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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 6h

Is this plan so that he can sell our data to CEO’s of big companies? Is there a buck to be made from more intrusion into our lives?

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 16h

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

No thanks.

Starmer lays out vision for much-criticised digital ID scheme

Prime minister says the identification would never be needed to access hospitals amid fears over civil liberties

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h

the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character:

"Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...."

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

What you need to know about Lindsay Whittle, new Senedd member for Caerphilly

The veteran Plaid Cymru campaigner won the Caerphilly by-election

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6h

How badly does Labour need to perform before it changes course? Genuine question.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 12m

"All I wanted was a can of Special Brew..."

Pictured on the left are nine household bills, two driving licences, and a passport; on the right, a mobile phone.

This message is a carefully-composed lie and the third FB ad promoting Digital ID I've seen there today. This really matters to someone...

A Labour Party FB advert showing, on the left, the words 'Without Digital ID' with a background featuring nine (NINE!!!) household bills, two (TWO!!!) driving licences, and a passport - suggesting this is what we all carry with us on a daily basis just to prove to all the people asking that we are who we claim to be. On the right, behind the slogan 'With Digital ID' is a phone, suggesting we can swap all those other means of identification for this one (expensive, heavier tracking device).

There's an irony here: Sir Keir Starmer claims to be on the side of workers, a left-wing politician looking out for the vulnerable... He's not though, is he... I want to see his ID...

It's also worth considering that there is obvious skin in this game. As I suggest in the post, someone is very, very keen for Digital ID to happen - so much so they ar really blitzing social media to promote it, despite there being no need for this at all, and a ptition of 3 million signatures showing how unpopular it is. Why keep pushing then? Especially considering how unpopular you already are? There has to be a reason... At Starmer's level, it will be about money, but beyond him sit the ideological monsters, such as Thiel, and eugenics is a fairly safe bet there...

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 4h

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 5h

Caerphilly result - crystal clear that those who rejected Plaid in 2024 have seen how diabolical Starmer's labour is + voted accordingly.

2026 will see Labour being wiped out in Wales 💪

Labour is dead.

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Croydon Green Party @croydongreens.bsky.social · 21h

Hope is growing, and growing fast!

Last week over 150 people joined the @greenparty.org.uk in Croydon, and our national membership has more than doubled in a few months

Together we can change things for the better

Join us and let’s turn Croydon Council Green next May

Over 150 new members in Croydon in the last week

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 1h

I understand them being terrified of the working classes, but who persuaded them that Morgan McSweeney was the chav whisperer and that the path to electoral success lies to the right of Genghis Khan?

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 2h

Don't you just love to see it.

Starmer is unelectable, but then so are those who would throw their hat into the ring. Their policies sound the death knell - maybe why the flags are all flying at half mast.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 4h

Of course. Their snouts are constantly in the troughs ready to make the most of every opportunity to access the spoils of corruption…

😏well, whilst they can anyway!

whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 5h

goodlawproject.org/health-secre...

Health secretary keeps taking donations linked to private health | Good Law Project

Wes Streeting has bagged another £58,000 from sources connected to the private health sector since taking over at the health department. But what do his backers expect in return?

goodlawproject.org

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

When you just had your pants pulled down in front of the class, but also you’ve promised the American tech wankers that you would give them fuckloads of cash

Keir Starmer v @Keir_Starmer
X.com
Digital ID will bring the UK into the modern age.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17h

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 8h

#GVerse #Reality

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 4h

BBC Reform presenter Chris Mason is very upset today

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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 3h

The useless bastard wants to drag us into a war, just like his mentor

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4h

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will urge allies at "coalition of the willing" talks to increase Ukraine’s supply of long-range weapons and boost Ukraine’s defences

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1h

Daily I hear of ppl of all ages joining the Greens: young ppl - in their 20’s, 30’s or 40’s and yesterday someone I know in their 80’s.
We don’t want this unfairness, or to be gaslit/ignored in favour of big business/shareholders.
Peter Mandelson was wrong: we all have somewhere else to go.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 4h

Nadine Dorries is missed in Parliament. Watch her here on last night’s #bbcqt.
She speaks articulately without stumbling and wins the respect of a tough audience.
She is still a political heavyweight.
#GoNads ❤️

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice…
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.

Kwasi Kwarteng
Wealth taxes will make the UK poorer
Labour's logic appears sensible but it defies economic reality

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 4h

Not quite sure why the media is presenting the Caerphilly result as a disaster for Labour, rather than as a perfect execution of its electoral strategy.

That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off.

And off they have fucked.

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 18h

"It’s nonsense to say that the welfare system is being drained by migrants when it’s actually being drained by low pay, unaffordable housing and a decade and a half of what was political cowardice that was sold to us as “tough decisions” & “fiscal responsibility.” "
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

Foreigners Are Claiming Benefits! (And Other Things That Happen When They Live and Work Here)

The Times turns data into dog whistles - here's what those numbers actually mean.

open.substack.com

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 4h

38d.gs/nott

This!

Ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels

I just signed the campaign calling to save ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels

38d.gs

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h

There's a new Mystic Mogg in town.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6h

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Absolutely no one spends $350 million on a remodel to a house they plan on leaving in three years. No one!!!

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1h

A Scottish fire engine donated to Palestinian firefighters looks set to be sent back after it was impounded by Israel 👇

West Bank fire engine impounded by Israel could be sent back to Scotland

www.thenational.scot

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