 billion in US investment to the UK which will create thousands of jobs & improve lives across our country.
#Labour
#Labour
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Watch Jared Kushner's face when idiot Witkoff blurts out that they have been working on the plan for Gaza for 2 years.
They scream the quiet parts out loud these days, because they believe they are untouchable.
They scream the quiet parts out loud these days, because they believe they are untouchable.
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Watch Jared Kushner's face when idiot Witkoff blurts out that they have been working on the plan for Gaza for 2 years.
They scream the quiet parts out loud these days, because they believe they are untouchable.
They scream the quiet parts out loud these days, because they believe they are untouchable.
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Too much snap by-election analysis "Labour needs to start delivering"... no.
Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.
Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.
October 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Too much snap by-election analysis "Labour needs to start delivering"... no.
Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.
Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.
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The toxic Blue Labour cult that have convinced themselves from a distance that they understand the distant working classes are hammering their own party (and are oddly closely related to the 1980s Bennite faction that thought similar, and had a similar effect)
I wrote for @theipaper.com about the Caerphilly by election and why Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem
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October 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The toxic Blue Labour cult that have convinced themselves from a distance that they understand the distant working classes are hammering their own party (and are oddly closely related to the 1980s Bennite faction that thought similar, and had a similar effect)
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Robert Jenrick is an idiot. Has he forgotten that the Tories slashed police officers by 20,000 & no doubt probation officers too.
Yet somehow it’s Labour’s fault according to this moron.
#NeverVoteConservative
Yet somehow it’s Labour’s fault according to this moron.
#NeverVoteConservative
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Robert Jenrick is an idiot. Has he forgotten that the Tories slashed police officers by 20,000 & no doubt probation officers too.
Yet somehow it’s Labour’s fault according to this moron.
#NeverVoteConservative
Yet somehow it’s Labour’s fault according to this moron.
#NeverVoteConservative
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Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.
Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment
Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him
www.independent.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.