Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Had lovely day cycling with Anna, Lorenzo, and Mark on the Tiverton to Taunton section of their LEJOG ride in memory of Tim McKenna 040
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 04/08/2025There are many more sex offenders protesting outside asylum hotels than living inside them 16478131
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Reform’s tales of wasteland Britain won’t work. There’s a far larger market for hope www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comReform’s tales of wasteland Britain won’t work. There’s a far larger market for hope | Gaby HinsliffAbundance is Rachel Reeves’s summer beach read, and with its optimistic ideas about energy and housing, it shows the left a possible way forward, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff 511041
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/08/2025“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.” Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliath’s Curse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapseAn epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished 1030593
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I always invite Russian trolls to poke actual holes in my discussions. They never do. The best they can say is “This is delusional propaganda” or “Take your meds” or “Go back to the asylum”…without ever clarifying why my analysis is actually wrong. That’s how you know you’re over the target. 412819
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Former Tory MP Adam Holloway has defected to Reform. As someone who 'mistakenly' overclaimed £1,000 on expenses, defended an MP who sexually assaulted a 15 year old and tried to influence a judge over another MP charged with sexual assault, he should fit in perfectly. 641711479
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Yes, Farage. You’re bitter and boring. “There's undeniably a market for politicians wallowing angrily in dreams of a better yesterday. But I suspect there's still a bigger one waiting to catch sight of a better tomorrow.” @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social in the Guardian (summed up in the iPaper) 54761220
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Farage will be best known for inciting riots in a couple of years when he’s faded from the public view. Not a single positive thing will ever be associated with him. 1418530
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...europeanmovement.co.ukTell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental CooperationClimate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen... 120
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Caught lobbying for cash or bullying in Parliament? You can still return to the House of Lords - for life. No real consequences. No accountability. Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...you.38degrees.org.ukBan rule-breaking peers from the House of Lords.Lords found guilty of serious misconduct – like bullying or lobbying for cash – still get to make our laws. I just signed a petition to kick rule-breaking peers out of the Lords for good. Want to add... 010
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK 1343212954
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If you need cheering up, watch this, it’s the loveliest thing on BlueSky you’ll see in a while…☺️ 030
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Caroline Lucas, "We keep being surprised by these phenomenon.. Floods in Valencia.. Hurricanes that hit the US" "What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change" Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social 181074333
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Yous 😶🌫️ @you-s.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Nigel #Farage preaching integrity is like a weather vane claiming it controls the wind. Whether it’s Brexit promises or his #Reform rhetoric, his positions shift faster than his pub anecdotes. It's not conviction driving him—it’s convenience dressed up as principle. 1234
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 30/12/2024The 6 biggest questions about adult ADHD, answered by a neuroscientist www.sciencefocus.com... An in-depth exploration of the nuances of ADHD in adults, and what we're constantly getting wrong about it. By me, for BBC Science Focus #ADHD #MentalHealth 86424
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024“If our migration policy has become so deranged that we cannot differentiate between initiatives like this, we have simply lost the plot.” Well said @iandunt.bsky.social Please Labour, do not screw up this chance for our young people for fear of the Daily Mail. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/bre...liveapp.inews.co.ukBrexit screwed young people – now it’s payback timeIf youth mobility is the price of a closer EU relationship, it is a very cheap one indeed 6375113
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Thames Water customers risk paying £263 a year extra to rescue firm. Serial offender, dumped sewage for decades, neglected investment, borrowed to pay dividends. Now wants customers to bail it out. They will own nothing. Let it go bust. Nationalise at nominal cost www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...mirror.co.ukThames Water customers 'risk paying extra £263 a year' to rescue embattled firmCampaigners say £800million cost of emergency loan will hit bill payers - as former government adviser adds to calls for Thames Water to be temporarily renationalised 671044463
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I disagree with anything the racist, hypocrite Farage says or stands for!! 001
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 06/12/2024And yet, here in the UK we buried the Russia report that said the same about our Brexit referendum, if only we’d had a strong leader prepared to stand up for real democracy. Cameron ducked out and ran away and the rest of them just followed instructions from the ERG, too afraid to rock the boat! 010
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Concern grows for Telegraph journalist as he suffers complete amnesia about Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. 651480263
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 06/12/2024Is James Dyson really the person to pontificate about an act of “egregious self harm” when he’s the billionaire who relentlessly championed Brexit which has turned into nothing but an act of “egregious self harm” that “killed entrepreneurship and stunted growth”? Really? 65717191
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.sussexbylines.co.ukWe need a free pressIt’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled 10034091196
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right. 9234481919
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024“We must leave the EU to control our borders and stop mass immigration,” they said. And it was the same people who said that who were then in government. Brexit has simply led to the reverse of everything it said it was about. 941757548
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A gentle reminder that Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into a website, which is a criminal offence 632395782
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️HIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A Conservative Party spokesman says Louise Haigh “failed to behave to the standards expected of an MP", as she hadn’t thrown a lockdown party, bullied a civil servant, given a PPE contract to her mate, gone on reality TV instead of doing her job or crashed the economy 024774
Reposted by Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A politician apologising and quickly resigning because they've done something wrong? It'll never catch on... 291151105
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Prediction for today is I’ll not enjoy the game 😬😂 #saintsfc 030
Ashley Smith 🇪🇺🚴⚽️🕷️ @smithers007.bsky.social · 23/11/2024So enjoying being on this platform as opposed to Twitter, just need more people to make the move over here 010
