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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 15h

Reform UK has now lost 173 councillors: 60 resigned, 47 went Independent, 30 defected, 24 were kicked out, 5 lost their seats, 5 are suspended and 2 were disqualified. Alan Feeney and Chris Whelan take Birmingham to three departures, all of them crossing to the Independents.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

More of this please

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Please let it be today when the Standards Committee reports on Farage's £5m bung, we need a bit of light relief.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

This isnt a dig at Burnham but I'm sick of people pretending Starmer has done and said nothing about the EU27 and hurrah for Andy. Both Starmer and Reeves have talked about the damage done by Brexit. Starmer has worked his socks off repairing our relationship, it's disrespectful to him and others.

Starmer's acknowledgement of the damaged caused by Brexit in December 2025

Reeves speaking about the economic damage done by Brexit in May 2026

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Kate Bond @littleoldlady56.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Keir Starmer called out Russian influence in 2020. Johnson, PM at the time, stated: “Everybody understands these criticisms are motivated by a desire to undermine the referendum on the European Union that took place in 2016, the result of which he simply cannot bring himself to accept".

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

There's a lot I don't like about Burnham but I've never doubted he has the best interests of us all at heart and he isn't a liar. Farage has some nerve calling Burnham a liar.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm glad to see Burnham continuing the work done by Starmer in repaired and rebuilding our relationship with the EU. But too often ignored by many is Starmer had to start from the bottom after 14 years in opposition, Burnham is starting 2 years into a Labour government, it gives him much more space.

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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not just Brexit www.gov.uk/government/p...

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UK action against Russian foreign information warfare

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Whilst it's good to hear Burnham acknowledging what most of us already knew about Russian interference in Brexit, it doesn't change anything. We can't simply reverse Brexit, anyone suggesting we can is deluding themselves. Brexiters don't give a toss about this and the majority will simply shrug.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

This beautiful creature is enjoying the sun in our garden.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Fed up with the media making the by-election all about Burnham and Polanski. The new MP is Sagal Abdi-Wali, a well respected and well known local politician. Let's talk about her and her victory today eh.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Simply read this summary on what is driving the increased prevalence of mental health distress from the long awaiting final independent report into teenage mental health. Now compare it to the public discussion on mental health which basically comes down to social media and over-diagnosis.

The rise in mental distress among children and young people has unfolded alongside profound changes in the conditions of childhood. No single cause explains it. Family life, education, communities, digital environments and economic security all influence whether children feel safe and connected, have time to recover, can participate in everyday life and can look to the future with confidence.

Among the possible drivers, digital environments and educational pressures show the closest correspondence with the timing and pattern of rising distress. Neither is likely to be the principal cause. The evidence indicates that these environments have become more significant contributors than for previous generations, interacting with family circumstances, economic insecurity and existing vulnerability rather than operating alone. Continuous comparison and visible evaluation, disrupted sleep, reduced opportunities for belonging and recovery, and growing uncertainty may reinforce one another.

The strongest protective factors for mental health are supportive parenting relationships, positive educational experiences, and community participation and belonging. The pandemic, economic insecurity, pressures on families and the decline of community infrastructure do not explain the trend on their own, but they have intensified pressures and weakened sources of protection. These effects are not evenly distributed. Children experiencing poverty, discrimination, SEND, care experience or family stress often bear the greatest burden.

Prevention cannot rest solely on helping children cope with environments that place growing demands on them. It also requires action to improve those environments: more inclusive schools; protected time for rest, play and belonging; stronger community infrastructure; reduced poverty and insecurity; practical support for parents and carers; and enforceable duties on digital platforms to protect children while preserving the connection and support they can pro…

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you NHS, we had our flu fabs this afternoon, in and out in under 5 minutes. Treated ourselves to a big lunch and a few wee glasses of wine.🥂

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Good news day, Labour hold Holborn and St Pancras, the Tories beaten into 3rd place and Reform 4th.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Normal service resumed at the i, based on unnamed sources of course.

Headline in the i 'newspaper' speculating about the budget

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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

youtube.com/shorts/8F3Zr... Andy Burnham has made a fantastic short video on his proposals to the triple lock to fund a National Care Service. Please share far and wide. The media must not win.

