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@francesberry.bsky.social
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Wife, Mother, Sister and companion to 3 gorgeous dogs. Happily living in Derbyshire. 🌱🌱🌱 Not much of a poster myself but enjoy pondering the thoughts, opinions and observations of others and may well repost random bits & bobs......

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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 09/06/2026
👏🇬🇧 Zeteo UK is here to disrupt Britain’s broken media! We’ll be bringing fearless, independent journalism to the UK - no bowing to political pressure, no corporate interests, just fearless journalism. Go to zeteonews.co.uk and become a subscriber today!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
That’s called a bribe.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/06/2026
Important. Please share. The govt is doing a review of access to face-to-face banking. For many elderly and vulnerable people in person banking is crucial and we need to protect it. The review wants your view, you can feed in here... www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/accesstoba...
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Soil Association's campaign to ban pre-harvest glyphosate | Soil Association share.google/y9W4rQUGpd2F...
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Soil Association's campaign to ban pre-harvest glyphosate
Pesticides are contaminating our food and wild spaces - harming our health, and the bees, birds and rivers we depend on. The European Union has already taken stronger action on pesticide use. It’s tim...
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Palantir wins contract to manage UK firearms licensing A dangerous corporation closely tied to genocide and mass surveillance of civilians given management of UK firearms licensing by Labour. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄 www.thenational.scot/news/2616681...
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US tech firm Palantir wins £9 million contract to manage UK firearms licensing
A US tech firm which has assisted ICE operations and has links to Israel's genocide in Gaza has won a 10-year contract to manage firearms…
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
38d.gs/oark FFS! Is this a LABOUR government? Or what we suspect: pretend Labour government.
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Stop private companies draining our NHS!
I just signed the campaign calling to cap private profits on our NHS!
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
At a time when trust and truth are under strain, people need clear, honest information from independent experts about the climate and nature crisis. An informed public is the foundation of democracy. Please sign the petition.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The petition is currently on 79,700 🚀
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Christopher Ramsay 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🇬🇱 @iotechris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/05/2026
So, migration is at its lowest point since 2021 (a pretty low year already, because COVID). Does this mean we can stop blaming migrants for long NHS waiting lists, housing shortages, falling wages and a stagnant economy? Oh, no, wait, never mind- looks like we’re still in the crosshairs.
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Net migration to UK fell to lowest point since Covid - but half of Britons still think it's rising
British Future said politicians "need to take responsibility" for the growing disconnect between the true migration figures and public perception of immigration
Holly Bancroft Home Affairs Correspondent
Thursday 21 May 2026 00:00 BST
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Left: The Times, "Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman" Right: British Red Cross paid staff who managed the fundraising events says Zack Polanski was on stage representing the British Red Cross at multiple events over many years
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Remember: vote Reform to get Starmer out. The way this works is - you elect local Reform councillors, who… er… can’t do anything about who’s Prime Minister… & haven’t a clue about running a council, so they fuck up your local services, put up your council tax… er… that's it.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oh FFS!!!
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And the staff too. Without a doubt they will be working under worse contracts.
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It's been covered by BBC locally - BBC News - Council 'in negotiations' on takeover of Ada Belfield Centre - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Council 'in negotiations' on takeover of Ada Belfield Centre
Derbyshire County Council decided to sell the care home off to the private sector in 2024.
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Ada Bellfield Centre is I believe a dementia specialist care home and I'm hoping no-one has to leave but what are the new costs? What about the existing care staff moved over to worse terms and conditions perhaps?
