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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 16h

Or to put it another, more honest way: "Energy Bills won't rise by 24%, EDF were scaremongering last week & Martin Lewis fell for it too. If Iran settles down approaching US midterms as likely, the rise may be quite small. It already fell 8%" As I said last week www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...

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Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January

Cap poised to rise by 16% to equivalent of £1,999 for dual-fuel bill, the biggest quarterly increase since January 2023

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

John Healey will, according to reports, head into the Budget with a £4bn to £6.5bn chunk of his fiscal headroom having mysteriously gone walkabouts. The cause? A sharp drop in immigration to the UK. Almost as though migrants aren’t all just wandering around devouring taxes for shits and giggles.

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Net Migration if Falling - now the Treasury needs to Pay the Bill for it.

After years of promising that fewer migrants would relieve pressure on Britain, Labour is discovering that cutting migration also means cutting workers, taxpayers and economic headroom.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm sure you're all *delighted* at #C4News about this landmark, but its really *only a penny more than yesterday*, so it means *nothing at all*. Its #NotNews. Go & cover the Labour Conference instead. You managed to ignore the LibDems one, despite full coverage of Reform. Shameful.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeez. Don’t post anything or spread any information that might identify the farmer near RAF Fairford, you idiots.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#NewsFlash: Cats all over the UK about to go off Lick-E-Lix inexplicably...

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2 issues here: - If Persimmon build on a floodplain, & people buy those houses which later flood, its a risk they accepted on purchase. Don't buy, & they won't build. - Persimmon must ensure the development doesn't increase flood risk for existing houses www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court

Decision to allow 190 controversial new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a problem in this (though it *needs solving*). To pay for it raising Basic Income Tax or Employees National Insurance by 2% means workers earn less, & *being out of work is more attractive & non-contributory*. LDs failed with "1p on tax for NHS". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Rip the plaster off’: Andy Burnham sets out vision for universal free social care

PM says he will put proposals for NHS-style service funded by everybody into Labour’s next general election manifesto

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems to me that this story deserves a bit more attention...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Relatedly: More could be done under existing legislation against platforms that host videos of criminal activity and individuals or organisations who profit from posting videos of crimes they & their members commit. This is also relevant to curbing stuff like dangerous driving video content.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ONS productivity error did not just distort spreadsheets; it directly changed the material reality of the UK. By painting the country as poorer and less efficient than it actually was, the error triggered a series of self-fulfilling economic wounds. Why the media silence???

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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For those boycotting Tillamook Cheese and anything else that is “Halal,” I want you to know that fruit, vegetables, fish, air and water are also halal. ☪️😅.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Failure to provide a phone PIN is 2 to 5 years, depending on what is later found on the phone... Things just got serious for the plastic patriot.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another massive loophole exposed, another example of the Environment Agency having no teeth (all pulled out by 14yrs of Tory Government), another community amenity & business ruined. This is hard to get to grips with, but I hope the Labour Govt try www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?

Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...

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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Media regulator Ofcom's annual survey of UK TV news channels found a slump in how trusted BBC News is, as it came joint last for impartiality, below Channel 4, and was behind GB News and Sky News on every metric. Ofcom then failed to publish the figures.

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

30hrs on a 12m rubber boat with a single outboard motor... really don't understand why the French didn't put it under tow for safety reasons while still inshore rather than allow it go go out into the Channel. No doubt they will be asked that question too londonlovesbusiness.com/riot-police-...

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Riot police mobilised as migrants on RNLI boats head for Gosport - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Riot police mobilised as migrants on RNLI boats arrive in Gosport, raising concerns of unrest amid a chaotic Channel crossing.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reminder: "Rare earths" are not uncommon - they are everywhere. It's just a name they were given in 1788. They are no more uncommon than a "rare steak". The USA discards more "rare earth" minerals in its mining spoil piles than the world can use. China only leads because it bothers to refine them.

