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Anna-Marie 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@anna-marie.bsky.social
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Love all things plant, garden, nature. Dislike tribal politics. If someone wants my vote, they need to earn it. Dislike cult like followings of any politician. Pro EU. Pro PR #FBPE flickr.com/photos/35931694@N05

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Db0rg @db0rg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, like walking to your car at night. Just basic life stuff, we have to weigh the risk. It's not other women we're afraid of, or bears.
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Anne Teefa @izabella2001.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disproportionally, the white dudes seem to, ahem, achieve? more than others through their embedded systems of patriarchy, sexism, racism, colonization, and theft
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Shirty 🍁 @whogivesashirt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I went for a walk with a neighbour yesterday who suggested we go through a secluded spot behind a neighbouring building. He was amazed I’d never done so before. I had to explain that’s the kind of space we’re taught to avoid. This stuff really doesn’t occur to them at all.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 23m
Reform MP buys £800k second home in Wales two days after questioning their impact willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 17h
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 34m
Reading more about what Manchester City this is far more than a story about football, this is also the playbook for how some companies grew to global dominance in the last 30 years and the difficulties national authorities then have in dealing with them.
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Susan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC Breakfast airing Farage again as ’most attacked politician’ and his lies about being ‘refused’ protection - all without challenge. No politician should fear for their life, but sick of BBC pushing Refuk narrative without fact checking
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 37m
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
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Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Palantir are a threat to the NHS and to our democracy. Say NO to Palantir! harryeccles94.substack.com/p/who-are-pa...
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Who are Palantir, and why do they want your health records?
An exploration of a murky world...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 50m
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 50m
The country needs investment. Investment is money. Rejoining a CU and the SM would give us more money. #LetsGo
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 50m
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 2h
I don’t understand why @andyburnham.bsky.social uses ‘X’ Facebook etc but doesn’t use his @bsky.app account? Shouldn’t we be able to see his posts as well? Not to mention the damaging influence of Musk who promotes far-right narratives.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 48m
No doubt news of this act of generosity will appear in every Reform UK social media group (Just kidding!) meme via Ann E. Butterworth
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19h
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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Trickcyclist 🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @trickcyclist.bsky.social · 48m
Please sign. the.organise.network/campaigns/te...
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Terminate the NHS contract with Palantir!
Add your name:
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TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social · 9h
. Today, the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, is the day to show the far-right that fascists are not welcome in London or the rest of the UK! #bbcbreakfast #bbclaurak #bbcbh #toriesgone821 No Pasaran .
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 48m
Good morning. Just how much have successive UK governments spent - or is the current one due to spend - with Peter Thiel’s Palantir? 🧵⤵️
Graphic showing Palantir founder Peter Thiel and totals of money spent since 2014 – or due to be spent – by UK government departments and agencies. Design: Lynsey Irvine
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 20h
Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 13h
Austerity 2.0 is it chaps? I’m always amazed at how these guys derive genuine excitement at the idea of slashing public services
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Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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ChumpTrump @chumptrump.bsky.social · 9h
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 17h
🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧 Reasons to ’rejoin’ the EU: 1. Filling the 55k NHS vacancies 2. Young people going Interrailing 3. Ditto applying to Maastricht uni etc ( cheaper) 4. No airport queues 5.Jobs in Europe for unemployed 6. Dublin Convention reinstated, stopping small boats And 6. Nigel Farage’s face.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 6h
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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns
One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands ​and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ...
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 1h
At our Labour conference fringe event, @labourlewis.bsky.social revealed a letter he received from Palantir’s new UK chief Tom Watson, which he described as an “implicit threat”. Read our full coverage 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/labour-blo...
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Labour blocked the Palantir debate
As protesters demand the government break with Palantir, Clive Lewis revealed its new UK chief has been keeping count of his criticisms
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 8h
The final results are in and 2026 came in 2nd place behind 2023 for the total number of days with global surface temperature above 16.0°C. 2023: 128 days 2026: 126 days Don't fret. There's always next year ...
