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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20h

The outgoing UK judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Tim Eicke KC: "We can be certain that over the last 70 years, the convention has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish."
#MyECHR 💙

ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge

Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 13h

Reform UK campaigned in the May local elections on ‘cutting waste’ and suggested they could hold down (or even freeze) council tax.

The Doge-style experiment in Kent had faltered, with the Reform-led council there instead raising council tax by 5%.

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes

Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 15h

“Donald Trump essentially stated the destination, but he didn’t say state how you got there, and that seems to be his style”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/its-no...

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza

Jeremy Bowen said the accord signed by the president was "almost devoid of content".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t signed yet, and want to protect our human rights, please do so, as time is of the essence. Open letter is being handed into Downing Street Wednesday lunchtime.
#EuropeanMovement #ECHR

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR

Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a screenshot from a post by Paul Eisenstein. I don't have to tell you about whom he's speaking.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 2d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 1d

Has Netanyahu destroyed Hamas?

No!

But look what he’s done.

He’s killed 67,000+ Palestinians, and devastated the lives of everyone who’s survived this slaughter, who are now returning to find their family homes reduced to rubble.

#CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide

news.sky.com/story/drones...

Drones capture staggering images of Gaza devastation - as people find nothing left

The joy that met the ceasefire has changed to anxiety and shock as those returning see the dull grey of rubble - the debris of things that are no longer there.

news.sky.com

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 1d

Newsweek: The Midwest, the region Trump promised to revive factory jobs & “America First” trade policies, is showing signs of disillusionment. Trump’s favorability fell to 49%, one of his weakest showings nationwide.

Elect a rapist, expect to get fucked!
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Matthew. And in further news today bsky.app/profile/pete...

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

It'll soon be 10 years since the Brexit ref. So much has changed since then. If Brexit is the cause of our economic problems, as the government now admits, then surely we need to ask ourselves whether we want to carry on down the Brexit road or turn around and head back to the Single Market and EU.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2d

Covid coming round againin my mum's village, like a runaway car, careering through the elderly again.

Mum is asking how people can have forgotten already how bad it can be. Are they mad or just stupid?

Everybody at the indoor bowls night has come down with Covid, and before they'd been vaccinated.

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinians returning to rubble.

The death and destruction the Israelis have wreaked upon these people, for what? To destroy a ragtag army, which they didn’t manage to do!

All of this carnage enabled by the West, in particular, the USA.

Humans!!!!!!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Eight Reform UK councils have indicated that they will raise council tax next year after struggling to find huge cuts in public spending.

That’s despite Reform UK flyers during the Local Elections criticising councils for doing just that.

Never trust a Reformer.

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

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 4d

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

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DJ Mic Drop @djmicdrop.bsky.social · 3d

If it takes a decade of inquiries, prosecutions and trials we should all be willing to see it through. Nixon. Reagan. Bush. G. Bush. None of them were charged & prosecuted. That is why today we’re dealing with this POSUS (Piece Of Shit of the United States)!

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 3d

Saving money, Reform are having a laugh. Jenkyns wanted £147,000 to help her to answer emails now she wants £74,000 for new offices. Nothing but the best for her dumbness.

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Chris Alexander @chrisa327.bsky.social · 4d

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 3d

To the genocidal occupier and its orange imperial sponsor, ‘ceasefire’ means ‘you cease, we fire’. Israel is a terror state.

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Israel murders at least 30 Palestinians on second day of 'ceasefire'

The bodies of more than eighty-three people Israel murdered on day one were recovered, seventy-three in Gaza City alone

www.thecanary.co

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Penny @penny2.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve worked all my life in libraries. All true ❤️

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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David W Baty @davidwbaty.bsky.social · 4d

💩, 💩'er, 💩 est

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

I love that the folks in Norway didn't want to just deprive Donald Trump of the Nobel Peace Prize he was so shamelessly hungry for, they awarded it instead to someone he would hate, a decent Latina woman working against undemocratic authoritarianism. Nice touch. 👨‍🍳👄

Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Nobel Peace Prize day to all who celebrate! 🕊️

In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.

María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 5d

This is my #FBPE starter pack. I've added about 60 more accounts, so it's now up to 300.

Bit by bit, I'm adding accounts from my Rejoin EU list, which I've built up over the last ten months.

Please share. Strengthen our network.
go.bsky.app/PtsPYaW

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