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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 19h

Off to Lon Don for the first HEC of the year. Just made the train as mine is cancelled- and no lifts at Cambridge (goodbye knees). choonz - Siyayilanda by Juluka #campustradeunions #UCU

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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Get organised. You can do it! UCU's new 'Education. It's Ours' digital hub has the resources you need.

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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need root and branch reform of HE - we need a Higher Education system that has financial and management structures that are fit for purpose again. We need to work together across the union to put our sector back in the right hands.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it may well be entryism- there is a lot there that chimes with SWP policy.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there is the point that if you support universal suffrage and the right to self determination, then all existing citizens and returnees should have that right to decide their future - so where is the need to go the stage further and say “THIS” is the solution.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Moving away from the two state solution moves away from the UN position, and to recognise the right to violent resistance… did members read the full motion?

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The motion is weirdly specifically proscriptive on elected members - this in a party that constitutionally never operated a whip. No matter what members think on this issue, the party will now be effectively crippled having to fight the reaction to the motion in every media appearance & the courts

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It calls for BDS, recognises Israel as an apartheid state, real action to stop the genocide, but to campaign for the right of return and replacing Israel with a Palestinian state? How realistic is this? How would that state be founded if housing and paying reparations for millions of returnees?

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Green Party motion was an extraordinary act of self destruction right when the Greens were on the verge of breakthrough. Moving from the two state solution to calling for the destruction of Israel gives a new meaning to “ from the river to the sea.”

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

UCU Birmingham is calling for the University's new Redeployment Policy to explicitly include health, safety and wellbeing safeguards. Redeployment can significantly affect workload, role clarity, support and psychosocial risk. 1/2

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UCU members at the University of Lincoln have voted overwhelmingly to tell University managers - no more compulsory redundancies or face industrial action. A huge mandate to protect jobs, protect our programmes and support out students! @ucu.org.uk

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i didn’t know you could commit terrorism against an individual person. Apparently you can.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

watching @owenjones.bsky.social at the Labour conference - the patience of a saint with the genocide complicit ministers - I will NEVER vote Labour again.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LBC news broadcasting Trump’s fantasy account of the Flydubai attack that bears almost no relation to what happened without comment - what purpose does that serve?

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tories spouting the same classist lies they did 50 years ago. The poor should have all possible relief and remaining dignity ripped away. Welfare fraud is tiny compared to tax evasion from the rich. Target the real parasites and exploiters, not those in need. #lbcnews

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More sickening ableist bigotry from the horrific Kemi Badenoch. I sincerely hope that she and none of her family ever suffer from anxiety or other disabling mental illness. #lbcnews

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I used to hate Ed Sheeran before everyone else knew he was a talentless k’nut. I wonder how all his new far right fans will relate to his and Pink’s music

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

where do we vote to build a moat around the nimbys in Little Piddlington? #lbcnews

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s worse when it shatters an album into five or six parts inexplicably - or when you have a greatest hits or anthology album and without asking it adds every single source album to your library

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Frog faced fascist Farage belittles the assault on a young female protester by his cultists. No surprise- his party cares nothing about violence against women

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dear BBC, a suspect does not have to ‘listen’ in order to be found guilty of conspiracy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My personal opinion: it’s not because *Israel* has ‘captured’ the U.K. government that Palestine Action is proscribed whilst the thugs in Dover haven’t even triggered a single arrest. It’s because the right wing has captured the U.K. government. (I won’t be answering questions on this)

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders — Max Colbert Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman

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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders

Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Another impossible ridiculous racist policy idea from Reform in a pathetic Trump-wannabe diversion from their corruption and money laundering disgrace. So why is that getting wall to wall coverage? It’s almost as if the media also had some heinous act to cover up.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Farage re-elected, and begins his term with a lie, not wanting to share the stage with Count Binface, leaving Clacton as fast as he could.

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UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is often overlooked by many. People forget that universities do not work in isolation - the ridiculous Ivory Tower idea. We are part of the community. Uni staff live in the communities around them, we send out kids to local schools, we shop locally, we are your friends and neighbours.

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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 24/07/2026

Our very own @markpendleton.bsky.social talking to Times Radio about the HE crisis #UCU #UKHE

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We are in the grip of climate change with thousands dead across Europe and wild fires across the continent and North America. And #Burnham comes to no10 - Burnham by name…. announcing NEW fossil fuel drilling. What will it take to stop politicians killing the planet?

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Off to #Frightfest2026 ! All booked, no bother, can’t wait! 🧟👻🔪🎥🍿

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just published this - a new dawn for UCU and a cohesive strategy that can realistically and practically defend and secure Higher Education. michaelabberton.medium.com/strategy-ove...

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Strategy over Slogans - UCU's Higher Education Committee

The latest meeting of UCU's Higher Education Committee (HEC) felt different. Voices of the majority are being heard.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just published this - a new dawn for UCU and a cohesive strategy that can realistically and practically defend and secure Higher Education. michaelabberton.medium.com/strategy-ove...

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Strategy over Slogans - UCU's Higher Education Committee

The latest meeting of UCU's Higher Education Committee (HEC) felt different. Voices of the majority are being heard.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So it would appear but as no-one is going to stand against him (except Count Binface) and he has been referred to the NCA, it is a good day.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Standing again, his finances exposed, in a constituency where he doesn’t live and has never done a surgery.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/07/2026

"This is another stunt from Nigel Farage. He knew the grift was going to catch up with him eventually, so he's pulled the trigger instead." Green Party leader Zack Polanski on Farage's resignation and forced by-election.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The fact that Trump felt that he could intervene over the suspension the way he did delegitimises the entire tournament. The decision to suspend the suspension contrary to the rules? Corruption on a scale unseen before. Trump as the ultimate arbiter. And don’t forget, Trump will receive the trophy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A reminder - the Online Safety Act *does* exist. It’s a terrible law (IMHO) but it does exist, and it could be used to regulate X. We don’t need new laws to do that.

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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Dan McClellan sends support and solidarity to Exeter UCU to fight the horrific and unwarranted redundancies vm.tiktok.com/ZNRwdTnw8

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

NOT going to that LonDon for the UCU Higher Ed Ctte today as it’s HOT AS HELL and it took me 5 hours to get home last week. We’re hybrid today. Choonz - Sisters of Mercy

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The Sisters Of Mercy Goth Performance

ALT: The Sisters Of Mercy Goth Performance

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Singapore? they have closed schools but are adapting - we are not. And it’s hotter here than Singapore! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/from…

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

who is this ridiculous climate denying racist on LBC taking about the blitz? “Indian children sit on the dirt floor”.

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Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“we got through the blitz”… This is the response of climate deniers to the deadly change in climate they cannot admit.

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