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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 31m

The Reform party seems to have already won the battle on climate by scaring the UK government away from even talking about it.
Starmer is reportedly suppressing his intel agencies' report on climate threats.
Meanwhile some advisers are telling him to skip COP30.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 1h

Stamp duty is not the issue for young people who are nowhere near able to buy without help from parents.

The real issue is not stamp duty but the pressing need for genuinely affordable rentals

Paul Murphy @paulmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

“Badenoch identifies the problem with our housing market” You have to be kidding Nick!!!

For starters the problem with housing is demand vastly exceeds supply (planning & investment)

But if stamp duty is the problem why did Tories keep it for 14years? #r4today

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 9h

I couldn't seem to access the KB/TP article in the New Statesman (timed out every time), so here's an archive version.

Has Kemi Badenoch actually read Terry Pratchett?
She claims he’s her favourite author, but his books have a few lessons for her

archive.ph/ME4cw

archive.ph

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Cass Blakeman - Writer ✍️ #SOSNHS #FBPE @wistfulcass.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch levels of denial are staggering. She reckons school standards are being destroyed by Trade Unions

14 yrs of Tories throwing money at #FreeSchools with few pupils, while State Schools were starved of funds; RAAC ignored

Kemi talks as though her govts had nothing to do with it

#CPC25

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europa999.bsky.social @europa999.bsky.social · 7h

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Thank you for pointing that out. 😡😡😡🤬Farage!

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 15h

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Nic Holland @nic-holland.bsky.social · 19h

Badenoch, the conservatives and reform want to reduce immigration, so british people can do low skilled, low paid jobs! Remember that when you vote!

BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social · 20h

Badenoch announces a Conservative government would abolish stamp duty.

The electorate are more likely to abolish the Tory party.

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loriagne.bsky.social @loriagne.bsky.social · 19h

Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner

Hope not Hate's CEO Nick Lowles says Reform's rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right

bylinetimes.com

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libdemvoice.org @libdemvoice.org · 19h

Ed Davey invites "one nation Conservatives" to join the Liberal Democrats by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social www.libdemvoice.org/ed-davey-inv...

Ed Davey invites “one nation” Tories to join Lib Dems

As Kemi Badenoch frightened a lot of progressive horses with her plans to get rid of the Climate Change Act, leave the European Convention on Human Rights, put the Human Rights Act on a bonfire and be...

www.libdemvoice.org

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 16h

Depressing but really helpful long read on the reality of the "small boats".

The overwhelming majority are genuine refugees, enduring majorn difficulties in search of some safety.

This is a humanitarian crisis.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The truth about the small-boats crisis

What Nigel Farage won’t tell you

www.newstatesman.com

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 17h

Yet another one...

www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/2552733...

County councillor has date with magistrates' court in the capital

Reform councillor Andy Osborn is due to appear in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court in Central London.

www.cambstimes.co.uk

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SantiniMore @santinimore.bsky.social · 19h

One word, 6 letters, begins with B and ends in T, and Badenoch was all in for it, even if it would impoverish the UK £40 billion EVERY FUCKING YEAR!🤦🏾‍♀️

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 19h

There are many who voted for Ruth Davidson’s Conservatives who are dismayed to see the party lurching to the extremes, reduced to being Reform-lite.

They are looking for a new home and they are finding it with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

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L i s t e r (David) @dlisterphoto.bsky.social · 18h

Apparently…. (Quoting from
the article)… In her conference speech, Badenoch claimed the Conservative Party was "fizzing with ideas" to fix the "broken model" she said was holding the country back.

What was stopping them doing that over the last 15 years..??

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

Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Badenoch announces

Kemi Badenoch unveils major new policy in her first conference speech as Conservative leader.

www.bbc.co.uk

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A Bit Political @abitpolitical.bsky.social · 22h

We've seen Starmer talk about Farage a little bit, but its not enough, because if you really want to go after him you should megaphone this stuff. Farage is a Russian asset in their war on the West, and it's just plain stupid and a dereliction of duty not to shout this from the rooftops.

Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 2d

#NigelFarage (surprise!) lied about his ties to paid Putin stooge, #NathanGill.

Kremlin influence operations just keep turning up around Farage. 🤔🧐

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t... #ReformUK

Article by @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 22h

"... and the Tories were trying to let China build nuclear reactors in the UK too because nothing says patriotism like letting a hostile state plant dirty bombs in your country."

She forgot that bit.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 22h

Ed Davey and his Liberal Democrats march on Bournemouth

The Liberal Democrats want to be seen as the main opponents of Reform UK but recent success is presenting wider challenges |Jonathan Calder
@centralbylines.co.uk @lordbonkers.bsky.social

Ed Davey and his Liberal Democrats march on Bournemouth

The Liberal Democrats want to be seen as the main opponents of Reform UK but recent success is presenting wider challenges

centralbylines.co.uk

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch's 'I'm not a climate sceptic' plan in full:

The Conservatives intend to knowingly make climate change worse. We will develop a proper strategy for tackling it at some point, but no we will not tell you what it is nor when it might be delivered.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 22h

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 22h

Starmer cracks down on pro-Palestine PEACEFUL PROTESTS on behalf of his ISREALI HANDLERS ENEMIES...BRITISH CITIZENS

A reminder, Starmer, more than half the Cabinet as well as more than half the Labour backbench HAVE recieved BLOOD-SOAKED BRIBES by the ISREAL LOBBY

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/labo...

Labour’s War on Protest

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 22h

This. The Tories, Reform UK Ltd & even Labour hate the actually-existing British economy, whose comparative advantage lies in higher education & the creative industries.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is why every sensible person in the UK needs to destroy Reform with evidence & at the ballot box..... Farage will set the EDL / NF in to acting on behalf of the state & turn us in to a Trumpian theme park.......

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 1d

No, I haven't seen it, but can totally believe it. Just yesteday shadow chancellor was promising more financial responsibility - and also give aways for young people.

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 1d

“Former Brexit Party MEP and Ref UK official Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to 8 counts of bribery for accepting Russian payments for pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament on TV & other forums.
Russian money helped fund Farage”

Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 2d

“This is most definitely not a fringe political scandal. It is a direct admission that Russian-aligned money penetrated Farage’s immediate orbit during a pivotal chapter in Brexit.”

Reform's Russian 'asset' - the Kremlin shadow over Nigel Farage | Searchlight

Nathan Gill - Russian asset On 26 September, former Welsh Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK official Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight coun ...

searchlightmagazine.com

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 1d

In contrast, LD led local governments have far better records.
Case in point - Waverley BC has been shortlisted for an award for financially best run local council (winner due to be announced next month).