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@gingerjill.bsky.social

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Recovering people-pleaser, hoping for benevolent government. Far too optimistic. Gardening and painting allows me to find the strength to follow the politics 🇬🇧🇨🇦

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · Aug 28

I suppose as people are following me I should say something. I live in Northumberland. It’s beautiful and wild but only 15 minutes from a M &S food hall, living the dream

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 9h

English tapas

Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 9h

He’s had to take one for the team, same as our UK PM. He’s buying time, and making the best of it. Very few countries can afford to antagonise him.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 2d

The right-wing press targeted Lineker because he had the balls to speak out. Now it’s Gary Neville’s turn.
We need to be talking about flags and angry middle-aged white men. Well done Gary.
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Gary Neville hits out after removing union flag from Manchester development site

The former Manchester United captain says the flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men’

www.independent.co.uk

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes. 31 does this.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes, there's a European Parliament motion of no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen today (she'll win though). Troops on the streets in the US.

Which part of global systemic crisis are we not understanding?

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 2d

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

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Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous Scotswood Community Garden Apple Day with gardening, Face painting, story telling, local groups, lots wildlife, jams, crafts and, of course, apples galore!

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, in 'ya don't f*king say' land, Reform discover that governing ain't quite so easy...

' "Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't," said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent. '

Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters

ANNA GROSS - KENT

Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK struggles to find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive.

Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending.

But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones". an

"We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing," she said, stress-ing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local

authorities in England, the bulk of Kent's budget went on adult and chil-dren's social care, as well as on children with special educational needs, which together accounted for about 50 per cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure.

All councils have a legal duty to bal-ance their books and will set next year's budgets in February or March. Ahead of that, most councils in England are expected to increase council tax by 5 per cent, the maximum allowed.

"I think it's going to be 5 per cent," Morton said of where Kent would land on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent increase equated to an extra £10mn.

Council leader Linden Kemkaran, a former BBC journalist, said Kent was a test bed for the party's national policies and the "shop window through which everybody is going to see what a Reform government might look like". She

declined to say whether council tax would be raised but other Reform coun-cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting the full 5 per cent.

Reform's experience highlights some of the obstacles it may face in national government if it won the next general election and pursued its pledge to slash taxes and spending. "Everyone thought we'd come …

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 3d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 3d

You are a wise cat.

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day

Please try not ruin today by overthinking what happened yesterday and what could happen tomorrow.

Wishing you a lovely Sunday friends ♥️

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool coin design!

Canada unveils stunning new 3D coin with beavers in rippling water.
www.blogto.com/city/2025/10...

One side of the coin shows a birds-eye view of a family of beavers — an adult male and female, and their two kits — building a lodge. The beavers are gold plated, the edge of the coin is gold and the dam and water is silver.

The flip side depicts what's happening underwater out of our eyelines, showing the underbellies of the beavers and their lodge.

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Carol Jasper @drcaroljasper.bsky.social · 4d

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 4d

It's 15:30 on 4th October 2025. Britain is getting almost 90% of its electricity from clean energy sources. grid.iamkate.com

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 4d

I know, it’s so revolting. At least we all know the areas to avoid. It’s the people trying to sell their houses that I feel sorry for.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 6d

Not everyone can make the commitment that these two extraordinary women have, but we can all do something to help each other, our Earth and its creatures

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