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Heather Parry

@ericap51.bsky.social
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Retired anaesthetist devoting herself to learning more about art, architecture and music while I still can. Appalled by electorates voting for Brexit, Boris Johnson and Trump:twice.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How about Europe just makes a deal with Iran and gives the big middle finger to you.
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
. "Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York! It has no chance!" ~~~~ Donald J Trump ~~~~ .
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil the first thing he will do is release his criminal father from jail. These Fascists don't even pretend to believe in democracy or right and wrong any more.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sadiq Khan branding Brexit’s ‘sunlit uplands’ a total fiction and urging a return to the Single Market and Customs Union by 2029 hits the nail on the head. We cannot rebuild public finances while locked out of our biggest market. Why let dogma choke growth? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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'The sunlit uplands were total fiction' - Sadiq Khan calls to reverse Brexit by 2029
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants the UK to reverse key aspects of Brexit 'within the term of this current Parliament'
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When Russian soldiers do it, it's "a systemic pattern of sexual violence used as torture" and the UN gets involved. When male college students do it, it's just "20 minutes of action" that university administrators and law enforcement think is probably the victim's fault & certainly not a crime.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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maxschrecksic.bsky.social @maxschrecksic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Power, corruption and lies from the top down to the regions. Not that this will even make it beyond regional news - such is certain journalists' clamour to be supportive of frogface and his demagoguery..
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This AI BS has been going on for nearly 3 years now. Nearly $20tn has been spent, the most expensive project ever. What has it made? Except Slop, mass surveillance and sky high energy and computer costs.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Brexit betrayal,” they are saying! They seem to forget the betrayal and the lies told to the whole country that Brexit would deliver utopia. We got nothing but poverty, less freedom, higher immigration, which they claim to be against, and so on... #BrexitLies #RejoinEU #JoinEU
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
🚨 Naomi Smith: The people of Scotland, like the rest of Great Britain, are of one mind when it comes to the UK and the EU: they know it’s been a disaster and they simply want to be back in.
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Poll: Scottish Labour would hold onto most of its MPs if PM promises to rejoin EU
Scottish Labour would hold onto most of the 37 Westminster seats it won in the 2024 if the Prime Minister pledges to
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fits like a glove
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump: “We achieved price differences of, listen to this, 300, 400, 500, 600, and in some cases even 700 percent.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People will genuinely say White Privilege doesn't exist. White people started in Europe. They have colonised half the planet and genocided the native inhabitants in most of it. Even in South Africa where they were supposedly driven out all the richest people are STILL White.
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String Bass Theory @stringbasstheory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
4% are sitting congressmen and SCOTUS justices.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things are moving fast... #RejoinEU #JoinEU
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Liz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A pattern has been established since Trump entered the White House for his second term that indicates a strategy to cripple how the US operates to such a degree that whoever comes next will find it impossible to repair.”
chadbourn.substack.com
Scorched Earth
How Trump plans to break America so it can’t be repaired
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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
ft.com
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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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Annual homelessness deaths in England and Wales have almost doubled over past decade, ONS says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 30/09/2026
Did you know that sociologist Cristóbal Young studied 13 years of tax returns covering every million-dollar filer in America? And you know what he found out? That millionaires were less likely to move compared to those making $10,000. civicmedia.us/shows/patrio...
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Millionaires Won't Leave
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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How civilizations die. (The US in this case.)
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Heather Parry @ericap51.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israel is paranoid: but it is the most hated country on the planet.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my daily propaganda show tonight I will be pretending that Brexit wasn't a complete and unmitigated disaster based on the lies of a handful of rich grifting twats who don't give a shit about ordinary people.
