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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 3h

Great Britain delusions courtesy of Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, GB News, Tories, Reform, UKIP. Any dissenters are not ‘patriotic’ or ‘don’t Believe in Britain’ . Cue ‘we hold all the cards’, flag waving, scapegoating, worst of British arrogance/nastiness.

William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 4h

Please let it be so.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 7h

Lady Thatcher haunted this year’s funereal Tory conference like a mocking ghost. At the entrance stood three glass cages housing her power suits, a giant mosaic of her face, Thatcher Theatre Stalls selling Thatcher books, mugs, tea towels & Christmas baubles ..

Brian Reade: 'For stupidity, arrogance and lying, Tories deserve to be history'

The Conservative Party Conference was almost pornographic with its passion for Margaret Thatcher, says Brian Reade, but clinging to the memory of a dead leader while in total denial of its disastrous ...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 4h

The Times says 8 Deform UK Ltd councils say they will have to raise council tax after struggling to find the huge DOGE-style cuts in public spending they promised.

Imagine what a Deform UK Ltd government will be like.

Tax and spend (it on payouts to their billionaire backers).

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 1d

Point

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Cutting £47 billion in spending doesn’t make us stronger, writes Prof Richard Murphy. It’s not fiscal discipline. It’s economic vandalism.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

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

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 1d

I find it puzzling there are people in the UK who are unable to understand Farage is a lying sleazebag who is taking them for a ride.

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 1d

Different parties. Same chaos. Same fantasy economics.

#NeverVoteTory #NeverVoteReform

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 2d

Chickenman is what makes America great.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 3d

NEW VIDEO 📽️

The British army veteran arrested for supporting Palestine

Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoC...

The British army veteran arrested for supporting Palestine

YouTube video by Declassified UK

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps Rees-Mogg, Davis,Frost,May et al could pop along with their pre-signed steel export deals with all those global opportunities that were just waiting to do business with Britain. I won’t hold my breath.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: UK steel set for further hit as EU to double tariffs

The EU is hiking the tax on steel it imports, with the tariff to be 50%, double the 25% currently levied by the Trump administration in the US and the EU's current rate

news.sky.com/story/uk-ste...

UK steel set for further hit as EU to double tariffs

Losing access to the EU market, the largest destination for UK steel exports, would have a "catastrophic" impact on jobs, a key union said.

news.sky.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

Brilliant @fife4europe.bsky.social

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 4d

Tax them into oblivion. The tobacco business is nothing more than a source of pollution, poverty and dependency.

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

Reckon the voters of Kent have worked out that Farage is full of BS? Would have thought Brexit might’ve have given them a clue.

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

The man’s a sh1t.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 5d

Empty conference rooms, almost no attention from the media, and now this - the Tory Party conference gets funnier by the day!

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

Unbelie…oh hang on… yea….predictable.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

Agree, the sooner the better.

William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

Bish-bash-….

William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 5d

Baroness Barbie.

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe the rest of the UK media could report this

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8d

Britain’s electoral system can now give a majority to a party backed by only a third of voters. In the Netherlands, their proportional system limits power to a true majority. Time we learned a lesson?

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

The Dutch can tell us something about managing extremism

The UK and Netherlands have similar politics, but very different ways of managing it. What might we learn from across the North Sea?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9d

Left wing firebrand Theresa May has described Kemi Badenoch's decision to repeal the Climate Change Act as a "catastrophic mistake"
May is correct.

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William Mc @wgmcy.bsky.social · 9d

Shit Britain.

North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 9d

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths | Julia Mazza

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall was a hero who used her life to make the world a better place. If the world uplifted and amplified people like her over fascists and billionaires, the world would be a very different place. #3E

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