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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 18h

Another Reform UK Ltd loon. The real world flows different when you're insulated from it with shit tons of money.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 18h

Coming soon thanks to snivelling Nigel Farage's Reform UK Ltd company

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

Private sector asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper ... and no one's surprised they're milking it share.google/49sEYFQqO34V...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

Book Burner Cooper will one day come to trial and be found guilty. Hopefully Mahmood's collusion with her nonsense will also be punished thru the courts.

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

goodlawproject.org

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Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 2d

'rescuers found jenrick clutching his mywaitrose card, sobbing into an ordnance survey map of the cotswolds, and rocking gently inside a makeshift shelter constructed from yesterday’s telegraph'

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 1d

Even if true, and we know his record for BS, so what? Handsworth is a hop away from my place and never had anything but friendly responses. Good for food and Asian veg and ingredients. But Jenrick only eats fish and chips and Sunday roast. Ignorant c***. Can we replace these white people?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 3d

Now what's she's done there is confuse freedom with toasted sandwich maker hasn't she ?!

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of the local flag touchers will be very attracted to these jobs when Starmer and Mahmood bring them in. A growth industry for Reeves.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer's Labour not only anti Muslim but also anti trans and anti disabled

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 2d

a lot of people have said the obvious alreadty but its worth pointing out the less than obvious too

the cass review did not recommend many of the more extreme measures our government(s) have taken against trans youth, such as the full ban on puberty blockers, including via private care.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 3d

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

For shame. 😡

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 3d

Can Starmer be sold during the transfer window, or has he lost too much value. Maybe a free transfer.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

NEW: French PM Sebastien Lecornu resigns after just a few weeks in office.

France’s political/governance crisis therefore deepens again. Macron has had five prime ministers in last 21 months and is about to have to appoint a sixth.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Miatta Fahnbulleh is asked about the govt giving the police more powers to restrict protests.

To be clear, what the govt is doing is exploiting the synagogue attack to ban protests against the genocide they’re complicit in, & Fahnbulleh is going along with that to keep her job.

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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 3d

Our politicians keep telling us that supporting Palestine is a betrayal of British Jews.

Labour, Reform and the Tories are all at it.

Yet they never mention British Jews who also support Palestine.

Surely treating all British Jews as one entity is the greatest betrayal of all?

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 3d

Greedy c***

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

JCB, the excavator maker controlled by Anthony Bamford and family paid £866m dividend.

Tory donor Bamford backed Brexit, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson.

Bamford dynasty subject to HMRC investigation for aggressively minimising UK taxes, using offshore trusts.
archive.ph/N7jdu

Wealthy UK Family Behind JCB Pays Itself $1.2 Billion Dividend

A billionaire Conservative Party donor and his family almost tripled the annual payout from their business empire, pocketing the windfall as fears grow over UK tax hikes.

www.bloomberg.com

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Marc @marcfrance.bsky.social · 4d

Netanyahus influence over the UK government should now be obvious to everyone.
Starmer has to go.

Netpol @netpol.org · 4d

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 3d

'We had lots of great ideas, but in reality they were all based on BS we used to get elected, like brexit and small boats eating your grandma.'

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 3d

"“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent - "
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Reform at least have the excuse of never having been in government.

Other parties should know better...

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

on.ft.com

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 3d

BBC only interested in promoting the fascist flavours ...

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 3d

Strong Deputy Head Prefect at school vibes.

Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine selling your soul for a seat at the cabinet table lol.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d

Shabana Mahmood back in 2014: "surely the current death toll in Gaza is the clearest sign of a disproportionate & indiscriminate response"

How can you say Israel killing 2,300 Palestinians in 2014 was disproportionate & indiscriminate, but what its been doing for the past 2 years isn't?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

She wants to revoke medical consent for prisoners. She's an absolute danger and shouldn't be near anyone's rights.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

Not the most “I can definitely be trusted with power” kind of statement I’ve ever heard

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