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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 1h

Polanski or whoever should be stealing some of this stuff I reckon:

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace— business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 1h

s there a speech that goes harder that FDR’s “I welcome their hatred” one www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjST...

FDR: I Welcome Their Hatred

YouTube video by heckofjob

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 23h

findoutnow but wow

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 2d

2 a minute is kind of crazy

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Britain needs a ‘whatever it takes’ moment on.ft.com/46ZXAZX | opinion

Britain needs a ‘whatever it takes’ moment

The Bank of England must acknowledge the priority of reviving investment-led growth and stop quantitative tightening

on.ft.com

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 4d

pile ups on the motorway as republicans refuse to drive past the service station’s burger king, believing that processed meat should be governed by a democratically elected president

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 5d

guy who thinks driving past something implies support

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 5d

Since the union and England flags appeared on our streets, I've been having to find routes that avoid driving through them, or it might look like I agree with them being there. The journeys now have to go illogical but much more pleasant routes

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 5d

thought this was a good contribution and fair play to him for going on telly and making this point given the wider atmosphere

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 6d

"Even more un-British than certain unsavoury people attending certain protests would be a world in which the country saw Jews or the Jewish community demanding that certain rights were disavowed or forfeited."

Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund on the weekend's planned protests.

#Newsnight

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 5d

Footage from overnight shows an arsonist setting fire to the community mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. A person inside managed to escape safely. Firefighters have now stood down. Sussex Police are investigating. sussex.news/east-sussex/...

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 5d

the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 5d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP @drrosena.bsky.social · 8d

Yom Kippur is a time for reflection and family. The scenes unfolding in Manchester, on this most holy of days in the Jewish calendar, are deeply horrifying. Sending all my prayers to those affected.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8d

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 8d

any attempt to do this must be stopped in its tracks www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

www.theguardian.com

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 8d

‪if the improvement in cost of living doesn’t feel tangible, your vote will splinter and the country will be in the hands of the racist traitor crackpots!‬

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 8d

‪think lab path to avert disaster is improve cost of living + relentlessly attack Farage’s lot as racists, traitors, weird, crackpots etc‬

‪reckon you can get back to the 33% they won a landslide on if you change nothing else (i personally think they should change quite a lot else)‬

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 8d

do think it’s interesting, that for all the adulation for Starmer’s final conference speech, the cost of living was pretty absent? maybe they think that’s a budget thing but can’t see a way back without movement there

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

no doubting nigel farage’s genuine concern about the incitement of violence in politics www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Nigel Farage has said he would, "don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines" if Theresa May fails to deliver Brexit in the fashion he wants.

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

“how long are you going to be in the parliamentary party?”
“my wife has bet me 8 hours.”

mcdonnell on good form here, list of where he was right first time and govt later u-turned a particular highlight

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 9d

Debate: Can Starmer lead Labour past Reform?
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...

Debate: Can Starmer lead Labour past Reform?

Sir Keir Starmer has been up on the podium addressing the Labour party conference in Liverpool. To discuss how his speech went down we spoke to Labour MP John McDonnell, who was Jeremy Corbyn's shadow...

www.channel4.com

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

[pitching a bank advert] here’s to you the fence painters, the raffle runners, the half time orange cutters

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

for the record, in case it’s unclear, it is mental they banned any of them including owen

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

they’ve also barred matthew torbitt and rivkah brown. incredibly thin-skinned and lacks self-confidence

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

cancelling the conference passes of matthew torbitt, owen jones and rivkah brown is crazy thin skinned sorry

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

online right has whipped itself into an excitable frenzy over the fact they’re polling 30% in a very fragmented system. quite possibly a route to power because things are very volatile and the street violence shouldn’t be downplayed but 30% is pretty fragile. ask keir starmer!

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 9d

challenge for farage over next four years is balancing his crackpot right flank with the clear strategic need to appear like the respectable face of the radical right

challenge for starmer is how to claim back a bigger percentage of that 47%

both appear difficult to me!

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