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Isabel
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Grandmother. Ret'd NHS Nurse. Quilter. Owned by 2 cats
Pro EU. Proportional Representation
NO DMs!!! Will Block.
No pleas for funds, I have no money to spare
I'm not American
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Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country:

1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.

2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Trump would never be allowed into the US, under his own policies. The administration says obesity, anxiety, other common conditions now grounds for visa rejection.
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#SoundOn
If this doesn’t break your heart than you are well & truly heartless 😔💔
💔 🐮 Instead of nursing from his mother, he’s at the slaughterhouse — all, so the dairy industry can profit from the milk that’s meant for him.

You didn’t know about him, did you?

🎥 @farmtransparencyproject via @animalsaustralia #dairytruth #vegetarian
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🗃️ An ad for President Jimmy Carter’s 1980 reelection campaign.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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So true. well shared on Fbook by #HarryEccles
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A heartwarming festive story of presidential destruction.
Epstein’s Ghost
Christmas Past is coming for Trump…and MAGA
chadbourn.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Never understood why we had political commissioners for the police

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"

"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"

"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.

Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Utterly crazy
Govt make rules to allow prison staff to be deported because they do not earn enough to stay here and do the jobs we need them to do
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.

Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Talk of trying to replace Starmer as PM and the names put forward are Wes Streeting and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

No. No. No. Are there any real Labour MPs out there?
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The flying of St George's flags across the country are creating "no-go" zones for NHS staff, with some facing frequent abuse, health bosses have warned

news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them".
news.sky.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Keir Starmer hints two-child benefit cap will be scrapped at budget

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer hints two-child benefit cap will be scrapped at budget
Rachel Reeves also signalled she will be lifting the cap, which means families can only claim child benefits for their first two children.
news.sky.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"

Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Russian court extends jail time of teenage singer over performance of anti-war songs
Russian court extends jail time of teenage singer over anti-war songs
Russian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on dissent and free speech since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
www.euronews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM