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robshorrock.bsky.social
Labour & Co-op Cllr for Grantham Springfield. Socialist, European, stoic and rationalist. I also like sharks.
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No-one takes the decision to flee their home from persecution, with little more than the clothes on their back, unless their life depends on it. That’s why our approach to refugees must be rooted in compassion, empathy and humanity. Not division, prejudice or scaremongering.

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📢 Fair funding now for local #government! Local councils are being run into the ground and workers and communities keep being asked to pay the price. Local services keep getting worse while council workers keep being hit with real terms pay cuts. 1️⃣/2️⃣

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I think we need some humor today!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social .. instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness." Hannah Arendt 1951

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

@mrjamesob.bsky.social This is whatyou were looking for. 'Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.......

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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

submitted 32 days ago • 296 comments

CEO of Homecare Association responding to Labour cutting visas for care workers, "If we have shortages it will mean that more people end up in hospital unnecessarily" "This ends up increasing NHS waiting lists"

submitted 36 days ago • 35 comments

Fixed the chart on Laura Kuenssberg Added Brexit Pointing out that with Freedom of Movement we have lower net migation

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

This.

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

submitted 40 days ago • 182 comments

CULT!!!

submitted 46 days ago • 222 comments

After the election of our lifetime, it is now time to share some lighthearted humour with our southern neighbours 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸

submitted 47 days ago • 562 comments

Watching Dr Strangelove again. Had forgotten that the cigar chomping, square jawed crazy all American general who starts WW3 had a head full of John Birch society ideas and thought that flouride in water was a commie plot... Now where have I heard that recently?

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

All Donald Trump's doing! The tide is already turning against him on multiple fronts (including declarations taking shape between London and Brussels). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

As Trump tries to give away chunks Ukraine to Russia, rewarding Putin for his war crimes, it is worth remembering that this war started in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea…which Putin then used as a staging ground for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/not-just-a-b...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

The pro life party is summarily sentencing toddlers to exile

submitted 52 days ago • 202 comments

A hallmark of fascism is to attack the judiciary.

submitted 52 days ago • 257 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This basically means that you can get a postal address anywhere 12 months before an election and it will be deemed as your primary residence if you say it is.

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bylinetimes.com/2025/03/03/u... ‘Trump’s Embrace of Putin Should Push the UK Back Towards the EU’ In this article, I argue that the UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe.

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments