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Susan Friel

@susanfriel.bsky.social
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(UK) Retired NHS Nurse Director. Loving life. Left leaning Scot, politics junky - Labour supporter🌹. Love a laugh 😄

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 13h
Please share widely. Let’s make this prick famous And unemployable
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10h
The BBC to their credit on the lunchtime news have not held back in their condemnation of the traitors in the White House. Watching families in Ukraine suffer during this segment was even more powerful. We must rejoin the EU and Canada asap and never ever forgive the USA.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 09/10/2026
Thoughts on last night....
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Just Aubrey @aubreyhepburn92.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Support the RNLI 🇬🇧❤️ 38d.gs/jpcf
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More Reform attacks on RNLI, mean more donations to volunteer heroes, faster Reform falls in polls "Tice, Oakshott (his GF) and Farage attacking the charities that save lives.Tice and Oakshot from the safety of their tax haven in Dubai where they avoid paying tax on their earnings" via Barry James
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulation to Sagal Abdi-Wali on her by-election win last night. A great, local, Labour candidate and UK success story now heading to Parliament! Polanski? What a loser! Lol! And Reform? Couldn't even beat the Tories!
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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rupert Lowe apparently wants babies to be born with -entirely preventable- painful disabilities.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben claiming he quit Britain for Monaco over potential wealth taxes—when records show he already moved years ago—exposes the myth of the "super-rich exodus." Threats to flee are just economic blackmail to block fair taxation.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’ve gathered together a few clips from a superb short film from Andy Kroll of PRopublica : “The Shadow President”. Project 2025, Trump 2.0, and the White Christian Nationalist, conspiracy theory-led poisoning of the political landscape began with his pen. ⬇️
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And just listen to how many of his “teachings” have been parroted endlessly and faithfully by Farage, Lowe, Badenoch and co… Looking and sounding like a mild-mannered Geography teacher, Vought is properly evil. Be on full watch, folks: good luck, America. 🙏⬇️
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Remember when Nigel Farage described Andrew Tate as an "important voice" for men?' via Truth Against Hate
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I went to London yesterday and didn’t witness any Islamification.. no Taliban or Sharia Law either Just a rich blend of colours, cultures, religions etc all rubbbng along together, as happens elsewhere which is what makes Britain Great❗️ Like the rest of Reform Robert Jenrick talks the UK down 🤬
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/8F3Zr... Andy Burnham has made a fantastic short video on his proposals to the triple lock to fund a National Care Service. Please share far and wide. The media must not win.
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Andy Burnham explains how his changes to the triple lock will impact pensions and why
YouTube video by Andy Burnham
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No doubt news of this act of generosity will appear in every Reform UK social media group (Just kidding!) meme via Ann E. Butterworth
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 about the Far right. The NHS was built on migrant labour, we actively sought people to come and help build it. Multiculturalism is our superpower. Dispelling the myths: the true story of the Windrush Generation | TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities share.google/DBwuD77t3nwD...
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Dispelling the myths: the true story of the Windrush Generation
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/10/2026
This is a glass half full whinge.... buff.ly/8EBjDQG
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you haven't read Badenoch's latest pamphlet, I don't blame you, but in it she launches an attack on the minimum wage. When so many people across Britain are struggling with the cost of living, it’s so tin eared. Same old Tories. They always want working people worse off.
An excerpt from Kemi Badenoch’s pamphlet, ‘The Right Way’.
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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These days, they'll arrest you and put you in jail, just for saying you're English (and engaging in domestic terrorism).
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Freedom of Movement to allow EU citizens to work, rest and play in Britain. Filling jobs, paying taxes, learning English. Bringing their charm and warmth to Britain. Giving us diversity and different cultures. It’ll be so good to have them back again.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sure the decision to hold Danny Tommo on remand will soon be reversed, now that a couple of dozen knobbly-kneed wife beaters in nonce bonnets have walked under an arch.
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Logatex @logatex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And yet not long ago...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Comment on Reddit about this: "My mum tried to send a gift card to someone at the council who had helped her quit smoking. They turned it down because she wasn't allowed to accept gifts." And yet some MPs (and the authorities) think it's totally normal and fine to do this...
