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Mary Brooks

@marygbrooks.bsky.social
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Music and theatre lover, cats, Labour Councillor for Cheshire East (Macclesfield West & Ivy ) NHS admin worker abhors fascists loves the Beatles

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The complaint that Burnham is just a better communicator with the same policies misses the point. Politics is communication. If you can persuade voters, you can move public opinion. If you can't, you can't. Changing the public mood requires somebody capable of making people listen. 1/2
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great to bump into Tatton comrades today
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great to be out with in Wigan today supporting @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
When I called my final politics book "Tories: The End of an Error," it was at least partly a joke. But they're properly finished, aren't they? 3% in a "red wall" constituency they used to boast of stealing from Labour. I'd feel sorry for them, if they hadn't privatised all human feelings.
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Southport murders. Farage ignores victims' parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Henry Nowak murder. Farage ignores victim's parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Murders by white people. Silence. If that's not a pattern of racially motivated incitement to riot, I don't know what is.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Imagine if you had a (e.g.) Belgian national living in Clapham, taking £5m secret bribes, neglecting his official job, refusing to answer questions from the authorities, and regularly agitating for race riots. He'd be in prison, right? Or thrown out of the country. Nigel Farage would insist on it.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sharon Osborne was ▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s ▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s ▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005 ▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020 She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...
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Sharon Osbourne indicates she will join Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration march
Sharon Osbourne has suggested she will be joining Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration 'Unite the Kingdom' march.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wait... this is real? Reform actually did this in... Leeds? Did everyone get a badge with a ribbon?
Reform will - Fix It
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A great piece of research which I mentioned today when debating the council’s climate action plan
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
On tele with fellow Labour members speaking about NEC blocking @andyburnham.bsky.social from running www.itv.com/watch/news/w...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, do you think you could be any more stupid? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race
Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Just come back from regional conference Ironic that regional Labour Party conference was held at the Titanic hotel as the NEC has just drove into a massive iceberg - however this was an Iceberg that was in plain sight. Inexcusable error. U turn now
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
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Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Great book forensically cataloguing all the Tories bad deeds in a humorous manner even though it’s not funny at all what they did
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The final volume in the horrific but superbly detailed trilogy from @russincheshire.bsky.social arrived in the post today from @bylinetimes.bsky.social signed copy too. Not sure what category it should go under horror, politics or black comedy ?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Have the Tories finally destroyed themselves? @russincheshire.bsky.social ‘s last part of his brilliant trilogy. Get your signed copy before stocks go. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...
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Tories: The End of an Error – Byline Times Shop
Tories: The End of Error is the final – please God, let it be final – volume in the satirical trilogy that has catalogued every fib and fatuity of fourteen years of Tory rule. SHIPPING END AUGUST Russ...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"People who are 'too poor to pay tax' find a spare half billion quid to pay UPFRONT for something that's entirely voluntary." There, I fixed it for you. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Parents beat VAT on private school fees raid by paying £500m up front
Large scale of advance payments could impact government plan to raise revenue, tax experts warned
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"It’s not so much a track record as a skid-mark, so you’d expect the Tories to be ready for action whenever a story emerged about Mark Menzies, but you’d be wrong." Excerpt from my forthcoming book about the Sunak years, "Tories: The End of an Error" www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
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Russell Jones's Week Moment: Zero Days Since the Last Embarrassment
In an exclusive extract from his forthcoming book, 'Tories: The End of an Error', Russell Jones recalls a week in which dizzying levels of Conservative party chaos finally got out of control
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
In a 2024 Telegraph bit, Badenoch wrote it is "naïve [to] assume immigrants abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border ... their feet may be in the UK, but their heads and hearts are still back in their country of origin." Except for her, or course www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Kemi Badenoch says she no longer sees herself as Nigerian despite upbringing
Conservative party leader, who grew up in Nigeria and US, says she has not renewed her Nigerian passport in decades
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Shocked and v sad about the premature death of fellow Cheshire East Councillor Chris Hilliard who was an Independent Cllr for Lacey Green. Chris was a truly decent person and the Council’s Active Travel Champion. A great loss to the council and cycling world.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Is there a violin small enough for this?
