Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators 856156264530
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026In 1970 the Government owned Energy, it owned Water, it owned Rail, it owned Mail, it owned Steel, it owned Shipbuilding, it owned Oil and Gas. There was a 100% tax on these industries profits. Now many of them pay 0% tax. That is where all the money has gone. 1128595
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/01/2026This should piss everyone off, and our tax dollars paid for this. A massive building purchased by ICE for $70 million in Arizona to “warehouse” immigrants. Calling this “housing” is a lie. This is storage. This is treating human beings like inventory. 79568853827
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGreen Party Bolton @boltongreenparty.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Cllr Toby Hewitt of the Bolton Conservatives recently dismissed efforts to tackle climate change as a “socialist ideology of the Left.” Bolton is already experiencing the consequences of a warming climate and extreme weather. If you believe in real climate action, join @greenparty.org.uk 💚 011
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025This man has access to your NHS data. 69537
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/11/2025Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians". He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA 841414501
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...bylinetimes.comNigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young PeopleThe Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy 1111827936
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialElthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @elthampug.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The UAE is awash with dirty money and criminals, of course that’s want he wants! 082
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialjoczechowska.bsky.social @joczechowska.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Tice wants sharia law in UK?? 052
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Trump is running the government and the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=AXCJAp8jz78…youtu.beHow Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert ReichRobert Reich 461346417
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Why did the BBC broadcast Nigel Farage uninterrupted for 56 minutes this morning? Nobody wants this, he has 4 seats, does any other party gets this coverage? The biased people at the BBC putting Nigel Farage on day after day need to be removed. 65749274
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away 634737875
lauraborealisuk.bsky.social @lauraborealisuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I was quite surprised to see it. I imagine it's performative Christianity as an act of aggression against Islam, and perhaps to appease some American Christian nationalist donors. I wonder how many of them actually attend church 🙄 010
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialAlex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I'm not American and I knew nothing about Mr Kirk before he was killed, so I refrain from posting on the US aspects of his death. OTOH I know Boris Johnson and I am concerned about UK politics. If this is the type of "free speech" that Johnson and the UK right wants to defend, I am appalled. 1820765
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialLisa @lisanv.bsky.social · 11/09/2025But this has been ignored. 941189
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today. 94105122034
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialAmanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 11/09/2025When access to guns is lax all are vulnerable. If you're a controversial shitstirrer, left or right, you're even more vulnerable. If you have openly advocated access to guns for all, there is a certain sick irony if you're shot dead. Acknowledging the irony is not enjoying Kirk's death. The reverse. 021
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I can hold the dialectic that Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was horrific and dangerous, and I also don’t want to live in a country where speakers at universities get shot in the neck. 2972387
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025This is important. 'We don’t know what that company is for but if Musk did want to pour £100m into the next UK election, as it’s been reported, this is how he could do it.' From the UK Government's website👇👀 find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1613... 45486333
lauraborealisuk.bsky.social @lauraborealisuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025@robespierre1794.bsky.social could we harness your long sighs as an alternative energy source? 🤣🤣 000
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/09/2025So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgDriven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causesKatie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease 3530251149
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 09/09/2025We've all experienced having to stand in a packed train while first class sits completely empty. It makes no sense to divide up our trains like this. Our railways should be welcoming, inclusive and accessible to all. It's time to scrap first class and return those seats to use. 516547
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialDr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Very important aspect of the pull factor for refugees coming to the UK in small boats aired on the Today program. Asylum claimants who have already been rejected by an EU country, are no longer automatically barred from the UK since Brexit. Applicants coming here get a second bite of the cherry. 1313650
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Politico: "The Sun has seen evidence to [a US] committee submitted by Nigel Farage in which he suggests the White House should use “diplomacy and trade” in the free speech battle, which sounds like calling for Britain to be bullied into a law change." Is Farage calling for sanctions AGAINST the UK? 781071470
