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William J Morton

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Ricky Kumar T @rickykumart.bsky.social · 9h
Somethings will never change, eh BadEnoch? 🤷🏽‍♂️
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@c4ciaran.bsky.social @Channel4News.bsky.social - in today's report on Green party vote, when you mentioned that Zack Polanski has stated previously that he is "anti-Zionist", why did you not also add that he is Jewish? Omitting this fact leaves out an absolutely critical context. #DoBetter
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A-M L @havanaclub-soda.bsky.social · 12h
#AndrewGriffith said he remembers doing his homework by candlelight because of the rolling blackouts. He was born in 1971. #threedayweek occured '72-74. He must've been a prodigy or had really strict parents. #conservativepartyconference #torypartyconference #tories #tory
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A Word @loquentia.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham needs to fire Palantir publicly
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Steve Whalley @whalleysteve.bsky.social · 12h
The Tories never learn. Austerity style cuts are an avoidable disaster. They degrade local government services, reduce investment & productivity, and hammer growth. 15 years after the last austerity shock, GDP is still is more than 5% lower than expected. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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Toby Rodgers @dumbmagicvee.bsky.social · 13h
Bo Burnham really was right. Art is actually dead this time. And yet, people can still create, no matter how much the AI mob attempts to ruin it.
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The SNP @snp.org · 13h
A document leaked recently which showed what Keir Starmer would have done if he remained Prime Minister. Turns out many of Andy Burnham’s announcements since taking over could have been lifted straight from it. www.snp.org/burnham-is-h...
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Burnham is here, and he’s just like Keir — Scottish National Party
A leaked document, showing what Keir Starmer would have done if he remained PM, has drawn attention to how many of Andy Burnham’s announcements have been lifted straight from it…
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 17h
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 16h
I mean this ought to be the first thing that Andy Burnham raises
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 16h
The Tories are a complete busted flush of a political party Their entire ethos now appears to be a weird desire to abandon all regulations And if you want to see what a reduction in regulations looks like… #politicslive
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 15h
tinyurl.com/bde974wj Yeah, I'm sure that ignoring the legitimately elected Scottish government will be just fine with the Scottish electorate - nothing the Scots love more than being dictated to by English Tories. Jeez, under Kemi 'you want some?' Badenoch the Tories are no longer democrats
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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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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A year ago shadow Tory minister Chris Philp on BBC Today said the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed that ECHR isn’t mentioned or relevant to the Belfast Good Friday Agreement - untrue. The UK govt incorporated it into NI law. Tory lies are just habitual and must be confronted and refuted.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
cllr stephen bowron So Burnham has just set on pensioners and is insisting it's a good deal. Well Andy, here's the reality, pensioners receive around £12,500 pension after contributing for forty nine years via NI, that based on a 37 hour working week would be £6.53 an hour The minimum wage is £8.00
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tory Party spent 15 yrs running down public services. They hollowed out every public service to the point of collapse, they profited enormously from the Covid pandemic, they went through Prime Ministers like a game of musical chairs. They're saying they will get it right next time.
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Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
15 years of arrogant lies, greed & corruption. 15 years and what did they bring us? Brexit. Used Covid to line their own pockets. £Billions lost from the public purse. Left a mess of starved & stripped services, closed police & fire stations. The state we’re in? Blame the Tories, not immigrants.
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William J Morton @emperorjulian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not fond of national anthems but the Dutch and Welsh anthems are way, way ahead of our farcical anthem
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @themadscot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What about international law @labouruk.bsky.social or human fucking rights andy Burnham is not a good man good men do not participate in genocide he is a filthy war criminal
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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Noticeable she didn't mention the 94 year old lady was Jewish, because doing so would collapse their whole "all Jews are Zionists" narrative.
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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BBC didn't mention her Jewishness either. You may think this unimportant, but these #Jobbie journalists will follow up by presenting us with Jewish people saying they feel unsafe as a result. They never mention how often the supposed antisemites "making them feel unsafe" are Jews for human rights.
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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Notable, as ever, for what is left out. Helen Lewis doesn't mention that Margaret Owen is Jewish, nor that she was a human rights barrister. On other words, a less than truthful, soft soap, #Jobbie interview of a government minister by Sky there.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The truth behind the ban ….. #Dispatches
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The Truth Behind Britain's Palestine Action Ban | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Contrast this with Burnhams government releasing offenders (some violent) because prisons are overcrowded!
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All ministers on the media round are programmed with the appropriate soundbites. I honestly don't know what the point of them is.
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TC@southbank.bsky.social @tcsouthbank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Michelle Mone hold my beer!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Helen Lewis asks the secretary of state for justice if arresting a 94 year old (with an OBE!) for holding up a placard is a good use of resources Norris defends arresting 94 year olds as terrorists for holding up a placard. Tell me again how Andy Burnhams govt represents change
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Maria Norwich🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸 @nancy1910.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rough Justice. All of the Burnham lads & lassies in lock-step over Israel. It's as if the bombing, sniper attacks, drone attacks (don't fly kites kids!), starvation, blocking of aid, levelling of Gaza (don't look at Google maps, Cabinet Members!)- all of this has passed them by. Eyes & ears shut.
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah forgive me if I trust a nationally-renowned legal expert's painstaking report, over some anonymous tattle in the gutter presses.
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
About 3/4s of the antisemitism complaints made to the Labour Party originated with Margaret Hodge's office, and about half of them didn't even name Labour members. The Forde Report then showed that these complaints were deliberately slow-walked to give impression of a huge backlog. Wise up.
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah I mean given the overwhelming strength of the forces which came together against the Labour Party at that time, it was nothing short of a miracle.
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Andy Smith @predatordiaries.com · 04/10/2026
Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’ – UK politics live Isn’t murdering children a much bigger stain on Israel?
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Each-sith Dathach @eun-sith-dathach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BadEnoch is out and about, spewing bile and talking shit. Just remember kids, ABC, anyone but conservative.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cutting jobs at the Environment Agency after a summer of wildfires. Which would never raise the £700m Kemi claims. How much do the Tories think EA staff get paid? All to subsidise childcare for six figure earners. Utterly delusional
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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 04/10/2026
The tories haranged everyone for the best part 14 years about the need for Brexit, and for spending controls - austerity. They broke our criminal justice/prison system, and our armed forces (to name but two), claiming financial prudence but leaving systems so hollowed out as to be useless.
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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another genius move by Labour, underpinned by the comical notion that you have to rob a group of people to pay another, in a FIAT sovereign economy, with its own central bank. Laughable.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election. Risks handing advantage to opposition parties who will argue the opposite. Will alienate some senior voters. Risks Labour backbench rebellion, repeat of the Winter Fuel Payment episode. Numerous ways of funding triple lock.
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Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says
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Timewalkproject @timewalkproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Carry Out More Pogroms and Israel Kills Another Gaza Journalist open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/... No doubt Burnham will send a stern letter and then top up their arsenal.
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This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Carry Out More Pogroms and Israel Kills Another Gaza Journalist
Zeteo’s weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.
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Crucible Of Words @crucibleofwords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish there was a single member of the UK government who gave this much of a shit about the Arts, but nope. The UK is entirely a tool for siphoning wealth and opportunities into the hands of the elite.
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lizlamb.bsky.social @lizlamb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's in Littlehampton and there were about 15 thickos in the audience - he's really hit the big time hasn't he?🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ian Boucher @desolationrow5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a rare occasion where I think what was said is completely unacceptable on every single level and should be reported as such by every single media outlet in the land. I suspect it won’t be though. A disgraceful thing to say and the people in that room guffawing along equally hideous.
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sammysangel.bsky.social @sammysangel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are all raging sociopaths. The Right as always had tendencies to lack empathy but the current incarnation have just become horrendous soulless individuals.
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Jamie (bradley walsh enthusiast) @lilbeethoven92.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine voting for the Lib Dems though. It doesn’t bear thinking about
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Un-American @bennevis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mone is an easy scapegoat A common tart who managed to steal a few million A distraction from the crimes of the ruling classes More eye catching in a bikini on front of Daily Mail than Diana 'Dido' Harding averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2020/08/dido... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Ha...
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/dido-harding/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-anti-corruption-john-penrose-sinister-defence-government-covid-cronyism/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/what-cameron-and-greensill-app-tells-us-about-nhs-digital-privatisation/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/past/dido-harding/biography
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The real two-tier justice no party wants to abolish ... There are more benefit inspectors chasing claimants stealing a pittance than HMRC tax inspectors chasing super-rich fraudsters & tax dodgers living a life of luxury on their criminal loot worth £millions meme via The UK Against Hate
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Ferryoons @ferryoons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brexit was a con, foisted on a gullible electorate with large amounts of dirty money. And all really to preserve the London Laundromat. The influence of that continues, and has to be confronted head on. But will any UK Government have the morality and strength to do it?
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Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Obviously, if you are a Tory, you are not a person who cares about others. But the current iteration of the Tories under Badenoch is a party of weirdos and freaks. That fake Bayeux tapestry thing at Conference is absolute evidence of that simple fact.
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Tony @tony227.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And Johnson, don’t forget the biggest clown ever to govern this country.
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Michael Hindley @hindleylancs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Last week in Brussels I had a round of meetings with politicians from several parties & officials from Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, Hungary, Belgium. Everyone welcomed what seems to be a more open attitude from the Burnham government.
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ShoeTown Owl @shoetownowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jonathan Freeland there, trying to tell all Jewish folk what to think. Oh sorry, that’s Polanski, apparently……. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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