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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 9h

Starmer is ridiculously out of touch with most people's financial pressures

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

Pubs could stay open longer under Starmer plan to revive British night out

Who will provide extra police, staff, public services?

Nights out restricted due to cost of living crisis

Govt can help hospitality industry by cutting energy/water bills, rents, improving public transport.

Pubs could stay open longer under Starmer plan to revive British night out

PM’s initiative, which could lead to ‘bonfire’ of old licensing rules, aims to ‘bring the buzz back’ to high streets

www.independent.co.uk

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 9h

Does the daft lad wash his hands after going to the toilet

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9h

Salt Bae’s empire is crumbling – but his £600 steak was a tourist attraction nobody asked for, or needed

Salt Bae’s £600 steak empire is crumbling — here’s why it was never going to last

www.independent.co.uk

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 9h

One of your best, Ron

Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 15h

Now RFK says children who are circumcised too early..
have double the rate of autism
Hmm... sounds like a foreskin-gone conclusion! RS

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

Green Party's Zack Polanski to Reform UK's Zia Yusuf,

"Do you ever think that immigration is the number one problem because you spend a lot of time spreading misinformation and fear?"

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 16h

Bunch of ghouls, c**** all

🔵 Blue Man in Red OK 💙 @bluemaninredok.bsky.social · 1d

These people are the SCUM that is ruining America!

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 21h

Centrist politics is dead in the UK

It's

Green Party - left wing progressive, caring society, equality, inclusion

Vs

Reform UK - far-right, ultra nationist, promotes selfishness avarice, war, inequality, discrimination, persecution of minorities, misogyny, cronyism, xenophobia/extreme racism

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty evident that this is already happening. Surrounded by three hard right wingers on tonight’s #bbcqt the Labour guy was basically invisible, he let Zack do all the work of standing up against bigotry - well, Zack and a hearteningly decent Shrewsbury audience.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Stew Liotta @handsfulofham.bsky.social · 19h

Polanski smashed it tonight on #BBCQT

Made Starmer and Labour look weak and timid. Someone brave enough to stand up to Reform. It’s refreshing to see. Labour Party voters finally have a better option.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 23h

I think if you are caught using your phone when driving your phone should be seized and crushed into a cube

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 23h

I guess Murray will show the worked out template of how Starmer's Labour ghouls have decided to attack @greenparty.org.uk and specifically @zackpolanski.bsky.social The rest are irrelevant moaners for money and c****

Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's #bbcqt

James Murray MP (Lab), Nigel Huddleston MP (Tory), Zack Polanski (Green), Zia Yusuf (Reform), Daily Telegraph columnist Annabel Denham (Right Wing journo).

When in doubt, omit Lib Dems, and fill extra seat with Right Wing representative.

#BBC

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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🇨🇦Frank🇳🇱 @frankvdb.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu’s political career with the cease fire is over.

He needs to be charged with war crimes and genocide.

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Paul Smedley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @paulsmedley.bsky.social · 1d

#Felon47
#LowIQIndividual
#Krasnov
#PedoInChief
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 1d

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

You and your family and friends get a future ...

DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Zack. Ive managed to convert my whole family, so im doing my part. Im currently strong arming folk at work with steely eyed oratories on economic justice and anti Farage rants. Do I get a badge or something?

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Harrgggh-time orange 🍊💀 @sirhiss.bsky.social · 1d

FAO AMERICANS ON BLUESKY

A map of the world showing the USA highlighted in red and the rest of the world in white, with a key labelled USA (red) and NOT USA (white)

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear what a shame.
Never mind.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The Deputy Chair of the Reform group on Cornwall Council, Rowland O’Connor, has quit the party, ITV West Country reports.

O’Connor says his views on how to help local people “increasingly diverged from those of the party”.

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party has called for the IDF to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

Green Party conference calls for the Israeli Defence Forces to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

Members overwhelmingly voted for the motion

leftfootforward.org

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

#nutshell for Starmer's Labour eejits

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

Vote me in and pay me to pay someone else to do the work is classic Reform UK Ltd grifter behaviour

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Staffordshire Reform UK Councillors have voted to spend taxpayers’ money on political assistants…

www.facebook.com/share/r/1JV8...

Redirecting...

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

In Stockholm currently where most are unisex and no big deal. Exclusion is a made up problem.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

Now is the time to join as the window switches, you can reinforce it rather than be passive and powerless

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 2d

Another Reform UK Ltd loon. The real world flows different when you're insulated from it with shit tons of money.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent