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🌟 Advocating for change in Mid Buckinghamshire! 🌍 Uniting voters to choose a single progressive candidate. 🗳️ #MidBucksPrimary #ProgressiveAlliance #FBPE

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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Farage rails against “elites”… …while quietly taking £5M from a crypto billionaire. You couldn’t write satire this good. Follow the money. Always. 👇 #Farage #UKPolitics #FollowTheMoney
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024
Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Two serious incidents in Mid Bucks this week — a WW1 bomb found in a Prestwood shed, and a rooftop fire on Short Street in High Wycombe that brought crews from four towns. Both resolved safely. No serious injuries. Communities protected.
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Controlled explosion carried out as WW1 bomb found in shed in Bucks village
A controlled explosion has been carried out in Buckinghamshire after a World War 1 bomb was located in a shed.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Farage donations story is a credibility problem more than a legal one. The central contradiction: a politician whose entire brand depends on being different from the establishment is now facing the same transparency questions he built a career asking of others.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Facts you won't find in a Reform UK election leaflet ... meme via Robert Thomson
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/07/2026
Perfect response from one @thetimes.com reader to J.D. Vance's nonsense.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/07/2026
Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.
"Belgium is two, maybe three months away from developing a nuclear weapon."
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Honest question for Bucks residents: When you think about getting around locally — car, bus, bike, walking — what single change would make the biggest difference to your daily life?
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Wycombe confusion over London Road bus lanes blamed for unnecessary queues
Drivers failing to use London Road's part-time bus lanes outside peak-time restrictions are being blamed for causing unnecessary congestion.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The A40 bus lane argument is really a proxy for a much bigger question: In a town built around the car, what does it take to genuinely shift transport habits? What's your experience? What would actually change your travel behaviour? 👇 #MidBucks #PublicTransport #Buckinghamshire
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Wycombe confusion over London Road bus lanes blamed for unnecessary queues
Drivers failing to use London Road's part-time bus lanes outside peak-time restrictions are being blamed for causing unnecessary congestion.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Dusty Springfield grew up in High Wycombe — and this Pride Month, it's worth sitting with what that means. She became one of Britain's greatest artists while navigating her identity in an era that made that genuinely dangerous. Her connection to our town is part of a local buff.ly/2Ridn9K
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Remembering the famous singer and LGBTQI icon who lived in High Wycombe
A look into 60's icon Dusty Springfield's High Wycombe life, tragic passing and lesser known status as LGBTQI 'icon.'
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nigel Farage isn't building a movement for accountability in policing. He's building a movement for Nigel Farage. The proof: name one concrete reform he's proposed. Not a slogan. An actual policy. There isn't one. Because fixing the problem ends the anger. And the anger is the product.
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The doom loop of British democracy: institution fails → anger is legitimate → politicians monetise the anger → problem unsolved → trust collapses → next failure worse → repeat.
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Eleven officers and police dog injured in ‘terrifying’ violence in Southampton
Chief of Hampshire police says those claiming to protest over murder of Henry Nowak were ‘determined to spark fear and division’
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
High Wycombe's new Mayor, Cllr Hussain, received hateful online comments in his first days in office. His response was to name the harm it causes young people — and make youth mental health and community resilience the central themes of his mayoral year. #HighWycombe #Democracy
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New High Wycombe mayor responds to online 'negativity'
High Wycombe’s new Mayor Imran Hussain says hateful comments online will not distract him from serving the town.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🌿 The Misbourne is flowing again. A reminder that our precious chalk streams are worth protecting—not just when they're dry and making headlines, but all year round. What more should Buckinghamshire be doing to protect local waterways? 💬 #RiverMisbourne #Buckinghamshire #ChalkStreams #Environment
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bangaranga has prevented WW3
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#GoodMorning. Farage's £1.4m cash house – paid with "TV fees" that never moved from his account. Sure. And his girlfriend's £800k cash house – refuses to explain. Both after Harborne's £5m. Same grift. New postcode. 💷
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 20/05/2026
Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill Within a year of receiving £5mn from a crypto billionaire, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK published a draft crypto bill By Anthony Robinson @anthonybylines.bsky.social
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Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill
Within a year of receiving £5mn from a crypto billionaire, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK published a draft crypto bill
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Julius 🏳️‍🌈 VD of 🇪🇺 #FBPE the 3.5% 💙 #ProgressiveAlliance @latitudeattitude.lgbtq.blue · 20/05/2026
Keir Starmer was offered a chance to set the terms of his own departure. He turned it down. What follows is on him, not the rivals he will eventually face. Whoever they turn out to be. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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Starmer pandered to Reform - and got what he deserved
The decision to prioritise Reform-curious voters over Labour loyalists and Green-friendly floaters has been catastrophic
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Undisclosed £5M. Timing just before election. Now under investigation. But sure — it’s all just about “security”. Pull the other one. #Farage buff.ly/RPcYKbK
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Crypto billionaire funds Farage. Farage pushes lighter crypto regulation. Nothing to see here… just a perfectly normal democracy. 👀 Agree? #Crypto #Politics buff.ly/XYCmYXf
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Farage: “I stand up to elites.” Also Farage: takes millions from a billionaire living overseas. It’s not anti-elite. It’s elite cosplay. #UKPolitics buff.ly/RPcYKbK
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
£5M arrives. Suddenly Farage decides to run for Parliament. Pure coincidence, obviously. 🙃 Do you buy that? #Politics #Corruption buff.ly/XYCmYXf
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“Man of the people” Funded by offshore crypto millions. Sure. Totally checks out. Who do you think he’s really working for? 👇 #ReformUK #FarRight
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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?
