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Jane Basham

@janebasham.bsky.social
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Where to start. Retired from a fab career in the voluntary sector. Survivor. Feminist. Activist. Social justice. Anti-racist. Mother. Grandmother. Vegetarian. Pro-migration. Volunteer with Roots; Care4Calais; Ipswich FIND

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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Top vacancy - Foodbank making a real difference 👇🏽
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@latitudefestival.bsky.social Big queues to get into Motorhome field & it’s definitely disorganised- hope you’re checking in on your hard working safety stewards who are having to put up with grumpy festival goers..
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When the leader of the NHS Trust, who is ultimately responsible for your partners preventable death there, gets a gong in the Honours List … well it’s just triggering and sickening.
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Just said to a friend… I don’t want to be in a country that’s ready for battle. I want to live in a country that’s ready for peace …
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits. If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace. Let's fund welfare, not warfare.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
How was he even selected? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Suffolk MP Patrick Spencer MP charged with two sex assaults
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer is accused of two counts of sexual assault.
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"People who should have found sanctuary in this country have died by suicide, died from preventable diseases, died because of our hostile border policies. Each one of these deaths is an appalling tragedy that must be acknowledged, mourned, and learned from.’ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Major law change demanded to shed light on Channel and asylum deaths
MPs have called for the Home Office to have a legal duty to announce the number of deaths in the asylum system and in the Channel during small boat crossings
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Still the overriding question remains unanswered. *Why* do we want to reduce net immigration?
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A Two’fer - Government wrong on Migration & wrong on our care system. Do they really think cutting care worker visas will address our crumbling care system? Nope. Course not. By no possible metrics. But credentials with anti Migrant fanatics is more important to them than care.
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Cutting visa access will simply drive more people into dangerous irregular migration. Irregular Migration is a symptom of a restrictive border regime. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction… Will we ever step back & make migration work for everyone?
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Push and pull backs kill people. Disgusting @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @mrjohncrace.bsky.social spot on as always …
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The race to the bottom is on as Starmer delivers his great immigration reset | John Crace
A week after Reform cleans up at the local elections, the prime minister decides it’s time to ‘take back control’
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What’s utterly depressing about today is that Labour are ensuring the issue of Immigration is framed negatively and headlines every news channel today. Shame on them. @jackabbott.bsky.social please speak out in support of your communities. Your town. #immigration
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy VE DAY. Remembering those who died so we could be free. Remembering the awful human impact of evil dictatorships. Remembering our EU allies. Remembering those displaced by war -then and now #refugeeconvention #veday
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Sue Hagley @suehagley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@jackabbott.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
How it is.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Well that's Fast & Fuhreous,
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Meanwhile, in Canada…
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Alone centre stage, for Nige this was his triumph and no one else’s” Depressingly brilliant as always @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Any news/experiences on impact of voter ID in elections… or are we all asleep & letting parties ensure voters are disengaged
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lots still to do in the garden having just moved back here but I’m giving wildlife a chance for a while ! #nomowmay @plantlifeuk.bsky.social 🐛🕷️🐜🦗🐌🐞🪲🪰🌱🍀☘️🍃🍄‍🟫🌾
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Many years ago when he lived. The trauma of his preventable death 8 years ago today, how badly he was failed, is as raw as it ever was. Grief. Endless, as is love. Life is fragile. Love lasts ❤️💔
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 27/04/2025
THE GUARDIAN: TUC chief exposes Nigel Farage as a political fraud masquerading as a working-class hero, urging Labour to stay true to its principles against the allure of right-wing populism. - by Pippa Crerar
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WHO ELSE AGREES WITH BARBRA?! 🤚
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gary Lineker has said he is leaving Match of the Day because he felt the BBC wanted him to leave over his support for Palestine. If you support Gary, like. If you support Palestine, RT! He should not be forced out for speaking the truth, even if the BBC don't want to hear it.
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ce matin, un homme a été déclaré décédé au port de Dover, au Royaume-Uni. Récupéré par les secours anglais à bord d'une des embarcations de fortune arrivée dans la nuit, il n'a pas pu être réanimé. Une victime de plus de ces politiques mortifères menées aux frontières.
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Remembering Stephen Lawrence murdered this day in 1993 because he was black. He was just 18, with a full life and opportunity ahead of him. He and his family denied justice …still. Never forget. #stephenlawrenceday #racism #policing #justice ?
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Come on @ipswichtown.bsky.social @arsenalfans.bsky.social … support our local Foodbank! #hungerdoesntwearclubcolours #Ipswich #familiesinneed
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
La justice condamne les pratiques autocratiques du directeur de l’Office français de l’immigration et de l’intégration (OFII) qui avait bloqué notre compte X suite à un échange de commentaires. On vous raconte. 🧵⬇️
Extrait de la décision de justice : 

