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#FBPE Retired ex teacher/business owner. The older I get the more radically left-wing I become.

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Min @minlongley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done. Norman is one of the true great bass players.
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Min @minlongley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think Mr Dury would approve!
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BREAKING — Israeli forces are shelling Tal Bat Al-Warda on the outskirts of Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside, Syria, with heavy artillery. Israeli violations in Syria continue and must stop immediately.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When you really think about it, there are only 2 universally loved people. David Attenborough Dolly Parton And we lost one today. It's kinda heartbreaking.
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Beauty. 🌹
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You’ll get no argument from me.🤷‍♀️
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kittotremor60.bsky.social @kittotremor60.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Not sure we have any MPs with big enough balls to call for a genuine re-join of the EU . Such a shame ruined millions of lively hoods, like mine .
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Richard Gere: We're living in the darkest moment that I've experienced on this planet. Whoever thought America could turn like this? Whoever thought that a maniac like this would be president of the United States and dismantle all the good things? America has never been a perfect place, but
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some people are absolute ghouls… I’ll never understand how even after Jason Arday was hounded to death, they still can’t keep their mouths shut.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There’s something deeply repellent about Reform’s vengeful and racist obsession to take money from the most vulnerable when they’re under multiple investigations for breaking rules, dodging tax and gorging on £millions for themselves. (And trashing our EU agreement is just so thick it hurts) iPaper
EU'would retaliate on welfare plan'
By Arj Singh
The EU could launch a trade war against the UK and would probably strip British expats of benefits in retaliation to Reform's plan to ban foreign nationals from nearly all welfare payments.
Nigel Farage was warned that Brussels was likely to react with fury to his party's plan to bar foreign nationals, including EU citizens with settled status, from claiming most benefits in Britain.
Under the terms of Brexit, the EU could also launch economic retaliation, for exampleby suspending parts of the trade deal between the two sides including putting up tariffs that would hit the economy. Anand Menon, the director of the think-tank UK in a Changing Europe told The i Paper: "The proposals would breach the terms of the withdrawal agreement and the EU will doubtless retaliate, whether that be by making life harder for Britons in the EU or by triggering retaliatory trade measures.
"Either way, it will impact severely on UK-EU relations."
Reform's Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, insisted that the ban was necessary because
"forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral".
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Helen Salmon @bristolgal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Play, learning and the young child’s brain: ‘It doesn’t work like that’ yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
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Play, learning and the young child’s brain: ‘It doesn’t work like that’
Play is essential to early learning and children's development because our brains evolved to ‘boot up’ through social interaction and exploration
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
From an unnamed genius on X 👌🏼#StopTheBungs
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026
"We wouldn't have Brexit without the billionaire media. We'd be acting on climate if we didn't have billionaire media. We wouldn't have a crisis of democracy if we wouldn't have billionaire media. We would not be facing a Reform government if we didn't have billionaire media." Donnachadh McCarthy
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"We wouldn't have had Brexit without Billionaire Media" - Donnachadh McCarthy #Brexit #Democracy #ReformUK #MediaSovereigntyAct #mediareform
TikTok video by Media Sovereignty Act Campaign
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets
ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Damn. I was looking for Micah Richards.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My local Tesco supermarket is now about a week into a complete breakdown of all its fridges and freezers. And what strikes me most is the almost complete disregard being shown to customers. A few printed A4 notes of apology. I suspect staff are being treated equally badly.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Min @minlongley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Let me count the days … @simoncosgrove.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Day 2212 of #Brexit: ‘A British woman living in the Netherlands has told of the “stress upon stress” caused by new Home Office rules that leave her unable to travel to see her 91-year-old dying mother back in England.’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Passport changes prevent British dual national from visiting dying mother
New Home Office rules causing ‘stress upon stress’ for British woman living in Netherlands trying to enter UK
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This descriptive quote from @acitrano.bsky.social says it all. "It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face."
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
So easy to spot many pro Palestinian terrorists, no balaclavas, no St George’s flags wrapped around them, not attacking the Police, not throwing petrol bombs.. It’s the grey hair. Walking sticks, white sticks, mobility scooters that give them away.. the thugs
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Robbie @huckfling.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Greens officially overtake Lib Dem’s in membership! Can’t say I’m surprised, @rachelmillward.bsky.social and @mothinali.bsky.social both brought me to tears at multiple points. Crazy how hard *actual* empathy hits when it’s been totally absent in politics. leftfootforward.org/2025/10/brea...
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BREAKING: The Green Party now has more members than the Lib Dems
There are now more than 83,500 Green Party members.
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
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Susanita @spanglish51.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’d like to see display boards around our towns & cities , displaying the air quality . Pollution is an unseen & silent killer . Khan was correct to pursue this policy , benefitting all Londoners . What sort of person doesn’t want to breath better quality air ? Morons .
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 01/10/2025
We’ve spotted several videos circulating online that claim if you’ve been living with your partner for more than 12 months you need to register your relationship with the government, or you’ll face a £2,000 fine. But HMRC has said this isn’t true.
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No new £2,000 fine for unmarried couples who don’t declare their status – Full Fact
Videos circulating on social media claim you need to tell the government if you’ve been living with your partner for more than a year, or you’ll face a £2,000 fine. But this isn’t true.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
They have control of almost everything. Almost all your money goes to them, nearly 70% of people are employed by them. They don't pay tax, they don't maintain the essential industries that they control, they get 12% richer every year. You cannot just ignore them.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“I was a Remainer, I’m still a Remainer, and I’ll be a Remainer until my dying day” - Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe rally at #Labour Conference
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"
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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
ID cards - not a problem Digital ID cards - lots more questions but maybe acceptable Digital ID cards to stop illegal working - totally unnecessary
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26/09/2025
Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee say six pages of records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that the late financier was friends with some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world. to.pbs.org/3IsJYy1
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House Democrats release partial Epstein records referencing Musk, Gates and Prince Andrew
The pages from Epstein’s schedule show he was in touch with prominent figures like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel. There is no evidence those people knew about how Epstein was sex...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Where “putting in measures to stop” Farage’s showboating media dominance amounts to the media just doing their job - ie refusing to amplify the torrent of hate-fuelled bollox that pours out of him, exposing his populist splutterings for the nonsense they invariably are and focusing on other parties.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Quijote1 @quijote1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.
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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Mary Robinson always was one of the good ‘uns. These are not times for niceties and diplomacy - they are times for telling it straight, no sugar!!
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schizophonica @schizophonica.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I wonder what it is about popular, working class, successful, intelligent, handsome, London born, well educated, happily married, child of hard working immigrant parents, human rights advocate, thrice elected London Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan that Trump doesn't like?
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Ellie chats & rants @loopyleanne.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
European here No we haven’t banned air conditioning Or chosen to stop using it because it costs too much many homes in Europe are over 100yrs old, & some are many 100’s of years old air con is tricky to have installed so most of us don’t have it
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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Some of us do.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"It's the immigrants." Look at this picture. It's these people.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Andrew Tate says London is too dangerous to go out at night in. He wouldn't know much about that because since May 28th 2025 he has an arrest warrant pending for Rape and Human Trafficking. So he hasn't been in the UK never mind London.
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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 18/06/2025
Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
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Bluesky is dying
Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.
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