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Rob Crute

@blackhallrob.bsky.social
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Socialist▫️Member of Durham County Council, representing the people and communities of the Blackhalls & Hesledens▫️DMA▫️GMB▫️SAFC

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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Reform voters are claiming that every one of the Reform councillors who’ve resigned from Durham County Council are ‘plants’ who only stood for election in order to resign and undermine the Reform administration. Reform voters themselves are warning us that their own candidates can’t be trusted.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I've just signed the Restore Labour Democracy statement. Join Labour MPs, members and trade unions - add your name today! We demand an end to the factional culture coming from the top of the Labour Party that has sidelined members and helped alienate voters. actionnetwork.org/forms/restor...
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STATEMENT: Restore Labour Democracy
I've just signed the Restore Labour Democracy statement. Join Labour MPs, members and trade union leaders - add your name today! We demand an end to the factional culture coming from the top of the ...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I'll tell you who's 'holding Britain to ransom'. It's 156 billionaires, not 77,000 resident doctors.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny …evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
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Reform UK’s energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.
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A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"The magic money tree exists, it’s in the City of London and it’s with the billionaires" leftfootforward.org/2025/11/zara...
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Zarah Sultana perfectly spells out why the UK’s economic system is ‘fundamentally broken’ on Question Time
'The super rich in this country are laughing all the way to the bank'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/11/2025
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
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Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/07/2025
🚨NEW 🚨 Reform UK say they’re against solar farms. But when it came time to discuss one in Lincolnshire this week, their top councillors on a planning committee didn’t even show up. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/16/r...
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Reform UK slam solar energy – then miss the meeting to stop it
Reform UK say they’re against solar farms. But when it came time to discuss one in Lincolnshire this week, their top councillors on a planning committee didn’t even show up.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 18/07/2025
Reform UK has always had a tenuous link to the truth, a tradition continued by Sarah Pochin, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby. She posted a video complaining about issues in Greenway Road, Runcorn. The problem? Well people who actually live there have no idea what she’s on about.🔽
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Reform has lost 11 councillors and 2 MPs in a matter of months… and when I say ‘lost’ I mean, they’ve quit following rows, impropriety or inability to do their jobs. So, if Brexit weren’t proof enough, then this barrelling shitshow should confirm forever that they should be nowhere near govt.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/07/2025
🚨It’s another week and another potential scandal for Reform UK, as MP James McMurdock removed the whip from himself over the weekend, ahead of the Sunday Times reporting that two of his companies, said to be effectively dormant, claimed Covid Bounce Back loans to the tune of £70,000.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
DURHAM MINERS’ GALA, SATURDAY 12 JULY: Tony Benn was a true giant of the labour movement and he spoke at Durham Big Meeting more than anyone else in its history. In his memoirs he captured the spirit and emotion of Europe’s biggest and best celebration of working class culture and solidarity.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Seen tonight on Darren Grimes’ Twitter page. My cover’s blown. I’ve been sussed out!
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Georgie Laming @georgielaming.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
These results are bleak but we cannot give up. Today, the HOPE not hate team have been working up plans to hold Reform to account and to prevent more gains in the huge set of elections next year. But we need support so if you can, please donate today secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170607/...
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Join the 2026 Club: Help Stop Reform UK
Reform UK is already preparing for the next election. But thousands of people like you are fighting back. Join the 2026 club: help to expose their lies, empower local people, and push back where it ma...
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Working class solidarity is the foundation of our communities and on May Day we remember the workers whose sacrifice, determination and resistance gave life to the pit villages we love so much today. The image shows the Blackhall NUM banner at the May Day rally held in Easington back in 1986.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train” Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At the Durham Miners’ Association’s International Workers’ Memorial Day service in Seaham this morning. Remember the dead. Fight for the living.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In 1970 someone in the richest 0.01% was 42x richer than the average person. In 2000 they were 600x richer than the average person. Now it is over 2000x. Making the rich richer, makes YOU poorer.
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Please read & share this, it took me ages. This is a project I was trying (and failing) to get funding for for a year. I came close, but I wanted to write it up anyway and share some of the photos because I think it's important to get them out there. #Photography open.substack.com/pub/mariegar...
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All items of value have been removed
I’ve been documenting the East Durham Coast (former) pit villages for a number of years.
