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Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social · 4h
This is absolutely unbelievable. Only Iran and Afghanistan carried out public executions last year and such a macabre spectacle was rightly consigned to history by all decent countries over 100 years ago. American civilisation is going backwards under Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch is right. Water privatisation has been a success. For water company shareholders and top executives. Just not for the rest of us.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h
This is clearly a good result for Labour, but it also doesn't strike me as a terrible result for the Greens. Vote share held up from the local elections in a constituency that was never really a target for them
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfectly put.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/10/2026
TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL Andy Burnham make it 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, let it go bust if it can't, then take over. OR just buy it back at a discount as a vital 500 year old asset. vist.ly/5mhfz
morningstaronline.co.uk
Ministers urged to ‘save’ Royal Mail as up to 2,500 jobs set to go
UNIONS called on ministers to save the Royal Mail today after it announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.Communication Workers Union deputy general secretary Martin Walsh said that the proposals will affect some 200 CWU-represented jobs in administration and revenue protection.“We urge the government to confront the reality of a collapsing Royal Mail and intervene to save this national institution,” he said.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Reform want to rollback workers' rights and cut taxes for billionaires. Spain did the opposite - and has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/10/2026
LET THEM GO BUST ! Last year, Thames Water took out a £3bn loan - at 9.75% interest. And now they want another £2.4bn to keep going?! ENOUGH. If water companies can't survive without rip-off loans, they should be declared insolvent and brought into public hands through special administration.
Screenshot from The Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2026: "Thames Water seeks £2.4bn lifeline after rescue plan stalls Troubled utility risks more financial turmoil if its army of hedge fund backers do not provide emergency cash", above a graphic of the Thames Water logo swirling down a drain.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in January www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 NEW POLLING: Nigel Farage has suffered another slide in his personal ratings as Reform struggles to maintain the polling advantage it enjoyed earlier this year. The Independent's latest poll tracker says Farage's favourability has fallen to -36, compared with a previous high of -27 last summer.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did you know? In 1975 the United Nations general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination" (the resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks)
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/10/2026
Everyone: We should tax the banks. Banks: This would be a disaster! Also banks: We are all making so much money it wouldn't even materially affect us.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
It's not looking good for Nigel Farage 👀
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Reform UK Slump Continues As Labour Hit Near Two-Year Opinion Poll High
Nigel Farage’s party continues to lose support.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Hilarious." via Barry James
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Devoid of ideas, Tories vow return to Thatcherite policies. They want to cut social spending, build prisons, cut taxes for the rich, free childcare for individuals earning £1m. What will they privatise, sell to foreign investors? No ideas on infrastructure investment, regulation of capitalism.
independent.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch positions herself as modern day Thatcher and vows to revive Tories
The Tory leader dismissed suggestions that her focus on cutting benefits and building more prisons signalled a return of the ‘nasty party’
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reform Councillor and group leader Ryan Coogan has been arrested for making false statements on nomination papers. It’s a mystery why a party whose leadership are under investigation by the police, NCA and Parliamentary Commissioner seems to attract so many dodgy characters...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If only the Tories had as much concern for families on the minimum wage cliffedge as they obviously do for those on the £100,000 cliffedge
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The irony is that I consider Suella Braverman - born in Harrow, raised in Surbiton, educated at Cambridge - as thoroughly English. Even if she wants to deny that obvious fact.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reform UK are foxes looking after the chickens "Reform councillor James Sawkins—who was literally IN CHARGE of "Safer and Stronger Communities"—forced to STEP DOWN after appearing in COURT over Class A drugs and illegal medicine charges! ..." www.facebook.com/politicsinth... via Politics in the U.K
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nigel Farage wants us to believe that ex-Tories responsible for 000s of austerity deaths who defected to Reform UK are going to fix all the problems they created "This poster was used in the 2024 election campaign 85% of the Tories featured defected to Reform after the election" via Barry James
