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Grand Duke Phil of Wessex

@durotrig.bsky.social
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European forever. Royal Navy veteran. Appalled by Tory corruption.

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 21h
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 8h
If you live in Labour MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social ’s constituency he is conducting a survey to get people’s views on #RejoinEU. www.surveymonkey.com/r/SouthNorfo...
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So Badenoch doesn’t have the figures but is insistent that she’s completely right Her phenomenal arrogance blinds her to her overwhelming incompetence #bbclaurak
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22h
British public opinion moves relentlessly in favour of rejoining the EU. Brexit has failed Britain.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 07/10/2026
JUST IN: Latest from the Liz Truss Supporters' Club
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW - Kemi Badeoch says there will be no inheritance tax to pay ever on a family home. Interested to know how this affects the housing market. Asset-rich pensioners just got a huge (extra) incentive not to downsize.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk I raise you Liz Truss in terms of completely unwarranted self belief - but it’s a photo-finish.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PPE Crimes I’ll never forgive them for the fact that so many practitioners & patients died because they weren’t protected by PPE & the huge amount of public money now ‘lost’ in mansions, yachts & other luxuries. Should be prosecutions for Tory crimes. But. Crickets.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Grand Duke Phil of Wessex @durotrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*less likely 👍
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 06/10/2026
The U.S. is refusing OSCE election observers for the first time in over two decades, joining Russia and Belarus, while sending 1,000 DOJ monitors of its own. A former U.S. ambassador to the OSCE says countries usually do this when they know their elections are unfair. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
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Hungary government proposes wealth tax on ultra-rich
Hungary's government has proposed a wealth tax targeting individuals with assets exceeding 1 billion forints ($3.08 million), Prime Minister Peter ​Magyar said on Tuesday, delivering on a campaign promise of ‌his governing Tisza party.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch lives in a fantasy world of denial where ... 🔹️The water is clean. 🔹️Brexit is a success. 🔹️Trickle-down works. 🔹️Austerity delivers growth. 🔹️The Tories are still relevant. 🔹️... and Kemi Badenoch is as intelligent and popular as she thinks she is. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 05/10/2026
It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Byline Times has previously reported on the Conservatives’ extensive financial ties to the fossil fuel industry, including donations made directly to leader Kemi Badenoch bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference
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Cllr Malcolm Peplow @malcolm-peplow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch wants to abolish the Environment Agency and Natural England to "free up the private sector to invest in infrastructure."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Politico: "CCHQ is working to a strategy aimed at appealing to the center, then hoovering up right-wing support to kill off Reform...The plan centers first on winning back middle class Lib Dem & Labour voters" They're starting that by...pledging to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency
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Brussels @brusselspout.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
To try to avoid inheritance tax??
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m not sure what her definition of success is, but it’s not most peoples.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔴 NEW Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The last time the Conservatives cut the 'Green Crap' it added an estimated £22bn directly to consumer energy bills between 2014 and 2024. I doubt the Conservatives will put that on a leaflet anytime soon. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cut...
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Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 - Carbon Brief
UK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That's official then. The Tories are out of their "hug-a-husky" era. BadEnough Badenoch has gone to full-frothing, fossil fuels driven, deregulation. Next up, her bill to burn toads, newts and bats.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Worth noting that Badenoch and her deputy flew to meet with Rupert Murdoch a few weeks ago, and the old man *really* hates the living planet.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still waiting for someone to ask the Conservatives how they intend to address the climate change they accept exists if they have no interest in getting to net zero emissions? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Shadow chancellor to address Tory conference as he claims slashing red tape could cut cost of new houses by £50,000 – UK politics live
Andrew Griffith makes speech today as Reform UK accuses party of copying policies they ‘announced weeks and months ago’
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James Huw Dyson @jamesdyson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Heat pumps and solar panels offer dramatically lower running costs than homes fitted just with gas boilers, to the tune of around £1000 a year in a 3-bed house.
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James Huw Dyson @jamesdyson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If the government builds all its promised 1.5 million new build homes to the Future Homes Standard, this will save bill payers around £35 billion on their energy bills over 25 years, and stops 41 million tonnes of dangerous carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
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Seb Berry 🇺🇦 @seb2024.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only a hard right Tory party STILL chasing Farage supporters even further to the right would be bonkers enough to axe the Future Homes Standard. Insane.
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Where the MPs who backed Liz Truss in 2022 now sit in the Conservative hierarchy (and beyond)
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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Talking about 'aiding and abetting the invasion of our country'...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If anything screams, 'we are the party that doesn't care' this is it This nihilist approach to our environment stinks and in the true sense of nihilism suggests the Tory party has lost its way on beliefs and values...but I think we probably knew that already 🫤 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Grand Duke Phil of Wessex @durotrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tories going after people who hate their children and grandchildren presumably.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Under the Tories we will lose our human rights and environmental protections. They are promising to deliver a full on race to the absolute bottom. I am not sure this wins back those seats they lost to the LibDems in 2024.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Monaco is full of billionaires so greedy they resent paying tax that they couldn’t possibly miss. Not the place for me. I’ll bet they tip poorly and employ someone to flush the toilet after they have used it. Billionaire businessman David Reuben, 88, quits UK for Monaco www.lbc.co.uk/article/bill...
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Billionaire businessman David Reuben, 88, quits UK for Monaco | LBC
A billionaire property tycoon has become the latest among Britain’s super-reach to leave the country.
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