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Annoyed, wants to be a cat next time. KRO.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 04/06/2025
Although Angela Rayner has been touted as Labour's answer to Nigel Farage, Britons are split 28% to 28% on which would make the best prime minister, whereas Starmer beats Farage by 15pts Rayner (28%) vs Farage (28%) Starmer (44%) vs Farage (29%) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Keir Starmer has found Nigel Farage’s weak spot… and it’s Liz Truss www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
So weird
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What’s better than writing about the disgraceful failure to build any reservoirs over the past three decades? Getting some built. Great stuff from @emmahardymp.bsky.social and Steve Reed today www.gov.uk/government/n...
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Absolutely agree
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/05/2025
Find a cool product on Amazon?
That company exists off Amazon.
1. Google company name 
2. Order from their site
2a. Can usually find a 10% off code
3. Still get product in 2-8 days
4. Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon
5. You avoid giving money to Bezos
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If you need a reality check 👇 #ukpolitics
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Andor so good, great to not have all that jedi nonsense in the way. Bureaucracy, petty jealousies, grudges, imperfections, corruption. Excellent. #andor #starwars
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Congrats to Aberdeen
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a 3d rendering of a gold trophy with the website threedee.design written below it
ALT: a 3d rendering of a gold trophy with the website threedee.design written below it
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You cannot have a failing state and a growing economy. The Tories taxed British businesses by running down the NHS and taking police off the beat - and they're still talking the country down. Labour is backing British business and getting the economy moving again.
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
More of this please 🙏
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So much winning for the people of the US BBC News - Nike to raise prices as firms face tariffs uncertainty - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nike to raise prices as firms face tariffs uncertainty
The US sportswear giant says its price increases are part of
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
NEW: Reform UK’s pledge to remove every low-traffic neighbourhood from the council areas it controls looks to be achieved in record time - as the 10 local authorities all told the Guardian they do not actually have any. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK fulfils pledge to scrap LTNs in its council areas as none exist
All 10 council areas controlled by rightwing party tell the Guardian they have no low-traffic neighbourhoods
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
When you haven’t shut your gob about ‘surrendering to the EU’ since 2016, but you decide to go on holiday when Starmer’s actually debating it in Parliament. #ukpolitics
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It was good to have the opportunity to talk about the UK/EU summit on Times Radio yesterday. We covered a lot of ground, from the widespread business support for the deal, to the opportunities for young people that will come from a youth mobility deal & membership of Erasmus+ youtu.be/ZIihvs7nuds
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Speaking on Times Radio on the UK-EU Summit & Reset Deal
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Ah yes, the “golden age.”
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Parliamentary clown Badenoch has been laughed off by Starmer and his ministers. #ukpolitics
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New YouGov poll: - 66% would support the UK having closer relationship with the EU - This includes half of both Leave (52%) and Reform UK (54%) voters - Majority (53%) support Britain rejoining the European Union - Six in ten believe Brexit has been more of a failure than a success
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/05/2025
“Our biggest consumer market, 27 neighbouring countries that we lost, is open again. It is the small producers that lost out from Brexit." “Now we can stop fishing in this small pond and cast our net wider again." Full story: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK cheesemaker welcomes new EU deal - but says it comes four years too late
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
More very positive news. Did we ever see anything like this under the tories?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Matthew Syed, "It's a thin deal" "As somebody who would rather be in the EU, it's quite disappointing" "The psychology is fascinating. One side, saying betrayal this is a disgrace. Then the other side, Labour in particular: utopia, sunlit uplands" "Both of those positions are ridiculous"
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10
Agreement reached to ‘slash red tape’ on food products, in exchange for extended EU access to fishing waters
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Dr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’m yelling at my radio again. WHY is Nick Robinson asking whether the small gains forecasted for the new EU agreement was “worth stirring up the hornets nest” of Brexit ? Are we all supposed to cower in the corner, afraid of Farage and his gullible followers for ever?
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today is a very significant step forward for our UK/EU partnership. In less than 2 minutes, here is my initial reaction. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA
Meat industry welcomes deal, saying Labour has achieved 'what previous government promised originally but didn't deliver'
The British Meat Processors Association has issued a statement strongly welcoming the deal with the EU. It says that, making access to the EU market easier for meat exporters, Keir Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”.

