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Sarah Chapman

@sinurata.bsky.social

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Loves: cats, politics, music, GOOD chocolate. Do not think that giving me chocolate kittens as a gift is in any way acceptable. especially if they are made of inferior chocolate. That's about it really.

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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 1d

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT - a new national forest has been announced today as part of the Oxford-Cambridge corridor. This new forest will see millions of trees planted in the years ahead as part of a wider commitment to allocate over £1 billion this parliament to support to the forestry sector.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4h

True. But wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where you COULD be honest with the public about the need to raise taxes in order to fund the kind of spending necessary to repair the damage done by years of austerity - and still get elected?

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 12h

Which one is more English?

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Utterly ludicrous overreaction. Our trains are extremely safe. Put money into more guards on trains instead.

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

It was surprisingly entertaining.

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

New entry on the Standards and Financial Interests investigations list.

Nigel Farage under Rule 5, Members' conduct

www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-an...

Allegations currently under investigation by the Commissioner

The Commissioner looks at evidence that individual MPs may have broken the Rules of Conduct

www.parliament.uk

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, because they are frequently armed and hostile.

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Pepper spray is also illegal in the UK. As are guns. So no, DO NOT carry pepper spray in the UK unless you want to get arrested.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

What???

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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 3d

In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

Chart from Office of Rail and Road (HMG) showing annual and quarterly passenger rail journeys for Great Britain from April 2015 to March 2025.

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Chris Hinchliff MP @chrishinchliff.bsky.social · 3d

Water company shareholders have pocketed over £85 billion of our money. 💸

So why are rivers being pumped with pollution, homes routinely filled with waste and farmland contaminated with raw sewage?

Because the system’s designed to make a few people rich—not deliver a decent, affordable service.

MP slams Thames Water for 'reckless mismanagement'

North East Hertfordshire MP Chris Hinchliff has slammed Thames Water for its "reckless mismanagement" of the sewers in his constituency.

www.thecomet.net

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Interestingly, this Labour government has put a couple of highly-qualified non-politicians in charge of major govt departments (Lord Timson as Prisons Minister and Lord Hermer as Attorney General). Bet Farage isn't thinking abut people like them....

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

I think we just want to find reasons. Saying that someone is just evil - where do you go from there?

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

It does tend to be more normal in Hollywood for actors to be quite liberal - to be a good actor you have to be able to be open to all experience. Not true of everyone by any means (and of course you have the nutjob Scientologists mucking up everything), but still more likely.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

This is lifted direct from America, where Trump has put utterly unqualified non-politicians in charge of major government departments. And look how well that is working.

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

The majority of this country DOES see that he is a lying grifter. It's only FPTP that gives him any chance of power!

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Think he's always been OK politically?

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

Well, not blinding everyone within a radius of several metres will probably help.

Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 3d

It's really masks off time, isn't it?

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4d

People who vote or stand for Reform almost all think that running councils is easy and that it will only take a bit of common sense to identify waste and make savings. They were always going to run into problems. because they have no respect for anyone in the public sector.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was how come he didn't know the boy was planning on a school project with the cans? Do they never speak?

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4d

nonsense.

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4d

That poll also predicts a triple digit majority for Reform. So maybe let's make that NOT happen. Together.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Sarah Chapman @sinurata.bsky.social · 4d

It's the fucking media - of which she is a part - who normalise Trump's behaviour. Not Newsom, who is simply pointing up how nuts Trump is.