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sirandywood.bsky.social
@sirandywood.bsky.social
Long suffering Coventry City fan, besotted with my Pixiebobcat. Potter of renown….in his own head!
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And other party leaders want to undo this.
Insane.
For the record:

📈 2,300 more secondary and special school teachers
📈 Trainee teachers up 11%
📈 Physics up 36%
📈 Computing up 44%
📈 Maths up 16%
📈 Attendance improving
📈 Behaviour improving

Labour is getting more children in class & more teachers in front of them.

#PMQs
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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All of those who advocated for it should be banned from Parliament
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Reform Councillor, opposed to the hiring of staff who have no right to work in the UK, (checks notes) hires staff with no right to work in the UK.
A masterclass in hypocrisy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.

He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.

What a betrayal of American values!
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Reform UK leader has been accused of falsifying his election expenses. The allegations have been made by a former member of Mr Farage’s campaign team, who is said to have submitted documents to the force. 😬~AA

www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Nigel Farage reported to the police over 'election fraud' allegations | LBC
Reform UK has strongly denied breaking the law on election spending
www.lbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I believe that this England IS the norm. We are a good and decent people who look out for each other and those who come here. The England of Reform are the minority with a loud voice.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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FIFA the most corrupt of the Football organizations has a peace prize and they gave it to the man who stole the Cup. This is hilarious shit.
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”

www.euronews.com/business/202...
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
www.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Is there ANYONE that Reform won't accept?
Oh wow, that's awkward. #Gullis
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Bit baffled by this item

The idea that a politician might not give the whole story to a journalist is hardly novel

And I'm trying to recall that moment when Chris Mason wrote a piece where he tried to highlight that moment when Boris Johnson said something misleading

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point
The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The real myth is that billionaires “create” anything on their own.

Workers build the economy, billionaires just keep the profits.

Workers of the world unite...
Happy #marxistmonday 😄
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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2014: “I admire Putin as an operator”
2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times
2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT
2022: blames EU for Russian invasion
2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse”

Is this not dodgy?
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Johnson's lies led to the needless deaths of 23000 people.
Rachel Reeves' spin doesn't even register on the scale of Johnson (and Hancock's) deceit.
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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“Speaking outside his chateau in France…”
I kid you not.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today

The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how?

Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Zia Yusuf: I never met Russia's Reform spy!

Yusuf is STILL backing Farage on the idea that the West provoked Putin's war in Ukraine.

They're behaving like bought & paid for Russian assets. Nathan Gill was probably just the fall guy.
"The West provoked the Ukraine War "- Zia Yusuf defends Farage on Putin
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Headlines like this remind me that Farage has questions to answer about Russia and Putin
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
No
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM