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Ian Wilson

@charfield-blue.bsky.social
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Chester FC sufferer, whisky imbiber, Green Party member. Car photographer.

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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Britannia Shield FFS. What are they going to be aimed at? Heat pumps and building regulations? Performative politics.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That £100k “cliff edge” must be petrifying. But don’t forget people who earn six figures do so because they work harder than those who do not and so deserve their benefits and support, whilst those earning less and therefore clearly not working as hard deserve less support. Sickening.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 03/10/2026
People over profit, always. 💙 Don't let private equity strip down our healthcare system. Take 1 minute to send our letter to your MP right now: everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/stop-private...
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How’s that a red? I feel so old watching football these days
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Supporting Chester FC is not conducive to sobriety. I’m opening a bottle of something. 🍷
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026
“I'm brown. I’m a Muslim. But I’m as English as a Yorkshire cup of tea.” Mothin Ali on belonging, diversity and building a country confident enough to live with difference.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s a superb result for Wales. Well deserved. Fair play 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There aren’t many national anthems more of a dirge than God Save The King, so well done Czechia.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These pensioners hey. Living the life of Riley on their £12.5k….thats if they are lucky enough to get the “full” state pension. Laughable.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last June, Andy Burnham was on a platform with Del Naja in support of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty, praising his ‘clarity and leadership’. Today, he’s having Rob arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a piece of paper.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please explain why Gordon was taken off? Best player of the pitch for the most part.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s making me giggle listening to BBC Radio 5Live. It’s as if this was the day that football finances have finally been seen to be suspect. Yes, the scale is now next level, but football finances have never been a bastion of honesty, integrity and incorruptibility. Dodgy as. Always has been.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone’s after the “lad” vote currently. Fully expecting the Tories to call for specific beak cubicles in the bogs at the footy. #politicslive
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you confront Conservative Politics with intellectual argument and facts it just falls flat on its arse and can be seen for what it is, dog whistles from an idea black hole Well done to the gentleman from The Jospeh Rowntree Foundation #politicslive
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every day is a school day if you want it to be. Just watching bats in the garden and said to my daughter…they can’t have many predators. Turns out i was right (for once) & the correct term is a low extrinsic mortality rate. The wife’s a Buddhist. Family decision, next time around…BATS.. all of us.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I ditched X, Facebook, Insta (never did much on them tbh. But I am on here and Substack (for Dave Powell’s Chester News. But I end up scrolling on Substack and I no longer believe anything I see, not the nice stuff. Fuck you AI. A world where we can’t believe our eyes. What have we created? Shite.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For me, the RNLI in Portsmouth having to pause their operation has to be about the lowest part of our history in my lifetime. This country is losing everything about its culture that I hold dear and brought me back here after working overseas. Sickening, saddening, utterly depressing.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I remember the days when Tim Montgomerie wasn’t on BBC TV & Radio all the time.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have more meetings in Halifax today. 🤞 I’m doing all I can to save this place for the Arts and the good people of West Yorkshire… and even further afield. In saving such places, we ALL win! 🙏🏻 Please RT. Thank you. #SaveSquareChapelArts #Halifax
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social North Sea drilling makes no economic or energy security sense - but “the policy could scarcely be better designed to give the final push to voters who are minded – after so many disappointments since 2024 – to abandon Labour for a progressive alternative”
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s lack of self awareness is astounding. How do these people have such front?
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Labour - running the numbers, checking the algorithm. Should we condemn or not. How will it affect the vote share. Full of fear.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
More and more I consider the need of a virus that wipes out all humanity without causing further damage to this planet. We’ve had our chance, we chose greed.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can we not use AI to confirm to us when something is AI? 🤔😐
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And in what form would environmental extremism best be delivered?
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’m just wondering, at what point do people, who understand and care about the peril that we’ve put our existence on this planet in, start to really ramp things up to protect ourselves in the absence of any meaningful government concern?
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s like…yeh….didn’t really….mad…say nowt…but…like……good init.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The fresh new anti-establishment faces of Reform UK... 🤔 Ex-Tory Home Secretary Ex-Tory Shadow Minister Ex-Tory Chairman and MP Millionaire rarely seen in Parliament Millionaire rarely seen in Britain Ex-Tory Councillor Ex-Tory Shadow Minister Ex-Tory Minister Vote Reform. Get failed Tories!
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Am I right to believe that if your family has paid for you to have a very expensive education and you haven’t quite made the grade then are two career options open to you….influencer or Royal Commentator? The later are certainly out in force today 😩
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Banning disposable BBQs but allowing new oil and gas fields to open….is that Burnham’s idea of net zero?
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 16/08/2026
Don't light fires. No new oil and gas.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Listening to @bbc5live.bsky.social and we’ve gone from one presenter having a plastic lawn to a couple who’ve moved from Texas to Wrexham to support the goats. I don’t feel heard. Kinda fitting mind. Plastic lawn, plastic club. 🤣
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“I didn’t kill the Queen” He nailed Truss perfectly.
Stephen Collins Liz Truss cartoon in which she is unaware that she is barking mad.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Here we go. C’mon you Seals!
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Barafundle Bay is just stunning 😍
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Voxpops
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/07/2026
We don't have a billionaire backing us. We only have you. Please help us keep fighting for trans human rights 🏳️‍⚧️
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I liked Burnham. Could have been turned back to Labour by Burnham. But oh my God, the compromises a person has to make in this country to get into power. No wonder we end up with the leaders that we do.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well, if that’s the height of pre match entertainment I’ll settle for warm beer and some fat bloke slipping and falling on his arse whilst attempting to hit the crossbar in the hope of winning 10kg of pork.
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Burnham “I can’t make changes that are not in the manifesto” Labour 2024 manifesto ‘We will not issue new licenses… because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis’
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well there we go. Burnham to announce new North Sea oil and gas licenses and in doing so show they can be bought just like the proceeding governments. Labour is just Toryism with less angry rhetoric. Shameful. We’ll never have a progressive country will we?
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England have only lost once in a World Cup Semi Final when I’ve picked blackberries before the game.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Imagine how good Argentina would be if they played for the first 60 as opposed to just wanting to wind people up.
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Ian Wilson @charfield-blue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England have never lost a World Cup semi final when I’ve picked blackberries before the game. I’m only dealing with facts here guys. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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