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Jane Harbison

@janeharbison.bsky.social
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Education, Politics, Social Justice, Europe ex LA Senior Adviser, researcher, waitress, company director, traveller.

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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 8h
Not at all
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 9h
No it shows that in a safe Labour seat a popular well known candidate can win.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 9h
Labour would have won Polanski was just a populist saying what people want to hear Do you believe that polls are accurate ?
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 10h
A good local candidate wins a safe seat
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 10h
They were getting stronger -entryists but not that strong
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 10h
It’s not just all about him SKS set this in motion Waiting for the Casey Report
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 10h
They voted for a well known and respected candidate.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 10h
Fed up with the media making the by-election all about Burnham and Polanski. The new MP is Sagal Abdi-Wali, a well respected and well known local politician. Let's talk about her and her victory today eh.
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 10h
Andy Burnham is a man lucky in his opponents: Polanski, Farage and Badenoch seem determined to lend him a helping hand. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham is lucky – Polanski, Farage and Badenoch all seem determined to help him | Jonathan Freedland
Everywhere the PM turns, he finds generous adversaries. They have made his early days in No 10 so much easier, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Polanski has led the Green Party up a cul de sac. Genuinely a shame. The country needs the Greens but not in its present form.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
Yes - why did they agree it could take place?
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
We knew that a long time ago
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
Devolution - thought he was in favour of it?
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
Sorry wasn’t clear
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
I’m agreeing in principle with your post
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/serv...
bundesregierung.de
Federal Chancellor Scholz meets Prime Minister Starmer | Federal Government
Treaty on bilateral cooperation, intergovernmental consultations in the near future: see here for the full text of the press conference given by Federal Chancellor Scholz and Prime Minister Starmer.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
www.gov.uk/government/n...
gov.uk
Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation Treaty: The 17 Projects the UK and Germany will deliver together
A collection of projects agreed between the UK and Germany as part of the Treaty signed by the two countries on 17 July 2025 in London.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
Hardly surprising given the state of the other parties
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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 15h
From Ian Dunt's Striking 13 newsletter today "But the fact remains that under Burnham, Labour has now won in Makerfield and Holborn..." Ahem. Labour won Makerfield under Starmer. <runs away>
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
They are all trying hard to make Burnham seem successful
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h
Polanski not winning a very safe Labour seat is not the vast failure that it is being spun as but that’s going to be the story all day.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 11h
It was hinted at by my local MP months ago when I wrote to complain about something Davey had said. The Lib Dem’s should be much higher in the polls
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
Barbaric -the USA has lost its way
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
Lots of words - action?
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
Housing -Starmer
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
National Care Service - Starmer
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
I’m not English -wasn’ t born here Feel more British than English but my children describe themselves as English/ British Worked for an organisation which asked people how they would describe their ethnicity - most said British -very few said English.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
He was and he’s just not effective We need an opposition party
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
This has been growing for a while
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
People emerge - hopefully they choose someone who is strong and centre left
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 12h
Not really - why do you think it was vulnerable ? Perhaps Reform might have had a better showing - the Greens improved their vote.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 13h
He does need to go. If they elect a serious leader they could be competition for the Tories and Labour
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 13h
He knew he wouldn’t win which is why he was reluctant to stand
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 13h
Yes.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 13h
Will you stop with this nonsense ? This was a safe Labour seat with an excellent local candidate The other parties are destroying themselves
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 13h
Love the images you create 😂
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 15h
Labour holds a safe seat?
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 16h
All the data Watershed + @riveractionuk.bsky.social compiled for this investigation has been added to our Watershed Pollution Map, so you can explore what's occurring at a wastewater treatment plant near you, via: share.google/GXqPZTX5ec8v...
Watershed Pollution Map filtered to show data on wastewater treatment plants accepting industrial wastewater
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 16h
‘Storms’? Holds a safe Labour seat
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Suzanne @sukiluki.bsky.social · 20h
WTF is Powell on about? They haven’t voted for progressive change. They’ve elected a Labour Party and it was already a Labour held seat. No change.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 21h
608bn litres of industrial wastewater entered sewage plants last year. Sources include power stations, abattoirs, landfill, some with consents for chemicals such as mercury + cyanide - entering plants not designed to treat such waste. Our new report, out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 17h
I never thought Polanski would win -he has been losing support for months due to his own actions and words. This was a safe Labour seat and a good local candidate Voters like local candidates
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Samantha Booth @samanthajbooth.bsky.social · 18h
Breaking news from @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social The ASCL school leaders’ union has said it has no confidence in Ofsted’s leadership to 'address the damage being done by the new inspection system' following a vote of its ruling council schoolsweek.co.uk/ascl-council...
schoolsweek.co.uk
ASCL council passes no confidence vote in Ofsted's leadership
Union decries 'no meaningful progress on the part of Ofsted to address significant wellbeing issues'
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 20h
Don’t you think that Polanski and Farage have completely contributed to the failing popularity of their parties?
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 20h
Labour wasn’t away. Polanski was always going to fail as was Reform . Their stars were fading months ago.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 20h
The USA is not a civilised country
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 20h
Labour held a safe seat
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Kate Bond @littleoldlady56.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's very disappointing that Labour has kicked into the long grass £800 million worth of housing refurbishments for armed forces properties.
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a result the work of SKS’s gov’t . Burnham is the beneficiary
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Jane Harbison @janeharbison.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Starmer and Merz sign major new UK-German treaty in boost for travellers
Post-Brexit agreement includes defence, investment, moves to tackle small boats and will also allow some British travelllers to use e-gates at German airports
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