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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Aping Farage & attacking migrants is doing *incalculable damage* to Labour’s ratings. Anybody decent still in Labour who’s watching - how far will you let them go on this path to destroy you? Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves & Yvette Cooper must go. What are you waiting for?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/05/2025

Here's the full leaked recording of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp admitting that it's now harder to return asylum seekers who previously claimed asylum in Europe to that first safe country. And it's because of the botched Brexit deal that Boris Johnson claimed was a success. @news.sky.com

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16/05/2025

We are not impressed either.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Immigrants “are ambitious, enthusiastic & hard-working. They want a better life, & a better life for their children, and they are willing to do backbreaking work in order to secure it. They show all the attributes which we praise in others but condemn if it's demonstrated by an immigrant.”

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The perversity of Britain's migration rules A Government department, which the NAO says needs 000s more staff, is deporting its own workforce for not meeting new salary thresholds (cos of low pay set by Govt!) @colinyeo.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/art...

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‘Devastating’: Why are hundreds of DWP staff at risk of losing their jobs and ability to stay in the UK?

A quirk in the Department for Work and Pension’s pay policy means hundreds of staff are unable to extend their visas

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose, "Here we are, 10 years on now from Brexit" "The issues of immigration are caused by Brexit" "The issues of our poor economic performance ate down to Brexit"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right. As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 03/05/2025

Clueless opinion piece by Starmer in the Times today. He thinks the public are angry with the Tories. And they are. They're furious. But they're raging at Labour too. Labour lost 2/3 of their councillors on Thursday. He's learned nothing. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Farage and Reform whip up people’s prejudices, then offer to get rid of what they hate.Their power feeds off ignorance and hatred. They make people angrier about the stuff they fear, then promise to fix it. Of course they won’t. But they know who to tell you to blame when they fail. (Letters, Times)

Sir, With Reform's victory in the Runcorn & Helsby by-election, a process that threatens to result in autocracy has begun. History tells us that all autocracies begin with populist movements making undeliverable promises.
When it is clear that the promises haven't materialised, blame is applied to everyone other than the populist. First the forces against populism are blamed, then the media and eventually the judiciary. We are seeing this in an accelerated form in the United States and will shortly be seeing it in the UK.
The pattern never varies, from 1930s Germany to modern-day Russia. It starts with one voter wishing for a painless means to achieve the unachievable, instead of accepting that difficult decisions are painful.
Voters who supported Reform will be the ones most likely to suffer.
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Sir, Nigel Farage has attributed his party's success in Thursday's local and parliamentary elections to worsening illegal immigration. This from the man who repeatedly assured the electorate that Brexit would result in our being able to take back control of our borders. As always, Farage appears to have the answer to everything but the solution to nothing.
James Burton Stewart
Hook, Hants

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

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Claire Strachan @claire56.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Take 2 mins to demand that Meta stop targeting you with creepy personalised ads and content! goodlaw.social/gk0i

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Meta: this time it’s personal

Take 2 mins to write to Meta now!

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There’s literally a post for every occasion.

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 27/03/2025

McSweeney may be great at winning elections. But he is •absolutely crap• at running a government. @darrenpjones.bsky.social

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Rachel Reeves had a choice... But instead of taxing the super-rich, she decided to slash benefits – leaving 3.2 million families £1,700 worse off. The damage that does to our nation’s social fabric, quality of life, physical health, mental health and opportunities… is immense.

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Will Labour’s cuts balance the books or punish the poor?

Labour's welfare cuts hit the disabled and low-income families hardest, raising fears of deepening inequality and financial hardship

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Can't remember a statement by a Chancellor that has gone down as badly, as quickly, and with almost all parts of the political spectrum, as this one

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants"
The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 23/03/2025

Grim times ahead. They'll stay grim until Labour reverse stance on Brexit - that is the ONLY source of latent growth available to be tapped. 1) Erase bright red lines 2) Call out damage of Brexit, loudly 3) Begin negotiations to rejoin SM/CU 4) Lay groundwork for negotiations to rejoin the EU

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My Unfiltered Initial Thoughts On Labour’s Cuts: The patronising spectacle of people on over £91k per year (plus expenses) providing more cruel hoops for the vulnerable to jump through, was despicable. Then to paint it all as some kind of moral crusade? Fuck off. youtu.be/mZxmdhKMPC0

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My Unfiltered Initial Thoughts On Labour’s Cuts

