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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 5h

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference

A fight to the bottom with Farage on the Fantasy Economics league table

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 7h

There are plenty of ways to humanely control British borders. So why isn’t Keir Starmer using them? | Enver Solomon

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 11h

Trains from Colchester to London are getting slower. Labour stopped the A12 widening. Essex cut off!

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 22h

I preached levelling up as the key to Tory success – but Boris Johnson didn’t do it. Now look at us | Justine Greening

Sensible stuff.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
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Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 23h

Local authorities going out to tender for nursing home care to get lowest price. Is this how we respect our families?

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch defends Jenrick’s ‘no white faces’ comments about Birmingham

A large part of the country has suffered poverty after 14 years of Tory austerity and negligence. It’s not about colour

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 1d

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Anybody noticed fewer Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis, etc?

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over Budget tax rises driving wealthy away

‘The trouble is we have crossed a line in trying to encourage aspiration. The non-dom change and the VAT on school fees have sent the opposite message,’ minister tells The Independent

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Time for a positive, progressive message on immigration. You know you can rely on Labour…….oh wait!!

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Nige leads on editorial policy at the BBC.

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 2d

Nige leads on editorial policy at the BBc

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

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

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Pro-Palestine marches have become ‘carnivals of hatred’, Badenoch tells Tory conference – UK politics live

Just another supporter of genocide

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

When does her family leave?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Putin would be proud!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 3d

Labour have decided there's still a teeny tiny risk of getting too many votes. To be absolutely safe, they're setting fire to another big batch.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

No sign of it!

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Organisers of pro-Palestine Action protests threaten ‘major escalation’ over crackdown on marches – UK politics live

Following the authoritarian playbook. When will Labour realise that you can’t ‘out extreme’ the extremists?

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

They wore brownshirts in Germany too

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Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Every politician should watch Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams to see what they’ve done to society in this country

Nick Gerrard @crosstherubycon.bsky.social · 3d

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Putin would be proud of you Starmer

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

🚨EXCLUSIVE

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

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
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‘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 – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

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