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Elaine Morgan

@elaine10.bsky.social
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Love France, hate Brexit, interested in politics, glad the adults are back in charge it's been a ghastly 14 years, like reading and good conversation.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's important to understand that before Margaret Thatcher Social Care in the UK was basically nationalised. 100% of children and 64% of Pensioners were in Nationalised Social Care. And that it was destroyed by FORCING Councils to sell it off by freezing their budgets.
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Brexit - President Macron is spot on here. Brexit has been an utter disaster. #BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU #JoinEU
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations to Suella Braverman for her Question Time appearance - I didn't think it was possible for her to come across as any more deranged and stupid than usual, but she somehow managed it.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/10/2026
🚨Andy Burnham says "every option" is on the table for the UK-EU relationship. The country's made it clear what option he should take. Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership. Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇
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Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...
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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter
Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am so happy about what I am hearing that I have lost the ability to speak
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet again Farage goes absent from Parliament absent from his Clacton constitueny this time to campaign for an imminent general election which isn't going to happen ... "Anything to avoid doing his taxpayer funded job… " via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the man ICE shot on Sunday, was sent to a detention center *with a bullet still in his back.* He was reportedly given no pain medication and only sent to a hospital after losing feeling in the left side of his body. ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds.
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Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Texas says he’s in pain and still has bullet in his back
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez spoke from detention as lawmakers and advocates said he’s the victim of an ICE shooting and i
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US has murdered four more people after blowing up a small boat in the Caribbean. Southern Command alleged the vessel was involved in “narcotics-trafficking”.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Unlike the political right in the UK, which still clings on to the fantasy of the US-UK special relationship, Carney understands that the US has fundamentally changed, and can no longer be fully relied upon.” ✍️ Alexandra Hall Hall
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Why Canada Could End Up With a Better Deal With the EU Than the UK
As the UK continues to hesitate over drawing back towards the EU, Canada has spotted an opportunity, argues former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We shared an image of Gaza earlier that was apparently not real, saying it’s what macklemore was booted from tour for protesting. Apologies. Here, this is real:
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔥 Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history - a 70% approval rate. Carney’s EU moves have gone down well!
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Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history
Prime Minister Mark Carney now holds the highest recorded approval rating in Canadian history, achieved earlier this month in a study by Spark Insights.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/09/2026
POWERFUL MOMENT Americans forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center to protect a national memorial from a president threatening to tear it down. JFK’s niece, Kerry Kennedy, called on people to show up, and they did. This will never be the Trump Center, in the people’s eyes.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Farage having a hissy fit because Sky News knocked on his door and asked if he was at home. He was outraged because his daughter answered the door and claims Sky were harassing his family. Fast forward to him laughing at a distraught Mother living in Piddlington who's worried for her sons.
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a good one.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
Absolutely devastating news. This is the impact of the radical right's hate. People who are saving lives are under attack. Appalling.
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RNLI suspends Portsmouth services after volunteers abused for saving migrants
Andy Burnham earlier this month hit out at 'appalling' abuse directed at hero crews after they were labelled as traitors
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 19/09/2026
At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1000s have linked hands and are demanding “Hands Off the Arts” while surrounding the center.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A senior US service member told ABC damage to Middle East bases from Iranian attacks could take “decades” to repair. The destruction was far greater than the public was aware of, with some facilities “irreparably damaged” and rebuilding requiring years of construction rather than a quick repair.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk. It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
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Passport to Piddington
Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
TAKE ACTION🚨 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. Sign the petition here: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week on his TV show, Nigel Farage laughed at a clip of a woman in tears because of the racism she’d experienced. “I can’t stop laughing,” he said. When people tell you who they are, believe them. And then don’t vote Reform.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The only thing I would disagree with here is that the UK is not helpless - it is a choice not to fight back against Musk. It is the wrong choice.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These are bad people. Their defeat is essential.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In Alligator Alcatraz, detainees were forced into small outdoor cages for hours at a time. In Camp East Montana, detainees report beatings from guards and denial of medical care. In Delaney Hall, detainees report unsafe drinking water and retaliatory abuse for speaking up. Unimaginable cruelty.
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MinimumWageMan @minimumwageman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can not argue with this.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/09/2026
🇨🇦 First Canada, now potentially New Zealand and Australia? ❓ Where is Britain? Isolated and vulnerable in a multipolar world. Burnham must go for full EU membership and put us back at the top table of this new and exciting European project.
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Metsola: Australia, New Zealand could be next EU 'associated members'
Metsola tells Euronews pitch for “associate membership” with Canada will strengthen cooperation with like-minded countri
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So who is condemning this? Will journalists be pushing politicians to explain how these are 'legitimate concerns'?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From last year. A good history lesson.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have legitimate concerns about closing lifeboat stations. But do only the thugs' "legitimate concerns" about migrants being saved from drowning count?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
Nigel Farage said he wanted its councillors to demonstrate how a Reform government would run the UK. It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
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Reform UK 'In Complete Meltdown' After Three More Councillors Quit Party
It came on the same day that Reform’s leader in Wales quit after being arrested for assault.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A new era for Byline Times goes to press! @peterjukes.bsky.social & I are proud to have worked on a print redesign with our new art director Sonny Dhamu. With your support, we continue to grow. This issue marks a story no one else can/will. Two Cambridge professors. Two very different narratives...
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