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"For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into "an old people's home for fading nations...I do not even think it would be a comfortable or agreeable old people's home. I do not much like the look of some of the prospective wardens".(Jenkins)

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please sign!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND

Support in education is a vital legal right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We ask the government to commit to maintaining the existing law, so that vulnerable chil...

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 11h

If you're anti antifa surely that means you're a fascist? Seems to fit.

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 11h

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently 85% of the population of UAE are immigrants! 🤔

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14h

This is a very good post by @nycjayjay.bsky.social - especially on the direct questions Bondi did not answer.

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 14h

Even if I do miss out commas!

callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 14h

Complete and utter garbage, tosh, claptrap, balderdash, drivel, etc., etc.
Look 77 and I can still use my brain and use social media!

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 14h

Just a curious outsider, but what do you think the top Democrats should do?

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 15h

Lots of references to 1984 in the press, etc., but has everyone forgotten Huxley's Brave new World?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

It's never too late

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

So many questions, but my main one is:

Why is St. George riding the dragon?

Sebastian Dobson @sebdobson.bsky.social · 21h

Reform: Lefties are disrespecting our national saint!

Also Reform:

(Spotted at rally held yesterday by N.E. Lincolnshire County Councillor Oliver Freeston)

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 21h

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from ‘Family Friend’ Who Ships Arms to Israel. bylinetimes.com/2024/10/10/r...

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from 'Family Friend' Who Ships Arms to Israel

The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP

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Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #RebootGB #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social · 21h

The UK govt is complicit in Israeli actions in Gaza & no amount of fiddling with protest laws can remove that stain.

You can be a true friend to the Jewish community & abhor what the Israeli govt does in their name.

Gaza is about rule by law & international order v. Might is Right & vengeance.

Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs

PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22h

"Growth is the number one priority of this Labour government."

Oh no, not like *that*.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

More UK visas for highly skilled Indian workers ‘not part of plan’, says Starmer on.ft.com/4pY1hHY

More UK visas for highly skilled Indian workers ‘not part of plan’, says Starmer

British premier embarks on two-day trade trip with 125 chief executives, cultural leaders and university vice-chancellors

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

I mean it fails as an understanding of the simple value and meaning of this one human life that is all any of us get on this benighted planet.

But it *also* fails as a basic analysis of where the British economy is thriving and how to support that for desperately-needed growth.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.

The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 22h

Top speakers at the conference: Badenoch! Jenrick!! Philp!!! Stride!!!!
Ye gods! I mean, compare and contrast with the pre-Brexit party.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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