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Paul Marchant

@mossley.bsky.social
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Spent 51 years educating children and trainee teachers. Great career. Very happily married. Staunch European and long term LibDem. Enjoys walking and cycling. Just recovering from 2nd total knee replacement!

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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm... Heaven help us if Trump is seen as a “ strong and stable president”! His words.
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Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'
Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Former Conservative MP and chief of staff to Theresa May, Lord Barwell on why he was stripped of the whip by Kemi Badenoch. Turns out it came down to one Tweet in which he criticised her decision to oust Tory candidates who want to achieve Net Zero by 2050
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Classic BBC typo on BBC online news. 3minutes 36seconds not 3hrs 36minutes! #tourdefrance2026
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I see that trump is now a football expert and was himself a good sportsman! 😂. What right does he have to bully FIFA about the red card and what right does FIFA have to submit to his bullying. Makes a mockery of the rules of the game.
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Abhorrent comments by trump about Starmer ! He needs to take a close look at himself as a failed president before he starts on others.
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Far-right criminal Tommy Robinson has been invited on a prestigious public stage. We need a public outcry to get this invite cancelled and protect our communities from his hate! Can you sign and share the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Cancel Tommy Robinson’s invite to the Oxford Union
Far-right criminal Tommy Robinson has been invited on a prestigious public stage. We need to get this invite cancelled and protect our communities from his hate!
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Just reading Alan Bennett’s Enough Said. 11th November 2016 about Trump “……to leave in a world at the mercy of this lying and bellicose vulgarian”. Almost 10 years later, even worse!
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Is there a PayPal scam going on at the moment? TIA.
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump accuses Starmer of being no Churchill, Trump is most definitely no Eisenhower or any other president for that matter.
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lib Dems set out plans to stop SEND services being 'cash cows'
Council spending on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities has soared in recent years.
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Kate @katenorthnorfolk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Thanks for your support! It means a lot to a smaller party which has to work super hard to get media attention. You might want to watch this - a series of clips of commentators acknowledging Ed and Lib Dems’ work www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqZ5...
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Ed Davey's New Year Message
YouTube video by Liberal Democrats
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Kate @katenorthnorfolk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
He’s also now voting AGAINST lifting the two child benefit cap despite previously pledging to lift it. Can’t trust a word RefUK LTD say… as places that voted them in are beginning to find out! Tax rises and cuts to services… 🤔 www.ft.com/content/6837...
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Reform UK councils unveil plans for tax rises and service cuts
Party controls nine English councils and leads three minority administrations after last year’s local election wins
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump has lost it completely with his warmongering in Caracas.
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And it's official!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Please remember this in 2026 when Nigel Farage tells you we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Tommy Robinson got kicked out of a pub in Bedford and threw a massive tantrum.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
📌Goddammit, just when in the hell is our complicit legacy media going to FINALLY understand and REPORT that Trump is working WITH Putin to attack Democracy? Just read an extensive piece from the NYT about "the unraveling of the U.S.-Ukraine partnership" and they didn't mention this ONCE. ATROCIOUS
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Enough of these shoddy reports about 'peace deals' ... Putin and Trump are still conspiring in their ongoing attack on Democracy
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Well done Ellie Kildunne!
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Calls for Electoral Commission probe into Reform UK overspend claim
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Labour calls for Electoral Commission probe into Reform UK overspend claim
Labour’s Anna Turley called on Nigel Farage to explain whether his party spent more than the £20,660 limit while campaigning.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If you’re planning your 2026 holiday maybe give the US a miss eh
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Mark Kelly: "For most of Donald Trump's career, bullying people has worked out for him, but not now, because I won't let it happen. President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill me for saying this true, & he sent his secretary after me, & it's not going to work."
Mark Kelly, silhouetted, speaking at a lectern
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
DEPLORABLE. This is the definition of deplorable. 💯 An American president bowing his head to a wanted war criminal. 💯
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Chris Page @psipook.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-go...
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Walz Demands Trump’s MRI Results After Unhinged Slur Attack
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hit back after Trump used a slur to question his supposed stance on immigration.
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Kurt Risser @kurtrisser.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A country where the president can ask election officials to 'find' another 11,780 votes and not be prosecuted, while citizens are brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights is not a nation of laws. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Do Reform groupies hear about Brexity millionaires living it up in Europe and think, “fair play”? And not…. “Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK. Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
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Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
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Paul Marchant @mossley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
She really is awful-Badenoch that is!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/11/2025
Two years ago, I introduced a pioneering policy to provide free school meals for all of London’s state primary school children. Today we’re celebrating 100 million free school meals provided since September 2023.
Bright orange graphic with bold, cut-out style lettering. At the top it reads “Mayor of London” and “Great News”. Large white and purple text states “100 million free school meals served so far…”. The words “free school meals” appear in a child-like handwritten font.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 25/11/2025
“He's very good at lobbing hand grenades towards other politicians – he's not very good at receiving them." Why has Farage struggled to shake off school racism allegations, and is there an even bigger storm brewing for Reform UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
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Farage fails to address racism claims: ‘He’s thin-skinned, and it’s getting thinner all the time’ | The News Agents
Nigel Farage, who is facing resurfaced allegations of making racist comments at school, now says he “never directly racially abused” anyone – following a previous outright denial by Reform UK. What…
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 25/11/2025
Cannot wait for GBNEWS and Nigel Farage to join the barricades about an arch Trump critic having his words censored by the BBC - they must be absolutely furious about this 🤔
Guardian Headline: Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 25/11/2025
Ahead of the budget tomorrow, we asked some of our MPs what they want to see from Reeves’ announcement 👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Michelle Mone can be expelled from the House of Lords by a simple majority vote in the Commons, and then in the House of Lords. Like if she needs to go. RT if she has to go.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 25/11/2025
Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year. But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes. My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 25/11/2025
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
Two red buses, one marked 'The lie' which displays the Vote Leave claim that the EU cost £350M a week that would instead be used on the NHS. 

Another marked 'The truth' which shows that Brexit has cost the UK £1.7bn per week in 2025.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/11/2025
Today the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence begin. People around the world are wearing a white ribbon to call on men to never commit, excuse or remain silent about gender-based violence. Join me and support our work to build a London that's safe for everyone.
Portrait image of the Mayor of London wearing a white ribbon
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Nathan Gill – the former Reform Wales leader – was convicted of taking bribes to ask pro-Russian questions. Relatively easy to prove. But what if others like him took cash to do something less *obviously* pro-Russian, but still very much in Russia's interests. Something like... Brexit.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
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