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Stu Rolley

@magpiestu.bsky.social
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Retired environmentalist surrounded by brilliant woman. UK politics, Golf, Gaming, Spaniels and Notts County are my passions.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEW: Some evidence in today’s government stats that asylum backlog is reducing: - 64,000 people awaiting an initial asylum decision, 48% lower than 2024 - 107,000 people in receipt of asylum support, 5% lower than a year prior - 31,000 asylum seekers in hotels, 19% lower than year before
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ignore the professional gloomsters and doomsters. - Borrowing ⬇️ (record surplus last month) - Inflation (and interest rates) ⬇️ - UK fastest growing European G7 economy - Retail sales up 4.5% over the year There’s lots more to do but Britain’s economy is on the mend.
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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I wrote this about The Guardian.
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Sad sweet dreamers
The editorial stance of The Guardian newspaper, as well as the opinions of its columnists, is of little relevance to The Great British Public. Certainly not compared to that of the Mail, Sun and the r...
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Read this, please. It is excellent.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NHS waiting lists have fallen to their LOWEST level in three years. THAT is the difference a LABOUR government makes. #Labour
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Go back to Monaco.
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Man who supported governments that cut public services for fourteen years complains about cuts to police, schools and healthcare.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wes Streeting: "In an emergency, every minute matters. We’ve delivered 500 new ambulances to help cut response times and keep more vehicles on the road this winter. This government is doing all we can to back staff with the modern equipment they need to do their jobs safely and effectively."
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The ‘People’s Reform Party’ pissed £16k up the wall on helicopter joyrides and £5k on a chauffeur for Anne Widdecombe in 2024. 2025’ll be worse. Donate if you like being mugged off by posh hate tourists from Dubai cosplaying as “working people."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/12/2025
The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Alex Norris MP @alexjjnorris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I am so proud to be able to be part of a government that is finally delivering for our communities. For years the Tories underfunded local government, and we all paid the price. Now Labour is investing in our communities again, with £234m for Nottinghamshire County and £154m for Nottingham City.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Reform UK’s first West Northamptonshire Budget Full Council Tax 5%, free parking scrapped, charities to be charged for using parks and Blue Badged disabled free parking being removed. Tell us Zia Yusuf, is that what you had in mind as DOGE head?
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This year, we gave working parents 30 hours of government-funded childcare, saving them up to £7,500. We're keeping up momentum to provide more high-quality early years education, giving children growing up in our country the best start in life. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Record £9.5 billion early years investment
Record £9.5 billion early years investment next year to help families access affordable childcare and boost growth by supporting parents back into work
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Luke Akehurst MP @luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Enough repeat medication to last you over the festive bank holiday? Don’t get caught short this Christmas and New Year! REMEMBER to order your repeat prescriptions in plenty of time. Use the NHS App or visit your local pharmacy or GP surgery online ordering system. #HereToHelp
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Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It is days like this that remind us why we do it. Yes, I'll get back in the weeds in the new year. Yes, it's not always easy being a Labour member. BUT! YES it's totally totally worth it when we make such an important difference to worker's lives. Merry Christmas.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 14/12/2025
Just for those who may be a little confused: “Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students being college sophomores this year.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Seems Labour have been effective. The UK is poised to record its longest period without Channel migrant crossings in seven years, no arrivals since mid-November. This marks an uninterrupted stretch of 27 days without new arrivals, as of December 11. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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UK set for longest stretch without migrant boat crossings for seven years
The most arrivals ever recorded in the month of December is 3,254, in 2024
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
For the record: 📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers 📈 Trainee teachers up 11% 📈 Physics up 36% 📈 Computing up 44% 📈 Maths up 16% 📈 Attendance improving 📈 Behaviour improving Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them. #PMQs
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Tell me in last 15 years what were the Tories doing? Labour 17 months: Renters Rights Workers Rights Hillsborough Law National Youth Strategy Awasbs Law Martha’s Law FFS what are people moaning about?
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I admire this about the PM, from interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
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Juan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 02/12/2025
Yet, what is the message that the media has pumped out?
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
But I’ve been assured by people having 5 day twitter meltdowns on this subject that this isn’t true
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
Graph showing decline since 2005
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Juliet Campbell MP @julietcampbellmp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🛣️🚗 Labour is DOUBLING the amount of cash for roads including £700 million for the East Midlands.🚗 🛣️ Providing long-term investment and increasing the amount available to councils that publish their pothole data will save money on costly patchwork repairs and ensure councils are held accountable.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 29/11/2025
It feels like what you'd get if all the shittest factions from NUS conferences 1985-2015 all formed a political party. And that's because it actually is a party formed by all the shittiest factions from NUS conference.
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Stu Rolley @magpiestu.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I love football!
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That isn’t a red in a million years
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/11/2025
ah yay yes, let's bring in the rape apologists
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 27/11/2025
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of the Greens
Letter from Usdaw union to the Green Party asking why their peers voted with the Tories against workers rights
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Stolen from FB
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Out on the town having the time of my life doing some non-hurtful antisemitic banter with a bunch of Jewish friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too
Nigel Farage laughing
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
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Shane @shane11.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Here is a Reminder. In this video LOTO Keir Starmer calls for a circuit breaker lockdown. He was ridiculed heavily both by the PM and the Tory press. Turns out he was right all along. How many dead people would be here if we had him as our leader? youtu.be/rsEkDaRQkdA?...
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Just wow! No other words needed! www.instagram.com/reel/DROtAhw...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You won't see anything more embarrassing today. Guaranteed
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I would urge people to listen carefully to the Home Secretary's full speech in the Commons on Asylum & consider the full range of measures, the examples & the comments on other countries. You don't have to like it all, but there ARE things which many have called for. Here is the first 3 mins. 1/4
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny …evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy.
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Reform UK’s energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/11/2025
The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
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