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@yasminhashmi.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🇵🇰🏳️‍🌈 aka WEP_Yasmin. Founder Member of the Women’s Equality Party. NHS supporter. Science geek. Art fan. Bully hater. Nature lover. Guitar strummer. Star gazer. Medal winner. Go on… let’s give it a go!

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Nov 15

@mrjamesob.bsky.social shared how my youth club saved me. Instead of getting into drugs and crime, I was given the chance to take part in social & sporting events. I even won the Young DJ of London competition organised by the London Union of Youth Clubs. #SuziQuatro presented me with my trophy!

Suzi Quatro presenting Yasmin with her Young DJ of London trophy

Supersonic TV pop show host, Mike Mansfield, showing Yasmin the ropes

Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Aug 22

@mrjamesob.bsky.social was this James I just saw in Edinburgh?

Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Aug 1

The FA banned women’s football in 1921 because it was more popular than the men’s game and because the money raised was out of the FA‘s control and went to social causes. The ban was not lifted until 1971. #lionesses

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Jul 25

Several thousand left pots and pans outside #downingstreet to remind the Prime
Minister to end our government’s complicity in Israel‘s #genocide. Stop starving #gaza. Stop arming Israel now.

Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Jul 25

I want to throw up

Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Jul 11

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you said ‘women didn’t work back then’; I know what you meant, but better expressed as ‘women didn’t do paid work back then’. Women have always worked; they just don’t always get paid for it.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · Jun 4

‘Tate raped and strangled us’ - women talk to BBC.

Farage said Tate was an 'important voice' for men.

There is something very creepy about Farage, which deserves much more public attention.

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Jun 4

@lewisgoodall.com quality programme on #LBC radio @lbc.co.uk today, Lewis. Real issues, great analysis and positive ideas for solutions. Gives me hope. Keep up the good work!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · May 27

‘Brexit was a terrible solution to the problem of English identity. It did nothing to allow ordinary people to
"take back control" of their lives.’

So, people remain powerless and angry.
And Farage (who championed this failure) now exploits their anger for power.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?

Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers

www.irishtimes.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · May 27

The migration problem is not so much one of ordinary people. It is the migration of wealth and the very rich to tax havens and low tax jurisdictions. That is the migration that has to be curbed, and that requires an international effort to shut down tax havens.

#PATH People Against Tax Havens

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · May 3

Subjected to repeated disinformation campaigns. Estonia sees media literacy education as part of its digital-first culture and national security.

The UK should be doing the same,but Starmer seems incapable of grasping that our democracy needs defending on the home front.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The country inoculating against disinformation

Subjected to repeated disinformation campaigns, the tiny Baltic country of Estonia sees media literacy education as part of its digital-first culture and national security.

www.bbc.com

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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · Apr 27

Farage told ITV News his first action on becoming PM if he won the next GE would be removing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Millionaires like Farage have a safety net, health, bills, pension, roof over their heads for life!
Never vote ReFUK.
But, he’ll happily rob you of:

The substantive rights and freedoms contained in the Convention are:
• Article 2: the right to life
• Article 3: the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment
• Article 4: the prohibition of slavery and forced labour
• Article 5: the right to liberty and security
• Article 6: the right to a fair trial
• Article 7: the prohibition of retrospective criminal penalties
• Article 8: the right to private and family life
• Article 9: the freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• Article 10: the freedom of expression
• Article 11: the freedom of assembly and association
• Article 12: the right to marry
• Article 13: the right to an effective national remedy for breach of these rights
• Article 14: the prohibition of discrimination in the protection of these rights
The UK has also ratified Protocol No. 13 to the Convention on the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, as well Protocol No. 1, which contains three additional rights:
• Article 1 of Protocol No.1: the right to free enjoyment of property
• Article 2 of Protocol No.1: the right to education
• Article 3 of Protocol No.1: the right to free and fair elections

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nigel Farage paid £40,000 by firm that helps super rich cut tax bills.

Nomad Capitalist helps people obtain second residencies and citizenships, urging its clients to ‘go where you’re treated best’

Farage is a traitor.

#Vote4Democracy in the local elections.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Nigel Farage paid £40,000 by firm that helps super rich cut tax bills

Nomad Capitalist helps people obtain second residencies and citizenships, urging its clients to ‘go where you’re treated best’

www.independent.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Apr 5

I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever.

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Exactly!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 1

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 30

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement

AOC, solidarity, and people power.

www.thebulwark.com

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · Mar 28

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Why, thank you!

Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great signs. Well done!

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Yasmin @yasminhashmi.bsky.social · Mar 29

I don’t know why they couldn’t job share

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 28

We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

OcasioCortez.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great letters in The Times on the ugly menace of Trump and what should be done about him:
See him for what he is, stand up to him, say no to him, never trust him, join forces meaningfully with Europe, ask to join the EU Single Market and rethink that not so ‘special relationship’.

Sir, The extreme transactional view the Americans are taking in talks on a ceasefire in Ukraine ("Trump makes $100bn grab for Ukraine's oil and mineral wealth", Mar 28) is utterly sickening. If ever there was a reason for a united European response to one aspect of the talks between the White House and President Putin this is it; to say with deafening clarity that conditions of this kind must not be a precursor to peace in a devastated country fighting for its life. The original rare earth minerals proposal was one thing but this additional set of terms, demanded not by Putin but by President Zelensky's supposed ally, the US, is shameful and abhorrent. The nations of Europe must say so loud and clear.
Alastair Conan
Coulsdon, Surrey

Sir, Hugo Rifkind is right to point out the hypocrisy in the American complaint that Europe is failing to pull its weight ("A quick history lesson from the freeloaders", Mar 27).
The present US administration demands self-reliant allies while still expecting to call the shots. It is a familiar imperial instinct - authority without burden, influence without responsibility. There is a simple reason why Europe's military strength has atrophied over decades: because America asked it to. The US may now prefer a world of transactional alliances, but it should not assume Europe will agree to the transaction. What is unfolding is not just a diplomatic rift but the unravelling of a postwar compact. Europe will rearm. But in doing so it will begin to act more independently. If that independence comes with fewer automatic alignments, Washington should not be surprised.
Craig Eddyshaw
Nottingham

Sir, As the US becomes increasingly unpredictable and untrustworthy, the UK government would do well to have a contingency plan ready should any "special relationship" and preferential terms with the US and its president prove hollow. The obvious move would be to join the European Economic Area, along with Norway. The timely improvement this would bring about in the country's economic prospects, by taking down barriers to trade with our largest partner, would help to shore up the fragility of the chancellor's plans for the coming years.
It would counter many of the downsides of Brexit, while still adhering to the result of the referendum itself. It would add even more substance to a "coalition of the willing", led by France and the UK to defend the future of Ukraine. Indeed, there could scarcely be a better time to negotiate such a deal.
Lord Vallance of Tummel
Former chairman, House of Lords select committee on economic affairs; Strathtay,
Pitlochry

Sir, President Trump's behaviour regarding Ukraine reminds me of Marcus Crassus, the general said to be the richest man in Rome and founder of its first fire brigade. His method was simple: he would arrive at the scene of a fire with his slaves and offer to buy the burning property at a derisory price. If the distressed owner refused, he would let it burn down.
David Osmond
Barnoldby, Lincs

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 29

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · Mar 28

Farage and many Tories want the UK to leave the ECHR. That makes them collaborators in Putin's war against human rights and the international rules-based order.

The stench of treason is strong.

#Vote4Democracy against fascism in the local elections.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Mar 26

Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

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