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Ian Fozzy Foster

@republicif.bsky.social
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ANTI fascist, Woke. Hoping for a better world & a legacy for future generations

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 2h
Now they're trying to do the same to the Greens & Zack Polanski, for exactly the same reasons: the policies genuinely represent change so threaten the establishment status quo.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 12h
What's half a trillion between friends? This is not a serious party. 'Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 12h
@greenparty.org.uk now has way over 200,000 members so it needs its decisions to be made by elected delegates. Not a little over 1,000 people who pay to turn up at conference and vote for a sloppy motion that helps the enemies of every decent value it stands for. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Green Party wants to make sure it is 'not vulnerable to extremists'
The party's Westminster leader Ellie Chowns made the comments after ex-leader Caroline Lucas said some members had joined to vote in the Zionism motion.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
adambienkov.co.uk
Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16h
If you have a few minutes to spare, do take a look at the latest entry in ‘Nigel’s Notebook’. It's all about our internal inquiry in which we find ourselves completely innocent. Subscribe for free to get these straight to your inbox. parodypm.substack.com/p/we-find-ou...
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So public opinion is now mob rule eh Watson? You who sits safe from re-election in the HoL.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Tom Watson is such a shill. And the Guardian needs to be a lot more scathing here. "Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns" Absolutely gross. Why don't we hear from his former Labour colleagues?
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"She asked me for help"
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/10/2026
All the investment in our water system comes from one place: customers' bills. The government needs to bring not just water back into public ownership, but every critical asset that this country has under our control, owned by us.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Farage says Reform will a. Privatise our NHS b. Boost GP numbers The trouble is, with an insurance based health system, those GPs won't treat poor people, only millionaires who've paid! "Nigel Farage reveals his plan to sort NHS corridor care crisis" www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2662075...
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
Nigel Farage pledges GPs boost to tackle corridor care crisis at East Lancs hospitals
The leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage backed his local county council boss in raising concerns over local government reorganisation during a visit to Accrington today
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch
Why does she have the best press in politics?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Has anyone told Zia Yusuf that Robert Jenrick & Suella Braverman were Ministers in the very Tory governments he's accusing of betraying Britain? 50% of Reform's MPs defected from the Tories, perhaps Zia ought query with Nigel Farage who's been let through the door" via Truth Against Hate
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Councillor Dan Bradley has left Reform UK. ... And his resignation statement makes pretty uncomfortable reading for Reform..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To be fair the typical blue rinse Times reader "will" be better off under the Tories. It's the rest of us who'll suffer.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apparently the Tories are planning to bring back the home guard to operate it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?
bbc.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In the first 6mths of this year water companies in England failed to report.. more than 50,000 sewage discharges within the legally required time frame" Over 4,000 affected bathing waters. So even if you check its safe just before you go in, you might still be swimming in sh*t
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Louise Reddy from Surfers Against Sewage "its a really common thing that sewage is being discharged into waterways. It happened 3 million times last year.. in Porthtowan in Cornwall there was a horrific discharge that happened where you could see faeces just sitting on the beach"
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or the lobbyist asked Claude.
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#GoodMorning, Britain. ☕🇬🇧 Gas storage running low, a £12bn hole in the public finances, and ordinary families facing higher energy bills. Meanwhile, oil giants are making billions from war-driven price spikes. 🤨 Funny who profits from war and who pays for it. 🕊️
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Apparently Burnham likes a marmalade sandwich🥪
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch labels Andy Burnham a 'Paddington Bear Prime Minister'. What is that even supposed to mean?
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Well done to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for calling the Tories out on this utter hypocrisy.....
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tone deaf except to a small number of voters She really has no idea that in order to gain support she has to stop pandering to the only the wealthy She comes across as a condescending public school teacher www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories accused of prioritising rich voters as Badenoch lays out inheritance tax cut plan
Party hopes to win over affluent middle-class voters as leader rejects calls to ‘unite the right’ in conference speech
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Groucho of the Groucho I believe, who'd have thunk it
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This really dents Katie Price's image as a serious political figure, and I'm not convinced there's any coming back.
STARS CUFFED Katie Price &
Suella Braverman chained
together for C4's Celebrity
Handcuffed - as pair are
seen debating in street
Rod McPhee, TV Editor Felicity Cross, Showbiz Editor
Published: 13:23, 5 Oct 2026 |
Updated: 14:33, 5 Oct 2026
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One can only imagine the steam of excuses and obfuscations which emerged during that half hour, and remember, according to Farage’s ‘aides’ these commissions are toothless.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'
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Ian Fozzy Foster @republicif.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do as I say not as I do
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reform MP buys £800k second home in Wales two days after questioning their impact willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
willhaywardwales.substack.com
Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
US bombers have left RAF Fairford. They'll wage war from America while British families near the base get the fallout and the bill. Higher fuel. Higher food. A target on our soil. Someone else's war, paid for by us. 🇬🇧
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
standard.co.uk
MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cutting jobs at the Environment Agency after a summer of wildfires. Which would never raise the £700m Kemi claims. How much do the Tories think EA staff get paid? All to subsidise childcare for six figure earners. Utterly delusional
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🔥 European Movement UK is the community you need - and we are mobilising! So get onboard, get involved and get in the know —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk #Rejoin #EU #AndyBurnham #europeanmovement #UK
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Badenoch says scrapping the £100k childcare threshold is about fairness. But the Tories created it in 2017 . Now they're calling it "absurd" while funding the fix by cutting £1.6bn from public services. Deputy heads and nurses get relief—millionaires get free childcare. Priorities, eh? 💀
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another shining moment for Reform UK Durham… Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks freedomineverydaylife.org/volunteers-t...
freedomineverydaylife.org
Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks – Freedom in Everyday Life
Since 2017, volunteers from Hemp Garden Community Association have worked to transform a neglected green space into a thriving community park. Elvet Green in Durham has been transformed from a…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Tories are finished Once people wake up to what Reform will do to their own supporters they will also see an implosion Tax the billionaires and close loopholes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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