Louise Foster
@louisefoster.bsky.social
@SfpLouise on X, much prefer to be here!
Anti Brexit, pro immigration, humanist, (actually Marxist), studied & am passionate about politics & economics. Hate current journey of travel in UK, US & on X. Diminished by Long Covid, Fibro, ME & POTS.
Anti Brexit, pro immigration, humanist, (actually Marxist), studied & am passionate about politics & economics. Hate current journey of travel in UK, US & on X. Diminished by Long Covid, Fibro, ME & POTS.
Pinned
If only they’d turned against certain ex PM, before he led us all a merry dance, destroying the country in his wake, whilst of course feathering his own nest. Just as Cameron did. And don’t get me stated on his former Chancellor Osborn aka Mr austerity.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If only they’d turned against certain ex PM, before he led us all a merry dance, destroying the country in his wake, whilst of course feathering his own nest. Just as Cameron did. And don’t get me stated on his former Chancellor Osborn aka Mr austerity.
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The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.
For anyone who follows Oxford For Europe, they are on this account now 👇👇👇
Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For anyone who follows Oxford For Europe, they are on this account now 👇👇👇
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If “what matters is what works” why not join SAFE, Eurasmus, Youth Mobility?
Why the foot-dragging? The fear of Brexiters seems to be a bigger factor than the desire for growth.
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/146579...
Why the foot-dragging? The fear of Brexiters seems to be a bigger factor than the desire for growth.
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/146579...
How Brexit is making Britain un-SAFE
The government should have agreed to join a key European defence scheme – there can only be one explanation for why it did not
app.thenewworld.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If “what matters is what works” why not join SAFE, Eurasmus, Youth Mobility?
Why the foot-dragging? The fear of Brexiters seems to be a bigger factor than the desire for growth.
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/146579...
Why the foot-dragging? The fear of Brexiters seems to be a bigger factor than the desire for growth.
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/146579...
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Has Reform peaked?
Support for Reform UK nosedives across several polls as scandals take toll
Farage's headaches continue...
leftfootforward.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Has Reform peaked?
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A new report also found that UK business investment is 12 to 18 per cent lower than it would have been if Britain had stayed in the EU.
Telegraph admits Brexit is an ‘unmitigated economic disaster’
A new report also found that UK business investment is 12 to 18 per cent lower than it would have been if Britain had stayed in the EU.
leftfootforward.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A new report also found that UK business investment is 12 to 18 per cent lower than it would have been if Britain had stayed in the EU.
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Update on this story from a month ago.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Update on this story from a month ago.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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Ten years on the UK is still mostly talking to itself about EU relations (from NS Morning Call).
Let me know when any politicians start talking about far greater mobility / freedom of movement, because that will show them thinking about the other side.
Let me know when any politicians start talking about far greater mobility / freedom of movement, because that will show them thinking about the other side.
December 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ten years on the UK is still mostly talking to itself about EU relations (from NS Morning Call).
Let me know when any politicians start talking about far greater mobility / freedom of movement, because that will show them thinking about the other side.
Let me know when any politicians start talking about far greater mobility / freedom of movement, because that will show them thinking about the other side.
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Little forest portal, please deliver me to a place where life is slower & less fraught with yearning.Where people are kind with little effort & every human being matters.Please refuse evil to enter this peaceful place, we will manage exceedingly well without it.
#words #art #photography #onelove
#words #art #photography #onelove
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Little forest portal, please deliver me to a place where life is slower & less fraught with yearning.Where people are kind with little effort & every human being matters.Please refuse evil to enter this peaceful place, we will manage exceedingly well without it.
#words #art #photography #onelove
#words #art #photography #onelove
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December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The thing is, Farage’s racism was establishment racism. The establishment (his Public School) protected him and supported him, just as over recent decades the establishment (in particular the BBC) has protected him.
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The thing is, Farage’s racism was establishment racism. The establishment (his Public School) protected him and supported him, just as over recent decades the establishment (in particular the BBC) has protected him.
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FIFA is about to determine which teams all 48 participating countries in the FIFA World Cup 2026 will face in the group phase of the tournament, which the U.S., Canada and Mexico are co-hosting. n.pr/4phvl0v
The World Cup draw is here. Here's why it matters — and how it will work
FIFA is about to determine which teams all 48 participating countries in the FIFA World Cup 2026 will face in the group phase of the tournament, which the U.S., Canada and Mexico are co-hosting.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
FIFA is about to determine which teams all 48 participating countries in the FIFA World Cup 2026 will face in the group phase of the tournament, which the U.S., Canada and Mexico are co-hosting. n.pr/4phvl0v
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This amendment would force every applicant to provide a negative pregnancy test – regardless of age, sex, or medical condition – a requirement that is medically baseless and needlessly cruel. It is a wrecking amendment, and it lacks all common sense #AssistedDyingBill.
humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
Needlessly cruel: Peer proposes mandatory pregnancy tests for all in assisted dying amendment
A member of the House of Lords has suggested that anyone applying for an assisted death needs to do a pregnancy test, including men and older people. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision are disappo...
humanists.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This amendment would force every applicant to provide a negative pregnancy test – regardless of age, sex, or medical condition – a requirement that is medically baseless and needlessly cruel. It is a wrecking amendment, and it lacks all common sense #AssistedDyingBill.
humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
humanists.uk/2025/12/05/n...
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I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 4th June 2024.
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 4th June 2024.
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This rather misses that Single Market access without full EU membership is at the moment where most current EU member states would prefer to park the UK
The logic is compelling but it ratchets to full rejoin very quickly, which is why Burnham is probably right to plant his flag there. Why sink capital on a "single market minus membership" option that is feindish to negotiate, unpalatable to much of the British state and satisfies few voters?
Catch-up: Janan Ganesh says Labour should & Daniel Finkelstein says Labour will promise to rejoin EU single market in 2nd term
ft.com/content/ef94...
thetimes.com/comment/colu...
ft.com/content/ef94...
thetimes.com/comment/colu...
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This rather misses that Single Market access without full EU membership is at the moment where most current EU member states would prefer to park the UK
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Pro-Putin Washington has pressed the EU to drop its plan to leverage frozen Russian central bank funds for a major Ukraine loan, warning the move risks escalation and insisting the assets should not be used to "prolong the war”, Bloomberg reports.
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Pro-Putin Washington has pressed the EU to drop its plan to leverage frozen Russian central bank funds for a major Ukraine loan, warning the move risks escalation and insisting the assets should not be used to "prolong the war”, Bloomberg reports.
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After midnight in Kyiv.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
After midnight in Kyiv.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
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Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.
The party has five MPs
The party has five MPs
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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
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Trump is absolutely insane. He’s making threats against US Representative Omar. He needs to be put in a straight jacket and removed. He’s stealing for all of us! He’s also using his presidency to sell out America as he lined his pockets. He hates this country.
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trump is absolutely insane. He’s making threats against US Representative Omar. He needs to be put in a straight jacket and removed. He’s stealing for all of us! He’s also using his presidency to sell out America as he lined his pockets. He hates this country.
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The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.