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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 23/05/2026

Join us for a Co-operative Campaign Day in Makerfield on Sunday 7 June to help elect Labour and Co-operative candidate Andy Burnham. We're asking co-operators to join us on the doorsteps and help elect a new Labour and Co-operative MP for Makerfield. 🌹🐝

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Please can we normalise putting in headphones to listen to music on the train thank you. I love music on the train as much as the next person but I don’t need to hear your favourite songs

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Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 16/10/2025

📅 Happy International Credit Union Day! Today we celebrate the power of community finance: people coming together to support one another, build resilience, and invest in a fairer future.

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

the Leader of a political party endorsed shoplifting This is proof the Greens are no friend to working people working people, our retail workers up against the rise in shop lifting which puts them in danger & lowers morale. I’m proud to be a member of USDAW & Co-op who have led the charge on this

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It is nice to see MPs thinking about the academics as always 😜😂. I’m sure one or two PhD candidates will be helped out by this haha

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Co-op Party NEC By-election I’m delighted to have been elected

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is exciting news! Our Party continues to prove its worth! But we still need to go further. I hope members will support my election onto the NEC so we can keep punching above our weight and deliver for our movement

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

While everyone is getting hyped for the Labour Deputy Leadership The Co-op Party is holding a by-election for its NEC in England North (NW, NE, Y&H) I’m delighted to announce I’m standing as someone active our movement I know that Co-op values are only way Labour can defeat reform

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Shirine Khoury-Haq @shirinekhoury-haq.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy 180th Birthday to the co-operative movement!! 🥳 Our Co-op can trace its roots back to the first store opening in Rochdale on 21 December 1844. Co-operatives are a different way of doing business as the excellent article below by Co-op News describes👇💙 www.thenews.coop/the-night-th...

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The night the lights were lit: 180 years of UK co-operation

David J. Thompson on the birthplace of the co-op in 1844

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s really exciting news I must say I did begin to lose faith we would ever see the bank return to mutual ownership but I’ve been proven wrong

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

There is definitely a ‘block’ the moment I’m challenged culture on Bluesky. absolutely everyone’s right to block & not engage but as a whole progressives will struggle to beat the right if we can’t handle criticisms from other progressives but I guess English & Welsh Greens don’t like talking Co-ops

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Or Carla could champion co-operative and mutual solutions like Labour is just like Thangam would of done giving greater consumer ownership

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

They are looking at mutual and co-operative models that will run them as not for profits and will deliver greater consumer rights and ownership

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the commission will consider the use of co-operative and mutual models that will deliver better consumer rights of their water giving us real ownership- this is something the Green Party used to support sad to see them turning away from realistic solutions to grow the co-operative & mutual sector

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Where did you get them! They are awesome

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Although i think it makes an interesting point on the confusion over hostility. Plays into a point on ‘culture war’, a term I hate, some of the conservative culture war warriors seem to confuse public disinterest and lack of understanding of postmaterialism concerns with outright opposition.

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy to help! Although lots of annoying features like verification would actually be extremely helpful on this site!

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Then @mattuthompson.bsky.social once you click share you should have option to send the link just hit copy and then when you past that into your next post it should appear

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On the app assuming your using mobile click the 3 dots next to the post you’ll see something like this then click share…

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What like this? bsky.app/profile/toml... - if you copy a link and post it should appear

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In the GOPs defence they are effectively already calling for quicker counting it’s just they would prefer to just cut off after the day after the election even if only 10% has been counted and just declare the winner assuming the GOP wins otherwise yes it’s keep counting 😂

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I note Co-op aren’t on that list - while the rise will absolutely have impacts on us, we have frozen our meal deal at 3.50 for Members, while Tesco has increased its’ prices. Shows how a business serves its consumers instead of profit maximisation can deliver better for our communities

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Morning sketch

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Come on Alaska it’s sad enough you voted out Mary Peltola but do us one thing and don’t go back to First Past the Post it’s just a terrible voting system. See GOP you can win under Ranked Choice Voting you just proved it. You don’t have to abolish Ranked Choice Voting as well

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’ve made a starter pack of lobby (ish) journos - those reporting on UK politics Give me a nudge if you think you should be on it and I missed you! go.bsky.app/H3jDVJb

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Why on a Saturday morning my goodness. I still think Friday Nights are best. But same can’t even give apologies being the chair!

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve been called many things on the Internet but fascist is a new one I can tick off the bingo card. See I believe the word fascist has a meaning outside of ‘person I disagree with’ I strongly disagree with Seb Payne, but neither me or him are fascists. Curious what your definition of fascist is?

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well welcome! We want a range of views here! I have no interest in a centre left echo chamber

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I can imagine the Lib Dem leaflets right now. I assumed local factors at play.

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Sebastian Payne @sebastianpayne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here’s a centre right starter pack, for those who want to ensure this isn’t entirely an echo chamber go.bsky.app/DNLEPTu

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Never thought I’d be thanking Seb Payne for something here we are. Thanks for this. As a bleeding heart liberal, what I miss is normal discourse with normal people I *strongly* disagree with. Twitter used to have that so I look forward to having my views challenged again without seeing Nazi content

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Do you have preference flows for this? Fascinating result. I know Lib Dem’s worked this hard but the collapse in Scottish Labour vote is noticeable especially after it being fairly strong post GE compared to England

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Which is an important point. Free speech equally includes a right for me to not listen. Me not listening likely won’t help my case or my speech but what the alt right want is mandating listening to their speech.

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

100% one of my biggest concerns with moving over to bluesky is lack of debate- I don’t actually want a liberal echo chamber- but Twitter doesn’t serve me content I want anymore I don’t see centre right takes I just see neo nazi content & disinformation even though I’m not following any such accounts

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

exciting wins for the co-operative sector. The mutuals & co-operative council has resulted from strong work between this countries largest mutuals so seeing government support for this is exciting. Co-operatives and mutuals will deliver the sustainable growth for our country that puts people first

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I wonder if this really is the replacement to Twitter - certainly been promised it’s demise for a long time. Threads never really worked as an alternative

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Cllr Tom Laing @tomlaing14.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello blue sky! Definitely feels like the better to be here. Although when someone wants to create a mutually owned social media platform that will be good

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