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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 4h

While Labour and the Tories busily worry about Nigel Farage, the Greens are looking at how to make Britain better for the vast majority.
Polls show that Labour's actually losing far fewer voters to Reform than to the Greens. With @zackpolanski.bsky.social offering real hope, you can see why.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make hope normal again.

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

They want to ditch the #ECHR to "assist with forced removals and #Immigration."

Do you how many UK forced removals the #ECHR have stopped?

4. In 4 years.

It's not about #Immigration. It's about ALL THE OTHER RIGHTS they want to strip you of.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we should harmonise taxes so that income from wealth is charged at the same rate as paid work. Currently, many business owners pay themselves more in dividends than salaries to minimise tax.
So, the best off pay proportionately less. Which must end, however much the establishment complains.

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick has slammed Liz Truss’ mini-Budget as “careless” and “unconservative” as he said the Tory party must accept its mistakes.
Interestingly, that's the budget that Nigel Farage praised that led to national crisis and Truss being ousted.
#CPC25
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jenrick hits out at Truss’s ‘careless’ mini-Budget: Politics live

The shadow justice secretary said the party must be ‘honest’ about its mistakes to rebuild public trust

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 2d

As politicians threaten to leave the ECHR over immigration, award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce suggests that a compelling drama about refugees living in Britain could be one way to defuse the rising anger and anti-migrant sentiment in the UK.
Yes, please.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Making a drama about refugees could defuse anti-migrant anger in UK, says Jonathan Pryce

Actor says ‘people aren’t aware of the facts’ and the realities for people living in migrant hotels

www.theguardian.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4d

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 4d

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 5d

nypost.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 4d

I put out a new book recently, A Particular View. There are a few contemporary ghost stories, some that are sinister in other ways and a few more everyday tales.
It's 99p on Kindle.
#writingcommunity
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZDZ3KF7

A Particular View

A Particular View eBook : Taylor, Mike: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6d

The absolute state of political debate about asylum and immigration. A global reality that has no obvious "answer" leading to various unconvincing solutions more or less nasty, more or less likely to achieve their goals.

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

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute credit to Wes Streeting for directly contradicting the poison that comes from Nigel Farage, by welcoming and thanking people who make Britain their home to work in our health and social care systems.
Reform would send them packing and collapse the NHS.
#LabourPartyConference

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8d

'He might be telling those people to go home. As our country's health and social care secretary, I want to say directly to those people... they are home'

Wes Streeting criticises Reform's plans to deport people from the UK if they fail to meet stricter rules👏

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 8d

While the UK public remain entirely focused on the Middle East, the UK government is yet again showing it is looking at the whole world...

...this time in announcing support for 500,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution.

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www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK to fund lifesaving assistance to over 500,000 Rohingya refugees

The UK will provide food, shelter, clean water, and other life-saving services to half a million Rohingya refugees displaced from Myanmar by conflict and persecution

www.gov.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 9d

I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation of our media.
It's long overdue.
Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder: Nigel Farage, having lambasted the EU for wasteful spending, intends to keep every penny of his £73,000 EU pension when he turns 63.
He didn't even do the job!
That's Reform for you.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/rem...

Reminder: Nigel Farage will keep every penny of his EU pension when he turns 63 in three years

The man who lambasted the EU for wasteful spending and bureaucracy will happily receive the £73,000 annual pension.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 9d

Nick Robinson pushing Rachel Reeves not to scrap the 2 child benefit limit on #r4today. He's openly taking a right-wing perspective and peddling dishonesty.
The cap has to go and ordinary people having more money will directly help the economy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour conference live: Reeves hints at tax rises in Budget

Keir Starmer dismisses Labour calls to oust him as ‘navel gazing' and says battle with Reform UK is ‘fight for the soul of our country'

www.independent.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

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

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Richards @alxrchrds.bsky.social · 11d

It seems many people need reminding that Nigel Farage made 17 appearances on Kremlin-backed RT (Russia Today) 2010-14, and yes, at one point he had a moustache.

He is a sabateure and traitor of Great Britain.

Nigel Farage on Russia Today with a moustache.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23d

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 11d

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Johnson says he will never use government ID

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 12d

I've put out a new story collection. A Particular View includes a few ghost stories and others that may be sinister or unsettling in different ways. A couple have been published before, including one in @underbellypress.bsky.social.
My partner says it's good...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZDZ3KF7

A Particular View eBook : Taylor, Mike: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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Mike Taylor @miketaylor9.bsky.social · 12d

People can say that flying the flag is a positive statement, they can say it's about pride in a place, but it is also coninciding with, and symbolic of, a period of more hostility, meanness and racism.
Digital ID won't help. Properly ending austerity and standing up to the far right should.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12d

"As soon as those flags went up, something changed in the wind, something didn't feel right."

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

'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me'

Sophia Choudry says she is

www.bbc.co.uk

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