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Vicki Johnson

@vjohnson.bsky.social
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Planning a rebellious retirement shouting about injustice, inhumanity, climate and environment and political insanity. Probably nobody will be listening.

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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Except we have a sewage problem…
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I agree everyone should be in a job they find satisfying and fulfilling. That’s the responsibility of the employer. While searching for your meaningful job, accept a less than perfect role to reduce your burden on the state (which should in itself give you a sense of accomplishment).
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: UK Sent Top Security Chief to Trump’s… The US is turning domestic and global counter-terror systems against political opponents – how is Britain responding? Matt Gallagher reports bylinetimes.com/2026/08/28/uk-sent-…
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UK Sent Top Security Chief to Trump’s Left-Wing Crackdown Summit
The US is turning domestic and global counter-terror systems against political opponents – how is Britain responding?
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If the rest of the world ignores this, including map companies, then it becomes just a piece of meaningless paper.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Very relieved to see this. Have been worried lately at some increasingly political arse-licking posts from NASA.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/08/2026
the Associated Press reports the Pentagon faces a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missile interceptors in Europe, after exhausting most of its supply defending U.S. bases and Israel from Iranian drones and missiles.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social have these contracts been cancelled yet?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/08/2026
Al Jazeera investigation reveals UK public money flowing to companies linked to Israeli settlements in occupied land.
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UK has billions in contracts with firms tied to illegal Israeli settlements
Al Jazeera investigation reveals UK public money flowing to companies linked to Israeli settlements in occupied land.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint, no VAT number and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster
Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint, no VAT number and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/08/2026
The US president has sought to overturn his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, citing immunity.
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US judge rejects Trump's bid to switch hush-money case to federal court
The US president has sought to overturn his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, citing immunity.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...
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The 700 freebies: how lobbyists and businesses courted Labour's special advisers
A Democracy for Sale investigation reveals the scale of hospitality accepted by ‘spads’ – and how little the public is allowed to know about it
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports according to findings by Logistics UK. And a business survey by the European Movement UK has revealed that 73% of firms say that Brexit has had a negative impact on their businesses - with 98% wanting the UK to rejoin the EU’s single market.
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True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
Exclusive: The damning findings comes as a major new survey shows that 98.2 per cent of businesses want access to the EU single market restored
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Reform's £645,000 'Ghost' Pollster
Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Are those Polling Numbers MEANWHILE, back on Earth-1: in the room with you right now, sir?
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 29/08/2026
Water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. And we're paying for it. Find out just how much of your money is funding 💩 💩 water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/em…
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Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 09/07/2026
Dirty money has no place in British politics. It's time to clean it up. @lisasmartmp.bsky.social on her amendment to the Representation of the People Bill to cap political donations.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Extremely good sketch by @mrjohncrace.bsky.social from yesterday's PMQs, particularly this bit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That just left Nige to make political capital out of a young man’s death. Everything is just material for Nige. He doesn’t give a shit about anyone or anything but himself. He is devoid of empathy, unable to see beyond his own vanity.

His imagined glories. King of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. “It’s now clear there is two-tier policing for different ethnic groups,” he began. Though he had no evidence to support this. Other than that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor would never have been arrested if he had been black. But Nige has never let the facts get in the way of his bigotry. And he has never needed his bigotry more than now.

Farage was not finished. There was anger spilling out on the streets of Southampton. Anger that he had done his best to stir up. He sounded disappointed that more people hadn’t been involved. He had asked for “pure cold rage”. But somehow the rage had not felt pure enough. Nor cold enough. Why couldn’t people even channel undiluted fury any more?

Starmer’s response was withering. He had the whole house, apart from the six Reform MPs, right behind him. He was disgusted with Farage’s comments. How dare he pretend to respect the wishes of Henry’s family. What he had done was unforgivable. The least anyone could do was keep quiet when asked. But Nige had, in a way, done us all a service. He had shown himself for who he really was. The whole country could now see through him.

It was as if we were watching the end of something. For 18 months, it has felt as if Reform is on an unstoppable roll. One triumph after another, as Labour and the Tories competed to be more useless than each other. But over the past six weeks, the shine has come off. They are the emperor with no clothes. Just another bunch of loudmouths with no answers. Just grievance.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It’s extraordinary that these people phone In before they have checked their facts!
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Classic capitalist strategy.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Seems a brilliant idea.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
‘The top’? They have 8 mps!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Reform appears to have deleted their "Make Britain a Crypto Hub" policy document from their website, prior to these donations being declared. The document proposed massive tax and regulation cuts for crypto firms
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I’m sure Burnham is thrilled.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Even the King was bored reading it out - he kept flicking to the end to see how many pages were left to plough through.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I don’t get why all creative directors make song and dance ads about everything these days. Especially for household products. A load of tosh.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2026
Top Democrat on House Judiciary formally asks White House physician to conduct cognitive exam of Trump: “Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline… increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening.”
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Monty Don doing excellent job hosting #HIGNFY - more of this please! @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Am a great admirer of the programme but how did the magazine and website design get stuck in the 1980s?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
But it’s one I’ve also had. 😪
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S.V. Dáte @svdate.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
NEW -- Is DOGE still around? Because Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost us $101.2 million in just 14 months back in office. That's correct. US soldiers are suffering brain injuries in the Middle East, gas prices are spiking, all while Trump golfs. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 million
This is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@bbc @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel5news.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.
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Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles
Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024. The post Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles appeared first on Byline Times.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/03/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The World Cup has no place being played in America. No right minded person, player, team or country should go. I will not be watching any of it. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Gianni Infantino responds to Iran’s request to move World Cup games from US
Iran are scheduled to play their three group matches in the US, but will refuse to travel there over fears for their safety
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
You’re right. But they just might consider reputational risk as it does effect bottom line!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/03/2026
NEW: Families requested no cameras at today's dignified transfer at Dover, yet Trump’s White House released and promoted photos from the ceremony across social media, including TikTok.
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Trump Releases Dignified Transfer Photos Despite Families Requesting Private Ceremony
White House posts transfer case photos to social media
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Does UK have similar plans and infrastructure in place to support national security? @ukparliament.parliament.uk @uklabour.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social How Finnish supermarkets are central to the country's defence
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“…*RUMP IS LYING. I SERVE ON THE INTELLIGENCE AND ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEES. THERE'S NO INTELLIGENCE THAT IRAN POSED AN IMMINENT THREAT TO THE U.S. OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE." - CONGRESSMAN JASON CROW
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The best summing up of Trump i've ever seen.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/03/2026
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says a total of 14 health workers have been killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/u9tuem
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Except perhaps the collapse of the western military-industrial empires?
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Is there anything Reform UK politicians won’t u-turn on? Here’s Offord’s maiden speech about the importance of Net Zero when he was made a lord for services to donating money to the Tories: www.gov.uk/government/n... It was only 3 years ago.
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Vicki Johnson @vjohnson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Can the F1 teams and Drivers Association please get the US races cancelled as well. You can’t possibly participate in a country which has broken international law.
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Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
BREAKING: The DOJ has been taking down certain Epstein file documents, per CBS News.
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