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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 21h

What's the difference between a prisoner & a hostage?
I'm lost.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h

Elon Musk funds Tommy Robinson.
Nigel Farage travels to the US to lick Donald Trump's boots once a month.

The Far Right isn't even British any more.

It is American, what a disgrace.

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Drew @drewdavies68.bsky.social · 1d

Well said Sophie

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · Jan 16

Fkn hell.

Please read this.

It's shocking.

Truly abysmally shocking.

#Badenoch #CSA

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jan 15

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 23h

If so, this is great news

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The SNP @snp.org · 23h

We’re opening new GP walk-in centres across Scotland, staffed by doctors and nurses, and you won't need an appointment.

Open from 12 to 8, 7 days a week, so you can get the care you need at a time that works for you.

Graphic with headline text “New GP Walk-In Centres.” Subtext reads “You can see a doctor without rushing to get an appointment.” Background image shows a stethoscope on a desk. SNP and Scottish flag logos appear at the bottom.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Oh.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government * UK politics live – latest updates Reform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government. Richard Tice said key election pledges such as lifting the income tax threshold would be an “aspiration” and that once in government Reform would concentrate on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent read…!!

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 2d

Our Scottish Government is progressively pro-immigrants too...

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 2d

The SNP's Stephen Flynn spelled it out clearly today: Scotland belongs to everyone who lives here - wherever they were born.

(video stream: @broadcastscot.bsky.social )

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

And they wonder why people call them Nazis.

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 2d

No idea who that is but wouldn’t suggest he wear that hat in glesga…

Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant..

Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 3d

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HIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 4d

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to democracy activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela – in unrelated news, US announces 10,000% trade tariff on Venezuela

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 5d

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 4d

One may be enough….

Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 4d

This is long overdue!!!

Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 4d

"It is vital this legislation is brought forward with urgency before another season of unnecessary suffering."

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MP calls on government to REALLY ban fox hunting

Labour promised to strengthen the Hunting Ban to stop foxes being terrorised, but that still hasn't happened

www.thecanary.co

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 4d

The more I hear from this chap the more I like him…. A politician making sense has up to now been something of an oxymoron…

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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Christopher Walton @christo-walton.bsky.social · 4d

Great to see the right-wing lies being totally demolished. Poverty & the increasing inequality gap has been a political choice in the U.K. for far too long.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 4d

Lets hope it catches on over here…..

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8d

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 6d

The last dinosaur. An honest and honourable Tory.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 6d

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Mighty Storm

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