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Charmian Waters

@chowlets.bsky.social
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Artist, jeweller, mother, loves animals especially dogs and wild birds. Desperate to rejoin EU. Hate Tories. Worries a lot.

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michaelapotter.bsky.social @michaelapotter.bsky.social · 10h
Sir Brian May has urged Andy Burnham to block AI “before it’s too late” and dubbed data centres “a massive evil” that “have to be fought”. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...?
the-independent.com
Queen’s Brian May issues warning to Andy Burnham over ‘evil’ AI data centres
‘Stop it now before it’s too late. It’s trashing our future,’ Queen’s lead guitarist said
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17h
After a robust internal investigation we have found that the rules don't apply to us.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More than 40 celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, and Joaquin Phoenix, appear in a video titled "Together for Palestine," calling for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great stuff from Adam, and thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for being pretty much the only non-Byline journalist to pick this story up
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 22h
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve never seen a BBC correspondent try to build such a huge mountain out of such a tiny molehill. Chris Mason’s hysterical quest to undermine Andy Burnham, based on a few noncommittal words: Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters
The prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to start the debate on the EU now. Polls have consistently show a majority against Brexit and all research and analysis confirms the harm it is doing to us and our country. Enough. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Put simply, I would argue that the most urgent task is to start the process of rejoining the EU. We desperately need that boost to the economy to be able to afford to do all the other stuff. Let’s Get on with it.
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC website. Me me me it’s all about me Chris Mason. Mason has deliberately turned a none issue over Burhan’s comments about Man City into a major event when no such issue existed. Mason is a snivelling little runt who should be sacked.He’s a nasty little man.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Has anyone told her where the English are from?
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
Oli Dugmore brilliantly outlines the struggles young people face today. Brexit robbed them of countless opportunities. Restoring our EU membership is the easiest way to help our young people.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."
theguardian.com
Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So basically, this is the BBC saying, yes Michael Gove lied & its OK for our journalists not to challenge lies.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suella Braverman In Question Time Racism Row Over What It Means To Be English www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/suella...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Suella Braverman In Question Time Racism Row Over What It Means To Be English
The Reform MP has insisted she cannot be English.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't normally come over naively idealistic and pro-European. It's just that sometimes pointing to polls showing Brits' understandable hesitancy/opposition toward joining the single currency and Schengen means there's no point even trying to persuade them to (re)join the EU just gets my goat.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Brexit was a huge loss both for the British people and for the European project as a whole. If the United Kingdom were to make such a decision, Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” - President Sánchez
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Farage says Brexit was a disaster because of Boris Johnson’s deal? Please MEDIA point out that at the time Farage supported his Brexit deal.
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Billionaires who fund Reform UK desperately need more cash via tax cuts for private jets, luxury yachts, Dubai homes and who better to provide savings to pay for it than mothers with babies ... "Reform council showed 'courage' in closing nurseries, says Richard Tice" www.lbc.co.uk/article/rich...
lbc.co.uk
Reform council showed 'courage' in closing nurseries, says Richard Tice | LBC
The Reform UK Deputy Leader told LBC he had "great confidence in all of those councillors leading the way"
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has broken the taboo on prime ministers being open to the UK rejoining the EU. It's a really important moment for our country. The inescapable truth is that the UK cannot achieve decent growth and fund the public services the public demands without EU alignment.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The people doing that don't want to wait and see. They want everything to be shit so that they can claim that Prophet Corbyn would have led everyone out of the wilderness
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
📈 Only one policy option gets £92bn in growth. 💪 Only one policy option boosts our exports by £43bn every single year. 🇪🇺 Britain needs to rejoin the EU. And the EU needs Britain.
independent.co.uk
Burnham says he could go ‘all the way’ and rejoin European Union in Brexit warning
PM said one option was to back George Osborne’s call, made in an interview with The Independent, to rejoin the EU custom
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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"He may as well have walked across the stage with his feet crunching over the debris of shattered Ming vases."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
bylinetimes.com
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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
"Amazing that there is a psychological screening test to determine whether you are up to appearing on a reality TV show these days, but you could ascend to the office of prime minister without submitting to anything similar."
theguardian.com
To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde
The Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool h
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Marcello Ruffini @marcello65.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bring It On #RejoinEU #BrexitBrokeBritain #ArrestFarage
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't believe the Europeans when they say the UK is no longer interesting, a priority etc etc Every senior EU official I've met today in Brussels has spent 20 mins talking about @andyburnham.bsky.social speech. The EU is paying attention and interested - even if it pretends otherwise
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Women Against The Far Right & Oxfordshire Stand Up To Racism (OSUTR) will hold a vigil on 3 October to counter a planned demonstration of the Oxfordshire Patriots. The groups condemn what they say is a far right group hijacking suffering of victims of child sexual exploitation in the name of racism.
image from previous vigil large pink sign 'Oxford Women against the far right refugees are welcome here' (Roger Close)
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...
x.com
Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X
I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I can't understand why we keep going to the well of the poorest in our society." Is Sharon Graham, Unite's General Secretary, a fucking right wing plant? Statistically pensioners are NOT the poorest in our society. That is younger children and working aged adults. Sit the fuck down.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SURE START IS COMING BACK. Hands down, one of the greatest policies introduced by New Labour. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
cnbc.com
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rupert Lowe-Life referred to parliamentary watchdog over complaint about his anti-Muslim rhetoric His response on X to his racist, Islamophobic, vile followers for those that complained “These thugs can piss off I am absolutely sick of aggressive and domineering Muslims” He’s not fit to be an MP
5pillarsuk.com
Rupert Lowe MP referred to Prevent and parliamentary watchdog over anti-Muslim rhetoric
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail 5Pillars has learned that formal complaints have been submitted against Rupert Lowe MP to counter-terrorism police and Parliament’s standards watchdog over his repeated rhe...
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Kurt @kritter64.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The world is literally being run by drug addled, mentally unwell psychopaths. Good luck everyone. ✌️
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/09/2026
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
thenerve.news
'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think Palantir just proved our and Lewis's point, they're likely monitoring/using our data. I'm pretty sure that Watson just confirmed they have been carrying out an illegal activity with an underlying threat, as tracking someone's actions over time is not lawful. Throw Palantir out of the UK.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
1/7 Palantir’s manifesto is a terrifying glimpse into tech-authoritarianism. They aren't just selling software, but dictating global morality. Who do they think they are? Who elected Alex Karp and Peter Thiel to run the world? Europe should stay away from Palantir
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm very happy to see a viable pathway back to EU membership. My heart is sinking in my chest at the idea that I will once again spend a lot of time reading and talking about customs checks and regulatory barriers.
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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
For the sake of humanity, #Palantir needs to be removed from #Europe, and its technology, CEO, and directors banned from every decent #European country.
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