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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦

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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 20h
The latest short video of Andy Burnham on getting a social care system that works for all who need it I don't know how anyone can do the job of PM in these times. There are too hot potatoes that need dealing with and only so much money Again, please share far and wide. youtube.com/shorts/_IMeS...
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Andy Burnham explains why he wants to fix social care
YouTube video by Andy Burnham
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben claiming he quit Britain for Monaco over potential wealth taxes—when records show he already moved years ago—exposes the myth of the "super-rich exodus." Threats to flee are just economic blackmail to block fair taxation.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The NHS is not free either. But it is free at this point of use. That is the key. This should have been fixed in 1990s. Pensions will still go up every year. No other party grabbed the bull by the horns. Labour is. It needs to happen. This is a solution and workable alongside other funding streams
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a result for Labour in Holborn & St Pancras!! This was a mid term election and @sagal-a.bsky.social smashed it - huge congrats!! She embodies all that the Labour Party stand for: aspiration, opportunity, community, and public service. Holborn and St Pancras know a servant when they see one.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's more whitewash in this report than at your local B&Q. Nothing in it exonerates Reform UK or Nigel Farage. They're not above the rules. The sleaze, scandal & police investigations aren’t going away. It’s time to stop the cover ups and come clean to the public. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations sting
Officials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
British public opinion moves relentlessly in favour of rejoining the EU. Brexit has failed Britain.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives are the party of home ownership. So why then did they do nothing about the market in 14 long years? Is it because they believe the market rules? The truth is the market has failed the 99% on so many levels, including on housing. They are a joke. And a bad one.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch talking about living within our means again. That means austerity folks for the sake of a broken ideology created by wealthy people decades ago. And what about her role in previous Con governments trashing this country and its reputation? No humility and not a leader.
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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🔴 Two in five voters open to voting Labour at general election, poll reveals 📊 Polling, conducted by The Messina Group, found that Labour had the highest ceiling of support among voters, with 43 percent either considering or planning to vote for the party labourlist.org/2026/10/labo...
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Two in five voters open to voting Labour at general election, poll reveals – LabourList
More than two in five voters would consider backing Labour at a general election, polling shared exclusively with LabourList has revealed. Polling, conducted by The…
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Andy Burnham never once mentioned our opponents in his speech. That was wise. He only spoke of HIS vision for the country. The Tories have nothing to offer. Only rhetoric. Which is why Badenoch is having a supposed joke about Keir Starmer. He achieved a lot in 2 years. She helped trash this country
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A must watch & a must share. Neoliberalism, 2008, Brexit, & COVID have ensured that too many communities have fallen behind. One is one too many. This video tells our story. There is plenty of hope though. And Labour in gov isn't just providing a new vision. It's acting. youtu.be/InmOUg5A_Xc?...
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The UK’s economy isn’t what it was. We mapped out why
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hear you. I am gutted too. We still have a Labour Government though putting our values into practice. We waited 14 years for this. While it was not our finest hour, we can be proud of achievements whoever is leader. That's where I have landed! I hope you can one day too!
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Agreed and thanks!!
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t feel like a high-octane meeting of a party preparing for government. More like a home counties meeting of the Rotary Club. On current evidence, if there is a general election next year…then the Tories won’t be active participants”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?
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No queues, empty seats and the worst speech ever heard: welcome to the Tory conference | John Crace
Birmingham event is like a safari park attraction where we get to see the remnants of a party in a protected habitat
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/8F3Zr... Andy Burnham has made a fantastic short video on his proposals to the triple lock to fund a National Care Service. Please share far and wide. The media must not win.
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Andy Burnham explains how his changes to the triple lock will impact pensions and why
YouTube video by Andy Burnham
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Greens - failing Lib Dems - divided Reform - corrupt Tories - regressive Labour - winning
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch lives in a fantasy world of denial where ... 🔹️The water is clean. 🔹️Brexit is a success. 🔹️Trickle-down works. 🔹️Austerity delivers growth. 🔹️The Tories are still relevant. 🔹️... and Kemi Badenoch is as intelligent and popular as she thinks she is. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every problem Britain faces today, started with Thatcher Many Prime Ministers have carried on her work like Cameron, May, Johnson & Truss Thatcher sold off all of Britain's assets & privatised everything, destroying Britain Now we have Badenoch who looks up to Thatcher as her idol & role model
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Merci!
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch wants to cut NI for young people but keep the triple lock for pensioners. Now tell me which demographic gains the most from Tory dogma....again. We need a political party that is for all generations. Thankfully the Labour Party is it.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hello Bluesky! I am back! After a few months away, the long and short of it is I've reflected a lot, and I am either with our movement or against it. I was never against it, so therefore I am with it. Always. After a toxic summer, I am supporting Andy Burnham. There is no other way. 🌹
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 06/07/2026
This Parliament is forecast to be better for living standards than the last. Unfortunately for Andy Burnham, most of the forecast growth will have already taken place by the time he's expected to take office. What other challenges face the new PM? Find out ⤵️ buff.ly/vTEZMib
Chart showing projected annual growth in non-pensioner after housing costs disposable household income, by income vigintile: UK
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 05/07/2026
No food standard can correct or justify the absurd cruelty of all factory farming and the Organic badge is falsely applied to the factory farming of Salmon - it’s rife with chemicals. www.greenbritainfoundation.co.uk/updates/orga...
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Organic salmon: no such thing as organic factory farming
The Soil Association is weighing whether to keep certifying farmed salmon. We say walk away, because no standard can make factory farming organic
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 05/07/2026
More than a million of you watched our films and now know what "organic" salmon farming looks like. The Soil Association felt the need to respond -  twice in a week.
