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BSc (Hons) Social Policy, retired dad & grandad, used to like politics (left wing populist), confused on the future of humanity .... any help gratefully welcomed .. thankful we still have a great NHS. Trying to survive prostate cancer

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~Kitty👻Kat~On the turning away~Pink Floyd~📚🌸🪴🌸📚 We, The People… @katarinakriz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei... REPUBLICANS READY TO ABANDON TRUMP?! ‘Epstein bomb about to drop’ Let’s fűcking go.
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'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump
Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is how Farage's cruel and unworkable plans should be reported, credit to @mikeysmith.com www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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7 dictator-esque Farage moments as he backs torture and paying Taliban
Launching his hard-right mass deportation plan, the Reform leader said he would scrap Britain’s human rights protections and put peace in Northern Ireland at risk
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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230,000 sign up to new left party in under 24 hours – overtaking Reform and Tories | Morning Star
MORE than 230,000 people have signed up to Zara Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing political party in less than 24 hours, making it more popular than Reform and the Tories.Nigel Farage’s Reform...
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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230,000 sign up to new left party in under 24 hours – overtaking Reform and Tories | Morning Star
MORE than 230,000 people have signed up to Zara Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing political party in less than 24 hours, making it more popular than Reform and the Tories.Nigel Farage’s Reform...
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Climate Denying. The next Brexit for Reform to exploit. The usual childish drivel about growing grapes for wine. Yes, social care is also in crisis. Multiple things can be true. But not moving fwd to protect our kids from climate breakdown is morally bankrupt & fiscally irresponsible.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Someone prove this wrong.
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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#Nokings San Diego
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICE crossed a line in LA
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 06/06/2025
No words! Reform UK councillors Joseph Boam, 22, now heads up adult social care at Leicestershire County, Charles Pugsley, 19, who is still at university, has been made cabinet member for children & family services both account for 75% of the council’s £616 million budget”
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Reform councillors aged 19 and 22 in charge of children’s and adult services at local authority
Social workers raise questions over clash of values and lack of experience of new lead members at Leicestershire County Council
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Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A reminder: The ‘costs’ of the employment rights bill include giving low paid workers the right to sick pay from day one. How many execs or senior managers in the big outsourcing companies who signed this letter have to worry about paying the bills if they take a day off sick?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Lawbreaking is "out of control", says well-known respecter of laws and rules, Robert Jenrick
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#Farage spouting the usual divide and rule shite and making undefined savings and giveaways .. if you're a supporter be very careful what you wish for the next time you vote ..
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#Farage spouting the usual divide and rule shite and making undefined savings and giveaways .. if you're a supporter be very careful what you wish for the next time you vote ..
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Sharing a beer and a smoke with fifty something white blokes isn't an insight into the Northern working class. It's an insight into the shallowness of Farage's understanding of the North.
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wouldn't it be great if the media looked at the positives for our Country as opposed to the Got Ya attempts they continually make. No wonder they get standard answers - they know whats coming ya numpties .... #bbc #itv #lbc #channel4news 😂
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/05/2025
A young Venezuelan activist and her mother—who were targets for political persecution in their country—were detained in the U.S. If they get deported back to Venezuela, she said, she is certain they’re “gonna die.”
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Is Asylum Still Possible?
A young democracy activist fled Venezuela, where the government threatened to arrest her for treason. Now in ICE custody, she knows that she may be quickly deported.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Israel continuing its mass murder of the Palestinians, backed by the USA, UK, France and many other western nations. The blood will never wash off. They are tainted forever. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab
Because of the blockade, hunger is part of our daily reality now. It is deep and cruel, and there is no relief, says Palestinian writer Aya Al-Hattab
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James The Good @sirjamesdouglas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It’s time Scottish people spent our money
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/05/2025
This isn’t reform. It’s retaliation built on a false diagnosis UK is not in political & social malaise because someone added pronouns or put solar panels on the leisure centre roof It’s because we’ve had 15 years stagnant wages, soaring inequality, threadbare public services @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Reform UK offers nostalgia, not solutions
Reform UK trades on national nostalgia – but behind the slogans lies regression, not renewal or reform
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LC @lc1summit.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
He thinks revenge is leadership and trolling is governance. Stop the #MadKing
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“I’d rather be woke than an ignorant f***ing twat” Kathy Burke
Piers Morgan’s silly book
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Ivan Dabbs Reform UK’s new councillor for Deanshanger & Paulerspury, West Northamptonshire. He confirmed yesterday this was his account. What a bile factory his Twitter is. He’s a very obvious Britain First supporter, having promoted their content and commented supporting it multiple times.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Reform UK mayor Andrea Jenkyns vows to sack council’s diversity officers - except there aren’t any… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform mayor vows to sack council’s diversity officers - except there aren’t any
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has doubled down on Farage’s pledge to sack diversity officers in Lincolnshire but the county council has revealed it does not employ any
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
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Midas Eye @midaseye.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Starmer has to go. He has literally no clue. 14 years in the wilderness and we install a Thatcherite. Can we have someone in charge who has more than one gear. That gear being reverse. Can we have someone who can deliver policies people actually care about. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Starmer Plots Harder Line on Migration to Counter Farage Threat
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party a...
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Remember this quote. Bernays nailed it. Read his book - Propaganda.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The only way Kemi Badenoch's day could get worse is if she returns home and discovers her husband has left her for a transgender woman who believes in net zero.
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Unfortunately, The Labour Party is a misleading title, if they want to survive they must support and help their working class roots!
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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
When Tory donor Frank Hester reportedly said Diane Abbott – the longest-serving Black MP – made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”, Kemi Badenoch dismissed it as “trivia”. When Kneecap, made a similarly abhorrent past remark she wants them banned. #TwoTierKemi
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Kamala Harris: The courage of Americans who are speaking out to say, it is not ok to violate court orders. Saying it is not ok to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process. The courage of judges to uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them.
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Midas Eye @midaseye.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What is the point of reporting like this. Do better BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump 'thinks' Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia
The latest comments by the US president come despite Kyiv repeatedly rejecting ceding the peninsula.
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AW UK @comradechat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
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FIGHTBACK WITH JOHN McPHIE @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Morning all Deform said they'd tightened their vetting procedures after #GE It didn't take Hope Not Hate long to find that's not true! Those voting Deform have been played. Tricked into believing the EU, the 'foriner', the 'boats' are your enemy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK criticised for candidates' offensive posts
Nigel Farage says his party has the best vetting - but campaigners find candidates who appear to have slipped through the net.
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 23/04/2025
THE CONVERSATION: Class privilege entrenches itself in UK journalism as new report reveals just 9% of national media journalists hail from working-class backgrounds, spotlighting a systemic inequality shaping news narratives. - by Imke Henkel
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New survey shows the extent of class privilege in UK journalism
Only 9% of journalists working for national and transnational media come from a working class background.
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Mike Corbett @mikecorbett1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some personal news: had minor surgery in a Glasgow hospital yesterday and the professionalism, dedication and good humour of all the staff was amazing. Our NHS is a truly precious but precarious thing. Don’t let Farage anywhere near it to sell to his pals. #FraudFarage
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil. We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2025
Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."
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