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Alan White

@alanwhite1955.bsky.social
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Retired graphic designer now living in Kent, UK with my husband and our dog. I'm now a printmaker, specializing in reduction linocuts. 🏳️‍🌈

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 12h
There are times when Britain is the most wonderful country in the world - genuinely the most wonderful. This is one of them. You can donate here👇
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14h
There are many challenges; a different UK&EU to 2016, a rogue US, 🇫🇷elections, the demands that could be made of us, our own fear of Brexit wars, Farage weakening our negotiating position BUT… At least Burnham “has created the political space to have a conversation” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Does the EU want Britain back?
Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m not English either. But then I didn’t really think of myself as that… more British European… but the Brexity lot saw to that. Demanding that we had to lose our rights and European citizenship so they didn’t have to hear polish spoken on a train. Braverman’s politics is such inadequate bullshit.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 👇🏼💔
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Net migration has dropped from its peak in 2023 by 82% to 171,000 the lowest level since 2012. It’s expected to be in the tens of thousands in 2026. Dont expect a rapid rise in living standards and public services though, for every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit.
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Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a genocide. If you think differently, there’s something seriously wrong with you. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The rise in small boat crossings was entirely due to Brexit, promoted by Nigel Farage, and the deal done by Boris Johnson Their attempts to shift blame to anyone else is utterly despicable hypocrisy
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham edges Labour closer to finally, maybe, being sane about Brexit. Over 10 years, £Billions of cost, thousands of business failures, mountains of red tape, wasted resources and lost opportunities later…. our govt may, at last, cautiously, start to be honest about the Brexit moronathon. Yay.
The Independent front page headline: 

Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
After Ed Miliband tells party conference Britain's future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is 'not if but how' prime minister will include Brexit reversal in next election manifestoThere is growing optimism that a way back into the EU could be put to voters at the next election after the prime minister and senior ministers made it clear they believe Brexit has been a failure at this year's party conference.
When The Independent asked Mr Burnham about whether Rejoin would be in Labour's next election manifesto on his recent trip to the UN in New York, he refused to rule it out - having said a year ago when he was
Manchester mayor that he believes the
UK should rejoin the EU.

Andy Burnham has already warned about the 'drift and division' in the decade since Brexit (Getty)
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Reform UK decided to whip up racial tensions without bothering to wait and oh look, nothing to do with small boats or any immigration but British nationals #bbcwato #wato
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Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.' The US president is a lying tosspot. The plot was foiled by an insomniac farmer, who spotted the men and reported them to Gloucestershire police.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What Otto said 👇🏼 Before Brexit we had the Dublin Agreement.
Graph of the far right cry babies under a declining graph of boat crossings.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exactly.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a pathetic bit of lashing out from Johnson. But it reveals him. He knows he pissed his own mandate away. He’s just a tabloid troll now, talking shite while better people than him may get to make the kind of difference he never could. Hope that haunts him forever.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At a time of increasing uncertainty over food supply it is madness for Britain to produce less than 50% of its own food. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn
Industry leaders call on government to protect homegrown produce in the interest of national security
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The way Badenoch speaks to us is so arrogant given how wrong she often is. A big no to her use of “we” when she says “we don’t want freedom of movement” The country generally doesn’t understand FOM, just as the Brexit rightwing wanted, merging it deceitfully with their ruinous immigration obsession.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
True patriots would surely welcome such a plan. Unless they have something to hide?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.
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Alan White @alanwhite1955.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after ‘dinghy slashed in Channel’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after ‘dinghy slashed in Channel’
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump at the UN. Cartoon by Fahd Bahady.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Where do Farage’s loyalties lie? Let’s ask Nathan Gill. Farage needs misinformation for power. He distorts, pays for biased polling, works for crypto billionaires/foreign money… He wants chaos and rage. This is a sulky footstamp at having his toys taken away. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
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Nigel Farage Has Attacked The Government's Plans For A New Russia Misinformation Unit
The Reform UK leader claimed it is “targeted directly” at his party.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not a lawyer, but if you intentionally attempt to sink a boat with humans on board, how is that not attempted murder? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose" ~ George Orwell
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That has prompted me to share this - written by Will Self in the New European a while back - but it absolutely sums up the infantile inadequacy of Mogg and his general inability to cope with life and get over his own ridiculous prejudices….
Much has been made in the past of how close Jacob Rees-Mogg's relationship has been with his former nanny, Veronica Crook. She's been known to canvass for him at elections - and has gone on to be nanny to Jacob's own children; when he was at Eton, she came weekly to change his sheets for him: he doesn't do domesticity in any way, shape or form, while retaining other obviously neotenous characteristics now well into middle age. A friend quoted by Ashcroft says of him: "He hates foreign food. He hates bananas. He hates showers. He hates hotels. He is not a linguist. He seldom, or never, even holidays in Europe. He genuinely believes England, not Britain, is the best country in the world and that Somerset is the best county in England."
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Funny how Farage & the far right keep lying about the ratio of non-white & Muslim rapist & paedophiles and never mentioning horrific abuse by all white gangs ... memes via Chris Payne
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The correct answer to hate ♥️
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine looking at ICE… Those unruly, violent, incel thugs, and the chaos, fear and murder they’ve brought to the streets of America, and thinking...that’s what Britain needs. Well, Nigel Farage has.
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Alan White @alanwhite1955.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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OskiDarski @oskidarski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Georgian was beaten by a GAY MAN, and he couldn't live with such apparent shame. I'd ban him for life. www.intomore.com/culture/firs...
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First out gay Olympic judoka speaks on brutal assault that shattered his jaw and Olympic hopes - INTO
Timo Cavelius reflects on the post-match attack that left him with a double fracture
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Judging by the surge in RNLI donations I suspect attacking RNLI volunteer heroes will simply accelerate the decline of Reform UK in the polls ... meme via Andrew Miller
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
tonymurray1964 You see, Richard, your problem is that Reform is, basically, a bunch of horrible bastards doing horrible bastard things in a conspicuously horrible bastard way. In general, people don't like horrible bastards. I hope that's cleared things up for you Richard, you horrible bastard.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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