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Suzy Brewster @suzybrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Keir Starmer, 'I didn’t enter politics to be Prime Minister'. But Andy Burnham did. He's just proved he did by ambushing Keir Starmer in such an appalling manner. A debacle so distasteful that some of us no longer feel we can support Labour.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
labour.org.uk/two-years-of... 2 years of amazing progressive policies under Keir's leadership, a world away from 14 years of decline and austerity, and Labour MPs have tossed him aside like he was worth nothing to them. Click the link to learn. I can't help but agree with Jane's post below.
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Two years of a Labour government – The Labour Party
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨 Labour won the 2024 general election two years ago today
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Starmer warns Burnham will have to spend time on global affairs, in first interview since quitting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer: Burnham will have to spend as much time on foreign affairs as me
In an untypically candid interview, the outgoing PM tells the BBC it was "really tough" to accept his political career was over.
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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We don't need "placating" @pippacrerar.bsky.social . We want him to talk us through why shafting a sitting PM 2 years into a 5 year term actually helps the country. Can you interview him and get him to be specific?
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A new petition we all need to sign. Labour MPs should not go unaccountable. They need to justify to members and the voting public why they jumped right into the media's agenda. This isn't democracy. It is a coup.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/07/2026
Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’
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Lisa Nandy announces plan to quit X over fear it pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’
Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concern over its far right content that fuels violence and division The UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced. The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far right and racist content, and is used to incite violence and division. Continue reading...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Reform UK is the party of ordinary working people. The sort of ordinary working people who get £5 million gifts from billionaires and earn £22,500 an hour for promoting gold bullion.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Farage earns £22,000 an hour for selling gold bullion. Is he really the man of people? #NigelFarage
NIGEL FARAGE IS PAID OVER
£20,000 AN HOUR TO SELL GOLD
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Labour MPs: Let me again ask you: listening to Starmer's apology on behalf of the state for forced adoptions, why are you getting rid of him again? I fear you are making a gigantic mistake.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is the brutal reality of Brexit. As the EU builds protectionist walls to shield its industries from China, the UK gets caught in the crossfire as an outsider. Severing single market access leaves British car manufacturing entirely at the mercy of decisions made in Brussels. 🛑👇
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EU urged to exempt UK from car rules that could be worst Brexit impact yet
Bloc’s ‘made in Europe’ regulations risk shutting out British manufacturers in ‘most spectacular own goal in history’
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Ian Pearce 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 💙 @pearcee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
420,000 people have come off NHS waiting lists in England since Keir Starmer was elected. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The end of resident doctors strikes will only accelerate this trend. The thought of a Deform UK government is horrendous.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
So let me get this right. Cameron inflicted a referendum on us that NOBODY WANTED. He did it save the Tory Party. Farage then took advantage and lied to the nation But when the people WANT something that would benefit us all on so many levels, we are shut down. Remind me again how democracy works?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Brexit is the biggest act of self harm any country has ever inflicted upon itself!" via We Demand UK
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I'm in exactly the same boat. I will cancel membership on the day Keir goes if no contest. If there is a contest, I'll cancel if Burnham wins.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I hear you. Facts that can't be got away from. If I was the Lib Dems I'd be capitalising on this disillusionment within the Labour membership and make a heartfelt, sincere, apology that shows they have learned. Goes for Ed Davey too. If they don't, I shall stay politically homeless.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Politically homeless again & considering whether @libdems.org.uk membership would be a solution I thought I'd always be Labour but not after the shunning of members like me Thing is, I need @eddavey.libdems.org.uk to finally admit austerity on his watch was wrong news.sky.com/story/lib-de...
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey refuses six times to say whether coalition-era austerity was a mistake
The Liberal Democrat leader denies the austerity policies his party implemented alongside the Conservatives were to blame for the current crisis facing the NHS.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026
This is remarkable.
Bar chart which shows y-axis running 0-8000, and x-axis showing years 2019 and 2024. For 2019, a light orange bar runs up to just over 6000, with a darker orange running up to 8000. For 2024, a green bar runs up to 4000, with a dark green running to about 5000. The text "40% lower" is on the lighter green bar. Text at the top of the graphic reads "Estimated air pollution deaths are down by around 40%. New analysis estimates deaths associated with air pollution in London reduced substantially between 2019 and 2024." Text at the bottom of the graphic reads "Note: darker shading shows estimated ranges. Data based on a comparison of estimated mortality burden using updated methods and a scenario-based analysis where only air pollution changes. Source: london.gov.uk/aqmortality". The Mayor of London logo sits in the bottom right-hand corner.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Venezuela needs our help now! In solidarity! gofund.me/f30749e4f
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Donate to Emergency Relief for Venezuela Earthquake Victims, organized by I Love Venezuela Foundation
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is fantastic news Angela Rayner👏
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thank you Peter. It is a scandal that the Dublin Convention is not widely known about. It is an even bigger scandal that a replacement was never sought after. The Brexit debates pre-referendum were a folly. They were nothing more than a personality contest. And we paid the price. So have migrants.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Nigel Farage's tip for Brits stuck in post-Brexit airport queues? 'Just go by dinghy, it's much easier!' So here’s a reminder of how his Brexit led to the small boats crisis. If UK news shows won’t call his bull**** out let’s do it ourselves youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 26/06/2026
If you’re around the National Park this weekend, please 🚌 Travel responsibly - avoid blocking roads, entrances or emergency access routes 🌊 Stay safe around water 🔥 No fires or BBQs, and take all your litter home Respect the land. Respect the community. Respect each other 🙏
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