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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 33m

Apparently not

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 4h

Quaint could go too

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 4h

@BBCWorldatOne desperate (as usual) to get Ehud Barak (or anyone) to condemn involvement of Tony Blair. Poor research. He thinks he’s the perfect candidate.

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 20h

So BBC News at 10 on the day of the leader’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference is held over 15 mins for the launch of a new season of a celebrity reality games show? Tells you all you need to know really? (And they kind of deserve it. Guess if Sir Robbie thinks it’s ok…)

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 22h

🤭

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 1d

@leaypi.bsky.social greatly enjoying Free after buying it in Kardamyli. Thank you.

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the apparatus. It was taller than that and you climbed it.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 6d

But defined by husband and kids so that’s alright.

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 6d

Hear hear (her, her)

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 7d

I’m away or I’d offer to go with her. But perhaps we all should. You shouldn’t be doing this alone week after week.

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 7d

If you live in Queen’s Park or Kilburn in Brent a diary day for you. Our free community skips are back. Saturday 26 October (Sorry no paint, oil, pianos or fridges or builders waste.) @brentlabour.bsky.social

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 7d

If you live in Queen’s Park or Kilburn in Brent a diary day for you. Our free community skips are back. Saturday 26 October (Sorry no paint, oil, pianos or fridges or builders waste.) @brentlabour.bsky.social

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Cook, Gordon Brown, John Smith, Donald Dewar. All great, moving, funny and wry speakers as required .

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 9d

One ironic thing here is that I know of several cases where asylum seekers were punished for volunteering because that was too close to "work" and the Home Office wasn't having it.

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 9d

And Eric Heffer slowly and solemnly walking off. Was a great moment.

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 9d

Hague’s first conference (in Blackpool) tried to signal trendy/modern with Thatcher and Heath in Ikea arm chairs. Heath scowled at her throughout and she looked irritated. It wasn’t repeated. (They played theme from Twin Peaks, then current, to the wild joy of hacks and confusion of everyone else.)

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 9d

Worked though

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 9d

If Labour List is on the side of the government, even slightly, why are they involved in commissioning a divisive poll like this?

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 10d

This doesn’t really make sense because it was only weeks ago when we met in Battersea At Centre when they were hunting for dreams in jam jars (and mine’s already gone to uni 😥)

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 11d

I never say this sort of thing but I'm saying it now: can you imagine what the coverage in the UK would be like if this had been a Labour politician?

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11d

“U.K. Politician Admits Making Pro-Russia Statements in Return for Bribes…Mr. Gill, 52, admitted being bribed on eight occasions to carry out instructions delivered by a Ukrainian national, Oleg Voloshyn, who had been an official in the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych…” 9/26/25 …1/

U.K. Politician Admits Making Pro-Russia Statements in Return for Bribes

www.nytimes.com

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 11d

Annoyingly they let him go

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Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 11d

Dead of Winter. That’s what you need to see.

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 11d

Because he is a bad person?

Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social · 11d

She does have a point. Though I’m not sure I’d necessarily put the same people in the same sections if the Venn diagram that she does.