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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · Dec 10

Contrary to what some people believe, it is possible to be left-leaning, patriotic and a monarchist.
This flag is not the preserve of the rightwing, it’s our flag, all of us in the #UK of #GB & #NI
#UnitedKingdom 👍

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 11h

How on earth can a business buy voting systems?
All the more reason why we in the #UK should stick with our good old fashioned voting systems!

WIRED @wired.com · 13h

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 11h

#StaffordshireCountyCouncil Library Service - this is what #ReformUK Ltd. consider to be ‘waste’ apparently!
Well they said they would cut waste, and cut #CouncilTax
Voters in #Staffordshire must be delighted!
(Wasn’t this where the Council Leader spent £190k on extra ‘assistants’?
#VoteReform?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12h

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 11h

Due to the appalling behaviour by, and the sentiments encouraging, the #faketriots dangling our nation’s flag half way up lampposts, I have now taken down my 🇬🇧 as I do not wish to be associated with switch these people.
I am now flying my county flag:

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 14h

Scummy perverts getting off on killing animals. They’re sick in the head if they enjoy #animalcruelty

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntsman found not guilty after fox found dead at Stowe School

A hunt master is found not guilty of two offences at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.

www.bbc.co.uk

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 15h

The #Tory Incinerator in #Newhaven, #Sussex

Plume Plotter @plumeplotter.com · 1d

Latest Newhaven incinerator plume plot, 18:50 15/10/25 plumeplotter.com/newhaven/

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Lodger has ‘hidden’ the dish sponge! #WTF???

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Tories wasted £50bn of our tax money!
#Conservatives vs #NHS

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

In the early days of the internet, you couldn’t type Scunthorpe without it appearing as S***horpe, or even just not being allowed to post it.
Why do we now allow anyone to write absolutely anything?
#ITVNews

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Patriotism
#Faketriots

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

#DonOLD #Trump

LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 1d

The country’s on fire,democracy’s dangling by a thread,and he’s giving guided tours of his new gold-plated Oval Office like a delusional real estate agent.He’s basically turned the White House into a Mar-a-Lago timeshare presentation.Next up: a gift shop selling “Classified Documents Slightly Used.”

Trump keeps wandering off the job to give tours of his White House remodel: report

Donald Trump’s obsession with remaking the White House into something more like his Mar-a-Lago resort is interfering with his presidential duties, as he sets aside time spent running the government to...

www.rawstory.com

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyFail being negative again, no mention of this:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#OhDear! 😉
#ReformUK Ltd.
#Kent #RobertFord
#KentCountyCouncil
#MaidstoneRuralWest
#Maidstone #KentCC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK suspend Kent county councillor after complaint

An investigation is pending into a complaint made by some women into the behaviour of Robert Ford.

www.bbc.co.uk

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#MAGA #USA

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

It's very expensive, looks like shit and is banned in most countries because its crash safety is horrific.

Oh and everyone hates Elon Musk.

It's not a surprise its sales are less than 10% of estimates and Cybertrucks are now rotting in their hundreds of thousands in their lots.

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

Just confirming then that most #Tory voters are either rich or idiots!

Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 2d

James Breckwoldt: “Of people who voted Tory in 2019, ONLY HALF did so again in 2024. Around 21% of them went to Reform, only 4% to the Lib Dems. EVEN IN SEATS that flipped from Tory to Lib Dem, roughly 19% voted Reform. Only 9% voted Lib Dem”

open.substack.com/pub/jamesbre...?

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

If your #carinsurance went up 100% you’d change insurer
If your local put the price of a #pint up 100% you’d find a new local
If #cigarettes went up 100% you’d give up #smoking
If your mobile contact went up 100% you change provider
So why don’t we change #water suppliers?
We can’t! It’s a monopoly!

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

Before #MaragaretThatcher we had:
Free dental checks
Free eye tests
Free Uni
Mortgage tax relief
No 2 child benefit cap
No IPT
No APD
VAT at 8%
NIC at 6%
A library in every school
Council houses
Top rate income tax at 85%
But the people of #England voted all of that away!
#English #Tories
#Thatcher

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

This is the version of the #UK that #ReformUK Ltd. would like!
How many days annual leave do they get in the #US?
How long do the get for maternity leave in the US?
How much do they pay for healthcare in the US?
The #Tories already took away free dental and sight checks!
#MAGA vs #UnitedKingdom

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@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#Halloween #MAGA style!
#Trump #USA

Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 3d

What kind of America do we live in where Halloween trick-or-treaters may be coming home empty-handed thanks to Trump's tariff war?

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#Patriotism 🤣
#Faketriots

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#Labour (or as those who think they’ve don’t nothing, like to call them: #Liebour)

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 2d

A useful reminder that everything isn’t quite as doom and gloom as some politicians and parts of the media might have you believe.

So, around two thirds of the government’s Manifesto pledges have either already been achieved or are on the way to being achieved.

www.joe.co.uk/politics/lab...

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

The Labour government has already delivered or is making progress towards around two thirds of its manifesto pledges, after just over a year in power.

www.joe.co.uk

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

#Farage #Russia #NathanGill

D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 3d

"I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Nigel Farage on Gill's pro-Russian statements in European Parliament.

Here's Nigel Farage & Nathan Gill in European Parliament. ⬇️
They mostly turned up to make pro-Russian/anti-EU statements.

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 2d

Just had my first #WaterBill debit taken, it’s doubled!
Where in the world could any business ever get away with double their charge?
It’s a disgrace, and all thanks to #Thatcher and the #Tories 😡
Meanwhile #SouthernWater Directors and shareholders will all get their dividends!
#Water #Sewage

@MCY1X @mcy1x.bsky.social · 3d

#Farage

Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel Farage must be the world's unluckiest man.

A magnet for “bad apples” — corrupt traitors, the violent, and racists — who somehow, inexplicably, keep ending up in his orbit to taint his flawless image.

Ex-Brexit Party MEP pleads guilty in Russia bribe case | www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...

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