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Diva

@divadarling.bsky.social
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Ret nurse/midwife,wife,mother, grandmother.Miniature poodle owner,gardener&potter. Angry re loss of opportunities & hardships caused by Brexit & how corrupt Tories have mishandled Covid,NHS, economy & environment. No DMs please unless relevant to my posts

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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Make this a turning point
Urge your MP to show up, speak out and stand up for nature at Tuesday's Westminster Hall debate. Let's put nature at the heart of politics.
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Forward Democracy @fwddem.com · 21/02/2026
Reform could gain another MP this Thursday. That's why we're urging Labour, Lib Dem, & other party supporters to lend their vote to the Greens this time in Gorton & Denton. We've carried out extensive research and it points to this being our best chance of stopping a very real threat from Reform.
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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“…if the crisis caused by Trump is seized as an opportunity for Britain to rejoin the EU on terms that bind the UK to the mainland. This would make both parties safer – and stop Putin from dancing a happy jig around the Kremlin” Time to fix stupid. app.independent.co.uk/2026/01/19/2...
The EU needs Britain's arms industry.
And Britain needs the EU economic and security blanket.
The UK's armed forces are small and impoverished, with their chiefs saying they face a £28bn funding shortfall.
According to a recent report by the Centre for Economic Policy: "By 2025, we estimate that UK GDP per capita was 6-8 per cent lower than it would have been without Brexit. Investment was 12-18 per cent lower, employment 3-4 per cent lower, and productivity 3-
4 per cent lower."
Other estimates put Britain's losses at lower levels, but there can be no doubt that Brexit has been a strategic economic failure."Tariffs risk making Europe and the United States poorer and undermine our shared prosperity. If Greenland's security is at risk, we can address this inside Nato," she added.
The EU needs help from the UK to do that. Britain has much to give the EU: its armed forces and military industries would accelerate and improve the bloc's security.
Trump's attacks on the very existence of Nato, his contempt for Europe in general, and his continuing support for Putin's land grabs mean that the UK could negotiate better terms for re-entering the EU now than it would have done before the US president tore up international law and turned on the US's oldest friends.
The Greenland crisis is Britain's best opportunity.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Yes, there are two Nobel Committees. The one in Norway awards the Peace Prize. The one in Sweden awards the other prizes. Neither have anything to do with Denmark, let alone Greenland.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 19/01/2026
Americans need to understand there is no coming back from this, reputationally. America is never again going to be what it was to many Europeans.
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Dan Etchells @danetchells.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Let's see now... From left to right, as we look: Tory, Tory, Tory, Russian asset, Dubai resident, racist non-entity, Tory That about it??
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Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
@scaramucci.bsky.social is saying sth very similar. 2hrs later. So he might’ve used the time to confirm? But why are they still only THREATENING to impeach IF he does sth??? Hasn’t he done enough for a thousand impeachments?🤨🤨🤨
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a "full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum." So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Choosing sides between a rogue president bent on destroying the Western alliance and UK and EU governments finally standing up to him shouldn’t be difficult for mainstream political parties or news organisations. So come on Telegraph, Times, Badenoch and yes you Farage if you want to be PM…
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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A US-UK trade deal threatens our food standards, our NHS, and our ability to control Big Tech. Join the campaign to say no trade deal with Trump: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305
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Say No to a Trade Deal with Trump
The UK government wants to do a trade deal with US President Donald Trump. We know the US is pushing for a deal that puts big business ahead of protecting people and the environment, including: Lower
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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/euflags
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BBC Last Night Proms 2025 and Beyond - EU Flags
To hand out EU Flags and BEURETS on the last night of the BBC Proms and other events.
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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A US-UK trade deal threatens our food standards, our NHS, and our ability to control Big Tech. Join the campaign to say no trade deal with Trump: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305
act.globaljustice.org.uk
Say No to a Trade Deal with Trump
The UK government wants to do a trade deal with US President Donald Trump. We know the US is pushing for a deal that puts big business ahead of protecting people and the environment, including: Lower
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/03/2025
People think being small will keep them safe. It won't. The reason we know who Mahmoud Kahlil is is because he was loud. Do you think he's the only person the administration has tried to disappear? He's just one of the first we've noticed
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
More people waking up to the realization they voted for the devil because they didn't bother to understand the details. The devil is always in the details.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/03/2025
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In the past four weeks, Costco, which has embraced DEI initiatives, GAINED 7 million shoppers… Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers! That’s the power we have as consumers. Remember that.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So, Tories finally admit they left the EU with no plan “for growth”. They also had no plan for trade, science, the arts, business, jobs, training, education, travel, farming, fishing, borders, immigration, healthcare, regulations, food security… for ANYTHING… A catastrophe of prejudiced uselessness.
