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Nick Gerrard

@crosstherubycon.bsky.social
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Ex NHS finance. EU. Stoke City, SV98. Golfer. Nordic noir. History books. New European and Byline Times. Allotment. Barbican LSO, BBC SO.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 4h
The Guardian view on Tory economics: Britain’s future needs more than Thatcher’s past | Editorial Why look to the future when you can wreck the present. The Tories are just a destructive irrelevance.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 4h
No queues, empty seats and the worst speech ever heard: welcome to the Tory conference | John Crace
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 5h
Tories pledge tax cuts in free-market revival 14 years of failure and all they offer is the same crap.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not one person born THIS CENTURY voted for Brexit.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 15h
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England Why look to the future when you can wreck the present. The Tories are just a destructive irrelevance.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026
The NHS wants their logo out of our spoof video, but we’re not going to be silenced. We won’t stop criticising their contract with Palantir. After all, it’s not our fault they went into business with a sinister company hungry for our data 👀
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals NHS, welfare, defence, education, social care, pensions, local government, roads, energy, housing all to cost £0 under latest Tory plans.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre Thank you Mr President.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026
Was just explaining this to someone at Labour’s conference - Crown Estate owns the coast and seabed and charges for the use of it for green energy projects - pushing up energy bills.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital gains taxed at lower rates than wages. 2024-25: 584000 people paid £24.2bn capital gains tax (CGT) on £127.3bn gains. 45% of CGT paid by those with gains of £5m+, less than 1% of CGT payers. Align CGT rates with tax rates on wages, generate £12bn-£14bn. More if NIC charged.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage It’s just that now, Nige, everyone can see it for the shit it is.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Badenoch proposes welfare reform that would stop many jobless under-25s getting universal credit – UK politics live The Tories really do hate young people. Always have. Always will.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Voters back Burnham’s plan to cut back triple lock to fund social care reform by 48% to 28%, poll suggests – as it happened
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Then be honest about immigration too, please. Pretty please?
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Newly updated Google Maps satellite imagery shows the scale of destruction across the besieged Gaza Strip nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war."
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde Farage knows that he has been wrong about absolutely everything, always. Must make him really cross!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Will pensioners be poorer as a result of Burnham scrapping the triple lock?
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’ UK right wing press on a mission to scare as many pensioners as possible this morning. Plus ca change!
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans Burnham might have an attractive programme on electoral reform, social care, the EU, public ownership, etc but if it all has to wait 3 years after which he MIGHT win an election, it’s a high risk strategy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia is bombing museums, apartment buildings, hospitals, research facilities, schools, and parks. Ukraine is bombing military targets and refineries. Guess which one Trump has been complaining about?
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing clouds tonight
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nandy labels Farage ‘master of conspiracy theory’ over Fairford claims No doubt the police will want to question him over his Iranian intelligence sources as well as following the 💰
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Guardian view on Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly | Editorial
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is good.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.
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Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference - again
Labour MPs have condemned the ‘Trump-like’ decision, saying party is ‘bang out of order’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK It’s true folks. The UK is not in the EU. Something called Brexit fucked everything up.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech Disgusting fascist.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club Putin has them on a very short lead.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
100% dingbat.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Andy, we’re not in the EU remember!
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New EU industry rules would damage UK, warns Andy Burnham
The prime minister says he will raise his concerns when he meets the European Commission President later.
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain How about a nice, big, water scavenging datacentre next door to Osborne?
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff Or maybe we should tax capital and wealth, and remove pension and LLP tax benefits, and tax banks and oil…..
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Burnham approves UK military support for Saudi Arabia in war against Houthis Idiot!
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Putin consolidates grip on Russia as 49 Ukraine war veterans elected to parliament ‘Vote for me or fall out of a high window’ is quite the vote catcher!
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 It’s 2031!
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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump claims triumphal arch will serve as a ‘top grade military complex’ to store weapons How do you describe someone who is now well past 100% crazy?
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don't confuse "wealth" with "super-wealth". The wealthy already pay their fair share because their wealth generally comes from earnings. But the super-wealthy pay nothing because they earn very little on paper. They instead make money with their money — which isn't taxed because we only tax earnings
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
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