Elizabeth Baker
@lizzieab.bsky.social
Looking for the common ground, there is alway something; for me and slugs it is that we both want to eat the cabbages I grow in my garden.
Political but not party political. British and European. Brexit was a mistake.
Political but not party political. British and European. Brexit was a mistake.
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It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind
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Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀
The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd
One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️
The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd
One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Just a gif of the EU flag projected onto the London Eye as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's London's New Year's Day fireworks 😀
The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd
One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️
The UK is £90 billion a year poorer because of Brexit i.e. tax rises and spending cuts, it's absurd
One day soon the madness will end and the UK will #RejoinEU ☺️
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It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone.
An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor:
"Thank you, friends. We are home.
This is not a protocol. It is a feeling.
In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution...
www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...
An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor:
"Thank you, friends. We are home.
This is not a protocol. It is a feeling.
In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution...
www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone.
An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor:
"Thank you, friends. We are home.
This is not a protocol. It is a feeling.
In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution...
www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...
An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor:
"Thank you, friends. We are home.
This is not a protocol. It is a feeling.
In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution...
www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...
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It is not just a currency. It is a sign of belonging - that your place is not on the periphery, but in a space of common rules, trust and responsibility. A sign that the efforts you have made have been recognized and accepted. [..] Bulgaria is Europe. And Europe is Bulgaria."
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It is not just a currency. It is a sign of belonging - that your place is not on the periphery, but in a space of common rules, trust and responsibility. A sign that the efforts you have made have been recognized and accepted. [..] Bulgaria is Europe. And Europe is Bulgaria."
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These terrible men. They gambled wth our country, our security, our futures so lightly. A reckless referendum called to manage party politics, then hijacked by people who never believed in it, never planned for it & were never honest abt th consequences. Never forgiven or forgotten. Always angry.
10th Anniversary of Brexit 🇪🇺🇬🇧 -
Cameron admitting Johnson only backed Brexit as a career punt. Johnson didn’t believe a word of it. He gambled the country for his own ego, assumed Remain would win, then rode the chaos like a lying opportunist. #ukpolitics
Cameron admitting Johnson only backed Brexit as a career punt. Johnson didn’t believe a word of it. He gambled the country for his own ego, assumed Remain would win, then rode the chaos like a lying opportunist. #ukpolitics
January 1, 2026 at 7:12 PM
These terrible men. They gambled wth our country, our security, our futures so lightly. A reckless referendum called to manage party politics, then hijacked by people who never believed in it, never planned for it & were never honest abt th consequences. Never forgiven or forgotten. Always angry.
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Happy New Year from the Rustaveli protest!
It’s now the second Ne Year’s in a row!
Our resistance continues into 2026 and we hope in your timely support.
May this be a victorious year for the good, and may we crush the evil.
🇬🇪🇺🇦✊🏻
#GeorgiaProtests Day 399
📷 Radio Liberty
It’s now the second Ne Year’s in a row!
Our resistance continues into 2026 and we hope in your timely support.
May this be a victorious year for the good, and may we crush the evil.
🇬🇪🇺🇦✊🏻
#GeorgiaProtests Day 399
📷 Radio Liberty
December 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy New Year from the Rustaveli protest!
It’s now the second Ne Year’s in a row!
Our resistance continues into 2026 and we hope in your timely support.
May this be a victorious year for the good, and may we crush the evil.
🇬🇪🇺🇦✊🏻
#GeorgiaProtests Day 399
📷 Radio Liberty
It’s now the second Ne Year’s in a row!
Our resistance continues into 2026 and we hope in your timely support.
May this be a victorious year for the good, and may we crush the evil.
🇬🇪🇺🇦✊🏻
#GeorgiaProtests Day 399
📷 Radio Liberty
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Russia will not accept any peace deal that allows Ukraine to aggressively defend itself the next time we invade it.
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Russia will not accept any peace deal that allows Ukraine to aggressively defend itself the next time we invade it.
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Inheritance tax is one of the fairest systems of taxation, and everything was in place to protect working farms, so this just looks pathetic frankly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government waters down farm inheritance tax plan
The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.5m.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Inheritance tax is one of the fairest systems of taxation, and everything was in place to protect working farms, so this just looks pathetic frankly.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Appears that to the Trump regime free speech means the unfettered right of their mates to make money however untrue, dangerous, hateful or inciteful the words they publish & anyone, inc nation states, putting citizens' safety before that right to make money is suppressing speech & a threat to the US
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Appears that to the Trump regime free speech means the unfettered right of their mates to make money however untrue, dangerous, hateful or inciteful the words they publish & anyone, inc nation states, putting citizens' safety before that right to make money is suppressing speech & a threat to the US
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Eindejaar = lijstjestijd. Dit is nog zo'n leuke. Hard mee gelachen. Check ook zeker nr. 7.
