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Rebecca Taylor

@beccaet.bsky.social

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Liberal internationalist 🇪🇺 feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. ❤️s running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen (personal account)

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · Sep 17

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,250,652!

Tile showing BlueSky joining position out of 10m users

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 3h

There’s the usual avalanche of Revelations that Farage and his sycophants are wasting everybody’s time. They promised savings via their so-called DOG farce and they put council taxes up, idiots who voted for the racist scum need their heads tested.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Eight Reform UK councils 'set to hike tax' despite party promising to fight for lower rates | LBC

Local authorities won by Reform last May are facing council tax hikes despite lower tax messaging during elections

www.lbc.co.uk

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DirkNiblick @spolem.net · 4h

“And NOBODY from your party or its base will even bat an eye. It will make everything you do today and after seem utterly pointless.”

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Bestie @bestieuk.bsky.social · 4h

Richard Tice : “I’ve never met Nathan Gill.”
#Reform #Russia #corruption

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 6h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday People: FOR SAKE OF KIDS & OAPs..FIGHT FARAGE #TomorrowsPapersToday

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#OhMG @markgleaves.bsky.social · 4h

Traitor hiding in plain sight.
Farage admits knowing his close aide Nathan Gill but not his Russian associates.
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 4h

It's a system issue, but sadly I don't think Labour will clean it up properly.

Donors more often give to those who already align rather than seeking to change contrary views.

I don't think Starmer's failure on Gaza is down to some donations; way more complex. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 4h

I know Labour received corporate donations; they're registered that's how you know. The whole system needs reform, especially as regards foreign money & no limits outside of elections (which *could* allow eg Musk to give hundreds of millions to far right 😱).

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Prof Sensible @profsensible.bsky.social · 9h

Isn’t that going to be Kemi Badenoch’s fate?

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19h

The postwar campaign to strip Britain’s former imperial subjects of their rights claims another victim, let’s hope temporarily

‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 8h

So Farage wants to scrap double council tax on second homes - a policy that's been working well to raise more money for councils and also free up more homes for locals. And instead ban new homes from being sold to anyone not already local - a policy shown to grind housebuilding to virtually zero?

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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 8h

The Attack Lines That Could Hurt Nigel Farage's Reform UK Hardest – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 11h

And those of us with mixed families. I got briefly freaked out a few weeks ago that we'd been out as a (visibly mixed) family on Sat night when far right thugs were about. We didn't see any such thugs & nothing happened, but I really don't want my son to experience racism while he's young (he's 7).

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not just the Jewish suitcase at the back of the hall. It’s the Muslim suitcase, the Hindu suitcase, the Sikh suitcase all sitting at the back of the hall, with many asking why they should stay in a country where both the left & right are immersed in racism & xenophobia.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 11h

It is extraordinary to report that, in 2025, the Jewish suitcase is back in the hall, waiting for the moment of sudden flight. I feel nothing but shame

✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

The Jewish suitcase is back in the hall

After Manchester, many British Jews are asking why they should remain in a country where they feel despised

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 11h

From yesterday: Afghan judge succeeds in High Court challenge to refusal of resettlement | Sonia Lenegan

Afghan judge succeeds in High Court challenge to refusal of resettlement - Free Movement

A judge from Afghanistan has successfully challenged a refusal to bring him to the UK under the Afghan Assistance and Relocations Programme, meaning that the

freemovement.org.uk

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 11h

sloane lysbeth @sloanelysbet... • 2mo

labour are so gullible, they've bought in to the sales pitch so hard, that they think ai is gonna save them at the next election.

when the bottom falls out and takes our economy with it they're gonna flail around like headless chickens. they seriously have nothing.

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to The 19th for republishing this piece!

Cervical cancer could be eradicated. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.

The cancer has a known path of prevention, but that also means it falls at the intersection of cultural issues that are facing strong political opposition.

19thnews.org

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 11h

I think we're talking about a different incident. This was a small business accused of links to an Israeli arms firm, links which were denied.

Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 11h

I must admit I didn't realise military personnel were affected by US govt shutdown. I thought it was just civil servants. Not that it's ok not to pay civil servant of course!

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 13h

Historically speaking, not paying your military traditionally has pretty negative consequences for authoritarian regimes whose power is based on the exertion of military power.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 11h

Totally agree re recognising Palestine; it's been LibDem policy for many years and Layla Moran proposed in parliament.

I know trade unions are annoyed with Starmer, but they still gave around £2.4m to Labour for GE2024. Did any donors give more than that? I thought not, but I could be wrong!

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A Tomlinson @tenlargedown.bsky.social · 12h

This is what #Starmer and #Labour should be focusing on. This plays to Starmer’s strengths like #partygate.

#Farage and his link to #Russia

#NAFO

Russian Bribery Case Spooks Farage

YouTube video by A Different Bias

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 11h

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 12h

Things the UK government and the EHRC don't think trans people should be able to do:

Access Healthcare
Have Sex
Use Public Toilets
Be Lesbian
Be Gay
Be Safe

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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 12h

Shameful and a breach of Starmer’s manifesto promise.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Louise Crossley @candidepeel.bsky.social · 12h

Again, an MP with some balls needs to use their Parliamentary Privilege to skewer Farage, when he's next in the Commons chamber, over his disavowals of Gill's activities and his connections with both him, and his Russian paymasters.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 12h

"I did for free", says Farage
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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