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Ruth

@ruthr1.bsky.social
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Proud Northern soul ..always Labour and Man Utd .. just trying to be better every day ! 🌹🔥

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 1h
Not one person born THIS CENTURY voted for Brexit.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12m
Reform’s world leading vetting excels again A Reform councillor stepped away from his cabinet role, over concerns re his alleged arrest Police carried out warrants at properties in Grimsby and Waltham, seizing suspected unlicensed prescription drugs and class A drugs. #ReformCrimsInc
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Reform UK cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council says Reform UK's James Sawkins remains a councillor.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1h
Such a sad and shameful day for the Greens. By no means the main point when the motion is such a disgrace, but it’s really harmful to environmental action when the Party that has for so long been one of the main advocates for tackling the climate and nature crisis is hijacked in this way.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 11m
I'll be honest, I'd take those assurances with a pinch of salt given G4P rejected the below amendment which would have given it force - and have been actively undercutting amendments claim to want a state with equal rights for all
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Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 1h
The exceptional Caroline Lucas worked tirelessly and w/ principles to makes the Greens a serious party. It is being thrown away by a populist leader and the entryists who learned nothing from the mess Labour got into under Corbyn. I am not a Green voter nor Jewish but I am genuinely furious.
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 6h
Badenoch has condemned the disabled, undermined a fair and equal education and sought to penalise the poor, while trying to reject our human rights by removing us from the ECHR but she wants to protect childcare for the wealthy. Words fail me.
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 10h
I think as another Reform Councillor 'steps aside', Reform is going for a full bingo card of criminal offenses, this time linked to 'unlicensed prescription drugs and class A drugs.'
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Reform UK cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council says Reform UK's James Sawkins remains a councillor.
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Emma-Jane @e-jc.bsky.social · 47m
A handy guide. All British political parties to have adopted the policy of Zionism is Racism. Green Party Conference.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 52m
Badenoch is first post-war Leader of Opposition to fall into third place in party polls for any sustained period (most of 18 months, Jan 2025-Sept 2026) Michael Foot did fall into third place but for only a very short period in Spring 1982: Labour often first, then a narrow second
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h
Left: The Tories claim they’ll save taxpayers nearly £1bn a year by cutting student loans to “foreign students”. Right: Most international students on Student visas don’t qualify for UK student finance in the first place. So where exactly are these £1bn “savings” coming from?
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1h
Andy Burnham’s flagship ‘Number 10 North’ is set to be built on land where Manchester City’s owners had a controversial “sweetheart” property deal, The i Paper can reveal Read more: trib.al/HEmZKZ3
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 8h
The hypocrisy of Braverman and the right, as they sell their souls for money.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h
Helen Lewis, "Do you have to be white to be English?" Nadhim Zahawi, "I don't think you have to be white to be English" "If you are born and bred in England then you have every right to feel English" Helen Lewis, "You're going to disagree with Suella Braverman?" Nadhim Zahawi,"That's how I feel"
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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 4h
Pretty dark day for the party when the motion looks set to pass despite opposition from MPs and former leaders practically begging not to do this. Crank takeover is complete and the party is lost for now.
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Sam and King Lucy the 1st @kinglucythe1st.bsky.social · 3h
If I was ever minded to vote for The Greens, that thought has now been completely dispelled. What a bunch of morons.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 7h
Congratulations to England on their 0-0 draw with Croatia last night (if you only count goalscorers who are English according to the delightful Sue Ellen Braverman’s definition).
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1h
It's hard to see how the Green party's motion today will avoid an investigation by the EHRC, given Labour was previously found in breach.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 1h
Polanski has failed the most basic test of leadership: standing up to those who seek to do your party harm .. the Green Party is no longer a functional political entity to be taken seriously .. it’s a long road back ..
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9h
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 6h
Badenoch seamlessly blends supreme arrogance with weapons grade stupidity & thinks we’re as dim She rips into Labour for releasing prisoners early Yet when in power her Govt freed more than 10,000 prisoners up to 70 days because they refused ti build more prison places which was fine with her 🤷‍♂️ 🙄
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 5h
1/ In the coverage of far-right activist Danny Tommo's detention after slashing a migrant dinghy in the Channel, an important point seems to have been widely overlooked: he allegedly committed another crime *after* being arrested, which could result in 12 years in jail. ⬇️
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 5h
“Kemi Badenoch saying the ban is unnecessary only shows how out of touch she is with public opinion. Over 80% of the general public, including farmers and rural communities support a ban on fox hunting. It is cruel and barbaric.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Kemi Badenoch branded 'out of touch' for stance on fox hunting after vile video
EXCLUSIVE: Footage shows a Heythrop Hunt kennel huntsman climbing into woodland near the village of Lower Swell to recover the body of the fox and then running away with it
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 1h
According to #Reform I’m now the problem for meeting mates at a local football match and chatting to the club about how I might help support improvements to its facilities. According to Cllr Karl Catchpole, apparently that’s worse than losing 2-1. ⚽️ www.facebook.com/share/p/17hd...
A screenshot of South Norfolk Reform’s Facebook page. It has a selfie of Cllr Karl Catchpole by himself with Ben Goldsborough MP over his shoulder with friends and club management. The caption on the post reads: Went to support my football team yesterday and “Hate not Hope” was there aka Ben Goldsborough. I don’t know which was worse, losing 2-1 to Gloucester City or him being present? He was supposedly there with a view of generating some funds for a new purpose built clubhouse…..Will he deliver? I doubt it. Labour only delivers decline in society. 💪🏼⚽️💙🖤🙏🏼🩵🇬🇧👍🏼
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 8h
The wealthy want lower taxes for them. And lower welfare for you. The low taxes results in a smaller State, picking up things like NHS, welfare, PIP, your Council, education, minimum wage The things they can afford to pay for privately, but you can’t.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 8h
'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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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 4h
For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪
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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 7h
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 2h
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 15h
Let's see. Who was Home Secretary in 2023 ? That would be the lovely Suella Braverman
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 8h
"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h
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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Elaine/Lainy @afanofallsorts.bsky.social · 7h
www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/2660472...
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‘Our aim is to fill that gap that’s been vacated by the council’
Sustainable St Helens Alliance launches after council drops climate targets, with free People’s Emergency Briefing screening event at Lucem House on October 15.
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Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 7h
Finger on the pulse, of the average worker.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“So many people came out to see me in Alabama last night. The Fire Marshall threatened to shut the rally down because we were so bigly over capacity. And I was told that there were over 300,000 outside, crying because they couldn’t get in to hear me. We could hear them all crying from inside. Sad.”
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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John Callander 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @callanderj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😂😂 Man City fans "The owners have built this and that and all these jobs will go if we get punished". You have literally just proved what rival fans have been saying about sports-washing. Even drug barons built schools and shit didn't make them any less cunts did it?
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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...
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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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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22h
Austerity 2.0 is it chaps? I’m always amazed at how these guys derive genuine excitement at the idea of slashing public services
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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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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 22h
The Tories’ position on pensions is falling apart. A Shadow Cabinet member wants to replace the State Pension as we know it with something that offers 'dramatically less'. Only Labour will protect a rising state pension while building a new National Care Service. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Senior Tory privately urged ‘radical’ shake-up of triple lock
In a leaked recording in June, Katie Lam appears to break from Kemi Badenoch’s position, saying an ‘entirely new pension system’ may be needed
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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Byline Times has an unusual distinction: sanctioned by the Kremlin and banned from Reform’s conference. Watch Farage say: “I’ve never met the Russian Ambassador.” He had. There’s a Russian Foreign Ministry photograph of Farage meeting Ambassador Yakovenko in 2013.
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Graham Ward @yelobeli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As an ex Green member and candidate, I agree with much of this. Polanski is dreadful. I hardly recognise the party I was a member of for 15 years.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The more blatantly full of hate racist Reform UK become the greater the backlash of generosity from the majority of decent Brits meme via The Unheard Majority
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do it !
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the seats had been vacated after the Reform incumbent failed to turn up to any meetings for six months.
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Labour claim double by-election gain from Reform
Labour have won two council by-elections in Northumberland in wards that had previously been held by Reform UK.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"These people are meant to be educated and don't know how to accept definitions of language – keep trying to further confuse idiots with word soup and it's almost boring now. For example, the definition of nationality is the legal status ..." via The UK Against Hate www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Oh look, another award for London. Someone might want to pass this on to Reform’s mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham. Perhaps she could dial back the relentless shitting on the city I live in by, say, 5%.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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