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Jan Chamier
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Editor, Londoner, gardener, #FBPE, pro EU, Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦, environment, 🐈, atheist. Used to be on Elmo’s dumpster but NO MORE. Please, no DMs
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December 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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westcountryvoices.bsky.social
And on the anti Brexit front
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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“Do you know what it feels like when standing on the sidewalk is a crime?”

Day 381 of nonstop protests in Georgia. Most banners today demanded sanctions on GD, an investigation into #theCamiteCase, and an end to the criminalization of peaceful protest.

📷 Levan Zazadze
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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fuck off, Rod
So, the EU just flat-out stole hundreds of billions of Russia's euros. How can any country trust European banking now? Whatever you think of Russia's war on Ukraine, this is a foolish and destabilizing own goal
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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👀 ⏰
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Putin bragged to foreign journalists that his forces had taken the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk. President Zelenskyy showed up instead and showed the world that Russia wasn't even there.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I've just called on the UK Government to stop Berwick Bank!

The world's deadliest wind farm for birds shouldn't be funded by public money.
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Stop Berwick Bank!
The UK Government could soon award public money to the world's deadliest windfarm for birds. Speak up now.
action.rspb.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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"What is emerging about Nigel Farage is not a single stupid comment or moment. Former classmates describe a pattern of behaviour. Not just a bully, but a racist bully of the ugliest kind, directing hatred at black and Jewish pupils as a kind of sport" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse'
When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP
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December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Thanks a lot Farage
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bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d
📝 "The latest (research), says that GDP per head, the best measure of prosperity, is 6 to 8 per cent lower than it would have been had Brexit not happened. That’s around £3,000 for each of us."

📉 Brexit is worsening the cost of living crisis for us all.
https://bit.ly/3MvK89r
Brexit made us poorer and it’s getting worse
Economists disagree on the detail but it’s clear that barrier-free trade would be a big boost
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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peterjohn.bsky.social
When it comes to management of the economy, the Tories can just f**k off... and I don't even rate this current Chancellor.
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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meanwhileua.bsky.social
Donald Trump claimed that only President Zelensky opposes the U.S. peace plan, while “his people were enthusiastic” about it.
But this isn’t just about one leader. The plan is also rejected by millions who believe a simple principle still matters: the aggressor should be punished, not the victim.👇
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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london.gov.uk
10 years on from the Paris Agreement, my message for fossil fuel companies is clear: get on board with a green future, or get left behind.

London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
Zero carbon London
The Mayor has set ambitious aims for London to be a zero carbon city by 2030. Read about the work he is doing to achieve this.
www.london.gov.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Sadiq Khan as usual prepared to fight for what is right, the future is green and more politicians need to follow his lead.
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london.gov.uk Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 1d
10 years on from the Paris Agreement, my message for fossil fuel companies is clear: get on board with a green future, or get left behind.

London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
Zero carbon London
The Mayor has set ambitious aims for London to be a zero carbon city by 2030. Read about the work he is doing to achieve this.
www.london.gov.uk
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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djshadesuk.bsky.social
I didn't quite catch that, was it "Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history"?
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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That Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”?
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
'What are they afraid of?' Historian's lecture cut by BBC
YouTube video by LBC
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November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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You've got to stand up to him sometime mate. Let Farage take the hit for the utter destruction of our country caused by HIS Brexit. We should be constantly asking him "Where are the Brexit benefits Nigel?"

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Attempting to rejoin EU customs union 'complete fuel for Reform', Starmer warned
A Liberal Democrat bill calling on the government to begin negotiations on joining an EU customs union was backed by 13 Labour MPs.
news.sky.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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catincognito.bsky.social
Actually..
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Sewage dumping near swimming spots in England getting worse.

Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.

Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
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Sewage spills near swimming spots still getting worse, report finds
Water companies have been ordered to end the release of untreated sewage into waterways by mid-century. Thursday’s report found progress to be well off course
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
How refreshing to hear the head of the Met on LBC dropping truth bombs galore on all the bots, Faragists & online racists dedicated to lying about London.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Indiana Republicans have withstood immense pressure from Trump — and ignored threats on their lives — to defeat his plan to redraw the state’s congressional map, dealing him one of his most significant political setbacks since his return to the White House.
Indiana GOP rejects Trump’s map in major blow to his gerrymandering push
The GOP-controlled state Senate voted down a bill that would have wiped out Indiana’s two Democratic-held seats in the House.
www.politico.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that.

Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
Tory MP who quit in gambling row may join Reform Extract: A former Tory MP who was forced to quit after offering to lobby for gambling investors in return for payment of up to £2,000 a day is considering joining Reform UK, The Times has been told. Scott Benton was forced to resign last year after being exposed by a Times in-vestigation. He was filmed telling undercover reporters posing as gambling industry investors that he could lobby ministers and leak a confidential document. Local sources said Benton was now considering standing for Reform in the constituency of Blackpool North & Fleetwood at the next election. Benton declined to comment. A Reform source insisted Benton would be banned from standing as a candidate if he formally applied, while a Tory source said: "We wish Scott Benton well in his new party." His defection could prove controversial and senior figures in Reform are increasingly concerned by the mass recruitment of "Tory retreads". A total of 22 former Conservative MPs have already joined Reform, leading to increasing tensions in Nigel Farage's party. There are concerns within Reform that it will lose its status as an antiestablishment insurgent force if a large chunk of the party consists of former Tory MPs. The latest defector yesterday was Ben Bradley, who will take up a role as the party's "head of local government action". Bradley lost his Mansfield seat at the 2024 election, having first won the constituency in 2017. He was also leader of Nottinghamshire county council from 2021 until last year. Farage said yesterday that Reform "will not become the Conservative Party 2.0" but added that his party's "biggest weakness is a lack of experience". "We need people with experience of politics, experience of life, experience of management, who've been there before," he told a press conference. "Scott Benton is a dirty rotten scoundrel," says Dale Dodwell, the manager of the tattoo parlour Monsters Ink. "He keeps putting up pictures of him eating loads of food. What about the homeless? All good for you because you have loads of money." Dodwell's words symbolise the feeling that many local people have given up on politics. On 2 May, a byelection will take place to replace Benton, who on Monday evening resigned as the Conservative MP for Blackpool South. It presents another political headache for Rishi Sunak before an election that polls suggest will be won by Labour. Benton was caught last year by undercover reporters for the Times posing on behalf of a fake investment fund saying he would lobby ministers on behalf of the gambling industry and leak a confidential policy for up to £4,000 a month. He was found to be in breach of MPs' standards and he was facing a local vote on whether to remove him after his ban from the House of Commons
December 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Trump: "Seized a tanker, large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized..."

He has to exaggerate things, exaggerate everything, exaggerate more than anyone else in the US, or the world even. Perhaps the universe.
December 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The "London = most dangerous place on the planet" discourse is still going strong on Twitter

I've actually been surprised by how little I've felt threatened as a woman in London (having lived in Tooting and Peckham)

I loved growing up in Nottingham, but I had much, much worse experiences there tbh
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM