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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It might be time to stop treating Farage as if he's some sort of special confidante of Trump. The human skid mark hasn't got a clue what's going on in the White House, as the Chagos situation demonstrated, or what on earth Trump will do next.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
⚠️WARNING⚠️ The exact same chaos from the Trump administration that is wrecking infrastructure is being replicated in the UK, it’s just being done by stealth in 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So, Farage struts around on stage in the US, slagging off the UK and the EU, blaming anything but Brexit for us being poorer and unhappier and crawling up Trump’s backside… What a repulsive spectacle he is. If you actually could be put in prison here for ‘saying anything’ he’d be my top pick.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Le Monde, "French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich" Your reminder that a 2% wealth tax on those with £10 million, affecting 0.04% of the UK population, would raise £24 billion a year You have to wonder why Labour chose not to do this..
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
That's £200 EXTRA profit from every single Household in the UK. Why is this acceptable?
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️
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New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms
Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
At least there's one British Conservative who still has a spine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy
Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speech
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Sorry UK, I'm all for deeper UK-EU security cooperation at this moment, but forget about this bridge illusion. The EU will speak for itself. And you cannot pretend to speak 'for Europe' and at the same meeting call for tariff carve outs playing on being 'not Europe'. From: on.ft.com/4gLuvnQ
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Health Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way. Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A welcome antidote to the xenophobic nonsense about "low-wage" migrant workers that floods the opinion pages of the Telegraph and Times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Additional costs (27% rise in import fees) for UK importers. A prime example of how Brexit costs are passed to UK importers who cannot absorb them and will be forced to pass them onto consumers. www.fpcfreshtalkdaily.co.uk/post/jenney-...
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Jenney Warns of 'Obscene' Border Fees Set to Drive Up Fruit & Veg Prices
The UK government is planning to increase border inspection fees later this year, a move that could push up the cost of fruit and vegetables. The Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA), which operates un...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🇬🇧 The stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU reset Starmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties.
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The stone raft: stubborn isolationism or an EU reset
Starmer seeks an EU reset, but sends mixed signals to the EU on trade and alliances, and clings to US ties
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/02/2025
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
No growth and less trade: Five yeas later, Brexit is a ‘flop’ for London Promises remain unfulfilled, and for the time being, we see only the negative effects of choice that reduces productivity by 4 percent and exports by 15 percent www.eunews.it/en/2025/02/0...
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No growth and less trade: Five years later, Brexit is a 'flop'
For the time being, we only see the negative effects of Brexit that reduces productivity by 4 percent and exports by 15 percent
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
John Slinger, "Nigel Farage says he open to an insurance based system for the NHS" Keir Starmer, "Under Labour, the NHS will always be free at the point of use for anyone who needs it" "What a contrast with Reform whose leader has said that those who can afford to pay should pay for healthcare"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"A YouGov poll on 21 January asked ‘Who would you rather have as a closer trading partner to the UK…?’ Of all adults, 53% said the EU, and 21% said the US. The younger you were, or if you were a woman, the more likely you were to say the EU. Even 20% of Reform UK supporters said the EU!"
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New year developments mean government deadlock on the EU can’t continue
Shifting tides in UK-EU relations: new developments spark cautious hope for closer alignment in 2025
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Enough is enough. Time to stop rewarding failure. Share holders have taken £2,800,000,000 in 11 years. Now they ask for £10,000,000,000 from us? No. Renationalise Thames water. Now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Thames Water may need £10bn investment to repair finances, high court hears
Struggling company may require significantly more resources than roughly £6.3bn it previously indicated
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I? Like if you do RT if you really do
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 04/02/2025
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Front page of the nyt
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Can’t believe the updates from The US… Two emotionally detached narcissists engineering what appears to be a mass looting of the country Triggering culture, tariff and diplomatic wars …while rolling out orders that will hurt the pockets, safety & health of its citizens.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Nobody is paying attention to things like this because the CDC no longer communicates. The current occupant of the White House broke government. He broke the ability to keep America safe. This is spreading, and this administration plans to pretend it doesn't exist. 828newsnow.com/news/228822-...
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Dead bird at Lake Julian Park tests positive for avian flu - Asheville's 828 News NOW
Preliminary tests show a bird at Lake Julian Park had avian influenza H5N1
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain
If we do talk about it, we start to recognise the gulf between their words and reality
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 31/01/2025
“The Brexit negotiated by Johnson took the UK out of the EU, single market & customs union & brought an end to freedom of movement..people are paying the price through higher food bills, lower growth & therefore lower tax revenue that could be spent on the NHS.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Scotland knows Brexit is holding Britain back. Why won't Labour admit it? | John Swinney
Five years after we left the EU, people are still paying the price. We’re ready to work with Westminster to forge closer bonds with Europe, says Scotland’s first minister John Swinney
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The White House has suddenly removed this page. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“Your weekly food shop will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy” Five years on from Brexit, here's a quick reminder of how it was sold to the country before we left www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHV...
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LEAVE.EU The Benefits
YouTube video by Brexit Sham
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just three in 10 Britons (30 per cent) say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU, compared to 55 per cent who say it was wrong, a new YouGov poll has shown www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Number of Britons who think Brexit was right decision hits new low - YouGov poll
On the five-year anniversary of Britain’s EU exit, new YouGov polling lays bare damning public sentiment on the decision
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/01/2025
Let Denmark cook.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2025
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out. That's what happens when companies self certify. Sewage dumping under stated. Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out
Analysis by campaign group finds utility company had highest rate of ‘no-flow’ samples of any water and sewerage firm in 2024
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“Move closer to Europe – not Trump” Huge UK poll shows Brits overwhelmingly want Starmer to prioritise trade with EU not US. Even in Farage’s constituency! Excellent work by @bestforbritain.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social. 👏👏👏
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‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll
Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 28/01/2025
“I am appalled by Brexit, I don’t believe for an instant that we should accept the verdict of a pack of lies that was paraded by various people in order to persuade people we had to sever our relationship with Europe.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Lord Heseltine brands Brexit a ‘pack of lies’ and calls for Britain to rejoin EU
The former deputy prime minister’s intervention came as it emerged Sir Keir Starmer will snub the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday – choosing instead to focus on his ongoing reset of relations wi...
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For-profit health care might be damaging population health Contracts have been deemed commercial in confidence, ensuring that for-profit companies enjoy an information advantage in negotiations & making it more likely that quality will be sacrificed over profit www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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For-profit health care might be damaging population health
Arguments have long raged about what role the private sector should play in the UK's health system, where provision is dominated by the National Health Service (NHS). There has always been some level ...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you couldn't pay your bills, the Government would seize absolutely everything you own including your house and vehicles to pay the bills. How come Thames Water directors/CEOs and majority share owners who have made billions aren't treated the same way?
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“It is alarming that the government is happy to negotiate with China but won’t even look at a better trading arrangement with our closest neighbours in Europe. This is an act of economic negligence” Ed Davey www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/econom...
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'Economic Negligence': Labour Slammed For Rejecting EU Offer Of Closer Trading Links With UK
"We’re not seeking to participate in that particular arrangement," said a government minister.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"We need closer ties with the EU and now they are letting us know the door is ajar. All we have to do is push it open. And yet we cannot even find the strength to do it” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...
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Why are we so scared to accept the EU’s generous post-Brexit deals?
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are making a huge mistake in not openly embracing offers to cut red tape
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better" 👏👏👏
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Labour’s Brexit problem: why Starmer must soon face a rejoin reality check
It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Even more relevant now…
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A sensible step for a UK/EU reset. What objection could Labour possibly have? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
EU trade chief: Bloc may consider UK joining pan-Europe customs scheme
The UK re-joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
politics.co.uk
'We've got to move on': Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate UK-EU customs union - Politics.co.uk
Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy. Speaki...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The World Health Organization provides Healthcare without vast ripoff profits. Of course that was unacceptable to Trump so he left.
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