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Andy Burnham explains how his changes to the triple lock will impact pensions and why

YouTube video by Andy Burnham

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Re/joining the EU will be exceptionally difficult for the UK, and sugar coating this or thinking Germany can fix it all will be to repeat the errors made in 2016 and ever since. Achievable with great effort. But not by repeating anything from the last ten years.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

You could argue Tesco has already paid tax so their employees shouldn't pay tax on their wages. It's just as fatuous an argument as abolishing IHT, inherited wealth is unearned income, tax is always payable on unearned income.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Having a muting fest this morning, idiots everywhere I look.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/the-future...

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The Future of the Triple Lock

The questions I’ve been asked most after Andy Burnham’s speech - and what the answers are.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the Conservative government permanently closed 23 prisons (representing over 7,500 cells or places) between 2010 and 2024, according to official Parliamentary records.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

True to form, the front page of the i is all about Burnham and prviate talks with Abu Dhabi, I did worry his comments about Man City might come back and bite him on the bum.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The wondrously talented DANNY KAYE conducting the audience at the London Palladium in 1948. He could fly any civilian plane on the planet, became the world's most revered non-Asian Chinese Chef & had no formal singing or dance training. A pretty extraordinary human being.

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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 2024

Status of the Government's King's Speech bills, parliamentary session 2024-2026

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

A question for the experts, if we apply to join the EU do we get to decide what we apply VAT on, for example can we decide not to apply VAT to electricity usage and sanitary poducts.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

James OBrien getting excited about Yvette Cooper announcing Sure Start. Did he not know about Best Starts announced in 2024 and 200 already opened. I just don’t get this. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Hundreds of Best Start Family Hubs open nationwide

More parents can save hundreds of pounds through free services, as over 200 Best Start Family Hubs open nationwide this week, helping with the cost of living.

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lazytitan258.bsky.social @lazytitan258.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They’ll turn on him regardless, the hero worship and level of hypocrisy from people is staggering! The messianic celebration is quite nauseating. By this point in Starmer’s PMship he’d done a Kings Speech & introduced 3 major pieces of legislation!

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a definite case to change or ditch the triple lock but the media who are busy promoting this and who constantly bang on about wealthy pensioners getting bus passes, WFP etc will immediately turn on Burnham if he does anything. Just like they did to Starmer over the changes to WFP.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh dear, Farage finding out why it's best to keep you trap shut until you have more information, be nice if he learnt a lesson from this but he won't.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"LONG-READ: Inside Tommy Robinson’s empire of dodgy fundraising and questionable crypto schemes that fund his luxury lifestyle in Spain" 'Our reporters found him luxuriating at a stunning €1.5 million villa in L’Albir, near Benidorm ...' www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2...

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LONG-READ: Inside Tommy Robinson’s empire of dodgy fundraising and questionable crypto schemes that fund his luxury lifestyle in Spain

HE'S one of Britain's most controversial figures and a borderline enemy of the state. A firebrand who claims he's going to stoke a revolution. That's why

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This person went on GBNews to attack Labour & call for tax cuts but it turns out her parents took out £2.5 million from the business and that is the cause of her problems. But of course, the BBC simply takes her claims at face value because it suits a certain narrative. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bakery owner calls for Budget help for firms

Frankie Dyer has written to the prime minister urging Budget support for businesses.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Hearing Burnham talking about fixing Adult Social Care is very welcome but a reminder, he's waiting for the outcome of the Casey review which was set up in April 2025 by some bloke called Starmer. This is already on Labour's agenda, the next stage is getting cross party support, a tough ask.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a reason fighting age men make the perilous journey to claim asylum, 1st because it is very dangerous and 2nd because they don't want to fight in wars others have started. They make the journey so their families don't have to. Doubt our balaclava clad thugs would be so brave.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is NO evidence that asylum seekers pose a particular risk to women. There is NO data showing they are any more dangerous than any other man. And no, memes and random highly manipulated graphs on social media don't count! Every time a claim surfaces suggesting otherwise, it is debunked🤷‍♀️

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So remember austerity? Had the ONS been accurate maybe this could have been avoided. I can’t be the only person to find this info shocking.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Men have NO business telling women anything about their bodies or abortion. This woman ATE him up.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what Ikea are supporting by advertising on Talk: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...

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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Genuine OFCOM survey. #r4today

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm in a foul mood, got to the swimming pool, love Wednesday's swim because it's always quiet and bloody goggles broke before I got going, spare pair were even worse letting in water. Not happy.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Chris @christ36.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Burnham’s Govt are “conveniently” now talking about 3.5% for Defence by 2025, almost 10 years away and NOT the 3% by 2030 that Healey demanded Starmer & Reeves meet by cutting Welfare and then resigned because they refused . Shameful #R4today

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