Reposted by Mandy the LeftieDr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Slashing aid isn’t just cruel—it’s reckless. From active conflict zones to developing nations, these cuts weaken peacebuilding and hand influence to Russia and China. Security means tackling cyber threats, pandemics, and the climate crisis, not just spending on bombs and guns. 26720
Mandy the Leftie @mandytotheleft.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...you.38degrees.org.ukNo second state visit for TrumpThis is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he... 133
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization. Blames WHO for mishandling COVID-19 pandemic. US had 1.2m deaths, due to poverty, inequalities and a healthcare system that favours profits over people. Chance of co-ordinated approach to next pandemic? edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...edition.cnn.comTrump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ p... 1219885
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/01/2025Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams 6733311989
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Give me a single reason why King Charles deserves £22bn, and to get £500m more a year from the British taxpayers who actually work for their money. #AbolishTheMonarchy 37774191
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Hollywood is on fire , yet still deniers clutch at straws to blame this on anything other than the real problem– climate breakdown . I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads to take the fight to the companies who continue to exploit our fragile planet petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 1172724761
Mandy the Leftie @mandytotheleft.bsky.social · 10/01/2025petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorshipAdvertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced... 010
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Liz Truss is going to be ever-so-cross when she finds out what I've been doing with the free speech she insists on supporting. 25845182
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Andy Burnham, "I have called for a major program of council house building, different to social housing" "If you allow councils to build homes that people can truly afford, that gives them more control over the housing situation in their areas" Well said @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏 21702149
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieMr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Come on Labour, cut your ties to Twitter. Delete all your accounts and instruct all government departments to do the same. You should not be supporting a hate filled divisive site like that.media.tenor.coma pair of scissors with the words runmation on the bottom rightALT: a pair of scissors with the words runmation on the bottom right 513444
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieDr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 05/01/2025The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028. 1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care. Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷♀️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comAmbulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a dayExclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds 31791340
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieKιƚƚყ ₜₕₑ ᵥₑgₐₙ ₛₒcᵢₐₗᵢₛₜ 📎Ⓥ🌱💚🦇🌍🐠🇬🇧🇪🇺 @sparklykitten.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Happy Sunday lovely phone family. We've had a smattering of snow here ❄️ Anyone else? The gap between the poorest and richest in society has become a huge chasm. I hope future generations change this for the better, but for now we have to stand together ❤️ Have a great day 😘 #HaveCourageAndBeKind 🥰 3217535
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job. 13861571222
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieDr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 03/01/2025"There is no solution to the crisis in the NHS that doesn’t include a solution for social care." Dismayed to see Wes Streeting acknowledge this - yet kick the issue into long grass with a commission that won't report until 2028. What hope for the NHS now? What hope for those needing care now? 45615225
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Want a new year's resolution? Leave X and move full-time to BlueSky. Repost if you're in! 🦋 1516278
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024This year lets get rid of the billionaires. 21717110
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieYorkshire Victor Meldrew and his dog📎 @yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024The UK 😥 0135
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieJohn Graham-Hart @johngraham-hart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024It doesn't matter how desperately Farage tries to play the country gent, he merely manages an aging extra from Peaky Blinders. 14808
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, appointed by Nigel Farrage. Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco) He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax. Patriotic? Anti-Establishment? It's a con. 43966509
Reposted by Mandy the Leftie2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 29/12/2024When mathematicians try to cook... 37511
Reposted by Mandy the Leftie2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Paul Bassett Davies nails it. @thewritertype.bsky.social 414847
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieMr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024One word…’Brexit’. 🤷♂️ www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/easy-w...huffingtonpost.co.ukIs There An 'Easy' Way For Keir Starmer To Start Winning The Public's Trust Back?If so, what's stopping him? 1010632