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Plans to reform environmental regulations risk irreversible harm to nature. My amendments to the Planning Bill would prevent this. Safeguarding nature and building homes can go hand in hand - with an empowered, well-funded planning system. www.politicshome.com...
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Planning deregulation carries serious political risks for Labour
The origins of Britain’s planning system are as deeply rooted in the legacy of the great post-war Labour government as the National Health Service and welfare state.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Liverpool, May 1966, by Barry Feinstein. When Bob Dylan was playing the Odeon Theatre.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/03/2025
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Camilla Tominey humiliated on #BBCQT Gary Stevenson explains how we have given away national assets to rich people, so we should tax rich people Camilla Tominey dismisses the call to tax rich people by saying everyone pays taxes Gary Stevenson explains to tax the rich on their wealth
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem
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"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Who is the most insane Musk or Trump ? 🤔
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
You wont find a better summation than this.
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Dan DaN DAN @keepinfairlieweird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Liz Truss believes that the Tories lost the General Election in 2024 due to paper straws. The ultimate straw man you could say. I will never stop loving watching her journey into irrelevance one tweet at a time.
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UNISON media team @unisonmedia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
NHS staff will write to MPs asking them to help kickstart pay talks to boost morale during the winter health crisis. www.unison.org.uk/news/press-r...
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NHS staff urge local MPs to kickstart talks as government stalls on pay promises, says UNISON | Article, Press release | News | UNISON National
A modern NHS needs modern pay practices to keep and recruit the staff required to deal with the multiple crises it currently faces
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
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NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain
If we do talk about it, we start to recognise the gulf between their words and reality
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I was pleased that Cheshire East Council borough wide carbon reduction plan was approved dismayed that 4 Tory councillors voted against it 😥. Credit to conservative Cllr Tony Dean though for his support. Note my comments against Heathrow expansion www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2490167...
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Council must ‘get real’ over borough’s carbon ambitions if it can’t meet own target
A Knutsford councillor asked how Cheshire East expected businesses to get on board with being carbon-neutral if the council couldn’t even meet its…
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Steve Rotheram @metromayorsteve.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our Labour government, with Rachel Reeves as Chancellor, is smashing through the barriers to growth🌹 The Green Book review could be transformative, helping attract more government investment into the Liverpool City Region while we work to attract more foreign investment too.
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Steve Rotheram @metromayorsteve.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🤓 One of the wonkiest and most technical changes possible. 💪 Also: one of the most impactful and transformative changes possible. This is could open up a world of opportunity for the North. Green Book has seen countless worthy infrastructure projects canned because of its outdated methodology.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We must mock them, laugh at their every word and deed - caricature them, sing about their idiocy and venality, lampoon them in words and art - the weapon they hate most is ridicule - and they are ridiculous, like all night-time monsters of the dark they fear the light. Oz behind the veil.
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"I’m talking about water, energy, electricity, buses, trains...They were broken up and sold off, and I think that’s left the country in a really difficult position" The brilliant Andy Burnham makes the case for public control of "life's essentials" 👏👏👏 labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
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Andy Burnham backs public control of key services, blasting ‘damaging deregulation’ – LabourList
Andy Burnham has called for key services to be brought back into public control, blasting the "pretty disastrous policy" of the 1980s and 1990s privatisation-era.…
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Mary Brooks @marygbrooks.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hi, So I’m new to this place this week. I’m genuinely frightened for our democracy. God knows what are American friends are going through. Wonder if quitting the other place altogether is the right strategy ? thoughts ?
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Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hats off to @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and sod off to Elon Musk. Here's a 🎶 parody of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" about Musk's recent spate of diarrhoea tweets about the UK, called "Turd on a Wire" (with an attempted nod to the wonderful k.d. lang version ❤️). youtu.be/G_N4UmUjJeo
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"Turd on a Wire" - Marsh Family parody of Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" about Elon Musk's UK Tweeting
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts. The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Two cheeks of the same demented arse
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