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ChrisJ

@chris17jn.bsky.social
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Love Scotland, Northumbria/Yorkshire, open spaces & sailing. Worked for NHS for 40 years. ‘Woke’ socialist. Hate Brexit, spivs & Thatcher’s legacy (&Tories/Reform). #FBPro EU and a bit of a Francophile too. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 DMs=🚫unless I know you.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sir John Major, "Brexit has been very damaging" "Most people think of the economic damage, but that's only part of the argument" "It has as a country made us weaker, more isolated"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise” “Independence Day” How bloody stupid. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on
Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Could everyone please repost this to help @oxford4europe.bsky.social find its followers again. Thanks 🙂👍
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 23/06/2026
10 years on, the very same politicians who caused the Brexit mess say nobody can dare try to fix it. We say enough. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain safer, richer and stronger. Watch our new film here ⬇️ youtu.be/ihdhBLT6YYM
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It's time for a bold new deal with Europe.
10 years on, the very same politicians who caused the Brexit mess say nobody can dare try to fix it. We say enough. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain safer, richer and…
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Not just Thames Water.
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ChrisJ @chris17jn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@sparklykitten.bsky.social - Good morning, Kitty! I hope you’re getting along ok and tolerating that treatment a bit better - not been on here for a while so catching up with what’s been happening here and there!
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
2 things are immediate problems for the UK, Trump and Brexit. A poll currently running in the Mail shows 84% wanting to rejoin the EU....so joining a CU AND the SM would be a vote winner. As for Trump, turning our back on him for the EU is a start. Are you listening Mr Starmer?
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Mail poll now at 84% to rejoin the EU and a lower 11% for staying out. This is sending a clear message to the Mail's Reform and Leave supporting readers and our political leaders. If you haven't voted please do and repost for others. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Hungary's new PM urges Starmer to rejoin EU amid push to unwind Brexit
Péter Magyar, who defeated Viktor Orbán in a stunning result overnight, said he 'hoped' the UK would become a member state again.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/03/2026
Last week Trump said he didn't need Britain's help because he'd already won this war. So we mustn't let him push the UK around now. Any decision on the deployment of our Armed Forces should be made in the UK's national interest and subject to a vote in Parliament.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Cameron announcing his decision to step down after the Brexit referendum. He sacrificed our welfare, future, rights and freedoms to save his party and position. He is a traitor and I hold him in the utmost contempt.
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Tarquin @tarquinfauntleroy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We need new laws to protect consumers. Energy/ petrol companies whack their prices up way too much, way too quickly & it affects everything else. Prices go up everywhere.. Delivery, supermarkets. It's a disgrace. Then they announce record profits & what, we're supposed to be pleased? Fuckers.
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Kιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺 @sparklykitten.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay lovely phone family. Our beautiful planet and all her inhabitants need to be cherished and protected, so we can read more good news stories 🐘🐨🦏🦁🦒🐻‍❄️🐆🐼🦥
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Latest YouGov voting intention poll: Reform UK 23% Greens 21% Labour and Tories 16% Lib Dems 14% @greenparty.org.uk 2 points below Reform is a truly astonishing achievement by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and his team.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Ladies, if we thought it was bad then, look at what it’s like now. An imperative read. Please share too, we have to educate our children 🥺🥺🥺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The first independent poll in Gorton & Denton since start of by-election, by Omnisis. Green 20% Reform 17% Labour 15% Vote Green if you don't want Nigel Farage.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election “I’ve said it time and time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reforms candidate Matt Goodwin The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials. And so much more
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, "10 years on from Brexit" "In a world that has changed so profoundly" "Europe and the the UK need a new way of working together" "It is time to exorcise the ghosts of the past" "Reset our partnership" "And find solutions together"
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Brexit doesn’t work, dismantling it works…
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#Brexit
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 17/01/2026
The PM is right, Trump is completely wrong - on this and many other things as well.
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Strong, principled, clear.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February. This is why it’s so important👇 youtu.be/Cnl8MNhwEY0?...
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Petition calling for a full, public inquiry into RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN UK DEMOCRACY hits threshold
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We are experiencing a sea change in British politics. The old two parties representing the left and right have fragmented. People are seeking something new after years of institutional failure. A party that can offer hope and refute the simplistic populism of the left and right is needed right now.
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ChrisJ @chris17jn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Sir Ed Davey is absolutely on point.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Jeez. This is completely insane. How has this been allowed to happen?
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Describing Trump’s regime as 1930’s Germany and the Gestapo does not feel a stretch right now.….and let’s not forget our very own mini-me and ardent Trump supporter Farage.
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A giant of a human being @robinince.bsky.social resigns when #BBC considers his supportive view towards #Trans ppl amongst other oppressed groups 'problematic'. Transphobia is at highest level in UK society. This shall not stand. No Pasaran. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
#Brexit #ReformUK #Labour #Tory As the mists clear+they realise they stand in fact on the edge of a cliff, they continue to argue that they cannot retreat from the Cliff +the Fall must be made to work. Defining the cause of the problem but refusing to do anything about it is #POLITICALFAILURE
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s at 68,000+ Please sign (if you haven’t) and if you have please repost!!!
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#Brexit. Now we can acknowledge the harm of Brexit but strangely can't do anything about it. 🤷‍♂️ Still the damage endures and millions suffer. We have been failed by #Tories #Johnson #Farage #Politics www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk
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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I feel sick reading Labour’s asylum policy. They’re setting fire to their base and the scum they’re pandering to despise them regardless. It’s simple. Process and let asylum seekers work and pay tax. It’s indefensible despicable shit. I’m fucking disgusted by them.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
‼️ "Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. …Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt."
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Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018” God, failure is tedious… www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
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Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO
Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🚨Over 79,000 have now signed the petition. We are getting so close to 100,000🙏 For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. You can support the campaign to change the law here 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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Suffolk Sue @ruralsuffolk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My Constitutional law lecturer years back taught that we didn't need a written Constitution as our unwritten one made up of acts, statutes and case law was more capable of being kept up to date. The last decade has shown me this isn't true. Johnson and Rees Mogg drove a coach and horses through it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim" Zack Polanski, "Yes it is" And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I just signed the campaign calling to ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-poli...
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Ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels
I just signed the campaign calling to save ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Not even protestors bothered to show up at the Tory Party Conference. With Labour in decline, the @greenparty.org.uk and @libdems.org.uk have an unprecedented opportunity to attract voters with a pro EU, pro freedoms and economic growth message.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
ECHR; what is it; idiots edition. European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty established to protect human rights & fundamental freedoms in Europe. Signed 1950, it allows individuals to bring cases against states for human rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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