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Kathryn

@kath400blue.bsky.social
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Passionate perinatal mental health nurse. Dog lover. Politically homeless.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY "All we ever talk about in this country is immigration" "Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?
On Monday the UK and 27 other countries signed a sharply critical letter condemning the Israeli military’s killing of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food in recent weeks and calling for an immediate end to the conflict.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey www.channel4.com/news/water-c...
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Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey
We spoke to water campaigner and Undertones frontman, Feargal Sharkey.
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Kathryn @kath400blue.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Rachel Reeves could slash the Cash ISA limit to £4K — a win for hedge funds, a loss for the rest of us 💸 Even the banks are against it. Tell the govt to protect savers, not risky investments! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Protect Cash ISAs
Rumours are swirling that Rachel Reeves might slash the tax-free cap on Cash ISAs from £20,000 to £4,000 - after meeting with a group of bank executives. [1] Cash ISAs (individual savings accounts) ar...
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Kathryn @kath400blue.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Kathryn @kath400blue.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives.In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament.Your MP needs to hear about it: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!
We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thank you Clive Lewis 👏
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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I am not impressed by your looks, money, social status or job, I am impressed by the way you treat other human beings.
AND BY YOUR TASTE IN MUSIC.
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Kathryn @kath400blue.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...
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Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran
Stop Trump Coalition
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Kathryn @kath400blue.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives. In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament. Your MP needs to hear about it: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
actionnetwork.org
Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!
We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?
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Andy McDonald MP @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The welfare green paper proposals will drive disabled people into poverty and I will oppose that. I joined @disrightsuk.bsky.social and DPO Forum today to say I'm voting 'no' to disability benefit cuts. #TakingThePIP
Andy McDonald with fellow MPs holding placards from DPO Forum which read I'm voting no to disability benefit cuts.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/06/2025
CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/06/2025
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith: "Leaving the EU, a project spearheaded by Nigel Farage, has been a disaster for Welsh farmers, business owners and young people" 🚨 However, alignment with the EU could provide a 0.36% boost each year for Wales! www.bestforbritain.org/closer_uk_eu...
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Closer UK-EU ties can boost Welsh economy after Farage’s disastrous Brexit
Campaigners have called for closer UK-EU ties to boost the economy in Wales, highlighting the impact of Brexit on Welsh farmers, businesses and young people.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 09/06/2025
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history We know that net zero emission pathways will help us limit global temperature increases. Why are they not a priority for politicians? By Brian McHugh @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history
We know that net zero emission pathways will help us limit global temperature increases. Why are they not a priority for politicians?
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/06/2025
Labour today looking at the Polish election results.
Arrested development meme

SOMETIMES, CENTRIST PARTIES TRY AND SEE OFF THE FAR RIGHT BY ADOPTING ALL THE RHETORIC AND POLICIES OF THE FAR RIGHT.

WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE PEOPLE?

NO, IT NEVER DOES, I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT...

...BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If MPs’ salaries had grown at the same rate as junior doctors’ since 2010, they would earn about £72,312 today — roughly £19,000 less than their actual 2024 salary of £91,346 That's why doctors are balloting on potential strike action
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability and health benefits by Parliament's work and pensions committee. www.itv.com/news/2025-05...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/05/2025
Yorkshire Water warns of a hosepipe ban 'unless rain comes'. 🤔Here's a novel thought...maybe if the private water companies had invested adequately in infrastructure, they wouldn't have to have their fingers crossed hoping for a rain shower? We need water in public hands. 🌊
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As we continue to witness the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians, Keir Starmer’s government still denies it — while approving arms sales, including F-35s that enable 2,000lb bombs to rain down on Gaza. Israel’s genocide would not be possible without the government’s support.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Alf Dubs tells the News Agents that Keir Starmer's speech was reminiscent of Enoch Powell Saying that migration has made us a decent society
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Quoting Enoch Powell is never a coincidence. The Prime Minister knew what message he was sending — and who he was sending it to. Disgraceful.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The i Paper: Britons want Starmer to focus on Brexit reset - rather than cosying up to Trump inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Britons want Starmer to focus on Brexit reset - rather than cosying up to Trump
Starmer has faced repeated warnings that he have to choose between the US and EU
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
For #PublicHealth, control of our broken #FoodSystem has to be taken back from #BigFood, which includes limits on advertising. There is #NoRightToAdvertise www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Children eat more per day after watching just five minutes of junk food adverts
The finding highlights the pervasive impact of junk food marketing on children's diets
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Ending poverty could save £75bn a year
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Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity
Trussell is calling for an "essentials guarantee" to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Child poverty in the UK. A young child hospitalised with malnutrition leading to the loss of all her teeth. Years of austerity, real wage cuts, profiteering, two child benefit cap, cuts to public services take toll. Govts appease the rich, blight lives of many. archive.ph/IwH73
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‘The worst poverty we’ve seen’: How child, two, was hospitalised with malnutrition
Frontline workers describe horrific plight of chldren – including toddler who lost all her teeth and developed a heart condition
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "The last time people listened to Nigel Farage they got Brexit, Brexit has failed to deliver by his own admission" Gawain Towler (Farage's Press Adviser 2009-24), "We are the opposition"
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Spen @spenna240.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tax the super rich, it’s so fuckin simple
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/04/2025
The People's Water Commission interim report is out today. Public ownership... 🥇 delivers the best results in the world 💰 keeps bills low 💡 has the highest water quality 🔮 better protects water for the future. So why is the government ignoring it? weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
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Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Baby food pouches sold by Ella's Kitchen, Heinz, Piccolo, Little Freddie, Aldi, Lidl found to be low in nutrients. Companies must know this but still sell them as profits come before people. Lives blighted Regulators collude with corporations. Who protects the people?
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Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds
Parents are being
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If you live in Bristol, Bath, Northeast Somerset or Gloucestershire, if you don't want Arron Banks as your WECA mayor, vote for @mayorslayer.bsky.social! #GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Mayor is a meaningless job, says Reform’s man in mayoral race
Arron Banks, Nigel Farage’s pick to be mayor of the West of England, jokes that he will direct a deputy ‘from my chateau’. What does his rival think of that?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 27/04/2025
"the worst homelessness problem in the developed world" - who'd want to be governed by a Parliament that is so useless? Scotland needs to regain independence and remove Westminster's control forever. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Private landlords and hotels ‘cashing in’ on England’s hidden homelessness crisis
Exclusive: Half of local authorities charged double by private providers for temporary housing, investigation finds
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Tory MP IT Support
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Tory MP IT Support
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'm recovering from a breakdown at the moment and trying to get back on my feet with my workshops & Etsy. If you could maybe RT my new creative & mental health workshop (previous few posts today,Friday 25th) it would help so much to show it to a few more eyes. I'd really appreciate it, thankyou 🌿
Garden finds, early May
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Oxford for Europe @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For the hard of thinking: It’s good for our young ppl It’s good for our economy It’s good for our relations on our own continent We have similar schemes with 🇦🇺 & 🇨🇦 It isn’t Free Movement. (Sadly). Let’s end the footdragging on youth mobility now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Labour MPs urge Starmer to back youth mobility scheme amid EU trade reset
More than 60 MPs sign letter calling for time-limited visas for 18- to 30-year-olds to travel freely
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looks like Canadians are about to have a similar damascene conversion that Finland has just experienced Voters seem to be thinking that Right Wing politics and politicians are bad for your health, your wallet and your international standing Hello Britain, are you waking up yet?
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 24/04/2025
Starmer promised change. Instead, Labour clings to caution and appeases the right. Where do the disillusioned centre-left go now? asks @peterthurlow.bsky.social #LabourGovernment
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Show us some love, Labour, or it’s all over between us
Starmer's caution frustrates Labour’s base – timid policies, broken promises, and no bold vision in sight
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Zonal electricity pricing. Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up. Don't do it. Will add £3bn+ to customer bills, Increase fuel poverty & business costs, hike energy industry profits, hinder development of national infrastructure. Instead, end profiteering
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Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up
Ed Miliband’s looming decision on electricity market changes could mean regional bill disparities for households
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/04/2025
🚅Want to end the Great British Train Robbery? ✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition. 🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade. Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
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Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
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