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Damnation! I can't abide anything going in his favour or giving him a chance to feel positive. 😡

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That would be great, and even greater if we didn't have to wait for an election.

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... and a 2/3rd cup of tea that went cold.

It's stressful Mary. Hard to compare like for like, each company has A. different aspects of cover + B. different compulsory/voluntary excesses. I write a list of what quote 1 offers for A + B, then compare other quotes to that. AA were best this year! A call to your provider can 🤞 bring £ down too.

MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've think the Santa story is like a catch them young gateway drug for the class A drug of religion. Children are told there's a bearded man who invisibly watches them and knows everything, judges whether they are naughty or nice and if they deserve a reward. Don't question it to keep hope of gifts.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

💯% agreed, and they brought us the PPE VIP lane, Owen Paterson's lobbying, Chris Pincher’s conduct, Liz Truss’s Mini-Budget, Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs, and Russia-linked party donations and influence... More corruption, cover-up and incompetence than you can shake a stick at… Lest we forget.

Keeping everything crossed for you!

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I’m so sorry, but none of your solutions for fraternity reform are going to work

substack.com/home/post/p-... Celeste Davis's excellent piece on how gaining a sense of belonging, OK-ness, power and masculinity is acquired by joining a group whose glue is a shared breaking of external rules, whilst obeying the group's internal ones, esp. secrecy. Sadly, this pattern is widespread

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Fraternities are not failing at their purpose; they are succeeding perfectly.

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Many of us in the UK are keen to support people like you (I'm assuming you are in the US). There are so many layers on which you have to fight back. We just hope there are enough of you and that people here learn from what has happened.

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Agreed. I wrote to my Lib MP in 2010 in favour of this; they were kingmakers. I understood the seat nos. pointed to a Lib/Con choice and a Lib/Lab/3rd-party coalition was complex. Shockingly, they ignored me! Their choice then seemed to be opportunistic rather than about policy/values. Disappointing

MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I were you, I'd require an additional payment of the interest you could have earned on that if you'd saved it. Compounded, of course.

MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Charles McBryde: "Fascism makes you stupid, not intellectually stupid but morally stupid." ...... "Fear led them to believe absurdities, and absurdities led them to excuse atrocities"

MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎶He's the greatest, he's fantastic Wherever there is danger, he'll be there He's the ace, he's amazing He's the strongest, he's the quickest, he's the best Danger Mouse.......Danger Mouse.......DAAN-GEER MOUSE!!!!🎶

Image of Danger Mouse, a children's cartoon from the 1980s. He's a secret agent who saves the world every week!

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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This ought to be reposted widely. Release the Russia report Burnham.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's so disheartening Oliver; for this and because it fits into a 'they're ALLOWED to get away with it' set. E.G. tRump, Netanyahu, Johnson, Farage et al. We need to better understand how and why this happens. I've a different authoritarian set (Putin etc.) whose control via power/fear is overt.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026

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🤔 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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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mistake, you are showing the Accession Council incident. 10.9.22. The 2nd incident was signing a visitors' book on 13.9.26 with the wrong date. He said, "Oh god I hate this pen!" It's a "bloody thing" that leaks "every stinking time". Both displays looked like an entitled 3-yr-old temper tantrum.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

...and he was on public view, in front of TV cameras. He displayed the same behaviour 3 days before, over a pen holder, also in front of cameras, during an historic moment at the Accession Council. If he can't control himself under these circumstances, I wonder what he's like when no one is filming.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PM Carney: "An alliance strong enough so that no one can dictate our choices. An alliance open enough that others can join. An alliance principled enough that our strength reinforces international law rather than seeks to replace it." 🎥 Credit: CPAC Live / YouTube ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🇪🇺❤️

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Of course, each country has to negotiate their own deal. Those of us who were/are desperately against Brexit are not assuming anything but the concept of an associate category of membership gives us hope that something new might be negotiated which finds a way through the culture of divisiveness.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, hopefully, and that would build a momentum that acquires gravitaional pull.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm hoping the concept of being an associate member of the EU will be a workaround for Burnham. It could be a Brexit get-out clause that's far better than stagnating, as we are now. Potentially a huge gift from the EU to the UK that we don't really deserve but desperately need to grab.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm hoping the concept of being an associate member of the EU will be a workaround for Burnham. It could be a Brexit get-out clause that would be vastly better than stagnating, as we are now. Potentially a huge gift from the EU to the UK that we don't really deserve but desperately need to grab.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve gone through a range of emotions today over this Disgust ✅ Outrage ✅ Frustration ✅ Indignation ✅ Exasperation ✅ Genuine Fear For the Future of Our Democracy✅ But all of them come back to a burning hatred of the rank Corruption Reform Represents 😡

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Politics latest: Crypto billionaires give £72m to Reform - as critics call for cap on political donations

Crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne have each handed Reform UK £36m in an effort to "level the playing field" with Labour and the Conservatives. The record-breaking pledges have prom...

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Love, love, love this man.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/09/2026

There should be alarm bells ringing at full tilt in Westminster when it comes to the coordinated intimidation campaign we saw over the weekend. What we got instead is a toothless statement that the government “condemns.” Not nearly good enough, I’m sorry.

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What Happened In Dover and Portsmouth Should Scare Us

Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All the key points summed up in 3 mins 40 secs. Brilliant. Perhaps it's because Reform UK PLC is a company that Farage thinks of the people who work for him as contractors!

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuf... The excellent Jonathon Pie lays out the key points: Poor old Reform UK PLC is being stitched up because of 2 of their contractors' loose pub talk.. 🤔 or maybe... kleptocracy is being fuelled by foreign money whilst (selected) immigrants are blamed for all U.K. ills.

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The Reform Witch Hunt

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm tempted to say they lie like they breathe, but since trump has given us the ultimate example of that, I'll say they are learning from him and getting better practised at it. Farage is currently coming first in class.

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Nadine Dorries quizzed over Reform’s secret donations plot

Krishnan Guru Murthy is conducting exactly the kind of interview that every other MSM should have been doing. The right questions, the right follow-up, the right level of refusing to accept nonsense and lies and then pointing out facts. PLEASE, can we have more of this?

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YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Oh, that's organically created perfection. A good end to a good 24 hours.

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 04/09/2026

Thanks to the Lib Dems for spelling it out clearly so that we can be sure the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner can't be in any doubt. You don't need any special qualifications to see that everything in this letter is evidenced by the video footage in the Channel 4 programme. No excuses, P.S.C.

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Schools should be places of learning, not religious recruitment. Yet some churches & religious organisations are using publicly funded schools to evangelise to children — often without parents even knowing. Add your name if you agree evangelism has no place in schools. humanists.uk/action/end-e...

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Add your name to stop schools trying to convert children to their religion

Help us stop the dangerous role of church and faith institutions in education

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Those two are under the bus so Farage can say, "Nothing illegal happened, but I didn't know anything about whatever it was that didn't happen. Anyway, it was a hoax and/or entrapment; WE will investigate how they were able to set us up by filming what was said." So that's all O.K. then, carry on.

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Congratulations to channel 4 for doing this and doing it so well.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chris Mason on 10pm news just now waffling, kerfumfering, and filling time; trying so hard not to state how much of a ‘gotcha’ channel 4 have achieved on Farage and the whole corrupt Reform scaffolding. I’m waiting for the collapse now the rot is fully exposed.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Definitely. I think that one of the few good things that has come out of Trump2 (an unintended consequence of his) is that it has become clearer who the enemies of these values are and who the friends are. I just hope people (esp. those in power) are taking notice and making decisions accordingly.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

People in the U.K. need to be warned about Milo Yiannopoulos. He's a nasty piece of work who shines a light on his revolting views for attention and, presumably, for £/$. He has been deported from U.S. to U.K. so I've no doubt our MSM will give him a platform and he'll home in on Farage/Lowe et al.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nigel Farage Exposed: 18 years of infamy as leader of the UK Independence Party, the Brexit Party and Reform UK.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Q1: What message are you sending to Canada with this move? Q2: Why was it such an important thing for you to do? Non-answer 1: List of things I'm not happy with Canada about. Non-answer 2: I've been thinking about it for a long time. Non-answer 3: We took the gulf... now we have a lake... Pathetic

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Absolutely.... and the handing over of one's adult responsibility to think for yourself and therefore giving away power over your decisions and your life.

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MandyB @mandy1b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was very engaging reading each shift towards your (seemingly inevitable) decision. The start, middle and end of a teeny-tiny novelette full of emotion and purpose! I think the moral of the story was "if you can, work for yourself, not Tescos" or " be your own boss, not someone else's". 👍.