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I'm an opera singer, a European and a socialist #FBPE

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now. Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him. But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'
Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Are you an actor musician? Want to see terms improve for actor musicians in union agreements? Come to the network meeting this Friday 20th June! 🎦🎵 Find out how to get involved at: tinyurl.com/EquityActorMusician20June
Image is text only, it reads 'Equity Actor Musician Network' in deep purple and forest green text on a light pink background
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Schrödinger's Burka Ban: "We don't think women should be told what to wear, whilst we're also telling women what they can't wear" #Reform #racism #islamophobia
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another raft of good things being undertaken by our hard working Labour government. Just in last 7 days. All on Gov website because it’s not in the media!
1. Rolls-Royce SMR selected to build small modular nuclear reactors
2. Thousands of jobs to be created as government announces multi-billion-pound investment to build Sizewell C
3. System to distribute surplus food to the most vulnerable 
4. Fairer system for debt collection
5. Compensation to postmasters reaches £1 billion milestone
6. Winter fuel allowance reinstated with £35k cap
7. £187m Tech First scheme to get school kids ready to work in AI
8. Extend ban on destructive bottom trawling
9. £86 billion boost to science and tech to turbocharge economy
10.  £113bn of new capital investment in homes, transport and energy at the forefront of the spending review
11. Over 6,000 arrests and 9,000 visits carried out across the UK in illegal working
12. Digital marketplace to help change how the UK public sector buys technology
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has drawn up plans to win over Reform voters by changing its news and drama output. BBC Director General Tim Davie and other execs discussed altering "story selection" in order to win the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
When is Chris Mason investigating the disproportionate promotion of Nigel Farage and Reform UK by the BBC?
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
When is Chris Mason investigating the disproportionate promotion of Nigel Farage and Reform UK by the BBC?
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
If you want to "leave" the ECHR, which of these rights do you want to give up for yourself and your family?
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" #Trump #Musk
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
⭐️ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ⭐️ 17.4 million people voted “Yes” to Europe… …the single largest vote for any single proposition in the UK’s history. This 17.4M was from a pop at the time of just 56M - and represented a massive 67% of all votes cast. Let’s do it again. #RejoinEU
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🔥 Brexit: Labour’s lethal weapon to see off Reform? Labour is searching for the tools to fight Reform's rise, and the biggest chink in their armour could be the catastrophe that is Brexit. 👏👏👏
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Brexit: Labour’s lethal weapon to see off Reform?
Labour is searching for the tools to fight Reform's rise, and the biggest chink in their armour could be the catastrophe that is Brexit
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Whether it’s Zia Yusuf vs Nigel Farage, Elon Musk vs Donald Trump, or even Dominic Cummings vs Boris Johnson… alpha males always end their partnerships in politics with an utter car crash of a fallout.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 05/06/2025
Even as they try and narrow the post-Brexit gap with the EU on things like SPS checks for food, Labour continue to drive forward plans to weaken environmental protections in ways that would never be allowed in the EU. All deviation makes an eventual Rejoin harder. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Nigel Farage and Richard Tice find a novel way to avoid any press scrutiny after shock resignation of Zia Yusuf as chair of Reform UK
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Labour will lose the next general election if it continues on its current trajectory. I suggest all pro EU Labour MPs consider leaving and linking with @greenparty.org.uk and @libdems.org.uk to provide a real pro EU, anti austerity alternative. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/ref...
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Reform’s threat to the mainstream parties is unique in UK political history
Reform UK threatens both main parties by crossing ideological lines, and Farage’s staying power changes everything
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Statement on FB by Faversham Lib Dem councillor Anthony Hook on The outrageous behaviour of ReformUK councillors in Kent.
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Sue Austin @glassmum958.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is important. REFORM Ltd ARE NOT ON YOUR SIDE.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Open race-baiting by Nigel Farage here as he falsely claims that Anas Sarwar made a speech saying the South Asian community are "going to take over the country and take over the world". He made no such speech
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Appalling.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Fruit and veg from EU set to get cheaper as UK axes border checks in Brexit reset Ministers say removing trade barriers will result in lower prices and more choice on supermarket shelves inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk
Fruit and veg from EU set to get cheaper as UK axes border checks in Brexit reset
Ministers claim removing trade barriers will result in lower prices and more choice on supermarket shelves
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𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂𝓟 @vandyke4ad.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The not uplifting story of Mone. A self-created fairy story: The rise and fall of Michelle Mone - BBC News (BBC Scotland 10pm tonight, and BBC2, 9pm on Wednesday)
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A self-created fairy story: The rise and fall of Michelle Mone — BBC News
A new documentary follows the bra firm founder's journey from poverty to fame, fortune and controversy.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The IEA, the dark money pressure group that inspired Truss’ mini budget, is (finally) under investigation by the Charity Commission
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Institute of Economic Affairs Under Investigation by the Charity Commission
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) pressure group, which campaigns against clean energy policies, is being investigated by the charities regulator. The Good Law Project (GLP), a legal advocacy gr...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Oh.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Tories would be fools to fall for Boris Johnson again” Well they are, so they might… But for the rest of us, it would be like being offered a stinking piece of rubbish that we’d watched them get out of the bin, dust off and put back on the plate. Forget it. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
While Johnson dithers, wondering not what he could do for his country but what his country might do for him, the Tories must decide how to react; they would be culpable fools to fall for this hollow man a second time. The idea that Johnson is the route to Tory recovery is preposterous. He's the root cause of their current collapse. He broke their brand. He promised to cut immigration only to drive it up by millions. He promised post-Brexit prosperity but made the country poorer. He promised levelling up but couldn't be bothered, so delivered levelling down. He wrecked his party, expelling so many decent principled Tories that his successor was the catastrophic Truss. He pioneered the recklessness she tried to imitate. He modelled deception, charm and carelessness as a route to highest office. His betrayals have deepened the despairing political cynicism that pervades Britain now. The country has been damaged in every way by his legacy.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Not main point but very revealing that Laura Kuenssberg keeps on talking about the "child benefit cap" in *tax credits* (it's Universal Credit, and has been for most claimants for some time). Reflects both very poor briefing *and* her complete ignorance of the topics she asks questions about..
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Brexiters are the past now. They must be left there, for the good of the country inews.co.uk/opinion/cant...
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You can't argue with Brexiters – they have completely lost the capacity for reason
The Brexiters are the past now so they must be left there, for the good of the country
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In the coming days we're going to see a lot of people spreading the usual myths about how rejoining the EU is "impossible". Be ready to debunk them with rejoin.info A knowledge base of all the most common questions and answers about rejoining!
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rejoin.info
The Rejoin EU knowledge base
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 18/05/2025
This is a superb new resource about rejoining the EU. rejoin.info It takes all the thorny questions, and the objections and obstacles people throw in the way of rejoining, and tackles each one slowly, factually and calmly. Bottom line: we can rejoin. It won't necessarily take a very long time.
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The Rejoin EU knowledge base
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 18/05/2025
Liberal Bucharest mayor ahead of far-right candidate in Romanian presidential runoff
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Liberal Bucharest mayor ahead of far-right candidate in Romanian presidential runoff
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Welcome to Gilead!
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 18/05/2025
Human rights campaigners call on Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to remember their own humanity and recognise that the UK is an island of neighbours not strangers
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“Neighbours, not strangers” say human rights campaigners
Human rights campaigners call on Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to remember their own humanity and recognise that the UK is an island of neighbours not strangers
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
War on the poor. If the DWP makes error and overpays certain benefits, the Bill allows Ministers to recover money from the claimant’s bank account. No court order is needed. What if benefit claimants can't afford to repay, or face hardship? No equivalent law for fraudsters and scammers.
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A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.
This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Left: Laura Kuenssberg says Labour can't take us into a Customs Union because they don't have a mandate for it Right: Brexiter Daniel Hannan saying that the UK would not leave the EU Single Market before the vote, then after the vote, he was rewarded for his lies with a seat in the House of Lords
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
An excellent analysis and some interesting solutions by @johnharris1969.bsky.social Labour needs to discover its "why". A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve | John Harris
Labour has good ideas and years left to change Britain. Why is it acting as if its time is almost up, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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La Dama Bruja FBPE🇪🇺🇪🇸 🇺🇦 Good over evil. @bruja1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Please sign 🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700184
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Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union
Given that it has stated its aim of growing the UK economy, we think the Government needs to quantify the effects of exiting the European Union as soon as possible by setting up an inquiry.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Jimmi Lee was elected as Reform UK councillor for Acle, #Broadland last night. He wants to BAN ISLAM in the UK. He states “we are being infiltrated to the core of our heritage”.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We need to stop messing around and just Rejoin the Single Market and get a fortune every single day. It is what 86% of people want.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Reform UK councillor quits 14 days after winning Staffordshire seat www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
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Reform UK councillor quits 14 days after winning Staffordshire seat - updates
Wayne Titley has confirmed the reason behind his decision to step down just two weeks into the role
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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 16/05/2025
Like 👍 Retweet 🔂 if you want back in the EU 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺 #ExitBrexit
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Top work by @maitlis.bsky.social exposing Rupert Lowe as just a grubby little racist.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Starmer emerges from a phone box in full Farage contrived-country-gent-get-up (yellow jumbo cords, wax jacket, etc)
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Whenever he's triggered into rage by his political advisors, the mild-mannered human rights lawyer transforms into The Incredible Farage. No one likes him when he's angry.
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Socialist Opera Singer @operasocialist.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Starmer's "island of strangers" is as hideous and xenophobic as "citizens of nowhere" or "rivers of blood" Labour risk losing far more votes on the left and centre than they'll ever win on the right.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Absolutely disgusting. What an insult to the thousands of dedicated care workers who come here to help our elderly population and those most in need. Brexit bollocks.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The end of Quentin Letts' hissy fit about using the words "all rise, if able" is wild... he's telling the readers of The Mail on Sunday to give judges the two fingered salute.
A Brexit-hating, Rwanda plan-blocking, Lady Hale-worshipping, two-tier-Keir justice system seems, alas, to have destroyed our mental control of leg and thigh muscles. When the judges come swanning into court, you can forget any sign of respect.

If that's how you want to play it, we're going to stay put on our stubborn backsides. And look, the illness has even now made our arms convulse and we now cannot stop flicking two fingers at the beak.

If you complain, we'll sue you for hate speech because we now identify as disabled. Check mate!
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Hypocriticaldog @hypocriticaldog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's easy to lose sight of Quentin Lett's qualities as a writer amongst all the ableism, racism and misogyny. Mostly because he doesn't have any qualities as a writer and is a talentless hack who has been stealing a living for decades.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data. Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Dumb on so many levels. Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be. Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans
Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK
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