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Kevin O’Connell

@hibou2.bsky.social
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When Adam delved and Eve span Who then was the gentleman ? “I have no homeland. I was born in one country, grew up in another, and live in a third. I have survived, but I do not belong anywhere. Not even in my own skin.”

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Bondi atrocity has effectively ended PA. Nobody wants the bloodshed and intolerance brought to the UK.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Upyours?
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ask Chaucer. He knew gold was a physician’s favourite element. Nothing changes.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
29%… greed , as usual .
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
PA ? Tough .
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
PA ? Fuck ‘em .
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AnEasierAffair @aneasieraffair.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Will the Florida court where Trump is suing the BBC be told?
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Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
There are more than 100 NHS Community Diagnostic Centres now open for appointments from 8am to midnight. It’s just one of the changes we’re making to the NHS. Let me explain👇🏻
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Kev🇬🇧🍺 @splootman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Starmer giving the wide mouthed frog the kind of roasting usually reserved for the Christmas turkey 😂
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A long time since I worked at Sammy Fox, even longer since my dad worked there. Stocksbridge is many miles away now but well done 👍
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025
Inflation fell as predicted, how will the media spin this as bad news for Rachel Reeces🤔
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
You are either for our country and its citizens. Or you’re against our country and its citizens. There’s no grey area. Pick a side. #ReformTraitors
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Nice little reminder. We are very lucky to have such a dedicated, hard working Government.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
UK inflation fell significantly again in November, down to 3.2% from the 3.6% in Oct & 3.8% in Sep. It's the lowest rate since March. Despite media reporting it as a surprise, it's to be expected & on course with the Bank of England projection for it to head towards the 2% target next year.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Busiest day of announcements I can remember. Our Labour Government do more in a day than the Tories did in 14 years. Our workers are better protected, our Politics will be better protected and our BBC will be updated. And that’s not to mention house building 👏👏👏
1. Erasmus Scheme from Jan 2027
2. Abuse victims to get specialist NHS support
3. New licensing scheme blocking illegal knife sales and imports.
4. 500 jobs protected at Grangemouth as UK Government partners with INEOS to save vital plant’s future
5. Marine Recovery Fund to get nature thriving and accelerate offshore wind development
6. Major consultation on a revamped National Planning Policy Framework :
* New builds to include nature-friendly features, such as installing swift bricks, to support wildlife
* A default ‘yes’ to suitable homes being built around rail stations
* A default ‘yes’ to new homes building upwards in towns and cities
2. Workers Rights Bill passes
3. UK’s first Universal Studios theme park has been granted planning permission to begin construction in Bedford 
4. Review into foreign financial influence & interference in domestic politics from Russia & other hostile states
5. UK PMI composite output index up to 52.1 in December, from 51.2 in Nov
6. Government launches Charter Review to future-proof the BBC
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☮️💙ENOUGH! !! @alletto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Fight on!!we are not done!
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☮️💙ENOUGH! !! @alletto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A no brainer !
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
France has just made pet abandonment a crime . Up to €45000 fine/3 years imprisonment . Will this end the epidemic of abandoned dogs at the start of the national holiday weeks in August ?
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Wonderful news ! Well done Labour!
