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Helen Murphy

@nelmurph24.bsky.social
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Linguist, love music (try to play my violin!), love good food & wonderful company, long for Uk to rejoin the EU.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 20/03/2026
Sanchez is right. The data tells us Brexit was a colossal act of self harm.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, "Brexit was a colossal mistake" "I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit" "It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot" "It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Jenprick really is monumentally stupid.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000. Exorbitant water bills. One-third covers interest & dividend payments Companies paid over £85bn in dividends, borrowed billions to pay. Sewage dumped in rivers, fines waived. No bailiff ever sent. No exec punished
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Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000
Most recorded visits are for smaller debts, data from England and Wales suggests, though method of recovery is a postcode lottery
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
13 new Labour/news announcements that will be deliberately missed or misrepresented by our media Please share as we have to do the job of our media. Let your fam/friends know this government has your back. As well as keeping us out of a forever war.
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Who did @claremcdonnell.bsky.social interview on Monday 2nd March, who eloquently defended Keir Starmer, at Trump’s comment that he was “no Churchill”. He was brilliant!
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#universitychallenge Madgewick sure is passionate 🤣
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I heard this on the radio in my car.. I was howling when the actual situation was explained 😂
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Me too! I wondered what on earth he was talking about..
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
*I was thinking the same*
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I was the same. Mandelson at that time, a “double agent”
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hey @lisanandy Is there anything, anything at all, you can do to sort out our media? They’re crucifying Labour daily. I voted for you and I want to hear what you’re up to as my elected government. Thank you in advance.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
After today’s raid of Washington Post journalist, Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home, this article suddenly becomes more relevant. So I’m re upping it.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Yesterday at PMQs Starmer verbally attacked Reform MPs for their lack of concern with Grok being used to harm women and children. Farage and Tice sat laughing, mouths wide open. These are not men who are concerned for our safety. These are men only concerned with themselves. DO NOT VOTE REFORM
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Another list of 12 announcements from our Labour government this week . The star is the Child Poverty Strategy. As a rich country we have to do better for our children. Thank goodness for our Labour Government. Sure/Best starts making massive contribution too.
1. UK & Germany deepen science & tech ties with £14m for quantum potential
2. Child Poverty Strategy - Over 500,000 children to be lifted out of poverty 
3. Nationwide takedown of illegal delivery riders leads to over 170 arrests
4. Better buses, more services: £3 billion boost for millions of passengers
5. UK launches search for traditions that define our communities
6. Gilts down, Pound strengthening 
7. November's S&P Global UK Composite Purchasing Managers' Index, incorporating  services and manufacturing activity, was revised up
8. Britain will launch a fast-track licensing regime for financial services startups allowing them to get up and running while they seek full authorisation
9. Next step on the UK rollout of self-driving vehicles as public, charities and businesses asked for their views
10. Review launched into mental health, autism and ADHD services
11. UK among first countries to recognise cryptocurrency as personal property
12. Consultation opens for extra time at the pub during World Cup
13. UK workers will get unfair dismissal rights after six months from 1 Jan 2027
14. Access to early SEND support through Best Start Family Hubs
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 05/12/2025
When the Telegraph admits Brexit is a disaster, the ground is moving. The question is: why isn’t Starmer? eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Now is the winter of our Brexit sent
While we have used this title before, perhaps this is the time to look at our options afresh, now that we have seen the disaster that is Brexit
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Things I like: Lifting 2 child cap Min Wage uplifts Gambling tax Surcharge on £2m+ houses Salary sacrifice cap EV road charges (they use roads) £400m clawed back in COVID payments (more plz) Borrowing will be down Markets happy More Russian sanctions (Farage?) Energy ⬇️ And more
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is such important news. Hundreds of thousands of children taken out of poverty with the stroke of a pen.
liverpoolecho.co.uk
Two-child benefit limit is officially scrapped in Budget 2025
Rachel Reeves confirms policy that restricts what benefits families can receive will be removed
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I thought it was a great presentation - she stuck to her guns- I loved the snipe at Farage🤣
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Proven: Tory Boris Johnson’s Incompetence = 20,000 unnecessary deaths Proven: Reform would be even worse. Just look at Kent County Council. Next time it could be you or your loved one. Don’t vote for another incompetent. Those poor families hearing this today 🥲🥲.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
So reading about Johnson’s incompetence today makes me super pleased we have Starmer. He might not make sexy headlines for the media. Or be a laugh a minute. But you’d never see him hiding in a fridge or not understanding what the country needs in a crisis.
