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Earon the Grate

@earon66.bsky.social
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I really don't like Brexit and Boris. And most of the Tory party. Plus Farage and his bunch of c**ts. Not fond of Apples and Cauliflower either. Don't get me started on the Orange Man-Child. Also, no more home ownership, build to rent cheaply!

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
At #Cheltlifest, stood up and I asked this question of editor of The Sunday Times : “I’m looking at the government website and I can see the amount of uncollected tax last year was £46.8 billion. Could it be that the newspapers focus on welfare rather than tax avoidance because of their owners?”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h
Theresa May tried to have Johnson’s security clearance revoked, a thing nobody much wanted to dwell on when it was revealed, so we just skimmed right over that www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17h
Nigel Farage has called Andy Burnham “a liar” after the PM said he had been told Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. As usual Farage is talking boll**** Get the actual FACTS here👇 youtu.be/uVRwW2VdXPE?...
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Nigel Farage has called PM Andy Burnham “a liar” - as usual Farage is talking boll****
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 8h
@themeadhallbard.bsky.social Are you interfering involved in the US elections too…?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17h
Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I couldn't love this more... 😂 bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK law firm partners collect record pay, up to £2.5m per equity partner. Partners treated as self-employed. Firms don't pay employer national insurance (ENI) on profit taken by partners. £150k ENI dodged for every £1m profit shared. Public purse deprived. Must end this tax perk. archive.ph/vJCIj
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Top UK law firm partners take home record pay
Spate of listings in Hong Kong boosted IPO work and related transactions
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How on earth did we let that triumvirate of thickheaded wickedness - Farage, Johnson and Rees-Mogg - persuade us that Europeans were our enemies?!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holding Govts to Ransom. Global banks warn UK windfall tax will trigger shift away from London. None complained about bailouts, £100bn UK subsidy in last 3 years. Banks profiteering, higher interest rates/charges, measley return to savers, speculation on price of energy/food. archive.ph/gQKNT
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Global banks warn UK windfall tax will trigger shift away from London
Chancellor John Healey is looking for revenues in next month’s Budget to compensate for hit from higher borrowing costs due to Iran war
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bring it, Home Secretary. 'Daniel Thomas has sparked outrage after filming himself slashing a dinghy in the Channel with a knife. The footage appears to show a suspected rescue worker still on board.' #Newsnight www.lbc.co.uk/article/dann... bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Shocking moment anti-migrant activist uses knife to slash small boat in Channel with rescue worker on board | LBC
Daniel Thomas was tailing a small boat in a speedboat after it spent more than 30 hours travelling through the Channel.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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The Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell Jones
Dogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Britain is broken" explains bloke who vociferously supported Brexit which broke Britain
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The RNLI: people of courage and commitment to their neighbours, whoever they might be www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... This one's personal. #RNLI
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The RNLI: people of courage and commitment to their neighbours, whoever they might be
The Guardian reported yesterday that: A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily clos...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
First Canada wanted closer EU ties. Now Australia does too. Meanwhile, Starmer spent two years trying to “make Brexit work”, while Burnham remains boxed in by red lines. Farage once said even Brexit’s worst-case scenario would leave us better off. How wrong he was. Still, £5m buys a few Ferraris
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wages taxed at rates of 20%-45%. Earners also pay national insurance. Capital gains taxed at rates of 18% to 24%. By taxing capital gains at the same rates as wages £12bn to £14bn could be raised. More, if NI charged. Why are workers taxed at higher rates than return on wealth Will the govt act?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 11/09/2026
This week, our Whitehall Correspondent Kate Devlin published a fascinating (& extremely damning) exclusive interview with Nick Bloom, a professor at Stanford University, who said that the billions the UK has lost to Brexit could wipe out NHS waiting lists & create a world-class service if recouped
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Billions lost to Brexit could make NHS waiting lists disappear, top economist says
Exclusive: Nigel Farage is a ‘spectre’ impeding the UK’s recovery from Brexit, which has cost the UK £3,000 per person every year, Professor Nick Bloom says
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 10/09/2026
About time Andy Burnham cut the red lines! as his big new Brexit deal isn’t coming anytime soon The new prime minister’s red lines are making a more radical reimagining of the U.K.-EU relationship implausible, EU officials say www.politico.eu/article/andy...
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Andy Burnham’s big new Brexit deal isn’t coming anytime soon
The new prime minister’s red lines are making a more radical reimagining of the U.K.-EU relationship implausible, EU officials say.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Help! My children are drowning!” “Sorry, mate, you’re brown.” Who wants to live in a country where people don’t go to the rescue of men, women and children in danger of losing their lives? The racists do. Please support the wonderful RNLI rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I did a thing about legitimate concerns, and - you'll thank me later - defined the collective noun for patriots. No paywall. russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
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Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Essential thread.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This seems like a useful policy to support.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
United Utilities fined £964,225, pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage in seas. Crimes date back to 2023. Fined at least 223 times since 2010, paid £8m. Still committing crimes, bosses rewarded but none prosecuted, shareholders enriched. Revoke its licence. Nationalise water.
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United Utilities fined £900k over Fleetwood sewage discharges
A pipe collapse at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works led to the sewage spillage.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Burnham should scrap Labour’s red lines on Brexit and get closer to EU, voters say www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Burnham should scrap Labour’s red lines on Brexit and get closer to EU, voters say
New research shows just one in five voters think Brexit has been a success, heaping pressure on the new prime minister to improve Britain’s relationship with Europe
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Army of patriots’: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth. Organized by a convicted kidnapper with delusions of power. Claim to be a Christian ‘army' - followers of a brown man, a refugee from Middle East who preached love for all.
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‘Army of patriots’: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth
Daniel Thomas has spent months trying to unify the UK’s disparate far right to form a disciplined anti-migrant force
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
French EDF Energy in talks to buy British So Energy as UK supply market consolidates. EDF is owned by the French govt. UK profits exported to reduce French household energy bills. Nationalisation of energy would give UK govt more economic options.
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French EDF Energy in talks to acquire smaller British rival So Energy
France's EDF Energy is reportedly in discussions to buy So Energy, the smaller British supplier whose Irish parent company has put it up for sale, in a deal that would add to a renewed wave of consoli...
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Police injured, vehicles damaged as anti-migrant mob storms Portsmouth. It was a carefully organised event, a mob blocked roads and a stand off with police lasted until about 4am today. Two days ago 500 masked, black-clad men blocked access to Dover. Why no arrests? www.lbc.co.uk/article
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The wrong people are being arrested.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Protesters clash with police, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Portsmouth after the arrival of a small boat carrying migrants. It is mob rule. Private armies, masked and dressed in black roam the streets, blocking roads, attacking police. Whatever happened to the rule of law and order?
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Hundreds of protesters gather in Portsmouth after small boat arrival - as 'thuggish' behaviour condemned
A "substantial crowd" of demonstrators gathered chanting "stop the boats" and "send them back", with items thrown at police, Sky correspondent Barnaby Papadopoulos says. Watch his report from the scen...
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 04/09/2026
Next Wednesday, Channel 4’s Dispatches airs a major investigation into Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) and his money. Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone? Wednesday 9 September, 10pm, Channel 4 Set a reminder here: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199913/...
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Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone? airs on Channel 4 at 10pm on Wednesday 9 September.
For the past year, Channel 4’s Dispatches team has been working on an investigation into Tommy Robinson’s money: where it came from, and where it went. Leave your mobile number and we’ll send you a r...
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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The nights are drawing in, the leaves are turning, and yes, it's the start of Foglight Season. The time when (mostly) men display their prowess by driving around with their car's front fog lights on, fully believing that it increases the size of their cocks... Bunch of fecking knobheads...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everything about the #FarageTapes is wonderful, but perhaps my favourite bit is the notion that Dubai's Dicky Tice-But-Dim, Lee Anderthal, Granny's Krugerrands, Chinchilla the Hun Stella Braverman, or ozempic root vegetable Robert Generic can get people to vote for them. Reform are done.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1 trillion litres of water a year, 20% of all water pumped, lost in England through leaky pipes. 41.4trn litres lost since privatisation. Money siphoned off to investors. At the current rate of investment it will take 700 years to replace water network. Grim future without public ownership.
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The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/09/2026
🚜 Ben Goldsborough MP: "The end of free movement has effectively ended dependable flow of workers from the EU, on which many growers relied to plant and harvest their crops." 💷 "The result has been greater complexity and costs, and those costs are what many farmers and growers cannot afford."
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/09/2026
What is the water industry actually worth? Not necessarily the enormous sums investors and lenders have put into it, argues Richard Murphy – and that distinction matters when politicians tell us nationalisation is unaffordable.
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The nationalisation taboo
Nationalisation is routinely dismissed as unaffordable, but does that argument fundamentally misunderstand what bringing essential services into public ownership costs?
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2026
Post-Brexit, Tory governments weakened regulation of England’s water companies, allowing them to prioritise shareholder dividends over water quality, infrastructure investment, and environmental protection. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Private equity choking UK health and social care. Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care. Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records. PE devours everything. Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
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Tracking the rise of private equity in health and social care - The Lowdown
GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ironclad rule of politics: you can't be in government of a major economy with a large majority and complain about something but refuse to do anything about it. This position looks a bit nuts, but also unsustainable in the medium term. Why fight it? (blaming leaving 🇪🇺 is good, however) 1
Andy Burnham speech latest: PM blames Brexit for ‘decade of low growth’ in first address to MPs
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 31/08/2026
Nationalisation is routinely dismissed as unaffordable. But what if the eye-watering figures we're given fundamentally misunderstand how nationalisation actually works? Richard Murphy takes apart the argument.
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The nationalisation taboo
Nationalisation is routinely dismissed as unaffordable, but does that argument fundamentally misunderstand what bringing essential services into public ownership costs?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Farage in 2016: “The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today.” 10 years after 'today'' "98.2% of UK businesses want to rejoin the EU single market" meme via Mina Rodgers
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'£30 billion lost’: Six major studies confirm Brexit’s HUGE toll on UK economy. "Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU". Self-inflicted harm that needs to be reversed.
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'£30 billion lost': Six major studies confirm Brexit's HUGE toll on UK economy
In 10 days' time, MPs will be summoned to debate the economic impact of Brexit. Let's hope they all have a good read of this...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Richard Tice says couples with children should be married Divorced Richard Tice moves between his Skegness constituency, £4million Bucks mansion, leasehold flat in Belgravia, London, and Dubai, where his (unmarried) girlfriend moved with her children for ultra-patriotic tax-avoidance reasons
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors. Reportedly, favours a cap at £500k. How many people have £500k to buy influence? A game only the super-rich, big corporations/unions can play. Can't end political corruption without banning all political donations.
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This means something to me, because my mum had Lewy Body dementia. It ate her, piece by piece, for years. Heartbreaking to watch. I know times are hard. If you can't donate, I totally get it. Maybe just repost this - that helps too. But a fiver would mean the world, if you can. Ta.x
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You listening, Burnham?
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