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Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands
The UK ended its participation in the scheme in 2020 after agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Employers pay no NI on workers under 21. Big saving through the tax system. Why do employers in the hospitality business not take on more and more young workers ? There are more than a million of them out of work or training.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Absolutely fabulous news! The Lords have passed the Employment Rights Bill. The 2 Houses now agree, & it can go for Royal Assent and become law. It means the original time scale for implementation remains in place. Amazing what the threat of extra sitting days just before Christmas can do! 1/2
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A big thank you to Angela Rayner for her work on 2 bills which are going for Royal Assent (likely this week). The Employment Rights Bill The Planning and Infrastructure Bill Both are flagship pieces of legislation from our Labour government. She guided both through most stages in Parliament. 1/3
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
That’s some day Labour: - Workers Rights Bill passes - Review of international interference in our politics - Charter Review of the BBC 👏👏👏👏
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I am in tears The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week Sick pay for everyone No more zero hours contracts No more trade union act 2016 years So much more Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Agreed.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
UK PMI composite output index up to 52.1 in December, from 51.2 in November Hold the faith. It is not as doom and gloom as some would have you believe. This is a positive trend.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Yes! Our Labour government has just announced an independent review in to foreign financial interference in UK politics! It will be reported on by the end of March 2026, in 3 months. It has just been announced in the Commons, using the example of the conviction of a senior Reform member! 1/3
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Rangers have no interest in entertaining a sale for Djeidi Gassama in January under any circumstances, sources have told Football Insider. SWFC’s loss has been Rangers gain ☹️
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I do agree that theLords are in danger of crossing a line here .. but …. This is a private members bill , hugely controversial and full of holes. Difficult !
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In more good news for the UK’s automotive sector today: Nissan launch the new electric Leaf, meaning there will now be a UK-made mass market EV. Worth noticing that the Tories chose this weekend to dismiss the prospects of UK automotive ever competing with Chinese EVs 🤦‍♀️
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Travellersuzy @travellersuzy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I think this really is worth sharing. Some failures but also many positives to take and lots of work in progress. We need to know so we can applaud the positives and push for improvement on the weaknesses
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sadly, very true. It remains incomprehensible how low the US has sunk and how much damage they have created for their own future . When China take Taiwan, there will be no hands raised to support US attempted intervention.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Huge successes recorded there. The ‘failures’ will be addressed. The comparison with the Tory years of inactivity is striking
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
TikTok is where your voice is needed, that and FB.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Surely not ? Never seen a cyclist obey the lights in Cambridge . I always thought wearing Lycra meant the rules do not apply.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
True , it is small . A significant issue. 8000 open to extreme exploitation, living on the edge of survival, beyond effective help. Criminals love a pool of vulnerable outlaws to exploit.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tory Govts squandered our tax money giving lucrative contracts to mates, dodgy PPE deals, loans to crooks in Covid etc & didn’t chase to get it back Labour in Govt have got £14 million back from a Migrant Hotel Company that wasn’t fulfilling its contract Would never have happened under Tories 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Mears: Asylum seeker hotel firm hands back almost £14m in profit - BBC News
Mears, which provides services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, made more profit than its contracts allow.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
FT reports more economic disaster stories :🤔 “Bank of England set to cut rates to 3.75% as economic data eases inflation concerns” Better with Labour 👍
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Everyone deserves more pay . The BMA wait for a Labour administration to get arsey about it . 29% is very generous.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Am appalled by the doctors deciding to strike..not only does it risk harm to ordinary people who depend on them, it jeopardises the NHS itself..and who is lying in the wings praying this happens?? Reform and Tories .. an act of self harm if ever there was one ! If either get into govt ALL will lose
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My wife is a doctor and through her know a great many doctors and know of the issues they face. But right now they have lost my support. I do not agree with their strike action. It is wrong. It is damaging. And dare I say it, given what is on offer, they are greedy. 2/2
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Guardian posts a uniquely anti Labour take, squeezing personality politics into their crass headline . I ask myself…. WTF ??? “How many more times will the Bank of England rescue Rachel Reeves?” Something amiss in that rag.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Never gonna happen . Europe still has bitter community memories of the Nazi years . America has just entered that nightmare . Europe will never return to it.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
UK house prices tipped to rise by up to 4% in 2026 as affordability improves – as it happened” The Guardian report today directly contradicting the Observer report on Sunday🥴
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 15/12/2025
Looking a gifthorse in the bollocks.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Here we go ! Blair blamer in action. Not with you on this . The Blair years were golden.
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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
On fantasy island the greens dream on 🤣
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief
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