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Kris Tooke

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European 🇬🇧🇳🇱🇪🇺FBPE, ✊, RejoinEU, Russia Report, NATO (OTAN) & NAFO (OFAN), Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦, 🐈🐈 (Fennel & Ferkel), Winter does not have afternoons - it's just morning until 2pm, then night. 330ppm.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18h
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
British public opinion moves relentlessly in favour of rejoining the EU. Brexit has failed Britain.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure has invited the UK to "come all the way" back to the EU, saying "come back, anytime." This comes after UK PM Andy Burnham signalled a second Brexit referendum was "possible." #RejoinEU #JoinEU
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h
The easiest way to ‘bring the UK closer to Europe’? Rejoin the EU.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21h
I have a chapter about the regulation of misinformation in a forthcoming book. The big question, unanswerable, is what to do when governments and social media companies both use and support misinformation as part of their very essence.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20h
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h
The red fox got absolutely robbed here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bank of England reveals the four animals to feature on banknotes
The decision comes after nearly half a million people voted on a shortlist of 18 creatures.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there anything that the Russian government could ever say that the current US President wouldn't accept and amplify? This is doing irreparable damage to US credibility and to the safety of the US and the countries that are still formally its allies.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If @andyburnham.bsky.social ‘s domestic agenda for a 10 year radical reform (including the care system) is to get off the ground it has to be funded. Rejoining the EU would give the necessary boost to the economy. #RejoinEU is no longer an option for Labour, it is a necessity.
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
Multiple nights a week, Nigel Farage hosts his hour-long show on GB News But Ofcom says politicians cannot be used as newsreaders or reporters in a news programme So we're pushing them to investigate. bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cartoon by Dave Granlund
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/10/2026
If your election-security plan begins by removing independent observers, the optics department has already called in sick.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The question is not if, but when. Can we please get a move on before too much more damage is done? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Could the UK really rejoin the EU?
The big question facing ​A​ndy Burnham is not whether Brexit has harmed Britain, but if a rapidly changing Europe will keep the door open​ if the UK decides it wants back in
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why do idiots vote for obvious fascists like Donald Trump, the Bolsonaro's and Javier Milei? Are people really just that stupid?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The age of leftist vs right wing governance is practically dead; what we have left is democracy vs kleptocracy; the common good vs greed and violence. We all need to adapt and redraw the lines and define (or redefine) who we all are as nations, as allies, and as a people.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Apparently Reform are now launching their own website as a full TV station. They are recruiting right now. ... And the question for Ofcom is this: When will you finally clamp down on this client media masquerading as a news channel?" via Reform Are Not Your Friends www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pre Brexit UK was better in every way. Since 2016 EVERYTHING has got worse. Any government NOT actively seeking to reverse Brexit is doing us harm. #RejoinEU
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
President Sheinbaum on the nature of the Right Wing: "The right wing is a movement, ideology, who is against the people. It doesn't defend people, it defends economic interests." "It promotes authoritarianism and violence, it is against democracy, government by the people.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Helen Whately went on Channel 4 News to explain Kemi Badenoch’s new plan for diagnosing what has gone wrong with Britain. Krishnan Guru-Murthy had a rather obvious question: “How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?”
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/ Moscow has reportedly been put on plague alert as part of a 'special sanitary operation', while hospitals in Irkutsk have been closed and medical staff put under lockdown. Indiscriminate Russian government censorship is leading to a wave of panicked rumours and criticism. ⬇️
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026
With respect to the Times’ claim that ‘£100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be’: yes it fucking is. The fact that these knobs can write that shows just how lazy & out of touch Times journalists are. Just how difficult is it to visit the ONS website & check? Too hard for the chump below.
The Times.
[Profile picture of a smug twat.]
BEN WILKINSON 
It's about time high earners had a tax
break A salary of £100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be — politicians need to
stop penalising the aspirational
Ben Wilkinson, Head of Money
Monday October 05 2026, 6.25pm, The Sunday Times
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PLAGUE, PROTEST, REVENGE With plague breaking out in Siberia, sourced inside an anti-plague laboratory the regime isolated an entire town as the first infected person, patient zero, dies. In Moscow an approved communist party protest turned horribly wrong as everyone joined in demanding an end to
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch lives in a fantasy world of denial where ... 🔹️The water is clean. 🔹️Brexit is a success. 🔹️Trickle-down works. 🔹️Austerity delivers growth. 🔹️The Tories are still relevant. 🔹️... and Kemi Badenoch is as intelligent and popular as she thinks she is. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New post: Burnham has opened the door to a "rejoin" manifesto pledge. The politics make more sense than a lot of people seem to realise. I look at what it would involve at every step from pledge to referendum. There are significant barriers but it can be done. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
samf.substack.com
The route back into the EU
Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
I wonder why Badenoch couldn't say that London benefitted from Brexit 🤔 The reality is that neither London nor any other region in the UK has benefitted from Brexit - the opposite is the case. That's why our polling with YouGov shows that 628 out of 632 constituencies want to rejoin the EU.
independent.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch refuses to say if Brexit has benefitted London
The Tory leader insisted that voters were not interested ‘in having a row’ over the debate to rejoin the EU
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Nobody is prepared for the world of drone warfare that is coming, in fact is already here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every single leader of Reform UK is an ex member of the Tory Party responsible for 14 years of austerity which killed thousands of old, poor, sick and disabled people Don't listen to their promises to make life better They are the problem "From one bin to another......" via We Demand UK
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Realism still needed for Europe debate in UK. Will Andy Burnham provide it? Me in @eastangliabylines.co.uk Enjoy! eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not commenting on this case (don't know enough) but it would be a smart move to place legal limits on damages. There's a growing pattern of rich men using the law to cow the press. This twat. Sweaty Andy. The Tangerine Toddler. It's bad for democracy www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
theguardian.com
David Sullivan sues BBC for £150m over Panorama’s sexual misconduct claims
West Ham co-owner and former pornographer lodges high court claim over episode, in which several women accused him of abusing power
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The true ‘No-go’ areas see the ones filled with Reform supporting, knuckle dragging flag shaggers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are multiple reasons that could have led to the Trump cult withdrawing their bombers. What is clear however is that we cannot trust or rely on Trump’s administration. Our future lies with Europe. Let’s just get on with it. #LetsGo news.sky.com/story/us-rem...
news.sky.com
'Reported threat of possible Iranian drone attack' led US to remove bombers from RAF Fairford
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that all its bombers at Fairford had returned to bases in America.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE LOOMING WORRY OVER CHINESE KILL SWITCHES IN THE UK With the Labour government seemingly soft on China - and it’s the same in Spain and some other European countries, despite the blocs desire to be more circumspect, new realities have come to light. Reports that every Chinese car imported into
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The door has - finally - been opened. The taboo has been smashed. EU membership is back on the table. It’s time to make it the closing paragraph of this new chapter in UK-EU relations. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-pi...
encompass-europe.com
A pivotal moment for UK-EU relations
When the sun rose on June 24, 2016, one thing was clear: the relationship between the UK and the EU had entered a new, arduous chapter. As Boris Johnson and Michael Gove blinked into the cameras,…
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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