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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 9h

I thought America didn’t like Kings? Still, I guess once you bend the knee to a convicted felon and make him President anything is possible. Would be happy to rent out Charles III.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Mike Johnson is now calling #NoKings a "hate America rally"

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11h

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg
The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Profiteers will cost the NHS an arm and a leg

The NHS, born in 1948 alongside me, has saved millions - yet today both major parties bleed it dry, trading care for corporate profit

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 10h

Different parties. Same chaos. Same fantasy economics.

#NeverVoteTory #NeverVoteReform

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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J McLaren @jmclaren.bsky.social · 11h

I was in the supermarket earlier and overhead two teenagers talking as I looked for an item I wanted.

Teenager 1 (staring at phone) : They found out that vaccines cause autism. The first autism case happened after the baby was vaccinated.

Teenager 2 : That's not how it works.

Thank God. But wow.

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 11h

Giving Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for getting the Gaza Ceasefire deal, after arming a genocide...

... is like handing someone a medal for taking the knife out of the guy he's just killed.

BBC Radio 2 Debate with Jeremy Vine & Poppy Coburn

Does Trump deserve Nobel Peace Prize? - BBC Debate

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 10h

So refreshing to see a politician brave enough to take Reform on with the truth. Zac Polanski a real political force for the better. Makes Labour look spineless and pathetic.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court.

The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win!

Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Make sure we defend democracy in Worcestershire - Green Party

In the event that there is any money left over after the legal matters have been settled, including if we are able to recover some or all of our legal costs from other parties, then these remaining fu...

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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NPR @npr.org · 16h

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 1d

Over-taking both would be best of all at this point.

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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, not the children of North Finchley Northside Primary School, whose Labour Councillors have approved ~90 luxury flats(no affordable housing) in a tower block on the car park right next to their school. Their education and health will be blighted by noise, dirt and dust for years. Awful

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

Doing the right thing, rather than the politically convenient thing, can reap rewards at many levels.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 1d

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2d

🇪🇺👀 Violation of EU airspace is a hybrid war by the Russian Federation, it's time to call a spade a spade, — Ursula von der Leyen

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 1d

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government

We must protect it, not leave it

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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 1d

The other 41% are all brain damaged.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

“59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says”

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59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

www.npr.org

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

The genius of McSweeney and Glasman

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Seat Projection:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon (patreon.com/workingclass...), we have been able to add transcripts to our double podcast episode about the successful movement against the UK poll tax. Check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

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