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#FarageRiots Fairford, Southampton, Southport... The FarageRiots fascist playbook, again. Cue those black balaclavas, right on cue: 1) Demand answers to "legitimate questions" 2) Sowing the suspicion of "brown-ness" 3) While perverting the course of justice ⬇️
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Security services are still trying to gather information on a potential huge terrorist incident. This is a critical time for them. Nigel Farage is publicly criticising them for not releasing information. He knows the law, he knows they cannot. He is palpably unfit for public office.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks to Starmer/Reeves : An estimated 150,000 children have been lifted out of poverty in the six months since Labour scrapped the two-child benefit limit. That’s some legacy
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK Councillors, know the 5 stages.
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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t read that article but in an MSM version of this story, Burnham says: “but it does need to be dealt with firmly." Er … okay, so HOW & more importantly, WHEN?? Or will there be other Southamptons & Dovers & Portsmouths first?? www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.
Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
✍️ If it's yours, join over 100,000 women and sign our letter: Women in support of the trans+ community, at notinourname.org.uk Please share with the inclusive feminists in your life
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Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sure. Brexit meant we huffed out of our agreements on managing the flow of asylum seekers. The boats symbolise “taking back control” by going it alone. But it’s only a “crisis” because politicians and media choose to blame immigrants for their own failures. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Burnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis - but rules out early general election
Burnham lamented a ‘loss of collaboration with neighbours’ following Brexit but has ‘knocked dead’ the idea of an early election before 2029
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The report examines links involving Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and other prominent party figures. Here is what it found. 👇
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We should come down like a ton of bricks on those who are violent against women – whatever their background. Yet today, you only ever hear women's safety mentioned by right-wing politicians when they are discussing immigration. It's weaponisation. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Farage and Badenoch have ‘weaponised’ violence against women, Phillipson claims
Exclusive: Labour chair tells The Independent that the Tories and Reform are ignoring ‘the national emergency’ of women’s safety
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A wee side thread to my earlier one about Alison Ann-Dowling and Norma Austin Hart taking Community Union to court today to overturn trans-inclusive policy. These two have another interesting thing in common. They both adopted a surname prefix beginning with 'A' in advance of an STV election.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The ONS productivity error did not just distort spreadsheets; it directly changed the material reality of the UK. By painting the country as poorer and less efficient than it actually was, the error triggered a series of self-fulfilling economic wounds. Why the media silence???
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So remember austerity? Had the ONS been accurate maybe this could have been avoided. I can’t be the only person to find this info shocking.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 24/09/2026
NEW: Far-right activists are mobilising in Basingstoke following the arrest of Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tommo. Thomas was arrested after a video appeared to show him slashing a dinghy in the Channel while an emergency responder was still on board. Here’s what we know. 🧵
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Tommo leader of Masked Muppets shares his “thoughts” on yesterday’s attempt to stop migrants from not landing at Gosport— they went to Dover He and team of crack villages idiots were outfoxed by Boarder Force so it was a farce Fun Fact - He’s a posh ex public school boy cosplaying a geezer 🙄
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vic Derbyshire doing the job the BBC should be doing .. one reporter ( however good- and she is brilliant) is not enough @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social .. the BBC is enabling the Far Right racism and violence if it continues to merely report not analyse their words and actions.. only Vic does that !
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reform UK has promised cuts of £100 billion, but provided no detail on where they'll be made. Now, Reform UK's favourite think tank has set out a blueprint – including getting rid of the state pension. Reform UK would take us in a dangerous direction. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has "lost confidence in the UK"... A man who is so 'patriotic' to our country that he doesn't even live here! He lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties." via Jay Church
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I was a Billionaire I wouldn’t look so bloody miserable as this dour git❗️ Has anyone seen him smile❓ I’d also stop cutting my hair myself like seems he does.. And I’d pay full UK taxes to give something back to the Country where I’d made my billions £’s But then I’m not a tight, dour git❗️🤷‍♂️
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why the hell isn’t Danny Tommo arrested for slashing an inflatable Dingy with a knife with a clearly identified rescue worker onboard❓ Tommo endangered the worker’s life, live streaming film of it to 100,000 of his Far Right Groupies shouting “This is England” His group should be Presribed FFS 😡
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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