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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 6h

The Times says 8 Deform UK Ltd councils say they will have to raise council tax after struggling to find the huge DOGE-style cuts in public spending they promised.

Imagine what a Deform UK Ltd government will be like.

Tax and spend (it on payouts to their billionaire backers).

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 5h

No amount of denial can cover the evidence on the record for all to see.

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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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 6h

Well said

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 7h

Some Americans believe
The earth is round
Climate change is a hoax
The earth is only thousands of years old
Chem trails are real
Trump never met Epstein and is not in the files
God approves of wealth and exploiting others
12 year old girls can consent to sex
Trump cares for ordinary Americans.

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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · 8h

Those ugly windmills?

#MOG8

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James Steel @jamessteel2008.bsky.social · 16h

It’s about time, that should’ve happened years ago 🇺🇦 send it all to Kyiv immediately.

Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History @brianwernham.bsky.social · 18h

Will Starmer finally get around to adopting this lib Dem policy ?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK ready to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine war effort

The UK, France and Germany are "united" in wanting to use the full value of frozen Russian assets to end the war, Sir Keir Starmer said.

www.bbc.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16h

Yes. With Farage leading in the polls and yes, an unbelievably infantile and partisan press, we’re still unreliable dickheads at the moment. Probably have to suffer quite a while longer before we properly wake up to ourselves.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 11h

Ant Middleton of SAS Who Dares Wins fame, until recently Reform hard man & London mayor candidate is sued by MOD for being indiscreet re Special Forces

His company when bust owing over £1 million in tax

He also beat the shit out of 2 police officers 1 a woman & served time

Perfect Reform member🤷🏼‍♂️

Former SBS operative turned TV personality Ant Middleton sued by the MOD

The MOD lodges legal papers against the SAS: Who Dares Wins star, allegedly relating to social media posts over his time in Special Forces

www.forcesnews.com

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 11h

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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent article from Gordon Brown !

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 15h

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

buff.ly/6XvNGfT

Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 16h

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 17h

Yes it’s easy to say tax the rich as a slogan when not in government. Likewise the government needs to demonstrate its approach and why it’s doing so as most people believe it’s doing nothing different to previous governments when demonstrably it is.

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 18h

NHS. progress since the election:

• Reduced Long Waits:

• Diagnostic Improvements:

• Waiting Lists Down

• Digital / App in place

• Big Financial Investment:

Better with Labour 👍

Promises made: promises kept

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 18h

When you come at inclusion via the early years idea of creating an 'enabling environment' then what happens is that you adapt the setting to suit the children rather than trying to adapt the children to suit the setting.

'The child is not for the school; the school is for the child." #EduSky

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 18h

The very worst PM to ever hold office. He should be prosecuted. He is a disgrace.

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The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 1d

There is no honor in agreeing to cease committing genocide.

I’m thankful the peace agreement may work, but I cannot applaud when a man like Netanyahu agrees to stop murdering people.

Netanyahu should be arrested, not dignified.

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 17h

The Daily Mail is making the Star look a serious newspaper. It’s just full of propaganda from unnamed sources and drivel from alleged journalists just trying to outdo each other to please the billionaire owner.

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Tracey @2300.bsky.social · 1d

List of wealth taxes already introduced by Labour.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 1d

Immediately breaking Farage’s promises once elected. Another reason this vile grifter should be no where near power.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

🔺EXCLUSIVE: Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year

Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year

www.thetimes.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

A councillor on a children and young people committee described some children in care as "downright evil" and you’ll never guess which Party he’s in🤔

Yup Reform, a Party full of wrong’uns, misfits, bigots, racists, crooks, grifters & wife beating thugs that couldn’t run a bath never mind a council❗️

Cambridgeshire councillor to be investigated over 'evil' remark - BBC News

Reform UK councillor Andy Osborn is heard describing some children in care as "downright evil".

www.bbc.com

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John Petrie @johnpetrie.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 1d

Yet again Badenoch demonstrates her lack of research to try and make a false populist claim.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, "I want to stop people with ADHD getting Motability cars."

Well you don't need to, because nobody gets a Motability Car for ADHD.

You need mobility issues, which some people with ADHD also have.

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 1d

Train services operated by Greater Anglia will be brought into public ownership this weekend,

marking the half-way point in the nationalisation of the nation’s rail network.

Labour 👍

Promises made: promises kept

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