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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 9h

Tories will abolish stamp duty to “revive the housing market”

First time buyers don’t pay it anyway (up to £300k) & the fact the average UK house price is 10x the average salary is the problem, not £5k stamp duty on a £300k house! And then there’s the £24bn lost tax revenue…

Totally deluded 🤦‍♀️

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 8h

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally.

The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 8h

Unreported good news

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 8h

Amazing what a decent government with decent Ministers can do.

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 8h

County Lines

Since Labour came to power and invested in the County Lines Programme, record outcomes have been reported:

1,120 senior gang members charged

Over 2300 'deal lines' closed down

stabbings down 20% in county line areas

3,200 children & vulnerable people supported

More of this please!

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 8h

The BBC news website is full of articles to do with the Traitors programme as is their actual news. It’s a programme it’s not news. There are really important news items completely uncovered to make room for this self promotion. It may be a good programme but it’s not news.

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 15h

So Badenoch’s fiscal plan means promising tax cuts for the rich, paying out sums to those who already have plenty all paid for by cutting benefits, sacking civil servants and not giving benefits to those who are not currently receiving hardly any. No one surely believes this abject nonsense.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

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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Claire Savage (UK not USA) @csav55.bsky.social · 16h

Proving once and for all the Labour Government is not Tory lite, nobody will ever agree with every Government policy but ditch Labour and this is what we'll get. The left and centre left majority in the Hoc need to fight against this together.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 16h

The drop since Trump is very signicant hence the much lower air fares from the UK compared to last year.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 16h

They broke Britain!

Farage, Trump, Brexit… and 50% tariffs on our steel. Workers pay the price while the guilty play the hero.

Has Britain gone mad? 👇
#Brexit #SteelCrisis #Farage

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain
youtu.be/k7LWcKVNcvg

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

There should be a word for a huge but pointless event, such as a leader making announcements in a conference speech that will never be implemented and which not even the faithful will pay any attention to because the leader will be gone in a matter of months.

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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 18h

Why do BBC channels, news and presenters not post on BlueSky?

Even the few who have accounts aren’t using them. If they’re relying on the ‘dark channel’ they’re really not getting a balanced view of the public‘s experiences.

I feel excluded from contributing to something I pay a licence fee for.

a bbc logo with a blue and green globe

Alt: A vintage BBC logo with a blue and green globe

media.tenor.com

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 18h

I see the first taxes to be cut are exclusively for the rich. Any sensible questions that look at the detail of her policies completely unanswered or ignored. Badenoch a lightweight Trump or should that be a Farage? Looks like she will complete Johnson’s destruction of the Conservative Party.

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 18h

A shame her conference organisers hadn’t done an English degree.

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20h

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

Amid a global misinformation crisis, where toxic messages can spread to millions within hours, Britain urgently needs a regulator that is willing and able to act robustly & with speed.

Ofcom seems painfully ill-equipped to do the job it has been tasked with /9 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2478423...

GB News accused of operating 'anti-Muslim hate channel'

Former First Minister Humza Yousaf has been cited in a report which accuses GB News of running an 'anti-Muslim hate channel'

www.heraldscotland.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

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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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely 100% this 👇

Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so bored of idiots who insist Labour should have fixed the economy, joined the EU, saved the NHS, given us Universal Income in 14 months with no costs or consequences whatsoever.

And then wanting the fucking right wingers back because it hasn’t happened yet.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21h

Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

Something positive buried in our media.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 22h

Why don’t you know what Labour are doing/already achieved?

🌹 Labour’s getting it done.

17 Manifesto pledges delivered,
18 on track,
19 in progress.

That’s real change in just 15 months.
#Labour #DeliveringChange #Starmer

fullfact.org/government-t...

Government Tracker – Full Fact

Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

fullfact.org

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

Fancy the EU acting in its own self interest. If only we were still in it.

Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 20h

In other news leaving the EU is now about to crush our steel industry because we left our main export market after Farage told us it would be wonderful for British industry.

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

EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

A good read

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 21h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

The reality of right wing billionaire owners of our media writ large supported by a right wing managed BBC.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 22h

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 1d

Utter gut wrenching garbage from Jenrick .. and incredibly dangerous!

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"We weed out the bad judges and defend the good ones."

Shadow Justice Sec. Robert Jenrick tells @maitlis.bsky.social he wants to "undo the constitutional vandalism" Blair inflicted on the UK judicial system...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥

Robert Peston
@Peston
Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.”
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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

I’m afraid the rest of the world thinks the USA is a non democratic country led by a corrupt dictator. It’s why tourism has fallen so much.

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Mike @mikem51.bsky.social · 20h

Sadly true and Russia takes full advantage.

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 21h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Where is the bold leadership to support Zelensky?

Unity is desperately needed, but the EU prefers turf wars to facing down Russia | Paul Taylor

Failure to agree a common defence strategy risks emboldening Vladimir Putin. The squabbles have to stop, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

www.theguardian.com