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Xscaper retiree and dog lover, trying to make sense of a mad world! Pro 🇪🇺, watching UK govt with great hope🤞. Still masking and wishing for better Covid measures and other pandemic preparedness. Carpe Diem! 🐕🌹

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9h
Unlike Simon Clarke, I was alive during the 1970s. A combination of low inequality, low crime and aspects of culture made 1976 one of the happiest years on record in the UK. The IMF bailout had zero impact. Lesson for Simon, happiness is not just a function of wealth.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As a side note to this: The best thing that Andy Burnham’s Labour Party can do right now is reach out to both Ed Davey and Zack Polanski. Whether he needs them for a coalition after the next GE or not, now is the time to get both the Lib Dems and Greens on board - especially around care.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham made Farage seem “angry, thin-skinned… absurd. What we witnessed today was a masterclass in political communication which makes Farage look like an amateur” Finally. The confidence that comes with emotional intelligence. It could make all the difference. iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Tiger-Fred @tiger-fred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lets not forget that Palestine is still undergoing a genocide. It's not gone away. The press has stopped talking about it and people are forgetting the horror of it all. That's how people become manipulated.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Even the GB News presenter is thrown by his guest's suggestion that all asylum seekers be castrated. This is what happens when the narrative marches ever rightwards. It drifts out of everyone's control and requires individuals involved to suddenly realise 'no wait, f***, that's mad'.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
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Johnson on X
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🦋Rrhae 🇺🇸 I Dissent!🫘 🇺🇦 @goldrrhae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I want to take a minute to comment on Kaitlyn Collins at CNN. She has never been disrespectful to Donald Trump. She addresses him as “Mr. President”. Trump has bullied her numerous times and she’s maintained a professional demeanor. He may not like her questions, but they deserve an answer.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you think their now absurd levels of wrongness about everything has made them madder? Like their vanity is in a raging battle with reality and if their vanity loses, they’re done for.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My advice to CNN, MSNOW and Poliitico Concentrate on the Epstein Files You'll have him eating out of your hand after the 1st bombshell article about everything "Epstein".
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To be fair to us common or garden disdainers, we do actually disdain these people enough. We keep receipts and we loathe them all the more when they feign innocence or ignorance. I blame the media for protecting them, platforming them and then not tearing them down when they get all ‘wasn’t me guv’.
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Todd Kolod💙 @toddkolod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Donald Trump tore up a perfectly good treaty with Iran in 2018. Trump just signed a new treaty with Denmark and Greenland which is just like the old one. Trump is pandering for votes with his theater. Don't buy it. Vote Republicans out in November.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so true.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So Trumpy's mini-me, Petey Hegshit also banned the same news media from the Pentagon. This should terrify everyone. Trumpy's government is banning media it doesn't like. This is a 3 alarm fire on democracy. My demand is simple. PROVE IT. Show us the 'fake news'. They can't, it does not exist.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes. In their desperate bid to appear impartial but also, somehow, Farage-friendly, the BBC ends up promoting, unchallenged, the rancid ignorance and vested interests of the smug, tax-dodging super-rich. Seriously, sod off Ratcliffe, Dyson, Rothermere, Ashcroft, Lawson….
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Time is long overdue that the political mainstream in Britain vigorously re-asserts its longstanding anti-racism norms... these have been allowed to be significantly eroded the last few years.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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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
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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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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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When Nigel Farage said Durham would show the country how a Reform government would look. He was right. An absolute shambles.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Life is crap, vote for us” is a losing message. The first half is not true and, even if it were, the second does not follow. Farage…used to know all this.” But now he just lines his pockets while he moans and exudes hatred and disloyalty. We’re very bored of it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The British right’s patriotism problem
Andy Burnham seems at ease in his country. Are his opponents?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"This week Nigel Farage was back in the GB News chair for the first time in around six months. The leader of a political party, and a sitting MP, with his own nightly show in prime time." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission is officially looking into the luxury hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior party figures during their trip to Dubai last January. Transparency in politics matters—and key questions are now being raised. #FarageSleaze #ReformSleaze
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran needs to learn that if you don’t “pick a side”, you’re picking the side of the oppressor. Every single time. It’s that simple.
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Jack London @jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oddly, there is a higher rate of prosecutions for domestic abuse within those who profess an anxiety for the safety of women, than with those whose arrival triggers that anxiety...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
£72million can’t fix this. Nothing can fix this. This is Reform. A bunch of raging liabilities who shouldn’t ever be anywhere near public office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform's Dan Thomas resigns as Wales leader after arrest
Thomas said he has done nothing wrong as Gwent Police confirms arrest on suspicion of assault.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?
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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My god this woman's simple truth telling and refusal to be silenced for it should shame the current leadership of Labour. Total respect for her.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“A powerful El Niño helped fuel the 1876–78 global famine, estimated to have killed over 50 million people. Poverty and political failures compounded it. That is history, not a prediction. Political choices save lives.” Now look at the trajectory of THIS El Niño doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
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Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78
Abstract From 1875 to 1878, concurrent multiyear droughts in Asia, Brazil, and Africa, referred to as the Great Drought, caused widespread crop failures, catalyzing the so-called Global Famine, which ...
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Julia @juliads65.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I support the RNLI monthly- the best of the best. Attacks on them are unacceptable. 😡😡😡
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Govt, politicians, rightwing media… you decided that Brexit meant you needed to exclusively appeal to a stereotypical “red wall”/“left behind” voter who you insisted was anti-immigration because it suited you to pin their disaffection onto immigrants rather than onto you…
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The RNLI isn't subsidised by the taxpayer. Some people seem to be getting them mixed up with Eton, Harrow and Winchester.
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