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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

People like Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage are increasingly looking at people who are not white and suggesting that they can't be British.

That in itself is fundamentally un-British.

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Get PR Done! @getprdone.bsky.social · 1d

With five parties on double digits, the first-past-the-post voting system makes a complete mockery of any semblance of a fair elections.

It’s way past-time to make seats match votes and GET PR DONE
Graphic via @joshhousden.bsky.social
#getPRdone
#MakeSeatsMatchVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 4h

They can’t sell cars in China any more because the locally-made EVs are infinitely superior.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 4h

Any minute now you’ll have more members than the Express has readers.
😀
(NB: Green member numbers I quoted already hopelessly out of date just 48 hours later!)
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 19h

Green Party members will soon outnumber Express readers.

Membership of
@greenparty.org.uk has risen by over 60% from 53,000 in 2024 to 86,000 now.

The Daily Express averaged 111,000 copies in August 2025, 18% down on last year.
(Figures from
@pressgazette.co.uk.)

Of course they’re jealous.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 4h

We think alike. bsky.app/profile/ldw1...

Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 1d

Honest Bob Jenrick went to Handsworth, not Soho - full of unintegrated Chinese, or North London with its unintegrated Jewish community.
He makes it clear it’s nothing to do with skin colour so one wonders why he chose Handsworth? 🙄

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely. Take any risk you like with your own health: that’s your concern. But to endanger other people’s is another thing entirely.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 5h

She “takes a lot of vitamins”.
You may possibly count that as a rational explanation, but I did not.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 6h

UK-owned and -insured ships have carried £45 billion of Russian #LNG since 2022, fueling Russia’s war budget. The UK supports #Ukraine, but must do more to turn words into action.

If you live in the UK, sign this petition to ban UK shipping and insurance of Russian LNG.

bit.ly/SignPetitionUk

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 6h

Ladies and gentlemen,
antiscience is an absolute scourge.

Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 7h

I have today ended a treasured 30-year friendship, as she proudly told me she refuses vaccines.
This is a bright, intelligent, caring person that I once loved.
But I have zero tolerance for those who are prepared to risk the health of those they claim to care about.
I am heartbroken but obdurate.

Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 7h

I’m very happy that they should be there, and I see no reason why they should have to learn English or “integrate” if they don’t want to.
But that must apply to Handsworth too.
One rule for everybody.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 7h

I have today ended a treasured 30-year friendship, as she proudly told me she refuses vaccines.
This is a bright, intelligent, caring person that I once loved.
But I have zero tolerance for those who are prepared to risk the health of those they claim to care about.
I am heartbroken but obdurate.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12h

Brain dead economic illiteracy with no understanding of the modern world as the Conservative Party have demonstrated all conference.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 23h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 12h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a debt crisis.
It’s not a tax crisis.
It’s not an economic crisis.
It’s not a political crisis.
It’s not a housing crisis.

It’s an #inequality crisis.
youtu.be/lgzn2AsFULE?...

Are Labour Unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 16h

Does the UK have a Culture Secretary, with responsibility for this stuff, who might take an interest in how media regulation works? If there is such a person, does anyone know what she/he does all day?

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Someone please explain.
What is the point of Ofcom?
Utterly useless.

Ofcom to take no further action after finding GB News breached broadcasting code for "homophobic slur"

After more than six months of investigation, Ofcom has concluded that while GB News breached the broadcasting code when a presenter repeated "a homophobic slur" it will take no further action. On 22 ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 12h

Update: bsky.app/profile/gree...

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 13h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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kiran @aequinnox.bsky.social · 19d

Why does one ethnicity have to make room for another? I grew up in a house with two different ethnicities and wow guess what my parents are still married. You probably can’t get along with other races since you’re dying on this hill but, but that’s a choice not a force of nature

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12h

Because global companies are now so important for national economies, governments probably have no choice but to negotiate with them. But this is a major change for which there is little guidance, no real global rules, and complexities that make scrutiny difficult.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 12h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · May 9

You can’t be a carpenter without knowing the use of a chisel, but lazy media folk feel no need to understand the tools of their trade.

Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks to bloody awful Trump, we can look forward to all elections to be questioned in this way. “If I lost, it was fixed.”
This does not augur well for the future of democracy.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h

The Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova parliamentary leader, Vlad Batrincea, claimed the elections were marred by "violations and the use of administrative resources," which, he said, "called into question the fairness of the vote."

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justtransitionw.bsky.social @justtransitionw.bsky.social · 23h

Oh dear, Rachel - what have you said now?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There is a reason why species are protected. To risk the extinction of a species for a few houses is #uncivilised, #ignorant, #AntiScience and shows no respect for life-forms considered more lowly than herself. Who's next?

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’

www.theguardian.com

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Hugh Barnard @hughbarnard.bsky.social · 12h

This is apart from all this, fitting successor to Johnson therefore:
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/all...

All the times Robert Jenrick has faced corruption charges

The London Economic - The MP announced that the government is ‘set to take over city of Liverpool’ amid a corruption probe - Politics

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 13h

Always available for a free lunch in my experience. 🙄

European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) @efjeurope.bsky.social · 13h

Journalists often think that to be good at their jobs, they have to be constantly available and sacrifice their private life. In #Portugal, almost 3/4 of journalists says that the demands of the job make it difficult to find a work-life balance.

Do you recognise yourself in this situation?
#SUJ