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#RLS Retired #husband #father #grandfather Unashamedly left of centre politically ⚒️ supporter Anti-royalist Born at 314.3 ppm substack.com/@grandad68

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 9h
Little Dicky Tice, abetted by the Daily Express delivers a condemnation; as you would expect, but no real positives about Brexit; as you would expect: #ReformAreNotYourFriends #BrexitFailure #MediaBias www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Brexiteer delivers devastating 9-word verdict on Andy Burnham's Brexit betrayal
The Prime Minister said the current arrangements for Britain's relationship with the bloc were 'not enough' and declared that Brexit had 'done more harm than good'.
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Politics is broken when basic empathy is weaponised. Mocking raw emotion from someone grieving a parent isn't clever journalism—it’s callous outrage-baiting that degrades public debate. #Politics #EdMiliband #UKMedia #EmpathyInPolitics grandad68.substack.com/p/weaponisin...
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Weaponising Grief for Cheap Clicks
Mocking basic human emotion in politics degrades public debate and strips away our shared humanity.
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National security demands facts, not political posturing. Marco Rubio's claims about RAF Fairford lack evidence, while media hype undermines painstaking police work. #RAFFairford #CounterTerrorism #RuleOfLaw #ResponsibleJournalism grandad68.substack.com/p/sensationa...
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Sensationalism Over Substance
High Politics, Media Hype, and the Rule of Law
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"Fury"? Or just a community celebrating love and visibility? 🏳️‍🌈 The Daily Mail's push to turn peaceful events into rage-bait culture wars is exhausting and dangerous. Stop using minority groups to sow division. #SupportPride #RejectHate #TotnesPride #MediaBias www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Fury as town's historic castle is draped in giant rainbow flag
Totnes locals awoke on Saturday to discover the iconic structure had been adorned in a 150m (492ft) flag as part of a four-day event.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
35 years of water privatisation: £85bn+ paid to shareholders while companies racked up £70bn in debt and dumped sewage in our rivers! Water is a human right! #WaterPrivatisation #WaterProfits #CleanUpOurRivers #PublicOwnership grandad68.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great Water Rip-Off
How Financial Engineering Poisoned a Public Service
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. Like if he needs a pay cut. RT if you want the Monarchy gone. #NotmyKing
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trickle-down economics is a failed experiment. Tax cuts for the rich don’t create jobs or boost wages; they just widen inequality and starve our public services. #TaxTheRich #EconomicJustice #TrickleDownEconomics #FairEconomy grandad68.substack.com/p/the-same-o...
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The Same Old Playbook: Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Won’t Help the Rest of Us
Every few years, a new report makes the same argument: if we just give the wealthiest people in society a break on their taxes, everyone else will somehow be better off.
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Reform UK’s candidate crises expose the truth: bad vetting, arrests, and mega-rich donors. They aren't for working people. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #WelshPolitics #PoliticalVetting grandad68.substack.com/p/the-mask-s...
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The Mask Slips: Reform UK’s Candidate Crises Expose a Party Disconnected from Working People
Reform UK consistently presents itself as a populist alternative to the political establishment; a party claiming to champion working-class communities against out-of-touch elites.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No evidence at all of crime in Essex being driven by asylum seekers. This Reform use of taxpayers money is all about driving hate and fear against migrants.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nigel Farage is posting this morning “More small boats in the Channel this morning. They will keep coming. Open Borders Burnham won’t stop them” Lets remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - the BREXIT he championed youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Millions face a brutal cost-of-living crisis while the Sovereign Grant hits £ 99.9m. It's time to prioritise public needs over royal privilege. #SovereignGrant #CostOfLivingCrisis #RoyalFinances #TaxpayersMoney grandad68.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The Cost of Monarchy vs. The Cost of Living
Why a £100m Royal Grant is Impossible to Justify
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I can't be the only one who really doesn't give a rat's arse that Prince George got on OK at Eton! #AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing #EndRoyalPrivilege www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family...
