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Dennis Patton

@dennispatton.bsky.social
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Inactive conservationist and campaigner. General nuisance. Despise both Labour and Tory.

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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 11h
Smack on the hand I expect. Whilst little teams like Southampton are likely to get kicked in the head and lose manager. www.skysports.com/football/new...
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Man City charges verdict: Club found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules
Premier League confirms Man City have been found guilty of all charges relating to serious breaches of the leagues financial rules between 2009/10 and 2017/18; club to appeal against verdict; tune in ...
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 11h
Support the strike. Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for' - BBC News share.google/GCXADvUCnN7k...
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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'
The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 12h
Yep. The money flows like a Thames Water water leak into private shareholders pockets.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Danny Tommo denied bail and remanded in custody as Tommy Robinson jets off on another luxury holiday searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 12h
We all know tax goes up the more you earn... right? 🤔 Not quite. For most people, yes. But at the very top, something strange happens.. Average tax rates paid: 💷 Top 10% → 39% 💷 Top 1% → 37% 💷 Top 0.1% → 34% 💷 Top 0.01% → 30% And 1 in 4 of the ultra-rich pay 20% or less.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 21h
Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead
Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 15h
Rue de Rivoli: 1983 vs now In recent years, Paris has made leaps towards becoming a greener city. A big factor is the transformation of streets. By creating people-first environments, choosing the bike, walking or public transport is made easier and safer. 📸 via Ingwar Perowanowitsch
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 13h
As Labour have just made tens of thousands of backroom NHS staff redundant (myself included) many of whom's job was to keep an eye on outsourced services, I remain extremely sceptical.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 12h
Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
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Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Belief Labour are the party doing the most to set the political agenda has fallen back since July Labour: 26% (-7 from 31 July) Reform UK: 21% (+5) Conservatives: 8% (+1) Greens: 3% (-1) Lib Dems: 2% (+1) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 25/09/2026
75% of Britons say they have little to no confidence in the ability of AI companies to control their models and prevent them from being used to hack confidential data Great deal: 2% Fair amount: 12% Not very much: 37% None at all: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 20h
Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (27-28 September 2026) has most parties within the margin of error of our previous poll, but shows Reform UK up four points on last week, while the Greens are on their joint lowest shared recorded in our tracker this year
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 20h
Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (27-28 September 2026) continues to show a close heat between Labour and Reform UK Reform UK: 25% (+4 from 20-21 Sep) Labour: 24% (+1) Conservatives: 19% (-2) Lib Dems: 12% (=) Greens: 11% (-3) Restore Britain: 3% (-1) SNP: 2% (=) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=)
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15h
How do Britons think the government are handling key issues? Terrorism: +8 net handling well Transport: -1 Education: -14 Environment: -22 Defence: -27 Crime: -39 NHS: -41 Brexit: -42 Welfare: -45 Unemployment: -46 Housing: -46 Immigration: -50 Inflation: -52 Economy: -52 Taxation: -53
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15h
% who think each of the following should be run in the public sector Police: 89% Armed forces: 86% NHS: 86% Schools: 83% Water co's: 82% Railway co's: 76% Royal Mail: 76% Energy co's: 70% Bus co's: 67% Universities: 63% BBC: 62% Internet/phone providers: 38% Banks: 31% Airlines: 20%
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 13h
New triple lock polling today finds that 58% of Brits think the triple lock should be maintained (fieldwork ~11am to 4pm today) Definitely/probably should be maintained: 58% Def/prob should not be maintained: 20% % saying maintain by age 18-24: 35% (net +9) 25-49: 45% (net +23) 50-64: 66% 65+: 82%
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 13h
Why is this news? Source: X share.google/dCPlAYzAL8L8...
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Tatler (@Tatlermagazine) on X
Lady Helen Taylor supports her father, the Duke of Kent, as he pays tribute to the Duchess of Kent in a moving memorial concert https://t.co/ysNY86U8sG
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 13h
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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How UK state pensions compare to other countries
With the UK full state pension standing at £241.30 per week, international comparisons reveal vastly different models for funding life after work
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 13h
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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How UK state pensions compare to other countries
With the UK full state pension standing at £241.30 per week, international comparisons reveal vastly different models for funding life after work
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 13h
Labour helping the sick and elderly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Upset' at plans to close King's Mill Hospital hydrotherapy pool
Patients say the service helps with pain and mobility but bosses say they have to ensure good value.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 17h
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the son of a French immigrant. Reform now proposes abolishing permanent settlement for migrants. Britain might remember what immigration gave us. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 14h
Blimey. Keswick.... you would have to find it first. Source: Cumbria Crack share.google/6s4s4hdnzKOL...
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Calls for anti-terror bollards in Lake District town centre – cumbriacrack.com
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 16h
www.maptap.gg September 29 89🎉 80✨ 69🙃 92🏆 59🤫 Final score: 760 Need to start again
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 17h
Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims.. www.thejournal.ie/government-d...
