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thepolyorchid

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LFC season ticket holder & dad to 2 beautiful girls. Bad guitarist. Soft spot for @altrinchamfc. @thefabians @humanists_uk. Woke isn’t a pejorative term. Not a fan of Tories, Elon Musk, Farage or sportswashing. Never kissed a Tory….

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 7h

Have a good one fella!!

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 8h

It’s fantastic.

thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 8h

Love it….

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Wasted Years. Iron Maiden.

YouTube video by Stuart Clifford

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
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Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 9h

@thenerve.news Hi! I made a payment early last week but keep seeing 'subscribe here' like my sub payment hasn't been logged. Can I drop you an email? Great start by the way!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13h

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 12h

Been cutting onions it seems.....

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GOTTA SEE IT: Borje Salming Drops Ceremonial Puck After Emotional Tribute By Maple Leafs

YouTube video by SPORTSNET

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 12h

Me too, surprisingly! 😂

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 14h

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline | Prof Richard Murphy

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

*ding ding* We’re seeing rampant lawlessness from the Trump admin @billybinion.bsky.social

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 14h

Farage must be the only one that is stunned then

There needs to be a proper independent investigation into Russian money in UK politics

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Politics latest: Farage 'stunned' at guilty plea of former Reform leader in Wales for Russia-linked bribes

Nigel Farage has said he is "stunned" that a former Reform UK leader in Wales pleaded guilty to taking Russia-linked bribes. Meanwhile, the Plaid Cymru leader is delivering his major party conference ...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h

Derbyshire’s Reform county council defends move to increase chief executive salary to more than £200,000

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

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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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 14h

Oh what a surprise

Another piece of hypocrisy from Reform

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Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

That's Nigel "Twelve Jobs, Four Homes and a Chauffeur driven BMW" Farage to you !

Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 15h

Labour need to shouting this from the roof tops.

They need to be challenging Farage over his multiple jobs.
They need to be challenging Reform over their tex exile donor base.
They need to be challenging Reform policies at every opportunity.

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thepolyorchid @thepolyorchid.bsky.social · 17h

Well…. That’s a relief!!!

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WulfHelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 19h

Antifa.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 19h

How ANYONE here can see these things and still vote for this grotesque man in 2029 is beyond me. I genuinely believe they won't. He's not even TRYING to make it look like he's interested in us. But how to show that? Not everyone's endlessly scrolling BlueSky or reading the Mirror.