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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12h

Hahaha

Post by johndpoconnell

"My old friend Nathan Gill, who I've
never met, accidentally tripped over a briefcase containing £50,000 and
then coincidentally the next day
spouted pro Russian propaganda in
the EU, as did I. And as far as I'm
concerned that's the end of the
matter."

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 23h

I thought that everybody knew this

Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 2d

Vivid autumn colours on a very sunny day

#photography

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 2d

Eating a Mr Whippy next to the lake at Markeaton Park and it occurs to me that I've been doing this for about 55 years now!

#derby #icecream #photography

Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 3d

Mic drop from @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🎤

Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 3d

Weird how immigration dominates every headline.

#BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Graphic. Cut out of Zack Polanski saying " Zia, do you ever think immigration is the number one problem because you spend a lot of time spreading misinformation and fear?" In speech bubble. Cut out of Zia Yusuf from Reform below.

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 5d

Some columns that caught my eye.

#photography #derby

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 6d

If it walks like a racist and talks like a racist.......

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 6d

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 7d

Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s make hope normal again.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 7d

Every time you hear #StopTheBoats remember this: #Brexit tore up the tool that actually stopped them.
And now the same people want us to leave the #ECHR.
Ask yourself why the parties of the right - of big business and billionaires - want to reduce and remove your human rights.

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 8d

The last of this year's pumpkins / squashes - 26 ornamental gourds.

#pumpkins #halloween #allotment #allotmentlife

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 9d

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 9d

Bigotry and hatred has become mainstream and almost socially acceptable since 2016.

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Tomer Dotan Dreyfus @tomerdd.bsky.social · 9d

Conflating Jews with Zionism (what people protest against) is not only anti-Semitic even according to IHRA, but is probably what went through the head of the attacker from Manchester as he stabbed Jews to death on Som Kippur. Congratulations Keir Starmer for the dumbest tweet.

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not totally obsessed with pumpkins, but I'm loving my new pen!

#halloween #pumpkins

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 9d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is a breath of fresh air and has given hope to many of us on the left - a better future is possible.

Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10d

Labour have underestimate ld the draw of @zackpolanski.bsky.social

But most of the most thoughtful and influential progressive commentators are drawn to him. Mainly cos he's doing a superb job of articulating our hopes and frustrations, and presenting viable ideas.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 10d

In memoriam...

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 11d

He looks like a right gammon, so fits in perfectly with Starmer's Reform-Lite Labour party.

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 11d

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 11d

Starmer yet again acting like a Nigel Farage tribute act.

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 11d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 12d

This is epic

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 13d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 12d

TBF dog shit has more charisma than Starmer.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

'Farage Boats' is a useful term and should be normalised.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 13d

A random dahlia from the allotment.

#flowers #allotmentlife #dahlias

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Toni - Pumpkin Enthusiast @pumpkinenthusiast.bsky.social · 13d

The allotment hollyhocks haven't got the memo about it being autumn - they've started flowering again!

#flowers #allotmentlife

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