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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · Jul 22

About me:
64 years young
Pisces
Scouser (posh accent)
Studied music at uni
Lived in Paris
Worked as cabin crew for BA (when they were a good airline)
Studied Oriental Medicine, acupressure, aromatherapy, reflexology
Wrote House and Trance music
Moved to Spain 22 years ago
Amazing Spanish husband💕

🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 2h

This is very powerful, and (for me) very moving

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Racism Knows No Bounds

🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 2h

Anything to say, #Farage?

Anything?

Nigel?

Nige..?

Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 17h

The radical right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has fired its head of parliamentary security after it was discovered that he had been convicted of menacing two Syrian children with a gun.

AfD security head threatened Syrian children with gun

Philipp Roensch has been fired by the radical right-wing party’s parliamentary group — but he is still listed as a member of its co-leader’s local committee

www.thetimes.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

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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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 5h

Boom!

🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 5h

Well, at the very least a degree in English might help you to spell “Britain” correctly 🤔

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 5h

Hole in one !

🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 5h

Well, at the very least a degree in English might help you to spell “Britain” correctly 🤔

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 5h

Well, at the very least a degree in English might help you to spell “Britain” correctly 🤔

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h

1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.

Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.

Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.

How civilised are we?

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

news.sky.com

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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 9h

More #Reform lies

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10h

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CXr...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21h

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Things Farage won’t answer:

1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton?

2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes?

3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador?

4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 1d

"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

By embracing Brexit for party advantage, the Conservative and Unionist party both destroyed itself and, in time, dismantled the union.

A political morality tale, a fable of hard folly.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.

I'll sack activist judges to tackle pro-migrant bias, says
Jenrick
Shadow justice secretary says there should be no place for judges tweeting political opinions 'subverting impartiality of the judiciary'
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¿ Gift this article free

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 1d

'Posh George': a gambling addict who spent 8 months in jail in the US

'part of Farage’s inner circle when it comes to policy, party funding and political strategy – particularly its growing presence on social media.'

By their friends shall ye know them

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 2d

"They want to run the country. They can't even spell it right."

@natashaclark.bsky.social hsa notecid a bti fo a blendur ni teh Troy Praty goodei bga...

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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 1d

A necessary read, and an alarming one, too 👇🏻

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC now suggesting they didn't interview Zack Polanski on Laura Kuenssberg when he was elected because they weren't on air then. Which is technically true because he was elected on a Tuesday. However, they did air just days later on Sunday and featured interviews with Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch