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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 18h

#FullFact real-time Government Tracker updated today.
It now shows Labour delivered (or are on track to deliver) 57 of 83 Election pledges.
This is an extraordinary achievement in just 15 months in power.
The Tories managed just 3 (one partially) in 5yrs

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Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 15h

The last few days I have seen first hand the NHS struggling to meet needs.
Staff of all kinds of nationalities & skin tones at GPs, hospitals & ancillary services working hard and remaining cheerful in the face of overwhelming demand and awkward, sometimes rude patients

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 13h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Rachael the Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 8h

As an artist I don't even want that, to me art is a safe space for exploring emotions of all kinds including exhuberent joy so to me the kid is "getting it" way more than the stuffy pretentious adults

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9h

Not all children with additional needs are neurodiverse. Quiet space in a crowd is an interesting concept. If the place visited isnt asking for silence maybe that sets the tone.

Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9h

Be bold. You are her pathfinder. I hope you meet other families who can make waves. Mainstream schooling can create different challenges in finding like-minded people.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9h

Art galleries and museums can be sombre, po faced places for earnest, cerebral contemplation. That is very ablist and joyless. I'm glad she enjoyed your outing and well done to her for her spontaneity and unintentional bid for inclusiveness.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 18h

Not aiming for the youth vote or for their aspirational parents.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I worry about a lot about a Reform government is basic competency. As in they'll get in and not understand things and just not be able to get anything done properly.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“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.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 2d

Water is essential for wildlife. There are so few ponds in Norfolk. Animals are coming into residential areas to find water and food in gardens.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘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, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 7d

Give the lowest white man someone to look down on, and they’ll empty their pockets for you - LBJ

Nigel Garbage has a solid handle on this concept

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 8d

Many more retirees should start using their professional/academic/political wisdom to contribute in this way. And if anyone in any nation wants to (like me) become a citizen journalist to do this more effectively, we’d love to hear from you at @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Robin Smith 🇺🇦 @robin.bobin.uk · 8d

BBC: "normally a year in you would expect lots of policy announcements."

Erm…!?!?

Like the ones already announced such as most recently digital ID?

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Labour can't win against this.

#UKPolitics #Labour #BBC

This is what Keir Starmer has done for you so far

The Tories presided over 14 years of decline, undermined our public services, and wrecked our economy. Keir Starmer's Labour Government is getting on with the job, fixing the foundations of our countr...

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 8d

There are a limited number of appointments available for the 3 GPs at my local surgery. Retired people are a large demographic and may struggle with online booking. Some do not have smartphones.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9d

This is very upsetting. Please watch the video clip.

Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 9d

This needs to be widely shared - the men don’t care one jot about protecting women and children - she told the truth and they didn’t like it.

🏳️‍🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️‍⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 9d

This is from a RW gathering in my home town of Hull.

This young women standing up to the racists deserves a medal.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9d

I've lived a decade longer than my parents. Im not finished yet

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

Welfare spending is 10.8% as a proportion of GDP and was 10% in 2001. (And the increase is nearly all pensions). Apparently it's now out of control. It's just absolutely bog standard right wing paper talking points.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 9d

Tired of reading crap about Sharia Law. It is the code and rules of Islamic faith. It only applies to Muslims and doesn't overrule the laws of the land.
The Roman Catholic equivalent is Cannon Law, which also doesn't overrule the laws of the land.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9d

Farage is after power and money. He is still not available to his constituents and rarely in parliament.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9d

Reform's supporters are not well educated.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe the and should be an or : national insurance payments or voluntary work. Voluntary work is often daytime, which isn't practical for anyone with a full-time job. Most of the voluntary work here is from retired people.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 9d

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology

The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.

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