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What the hell is she doing with him.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The pariah formerly known as Prince
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Watching #bbclaurakuensberg #Gaza how could anyone deny this evidence of total destruction & genocide
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#HP Printers - terrible- always losing WiFi
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#NickRobinson on Radio 4 now interviewing Keir Starmer - would he have given Farage such a grilling?
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I thought it was just like the wild wind blows..never read the lyrics/ this is a revelation
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I can’t bring myself to watch this woman
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I’m reading #YouAreHere by David Nicholls & I don’t want it to end. I just love everything he’s ever written
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Big pharma threatens the UK govt. Want higher drugs prices/profits, squeezing the NHS budget, forcing higher taxes. Trump wants lower drugs prices in the US, uses Europe as reference point. So companies threaten UK govt. Corporate power used to bully govts. UK Govt must produce generic drugs.
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Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says drug firm executive
Sanofi’s market access chief urges ministers to come up with a roadmap to raise spending on new treatments
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’m not surprised at the large turn out yesterday. Our media ecosystem - as @carolecadwalla.bsky.social has often pointed — has completely collapsed, and people are motivated by outright inflammatory lies on social media. It’s a crisis of information and the dark side of the digital revolution
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to overthrow UK govt. Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else. Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say. People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses. Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
There actually seems to be more EU flags than Union flags this year at #Proms.. is the message getting through?
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Loving the EU flags as usual at #proms
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Until the government is willing have an honest discussion about the negative impact of Brexit - Britain’s growth, productivity & living standards will continue to be weighed down by the structural handicap it has inflicted on the country & economy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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No prospect of UK rejoining EU in my lifetime, says Starmer’s reset negotiator
Comments by Nick Thomas-Symonds underline view in top government circles despite thaw in relations with Brussels
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
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Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Lovesong
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Shein UK accused of moving ‘vast bulk of income’ to Singapore to cut UK tax. £9.6m corporation tax on £2bn sales. Profit hard to know, 84% or the sales transferred to a Singapore company as a “purchasing” cost. UK loses billions due to profit shifting. HMRC poorly equipped to challenge it.
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Shein UK accused of moving ‘vast bulk of income’ to Singapore to cut British tax
Fast-fashion retailer rejects accusations as Fair Tax Foundation questions its tax arrangements
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
South West Water sued over a parasite infecting the water supply. People told not to drink tap water without boiling it. Company has more than 174 criminal convictions. Paid over £4.5bn in dividend since privatisation. Criminal organizations out profits before people, threaten health/life.
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South West Water taken to court over cryptosporidium outbreak in Devon
Inspectorate issues summons after water supply infected 140 people with diarrhoea-type disease in Brixham last year
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🔴 Brexiteers hate the world they created They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer. 📝 New post 👇🏻
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Brexiteers hate the world they created
A rant...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
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Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in creating this mess
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Mirror's Kevin Maguire argues the only way for Britain to return to its former prosperity is with a plan to return to the EU after Brexit proved to be a giant con that only leaves us poorer and weaker www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Brexit was a giant con by plastic patriots – we need a plan to get back in EU'
The Mirror's Kevin Maguire argues the only way for Britain to return to its former prosperity is with a plan to return to the EU after Brexit proved to be a giant con that only leaves us poorer and we...
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Leigh, Abolish ICE, Orca 2028, Free Luigi @frecklered.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit www.ft.com/content/3e9d...
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Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit
Export growth has been strong but not lived up to its potential
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Helen Murphy @nelmurph24.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Badenoch is vile. An out & out bully, with very little talent herself & I suspect she knows it.
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We are only asking for 1% of what the world spent last year on defence. And we can save over 100m lives. Let’s get our collective priorities right. My speech at #ECOSOCHAS: bit.ly/3SXbANj
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