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worked in learning disabilities services for 27 years now retired loves Rock/ Blues.music , soccer politics , European history, reading a good book and the great outdoors Anti Brexit and member of European Movement

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bluerocket @bluerocket59.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Tuesday is ‘Power Plant Day’ and ‘Bridge Day,’ apparently — because nothing says stable leadership like announcing your war crimes like a themed sale at IKEA. Donald Trump turning geopolitics into a clearance event: ‘Everything must go (especially civilian infrastructure).’”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM" "We need a radical reset, fundamental change" "The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you" "Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop Reform UK"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 18/05/2025
It’s high time we restore our young people’s rights to live, work and travel freely across the EU and give young Londoners and other Brits—and their European counterparts—access to an abundance of opportunities through a UK-EU Youth Mobility scheme.
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bluerocket @bluerocket59.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk
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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The coverage of this EU deal acts like the last five years haven't happened. Polls now show overwhelming support for a closer relationship with the EU, with even Reform voters backing things like the youth mobility scheme, and yet the coverage is still being framed about "betrayals" of Brexit
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Derby for Europe @derby4europe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It's time to exit Brexit and rejoin the EU
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The European Movement in 2025: growing the grassroots. The European Movement held its third grassroots conference, calling for a unified strategy to rejoin the EU.
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The European Movement in 2025: growing the grassroots
The European Movement held its third grassroots conference, calling for a unified strategy to rejoin the EU
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 20/03/2025
Time to delete that Air BNB app and find alternatives.
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In a letter this week in the Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social, our Chair Paul Browne calls for the UK to rejoin the Single Market in order to boost the UK economy and pay for increased defence spending. This is no time for Brexit! @europeanmovement.co.uk (1/2)
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 17/03/2025
Rachel Reeves, commenting on the OECD's lowered growth forecast, said "a changing world means Britain must change too" but there isn't even the barest hint such change includes Brexit. The elephant in the room is now so big it's got us squashed against the wall. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/03/2025
Spring Statement is going to be a shocker in a couple of weeks time. Every economic trend seems to be pointing in exactly the wrong direction. Meanwhile, the bloated stinking carcass of Brexit squats in the middle of the room, actively ignored by all and sundry. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
There is another way. Deep alignment with Single Market would increase growth by >1% annually, rejoining the Single Market would double that. Announcing a plan for much closer alignment with the EU would immediately improve business confidence in the UK. www.bestforbritain.org/growth_report
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Report: Quantifying the opportunities for economic growth
Best for Britain asked Frontier Economics to independently model the economic effects of alignment rules and standards for goods and services between the UK and the EU within the UK Government’s negot...
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FloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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bluerocket @bluerocket59.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
now, more than ever, we should develop closer ties with our European allies for this is the opposite of what Trump and Putin want
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads:
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"The UK must make common cause with Europe to defend not only our economic and defence interests but, more importantly, our values. They live only in Europe now." Canada, Japan, NZ & others would dispute the last part, but for practical purposes Hutton is right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton
Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain
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bluerocket @bluerocket59.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I just became a member of the European Movement, the only organisation with the courage to reverse the calamity of Brexit. Join me and thousands of others at @euromove here >>> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership
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European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 28/02/2025
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.
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JoRichardsKent @jorichardskent.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No state visit to UK for narcissist Donal Trump or JD Vance! I stand with Zelensky! 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine! 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #SlavaUkraine #Ukraine #FuckTrump you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy. When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all. When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This US govt getting into a verbal war with Europe over “values” is exactly what we want.. …as a UK organisation looking to join the EU. That values contrast is stark. Let’s start with healthcare… and then the ICC. Or food standards. Or any citizen protections. It’s all fertile ground for us.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump’s new world chaos offers possibilities for post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The UK's choice isn’t just between US & EU, it's about the new global divide, and it could finally change the stale politics of Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/trum...
