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Oh no not another referendum. Look at the bollocks they made of the last one! They very near wrecked the damned country and old indecisive is too scared to think about it even☹️

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 5h

That would take most of the rest of the day. If you can’t spare the time use your imagination 🤪

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 5h

Why does the BBC give this creep so much air time. He is irrelevant

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 5h

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Why?

Yvette Cooper defends children as young as 13 needing digital ID – UK politics live

Foreign secretary says it is ‘right way forward’ for young teenagers to have digital ID

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 6h

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

There is always next year. With any luck death will have claimed the T.T but next year🤣

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 15h

🐶🐱 New California pet laws!

🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 8h

Clean energy has powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours so far in 2025 – up from just 2.5 hours in 2021.

Progress is accelerating, but the country still has a long way to go before reaching 100 % clean power by 2030.

Dr Simon Evans reports

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 15h

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 6h

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins - BBC News

Oh dear! What a pity, nevermind 🤣

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 6h

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Doesn't he realize that is the only way he can save his skin?

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 1d

I was quite surprised, given the amount of negative press that would have you believe that this government is the worst we’ve had yet.

I’ll put the link in the next post but given we had a complete shit show with the Tories, this is astonishing. Do reshare or bookmark the link, it’s handy.

Under the last Tory Govt, elected in 2019, of 42 Manifesto Pledges, only
2 were delivered in 5 years.
Under the current Labour Govt, elected in 2024, of 83 Manifesto Pledges, 57 are delivered (18), on track (19), or in process (20).
In 1 year.
(FullFact Tracker)

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 7h

Whoops

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 8h

Just a quick reminder: the public still overwhelmingly supports a publicly funded NHS.

It’s time our politicians remembered that. 💙

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is one way of boosting the economy and restoring growth

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Truly, madly, deeply: Trump’s desire for a Nobel peace prize is driving diplomacy

The US president’s fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza

www.theguardian.com