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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 23h

🚨URGENT! On Monday, the Govt could make last minute changes to the Planning Bill, removing protections for national parks like the South Downs. Join my campaign to save nature. Sign the petition and share!. We must force the government to change their mind.

www.winld.org.uk/save-the-sou...

Save The South Downs

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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Gove finally admitting what we already knew: the Conservatives' trade deal with Australia failed British farmers. Any future deal must be given proper scrutiny by Parliament so that farmers, consumers, and our environment don't lose out again. www.fwi.co.uk/news/gove-ad...

Gove admits Tory trade deals failed to protect UK farmers - Farmers Weekly

Former Defra secretary Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australian trade deal negotiated by the previous Conservative government did

www.fwi.co.uk

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 2d

obscenely funny

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2d

My message to the millions of One Nation conservatives who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is this:

Come and join us. Help us save our country. Come and win with us.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 3d

one of a million little ways that Brexit has ruined our politics

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 5d

yet their conference main hall was our exhibition hall 🤔🤔🤔

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d

The Green Party of England and Wales says it now has more members than the Lib Dems: 83,500 to 83,174 with "hundreds more joining daily".

Interestingly, both parties are growing while Reform and the Conservatives are shedding members.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 6d

www.markpack.org.uk/160440/party...

BBC: party leaders Question Time audience contained almost no Lib Dems

The BBC 'balanced' the audience based on the number of MPs each party has in the House of Commons, which meant 3% Liberal Democrat.

www.markpack.org.uk

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 6d

remember when polling didn't matter for bbc coverage, only seats

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 7d

two local icons in one shot

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 8d

Most mid-sized towns and up are suffering from dying high streets, congestion and air pollution and loss of green space and the solution is right there!!

William Tench @williamten.ch · 8d

We simply refuse to build dense in most of this country and are paying the price

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Jones @narson.bsky.social · 8d

BBC now running stories entirely predicated on talks with Zia Yousef, whose position now is....running an internal policy group within Reform?

Trying to think of the last time the head of the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee or internal figures from other parties were used as the basis for a story.

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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 9d

One day, a real-life journalist will question the British right's desperate need to be victimised rather than just regurgitate it for them

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9d

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

www.thetimes.com

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 10d

Tony Blair should be disqualified from any part of a peace deal in the Middle East for his illegal war in Iraq.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 11d

A remember when this guy had a pretty unblemished reputation and significant cross-party respect as late as... last year.

And then threw it all away to burn his reputation down publicly as a foot soldier for Starmer.

Key Figure Marjorie Bouvier Simpson KC @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 11d

Honestly just completely disappointed in how this guy is turning out. What a nasty thing to say.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 11d

I’d rather a “fat bloke in a wetsuit” than a wet bloke with no spine

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 11d

I’m all for party’s doing surveys, but for the Green Party of England and Wales to claim it is a “confidential survey” when they process your personal data and use it for their campaigning is straight-up dishonesty and surely must be a breach of data protection legislation.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 12d

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 12d

Did just encounter a nutter on the bus picking fights on everyone so maybe not!

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 13d

Back in Bristol for a wedding and I missed living here so much – truly nowhere else in the world like it

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13d

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 17d

Mr Gotcha meme with the peasant (with Ed Davey's face) saying "The BBC shouldn't just unquestioningly write down Reform's Trumpian lies" and Mr Gotcha (with Chris Mason's face) saying "And yet you criticise the media like Trump does! I am the Political Editor of the BBC"

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 14d

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 15d

So there's money for a second runway at Gatwick (high emissions) but not for better trains (low emissions). In a climate emergency. Make it make sense!

Northern Powerhouse Rail plans delayed again

The BBC understands the prime minister will now not announce plans for a rail link between Manchester and Liverpool at the Labour Party conference.

www.bbc.com

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