A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Farage rails against “elites”… …while quietly taking £5M from a crypto billionaire. You couldn’t write satire this good. Follow the money. Always. 👇 #Farage #UKPolitics #FollowTheMoney buff.ly/RPcYKbK
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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?
A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The far-right playbook: 1. Rage about elites 2. Take elite money 3. Hide it 4. Blame migrants Rinse. Repeat. Spot the pattern? 👇 #FarRight buff.ly/XYCmYXf
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If your strategy depends on compromised people being “useful”, you’re not in control of the system - the system is already compromised. 👇 buff.ly/w8EzT2f
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Mandelson appointment wasn’t a failure of process - it was a conscious trade: integrity for access, credibility for short-term leverage. That’s why it’s so damaging. Explained properly here 👇 buff.ly/w8EzT2f
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“Send a snake into the snake pit” sounds clever — until you realise you’ve just normalised being compromised as a qualification. That’s not a strategy. That’s decay. Full breakdown 👇 buff.ly/w8EzT2f
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The Mandelson saga isn’t a one-off mistake. It’s a case study in how power bends rules — and calls it “strategy.” Shared scandal isn’t leverage. It’s mutual vulnerability. Wrote a longer breakdown here 👇
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The Mandelson saga isn’t just a bad appointment. It’s a window into how power is actually being used. Let’s be clear: he didn’t get the job despite the risks - he got it partly because of them....
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Every time the far-right promises strength, the world gets weaker. Every time they promise prosperity, we get another energy crisis. Maybe it’s time to stop believing the hype. #MAGA #FarRight
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So Badenoch, Farage and Blair think the Iran war is a great idea? Hmm … | John Crace
Kemi may be all in favour, but at least economic realpolitik is forcing her to take a slightly different tack
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Trump: “The Iran war may end pretty quickly.” Also Trump: started it without a plan. Geopolitics by tweet. What could possibly go wrong? #TrumpChaos
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Iran war may end ‘pretty quickly’: What Trump told Republicans
US president highlighted what he described as the successes of Operation Epic Fury against Iran in his latest speech.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Funny how the people who hate renewable energy are also the ones constantly triggering fossil-fuel crises. Almost like energy independence scares them. Just saying. #ClimateAction #EnergySecurity
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Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff
The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Energy shock. Inflation fears. Markets rattled. And the same populists who caused the crisis will spend the next year blaming migrants. Watch the script play out. #FarRight #Politics
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‘Spillover’: Iran energy shockwaves hit Europe
Leaders still haunted by the ghosts of the 2022 energy crisis are bracing for another economic shock.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Trump promised “America First”. Instead we got: • another Middle East war • global economic shock • oil prices surging again Turns out the only thing first is chaos. #Trump #MAGA
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The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened
Trump wants the war to be over
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Far-right politicians: “Ordinary people are struggling!” Also far-right politicians: “Let’s start another Middle East war.” The hypocrisy would be funny if it wasn’t so expensive. #CostOfLiving #IranWar buff.ly/n5bJ9JH
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So Badenoch, Farage and Blair think the Iran war is a great idea? Hmm … | John Crace
Kemi may be all in favour, but at least economic realpolitik is forcing her to take a slightly different tack
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
20% of global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. So when Trump lights a geopolitical bonfire there… guess what happens? Your heating bill goes up. Nationalism always comes with a receipt. #EnergySecurity #IranWar
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Iran war: How long before Gulf nations stop pumping oil?
The oil price spiked near $120 after strikes on Iran's energy sites and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. With tankers stuck and Gulf oil facilities hit, producers are running short on storage to…
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump: launches war with Iran. Oil markets: panic. Energy prices: explode. Global economy: stagflation fears. MAGA: “This is Biden’s fault.” You almost have to admire the audacity. #MAGA #EnergyCrisis
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The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened
Trump wants the war to be over
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So let me get this straight. Trump starts a war with Iran. Oil prices spike. Energy bills soar. Global inflation rises. And MAGA’s solution? Blame wind turbines. Make it make sense. #IranWar #EnergyCrisis #MAGAChaos
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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran war will be over ‘very soon’ but Tehran says it will determine when
US president says war is ‘very complete’ and threatens worse strikes if passage of oil via strait of Hormuz is blocked; IRGC says it will not let out ‘one litre of oil’
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Oil shock. Inflation rising. Interest rates may go back up. All triggered by another reckless geopolitical stunt. Reminder: chaos is the business model of the far-right. Don’t fall for it. #IranWar #GlobalEconomy buff.ly/AFRgxbF
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The far-right loves to shout about “strong leadership”. But every time they get power we get: • wars • economic shocks • exploding energy prices Strong leadership? Or just expensive incompetence? Discuss. #Trump #Farage #IranWar
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UK households that use heating oil face ‘frightening’ surge in bills over Iran war
Chancellor raises prospect of help after prices almost treble since start of conflict
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The far-right loves wars they never have to pay for. Ordinary people get the bills. They get the TV hits. Funny how that works. #FarRight #IranWar #Politics
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‘Spillover’: Iran energy shockwaves hit Europe
Leaders still haunted by the ghosts of the 2022 energy crisis are bracing for another economic shock.
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🌅 Good morning, #MidBucks! Every day is a chance to build a stronger, fairer community. Let’s work together to tackle inequality, protect our environment, and fight for proportional representation. 💚 #MidBucksPrimary #CommunityFirst #FairVotes
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Prestwood Infant School is consulting on expanding to ages 1–2. Working parents: would this make a difference to you? Tell us what early years support you actually need 👇 #EarlyYears #Childcare #WorkingFamilies #Prestwood #CommunitySupport
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🌅 Good morning, #MidBucks! To every voter who feels left behind by the current system: your voice matters. Together, we can build a democracy that works for everyone. 💚 #MidBucksPrimary #FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Misbourne meets all 8 Gatsby Benchmarks and is going for national careers accreditation. Serious question: Are schools doing enough to prepare young people for the real world? What skills matter most in 2026? 👇 #Education #Careers #FutureReady #BucksSchools #YouthOpportunity
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Gen-X radicalisation: online grievance isn’t just “youth stuff”. How should families and schools spot and counter polarising content? Share tips/resources. #DigitalSafety #MediaLiteracy
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Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From Albert Hall Proms to DJing for 10,000 in Greenwich — local talent is thriving. Creative ambition doesn’t just live in cities. Tag someone in HP16 doing brilliant creative work 👇 #ArtsMatter #LocalTalent #SupportCreatives #GreatMissenden #Prestwood
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
☀️ Rise and shine! #MidBucks, the real test starts NOW. Will our elected reps: 🔹 Fix potholes? 🔹 Protect services? 🔹 Listen to YOU? Tag them and make your voice loud! #NoMoreEmptyPromise
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Should rural communities rely more on buses instead of cars? The 41 connects villages, rail, Heathrow & Gatwick. Would YOU use it more if services expanded? Why or why not? Let’s debate 👇 #Transport #RuralTransport #ClimateAction #Chilterns #SustainableTravel
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Every scandal widens the trust gap. And guess who fills that gap? The loudest extremists. #PoliticalReality
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Britain’s worst political scandal of this century
The Mandelson affair threatens Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership
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MidBucksPrimary @midbucksprimary.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Fire Station consultation is a reminder: If you don’t speak up, decisions get made without you. Will you respond to the consultation? Yes 👍 No 👎 Not sure yet 🤔 Tell us where you stand 👇 #PublicServices #CommunityVoice #Buckinghamshire #LocalDemocracy #HaveYourSay
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