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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I understand justice matters but the reopening of cold cases is surely going too far now

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is so wonderful. Seeing the PM and Chancellor chatting with the French President about Larry the Cat and his social media posts!

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

REFORM TODAY: Polls falling Membership collapsing Far right splintered MPs vanishing Councils in chaos. Councillors resigning Elect clowns expect a circus

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a group of clowns are posing for a photo and one has a mcdonald 's hat on

ALT: a group of clowns are posing for a photo and one has a mcdonald 's hat on

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I have never heard of this woman before. She is now my hero.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A busy few days for Labour, ten more things in action from them including changes to Employment Rights Bill for couples that miscarry and ban on NDAs for sexual misconduct of staff/visitors. Protecting workers every step of the way. Wage growth up too!!

1. Pioneering neighbourhood health teams to begin in most deprived areas
2. £100m fine for 7 house builders accused of price rigging/sharing info
3. Wage growth including inflation in May: • UK: 2.3% • Netherlands:1.8%• Germany: 1.6% • France: 1.1%
4. Services sector rebounding. Activity rose at fastest rate in 10 months (S&P)
5. Business confidence at 9-year high The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer rose to 51%, the highest since Nov 2015.
6. Britain is the #1 most attractive place to invest : Deloitte survey.
7. Five major road schemes in the north and Midlands are confirmed
8. To deliver 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments every year
9. UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
10. Employment Rights Bill to give parents the legal right to take time off work to grieve if they experience pregnancy loss
11. The number of people feeling financially secure has risen this quarter by 3%

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The final section covers: + A Modern Industrial Strategy You can sign up to recieve it here: act.labour.org.uk/p/sign_up 4/4

A Modern Industrial Strategy

In June, Labour announced its new Modern Industrial Strategy, a plan to improve business investment and create good jobs across the country.

What does this mean?

It means more than 7,000 British businesses – supporting up to 300,000 skilled jobs – will see their electricity bills slashed by up to 25% from 2027.

This 10-year plan will create 1.1 million good, well, paid jobs in thriving industries and deliver our Plan for Change.

This builds on the work we’ve already done to prioritise better jobs for Britain, with around 380,000 new jobs in the UK economy since July of last year.

Key talking points:

A new plan to cut energy bills for 7,000 key growth businesses.
An extra £1.2bn a year for skills programmes, with programmes aimed at digital, defence and engineering.
More money and support for small and medium businesses to adopt new technologies and grow.
Businesses have been calling for an industrial strategy for years, but under three successive Prime Ministers the Tories refused to deliver one, driving down investment and job creation.

Labour knows that the only way to grow the economy is to give businesses the security to invest and create good jobs.

"We’ve said from day one Britain is back in business under this government, and the £100 billion of investment we’ve secured in the past year shows our Plan for Change is already delivering for working people."

Jonathan Reynolds, Business and Trade Secretary

Thank you for reading the first edition of The Labour Rosette. None of the progress we’ve shared here would be possible without you. Whether you have supported us for years, or have just joined us, thank you for standing with us as we begin the work of national renewal.

This is just the beginning. We’ll be back next month with more updates from across Government – and more on how we’re delivering real change.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Thought this infographic was pretty good So sharing

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Kindness @purplepeace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Labour busy again this week. Confirmation on a number of key areas from defence, investment, planning and training. 12 new initiatives

1. UK Serious Fraud Office joins global anti-corruption alliance
2. Support for banks and large companies in developing climate transition plans
3. Zone will develop semiconductor hub in Newport & Cardiff science & tech park
4. New Trade Strategy to protect and boost British business
5. Investigation into Maternity care
6. A faster, more efficient planning appeals process
7. Thousands of people set to benefit from on-the-job training and career opportunities in the construction sector.
8. Foreign prisoners to be deported sooner
9. UK to provide hundreds of air defence missiles for Ukraine with money from seized Russian assets
10. Amazon to invest £40bn in Uk building warehouses and creating jobs (rising from £8bn previously pledged)
11. Poorest parts of England to get £2.2bn more for NHS to cut care inequalities
12. Defence Dept acquiring 8 new war planes
13. New joint Defence / NHS healthcare centre to open in Caterick Yorkshire

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Tim @oldnotdead.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Just a short one from JP @atpgeo.bsky.social Breaking News: Trump Publishes Private Message from Mark Rutte, SecGen NATO www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdjw...

