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Hugo H

@hugoh59.bsky.social
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Coffee loving European, supporter of democracy who occasionally cycles and supports Chelsea.🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 3h
They needed a headline. They have no ideas & no credibility. This is just embarrassing.
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chelseachemist1.bsky.social @chelseachemist1.bsky.social · 13h
As I’ve said elsewhere, these are my mates, you can quite likely win them over on a policy platform of cutting their taxes. You can’t win them over if you force it through a prism of “I think Brexit is a great idea and isn’t that net zero dodgy?” You just come across as unhinged to that cohort
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 12h
We still have those people.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/10/2026
“Privatisation of Water was a success.” Read the room, Kemi.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23h
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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@ofcom.bsky.social will you do something about this misuse of the regulations?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tory party has killed itself with Brexit. It’s lost its mind chasing Farage into the gutter, saying unserious things, promoting unserious people who stand around in suits, arms folded, talking utter dribble to get a headline. It’s pathetic. We deserve a better opposition. This lot are shite.
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Boothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Finally someone is going to help the rich. At long last the most under-privileged people in society have a political party looking out for them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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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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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's see. Who was Home Secretary in 2023 ? That would be the lovely Suella Braverman
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If only we had a Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Combatting the cost of living crisis - for the top 3-5% of earners.
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Tories vow to scrap £100,000 ‘tax trap’ for UK’s higher earners
Badenoch says current threshold, introduced by previous Conservative government, punishes parents for working more
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, funny that.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (they were horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible
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RickChasey @rickchasey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clegg had the right idea *dodges tomatoes* LD have to tack right and focus on the liberal bit. Every other party wants the govt involved in everything and wants everything “banned”. Surely there’s some electoral opportunity in “we’ll leave you the fuck alone”?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
France and China removed Microsoft from their government computers because the US Government used it to attack ICC officials, now the Netherlands is removing it too. The sooner Microsoft dies the better, use Linux.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's offensive for @london.gov.uk to have this consultation under the "Healthy Streets" section of the Transport for London consultation site. Wandsworth Town Centre gyratory where cyclists are being thrown under the bus. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/wandsworth-i...
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Wandsworth Town Centre bus and walking improvements
Find out about TfL’s consultation on proposals about Wandsworth Town Centre Bus & Walking Improvements
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We punish legitimate farmers, processors and exporters while leaving gaps for smugglers. That risks unsafe food, catastrophic animal-disease outbreaks and the destruction of British livestock farming. This isn’t taking back control. It is surrendering our food security and biosecurity.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And specifically, implying that we'd be better off harmonising our regulations with the EU to have free trade, rather than embarking on divergence to deregulate... I'm sure it's not as thought through as that, but that's the implication. V different from the Brexit ideal.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's characteristic of the Brexit debate that, after a decade of arguing about it, the leader of the Conservative Party doesn't appear to know what the single market is & can't be arsed to find out. She seems to have a vague idea it's "a free trade area" that got mixed up with "all the other stuff".
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid & SNP should all unite in a pledge to rejoin the EU. They don’t agree on much but they do all agree Brexit has been a financial and strategic disaster. It could unite progressive opinion and challenge the far right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years
Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying the way England treat Rehan Ahmed. He looks like a generational talent. In domestic cricket he bats in the top six and bowls. Whenever he turns out for England, he bats lower down and bowls bits and pieces overs. They need to pick an actual role for him. He can't be Sam Curran II #EngvSL
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, yes So, what is going to happen to change it Two more years of this and even more trust will have leaked away I wish some Americans would get beyond the dream that it will all go back to normal when he is gone. It won't The damage is in some areas irreparable. Trust is very easily lost
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quick take on the Ed Davey speech: It's just not good enough. And everyone in that hall knows it. iandunt.substack.com/p/ed-davy-sp...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Are our politicians blind and deaf or just plain dumb?
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I tell you what you've got to do right. You've got to force people out of their cars onto public transport, and you do that by doubling the price of petr-
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Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brave people. Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was interviewed by R5Live on Ratcliffe last night. Pointed out that he is simply wrong about benefits, crime and immigration levels, and that banging on about Empire and Two World Wars only reveals an old man who left the UK years ago and has little understanding of a country he seems to despise.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
If you knew he was abhorant and dangerous but were perfectly happy to let Farage drum up the vote for Brexit because you thought it was the surest route to UK-EFTA or whatever dumb shit you convinced yourself would magically happen, I'm just not that interested in hearing from you in public life.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Major opinion poll shows that every constituency in the UK except four would vote to reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney's speech on Canada's future relationship with the EU was so ambitious, positive and far-reaching that it's made Brexit Britain's red lines look even more pathetic than they did before!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need to be honest. The U.K. government isn’t in the slightest bit interested in getting closer to the EU.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How many more lessons does the UK need before we do what is necessary? ukandeu.ac.uk/canadas-new-...
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Canada’s new EU association holds lessons for the UK - UK in a changing Europe
Joël Reland reflects on what it would mean in practice for Canada to become an associate member of the EU, as well as the lessons for the UK in thinking about its own future EU relationship.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@annagelderdmp.bsky.social Please get this sorted urgently. We are being left behind and getting poorer for it. #UK #EU #Brexit #BrexitFail
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Give this incredibly brave woman a medal. It would be great if more TV reporters did what @vicderbyshire.bsky.social does here: provide time and space for the genuinely decent and non-racist to air their views and share their experiences.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trade unions urge Andy Burnham to drop Brexit ‘red lines’ 👍 www.politico.eu/article/uk-t...
politico.eu
Trade unions urge Andy Burnham to drop Brexit ‘red lines’
The ruling Labour Party pledged “no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement” in its 2024 election manifesto.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
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‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You can call this legal. You can call it a donation. But please don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by calling it a “level playing field”.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.
Arron Banks 

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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