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Isabel

@catandq.bsky.social
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Grandmother. Ret'd NHS Nurse. Quilter. Owned by 2 cats Pro EU. Proportional Representation NO DMs!!! I don't read them No pleas for funds, I have no money to spare I'm not American

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 4h
Exactly what we shouldnt do.. www.cbsnews.com/video/teache...
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Teacherless, AI-driven school opens in Chicago
Chicago's first AI-driven school, called "Alpha," opened this month. Ash-har Quraishi gets an inside look.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2h
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
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Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @singlesfield.bsky.social · 21h
Have we totally lost our minds?????
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Georgia Lee @georgialee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Such an embarrassing time to be an American.... Can't wait until we get a real president again. ('28 can't come soon enough.)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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PhatRhat @phatrhat.bsky.social · 23h
America. Greatest country in the world.
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William Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @brown666w.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just as I thought. The UK has one of the highest energy costs in Europe, so why would Trumps tech creeps locate their data centres here, unless……
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spanish actor Javier Bardem is calling to boycott Starbucks for supporting the genocide in Palestine
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A sad, lonely woman jilted by her brash lover is left to wile away the empty hours in an isolated flat in Dubai. After consuming yet another vodka her mind wanders & she types out far fetched fantasies desperately seeking attention & solace. Please could someone call a doctor.😬
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deja vu ... "Remember the Golders Green terror attack? Well, we want you to forget about it now because the police have announced it wasn’t terrorism after all ..." via Normal Island News www.facebook.com/NormalIsland...
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Along with some victims of abuse, the probation service is not sure if it will be able to cope as early prisoner release begins. May well cause a lot more problems Meanwhile thousands are still imprisoned under IPP sentencing brought in with the TB govt
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know what’s worse than a sexual assault conviction hanging over your head for the rest of your life? Being gang raped by seven men and having that hang over your head for the rest of your life.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump: "You're gonna see that data centers are gonna be very popular"
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham said the move would "generate significant savings" to help fund a new national care service south of the border. "I accept I may pay a political price," he said "But someone has to go through the pain barrier and rip the plaster off." It's the pensioners who will go through the pain barrier
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Scotland, we provide free personal care for older people without punishing pensioners. Andy Burnham removing the triple lock would simply repeat the mistakes of Keir Starmer. The blame for the UK’s financial mess lies with successive Westminster governments, not pensioners.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.
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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our local National Park echoes with gunshot & local estates make money out of tweedy shooters. How can ‘National Parks’ allow this? It’s more a rich man’s playground. I’ve had beaters with guns spring out of bushes onto a footpath in front of me before. endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/the-pheasa...
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The Pheasant killing season starts in two days...
...and while it’s sold as ‘normal’ it really isn’t..
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting to read about removing the triple lock on pensions to be able to fund social care If more pensioners slip into poverty, the sooner they will become ill, need the NHS then require social care Taxing the wealthy properly makes more sense than impoverishing pensioners Hoping for sense
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having one of those days today.
In the Park
 
In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
 
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.


Brian Bilston
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel fans chanted IDF and made monkey noises at black Irish players during the game against Ireland. Ban Israel.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK median pay of employee is £31884 a year, net £26476. Working-age adult needs to earn £31500 to reach minimum income standard . Lone parent with 2 children needs £67600. Couple with 2 children needs £77400. Can't get growth without redistribution. Chancellor must cut tax on the poorest 50%.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Robert Jenrick here.
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Urgent Closure Needed!!! Horrific abuse and torture at Hartshead Meats, Mossley
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow Rory Stewart. Just wow. What a horrible misrepresentation of how it all works and why it doesn’t. Put asylum seekers in prisons? Refuse to share the responsibility for this human tragedy with our European neighbours who are accepting more refugees than us already? Fgs. What’s wrong with you?
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Why don't refugees stay in France?
They do and France actually receives a much larger number of asylum claims than Britain - around 167,000 in 2023, compared to 67,000 in the UK.
Those who arrive in France often choose to remain there and a relatively small proportion of the asylum seekers intend on moving on to the UK.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Tears Of A Clown 🤡 Danny “Plank” Tommo was derided for his “stupidity” by the judge who imprisoned him for trying to kidnap the wrong man at knifepoint for stealing his drugs in 2016 On the tenth anniversary the judge will surely have to go with “weapons grade moron” for filming his own crime
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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, Donald Dingleberry obviously didn't listen to Jimmy's wise advice. He thinks he knows everything when he actually knows nothing.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 26/09/2026
I still don’t understand how anyone thought that this was going to be a good policy. It also baffles my mind that it’s still going ahead.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Was the orange felon turned against the Chagos deal by figures from the UK extreme right as a way of undermining the UK's elected Govt?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Extradite Daniel Thomas to France for endangering a French life and the UK will be a safer place" via The UK Against Hate
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The People’s Sewage Refund
💷🌊 We pay for sewage to be properly treated. Yet our waterways are still being polluted. If the service isn’t being delivered, why should we keep paying for it? Demand The People’s Refund. Add your na...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Daniel Thomas is asking for donations via a Christian site called GiveSendGo. Their terms of service forbid groups that support physical violence of any kind, and also raising funds for illegal activities Their other terms of service are not kind though, so they maybe don't care archive.ph/mJc51
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The Patriot Platform - The Resistance 🇬🇧✝️ | GiveSendGo
We are done waiting. The time for action is now.To make this vision a reality and achieve true self-sufficiency, we need your help to secure the critical res…
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.
Dear Ms Dollimore,

The recent behaviour of a mob of organised men committing acts of public disorder, crimes, inciting racist violence, and yesterday actually slashing a rubber dinghy in the Channel with two RNLI rescuers still aboard it, needs urgent, visible action from our government, and from the police.

If Palestine Action can be proscribed as a terrorist group for causing property damage, then this gang of thugs has already gone much further. Local news in Gosport (link to the story provided below my signature), reports that a child in just such a mob was singing "let them drown" over a megaphone there, yesterday.

RNLI staff are suffering horrific harassment and assaults, and in some areas no longer feel they can work at all, which endangers everyone at sea. Our ports have been vandalised at Portsmouth and Dover.

Enough is enough. We either take action, or we cede this once inclusive, secular country to the hands of a narrow group of men, the leaders of which claim to be Christian (it is no brand of Christianity I recognise), who want this island to be only for white, violent, straight men in balaclavas to do with as they see fit. This isn't a British ethos: this is the ethos of every Russian mercenary. It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
​He does this every time. Maybe he's trying to wish it into reality. But the truth is, Russia chose to invade Ukraine four and a half years ago. Every day since then, they have chosen to continue it. The day they choose otherwise is the day the war will end.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are now hearing some anti Brexit talk from politicians. I presume they are testing the waters. In a recent poll, 99% of constituencies would vote to #RejoinEU We don’t need softening up, we are already battered senseless from the damage. Just get on with it.
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Burnham 'gets it' says Trump, as the two leaders meet for first time Let's hope Burnham gets over it quickly
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg is paid £405,000.00 a year by licence payers and this is the best she can manage as a so called journalist “I asked Earl Spencer who we should believe - him or the King?” It’s like asking ‘is your new book worth buying or is it packed with BS and lies?’ 🙄🙄 Time she was fired
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Laura Kuenssberg: I asked Earl Spencer who we should believe, him or the King?
Princess Diana's brother has caused a storm with his new memoir - the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg describes how she put his claims to the test.
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Isabel @catandq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the man who lives in Monaco to avoid paying UK tax, trying to force policy to suit himself www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspends production at key UK plants blaming high gas prices
Ineos said natural gas in the UK is twelve times more expensive than in the US.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i genuinely think about this every time theres any mention of narnia. one of the funniest things that have ever happened
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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