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The former Countess, Emma.

@countessemma187.bsky.social
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South Yorkshire lass who ran for the hills, but (not so) secretly would rather be French. Gardener, sometime birder and Starmerite. Doesn’t suffer fools or eat gammon. #FBPE

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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 2h
Many happy returns Peter.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 19h
Yay, yay, a thousand times yay! Followed by a proper, home made zabaglione.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 19h
I’ll bring the ropes and a gag for his stupid gob.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is EXACTLY why we should not work with Palantir.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 23h
Well. I think that’s the final word on ‘two tier justice’ isn’t it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor granted £302,000 for end of Royal Lodge lease
Former prince surrendered lease on home within its first 25 years after public outcry about the rent he paid
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Met Office said “breezy”. It wasn’t supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watson really has gone over to the dark side. This is dangerous talk.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And neither are the Greens under his leadership. As the evidence suggests.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At first glance I read that as chicken thong, which conjured up a less than pleasant mental image involving a corpulent Boris Johnson, naked save for a pair of scarlet scanties You did that deliberately didn’t you, you old shitpot!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Charlie gave me fucking Covid!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The twats who will buy them will expect the tractors to give way. The results will be entertaining.
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
While today Badenoch will try to convince us that the Tories have reinvented themselves, a reminder that she is lying.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A super-pricey wank tank with a “muscular” design that’s too long for UK parking spaces. And the over-remunerated, self-entitled pricks this is aimed at will still buy them. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV – but it’s too long for UK parking spaces
Latest model is launching in New York to target rich US buyers – and is more than 5.2 metres long and 2 metres wide
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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I won't accept exclusion within Green Party, says Polanski after criticism of Zionism motion
Labour MPs and the European Greens have demanded clarity from the Green Party over a "Zionism is racism" motion.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly what I’ve said to the former Count. So he’s currently conducting a comparative cost-benefit analysis of boiling a kettle and installing more cupboard space to house the legumes and pulses.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alas, he hasn’t fallen sufficiently far.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax should be bulldozed and re-wilded. Drax is a filthy, polluting disgrace. It has always been. It’s not as if we don’t have cleaner ways to generate electricity. And we don’t need AI slop at all. #Re-wildDrax www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, to summarise: The child Polanski is cosplaying Ted Knight. Badenoch is cosplaying Farage in Thatcher’s wig with a box of fireworks. The former Mayor of Manchester is cosplaying Bunter and is evaluating pasties…. in a bus…. somewhere. And Ed Davey is…. Sheesh!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And that’s another one popped off who won’t be greatly missed.
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything that's wrong with our nation. Everything that's broken. Everything that's corrupted. Started with her.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very good 😂
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anarchists you say? So their meetings are held whenever and wherever they like, yeah?
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
KFC. Someone tell me that it doesn’t stand for what I think it does. Please.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, we don’t. I bought a cushion. It felt like his fur. I used to put it on my lap and stroke it. And cry sometimes. But it got better. Eventually. He was ‘only’ a cat. But I loved him.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And then I set up the Independent Football Regulator. But I’ll leave that there…. for now.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So. Just over two months in and we have to ask whether the former Mayor of Manchester is sponsored by Palantir or the UAE. The PLP were really sold a pup weren’t they!
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
The Starmer achieved nothing brigade are out and about today, I make absolutely no apology for posting these again. This isn't just disrespectful to Starmer but to all the Labour MP's who made this happen in just 2 years, ignoring these achievements is a kick in the face to everyone involved.
Labour's achievements under Starmer since 2024Status of the Government's King's Speech bills, parliamentary session 2024-2026
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh purleeez. Why worry about all this abroad stuff when the number 53 from Piccadilly Gardens is on time this morning.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No wonder he failed his Geography GCSE either.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah man! Everything is up for grabs because Andy says so, and the party faithful clapping like sealions in the conference hall *want* it to be so. Christ, it’s gonna be some come down when reality bites, but keep on smoking that hopium in the meantime.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Domo. Chilled Sardinian place in cool Kelham Island.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Mood” eh? Well, as long as the “vibes” are good. That’s all that matters.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
…. and spectacularly untrustworthy, so maybe it’s a game of double bluff, with the tacit objective being to ultimately rule out EU membership in order to appeal to the Reform leaning voters in a handful of northern seats? Personally, I wouldn’t trust Burnham either way. ends/
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And it given ammunition to the Brexiters back in Blighty, who will whip up division once again and scare the horses with talk of budget contributions, and their sovrintee bullshit. They said that Starmer didn’t do politics, but Burnham is spectacularly dumb….. 3/
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Showboating at conference is meaningless when it’s followed by shilly-shallying. We’re going to ‘look at all the options’. We could ‘go all the way’. It’s typical Burnham, a form of words designed to please everyone, but which does nothing to inspire confidence in the EU. 2/
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the EU, SKS worked quietly behind the scenes: Re-building trust, re-establishing the UK as a serious and stable partner. All in the background. All without fuss and frightening the horses, as demography did its work and the opinion polls started to move. Burnham has destroyed all that. 1/
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Or how’s about a good old fashioned riot? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...
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Energy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulating
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And yet we have the Labour Party….. the Labour Party, scuttling around Liverpool trying to make its own supporters believe the state pension in unaffordable and unsustainable. #GetThemTaxed www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And what on earth is wrong with living in a wood?! Hoping Staffordshire Moorlands Council get TPOs on these beauties faster than the speed of light!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talk is very cheap indeed. I can’t quote him verbatim, but I recall a former Mayor of Manchester saying that was the only job he’d ever wanted.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People’s capacity for self-delusion is so very powerful. Witness the pull of religion; the belief in this thing they call ‘god’ and the rules ‘he’ supposedly made for them to live by.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is that all? I’d have thought you’d dispatch a dozen vengeful firebreathing dragons to erase all trace of this silly sod. Have you gone soft or summat?
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A statement to make El Gato proud. My sympathies and empathies. I had one once, Charlie. He wasn’t a bastard, but I loved him.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perceptive.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s see.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, yes, it all sounded hopeful and positive. And everyone felt hopeful and positive and clapped and swooned. Thing is though… conference speeches don’t butter parsnips do they? And it’s not as if Burnham hasn’t told the odd porkie in the past either, is it? Let’s see.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OAP on full state pension £184.90 per week for working 30 years. Baroness Harding. £35 BILLION for a Covid track and trace system that didn’t work and was never used. I know who I think should be doing their bit!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every word!
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No, they won’t. Care work is low paid, back-breaking, un-glamourous and criminally under-valued, like so many other “womens jobs” that keep the world turning. Until this changes dramatically, it will not be a career of choice.
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The former Countess, Emma. @countessemma187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Starmer worked hard behind the scenes and Burnham seems to be back-tracking. I hope this is just for show, but events may overtake him either way. If France falls to either Le Pen or Mélenchon, I fear it won’t just be UK membership, but the whole European project that will be in danger.
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