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Images from 'All Items of Value Have Been Removed', see below for the post with context to this photo project. #ThePhotoHour #Photography #Durham #Documentary
a grey boarded up door in a red brick terrace, with a stuck on sign saying 'all items of value have been removed'a photo of a backyard of a terrace where the windows are put out, and the yard itself is filled with rubbish and debris, including what looks like the door to the property.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Having an Easter get together with my lovely children 3 years ago today. Liquid lunches all round!
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sign the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Members of the Blackhall Banner Group met last night to finalise plans for next month's fundraiser to mark 40 years since the end of the 84-85 Strike and the 25th Anniversary of the Banner Group, which we set up to promote the culture and heritage of coal mining in our community. Details to follow.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our poor little Elena 8 years ago today. At 4 years old she’d already cottoned on that a lifetime of supporting Sunderland was going to send her hopes soaring one day only to crush them underfoot the day after.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
40 years ago today the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike ended. Still proud to be the enemy within. Never Forget. Never Forgive.
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How lovely to see the Coal Face exhibition and all the incredible work that @louisepowell.bsky.social and @martintype.bsky.social have put in. Also wonderful to see Tot, who I interviewed in 2016 for my first book, who is now 100(!) and still remembered me. Fantastic.
Portraits on a wall with the title coal face in the middle
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Last week I tabled a motion to be heard at a full meeting of Durham County Council urging the government to establish a public inquiry into the police riot at Orgreave during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike. Full details in the link. robcrute-blackhall.blogspot.com/2025/01/trut...
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Truth and Justice for the Miners
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Let’s be clear- Reform’s policies would be the final nail in the coffin for the NHS 🚨 open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
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Let's be clear - Reform's policies would be the final nail in the coffin for the NHS.
Call To Action
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Seven years ago today we said our last farewells to Barry Chambers. Barry was chair of Blackhall Labour Party for many years and an active member of the Durham Miners’ Association. He’s shown in the centre of the image next to Tony Benn, another stalwart of the labour and trade union movement.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
‘The past we inherit. The future we build’. The motto of the Durham Miners’ Association reminds us to learn from the struggles and conflict of the past and use the experience to create a better future for all workers.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ooof. Elon Musk has become even more unpopular in the UK following his interventions on child grooming gangs Unfavourable - 71% to favourable 20%. That’s a -51 favourability rating. Genghis Khan level.
Graph of Musk’s plummeting favourability levels.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Trump is the new Hitler. Seeks territorial expansion, Bullies less powerful nations, Wants to deport millions, Deny citizenship to local born, Silence critical voices, Supported by the rich. Has admirers in the UK. Massive failure of western education/politics. Save the future. Oppose fascism.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Yup.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Farage and Musk fall out over the Nazi dollar! This is what happens when the boss pulls the strings but the puppet doesn’t dance. The master says jump higher Nigel. Jump higher!
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Please spare a thought tonight for poor Nigel. He’s jumped as high as his masters demanded. It just wasn’t high enough.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Marco Longhi, another dyed in the wool, hard-right Thatcherite, defects from the Tories to Reform UK. It’s become impossible to tell where the Tory party ends and Reform UK starts. So remember, no matter what shade of blue rosette they wear, a Thatcher acolyte is the same in any colour.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"Social cleansing” taking place across England. Richer councils dumping people on housing waiting list to poorer areas, long distance away, often in substandard accommodation. Poorer councils left to find schools, doctors, hospitals, jobs, transport, services www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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English councils pay millions to move homeless families out of big cities
Guardian analysis reveals families often given little notice to relocate to already deprived communities far away with no extra support
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
As I’ve said before, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it with speed & we need to do it with urgency & then we need to use it with truth & justice to send Elon Musk packing www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, appointed by Nigel Farrage. Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco) He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax. Patriotic? Anti-Establishment? It's a con.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Elon Musk has said he loves immigration because he gets cheap workers who can't quit. Elon Musk owns Nigel Farage and Reform UK. You have been told.
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BlueDot @mhlevinson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
It all started with Reagan many years ago. When he deregulated the media, he gave the purveyors of lies, conspiracies, and misinformation the freedom to do and say whatever they wanted.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
An appropriately decrepit Brexit party poster from 2016 on a wall in Seventh Street, Blackhall Colliery - complete with advice from our more reasonable residents.
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Rob Crute @blackhallrob.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Sending seasons greetings on #socialistsunday from Blackhall Colliery in County Durham, and wishing everyone the Christmas they deserve. #ForTheManyNotTheFew #StillTheEnemyWithin #NoPasaran
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