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16h
If Badenoch could replicate the popularity she enjoys at the BBC with the rest of the country she'd win the next election by a landslide. The uncritical nature of the puff piece by ##bbclaurak is embarrassing.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14h
After a robust internal investigation we have found that the rules don't apply to us.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 17h
We are lucky in the Surrey hills to have excellent drinking water that comes from a chalk aquifer. The proposals for fracking just to the south of us put that at risk. Over my dead body.
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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 15h
Georgia continues to protests. #GeorgiaProtests Day 675
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 17h
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1h
“With climate change increasing the likelihood of milder winters and hotter summers, pests and pathogens that were once unable to survive here can now make their home. This will profoundly impact not only farmers, but the wider public” Via The Guardian
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 1h
The genocide continues...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Far Right activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson is funded by right wing US pro-Israel groups, Middle East Eye reports. These include the Shillman Foundation, the think tank of the late David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
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Watch this to find out who funds Tommy Robinson | Long Story Short
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 8h
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 15h
#ClimateEmergency - A 102-year-old woman has died and about 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, after floods dumped 142 l/m². Rain will persist, with a new storm possible in the west on Sunday. www.euronews.com/2026/10/03/s... #oilandgas #DonaldTrump #AfD #FarRight
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Showers and storms across Spain this weekend, floods kill 102-year-old woman
A 102-year-old woman has died and about 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, after floods dumped 142 l/m². Rain will persist, with a new storm possible in the west on Sunday. #EuropeNews
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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 1h
#Zelensky cites #Putin order to "attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack ​in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals. To pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities: this is goal of operation" "We have to respond in any way" #Ukraine
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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 2h
John Constable painted this landscape in 1816 almost 150 years before a university was dropped into the middle of it. Essex opened here in 1964, its radical concrete campus deliberately concentrated in the valley to preserve Wivenhoe Park around it #WeAreEssex #Colchester #Essex
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Anna-Marie 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @anna-marie.bsky.social · 1h
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1h
Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Lana 🌺 ❤️💛💚💙💜 @mahalomalama.bsky.social · 7h
Got that right…
When a fool gains power, the first thing he does is silence the wise. The next thing he does is gather other fools around him. The final thing he does is destroy the nation.
~ PLATO
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"One of the seats had been vacated after the ['carefully vetted'] Reform UK incumbent failed to turn up to any meetings for six months." 'Labour claim double by-election gain from Reform' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
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Labour claim double by-election gain from Reform
Labour have won two council by-elections in Northumberland in wards that had previously been held by Reform UK.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21h
Reform-run Derbyshire County Council blacklisted a journalist after he exposed its £50,000 fence fiasco. Its deputy leader justified the move with a claim he later admitted was wrong. This is Reform’s answer to scrutiny. Attack the press. #NoAccountability
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PeppyPanda 🐼 - Uplifting and good news @peppypanda.com · 6h
Europe just hit a major milestone! For the first time ever, electric vehicles outsold gasoline and diesel cars, signaling a powerful shift towards a cleaner future. 🚗⚡️ #EVs #ElectricVehicles #Europe #CleanEnergy
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Electric Vehicles Outsell Gasoline, Diesel in Europe for First Time
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 17h
Many ppl don't know that Pedro Sanchez' phone was hacked numerous times between 2020/21 using Pegasus spyware Pegasus is made by an Israeli company It's use and sale are strictly controlled by Mossad This is how they b/mail politicians Makes you wonder how many? www.politico.eu/article/pega...
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez had phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
Spain’s defense minister also hit in ‘illegal and external’ intrusion.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13h
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13h
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Naz Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social · 23h
“An incredibly wide and varied culture” - but also one that evolves, as all cultures do. We are sold this idea of a static, immutable thing when it is necessarily in movement. 17th century Englishness is different from today’s. What should be more fixed are our values. Those of kindness and love.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Doing the right thing is always the right thing to do poitically. Brexit was the wrong thing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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