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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 2h

Magnificent

Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 3h

This is how public money is being spent.
Now tell me what we can't afford, because the government prioritises this twisted blinkered dogmatic cowardly sickness.

Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 3h

This is how public money is being spent.
Now tell me what we can't afford, because the government prioritises this twisted blinkered dogmatic cowardly sickness.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 6h

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"You're utterly evil," Dutch MP confronts Geert Wilders

YouTube video by TRT World

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 7h

Ah, thanks.
Then call them what you like, protest likely to continue.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23h

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK set to hike council tax in Kent by 5% - despite DOGE-style pledge to cut costs

Reform UK set to hike council tax in Kent by 5% - despite pledge to cut costs

Kent County Council’s Department of Local Government Efficiency (Dolge) has identified £40m of potential savings - but council tax looks likely to go up next year

www.independent.co.uk

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 16h

To think that the possibility of USA style government is not that ridiculous, because of the population manipulation by MSM and politicians, if the pools can be believed.

Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 21h

Negative publicity, in some areas,
Might be much harder to shake off than a name change.
Why the association with a country engaged in the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents and the theft of land in the first place?

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 23h

But will burn £billions of UK public money whilst justifying continuation of heavy carbon emitting industry.
Hopeless government?

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the PPE VIP contracts?
Safe hands?
Have we ever had those in government, looking back ?

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

And, sounds highly probable.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

Bazinga!

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Climate Outreach @climateoutreach.bsky.social · 1d

📢 This is a threat we won’t accept: abolishing the Climate Change Act (CCA) would harm our natural world, damage a thriving net zero economy, reverse significant progress, and be out of step with public and political opinion.

We’ve written an open letter to Badenoch to express our profound concern.

Climate Outreach are one of many major climate and nature organisations to express our grave and collective concern at Badenoch's threat to scrap the Climate Change Act.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

After checking their house insurance ?

Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

Huzzah 🤔😔

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think you'll find a bookie who would give you odds on that.

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