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
They're doing it in Derbyshire too. Selling off the Ada Bellfield Centre built 5 years ago at a cost of 11 million to private sector.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing more
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Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations
Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Meanwhile, on the moon...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is absolutely it!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems” V much summing up his approach to power. Grifting and gobshiting - yes please. Hard work and responsibility - god no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage regrets running 'bankrupt' Worcestershire Council
The Reform UK leader says he wishes the party
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Given the current influence Israel appears to have within our government please consider signing this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported Israeli state-linked and pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics. We believe it is important to determine the scope and impact of any such influence campaigns.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
'Nigel Farage's Reform are not the workers' champions - look at their policies'
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'Nigel Farage's Reform are not the workers' champions - look at their policies'
<span>Keir Starmer's former director of policy C</span><span>laire Ainsley says Reform UK '</span>promise the earth on the doorstep and pose as the people’s champions, yet their policies and actions…
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
More garbage coming out of Reform. This time that they want to tear up the Equality Act. So you’re stuffed if you’re a woman, black, gay, pregnant, old. No rights. Allowing bad bosses to do exactly as they please. This is not how our country should operate.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
For years I got told off for suggesting the far right were errrrrrrr … a bit far right …. We never learn it seems
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MATTHEW GOODWIN INTERVIEW
"Reform will give incentives to women who have more children and will penalise those who don't.
Change is coming"
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leedsforeurope In 1933 the Nazis introduced the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage which offered interest-free loans of 1,000 marks to newlywed "Aryan" couples (a significant sum at the time), with a quarter of the loan forgiven for each child born.
In 1938 The Mother's Cross Award was instituted by Nazis. The award levels were:
Bronze for four to five children.
Silver for six to seven children.
Gold for eight or more children.
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Bear TK @bear-xiong.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Being a nemesis of something toxic isn't quite the insult they hoped it would be! Please give my petition a boost, if you think the premise is reasonable? I believe think-tank funding to sway media and policy needs to be debated and made transparent: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending
Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...
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Turn Left Media @turnleftmedia.co.uk · 06/02/2026
BREAKING 🚨: Reform have been caught potentially cheating in the up coming Gorton & Denton by election. Residents have received a letter from a 'local pensioner'. There is no Reform Party branding on the letter
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🔴In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, reports @peterjukes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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Rebel Gadfly @rebelgadfly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's hate & it's money. Miller is backed by Thiel & bros, the orange one's benefactors & puppet masters. He & wifey have an investment stake in these escalations thru increased govt contracts for surveillance tech, etc. for, you guessed it, Thiel & bros. www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/he...
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Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Holds Six-Figure Investment in Tech Firm Profiting from Deportations
A damning new report has exposed Stephen Miller’s financial interests at Palantir, a tech and AI company that stands to make millions of dollars off Trump’s immigration raids and mass detention. The p...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📌 ICYMI — Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior… bylinetimes.com/2026/01/26/revealed…
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Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch
Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/01/2026
Lies, lies, and damn lies.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Palantir is cancer futurism.com/future-socie...
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CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You'll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Alex Karp said the majority of humanity will be working in manufacturing and vocational jobs.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/01/2026
Trump just told Davos: "after the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark." America never had Greenland. It was governed — and defended — by the Danes and Greenlanders throughout WWII. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/read-the-d...
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"Read the Donroe Doctrine To Them"
The thing about hegemony is that it, unfortunately, works. And it crushes real democracy along the way.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
The year 2020, Russian state television ⬇️
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speckle48.bsky.social @speckle48.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Check out the numbers signing this…. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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A Labour Member @dariaqt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Are the rules governing MPs tight enough to hold them to account & ensure they work for their constituents? No - MPs don’t have to be registered to vote, don’t have to be resident in the UK & don’t have to live in or near their constituency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
How many more people need to defect from the Tories to Reform before people realise Reform are just the Tories but painted a paler shade of blue? Many people were perhaps willing to give Reform their vote who would never EVER have voted Tory. Time for them to rethink!
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This trade deal seems to confirm my suspicions about Rolls Royce.
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I read that Rolls Royce has ditched DEI type policy, yesterday I think.....
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francesberry.bsky.social @francesberry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Ahhh this might explain why Rolls Royce in UK has made some "changes" in the last couple of days?
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