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The “fix the church roof” Lib Dems pulling in donations for a fighting fund for the May local Elections The party hopes the fund will reach £1mn this year to help step up production of campaign materials and digital ads to counter Reform. www.ft.com/content/b0ed...

I’m sorry … what??

How l wish end-of-life care of this quality & compassion was available to all in the UK. There should be no confusion between the right to Assisted Dying & hospice & palliative care, they should be one joined up service. RIP to all those mentioned. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...?

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King Charles’ message about the passing of Pope Francis vs. Trumps.👇🏽

Farage defends allowing US chlorinated chicken into the UK as part of a trade deal. Farage is the treasonous tool of Putin and Trump. Let's burst his bubble with the largest possible anti-Farage vote in the local elections. Fight Fascism ##Vote4Democracy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sky News go hard again on the failure of this Labour government to enact a referendum result won by a 'stay inside the single market' campaign. A political choice designed to make lives worse. Why? The solution is there, right there, in front of Labour. news.sky.com/story/the-br...

Disgusting invasion of privacy and overreach. Remember, they class state pension as a 'benefit' now, too. Disabled and unemployed/low income folk in receipt of benefits already jump through hoops. Maybe put more effort into ending tax evasion and actual fraud instead of spying on vulnerable people.

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There's no end to rewarding your mates. The trouble is, I'm not confident that Starmer will do much to stem the decline in trust. Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics www.electoral-reform.org.uk/rishi-sunaks... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

A felon, a sexual predator, a liar and a defrauding scam artist walk into a bar... And the barman says.... "Good evening Mr President, what can I get you..."

“They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.” ‘Cmon 🇺🇸!

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

Japan’s opposition leader gave a speech that completely roasted the Trump administration. He said, “Negotiating with them as akin to being extorted by juvenile delinquents.”

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Reform UK Easter reading: "I was hungry and you said I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said we need an insurance based healthcare system..."

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

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Food for thought.

The Reform ‘soap opera’ is set to get interesting again as Lowe sues Farage over defamation.

Thought it was important to repost this from Hillary Clinton, she’s another voice of reason, she summarizes what’s at stake for the American people very clearly.

BOOM!💥 The number of @bsky.app users just hit 35 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS KEEP GOING, LETS MAKE BLUESKY THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ON THE PLANET AND SEND MUSK, ZUCK & TRUMP PACKING! LETS DO THIS!

The premise on which Nigel Farage bases his argument for leaving the ECHR wholly fails under scrutiny

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As Keir Starmer weighs up UK-US trade vs UK-EU integration, he faces three key facts (a 🧵): (i) only about 25% of UK losses from being outside the EU customs union & single market can be replaced by even the best imaginable US trade deal (& that won’t happen) /1.

Here in the UK, we had a referendum when hardly anyone wanted one. Now that most people genuinely do want one, to reverse the act of self harm that we were tricked into, we can’t have one, not yet anyway. So when? At what point do we say “enough is enough. We want our country back!”

Putin hates a united EU, so Krasnov has been activated to cement Brexshit. #Putin'sPoodle

The US needs to “stop whining” about being a victim after “taking a free ride on the globalisation train” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Bullies never stop. Especially if you give in to them. The 'special relationship', if it ever existed, is gone now. We had real partners, we had trust. Brexit killed it. We URGENTLY need to repair that stupidity. BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Why Finland is the world’s happiest country and the USA one of the most dysfunctional.

Hey J D Vance just remind me what you were saying about free speech in Europe being shut down www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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