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Robert Jenrick wants you to believe Reform fixed 200,000 “potholes and roads” in Nottinghamshire. What he doesn't mention is where the money came from. £44.7 million of the council's £52.4 million highways capital funding came through East Midlands Combined County Authority.' via Truth Against Hate
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We don't want violent men in ill fitting balaclavas intimidating people and trying to take over – that's not democracy and they're not patriots " via The UK Against Hate
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Hundreds turned up for the West Midlands Against Racism Unity March and Rally" via Birmingham Live www.facebook.com/birmingham.l...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The Brexit Con, that Boris with The Tories and Farage did with his 'The Brexit Party' all really pushed for, to make the Rich even Richer, The NHS got 'Nothing' and for Farage to eventually become a so called MP and he knew exactly that the Boat Crossings would get worse ..." via Angel Stroyan
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
".. the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military has raided Birzeit university. The soldiers stormed the campus.. with a bulldozer & military vehicles. They demolished a memorial dedicated to 40 Palestinian students killed by the Israeli military"
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For a long time I've heard rumours of Reform UK supporting Islamophobes who warn of dangers of Sharia law happily holidaying and buying flats in Dubai which runs under Sharia law If true, they should be forced to wear a T-shirt proclaiming 'I'm a far right hypocrite' meme via We Demand UK
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Things are getting rather interesting over at Reform UK. Nigel Farage has now been questioned by the parliamentary standards commissioner over the £5 million gift he received "Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Your enemy is not travelling by small boat, they are travelling by private jet" via The UK Against Hate Ps Nigel Farage was so concerned about struggles of ordinary people he flew to super-rich conference at Davos by private jet to tell billionaires they'd be even richer of he got into No. 10
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Ninety years ago [yesterday], Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first. Jewish ..." via Hope Not Hate www.facebook.com/hope.n.hate/...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reform leader on London council accused of 'stoking hatred' with 'import the third world' remark after stabbing www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
Reform leader on London council accused of 'stoking hatred' after stabbing
Hillingdon councillor Sophie Dror has come under fire for the comment she made in a social media group following a machete attack
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
🚨 Nigel Farage was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from a crypto-billionaire.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if all the ex-Tories who joined Reform UK will see the (polling) light and beg for forgiveness ...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Do not Trust Reform They will stop all our Benefits" via Mark Holyer
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More lying-by-omission right-wing outrage exposed meme via FascinatingAvocados
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Another Reform council leader under investigation… Reform UK’s group leader on Huntingdonshire District Council, Ryan Coogan, has been arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. He was elected in May ..." via Reform Are Not Your Friends www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"As the Prime Minister declared in Liverpool: privatisation of the water industry in England has failed. Debate is now not whether change is needed, but in what form." Read an extract from our new briefing "Crystal Clear" on our Substack: cmmonwealth.substack.com/p/why-public...
cmmonwealth.substack.com
Why Public Ownership of Water is Better than Alternative Proposals
An extract from our new briefing “Crystal Clear”.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"... It’s your roads. Your bins. Your libraries. Your children’s services. Your council tax. And when those making the decisions won’t answer questions, face scrutiny or even turn up to vote, it’s local democracy that suffers ..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
The PM said 'all the options' for our future relationship with Europe are on the table. Our research shows that only EU membership makes sense. Newxt week, MPs will debate rejoining the EU. Ask your MP to attend: bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell…
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trying to outdo Reform UK who want tax cuts for the super-rich ... "Wow, the Tories really have their finger on the pulse!" via Patrick Nicholson ps They hope we've forgotten ... 4 April 2015 "Tories plan to close Sure Start centres" www.ier.org.uk/news/tories-...
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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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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 05/10/2026
LBC's Matthew Wright confessed to being 'a bit wobbly' on the case for public ownership of water. So we told him. 1/3 of your water bill is dribbling out to service debts and line shareholder pockets. That's money that could be reinvested in improving the service. Public ownership's a no-brainer.
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