The association has also dismissed claims that the deal will mean the UK being a “rule taker” because it will aligned with the EU on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules. It says:

A common misunderstanding is that an SPS agreement will mean Britain becomes a ‘rule taker’. In reality, we must comply with the rules of any of our trading partners if we want to export to them – just like America must comply with British rules if they want to send us their products. This means we have been aligned with EU rules and standards all along. The difference this new deal will make is that Britain, unlike their other third country trading partners, will benefit from true, un-fettered access to their market and massively reduced trade friction. It will boost trade and make us more competitive.

Under the existing arrangement we have had to produce a mountain of paperwork to prove we comply, costing business a fortune but with no added value. This extra cost had to be absorbed somewhere in the supply chain, either through lower margins or higher prices, driving food price inflation and rendering UK businesses less competitive.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
The idea that, in four years' time, with both business and consumers used to less friction, UK winning EU defence contracts, Erasmus+ exchanges in full flow, pet passports, easier travel, etc. voters will yearn for a repeat of last decade's trauma is such terrible politics, even for Badenoch. ~AA
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BREAKING The Conservatives will reverse Sir Keir Starmer's Brexit deal agreed today, leader Kemi Badenoch says. More now on 
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Key point
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
There's an argument that because Starmer is going to get the full force of the bullshit 'betrayal' narrative for relatively tiny improvements, he may as well go much further. But I don't think the EU would be up for that at this - or any easily foreseeable - point.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
All confirmed. Dan has won. Whew. 🇷🇴
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A victory for common sense is just around the corner... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/wha...
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Brexit reset deal predicted to boost UK economy 'by £25 billion per year'
As Keir Starmer prepares to announce his third international trade agreement of the month, the Brexit reset deal looks like a gamechanger.
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Positive news
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ignore the right wing rags, this is what people actually think #eudeal
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
BBC News - 'You start to go crazy': The Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Australian Matthew Radalj tells of life in China prison
Matthew Radalj tells the BBC of his time in a Beijing prison, revealing what goes on behind bars.
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We did it! 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Thank you again to every Labour Parliamentarian who signed our letter just three weeks ago. A bespoke youth mobility scheme will extend opportunity for thousands of young people across the UK and Europe. New experiences, bonds and opportunities. A big step forward.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses. TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”. Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise. archive.ph/FpLe0
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Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses
Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Whilst I’m wrestling with my support for Labour and acknowledging that they are doing some good things. You can always rely on the Corbin cult, now mostly ensconced in the Green Party to make me realise there isn’t necessarily a lot of choice out there. They are absolutely insufferable 🙄.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is the government's line in the sand - Thames Water bosses not allowed to pay themselves bonuses from the bailout ££ 16 million "customers" gave them This wouldn't even be a question if Steve Reed had already brought the company into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan
Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
An improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to economists Sounds like a plan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EU Deal Would Give Reeves £10 Billion and Cut Risk of Tax Hikes
An improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion ($13.3 billion) in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to econom...
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Humanity and Kindness @humanityposts.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It’s heartbreaking seeing men on the streets. The very people who are the masculinity of the world. May rehabilitation find them 💔
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Reform MP struggles to give answer simple question about party's small boats policy leftfootforward.org/2025/05/refo...
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Reform’s newest MP struggles to answer questions on party’s immigration policy in car crash interview
“Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin beautifully shown up for the clueless content of the empty paper bag party that is Reform.”
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here’s a photo to save. To use in replies to those doom and gloom commentators who seem to know absolutely nothing. Let’s get some new, young, fresh economists who know how to work with a Labour government.
Photo on growth reported today of 0.7%
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Keir Starmer says Tory attacks on the US/India trade are a sign of a “one great party sliding into brain dead oblivion”. Very interesting how much the government is taking head on the protectionist rhetoric which has taken a bit of a hold on the right.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Emma Reynolds, "We're the fastest growing economy in the G7" "Wages are increasing faster than prices" "BoE cut mortgage rates, sorry interest rates last year for the fourth time" "These growth figures feed into better living standards for people are more money in people's pockets"
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mattski99.bsky.social @mattski99.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Let's celebrate the positive stuff.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/05/2025
Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch must be "the only former trade minister who's against all trade deals which boost our economy." Next up, a better deal with the EU - which could deliver 8X more growth than the India, Japan, Australia & NZ deals combined. #PMQs
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This week’s most important issues. Falls in people selecting NHS mean it's at lowest since 2022 💷 Cost of Living 63% 🏥NHS 38% 🛃 Levels of immigration 31% 🛥️ Channel crossings 24% 🚓Crime 18% 🌍Climate change & environment 17% 🏘️Affordable housing 17%
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