MichelleJas
@michellejas.bsky.social
Irish/EU citizen living in England
Dog lover - photography lover - dedicated runner - known to love red wine
Lib Dem/Green
Dog lover - photography lover - dedicated runner - known to love red wine
Lib Dem/Green
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Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
He most certainly would ... he's an obnoxious shite
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
He most certainly would ... he's an obnoxious shite
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Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Austerity has a powerful impact on children’s mental health
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma | Dean Conway
@centralbylines.co.uk
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma | Dean Conway
@centralbylines.co.uk
Austerity has a powerful impact on children’s mental health
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma
centralbylines.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Austerity has a powerful impact on children’s mental health
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma | Dean Conway
@centralbylines.co.uk
The legacy of British austerity can’t be understood without considering the effects on mental health, especially childhood trauma | Dean Conway
@centralbylines.co.uk
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Their majority came directly from a huge popular vote AGAINST years of right wing governments... and their takeaway is that we want the hostile environment we actively rejected. Utter deluded fuckwits.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Their majority came directly from a huge popular vote AGAINST years of right wing governments... and their takeaway is that we want the hostile environment we actively rejected. Utter deluded fuckwits.
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Richly deserved!
📊 NEW | As Labour announces fresh crackdown on refugees, their approval falls to an all-time low.
✅ Satisfied – 11% (-1)
❌ Dissatisfied – 82% (-)
Via @IpsosUK, 30 Oct - 5 Nov (+/- vs 11-17 Sep)
✅ Satisfied – 11% (-1)
❌ Dissatisfied – 82% (-)
Via @IpsosUK, 30 Oct - 5 Nov (+/- vs 11-17 Sep)
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Richly deserved!
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
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😂😂😂 nice one Zack
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
😂😂😂 nice one Zack
I'm a Green party member I will never vote Labour
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm a Green party member I will never vote Labour
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Long before calendars and countdowns, writes Peter Thurlow, the year turned at Samhain – the night we now call Hallowe’en.
For the Celts, it marked the end of one year and the start of another. 🍂
For the Celts, it marked the end of one year and the start of another. 🍂
Autumn is the mind’s true spring, and Hallowe’en its new year
Our new year is an uneasy celebration tagged onto Christmas. Much better to return to its proper place, in autumn
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Long before calendars and countdowns, writes Peter Thurlow, the year turned at Samhain – the night we now call Hallowe’en.
For the Celts, it marked the end of one year and the start of another. 🍂
For the Celts, it marked the end of one year and the start of another. 🍂
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Faiza Shaheen, "Last time I was on #BBCQT it was the Labour party trying to cut benefits on PIP"
"Why are we always going for the poorest and most vulnerable?"
"Cutting the welfare bill is just not going to work, it's going to make young people more anxious"
"Why are we always going for the poorest and most vulnerable?"
"Cutting the welfare bill is just not going to work, it's going to make young people more anxious"
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Faiza Shaheen, "Last time I was on #BBCQT it was the Labour party trying to cut benefits on PIP"
"Why are we always going for the poorest and most vulnerable?"
"Cutting the welfare bill is just not going to work, it's going to make young people more anxious"
"Why are we always going for the poorest and most vulnerable?"
"Cutting the welfare bill is just not going to work, it's going to make young people more anxious"
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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To my grandads' generation, it really meant something because they had been through WW1
Same thing for my Dad's generation and WW2.
Now this mawkish modern "war Christmas" has become performative and tacky as hell. Hijacked by politicians who have no interest in its purpose it's lost meaning too
Same thing for my Dad's generation and WW2.
Now this mawkish modern "war Christmas" has become performative and tacky as hell. Hijacked by politicians who have no interest in its purpose it's lost meaning too
I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
To my grandads' generation, it really meant something because they had been through WW1
Same thing for my Dad's generation and WW2.
Now this mawkish modern "war Christmas" has become performative and tacky as hell. Hijacked by politicians who have no interest in its purpose it's lost meaning too
Same thing for my Dad's generation and WW2.
Now this mawkish modern "war Christmas" has become performative and tacky as hell. Hijacked by politicians who have no interest in its purpose it's lost meaning too
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That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
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Not quite sure why the media is presenting the Caerphilly result as a disaster for Labour, rather than as a perfect execution of its electoral strategy.
That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off.
And off they have fucked.
That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off.
And off they have fucked.
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Not quite sure why the media is presenting the Caerphilly result as a disaster for Labour, rather than as a perfect execution of its electoral strategy.
That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off.
And off they have fucked.
That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off.
And off they have fucked.
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I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
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If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.
The Home Secretary is understood to be considering applying the policy to deal with concerns about the so-called ‘Boriswave'.
Read more: trib.al/WewVODg
Read more: trib.al/WewVODg
September 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
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Compulsory 'voluntary work' is just unpaid Labour.
Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK
Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK
September 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Compulsory 'voluntary work' is just unpaid Labour.
Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK
Effectively they want to make migrants do community service for the crime of wanting to live in the UK
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What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.
It undermines police and the law.
If people educate themselves on the absolute nightmare which is leasehold and service charge these new build apartments will stay empty... seriously people save yourself the heartache
“Developers to get tax breaks for new build apartments”
thinking: developers will save 8%.. & cut prices
reality: all development land gets increase in residual value (on paper) so increasing future prices.. & exchequer loses a large tax take, likely for a long time
businessplus.ie/economy/tax-...
thinking: developers will save 8%.. & cut prices
reality: all development land gets increase in residual value (on paper) so increasing future prices.. & exchequer loses a large tax take, likely for a long time
businessplus.ie/economy/tax-...
Developers to get tax breaks for new build apartments
Tax breaks for new apartments are set to be unveiled in next month’s Budget, write Craig Hughes and Adam Van Eekeren.
businessplus.ie
September 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If people educate themselves on the absolute nightmare which is leasehold and service charge these new build apartments will stay empty... seriously people save yourself the heartache
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A troublesome fact about British parliamentary sovereignty is that it gives Parliament, or rather a PM with a compliant parliamentary majority, the powers of an absolute monarch. In the hands of a Trump ally and Putin tool like Farage, those powers could very easily be turned into dictatorship.
September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A troublesome fact about British parliamentary sovereignty is that it gives Parliament, or rather a PM with a compliant parliamentary majority, the powers of an absolute monarch. In the hands of a Trump ally and Putin tool like Farage, those powers could very easily be turned into dictatorship.
People the joke is the individual in the White House the joke is not autism... the unoriginal posts "I've had a paracetamol and now my autism ..." (fill blank) is not funny its actually really hideous... autism is genetic like hair colour eye colour and being funny ...
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
People the joke is the individual in the White House the joke is not autism... the unoriginal posts "I've had a paracetamol and now my autism ..." (fill blank) is not funny its actually really hideous... autism is genetic like hair colour eye colour and being funny ...