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Prince George takes first day at Eton in his stride
Prince tells headmaster ‘I’m ready’ as he arrives at boarding school accompanied by his parents
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Masked thugs are targeting unpaid RNLI volunteers for pulling drowning people from the sea. Decency demands we protect those who save lives, not tolerate the cowards threatening them. #RNLI #LifeboatsSaveLives #StandWithRNLI #HumanityFirst grandad68.substack.com/p/when-savin...
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When Saving Lives Becomes a Crime in the Eyes of Thugs
There is a fundamental moral line in a civilised society, one so basic that it shouldn’t require explaining: when a human being is drowning in freezing water, you pull them out.
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It's about time that the UK government condemned Israel; I don't care what the US or Israeli governments say. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Israel to shut down UK consulate in Jerusalem in response to sanctions on Israeli settlements in West Bank
Israel's foreign minister announced the move after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused Israeli "settler terrorists" of "ethnic cleansing" in the illegally occupied West Bank.
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Nigel Farage claiming the UK is on the edge of "civil disturbance" isn't a warning; it’s inflammatory rhetoric. Labelling migrants an "invasion" stokes fear and normalises hostility. Leadership requires real solutions, not constant fear-mongering. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage warns UK on brink of 'serious civil disturbance' over small boats
Reform UK leader warns tensions are about to get 'significantly worse'
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Britain’s extreme land concentration is a feudal relic. It’s time to move past tabloid hysteria and bring sovereign assets like our beaches and seabed into the hands of the public for everyone. #LandReform #GreenParty #WhoOwnsBritain #PublicGood grandad68.substack.com/p/why-land-r...
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Why Land Reform and Sovereign Assets Belong in Public Hands
Unpacking the Hysteria Over Green Party Proposals
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This 👇
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look - I believe very firmly- that people's private lives are their own business. BUT when you've left your partner, moved with your kids to Dubai without them and started a relationship with someone who also left their partner and kids... well you deserve nothing but mockery for posts like this.
So you think money is more emotionally
important than the love and stability and
positive influence of being brought up by
both a mum and dad? 1 don't care what
any statistics say. Some things are just
common sense. ISABEL OAKESHOTT
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Oh no! Poor right-wing - what will they do now? substack.com/@supertanski...
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Tan Smith (@supertanskiii)
Asylum backlog at a six year low. Watch what will happen next. The far right will ignore the facts. They will disregard objective reality. They will say it’s made up. Failing that, they’ll pivot to “i...
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No shit, Sherlock! #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds
‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year
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The UK right is suddenly embracing Proportional Representation. It’s not a sudden commitment to democracy! Read how a fractured right is trying to rewrite the rules 👇 #ElectoralReform #ProportionalRepresentation #MakeVotesMatter #UKPolitics grandad68.substack.com/p/the-rights...
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The Right’s Sudden Passion for Electoral Reform
Real Conviction or Pure Self-Interest?
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One isolated incident shouldn't be weaponised into broad rage-bait, but Farage and the Daily Express think differently. We need real accountability and systemic fixes from authorities; not manufactured hatred for clicks. Read more 👇 grandad68.substack.com/p/manufactur...
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Manufactured Outrage; Reforms bread and butter
How Isolated Incidents Are Weaponized into Sweeping Rhetoric
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The words "rats" and "sinking ship" come to mind... www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
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Trump facing staff exodus as they see 'writing on the wall' for four key reasons
The midterms are looming and some in the White House are jumping ship, leaving the President with a growing number of departures - so what does this mean for Trump?
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Reform UK claims to fight for the working class, but their plan strips workers' rights and enriches wealthy donors: populist slogans, elite agendas. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #PolicyVsReality #PoliticalAnalysis #ReformAreNotYourFriends #Grifters grandad68.substack.com/p/rules-for-...
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Rules for Thee, Freedom for Me
Where Reform UK’s populist promises clash with platform realities
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AFAIC, the boldest and best possible move for the UK is to rejoin the EU, never mind closer ties! #RejoinEU #BeBold www.reuters.com/world/uk/pm-...
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PM Burnham says UK must be 'bolder' in seeking closer EU ties
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told European Council President Antonio Costa that London should be bolder in pursuing closer ties ​with the European Union, with a UK-EU summit this year ‌providin...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
‘£30 billion lost’: Six major studies confirm Brexit’s HUGE toll on UK economy In 10 days' time, MPs will be summoned to debate the economic impact of Brexit. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
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'£30 billion lost': Six major studies confirm Brexit's HUGE toll on UK economy
In 10 days' time, MPs will be summoned to debate the economic impact of Brexit. Let's hope they all have a good read of this...
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GBeebies distorts statistics to suit its right-wing agenda! For reference, by 2030, projected numbers in oil & gas are expected to be <150,000, but at the same time, net-zero numbers are expected to be >400,000 #GBNews #Grifters #RightWingInterest #ClimateCrisis www.gbnews.com/money/energy...
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North Sea oil and gas sector to lose more than 100,000 jobs, shocking Labour figures reveal
Figures from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero have revealed the likely state of the North Sea oil and gas sector in 25 years time
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Draw your own conclusion as to what values ReformUK holds dear:
The image describes what ReformUK is angry about: low numbers of asylum seekers as a percentage of the UK population, the PM's outfit, alerts to save lives, and public toilets.  What it doesn't get angry about: Energy Bills, NHS Funding,  Russian billionaire donors, Food cost and minimum wage!
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The climate crisis is real, but right-wing "drill, baby, drill" politics keeps ignoring science. Read why expanding fossil fuels is dangerous denialism! #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ScienceNotPolitics #EndFossilFuels grandad68.substack.com/p/the-realit...
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The Reality of the Climate Crisis: Science vs. Denialism
How Empirical Facts Expose the High-Stakes Recklessness of Right-Wing "Drill, Baby, Drill" Rhetoric
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😂😂😂 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit or been suspended since May as the group's chief say it would 'struggle to run a ...
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Net migration to the UK has plummeted by over 40%, yet Reform UK wants you to ignore the facts and panic anyway. Their outrage isn't about numbers; it's about selling fear. Don't buy the grift. 📊🚫 #UKPolitics #ImmigrationDebate #NetMigration #ReformUK grandad68.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
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The Immigration Illusion: Why Politics Ignores the Falling Numbers
Net migration has plummeted—so why is the right still selling a crisis?
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I don't care what your beliefs are regarding immigration; there is NEVER an excuse for violence! #BrainDead #Thugs #RacistAgitators news.sky.com/story/female...
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Female police officer 'seriously bitten' during anti-migrant violence in Thetford
People are said to have been pulled from houses and some properties were damaged after a crowd claimed asylum seekers were living there.
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Nigel Farage, if he wins the Clacton by-election, won't be able to claim a victory for the “people versus the establishment”. Just about every candidate is an Independent; certainly not the establishment. #FarageGrifter #UKPolitics #Clacton www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Nigel Farage to face 33 rival candidates in the Clacton by-election
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Patients deserve dignity, not a public gauntlet. Safe-access buffer zones protect confidential healthcare from harassment. Religious freedom ends where intimidation begins. #BufferZones #SafeAccess #ProtectHealthcare #ClinicSafety grandad68.substack.com/p/harassment...
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Harassment Is Not a Holy Right
Stop Framing Clinic Intimidation as "Religious Freedom"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.
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The end of the Westminster subsidy? Wealthiest properties pay the least tax, thanks to billions in central government grants. Time to level up? 📉🏗️ #Westminster #CouncilTax #TaxFairness #UKPolitics open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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The Great Westminster Tax Rip-Off: Why Britain’s Richest Postcodes Are Crying Wolf
Central London’s multi-millionaires have relied on taxpayers to subsidize their artificially low council tax for decades, it’s time to pay their fair share.