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Breaking News: Trump Publishes Private Message from Mark Rutte, SecGen NATO

YouTube video by ATP Geopolitics

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 20/06/2025

How the hell did this get on GeeBeebies? Natalie Fleet MP is inspiring!

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tories only realised Brexit impact on small boats ‘just before’ leaving EU. Chris Philp says in leaked audio that Tories ‘ran some checks’ just prior to Brexit and realised ‘around half’ of small boat arrivals could have been returned under EU law www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Tories only realised Brexit impact on asylum ‘just before’ leaving EU, admits MP

Chris Philp says in leaked audio that Tories ‘ran some checks’ just prior to Brexit and realised ‘around half’ of small boat arrivals could have been returned under EU law

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il Cane Saggio @bardolino.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

In my view Starmer has quickly become a very useful, well respected and influential world leader. It has been a long long time since the UK has had one of those.

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Ukrainian partisan @kyivbrit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Here we are again, the orange man has good connections. Ego and greed, what can one expect?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/06/2025

For ten minutes, Wilf Frost tried to get Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp to accept the rank hypocrisy in saying his party was totally right not to do something for 14 years AND Starmer totally wrong for not doing it sooner than six months. But it was like arguing with a tenacious parakeet. ~AA

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

hope it is not too embarassing (for english people) to have an Irish person point out today is Arthur Cockfield day. ten days before daniel hannan day. no less.

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OskiDarski @oskidarski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Your law enforcement officers aren't trained to do anything other than fire guns. That one is clearly intellectually challenged.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Vat on private schools, Brexit benefit. Oh the irony.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Been a full on week for Labour. I’ve gathered just a few highlights. Most important in my view, is Mone. Being held accountable for her failed PPE supply. I hope we get our money back. Daylight robbery under Labour does not pay

1. Michelle Mone in Court being sued for £122m unusable PPE plus storage plus interest
2. Sickle cell patients to get better treatment after £9m boost
3. £500m boost for hydrogen to create thousands of British jobs
4. Additional £96m for the Crown Prosecution Service
5. 1st time in 17 years, the NHS cut waiting lists in the month of April.
6. Funds for crackdown on fraud, bribery and corruption
7. Agreement on Gibraltar with EU
8. Extra £29bn for NHS
9. Free breakfast clubs extended to every primary school pupil in England
10. Free school meals in England extended to all children with a parent on UC.
11. £39bn over ten years to build social rent, affordable rent, and shared ownership homes
12. The £3 cap on single fares in England is staying for two more years.
13. £2.3bn a year to repair ageing school buildings
14. Abortion decriminalised in England

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Brian Shorey @kakistokrat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Here's what is being ignored while we humans quibble and bicker: In May 2025, the atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii was reported to have reached 430.5 ppm. This represents a new record high and the highest concentration in over 2 million years.

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Fcuking idiot

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” The New Colossus- Emma Lazarus

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Devaney 🇬🇧🇩🇪 @daveleo72.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

He had the cards all along. Meanwhile Mr Taco was holding this🃏

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70andexhausted.bsky.social @70andexhausted.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL not only does he not read, but he has no understanding of history! And has to be corrected in public by an involved foreign leader! What a maroon! What a buffoon! What a deflated balloon!

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Kindness @purplepeace.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Good morning blue sky family/ community We wake up daily with news of chaos and destruction from our leadership! We also see the rise of the American people growing and winning special elections !Remember are winning and together we collectively are seeing change before our eyes!