YouTube video by Supertanskiii

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1/3 My government is trying to do two incompatible things simultaneously. On the one hand, it’s trying to fix our broken welfare system while saving money. youtu.be/YS5BEnySp-g

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Clive Lewis MP Question to minister about £5bn cuts to disability benefits 18-03-25

YouTube video by Clive Lewis

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I don't want to hear the demonisation of the poor trying to survive. I want to be told about the sins of the super rich who want another billion that they don't need and will never spend.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"I'm so upset and shocked to see this come from a Labour govt, is an idea that somehow people that are struggling, people that are on benefits, are all cheating. That's just not the case... there are so many better ideas to raise money" Well said Faiza Shaheen.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is what we’ve become. In just a single decade.

The image is a screenshot of an X post. The top part features a comment from user @mattxiv
, who expresses shock and criticism, stating, "this is actually fucking jaw-dropping, while trump cuts programs you need to live, he's turning the white house into a car dealership to advertise his unelected shadow president's failing company. dystopian levels of corruption." Below this, there is a quoted post from @TeslaOwnersSiliconValley, posted 5 hours earlier, with the text "BREAKING: @Tesla
vehicles lined up at the White House for @realDonaldTrump
to view." The attached image shows the White House in the background with several Tesla vehicles, including a silver Tesla Cybertruck, a red Tesla, and a blue Tesla, parked on the driveway in front of the building.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Labour MP Nadia Whittome says to tax the rich instead of taking benefits away from the poor Ought to be a no brainer for a Labour government but here we are 🤷‍♂️

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Why is Musk pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia? Musk & Trump have no interest in democracy, America’s historical guarantees, rule of law, sovereignty or peace. They’re siding with a murderous dictator to try and break Ukraine - and Europe.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a great and brave man in a room pathetic, corrupt, self serving, cowardly toads.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That whole spectacle was an engineered and choreographed performance, wasn’t it? If war comes to Europe it will come here to the UK. Not to America. @labouruk.bsky.social and Keir Starmer need to nail their colours to the European mast. NOW. They are our friends. They are our allies.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Have you ever witnessed a more pathetic scene than that of two greedy losers shouting at a man whose country is under attack? Jeeeeeze, what a pair of knobs, they’re wearing suits though so perhaps it’s fair enough 🤔

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

She left us far too soon.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/02/2025

The threat of the bird flu is GROWING because the federal workers tracking and responding to the disease were fired by a smugly uninformed billionaire. YOUR health is at risk and egg prices will keep skyrocketing because Elon and Trump have ZERO clue who they are firing.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK. “Ukraine Hero Ambushed” “Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky” “A spectacle to horrify the world” Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

Headline in the Daily Mail which reads “A spectacle to horrify the world”

Headline in the Daily Mirror which says Shock and War. Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky.

Headline in the Times which reads Meltdown in Oval Office

Headline in the Sun which says The Fight House

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fujitsu told to pay up by Post Office campaigners over ‘ghastly fraud’. Fujitsu supplied flawed IT system, gave false evidence to the courts to convict innocent postmasters, landed public purse with £1.8bn compensation. It has faced no prosecution/fine. Still gets public contracts.

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Fujitsu told to pay up by Post Office campaigners over ‘ghastly fraud’

The company has already acknowledged it has a ‘moral obligation’ to contribute to compensation.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Update on the Rejoin parliamentary petition: Mark your calendars for 24 March!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Left: Trump blames Ukraine for Russia invadeing Ukraine Right: Nigel Farage blames the European Union (which then included the UK) and NATO for Russia invading Ukraine Your reminder that the only one to blame for Russia invading Ukraine is Russia

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

😠My first article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk looks at the parallels between my own family history and what is happening today. #holocaust #refugees #america #trump #labourparty #jews

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Why is there a witch hunt against Rachel Reeves? Rishi Sunak who was also Chancellor literally made his fortune in the financial crash at everyone's expense 🤷‍♂️ Inflating small indiscretions beyond all measure of proportion, that's toxic Is this really the type of society we want to live in?

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il Cane Saggio @bardolino.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

At an LME meeting this evening, this is exactly the strategy @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social was recommending Labour should pursue. Don't cower away from Reform but take them on, expose them and their policies for what they are, make sure the public are aware what their policies will result in.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Monbiot nails it: "this is direct appeasement ... these people who go on and on about sovereignty, say they are the defenders of sovereignty, when it actually comes to the crunch they will sell anyone down the river."

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