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGet PR Done! @getprdone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025‘The top 10 countries in the 2025 Global Social Progress Index all use proportional representation’ When all votes count social outcomes improve. #getPRdone #ProportionalRepresentation www.socialprogress.org/alti-global-... 37349
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialDr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful. 335115232059
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialTax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Opposition to a #WealthTax— brought to you by those who think workers' rights have "gotten ridiculous." What's ridiculous is the idea that someone with £15million would leave the country over £100k. That's 0.67% of their wealth, equivalent to £300 if you had £50k. They wouldn't even notice it. 2016878
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialSnarknado @snarknado55.bsky.social · 19/08/2025"nothing about the future "? ...does the Tangerine Palpatine know what a museum is? 🤔 1421
lauraborealisuk.bsky.social @lauraborealisuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025So the yuka app doesn't rate strawberry daiquiri 🤣 000
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/08/2025Is this keeping politics out of football? 🤔 1515641
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialJuan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 18/08/2025U.K. has postal votes…. Trump’s lying (unsurprisingly) 5311
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Reform is made up exclusively of unserious, irresponsible, race-baiting grifters, hoping to be swept to power on a wave of vengeful ignorance and an absence of any scrutiny. If they were held to account - by papers like the Times - then maybe they’d be nowhere. And certainly not eyeing up peerages. 1023858
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialMartin Robertson @martinrobertson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Have you noticed that despite every technological advancement which makes things easier and cheaper that nothing gets cheaper and the prices keep going up? Nobody is allowed more spare time and politicians talk about perpetual "work" with no reward. 0125
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Why can't people afford to live? It might be our world beating Energy prices that are 2/3rds profit Or our Food prices that have gone from among the lowest in Europe to nearly the highest in just 6 years Rent is also crazy high and train fares Who is all the money going to? 1826084
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Nesrine Malik on the PM's language on asylum, especially on his X account www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comHere’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine MalikHe is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 511752
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/08/2025How is this even possible? We have a desperate shortage of GPs, patients are waiting weeks for a GP appointment yet fully qualified GPs can’t get work. Surely this needs fixing urgently www.gponline.com/huge-rise-gp... 31381155
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025I think Labour’s problem is that, as power has shifted to technocrats over recent decades, its ambitions have shrunk to chasing populist policies shaped by an algorithmically skewed version of public opinion, one amplified by rage-bait rather than grounded in reality. 611050192
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I remember when this happened. 7463169711431
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This is a huge and highly consequential story in @theecologist.org We have no idea what is being traded away to secure deals with other countries, and it turns out we are not allowed to know. So much for democracy. theecologist.org/2025/jul/23/...theecologist.orgBrexit trade meetings remain a state secretSecrecy maintained over the extent to which Britain is willing to abandon environmental and consumer protections to secure trade deals after Brexit. 871342685
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/07/2025 1097257919119
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2) 471406719
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I just want to remind people that Water is free, it drops out of the sky. Saying you should be paying as much for Water as you should for Energy, like Reform were claiming on the BBC today, is as ridiculous as saying a bicycle should be as expensive as a motorcycle. 811228
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialThe Spooky Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The suspensions will continue until morale improves 0121
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialmagstarshine99 @magstarshine99.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Trump thinks families who ask for accountability from elected officials following deadly floods are evil… He and Abbott think PARENTS who have lost CHILDREN demanding accountability are evil. These people are vile. 632427
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025In the 1960s more than 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government, everything spent on Water, Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity, Social Housing, Telecoms, Steel, Ships... Now it's less than 5%, and all that goes to billionaires Tax Havens That's why there is no money 8324126
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Kemi Badenoch says we can save £9 billion by reducing support for people who need it, even though as a nation we spend so much less on welfare support than similar nations What Kemi Badenoch won't tell you is that if you tax wealth over £10m with a 2% tax, you'll generate over £24 billion 29313122
Reposted by @lauraborealisuk.bsky.socialMake Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025If you agree, join our movement and let's end this unfair and outdated system for good. makevotesmatter.org.uk/join-the-mov...makevotesmatter.org.ukJoin the movement - Make Votes Matter 02613
lauraborealisuk.bsky.social @lauraborealisuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Macron sure knows how to make a speech! 000
