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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 11h

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 11h

Man arrested for holding up a magazine in public. A magazine that can be purchased in 10,000 newsagents. That it’s publishers and editor haven’t been arrested for.

What a Kafkaesque state the UK is in.

The only fix is to dissolve the Union.

Annibyniaeth nawr

www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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IndyCelt @indycelt.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly!

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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 11h

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 11h

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes

action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system

It only takes 30 seconds

action.electoral-reform.org.uk

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 1d

“The UK is struggling as it’s had no real sustained growth for coming up two decades”. Some “lash out at immigrants”. “The absence of opportunity is the match which starts the fire”. - Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford.
#ReformUK 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 1d

The Goebbels and his Nazis would be proud of #KemiBadenoch.

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 2d

#NigelFarage has renamed his platform/party/for profit Company. Don’t be fooled again. He can lie faster than anyone can fact check.

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 2d

Even when #Netanyahu stops his murderous #genocide these actions by his agents will continue.
There will be no peace in Palestine OR IN ISRAEL until a JUST two-state solution is found. With such hard line government I wonder if it will ever come.

Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 2d

Early this morning, groups of Israeli settlers uprooted and damaged dozens of olive trees in a grove northeast of Ramallah, targeting one of the key sources of income for Palestinian families in the central occupied West Bank.

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 2d

“All these idiots that are out there spreading hate speech in any form and abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them,” he said.
#NigelFarage 🫵.

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 2d

#GaryNeville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’. 👏👏👏

He said he blamed #Brexit for its “devastating effect” on the country, and said the “messaging” of division was becoming “extremely dangerous”.
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www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’

Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

www.theguardian.com

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 2d

He’s a banker, did anyone expect to go against the interests of banks?

And who are the biggest funders of fossil-fuels and make massive profits from doing so?

You guessed it: banks

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 3d

The Wall Street Journal sees it even if Liberal partisans still don't.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Mark Carney’s Shift From Climate-Change Warrior to Fossil-Fuel Cheerleader

Canada’s prime minister has scrapped green policies and pledged to transform the country ”into an energy superpower.”

www.wsj.com

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 2d

Guten morgen Bettina,
That’s the way in the dis-UK. A ‘pat riot’ (🤔) making his money from ‘the boats’, the person allowing people worldwide to vote on Cymru’s 20mph (30 kph) residential speed limit who campaigned for it in his own community, …

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 3d

In case you missed it:

The Manchester organiser of the #FlyTheFlag campaign is a convicted people smuggler who spent time in jail for attempting to illegally bring Vietnamese nationals into the UK.

sources:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Screenshot

DailyMail+
Revealed: organiser of campaign to fly Union Jacks and England flags on Britain's streets was previously jailed over a plot to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country
14:03 BST 02 Sep 2025.

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 3d

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' - BBC News.
#Farage and #ReformUK are smiling today.
#KeirStarmer these arsonists are your “strangers”.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 3d

#KeirStarmer see what you are doing. We need government but it’s all gone ‘far-right’. It is the ‘far-right’ who are the “strangers” Starmer.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Arson attack on mosque in Sussex last night.

It is time for everyone to come out and condemn Islamophobia.

But will they?

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 3d

How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan.
Reynolds said there was “misinformation”. “Reform said we would be inundated with illegal immigrants,”

Memories of #Farage’s Brexit claims of inundation ‘when Turkey joins the EU’.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan

Party accused of stoking divisions in Weston-super-Mare over scheme to improve support for asylum seekers

www.theguardian.com

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 3d

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘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’...

bylinetimes.com

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 5d

Too many innocent people have died over decades and violence will never bring peace or security. #Netanyahu and #Trump are beyond help. On a domestic level #KeirStarmer needs to understand that. He should know better.
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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 5d

Netanyahu suggests ‘weakness on terrorism’ led to UK synagogue attack.

RIP Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz.

#Netanyahu is the one showing ‘weakness’. His actions, supported by ⁦‪#KeirStarmer‬⁩ and #Trump are the best recruiters for anti-semites.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Netanyahu suggests ‘weakness on terrorism’ led to UK synagogue attack

Israeli PM calls for ‘strength and unity’ while foreign minister accuses UK of inaction against antisemitism

www.theguardian.com

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 7d

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 6d

Lesley Riddoch will be speaking after the #YesCymru/#AUOB march in Rhyl on Saturday 18/10/25.
Join us in Rhyl and

www.yes.cymru/join

YesCymru EN

The mass movement for an Independent Wales. All who support Welsh independence are welcome to join YesCymru.

www.yes.cymru

Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 6d

"It's all a circle because if you’re not happy and you don’t have a lot of trust social capital in society then you’re not able or willing to pay that much in tax and if you don’t pay that much in tax you’re not able to have this welfare state so you see it’s all interconnected".

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 6d

Why Denmark is the Happiest Country in the World.
This is not the US way of Trump or even the English way of Westminster but couldn't this be the Welsh way in an independent Cymru?
It's time to try
something different, something better.
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youtu.be/UTJnu6lAhvM?...

Why Denmark is the Happiest Country in the World

YouTube video by Lesley Riddoch

youtu.be

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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 7d

The naval blockade was imposed in 2009 by Israel, an intensification of its 2007 blockade of Gaza in response to Hamas seizing control of the territory. It has been condemned on numerous occasions by the UN, calling it “a direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law”.

Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza

Greta Thunberg arrested and taken into custody after six of the flotilla’s boats were boarded

www.theguardian.com