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Chilli Devil Ian @attitudewear.co.uk · 30/11/2024
You know what to do.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Alternatively, this ... newsthump.com/2024/12/03/p...
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Proud British patriots demand Elgin marbles be ‘sent back where they came from’ after learning they came here illegally on a small boat
A group of self-proclaimed British patriots, long vocal about their anti-immigration stance, has demanded the Elgin Marbles be immediately ‘sent back to Greece’ after discovering that t…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is how you take the first steps to repair Britain's appalling reputation in Europe. Important move. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’
Exclusive: Keir Starmer reiterates support for British Museum reaching deal with Greek PM, who visits UK on Tuesday
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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This form is for requesting to be added to my SydesJokes #FBPE Starter Packs. You must be following me on Bluesky and have #FBPE on your Bluesky profile. Current Starter Packs (Total accounts 959): ...
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption.. And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail Let's see. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.
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Diva @divadarling.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I would be embarrassed to drive a Tesla now. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’
The electric car brand was once a liberal favourite – but the CEO’s embrace of Trump has led to an angry backlash
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 29/11/2024
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
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The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Big day in parliament. The truth that seems unreported is how kind, reasonable and thoughtful the debate has been between those who don't agree, constituents and MPs alike. Kim Leadbeater has led from the front with the kind of graft and compassion, anyone who knows her would have expected.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On the one hand an MP found to have told the truth about a minor conviction, on the other an MP found to have lied about being locked up for kicking seven bells out of a young woman...
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 29/11/2024
“This is beginning to really f*** me off." Feargal Sharkey is back testing rivers for toxins, and he’s far from impressed by what he’s found in the River Wylye.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My wife, in a 40-year career as a palliative care nurse, has found that people, once their symptoms are controlled, overwhelmingly want to live. Also 70% of those who go to Dignitas in Switzerland decide not to go through with it.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This poll about another EU referendum isn't going quite the way the Daily Express thought at the moment.
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POLL: Do you agree with Carol Vorderman that there should be a referendum on rejoining the EU?
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John Egan 🥃🐈 @whiskeycat1324.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you never stand for anything, you will always fall for everything. Respect for this lady, hopefully others will respect her sacrifice and example.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 25/11/2024
IMPORTANT: We completed an important project a while ago, looking into the links between MPs+the private health sector🚨 Our research has been quoted in lots of places, like this article ⬇️. 💙We have decided to bring our research up to date💙 www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
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Labour's Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms
LABOUR shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has continued to accept tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to private healthcare while…
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Sincus @sincus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Be funny if Musk got slung in clink
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On 19 November, the Times ran a ‘news’ piece on the demonstration in Westminster by farmers opposed to changes to inheritance tax. Obviously reporting the news is good, but reading such a one sided piece made me think it belonged in the comment pages www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Tractors, fleeces and fury: protesting farmers bring their grievances to town
At least 13,000 protesters descend on Whitehall accusing the government of ‘betrayal’ in its plans to impose inheritance tax on farms
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Good thread & hi Torsten! More on this sort of thing here… bsky.app/profile/guys...
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/11/2024
Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor | Gaby Hinsliff
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Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor | Gaby Hinsliff
Gordon Brown and George Osborne studied history, but neither faced the questions of suitability levelled at the first woman in the job Rachel Reeves is not for turning. She won’t be pushed around, knocked off course, undermined by backbench mutterings or…
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
But yet?
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Oxford for Europe @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thank you for taking a stand Professor Bishop against this dangerous & destabilizing narcissist. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm here! At last!
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Welcome to @thegreenparty.bsky.social peer @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’m sorry, right, but the petition thing is actually really quite funny.
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Seems the terrified silent majority don't have the numbers for the petition so they utilise a platform that allows manipulation and misinformation to promote a cause
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Zach | Somm at the Vineyard @azachurateman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
You know its only a matter of time before Trump and his allies try to shut down Bluesky. If they can't control the narrative they're going to try to suppress those in opposition. We must fight them at every turn.
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Holte 🇪🇺 @holte.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Looks like Musk's Bot army have been fully redirected against the Labour government now, his every other tweet is Retweeting their lies Seems like he is working alongside the right too, including Farage and his cronies The fake petition is their first ploy, here's the evidence it's manipulated
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