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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 5h

I have spent more of 2025 in a state of semi-permanent exhaustion than any other year of my adult life, including the ones where I suffered a traumatic head injury and when I had to live on benefits.

That is pretty much directly the fault of the Labour Party and yes I take it personally.

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

And then I got a call from Swansea but I was driving so didn’t answer but they didn’t leave a message so I don’t know if it was them or not.

Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

Needing to apply for benefits. Anyway didn’t expect anything from her, she normally couldn’t give a toss but for some reason she’s contacted the Cheif executive of DVLA or at least her offices says they have.

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

And same to get in and I’d arrive 2 hours early and who knows the bus schedule and that would probably take an hour and half to get home. So yeh I doubt very much I’d still have a job right now so if that had been the case you can thank DVLAs inadequacies for me adding to the unemployment figures n

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

Where I live from work and that at least 25 quid a taxi x7 for my week of lates. When I finish my earlies I couldn’t get a train home for 4 hours cus I just signalled the one I need before finishing and then I’d still need to take two trains to get home.

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

I would have lost my job because I live in rural Lincolnshire where there are no train bus or taxi services when I start an early shift. And when I finish I’d have to get a taxi home but I’d probably be waiting at least half an hour four because we only just got uber round here. And it 11 miles to

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve still got no drivers license back so Friday I put in a complaint and emailed my MP telling her how they’ve had it 5 months and I can’t do anything I need to without. That I feel like I’m being held to ransom over it. I pointed out that if I’d been told I could not drive until they deemed me fit

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 8h

We should let them see we’ve joined the @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party though. Let them realise massive mistake they made and that not single thing they do now will bring us back to Labour because we see who they are and who they work for now we see that their facists.

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Martha H Cleary @mardujour.bsky.social · 12h

Very proud to have just joined @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social is absolutely spot on.

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 13h

They lie about everything for the donors filling their pockets

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18h

They just lie about everything.

As I said last night, fans in football don't get banned for being at risk, that's just stupid.

They get banned because they are the risk.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20h

Phillipson: "Its unacceptable that if fans are unable to attend a match because they're Jewish that runs completely counter to everything we stand for"

Maccabi fans are banned because they're violent racist hooligans. Why are you conflating violent racist hooligans with Jews?

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 18h

It would be useful to issue an FOI to the EHRC asking for information about what legal advice they’ve had in relation to their guidance, who has given it to them, and what level of expertise they’ve have?

My guess is that they’ve just asked their ‘gender critical’ mates on every occasion!

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

6. The 'blunder' here is that of the EHRC which, to advance the political objectives of Liz Truss' appointee, has betrayed its responsibilities to safeguard minoritised groups, has massively overplayed its hand politically, has taken bad (or no) legal advice, and is getting seriously found out. END

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 1d

@talsmith.bsky.social Since you're apparently not old enough to remember: One of the many reasons we enacted Obamacare is because insurance companies were routinely kicking women off their insurance coverage once they were diagnosed with breast cancer.
www.reuters.com/article/worl...

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 17h

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20h

🚨These cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England.

Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
by signing their open letter

asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession

Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

www.thetimes.com

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 1d

If at timesToday the pain in my leg was causing me to be in verge of chundering. In comparison to yesterday of yesterday was 10 in pain all day today is like 6,

Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 1d

Sciatica pain is back. Has been since Wednesday… but I think we’re moving in the right direction because last night I had to have heat to lie down and all afternoon at work I had to heat to sit and this afternoon the heat was making things worse and tonight to lay down I don’t need the heat. Even

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

EHRC accused of ‘bullying’ government to push through "harmful and unworkable proposals"

The government was urged in the House of Lords last night not to let themselves be “bullied by the EHRC” as a row erupted between the regulator and the government over their intervention - publicly pr...

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

Police Scotland called me today and it looks like they are going to charge the man and woman who hate crimed me and my partner in Sainsbury's and call them in for questioning.

They took a second statement from us.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Update: 128,000.

Accept this is slightly wild now.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry you've been a victim of fake news.

I said this morning to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that the Green Party had passed 123,000 members.

A couple of hours later it's out of date. @greenparty.org.uk have 126,000! 🎉🚀

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

This is about tackling inequality.

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

Green Party leader Zack Polanski defends wealth tax proposals

Zack Polanski says a new tax on the rich would tackle

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

The Greens now have more members than the Tories as support surges

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-gr...

The Greens Now Have More Members Than The Tories As Support Surges

Another 1,000 signed up this morning alone.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Patrick Ronan Gray @atreidesgray.bsky.social · 1d

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2d

The Scottish Green Party just voted to reject the legitimacy of the EHRC as the British equalities regulator following the decision to override the Equalities Committee to install the new chair Mary-Ann Stephenson.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

US spy-tech giant Palantir is moving into our NHS to handle patient data, the same company with a troubling record of surveillance and deportations.

Our Tech and Data Lead, Duncan, spoke at Hackney Town Hall as Homerton Hospital considers adopting Palantir software.

What do you think?

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