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🇬🇧 Lefty, liberal, woke, pro-EU, anti fascist/racist, do-gooder Green & loving it. He/him. Incurable music/history/news/politics/cinema/F1 geek. Highly skilled at tpyos. Be nice or instant 🚫 Life really is too short.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · Mar 13

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 4h

That's a matter of some debate!

But thanks.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 5h

Agreed.

But in the Shires and constituency clubs there must be those Ken Clarke and Heseltine types who are wondering where it all went wrong. Still fantasising over Thatcher.

The old die hard, blue rinsed mob.

I'd love to know what they're thinking. How alienated they must be.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 5h

I swear if David Sylvian had been an orchestral composer in a previous life he would have been Claude Debussy.

In fact, no doubt.

#DavidSylvian
#Japan
#Debussy
#ClaudeDebussy
#LaMer

open.spotify.com/track/1x5gtk...

La mer, L. 109: III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 6h

Really? I hadn't even extrapolated that thought to an outcome as freaky/depressing/dark as that!

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 6h

We predicted this.

The real tragedy is that it was/is so tediously predictable.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 10h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 14h

I'm old enough to remember the National Front and I honestly see no difference between the divisive rhetoric being spouted by the likes of Jenrick and the NF propaganda of the late 70s and early 80s.

Any One Nation Tories still left in the party should be ashamed of their own silence.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 22h

Definitely going with the butter poached. But I like the look of that last cloud egg too.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Has it occurred to Kristi that taking a camera crew with her everywhere she goes means there's going to be a hell of a lot of footage available for the eventual trial?

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

What would motivate a government to do this?

To make their own population less safe?

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Separating fools from their money can be so lucrative.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

I endorse this message!

Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 1d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social stopped by #Handsworth yesterday and was welcomed by @edfreshwater.bsky.social of #BrumGreens in front of the #BenjaminZephania mural to show what a vibrant, diverse, integrated neighbourhood it truly is.
Don't let anyone tell you #Birmingham is not multicultural and proud!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping the flu and Covid jabs don't cause any isms.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

I do hope other political leaders were watching this and now understand that calling Reform UK Ltd. out for their ties to Putin and general duplicity isn't exactly difficult.

You just need to present the facts.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

For now. A few years to go yet.

This is an initial skirmish!

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

He's already threatening his own citizens with the US Army.

Not exactly Peace Prize material.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

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

Let's hope she doesn't go fishing off the Venezuelan coast anytime soon.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María 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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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

I'm hearing echoes of the National Front quite frequently. Jenrick's tribute act was spot on.

It's so depressing.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

I think they should give it to Obama just to wind him up! 🤣

If it's given to the guy who's threatened Panama, Greenland and Canada, is currently carrying out exta-judicial killings off the Venezuelan coast and has armed and supported a genocide up to this point...

I might join you in combusting.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

If the other main parties really want to combat Farage, expose his lies and traitorous behaviour, their comms should be on stories like this immediately.

In the print media, the socials, the breakfast sofas every time he lies or takes money for doing so.

It's not just the media who are silent.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

To even hear Starmer pin Brexit on Farage was remarkable but it shouldn't be.

I agree. They should be hammering that home 24/7 and exposing his lies as well as trumpeting their own progress.

mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

11:01 am... First bombs drop on Oslo.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize announcement for 2025 is scheduled for Friday, October 10, at 11:00 am local time in Oslo, Norway, which is 5:00 am ET.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 2d

Strange that they haven't addressed the comms issue. The world and his brother have seen it for the dogs dinner it is for some time, as you have.

It's a bit like their persistence in believing that being more shouty about immigration will dent Reform support when poll after poll shows the opposite.

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