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Heather Parry @ericap51.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Repeal the ban on Palestine Action and proscribe The Labour Friends of Israel!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE have confirmed that a 58th person has died in their custody in just 1 3/4 years. This does not include all the people they have murdered in the streets. It really is the Gestapo.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Because neither the European Union nor Canada can disentangle itself from the American economy, both need the capacity to act when a US president becomes coercive. My latest @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/n2LnHuF
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An EU–Canada Partnership Against Coercion
Alberto Alemanno explains how a new association agreement between the two US-dependent economies could work.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some Labour higher ups have convinced themselves that Labour needs to talk less about climate (and more about migration). My counterargument is that most people do not like droughts and like lower energy bills from home sources. Don't call it "CLIMATE POLICY" if you want, but that's what it is.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lest we forget, this is politics in action: - the David Cameron-led Conservative govt had de facto halted onshore wind in 2015 (raised planning restrictions, cut subsidies) - in 2024 Labour under Starmer, and really the energy secretary Ed Miliband, removed the hurdles and lifted the ban
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Be still my beating heart
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
41% - not for profit Welsh Water's financing costs vs 8% - publicly owned Scottish Water's financing costs We can't afford NOT to have public ownership - and it's the norm in 9/10 water systems globally www.ft.com/content/6b1f...
ft.com
Non-profit model won’t fix water industry, says boss of non-profit utility
Welsh Water has fallen short on sewage pollution, despite having no shareholders for over two decades, chief acknowledges
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔥 HUGE NEWS - Exclusive with The Independent.
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Reform UK decided to whip up racial tensions without bothering to wait and oh look, nothing to do with small boats or any immigration but British nationals #bbcwato #wato
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nothing to do with your orange American chum, then Dickie? How the fvck did this idiot become a multi-millionaire?
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 28/09/2026
Damn I am tired of people laughing about Deutsche Bahn. Travel in many other places in Europe and you will discover Germany is trying to do many things right with its railways. A quick blog post / rant from me: jonworth.eu/your-deutsche-… #CrossBorderRail
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Your Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny (if it ever was)
Before attempting my record attempt between Kemijärvi, Finland and Lagos, Portugal, people told me over and over it would break down in Germany. So much so that I even tried to re-but (pre-but?) some of the likely critique. Now, having made the trip, and none of the total
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu who said No to Genocide is the hero. Never stop until Israel is banned from everything. Until the War Criminal State ceases to exist. It is the only way their murderous evil will end.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘They had a meeting about Hot Sunny Days’ Oh you mean the heatwaves this summer that killed thousands of people and caused vital national infrastructure to collapse?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK median pay of employee is £31884 a year, net £26476. Working-age adult needs to earn £31500 to reach minimum income standard . Lone parent with 2 children needs £67600. Couple with 2 children needs £77400. Can't get growth without redistribution. Chancellor must cut tax on the poorest 50%.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Heather Parry @ericap51.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The smaller houses you describe would also enable people like me whose children have left home to downsize while still owning the freehold and some outside space to park and charge their car, grow things in and enjoy. I do not want to be confined in a tower block with rising service charge.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's ridiculous your money being spent to allow a handful of billionaire builders, who make nice big donations, to make even more money. This is a Conservative/Reform style scam.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ex-minister Mike Tapp on "need to exempt care workers from retrospective settlememy extensions" There is broad support for this. But why not exempt engineers, vets & chefs & architects from "retrospective extensions" that could force 250k non-care workers to leave?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan. Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
NEW: Emily Thornberry warns Labour risk being seen as ‘nasty’ over immigration rules Speaking at a More in Common fringe event, Thornberry said it was “just not fair” to change the rules for people who came to the UK under existing ones www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/emil...
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Emily Thornberry warns Labour risk being seen as ‘nasty’ over immigration rules - Politics.co.uk
Dame Emily Thornberry has warned that Labour must be careful about being seen as “nasty” over proposed changes to immigration settlement rules. Under plans the government is finalising following a con...
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Aaron @exlibris451.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, he is going to rig or block the elections....He is a criminal !!! He has been stealing his whole life...remember he learnt from his father, and grandfather!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
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reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Balls: "Am I right to say this is a massive announcement" Wes Streeting: "It is a massive announcement, Ed" Labour has a majority of 158. Kicking the (social care) can down the road for another 3 years isn't a massive announcement.
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