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Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims
The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h
Mike Higgins, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, attempted to leave after five hours in the cold, but was blocked by @MerseyPolice and subsequently left in the cold for a further 11 hours before police simply left the scene without arresting him. x.com/DefendOurJur...
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Defend Our Juries (@DefendOurJuries) on X
SIXTEEN HOURS IN THE COLD Mike Higgins, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, attempted to leave after five hours in the cold, but was blocked by @MerseyPolice and subsequently left in the cold for a f...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21h
Behind the facade of Reform UK wanting to protect women & girls ... "It's why balaclavas are their go to fashion accessory." via Anthony Corella
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ED Miliband said Pro Palestinian supporters were Right “I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right.” We know we were Ed
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 22h
🇬🇧 YES !! ANOTHER brexit benefit, stay yellow bendy bananas! 🍌 Had we not left the EU, they’d have stopped our ‘Smokey Bacon’ crisps, just because they contain woke carcinogens The EU would also have denied our sovereign britannic sewage the brexit freedom to roam all our rivers and waterways 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Gene-edited bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets
Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged food
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liam Halligan, introduced by Vicki Young as the "director of the Centre for Policy Studies – a centre-right think tank". The CPS is ranked by Transparify as one of the least transparent think tanks in the UK, calling it "highly opaque" for refusing to disclose donor identities. #politicslive
Liam Halligan on Politics Live.
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 23h
SpaceX is a environmental catastrophe, we watch on repeat. What a joke of a company. Zero fks for the planet while they earn negative 175 million a month and look like shit. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CHAOS IN LIVERPOOL Here’s a whole minute of Mersey Police struggling to contain peaceful signholders, mostly pensioners, who police suspect of committing terrorism offences. They’ve lost.This law is unenforceable. @labouruk.bsky.social - Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. x.com/DefendOurJur...
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Defend Our Juries (@DefendOurJuries) on X
CHAOS IN LIVERPOOL Here’s a whole minute of @MerseyPolice struggling to contain peaceful signholders, mostly pensioners, who police suspect of committing terrorism offences. They’ve lost. It’s over....
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All medical staff have been forced to withdraw from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza as Israeli tanks move towards the facility. There is supposed to be a ceasefire in Gaza, but War Criminal Israel will level one of the last hospitals with its tanks and no one will even say anything
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 17h
#BBCPolitics has City AM journo who's a hard-right bond-market worshipper & who defends billionaires paying as little tax as poss & wants to cut public spending especially on welfare. Typical BBC behaviour to have a Supply SIde reformer on telling us that peoperly progressive taxation is a bad idea.
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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 17h
Daniel Thomas… Danny Tommo has been refused bail & remains in custody. #wato
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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SallyinFrance @sallyinfrance.bsky.social · 18h
Such a good question. It has been a waffly coverall for at least the last 5 years.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
And if it turns out the suspects were, in fact, born in the UK, where to next? Only second generation? Were they lefties? Vaccinated? The farce is becoming a bit much now.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazon is eager to open the single biggest climate wrecking facility in the country. billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-cri...
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Amazon Crime
And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars
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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 18h
Has she realised yet that after racists have finished with asylum seekers, immigrants and the infirm she will be next…
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VoxLibero - Feeding AI one post at a time. @voxlibero.bsky.social · 19h
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Roger Reynard @rogerday.bsky.social · 18h
Glad to see you're on the side of the poorest and most vulnerable in society, Ian You're truly a knight in shining armour
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 18h
This should be good. If only BBC did programmes of similar quality. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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New BBC Series Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga
David Olusoga explores our most comprehensive picture yet of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its role in the making of Modern Britain
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 20h
www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/council...
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Councils get powers to take over empty homes after six months
News - Helen Gregory - Councils are to get new powers to take over empty and derelict homes in a bid to tackle the housing crisis.
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 20h
Two oil companies – Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and Israel's Navitas Petroleum – are due to begin extracting from the oilfield within two years. Why the #Genocide company?
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 21h
I am at a loss as to why people still support this Labour Party, It is time for people to walk away from Labour. They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ua7...
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Michael Walker CONFRONTS Yvette Cooper On Palestine Action
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 21h
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Are these chemicals in my blood?’ How one community learned the truth about Pfas pollution
People living next to a chemicals plant near Blackpool were tested for ‘forever chemicals’. Last week they received the alarming results
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 20h
Wes Streeting wrecks NHS.... looks at wrecking Pensions. nation.cymru/news/triple-...
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Triple lock to stay until next election but no promise post-2029, says minister
Will Meakin-Durrant and David Hughes, Press Association Political Staff The pensions triple lock will stay in place until at least the next election, a Cabinet minister has said. Wes Streeting said th...
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