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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Just a reminder to all Reform supports that in 2014, Farage said Putin is the world leader he most admires! Another reason to prevent Farage getting any power! #NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage
Farage says Putin is the world leader is most admires
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Just concerned parents.
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falalala50.bsky.social @falalala50.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Always be nice ☺️
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/06/2025
Shadow Work & Pensions Sec, Danny Kruger, raging: "We want to see reform. We really do insist. They've had fourteen years to get ready for gov't. They've had a year in office." Imagine how angry Danny must be at whomever was actually IN POWER for those fourteen yea- oh. ~AA
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Brad Baumann-Gervais ✌️🇺🇸 ☮️ @bradbaumann.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What are Labour’s friends up to today? Lots of innocent people being killed? Some kids dying in agony? Some more homes flattened? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israel launches waves of Gaza airstrikes after new displacement orders
Scores of Palestinians reported killed as senior Netanyahu adviser due to arrive in Washington for ceasefire talks
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JeWitch68 @witchywoman68.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“Whatever way it’s done, it’s pretty much inconceivable the government will not recover its costs” “Sorting out Thames Water in the public sector will be cheaper in the long run” End the rip off, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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What would happen if Thames Water is temporarily renationalised?
The government could put the struggling utility into a special administration regime – but what does this involve?
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GreenJJNews @greenjjnews.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The Prime Minister has declared war on the blockers and zealots. The truth is that these are just local people who stand up and object when a river is being polluted by an intensive chicken farm; or woodland is threatened
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 30/06/2025
The temperature is expected to be above 30°C today. Emergency services are seeing increased demand. It’s important that we look after ourselves as well as those who find it more difficult to cope with hot weather. See the NHS UK advice: www.nhs.uk/live-well/se...
nhs.uk
Heatwave: how to cope in hot weather
Find out how to keep cool and safe in a heatwave, and who is most at risk of heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Personally I think Mass Murder needs investigating more than hurty words. What do you think?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
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Brad Baumann-Gervais ✌️🇺🇸 ☮️ @bradbaumann.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The world must be set free.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I cannot believe how unqualified he is for this job.
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RFK Jr. Admits That Banning Fluoridated Water Will Cause 'More Cavities'—But He's OK With That
He couldn't be more unqualified.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If Brexit had never happened… …we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Alison Murray @alisonkmurray.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Now on 111.5K, and still open for more signatures. Reminder: ALL UK RESIDENTS can sign. EVERY UK Citizen ANYWHERE can sign. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. CTA: NOW Lobby your MP (see @brexitrage.bsky.social for templates and advice.) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🧵 bsky.app/profile/msma...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
80% of Britons and 56% of Americans don't like Elon Musk. If you don't like Elon Musk, Like this Post. Lets see if we can make it the most liked one on Bluesky.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Receptioniste @receptioniste.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Dr. King said that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Today especially, is a good day to remember that and to think about it. It’s going to get dark but the stars will be there. All we have to do is look. Happy Martin Luther King Day.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The fake patriots of the right-wing press are drooling over the prospect of a foreign leader interfering in British politics. They are traitors. The loudest patriots are so often the most eager to betray their country.
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Tennessee Brando @tnbrando.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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BrokenPromiseland @brokenpromisedland.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Distraction Faction
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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
DELETE IT and pass it on !!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RP if Mick is right.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Credit to @bladeofthes.bsky.social
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 29/12/2024
Calls for electoral reform grow louder as MPs back proportional representation, reflecting rising public distrust in first past the post westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ele...
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Please, sir, we want democracy…
Calls for electoral reform grow louder as MPs back proportional representation, reflecting rising public distrust in first past the post Calls for electoral reform grow louder as MPs back proportional...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Perfectly put.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
If you see someone sleeping rough this weekend, contact StreetLink by phone or by downloading its app. StreetLink enables the public to connect rough sleepers with local services that can help them into emergency accommodation. If it is an emergency, dial 999. thestreetlink.org.uk
Rough sleeper sat on the pavement in the snow
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’. The man who promoted Brexit and hatred of foreigners to inflict enormous damage to UK economy now welcomes money from a foreigner to advance his prejudices. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’
Speaking at party conference, its leader calls reports of tech mogul’s potential $100m donation ‘somewhat overexaggerated’
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I’ll say it again - The only way to build the counter-force to Musk-Farage-AfD etc is to actually build the counter-movements. In the UK, join European Movement UK. 👇
europeanmovement.co.uk
European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Political donations are institutionalized bribery. Donors get access to policymakers, shape laws, tax privileges, lax regulations, govt contracts/subsidies, honours, power. Banning political donations is a necessary step for free and fair elections and democracy leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
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How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Brexitwang. A total shitshow. But no… Let’s not talk about it Let’s not face up to how the Tories ballsed up an already idiotic idea Let’s not fix the ruinous consequences of turning prejudice and ignorance into policy Let’s just slide into a perma-state of resentful crappiness and ‘move on’. FFS.
Independent front page 5th Jan 2025

Five years on, the true cost of Brexit

£30.2bn
Cost of Britain's divorce settlement from the EU (HM Treasury) - not counting any ongoing impacts to the economy

£27bn
Drop in goods exports to EU in 2022 alone due to the introduction of trade barriers since Brexit (LSE) with food, agriculture and fishing among worst-hit sectors

15%
Long-term hit to
UK trade (OBR) as revealed in
Budget forecast

£2.8bn
Annual decrease in UK food exports to the EU
(Centre for Inclusive
Trade Policy)

6 in 10
Britons think
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Brexit has gone badly (YouGov)

Tonnes drop in seafood exports
and 12% believe
to the EU since 2019 (Marine
it has gone well
Management Organisation)

3.6m+
Number of immigrants into UK since the end of EU free movement
(ONS) despite claims it would reduce the flow

56%
Proportion of dairy producers
1,227,800
struggling to find workers (Arla)
EU nationals who left the UK between 2016-21 (ONS)

16,400
Number of businesses that stopped exporting to EU due to Brexit trade rules (LSE)

1/3
Drop in EU students at UK universities

2.3m
Net migration since
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
When you break from the herd, as we did with Brexit, you become vulnerable. It’s no surprise that Musk has targeted us as a punch bag. Or that the vicious clowns who fetishised ‘sovereignty’ and ‘control’ are brown-nosing him now. ‘Make Britain great again’. Christ, you stupid traitorous bastards.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to place Nigel Farage in the House of Lords. RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Former Business Secretary Badenoch’s dept wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over tax breaks. The rich demand tax cuts and changes in law, Ministers jump. Poor get real wage/benefit cuts, NHS queues, crumbling schools ... Minister heap misery. Who governs? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Badenoch’s department wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over potential tax break
Business department raised issue of patent box benefit after meeting that took place last June, documents show
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“Privatisation promised efficiency but led to declining services and higher costs. No wonder the public now favours renationalisation”
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Privatisation promised prosperity but delivered decline
Privatisation promised efficiency but led to declining services and higher costs. No wonder the public now favours renationalisation
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
“Good riddance to 2024: a year of crisis and a call to resist From wars to climate collapse, 2024 exposed humanity’s failures – but 2025 offers a chance to fight back and reclaim hope”
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Good riddance to 2024: a year of crisis and a call to resist
From wars to climate collapse, 2024 exposed humanity’s failures – but 2025 offers a chance to fight back and reclaim hope
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/01/2025
Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy 2025 all! To get the world we want, we have to build it ourselves.
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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