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“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train” Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Daughter took Agatha to the vets yesterday to be sedated and having her front paws clipped. They noticed a mass in her stomach. So a scan and £600 later all clear. Still didn't get her claws done. That's what our health service will be like if we let FarageRiots get his grubby hands on our NHS

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Why Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/five-years...

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Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided? Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support. Read that again. Charlie Hallam reports on #WelfareCuts & #PIPChanges

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Macron shook one hand.

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The bosses of four of Britain's biggest banks are secretly urging the chancellor to ditch the most significant regulatory change imposed after the 2008 financial crisis What could possibly go wrong news.sky.com/story/bank-c...

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“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second” Ffs. How much failure can we take? economist.com/leaders/2025...

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26/27 April 1943 | Three Poles escaped #Auschwitz: Edward Ciesielski (12969), Witold Pilecki (4859) & Jan Redzej (5430). #Pilecki was one of the co-founders of military resistance inside the camp. After the escape, he wrote an elaborate report about German crimes in Auschwitz.

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Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided? Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support. Read that again. Charlie Hallam reports #PIP @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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It's hard to get excited about the "Brexit reset". At best, what is on offer is half a step towards Europe. We believe it is more important to use this moment where EU negotiations are back in the media to talk about what we really need: to rejoin the EU.

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Vaccinations save lives: its time to make the sell. #WorldImmmunisationWeek #vaccinations #flu #olderage #humanrights scottishcare.org/vaccinations...

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Im with Judge Hannah Dugan

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Andry Romero, a gay makeup artist came to the US last year in search of asylum. He did not show up for his scheduled court date - ICE had seized him & took him to brutal prison in El Salvador. His family is desperately worried. Senator request to see him was denied. Proof of life denied.

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Former Tory MP Amber Rudd: “We’re all pro-Europeans now.” Even old Brexit hands see the writing on the wall. A hostile world needs alliances – not Atlantic wishful thinking. Is it finally time for Labour to stop dithering? asks Jenny Rhodes #EUUK

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'These attacks - which are just awful - are a real human reminder of who is the aggressor here' Prime minister Keir Starmer insists he and allies are 'making progress towards a ceasefire' after Russia launched a large-scale, fatal attack on Kyiv

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GDP boost. Trade stability. Shared values. All signs point to Europe. Yet the UK still dangles for crumbs from a hostile US. Why stay isolated when a stronger partnership is waiting across the Channel? Jenny Rhodes reports #Brexit #EUTrade

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Carry on using the right toilets. And remind your friends and family voting in the local elections next week that this is Labour's policy and Labour extended the term of the bigot running the EHRC.

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Amnesty international urges Labour to stop it's cruel welfare cuts. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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WE MUST UNITE! STARMER’S ANTI EU POSITION IS NOT HELPFUL AND NOT WHAT THE MAJORITY WANTS.

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Who can stop Reform UK? YOU CAN!! Use your vote on May 1 to reject the Trumpification of the UK.

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A beautiful day to take a Bill for a ban on biodiversity-destroying pesticide use in urban areas into Parliament! 🌱🐝#GoPesticideFree

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Isn’t it time that illegal behaviour was treated as, well, illegal? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Why don’t we all stop posting about Farage ? Let’s not play the game .. It’s all about Farage and Reform.. even on here let’s Boycott #BoycottFarage #BoycottReform

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Notwithstanding a row over fishing rights, it is becoming increasingly likely that the UK and EU will agree a new Security and Defence Partnership when leaders meet in London for the 19 May Summit. Read more:

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(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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Alignment with the EU could boost UK GDP by 1.5%, yet the allure of a US trade deal persists. @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social looks at possible concessions and their cost. #UKEconomy #TradeDeals

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Farage, Badenoch and the US far-right are all lining up to attack people with autism, ADHD and other conditions that indicate people might have special educational needs. The move is sinister, wrong and profoundly worrying. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

