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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 40m

It means Burnham must have a cuckoo in the Badenoch speech writing nest. How else can we explain why Kemi [aka Milicent Clyde] compared him to one of the most loved characters in the country by describing him as a "Paddington Bear Prime Minister"?

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Luke Pollard MP @lukepollard.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re going to promise an iron dome you better make sure it’s not an iron colander.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3h

The Tories want an Iron Dome?

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 1h

Burnham must have a cuckoo in the Badenoch speech writing nest. How else can we explain why Kemi [aka Milicent Clyde] compared him to one of the most loved characters in the country by describing him as a "Paddington Bear Prime Minister"?

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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 10h

youtube.com/shorts/8F3Zr... Andy Burnham has made a fantastic short video on his proposals to the triple lock to fund a National Care Service. Please share far and wide. The media must not win.

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Andy Burnham explains how his changes to the triple lock will impact pensions and why

YouTube video by Andy Burnham

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 4h

To the Lowry!

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 5h

Actually, I read a bit of detail on this, and it seems the priorities are the major conurbation, which tend to be Labour, rather than rural areas, which tend to be Tory. 🌹😉

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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 10h

Brexit hasn't worked.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 20h

It reminds us all..... Serious policy should cannot be born of a soundbite.

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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎤 LabourList's photos from our karaoke are now live! 🎵 🎶 Were you at our karaoke last Monday? It's crazy to think it's already been a week. Bring back the memories, and scroll through our gallery to see if you were papped by our photographer! 📷️ labourlist.org/2026/10/labo...

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 20h

This is literally impossible. Neither Reform or Conservatives have hearts. 😉

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 21h

I blame those pesky lefty staff of Oxted School! 😉😂

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 21h

Evidently it is not planned to protect every area of UK. So, perhaps the Conservatives would be good enough to share with me whether the land of the Pork Pie will be in or out of the ironic tent?

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 21h

Is it beyond Green leaders, members & supporters to understand that gratuitous & insulting attacks on Labour merely underlines the impossibility of working together? 🌹

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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔴 ‘Britain and the EU – what are the options?’ 🇪🇺 Former leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party Richard Corbett assesses the options... labourlist.org/2026/10/brit...

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‘Britain and the EU – what are the options?’ – LabourList

This is the first of two pieces exploring the options for Britain’s future relationship with the EU by former European Parliamentary Labour Party leader Richard…

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

True! They mistook entryism for support, and populism for leadership.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the Greens keep their populist leader and their entryist membership, they will implode and not be fit for government....

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Greens confuse recruiting members with recruiting voters, as did Labour in the Corbyn years.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The inevitability of entryism. ...

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They may have seemed to be doing well. But in fact they had been taken over by new members who would inevitably lead to their downfall. They should have learned from Labour's Corbyn years!

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did she mention that it was the Tories who got rid of Thatcher?

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nasty cuts threatened by a nasty party....

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just hope he's got the timing right... 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Inside the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester.

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Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great to be out in Shepshed canvassing for the excellent Jane Lennie, ahead of the by-election on 15th October. She’ll get stuff done for Shepshed.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A significant town council by-election result? Reform’s Julie Lumsden was beaten in her own North Northants Council ward despite a high-profile campaign backed by a glossy eight-page election leaflet.

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Election win for Labour in Corby by-election

Labour’s Alison Dalziel has won the Corby West by-election in a town council poll announced today (Friday).

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cartoonist: Steve Jones

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026

We need the EU, and they need us. We are stronger together. ♥️ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The towering font canopy and relatively tiny font in Durham Cathedral They were installed in 1663 when the building was restored to Church use after being used to house Scottish prisoners-of-war during the Civil War. 1,700 of them died in the cathedral of wounds, disease and hunger. #FontsonFriday

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/education/20... So pleased to see Lucy Powell and the Labour Government tackle the gross injustice of the current school inspection system that fails to take account of the context of schools, and therefore makes horrendous mistakes. 🙂

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England school inspections to be overhauled again after barrage of complaints

Exclusive: Education secretary sends Ofsted back to ‘drawing board’ as teachers raise serious concerns about new system

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Durham Cathedral. Despite the imposing bulk of the building on its famous perch above the River Wear it is not a huge interior. The domineering forest of great Norman columns is overpowering, and there is a sense of a worshipping community camping out in the ruins of something great, now lost to us.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do we need another runway south of Manchester? Or at all?

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Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TOMORROW: Our rally at Labour Party Conference, in partnership with @pes.eu Join us at 5.30pm-7pm to hear Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Ed Miliband, Northern Ireland Secretary Rt Hon Sir Chris Bryant and a star panel on what's next for the UK and EU

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a lifelong and mainly active member of the Labour Party, I find Polanski's sneering suggestion that Labour is not taking Climate change seriously, deeply offensive.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

USA Constitution; 25th Amendment; Section 4 .......

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

God, or the 25th Amendment. Section 4.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The mainstream media in UK is under the spell of Trump, which might be why the lead story was about Trump + meeting Brunham. A more important meeting, between Burnham & Ursula von der Leyen of the EU, was more important but hardly mentioned. Journalists need to improve.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does Polanski have a Corbyn playbook in his back pocket?

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First they came for my flag Then they came for my poppy .... 😪

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People do see through them. Money, all £76millions, can't buy trust and respect. Neither can membership recruitment on the Corbynista model.

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If only we could dig up sound! 🙂

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not new, but still makes me smile! 🙂

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine #NATO2 - the North Atlantic Trade Organisation. 🙂🇪🇺🙂

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A man feasting depicting January from the Labours of the Months, and a stag. A detail from the early 12th Century Prior's Doorway (the name's a modern invention) at Ely Cathedral. Two of dozens of roundels depicting beasts, signs of the Zodiac, Labours of the Months and quirky allegorical images.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A bit of a rainy day here in Ely, so a time for a wander inside the cathedral instead.

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