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The day Farage and Reform have an original idea, instead of copying everything Trump administration does or says, like a third rate, sh*t tribute act I’ll win the National Lottery 👇🏼 Reform to begin Musk-style audits of councils 🙄🙄

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Kent County Council to be subject of Reform's first Reform to begin Musk-style audits of councils

Reform says a team lead by an as-yet unnamed tech entrepreneur will review council spending in Kent.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"As a rule, I don’t react immediately to large scale mass casualty incidents. Not because I don’t care – but because I know what I am: a social media commentator, miles away from the scene... Populist far-right agitators don’t seem to share that restraint though."

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What the Liverpool incident tells us about the new culture war

Forty-seven people were injured. The facts were clear. But the far-right had already written the script

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I still think represents the most shocking void in the UK’s COVID response - when the largest biomedical facility offered to undertake testing (many universities did the same) the government didn’t even answer. The cost would have been minimal. But no profit for private companies… is that it?

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is really interesting. The Labour government has got 17 workplace pension providers covering 90% of active savers’ defined contribution pensions to agree to invest at least 10% of their funds into key infrastructure projects and assets, mostly in the UK. It could see up to £50bn invested. 1/2

gov.uk

Pension schemes back British growth

Mansion House Accord unlocks up to £50 billion investment for the economy, with first commitments to invest in the UK.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

News you may have missed yesterday in all the hysteria! The Labour government announced almost £20m investment in specialist services to support victims of crime, specifically abuse, sexual violence and stalking. The money will fund a range of services from helplines to offering aid.

gov.uk

Vital support for victims in £20 million funding boost

Thousands more victims to access life-saving support through a £19.9 million investment in specialist services.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Can you say a lack of value is still placed on care work when Labour are looking to 'professionalise' the work and see pay increases alongside that? Whilst also running an independent commission on the future of social care?

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It's hard after 14 years of the Tories, but you have to trust the government. They have the data, the information (most of which is published somewhere) and will have done the projections on outcomes. The Home Sec is one of the brightest people in government. This plan will be well thought through.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We have apparently a pool of 40k already here without a job - partly due to 10k arriving to find they had been exploited & no job existed. The rest are down to other reasons, such as their sponsor losing their license to sponsor due to dodgy practices. So we need to recruit them first.

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winstons25.bsky.social @winstons25.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excellent thread.As always the devil is in the detail which of course will matter not a jot to those who just want to bash the Government.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In wider moves the government is also addressing pay through Fair Pay Agreements, expanding the Care Workforce Pathway to professionalism the workforce, and is conducting an independent commission on adult social care to fundamentally reform the sector. 3/3

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Many found the jobs they came for did not even exist. As a result, we have 40k displaced people who have arrived in the UK on existing visas, but have no job. These people and anyone else on existing visas can still be employed, change employers and can extend their visa. 2/3

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is an important explanation of the government's plans in relation to care worker visas. A major aim is to tackle abuse & exploitation by rogue organisations, 470 who have lost their ability to sponsor workers since 2022. The people they sponsored were left with large debts & mistreated. 1/3

gov.uk

Overseas recruitment for care workers to end

International recruitment for care workers will end under plans announced by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit. These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Alcatraz, Gulf of America, a third term, being Pope. All distractions. So well done to the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world for focusing on a story that matters. Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

Under the title is a picture of Trump’s kids with their spouses and own children. They are stood solemnly outside what looks like a church. They are looking on at Melania who is seen in the foreground out of focus.
The headline says: The Firm: Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

👇🏼 How it started And after elections how it👇🏼turned out for council residents Next time you burst a tyre, trash a wheel, break your suspension on a pothole that hasn’t been fixed for months Remember The important task of trying in vain to stop migrants being put in hotels is where the £’s went

Image is Farage behind lectern saying Reform will fix it pre elections

Image is headline from Sunday telegraph about reform councils taking govt to court to stop asylum hotels

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