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Frankie

@wakeylass.bsky.social
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Artist 🎨, Socialist, Retired Teacher, Shoeaholic. 👟 🩰 👠 Lover of Nigella Lawson Guinness cake. 🎂 🥮 🇬🇧

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 5h
Fed up with the media making the by-election all about Burnham and Polanski. The new MP is Sagal Abdi-Wali, a well respected and well known local politician. Let's talk about her and her victory today eh.
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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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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clever twats
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Lorraine Driver @lollyrs58.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Declared or not you can’t winge at sick people needing benefits whilst helping yourself to a 12 grand holiday of a billionaire press owner
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Barbara Exon @barbaraexonwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please could you possibly sign and repost as widely as possible this gov.uk petition, critical for UK politics: Petition: Make lying or spreading disinformation in public office a criminal offence. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watch her stand the Tories down at the next election, as Farage stood UKIP? down in 2019?
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds
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Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds
Researchers, who looked at UK, US and Dutch data, say lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives a year Cases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people in England, major new research has found, prompting warnings that lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives each year. The number of people under 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001, while early onset bowel, kidney and uterine cancer diagnoses more than doubled. Continue reading...
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have heard rumours that Richard Tice heads a company called Britain Means Business, that has no employees and sells no products but takes in very large donations from foreign based people and forwards them to Reform UK Ltd. I can't believe this is true, but if it is it should bring down Reform.
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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brexit didn’t just put barriers around Britain. It put barriers around British people. Where we can live. Where we can work. Where we can study. Where we can build a life. As Britain turns back towards Europe, removing those barriers should be a priority.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine banning child marriage being so controversial that it took nine years to accomplish it?
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California bans child marriage after 9-year fight to outlaw the practice
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting marriage for people under 18. Liberal civil rights organizations fought previous efforts to ban the practice.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolutely. 400+ seats and 64 Laws passed in two years. This is why the RW media attacked him and the stupid Labour 'supporters/MPs' joined in, instead of kicking back!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Things are getting rather interesting over at Reform UK. Nigel Farage has now been questioned by the parliamentary standards commissioner over the £5 million gift he received "Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Claremont (Blackpool): 🌹 Lab HOLD Wick and East Caithness (Highlands): 🔶 LD GAIN from Ind Amble (Northd ): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Hirst (Northd.): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Long Whatton & Diseworth (NW Leics.): 🌳 Con HOLD Forth and Endrick Ward (Stirling): 🌳 Con HOLD Where is Reform UK? Nowhere.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I heard what Trump was saying and I'm in the UK 🇬🇧
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/10/2026
Many Hispanic voters heard secure the border and deport violent criminals. What they got was cruelty to: workers, parents, grandparents, children, longtime residents and people with no criminal conviction. This is buyer’s remorse on an epic scale. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UK has added 291,000 new solar PV installations in the 12 months to August 2026, the most in any 12-month period since 2012 It brings the cumulative installed solar in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations. It's also a 9% increase from August 2025, with 1.9GW of new capacity
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UK installs record 291,000 PV installations in 12-month period
This brings the cumulative installed solar capacity in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hope he brings in compulsory voting.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who do you think got Labour a massive majority. Starmers government passed 64 Laws since July 2024 and made the UK look credible again in Europe!
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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 29/09/2026
Sixteen years after he first shot for the top job, Andy Burnham will today make his speech to the Labour Party conference as leader. By all accounts, it’s going to be an unusual one. London Playbook has the details. 👇
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Half the World Away
Presented by Lloyds Banking Group By ANDREW MCDONALD with MEGAN MCELROY PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Politics at Sam and Anne’s podcast | Listen to Playbook and view in …
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not officially though. The carriers asked for identification, not the Governments.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Its time to get rid of Farage. He put his hat in the GE ring in June 2024. The hatred against migrants and all PoC intensified. Indiscriminate attacks on people, homes trashed, people scared to go out. Violent Thugs on the streets. Farage and his knuckledragger army has set the UK back years.
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Majken @majken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
apple.news/A1WOkTl4cTVW...
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Britain's asylum seeker 'crisis' is a lie — The i Paper
Mathilda Mallinson: It's time to start writing policy for real problems, not perceived ones
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Homosexuality wasn’t decriminalised in Britain until 1967, and so this Film and DIRK BOGARDE’s performance in it were both phenomenally courageous & dangerous. VICTIM (1961)
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He's just unbelievable. He probably thought he was being nice too! 🙄
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage and Trump are really stupid and very dangerous.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia is bombing museums, apartment buildings, hospitals, research facilities, schools, and parks. Ukraine is bombing military targets and refineries. Guess which one Trump has been complaining about?
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who's the biggest dick, Farage or Trump?
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell @gazzalw63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh dear. Another move that will piss Badenoch off. Think of those poor shareholders! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Avanti West Coast services to be nationalised from March
The move is part of a plan to improve rail infrastructure, cut train delays and improve experiences for passengers.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.
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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This book is absolutely hilarious. I'm going to track it down and read it again.
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
David Nivens book 'The Moon's a Balloon' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. It is hilarious. If it's still in print, get it, you won't be disappointed.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
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UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings * UK politics live – latest updates Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status. The change marks a shift in Mahmood’s approach to asylum seekers after the abrupt closure of the Afghan resettlement scheme last year and changes that will keep refugee status under constant review for two decades. Continue reading...
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@Rickagain @richardrichards47.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Men with signs stand in front of the U.S. Capitol in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. By photographer Warren K. Leffler
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.
The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."
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