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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Who knew putting Semi illiterate Darren Grimes, in charge of finance would go pear shaped

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I've done: -Stopped air travel -Use Public transport or bike -Stopped using gas, central heating, hot water -Heat water by kettle to needs -cook by microwave/airfryer -Cut electric use to £50/month -Use manual, dumb appliances What have *you* done? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents

Children born after 2025 will experience three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather as global heating intensifies

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So.... Today, UK Media doesn't want you to know that: -Oil prices have dropped overnight, reducing likely Energy Price Cap in January -Government borrowing costs are down as Gilt yields tumbled -900 new jobs in North Wales from Airbus I wonder what else they aren't telling us?🤔

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a very good policy. Fixed dates will help a lot. Guaranteed resources will help a lot. Priority will help a lot. The system was left ruined by the Tories. This will help people get justice again. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Specialist courtrooms to prioritise rape cases in England and Wales

Funding boost for facilities and fixed dates for trials designed to encourage more survivors to come forward

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the sight of the sound of a bubble bursting...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Begun to"...? Only someone who had never done any research at all would say "begun to"...

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Reform laughed at report its council tax paid for helpers would cost £85k back in June. Turn out they will cost £93k to tax payers. Dont think council taxpayers will find it funny, especially when council tax rises next year and spending cuts commence" via Reform Sunderland Watch

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@wulfhelm.bsky.social You need to invite this person to the Meadhall for a lecture series...

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

6 MegaWatts of continuous renewable power, with plenty more places to install similar ones now this has been proven in a real-world setting. Let's have more!

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seems very strange to me that so many people seem to think fans go to an Ed Sheeran concert to hear the support acts or a political statement...

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reading through the explanation (& adding in previous information that is was due to a military aircraft requesting a code, inexplicably dropped from this story), it wasn't "a software error" (& the "millisecond" is irrelevant). It was *incompetent programming*, handing the same number to 2 requests

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When we don't teach (& learn from) history, we are doomed to repeat it. This one came full circle. Its still the fascists who are using the "fighting age men" term though, & now you can see where it came from.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the sort of thing that requires immediate Government action to correct. Its totally unacceptable. Over to you, Andy Burnham. Let's see what you've got.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#C4News covering this with a quote from an AI boss "AI systems can & must be programmed to act in the best interests of humanity"... Problem is, our "best interests" would probably best be met by reducing human population to 10million across the world... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands

The comments were made at a summit in Ayrshire with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Giada #FBPE #TheResistance @girlgiada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The guy suspected of being the so called “Putney Pusher” was sadly found dead. The family denied he was the culprit and asked “why was he arrested and not questioned, this is what put pressure on him” To clarify: he was arrested because Class A and B drugs were found in his home. Now you know.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...

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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian

Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's a lot of "fighting-age young men coming and going"...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Govt set to nationalise Speciality Steel UK, the third-largest steelworks. SSUK has been in administration. Govt paying £3.5m a month to keep it going. Public purse cleaning up the mess left by private enterprise. Story of capitalism: Profits privatised, cost socialised.

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Government set to nationalise troubled steel firm, minister says

Production at SSUK sites in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands was paused earlier this year.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 15/09/2026

Not going well for Reform in Wales. A member of the Senedd has quit Reform and joined Plaid Cymru, saying Reform has "no interest in Wales" This on top of the resignation of the Reform Wales leader today after he was arrested over the weekend

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Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd plans to defect to Plaid Cymru

Plaid's ruling body is meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss the defection, BBC News understands.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lot of truth in this - if laws worked, there wouldn't be any robbery or murder, & vehicle drivers would all obey traffic signals, road markings & speed limits... But despite that, I still think its worth having the framework of expected behaviour written down. Gives us something to gossip about!

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh.... Fancy bringing him all the way from Barnet Council & pushing him as the best person to represent the Reform Party in Wales, just to have this happen 6 months later after he failed to win control of the Senedd... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Leader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assault

Dan Thomas, a former Tory councillor, was elected to Senedd as leader of the opposition in May

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These Tories / ex-Tories / Refukkers will surely be furious when they find out that the idea of using surplus military bases to house asylum seekers was initiated by the last Tory Govt. Perhaps Braverman will be the one most angry, as she was Home Secretary at the time the policy was brought in.

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not only that, but the (taxed) money you paid with will go through the company's books, resulting in a profit which will also be taxed, & which will pay wages to the staff (which are also subject to tax & NI). All money becomes tax eventually, unless it goes offshore or under the mattress.

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