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Dame Rainbow Warrior @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is the NEW petition for #FBPE folk to sign and share, please 📣📣📣📣📣📣 We want them to keep rolling in, so the government knows we haven't gone away. As soon as one hits target, another sets off. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

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Petition: Regularly assess & consider the economic benefits of EU Customs Union membership

We want the Government to commission independent bodies to regularly advise how joining the Customs Union could benefit Britain's economy. We want Parliament to regularly consider how that would advan...

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As elections are popularity contests, populists have an advantage. They offer free sugar, deny the harm their solutions would cause, everything is upside. Why wouldn't ill informed people vote for them? Now, sensible politicians need to compete, so they also offer sugar, but we need to pay for it.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What? No! Not real! Trump has never played golf.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It's always impressive to see someone so obviously proud of his achievements that he doesn't want people to see them in action, in detail, as they are being applied, to their everyday purchases.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Life never gets more complicated than when they start enforcing where people can relieve themselves. Segregation such as this is based on unjustified fear, leads to hate, can result in violence and persecution. All because some non-trans men are the real threat.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I hope they give Trump a chance to read out his favourite parts of the bible, you know, the ones about winning a golf tournament, getting the highest marks in a cognitive test, having high pressure showers and being treated unfairly by Biden/Obama/Clinton.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The bits about chocolate eggs are his favourite parts of the bible.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

You had one grain on the first day, two grains on the second day, four grains on the third day...

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For example, he sent a very personal message to his followers to advise them it was a good time to buy, and signed off with DJT. It wasn't immediately clear what needed to be bought, why it was a good time to do so. But an inspiring and uplifting personal message nonetheless.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Of course not. We know for a fact that he signs off all his messages 'DJT'. We can look back at all the times he's done that and exclude any that doesn't have his initials as being written by Steven Miller.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Follow the money. Someone profited from the failed casinos. Who? Why? Some are profiting from this blatant manipulation of financial markets. Who? We cannot rely on US agencies to investigate, regulate, enforce or prosecute. The impact is global, we need international sanctions on those responsible.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Unfortunately, a single study published in the American Journal of Madinsane has stated this cure causes wartism.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Did he say thank you? Did he just say thank you once during that meeting? Did they discuss how many cards he was holding? At least he wore a suit! What mineral rights and infrastructure will he be handing over to the US?

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Seriously!? He doesn't drink? What would he be like if he did?

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Well, guess what, they are financially incentivised. The policies of the right will harm people economically, harm them socially, harm them in healthcare, risk their liberties and remove their civil and legal protections. They are motivated, thanks to the right.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Surely that amount of financial stimulus would be traceable. The default position of claiming paid political activism speaks to their own methods. They couldn't imagine that level of directed activist action for their policy positions without needing to financially incentivise people...

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I've always found it to be a ridiculous concept that businesses would re-direct existing, efficient supply chains from UK-EU to UK-US. If UK-US was the right choice, the EU would have shifted terms and standards decades ago. The EU is the dominant economic power, just next door to the UK.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

In economic terms, Trump's tariffs have very little to do with economics. Trade is conducted based on supply & demand, the exchange is goods for currency. The tariffs are about perceived deficits, which are not due to the trading terms, but that supply & demand. Trump will undermine the currency!

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

What a genius! He's realised that the economy is not actually made up of lots of small businesses, but a few very large businesses. Those very large businesses have never, and never will trade any goods or services with a small business. Praise be! Such great times are ahead! What a fucking idiot!

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If our trade deficits with the US are low, how much is that because we don't buy much from there? The UK is a much smaller economy, wouldn't we buy more than we sold if the US was the best source for goods? If these tariffs increase the $ of UK to US imports, wouldn't that increase the deficit?

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Oh, I'm glad she's found something to keep her busy. I was wondering what she was up to, we haven't heard anything about her activities since she subtly found the exit in July.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

His default position. In an abusive relationship, the abuser always thinks they are the best friend to the abused. Any resistance, attempt to be independent, the abuser increases their abusive activities. Get away from this broken nation and all their influences!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 24/03/2025

Looks like Rachel Reeves has conveniently forgotten that Brexit brought about the need to duplicate many roles that EU bodies used to do on behalf of the UK? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Puppets with strings need a puppeteer to operate them.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is what the right wing politicians want, a poorly educated population that they can radicalise to their own purposes. The outcome is an oligarchy with dictatorial tendencies, the exploitation of the masses to enhance the wealth of the minority. Democracy is a casualty of these ideologies.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/03/2025

I think that the EU need to put in place a mechanism that could be used to boot problematic members out. They have a pipeline of countries desperate to join. They don't need the aggravation of rabble-rousers like Hungary. The mere existence of such a mechanism might have a stabilisation effect.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Those who are anti woke tend to have lower academic achievements. Those who wish (or vote) away their democratic power also tend to have a lower educational background. There is also a clear trend to being more right wing. It is obvious as to why POTUS would want to close the department of education

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

If the alternative is to tax the not-rich, tax those with less wealth, tax those who have less they can spare, then it would need to be explained very carefully with clear justifications; as it immediately seems ridiculous to have a tax system that lifts those with wealth while holding down the rest

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 22/03/2025

"Taxing the rich" certainly wouldn't solve the UK's economic woes by itself, and it's foolish to tout the idea as a silver bullet that could magic all our problems away. But by golly it would at the very least make the pain everyone else has to endure feel a bit more tolerable.

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Adam Goldman @adamgoldman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

So “anti-woke” actually meant “anti-democratic“?

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If Starmer wants to free the UK from unnecessary paperwork, red tape, barriers to free trade, and isolation he really ought to #RejoinEU www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit

Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Huh! Farage appears to be an expert in this matter. Maybe he'll offer his services in teaching those who are not quite meeting his very high standards.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It's been a while since 30p Lee changed parties.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I will follow the seven journeys of itselfiness for the rest of my life, and will encourage others to also use their time, and extra time to unprison their think rhinos.

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Widdershins Smith 🐘 @msmith3.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Well, that's today's task sorted then...

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's been a while since this tournament has been held in a country I would be willing to travel to.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's nice that you still have the hope and optimism that there will still be a world in which book fairs take place in six weeks time. Trump has been in office for just over 6 weeks... Imagine the next 6 weeks... Are you really making plans?

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Paul Wooldridge @alba187.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Nice to see the influence of @thetrawl.bsky.social in our everyday lives. Donald Trump is a moron advised by some of the dumbest idiots in the world all doing the bidding of an evil dictator. They will tear down the institutions that stabilise world order. Stand up to fascists because they're dicks!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/03/2025

We need to boost defence spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP. One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit. It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense. But getting started MUST be the first step.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

He’s such a dicktator.

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