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I cannot fathom why there isn't sufficient media coverage of Starmer's Faustian pacts with Synthesia, Blackrock, Blackstone, and Palantir. These companies are criminally corrupt destroyers and infiltrators of UK democracy.> 1/4

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Here’s what Angela Rayner and the rest of the Labour Party are not disclosing to the public about Bristol and 86 other regions of the UK that fall within SEZ and Freeport status. I’ll explain in detail what is going on and how it’s part of UK zone Fever. @carladenyer.bsky.social Thread

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UK Mini Trump 👇🏾 Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’ The Reform UK leader claimed GPs are over diagnosing adults with mental health problems and children with special educational needs

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📍In London to prepare the EU-UK Summit with Keir Starmer. We are friends. And we are Europeans. It means that we share interests and democratic values. And that we are ready to face global challenges as like-minded partners.

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Welcome Ursula. We can only apologise for our prime minister's lack of ambition. We hope you are still able to get a good result – for the EU and all of us in the UK who know that Europe is our home.

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Starmer promised change. Instead, Labour clings to caution and appeases the right. Where do the disillusioned centre-left go now? asks @peterthurlow.bsky.social #LabourGovernment

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Southern Water guilty to 13 counts of dumping raw sewage in England rivers. Related to dumping in 2019-2021, hardly speedy action. Private equity controlled company has 119 criminal convictions, retains permit to trade, hike bills. No director prosecuted, no pressure to end abuses.

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24 April 1881 | A Czech Jewish woman, Kamila Kling, was born in Loštice. In #Auschwitz from 8 August 1942 No. 15673 She perished in the camp on 9 September 1942.

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The cartoon sums it up. But the reporting and editorials do not. The Times urges govt to do a deal with the US “urgently” but fails to explain to its readership what we stand to lose if we do. Maybe if the right hadn’t peddled Brexit so furiously and dishonestly, we wouldn’t now be on our knees.

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Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept Peace Plan Favoring Russia. Russia gets land, US gets minerals. Akin to Germany and Russia carve-up of Poland in the 1930s Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for worthless security guarantees from US, UK, Russia More states will go nuclear archive.ph/iK5ww

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It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Day 147 📸 MOSE

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UK energy secretary Ed Miliband is opening the IEA / UK govt summit on energy security "In an unstable world, there is no national security without energy security" … "Low carbon energy can play a critical role in delivering energy security for many countries around the world"

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Trump is fiddling with tariff levels on a day-by-day basis, rolling some back, cutting or postponing others, and imposing new punitive tariffs on yet more products, eg solar panels from Asia. How can any firm hope to plan for the long or even the medium-term when faced with such a rollercoaster?

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Labour could have made the Youth Mobility scheme a positive. Instead they opposed it and now must frame it as a defeat, despite knowing all the time they'd have to accept something like it. God knows what kind of 4D chess calculation led them to this position. www.bestforbritain.org/feb_2025_mrp...

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“62 MPs said the govt should work with the EU to create new opportunities for British young people to work and travel in the EU, similar to agreements with…Australia and Canada” It really shouldn’t be such a tough ask. But well done to those who are trying. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Zonal electricity pricing. Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up. Don't do it. Will add £3bn+ to customer bills, Increase fuel poverty & business costs, hike energy industry profits, hinder development of national infrastructure. Instead, end profiteering

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"23% are favourable towards the party of government, down from 29% in March. Just over half (53%, up from 46% last month) are unfavourable, giving a net favourability rating of -30" (www.ipsos.com/en-uk/favour...).

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NatWest bank set for private ownership. Received £45.5bn govt bailout in 2008. Reverse socialism - Lame ducks bailed out but when profitable handed back to private sector. Why? They could form part of industrial strategy - lending to SMEs, investment in new industries.

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'We won’t even know what we are losing, as the new legislation negates the requirement to conduct ecological site surveys.' A powerful piece from George Monbiot this morning @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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