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Linda Stansbury

@lindra.bsky.social
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Long suffering wife, mother & Optical Dispenser, stuck in my comfort zone. Still harbour the notion that I can change the world, although when push comes to shove, usually can’t be arsed. The Isle Of Skye is my happy place!

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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley Bread & circuses people, bread & circuses!
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/10/2026
The ‘Iran War’ - is barely 8 months old, but in that time our own homegrown green energy sources (the wind and the sun) have saved us nearly £6 billion. buff.ly/AK0bDXo
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t know, isn’t current leader pro Russia/Putin, so could it be our support of Ukraine?
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think Kemi is a naturally likeable person, like Starmer but in a different way. If you were upset: Burnham would take the time to listen, console you and make you feel better. Starmer wouldn’t notice you were upset. Kemi would explain why it is your fault and how she is better.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yep
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh & apparently ‘privatisation has been a success.’ That will be news to anyone who pays water billls in England, as well as those paying some of the highest prices for rail & energy in Europe!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals Yay… Austerity Mark II
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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also, it could be that much of the growth we had during that decade, was in no small part, due to being part of the EU!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Actually, it’s closer to 33 years out of the last 48 if we’re going to be a bit pedantic about it, so my criticism, ultimately stands!!!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m in Scotland, so have a number of options when it comes to voting, and the Tories have been in office for 25 years of the last 40 or so. So I will continue to hold them mostly accountable, thanks!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really think it’s the Tories & their failure to build any more than a few hundred additional prison places over their 14+ yrs in power, who they ought to be thanking!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ben Gvir, taking all the wrong lessons from today’s apparent plane hijacking incident 🤦‍♀️
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a case of do as he says, not as does, obviously!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh I dunno, Marr’s pretty toothless too. Frequently find myself shouting at the radio when his interviewees spout garbage & go completely unchallenged!
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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
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She’s as mad as a box of frogs, and seems to be incapable of talking in anything other than culture war soundbites.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is an attack on Russian disinformation an attack on Reform? Find out in the latest edition of Nigel's Notes. Please share if you enjoy it and you can subscribe for free to get these straight to your inbox. parodypm.substack.com/p/big-burnha...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remind me where Carswell done a lot of his growing up?
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
99 red balloons 🎈
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
🤔 ICYMI: Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I do not believe that any company owned by by the super rich, who do not reside, pay full tax in the UK or sufficiently invest in the country, should get any sort of subsidy or support.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a blatant threat to the RNLI, who are currently out of action in Portsmouth - ergo not saving lives, because staff are being terrorised. When will Mahmood take domestic terrorism of this nature seriously.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Harborne: “My £36M is a philanthropic gift to the nation” Delo: “My £36M creates a level playing field for Reform” Farage: “I’ll slash CGT to save you £100M/yr” Reform: bought by millionaires to enrich millionaires. Reform voters… They. Are. Laughing. At. You. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks
Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nope!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I know that was meant to be serious & profound, but that has to be one of the lamest & most laughable displays I’ve ever seen… prick!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So we’re basically fucked then!
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/09/2026
Ridiculous sums of money don’t level the playing field - they distort it. It’s increasingly urgent that we get to grips with Political funding in Britain - our democracy is for sale to the highest bidder.
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ladies & gentlemen, our democracy is being bought by a guy who says he donating to Reform in order to [checks notes] save democracy. Absolutely no way now for Forage to claim he’s anti establishment, while taking big bucks from guys with vested interests!
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know that element that makes us human, & capable of normal human responses, well Jenrick doesn’t have it, he’s deficient, devoid, empty & hollow. He appears to have had a total empathy bypass. Although I bet he’d be calling this out as disgusting if it had been a right winger attacked!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I forgot to mention at the time that this poll was commissioned by Reform and paid for illegally with foreign money. Silly me.
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He’s an utterly graceless twat
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Each & every one of them a ridiculous clown!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Farage in 2016: “The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today.” 10 years after 'today'' "98.2% of UK businesses want to rejoin the EU single market" meme via Mina Rodgers
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
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Linda Stansbury @lindra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In spite of overwhelming evidence of the beneficial effects ULEZ has had on the lung development of children. He’s an absolute cockwomble!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.
Nigel Farage 
@Nigel_Farage
Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence.
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