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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · Aug 19

Red deer stag after the apples but bribed for a photo with a carrot.

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 2m

Absolute pure rubbish.
The Conservatives have always cut spending unless it was to feather their own nests.
We lived though 14 years of their austerity from 2010 to 2024.
The schools and hospitals were falling apart, roads full of potholes, prisons overflowing.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 12m

Reform while they gather your support

a gizmo from the movie gremlins is looking over a red fence

ALT: a gizmo from the movie gremlins is looking over a red fence

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 19m

After Thatchers death, there were street parties and Ding Dong the Witch is dead got to number two. 😂🤣😂
youtu.be/PWm8Heroe-w?...

'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' announced as No.2 in the UK after the death Maggie Thatcher

YouTube video by Jon Morter

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 24m

After you vote reform, you get to see what sort of demon you have summoned.
Much like the #Brexit which Farage helped inflict on us.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28m

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now a conduit between MAGA Republicans and Reform UK

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Roberts @robertsmark.bsky.social · 29m

Good morning everyone. Green Party membership is now at 100,000 and rising. Please join us.✊ #r4today #bbcbreakfast

👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 28m

The truth is Fiona Bruce’s bosses at the BBC don’t want us to know about Reform / UKIP (there are the same thing) dodgy links to Russia.
That Farage made 17 paid appearances on the Russian state news channel RT.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 2d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 38m

Congratulations Green Party on passing 100,000 members.
As one of the Green Party new wave members, I would love to see membership surpass that of the Conservatives, to underline that the Conservative’s politics of division and elitism are a thing of the past.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 57m

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 47m

It’s interesting that Taiwan says its rare earths are supplied by Europe. Interesting based on the fact that there are no operational rare Earth mines in Europe. The US does have a rare earths mine, but even after they get the ore out they still send it to China to be processed.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 1h

The records show Thatcher was a vindictive b*tch.
Iron Lady RIP
Rust
In
Peace

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The Rascal King of Gregging @therascalking.bsky.social · 18h

He just doesn’t miss. That line at the end was pure gold.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 18h

"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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22h

Nigel Farage went to Dulwich College which when he attended was more expensive than Eton

He earns £1.5m a year, 92% of which comes from dodgy donations

His girlfriend pays £885,000 in cash to buy houses but she's a waitress.

He's not a 'working man' he's very rich and corrupt

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17h

Political journalists didn’t set out to become clients of power – they just slipped into it. Half-truths, soft questions and silence bought with access. Read this analysis on how deference has turned to complicity ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 17h

For putting round the inside.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 17h

A long string of those little colour changeable led lights would be good, but could be retrofitted.
The whole table is very heavy which is a real downside if it needs to be moved at all.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 21h

Cold air flowing down the mountain, much like a river would.
A beauty to behold.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 21h

Time to over winter my fuscias and the begonias I think. The fuscis at the front is from ’24. I cut it back by half and kept it sheltered and then only watered it once a month. Then repotted it in the spring. Going to miss them :-(

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Frank - Queen of Schengen 🇪🇺🌈 @chillaxbcn.bsky.social · 2d

"Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit...Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes." Times

This is what LAB is to say when they announce tax rises. Please forgive me if I keep repeating it but LAB is complicit in Brexit.

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 1d

Would Tice even live here if he was chancellor?
He would have to pay his fair share if taxes if he does, or change the rules so the rich don’t pay their fair share.

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 1d

For ‘fired in error’, read, ‘fired due to incompetence‘.

Simon Dalling 🇪🇺 @simond1954.bsky.social · 1d

So voting Reform is a leap of faith then?
And once Reform are voted in we all see what sort of demon we have summoned.
Much like the #Brexit vote, and that turned out 💩 also.

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