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
There is clearly no time to wait and see, Starmer and Reeves need to act fast to inject some optimism into the UK economy. A much closer trade deal with the EU to tear down Brexit barriers, and a Youth Mobility Scheme, would go a long way to doing that. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Stagflation’ fears as Bank of England cuts growth forecast and warns of price rises
UK economy expected to grow by just 0.75% this year, in fresh blow to Rachel Reeves’s attempts to raise confidence
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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 05/02/2025
Over 15,000 voted in their poll. The Rusults: Brexit has failed, We feel worse off since leaving, We should have a referendum on Re-joining the EU. #RejoinEU Parliament, wake up! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Brexit is an 'unmitigated disaster' and another EU referendum is 'necessary'
After the UK marked 5 years since leaving the EU, Mirror readers have slammed Brexit as a 'betrayal' after economic costs were 'played down considerably' and immigration problems were 'overstated'
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Sandy Lee Spoelstra @spooley2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Reading this book 📕 for the third time, might be a blueprint for how Marc Cuban can help build a news 📰 network with journalists like Jim Acosta, who can tell the TRUTH to POWER 💪💪💪 and lead the RESISTANCE 🙏🙏🙏
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
🔥 “A stunning three out of four of the 18 to 25-year-olds, who mostly did not have a chance to vote in the referendum, think leaving was a mistake.”
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Most people think leaving the EU was a mistake - but don't expect politicians to reopen the Brexit question
Five years on, even many of those who still champion Brexit, including Nigel Farage, concede that it has "failed" - so why are the main parties afraid to tell voters they got it wrong?
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/02/2025
✍️ An overview of the myriad disappointments of the Starmer Labour government, 2024-25 "You wanted hope and change and what did you get? Austerity, repackaged with a red rosette." © Steve Pottinger 2 Feb 2025 @bigstevepoet.bsky.social with cartoon by @sdupp.bsky.social
Cartoon of a Labour-brandee ticket machine showing "promises" and "no change given"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Neil Kinnock, a patron of @europeanmovement.co.uk says that Starmer needs to end his “cycle of hesitation” on European collaboration.
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Starmer should end UK’s ‘cycle of hesitation’ with EU, says Neil Kinnock
Former Labour leader says government should show greater willingness to work with bloc
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bluerocket @bluerocket59.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is serious. New polling shows Reform UK surging—they could win 67 seats and become one of the biggest parties in Parliament. They’re building a ruthless campaign machine to push their far-right agenda. We need to fight back. Will you join me? www.stop-reform.org @hopenothate.org.uk
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Join the fightback | Reform UK’s surge is a wake up call – it’s time to act ⏰ | Linktree
Reform UK is growing faster than anyone expected. Our new MRP polling shows that if a General Election were held tomorrow, they could win up to 76 seats—potentially surging to 169 if they gain just 3%...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🔥 FINALLY! The BBC are finally doing the public education service on Brexit that they always should have. Have a read. 👇👇
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Five key impacts of Brexit five years on
The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A brilliant analysis of the epic Brexit failure. Scorn for the liars and solidarity for the rest of us. “We lost something intangible and yet priceless, something we might never get back: an idea of our country.” Heartbreaking, enraging and yet, still hopeful. iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...
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Brexit five years on: A triumph of lies
The promises turned out to be false. The warnings turned out to be true.
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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 30/01/2025
4m votes, 5 seats. That's what Reform got. Despite huge disproportionate media coverage, the president of the USA promoting them, Twitter and it's owner promoting them. It's time to get off our knees and fight these idiots. Time to fight fire with fire. Let's go! #RejoinEU
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.
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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 20/01/2025
Here we goooooo! Gen Z is here, we want a vote to join the EU, to get our future back - stolen by a vote in 2016 that we couldn't vote in. Meet NRM Youth co-founders, Ceira and Jemima! #RejoinEU Under 30s - be a founding member (it's free - always!) ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
He’s absolutely right, of course… …and that is why the EU, UK and Europe as a whole need to keep their focus on citizens, consumer rights, standards and quality. This is what the EU has been doing best - standing up to big tech. Repeatedly. We should be rejoining the EU and joining that effort.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
YES. “Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer”
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Negotiate UK-EU customs union to tear down ‘damaging’ Brexit barriers, Davey urges Starmer - Politics.co.uk
Ed Davey will call on the government to negotiate a new customs union with the European Union (EU) to “turbocharge our economy in the medium and long term.” Delivering his first major speech of 2025, ...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
He is not joking. He does not have normal boundaries between fantasy and reality. He is absolutely a danger to the sovereignty of allies.
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