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Maggie Duarte #fbpe @maggiedu.bsky.social · 2h

Maggie Duarte #fbpe @maggiedu.bsky.social · 2h

A seal on the pontoon this morning

Brown seal on the pontoon in the harbour

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12h

Sounds about right.

Tweet by Stephen King (@StephenKing)

Troops in major cities. Next may come Trump explaining the national climate is "just too dangerous" to vote in 2026. That's how the authoritarian takeover works. Step by step.
20:59 • 08 Oct 25 • 66.7K Views

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17h

⬇️ Almost 2,000 companies experienced medicine shortages last year because of Brexit.

🏥 The NHS has been badly damaged by Brexit. Increased cost of medicines, staff shortages and fewer doctors.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-drugs-medicine-nhs-7zfhkjzls

Billions more to be spent on medicine as Keir Starmer scraps rules

NHS chiefs and Treasury at loggerheads over who will pay pharmaceutical companies more money for the most up-to-date and effective medicines

www.thetimes.com

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 23h

Sing along everybody!

🎵Any time you're Handsworth way
Any evening, any day
You'll find us all
Doin' the Jenrick walk.

Ev'ry little Racist gal
With her little Nazi pal
You'll find 'em all
Doin' the Jenrick walk.
Oi!🎵

The old songs are the best! 😊

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22h

Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist @davidhencke has attended the Conservative Party conference since 1987, but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 23h

Ok, I've had enough of Kemi Badenoch's speech at the Tory party conference already after just the first couple of lines.

Can we switch off now @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Maggie Duarte #fbpe @maggiedu.bsky.social · 22h

Can’t listen to it. She (among other right wing grifters) is living proof that paying for education is meaningless, unless you can marshall integrity, honesty, decency and compassion with your brain cells, you will fail.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h

❓NHS waiting list in May 2010 when the Conservatives came to power: 2.60 million.

❓NHS waiting list in July 2024 when the Conservatives left power: 7.62 million.

Who's fault is it Kemi?

Source:https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-backlog-data-analysis

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 1d

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/10/r...

Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from 'Family Friend' Who Ships Arms to Israel

The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP

bylinetimes.com

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

This 👇

Rich.W. 🌹 @catowasright.bsky.social · 1d

The de education of the population is a principle of fascism

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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 1d

Facts on migration with alt text.

THE ULTIMATE MIGRATION FACTS CHEATSHEET
SAFE PASSAGE

0.7% of the UK population are refugees. Claims that we're being "overrun" are fear-mongering.

£3.3 BILLION This is how much migration brings to UK public finances each year. Migrants contribute in so many ways, from paying taxes to bringing diverse
skills and setting up new businesses.

1 IN 6 people arriving to the UK by small boat arrival is a child. They're the most vulnerable to conflict and trafficking, yet some politicians want to turn them away. This doesn't make any of us safer.

LESS THAN 5% of all migration to the UK is by small boats. Some politicians and media deliberately distort the proportion of these journeys to stir up fear and hostility.

92% of those applying for refugee family reunion are women and children. They're the ones hit the hardest by the lack of safe routes.

1 in 5 NHS worker is a migrant. Migrants aren't the ones causing the NHS crisis - they're helping keep our hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries running.

SOURCES
1.ICRC, Refugee stats and statistics, 2024
2. CEBR, 'Immigration is estimated to yield £3.3 billion annually for public finances (...) 2023
3.Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2025 4.Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2025 5.Immigration system statistics,year ending June 2025
6.NHS Data in the Guardian (Record one in five NHS staff in England are non- UK nationals, figures show'), 2024
SUPPORT US

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

My wider family: we have Irish, Welsh, an Iraqi Jew, Zulu South Africans, a Zimbabwean, English, North Americans, and an Iranian. We all have a hoot & think Nelson was cool, because we love each other and we live in a culture that allows and celebrates that

Everyone needs to get their shit together

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Kemi Badenoch, who was part of a Government that delivered 14 years of economic stagnation and record increases in immigration, says the Conservatives are "the only party that can deliver a stronger economy and stronger borders"

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Maggie Duarte #fbpe @maggiedu.bsky.social · 1d

Need stuff like this, important and uplifting

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

Not so long ago, Jenrick would have been sacked by now. His comments were racially selective and many will say racist, failed to mention other parts of white majority Britain and he further stigmatised ethnic communities. But in these times he’s still being talked about as a next leader.

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Bindyp @bindyp.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a thought. When the BBC board contracts are up in 2027, Labour could appoint Gary Linneker onto the board.
My, how they’d laugh.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d

Jordan’s rant is pure race-baiting confused disinformation.

Truly shocking & shameful to hear a BBC employee go off like this on air.

Thank you, Barry, for pushing back & standing up to the tedious angry bigotry that is being forced down our throats 👏👏👏👏

Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

youtube.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Maggie Duarte #fbpe @maggiedu.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. They (Tory stooges) have achieved their goal. The BBC is becoming irrelevant. Lack of funding means fewer quality programmes, instead making cheap populist tat, and political influence makes it a no longer trusted news source. Some radio is brilliant but news bulletins are poison.

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

The BBC and the oxygen of publicity
Complain to the BBC but don't expect to get more than a stock response

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/t...

The BBC and the oxygen of publicity

Complain to the BBC but don't expect to get more than a stock response

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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