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The Daily Express outrage machine is at it again, framing Andy Burnham's planned holiday as a crisis. Aren't working-class leaders allowed time off? Total non-story hypocrisy. #AndyBurnham #DailyExpress #TabloidBias #UKPolitics www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Andy Burnham goes on holiday leaving fraudster Louise Haigh in charge of the UK
The new Prime Minister has taken a break after less than three weeks in the job.
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As energy giants profit from the Middle East conflict, families face surging bills. A windfall tax could fix UK social care & protect the vulnerable. #WindfallTax #SocialCare #EnergyProfits #CostOfLiving open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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Profiting from Crisis: The Human Cost of Energy Windfalls
Why taxing wartime oil profits could fund the lifeline Britain’s social care system desperately needs
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Reform UK built its brand on calling out corruption—yet its own leaders now face probes over undeclared gifts, funded trips & dodgy donations. Glass houses, indeed! #ReformUK #UKPolitics #PoliticalAccountability #Westminster open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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Glass Houses and Golden Handshakes: Reform UK’s Hypocrisy Problem
For a party obsessed with calling out political corruption, Nigel Farage and his inner circle are spending a lot of time dodging watchdogs and explaining away millions in mysterious cash.
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Calling unemployed youth "gormless" ignores kids with Autism & PDA being failed by a broken system long before age 18. They don't need humiliation; they need support. #YouthUnemployment #Neurodiversity #JeremyClarkson #WelfareReform open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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Jeremy, don't Call Them Lazy When We Built a World That Rejects Them
Behind the easy caricatures of "gormless" youth are kids with Autism and PDA, fighting a rigid, unyielding system that treats their anxiety as defiance and their needs as an inconvenience.
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Gove’s education reforms built an exam factory for the few while abandoning vocational & creative paths for the rest. We didn't fail our youth; our system failed them. #UKEducation #YouthUnemployment #SkillsCrisis #EducationReform open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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The Hollow Victory of Gove's Exam Factory
How a decade of ignoring Sir Ken Robinson’s warnings created Britain's youth worklessness crisis.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Classic rage-baiting framing. "Labour paid £6.5m to foreign criminals" leaves out the key facts: it’s the Facilitated Return Scheme, run by Tories for 14 yrs & Blair before that. Saves £45k/yr per inmate. #MediaBias #FactCheck #UKPolitics #JournalismMatters www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Labour paid foreign criminals £6.5m of taxpayer cash to leave UK
Some £6.5million has been paid out to foreign criminals from when Labour came to power in July 2024 until October 2025, including £500 to convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu (pictured).
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
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The Tories are crying foul over rising council tax, conveniently forgetting they built the system that made 5% annual hikes inevitable. My take on the Tory amnesia: 👇 #CouncilTax #UKPolitics #LabourParty #CostOfLiving open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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The Tory Council Tax Amnesia
How the Conservatives are blaming Labour for a bill crisis fourteen years in the making.
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Nigel Farage is furious at missing PM Andy Burnham’s social care talks. But when you step down as an MP, you don't get a seat at the table. Read why his outrage is pure performance 👇 #UKPolitics #NigelFarage #SocialCare #Westminster open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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Out of Parliament, Out of the Room
Nigel Farage chose to walk away from Westminster; he shouldn't be surprised when the doors close behind him.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Can Andy Burnham out-talk Reform UK? Fix public buses, deliver real local wins, and skip the jargon—here's how the PM could out-communicate populism. #ProblemSolvingNotPointScoring #PoliticsThatDelivers #RealTalkPolitics #BeyondTheOutrage open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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Can Andy Burnham Out-Talk the Populists?
Why fixing local buses and ditching political speak might be the best weapon against the populist right.
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14 years in power. Thousands of promised prison cells that were never built. Emergency early releases started on their watch. Read why Kemi Badenoch's sudden zeal for prison building is pure political posturing: open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...
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The Irony of Kemi Badenoch’s Sudden Zeal for Prison Building
How a decade of Conservative planning cowardice created the very crisis Badenoch now lectures us about.
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