Reposted by Mandy the Leftieindyscotslass7.bsky.social @indyscotslass7.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Can we share the famous red bus & ask Ms Mone where is our 29 Billion 🤔 #IndyClan ⚔️🏴 6250142
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/12/20242024: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves ask for ideas for growth because 'make brexit work' isn't working 2018: Keir Starmer explains how the UK should be in a Customs Union and inside the EU Single Market Perhaps 2024 Starmer could chat with 2018 Starmer, and pick up an idea or two 🤷♂️ 42812239
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024“The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits” @andyburnham.bsky.social👏 www.theguardian.com/society/2024...theguardian.comNearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rentExclusive: Shelter poll shows housing crisis is causing hardship even for those with jobs 56966252
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This is a reminder, that now, under Labour and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social - 20% of NHS funding (from us the tax payer) - gets rediverted to the private sector. In return they see 10% of patients (the simplest cases no less). This is not a good business model. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coPrivate equity is a horror story for the NHS - yet one fifth of the health service budget goes to itNumerous studies have found private equity is associated with worse patient outcomes due to NHS privatisation - and 'preventable deaths' 814993
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieTom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/12/2024It remains to be seen whether Reform actually has 131,000 members, & if so how many of these are in the UK. But it's not impossible given that an estimated 10% of Britons fell victim to online scams in 2022-23. Fools & their money are easily parted. 3275
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great. 44775453552
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieYorkshire Victor Meldrew and his dog📎 @yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Vile witch and her vile boyfriend decided to spend Christmas eve punching down on the disabled,some of the comments are abhorrent I would swap my brain tumour etc with her in a heartbeat maybe then she would understand what it's like to live with disability and what you have to go through for PIP 6238
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieVery British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Christmas Eve! Officially time to EAT EVERYTHING. UNLEASH THE STILTON! 1449642
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieCarol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 22/12/2024💔😦💔😦💔😦💔😦 As Keir Starmer refuses to stop Elon Musk pouring £millions into ReformUK, thus potentially ‘buying’ the next election for Farage ……. a reminder. Muslim,Jew,refugee, LGBTQ, immigrant, black or traveller people should be very worried and lobbying their MP. Appeasement never works. 67436
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Reeves says UK economic turnaround will take time. Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power. 16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined. Needs action now. Tax the rich. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReeves says economic turnaround will take time and Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’Chancellor pledges renewed focus on growth after Bank of England warning that Britain is on brink of stagnation 34602234
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieSir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024If we allow the billionaires to buy our politics. We will never be able to afford to buy them back. 34222
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 22/12/2024All I want for Christmas is a government that puts people before profit, climate before corporations and health before wealth 🎄 🎁 Repost of your agree 🔄 11230154
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Reeta Chakrabarti, "The gov has appointed 30 new Labour peers to the Lords" Joe Pike, "What is significant and notable about today's announcement is that PM Keir Starmer who has committed to eventually getting rid of an unelected upper chamber, has today announced a pre Christmas stuffing of it" 2818850
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/12/2024UK PM Starmer says he can't think of anything he should have done differently. Hmm ... Two-child benefit cap Winter fuel payment cut Sticking to Tory tax hikes PFI 2.0 Banking deregulation Energy profiteering Public ownership of water Compensating 1950s women Funding foreign wars 45481187
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Once you realize that most people just repeat the lies they hear on the TV and Radio, word for word, you realize how dangerous it is to let the billionaires control the Media. 14502125
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o... 17633791034
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieYorkshire Victor Meldrew and his dog📎 @yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Yep, they walk amongst us 715352
Reposted by Mandy the LeftieGirlyswot Spider 🕷💙🇪🇺🌎🌱 @gsspider.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Appalling. The reports are just getting worse. A lesson Mr Wallace: don’t f*ck with women of a certain age. Literally or metaphorically. We. Bite. Back. 😡 Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter says he sexually harassed her www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comGregg Wallace's ghostwriter says MasterChef host sexually harassed herThe MasterChef host has denied any sexual misconduct with Shannon Kyle, who worked on his 2012 memoir. 1298
Reposted by Mandy the LeftiePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s. 542489823
Reposted by Mandy the Leftie2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Photographs of animals “smiling”… (If you need a chuckle today) 1/n 1722850