4. L'OFII fait valoir que la décision de blocage est l'effet d'un incident technique.
Toutefois, il n'apporte aucun élément de nature à le justifier alors que le blocage est intervenu de manière concomitante à un échange de commentaires entre l'OFII et l'association Utopia 56, dans lequel cette dernière formulait des critiques quant à la mise en œuvre par l'OFII de sa mission de service public. Il ressort par ailleurs des pièces du dossier que plusieurs autres comptes ont été bloqués par l'OFII et que son directeur général a indiqué devant des journalistes qu'il « assumait » procéder au blocage des comptes s'avérant critiques de l'action de son établissement public. Le compte de l'association requérante n'a, au demeurant, été débloqué que près de trois mois après que la requête de cette dernière ne soit communiquée à l'OFII. Par suite, le blocage en litige doit être regardée comme ne résultant pas, comme l'OFII le fait valoir, d'un incident technique mais d'une décision prise délibérément par le directeur général l'OFII.
5. Si les propos tenus par l'association Utopia 56 à l'origine du blocage de son compte par l'OFII ont été formulés en des termes polémiques, ces propos étaient néanmoins dénués de caractère diffamatoire ou injurieux et n'ont pas excédé les limites du droit à la libre critique de l'action de la puissance publique dans une société démocratique. Par conséquent, l'association requérante est fondée à soutenir qu'en bloquant son accès au compte X de l'OFII, le directeur général de cet établissement a méconnu les dispositions et stipulations précitées.
6. Il résulte de ce qui précède que l'association Utopia 56 est fondée à demander
l'annulation de la décision révélée du directeur général de l'OFII du 17 janvier 2024, sans qu'il soit besoin de se prononcer sur les autres moyens de la requête.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, PLEASE sign and share this petition. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
thecanary.co
A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts
Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, sign the petition.
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#disabledpeopleagainstthecuts #Ipswich
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Great to hear @politicsjoe.bsky.social clip from @labourlewis.bsky.social in this episode! @jemmaforte.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social Norwich MP with proper Labour values 🙏
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Aujourd'hui, des familles des victimes du naufrage du 24 novembre 2021 ont pu se rendre en mer, dans la Manche, là où leur enfant, leur mari, ou leur frère ont perdu la vie, il y a plus de trois ans. Un temps profondément humain dans le chaos de l'indignité.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You truly could not make it up. You could not.
Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants"
The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Oh for fucks sake.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Assisted Suicide Bill is on the ropes - now it needs to be binned permanently Chaos is unfolding around Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide bill - and for chronically ill and disabled people, the derailing of it cannot come soon enough www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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The Assisted Suicide Bill is on the ropes - now it needs to be binned permanently
The Assisted Suicide Bill is on the ropes - now it needs to be binned permanently from Canary on 26 March 2025
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door Author and economist Gary Stevenson, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, and Labour peer Prem Sikka addressed the crowd - calling for Reeves to back down www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door
Tax the super-rich: protest breaks out over Spring Statement right at Rachel Reeves' front door from Canary on 26 March 2025
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reform UK could make big gains this May — unless people like us do something. I’ve signed up for the Week of Action. Want to take part too? Sign up here for the @hopenothate.org.uk week of action: www.hopenothate.org.uk/week-of-action
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🎯 National Week of Action to Beat Reform UK | 7-13 April
On May 1st, Reform UK want to make serious gains. We need to act fast — or they'll win big across the country. We’re organising a nationwide week of action to stop Reform UK and we need people like yo...
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
People displaced seeking safety. Harassed and detained. ‘Walking while black’ The racism of our immigration policies visible right here ..
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Another person killed by inhumane Governments, a young woman, still wearing her life jacket … on our border. 4 deaths in 4 days. Despicable @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social #saferoutes 🙏❤️🇫🇷💔
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 23/03/2025
Vive la France! 🇫🇷
france24.com
Tens of thousands in France join protests against racism and far right
Tens of thousands of protestors in cities across France rallied against racism and the rise of the far right on Saturday, amid a rightward shift in French and US politics.
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DKMS UK | Delete Blood Cancer @dkms-uk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When 22-year-old Issey from Plymouth learned her dad didn’t have a stem cell match, she refused to give up. 💪 Now, she’s turning pain into purpose—spreading hope and taking action against his rare blood cancer. Join the register today: 🔗 dkms.org.uk/register
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Dans la nuit, nous avons appris le décès d'au moins une personne dans la Manche. Elle était déjà décédée quand les secours sont arrivés pour venir en aide à l'embarcation. En deux jours, deux personnes sont mortes. Sur le littoral nord, on ne veut jamais être demain.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A total no-brainer.
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Jane Basham @janebasham.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
STOP PRESS - my MP @jackabbott.bsky.social didn’t show 😢up@labourlewis.bsky.social's Water Bill debate. This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system. We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 20/03/2025
DAILY MIRROR: 'National disgrace' Matt Hancock faces furious backlash over controversial Covid PPE contracts as public outrage mounts during pivotal inquiry. - by Martin Bagot, Antony Clements-Thrower
mirror.co.uk
'National disgrace' Matt Hancock slammed for making 'dodgy Covid contracts'
People affected by Covid-19 have slammed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock for his actions during the coronavirus pandemic, after he was grilled during an inquiry on multi-million pound contracts
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