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Pru Madeley

@prum.bsky.social

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Retired teacher, lover of the natural world, the arts & science. Determined to outlive these autocratic leaders intent on screwing over the planet and ordinary people in the process. Still clinging on to the last shreds of my optimistic nature 🇪🇺🕊️

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 1h

It's really hard to comprehend how quickly the Trump Administration has succumbed to total propaganda. It's honestly astonishing what they are prepared to say. Martial law is coming, they are paving the way to justify it imo.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11h

Isn't this is about paving the way for Trump to introduce the Insurrectionist Act?

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 18h

That's something I'm always a bit apprehensive about on some of the roads round here!

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful week in Anglesey and Snowdonia.

Cross perched high on a rocky outcrop, with a white path sweeping around to the left, below blue skies.

Mountains reflected in a small lake in early morning sunshine.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Disgusting, from Farage. Total and utter trash. How dare he? Makes me so boiling mad. 😡

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

www.theguardian.com

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 9d

Even my apple tree produced apples this year! Tomatoes and beans have been incredible and are still going. Delia Smith has a lovely recipe for spiced pickled pears, which are a delicious treat especially at Christmas. It's in her Christmas book.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 9d

And yet I'm pretty certain I'm much happier and healthier than he is.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 9d

Oh dear!

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 9d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

Oof!

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

How can our military ever serve again, alongside the USA?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

And....... Silence. No one clapped.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

Looking at some comments on YouTube, this is so sadly true.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, quite! That's what makes this so truely awful.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

In the constituency next to us, the Lib Dems ousted Gillian Keegan, electing the lovely Jess Fuller-Brown, which we all cheered about.😊

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

I too voted Lib Dem, but to be honest I voted tactically and I was really pleased Labour got in. However, I have a number of friends who campaigned for Labour and who now feel so let down. All that support is just melting away.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

I am too. How can we really make our views known? Labour won the GE partly because so many of us were sick of repressive Tory policies and look where we find ourselves!!!

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10d

It's utterly inhumane . Jeeze I can't believe how much despair I feel. I'm so sick of it all. They are so weak. They're rhetoric maybe anti Farage, but their policies speak a diluted form of Farage appeasement. They 'll not win over Reform voters and they will lose many people like myself.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11d

Miller is the real power in this Administration. He's on a very ugly mission too. These are seriously dark, grim times.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11d

No hope of more humanity with Labour. No hope of explaining to people just how valuable immigration can be. So much easier to be tough with people who have nothing. So much harder to be tough with those who have so much more. What a mixed up, crazy world we have made.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11d

I suppose he wasn't prepared to listen to a woman, because he would have found Kamala Harris pretty much told them exactly what would happen...

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12d

Very relieved to read this news this morning as I'm sure Ukrainians are too. Very important election result for Europe.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing to think that when I had my first baby, we all stayed in hospital for about a week. Very good to hear she's now ok and home tomorrow. 😊

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12d

I'm planning to walk some beautiful Welsh coastline and mountains soon and I can't wait! Got my maps and all my rain gear, bring it on!

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12d

I was wondering this myself. What happened to refugees and asylum seekers, too? The terminology matters because it helps to explain what's happened to people. So many are trying to reach a place of sanctuary because they've lost everything or they're being persecuted.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Sunday Kitty. Been thinking of you and hoping things are going ok for you. Big hugs for the week ahead. 🤗

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