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The best cartoons of the year
Top 10 political cartoons of 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Eindejaar = lijstjestijd. Dit is nog zo'n leuke. Hard mee gelachen. Check ook zeker nr. 7.
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cartoonmovement.substack.com/p/the-best-c...
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A League of Democratic Nations? This USA is not invited.
🔥 THIS IS HUGE!
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger.
Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.
December 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A League of Democratic Nations? This USA is not invited.
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Fixing Brexit’s damage isn’t ‘betrayal’
Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain | Sue Wilson
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk @suewilson91.bsky.social
Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain | Sue Wilson
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk @suewilson91.bsky.social
Fixing Brexit’s damage isn’t ‘betrayal’
Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Fixing Brexit’s damage isn’t ‘betrayal’
Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain | Sue Wilson
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk @suewilson91.bsky.social
Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain | Sue Wilson
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk @suewilson91.bsky.social
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Great two page spread on Erasmus+ in today’s #YorkshireEveningPost.
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Great two page spread on Erasmus+ in today’s #YorkshireEveningPost.
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I think because it was nationalised, but that would mean it was taken from multinational corperations, not from the USA, and it wasn't stolen as such, just, consessions not renewed. Anyway that all happened in the 70s so the war is a little late.
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I think because it was nationalised, but that would mean it was taken from multinational corperations, not from the USA, and it wasn't stolen as such, just, consessions not renewed. Anyway that all happened in the 70s so the war is a little late.
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No deja de ser una muy buena noticia: los apaciguadores al frente de gobiernos europeos, hoy mayoría, tienen que ser humillados lo máximo posible por el fascio yanki hasta que entiendan que el único rédito que van a sacar de su estrategia es el ser tratados como los lacayos de Vlad el Empalador.
🚨🚨In today's "the world's most trustworthy trading partner": #US suspends technology deal with Britain. 🧵
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the ...
www.reuters.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
No deja de ser una muy buena noticia: los apaciguadores al frente de gobiernos europeos, hoy mayoría, tienen que ser humillados lo máximo posible por el fascio yanki hasta que entiendan que el único rédito que van a sacar de su estrategia es el ser tratados como los lacayos de Vlad el Empalador.
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There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
December 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
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Refugees are human beings. They have mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. They laugh and cry just like you. They have hopes and dreams and a desire not to live in fear. They have not collapsed your NHS, built no homes or filled your rivers with sewage. You are being conned.
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Refugees are human beings. They have mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. They laugh and cry just like you. They have hopes and dreams and a desire not to live in fear. They have not collapsed your NHS, built no homes or filled your rivers with sewage. You are being conned.
"If there is to be a ‘reset’ of that decades-long narrative then it needs to encompass much more than simply regarding Brexit as a ‘mistake’ because of its economic costs (although that is true) and become a positive affirmation of European identity."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
Is the tide turning?
<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>
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December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"If there is to be a ‘reset’ of that decades-long narrative then it needs to encompass much more than simply regarding Brexit as a ‘mistake’ because of its economic costs (although that is true) and become a positive affirmation of European identity."
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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The latest Original Works..
Limited Edition Prints.
Collaborative projects : Hand-built reclaimed Oak furniture, and Folio Society Books.
Unit 19 : Victoria Mill : Congleton.
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Limited Edition Prints.
Collaborative projects : Hand-built reclaimed Oak furniture, and Folio Society Books.
Unit 19 : Victoria Mill : Congleton.
congleton.nub.news/whats-on/art...
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The latest Original Works..
Limited Edition Prints.
Collaborative projects : Hand-built reclaimed Oak furniture, and Folio Society Books.
Unit 19 : Victoria Mill : Congleton.
congleton.nub.news/whats-on/art...
Limited Edition Prints.
Collaborative projects : Hand-built reclaimed Oak furniture, and Folio Society Books.
Unit 19 : Victoria Mill : Congleton.
congleton.nub.news/whats-on/art...
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
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"More painfully, people suddenly become aware of relatives who had frustrating and broken lives, because so little was known about things that many of us now take as a given, [...] theories and pronouncements about overdiagnosis sound to many people like a nightmarish turning-back of the clock."
Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris
Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"More painfully, people suddenly become aware of relatives who had frustrating and broken lives, because so little was known about things that many of us now take as a given, [...] theories and pronouncements about overdiagnosis sound to many people like a nightmarish turning-back of the clock."