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Shruti Bhargava

@shrutinha.bsky.social
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Leader, speaker & facilitator. Former #UKHousing Association Chair. #RaceEquality champion. Troubleshooter, change agent, strategy, systems. Independent citizen, views my own. Post menopause chronic #fibroids survivor. Don’t even try to put me in a box…

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."
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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h
Latest Badenoch: “If [Andy Burnham]’s not calling an election, why’s he talking about things happening in 2030?” - alarming the extent to which so much of our political class cannot process the idea of “planning for events four years in the future”.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 18h
Gee, color me surprised...🙄
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I watch Farage on TV news stirring things again. How much longer before investigations into his finances come to a conclusion? It is not good enough that he gets away with all his shenanigans.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yet another INTENDED consequence of the Thatcher regime. Lest we forgot: To end the social care crisis and renationalise social care #SocialCareShouldNotWipeOutAllOnesAssets #UncaringUK
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 20h
Oli Dugmore calls out Suella Braverman’s dog-whistling. She then squirms and evades when asked FIVE times if she really thinks you can only be English if you’re white. Oli Dugmore has the perfect response to her incoherent absurdity: Ian Wright and Bukayo Saka. 🔥 #bbcqt
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
Suella Braverman is coming across as unhinged and just plain bonkers (as well as racist) #bbcqt
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23h
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
Suella Braverman spouts lies and says they are facts. Including e.g. the debunked lie, started by Farage the fascist, that Iranian terrorists are coming across on small boats. But ‘these are facts’ she keeps insisting. It’s about time politicians were prosecuted for deliberate lies. #bbcqt
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
It’s so noticeable that Reform (Suella Braverman) and Tory (Julia Lopez) are just unprepared to deal with questions from audience members who have positive views of migrants. They are only able to parrot their racist and negative lies & talking points. #bbcqt
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
Suella Braverman really does need therapy. #bbcqt
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
Great audience on #bbcqt challenging the unwelcome narratives about immigration making hard working migrants unwelcome. At odds with the words of both Julia Lopez (Tory) and Suella Braverman (Reform). Thank you 🙏🏾 Oli Dogmore for challenging and calling out the lack of humanity and niceness.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 19h
Well said Oli Dugmoreon #bbcqt 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 20h
“It’s really important we don’t make stuff up”. @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social to Suella Braverman. Well said Miatta 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 20h
Here we go, Suella Braverman on #bbcqt…
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spanish actor Javier Bardem is calling to boycott Starbucks for supporting the genocide in Palestine
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, too, remember the 1980s boom! And we could do it again! Sell off the railways, water, gas, electricity, and council housing, and use the income to cut taxes for the rich! Oh, wait...
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Belle de jour @bowman120.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Simon Clarke, born in 1984, of course remembers the 70s very well. As someone who was SoS for Levelling Up and Housing and Communities under Johnson, he knows a thing or two about inequality. He was part of a government which has taken us back to Victorian levels of richest and poorest in society.
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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Few Highlights from 1980s Miners strike Mass unemployment and deindustrialisation 1981 inner city riots HIV Section 28 Poll Tax riots Housing crisis and right to buy Hillsborough Mad Cow disease Decimation of the welfare state NHS outsourcing / chronic underfunding
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reform UK in Durham are down to 1 above No Overall Control. It’s time Leader Andrew Husband and Deputy Darren Grimes hung up their boots. Durham is the chaos council.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People are pointing out (understandably) that there’s an irony or inconsistency here, but of course there isn’t really: the entire point of far right politics is that they (favoured group) have a right to do & say what they want, and you (opponent/ other unfavoured person) have no rights at all
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026
It’s been a while since I had a proper Brexit rant. Then GB News’s US Political Editor declared Britain “is not a European country”, completely rewriting reality, and my restraint promptly left the fucking building. How many excuses do Brexit’s champions get before they answer for the mess?
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The Brexit Multiverse of Madness
What happens when reality refuses to cooperate? Simple - you just rewrite it wholesale.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Its unlikely Simon Clarke has bad memories of the 1970s as he was born in 1984. This helps to explain why he forgets a recession made worse by Thatcher driving interest rates up with her uneccessary monetarist policy. The only thing that saved the tories was the Falklands war & North Sea oil.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We’ve noticed that Robert Jenrick has been silent on Grenfell. Is that because from 2019 to 2021, he was responsible for dealing with the building-safety disaster it exposed? His record isn’t good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (again) and hands the GOP senators' butts to them.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK has always had a right-wing media. But they are now a hysterical, disinformation spreading cartel. Weaponised by Brexit lies, Corbyn smears, defending Boris Johnson, spreading racism & trying to delegitimise the very idea of a Labour Govt. Another rotten vested interest needing reform.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is apparently in answer to Mahmood’s mild and frankly underwhelming proposal to resettle a limited number of Palestinian refugees. How unlike the Israeli government to respond in an insanely disproportionate manner
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BalthazarBlaze @balthazarblaze.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think it would be very useful if people could say it directly. Its because the Israeli minister is a racist, but seems like its left to insinuating the obvious when it comes to so much racism by right wing figures.
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Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We cannot have another decade like the one we’ve just had.” PM @andyburnham.bsky.social on why all options are now on the table.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First Nottinghamshire, now Derbyshire. Pathetic avoidance of scrutiny. Reform-led Derbyshire County Council bans Derbyshire Live’s Local Democracy Reporter www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Angela Rayner laid into Nigel Farage in her #LabourConference speech
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‘He’s shown whose side he’s on’ – Angela Rayner slams Nigel Farage in conference speech
'Farage isn’t standing up to vested interests. He’s falling at their feet.'
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Shruti Bhargava @shrutinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference 2026 – The Labour Party
Hear from Andy Burnham, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh and give me optimism any day of the week over hate and the misery agenda that defines Reform/Restore/Badenochism
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Prime Minister seeking to fix this country's pressing problems and the broken politics and stagnant consensus that underpins so much of it... A PM promising real improvements rather than unicorns sunlit uplands and an agenda of hate... Who knows? This could be catching.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now that Nigel Farage has had his demands answered in the RAF Fairford investigation can we all demand an update from the Parliamentary standards commission and Met police regarding their investigations into him and Reform.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Danny Tommo denied bail and remanded in custody as Tommy Robinson jets off on another luxury holiday searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
Court image of danny crying
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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