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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 2h

Even just reading about him infuriates me.

Sighing, proclaiming how “difficult” it was for him.

How “difficult” it must have been for the hundreds of thousands of families that lost someone.

Narcissistic, sociopathic, egotistical fucker.
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Will no one think about poor Boris? Former PM smirks and sighs through Covid inquiry | John Crace

Grilled over policies regarding children and young people, Johnson remains the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time

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Jacquie @shroommuse.bsky.social · 2h

Everything you need to know about this woman's integrity in the first four words of the opening sentence below.
She can get straight in the sea!

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

Former Boris Johnson advisor Katie Lam says that multiculturalism has failed and you need just one culture for people to live in harmony

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 1h

I’m scared of what the next few years could bring. I hope they are.

Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 2h

I think this is the best way to defeat the far-right, which now includes the Tories. I think it’s likely to be led by Polanski. He has said he will do what’s necessary to defeat fascism. It will require courage from all leaders of the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP to work together electorally.

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 7h

Impact of Brexit on UK economy even worse than critics predicted, says chancellor – UK politics live
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Impact of Brexit on UK economy even worse than critics predicted, says chancellor – UK politics live

Rachel Reeves also highlights austerity and lack of capital spending as key harms to UK economy

www.theguardian.com

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 6h

#GoGreen

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Highest. Ever. (Yet.) 🚀

Let's go! 🙌🏼

Source: YouGov

Join.greenparty.org.uk

@leftiestats.bsky.social

Greens and lib Dems - 15%
Tories - 17%
Labour - 20%
Reform - 26%

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 6h

A prosecution and conviction for political corruption in…

… France.

Not Britain. Not the USA.

France.

Nguyen #fbpe #fbr @haaohaoo.bsky.social · 6h

Former French President #NicolasSarkozy starts five-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy starts five-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy | CNN

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind bar...

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RV 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 6h

Left wing parties need to lend their vote to Plaid. Or you get a Reform MP.

#Wales #Cymru #PartyofWales #PlaidCymru #EU #USA @partyofwalefan.bsky.social · 7h

23/10/2025 - Thursday - Election Day #Caerphilly

Please volunteer for Plaid Cymru 👉 here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Call by the Campaign Office, 18 Castle Street, Caerffili, CF83 1NY or send us an email [email protected]

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 6h

The irony is thick enough to spread on toast.

Leaving the EU was sold to voters as a way of “taking back control” of our borders. Yet the numbers tell a different story. Net migration has soared since Brexit,

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU

They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h

Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crash.

Dash to the next crash:
Post-2008 crash laws mostly repealed.
No regulation of shadow banking
More deregulation.
Bankers collect rewards for speculation, people fund bailouts.

Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis

Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5h

I think the only and very important thing missing from this headlines is that they only did it because they are Israeli Football Hooligans.

So it is patriotism, but not for the UK.

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 9h

She would have deported her own grandparents. She has done well out of the chances rightly given to them. They faced persecution. She wants to pull up the draw bridge and persecute others. She is the very worst of racists.

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 12h

I actually think there is a group of voters who now can’t vote for anyone. Iraq sent Labour voters to the Lib Dems. They then felt betrayed. Some came back to Labour to get the Tories out. They feel betrayed again. What a mess.

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 12h

\Wonderful that @bearlypolitics.co.uk describes the UK monarchy as "a kind of national tea cosy"!

https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-revolution-will-be-organised

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Frank - Queen of Schengen 🇪🇺🌈 @chillaxbcn.bsky.social · 12h

"We do not want to help make Brexit work" German official

Exactly! The Brits want access to the Single Market without being members and without contributing to it. So there we go Keir Starmer put your 'make Brexit work' where the sun doesn't shine.

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 13h

Cold truths by @anandmenon.bsky.social on the UK-EU reset, eg:
“There is no appetite among most member states for doing the UK a favour and helping it thrive outside the bloc. As one senior German official put it to me: ‘We do not want to help make Brexit work’.”
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Britain is suddenly pining for closer ties with the EU. It’s more likely to get the cold shoulder | Anand Menon

Labour now wants to use the damage from Brexit to combat the threat of Nigel Farage, but the union has bigger fish to fry, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 12h

This won’t be covered in the news today. It’s an important question from Ed Davey.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 12h

This is a fair assessment.

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 12h

I understand that and it’s frustrating. Sadly they haven’t really been visible for many years. The fact that they have so many seats shows just how effective they are. Ed Davey calling out Katie Lam sadly won’t make the main news today despite it being an important question. It’s wrong.

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Tim the Raver @tg59.bsky.social · 12h

It’s clear the RW media is throwing everything at Polanski right now to try to kill the Greens off. Peston the latest example. The Lib Dem’s may well benefit from all this. They’re not seen as a threat.

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Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social · 1d

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Bregret - After removing freedom of movement for only British people, immigration from the rest of the world soared.

Even those who support Farage’s Reform refuse to endorse the current immigration systems, with 37 % backing the pre-Brexit approach, just 21 % favouring the post-Brexit system

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system

The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

www.politico.eu

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Excellent news: After three years of reasoning, pleading and conceding, the EU has had enough.

On Monday, the EU's MS are expected to back a new bill that will permanently cut #Russian gas supplies to #Hungary and #Slovakia — whether they like it or not. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU countries move to pull plug on Russian gas to Hungary and Slovakia

The two Central European countries have long spurned a phaseout. Now, EU capitals are ready to overrule them.

www.politico.eu

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 1d

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

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Reform suspends four Kent councillors after Guardian publishes leaked video of fierce infighting

Members of Reform’s flagship county council will be investigated after ‘evidence that they brought the party into disrepute’

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

This is so true. He wrote an excellent article in the Observer yesterday too.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

Sir John Major warns that Britain’s friendships have dwindled, a clear rebuke of the damage caused by Brexit isolationism. Once a trusted voice in Europe, Britain now stands more alone, its influence diminished and its allies less sure of its direction.

“As for our own country, we now have fewer committed friends than once we had. We need to remedy that” Sir John Major, Former Prime Minister

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