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@garethd.bsky.social
Rugby, dog lover, 💚, #FBPE, Tory hater,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿,solicitor advocate (r’td), Councillor, Garden of England these days. No profile from you = no follow
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Hello-good to see you both here. Used to see you and Georgie just about every day in the other place!
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The River Cherwell is one of many sites at risk due to organised criminals dumping mountains of illegal waste.

The Environment Agency must clean up this mess and the National Crime Agency must crack down on this scourge.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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There is a direct line between Donald Trump trying to destroy the BBC and him excusing the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump hates the independent free press – whether in the US, Saudi Arabia or the UK. We will always defend it.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Let’s just call it wet snow, shall we?
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
@sukie74.bsky.social morning Sukie! Dry? Warm?
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🔴Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Accused of Fabricating Evidence For Data Breach Investigation

EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of fabricating the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner’s Office, following allegations that it breached data rules

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
Nigel Farage's Reform UK Accused of Fabricating Evidence For Data Breach Investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of fabricating the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner's Office, following allegations that it breached data rules
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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“Trump’s aim is to raise the cost of telling the truth about his attempt to overturn an election.”

So, naturally, Farage scuttled off to Washington to help him. As did his own propaganda outlet, GBnews… conducting its interview with Trump from a studio somewhere up his backside.

on.ft.com/3X3xuk4
Trump’s little British helpers
Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights
on.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The stupidity of Farage’s latest ‘plan’ is staggering.
Claiming they’d save British taxpayers money by ripping up international commitments and starting a trade war with Europe is the puerile foot-stamp of a party that uses prejudice as policy. Ruinous nonsense.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’
Party claims its policies would eliminate ‘black hole’ Rachel Reeves faces in the budget – but Labour says the ‘fantasy numbers don’t add up’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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100% behind Zack Polanski & his stance on this disgusting racist, far right rhetoric from the lame duck Labour Party.
A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚

We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳

This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In a spell-binding move, Reform run, cash-strapped, Kent County Council repaints the yellow 'Keep Clear' lines outside a school that closed 10 years ago

news.sky.com/story/reform...
Reform council repaints road markings for school which closed in 2016
Kent County Council sold the disused school site to a government agency in March, but has repainted yellow zigzags and "School Keep Clear" warnings.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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As Richard Tice says, Reform have identified £300m of savings from councils they run. This remarkable feat has been achieved by plucking that figure out of thin air while increasing council tax by 5%.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”

Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Leaving the ECHR won't solve the refugee crisis, but instead would strip us of our human rights.
Farage is gunning for Brexit 2.0. Can he be stopped?
U.K. officials vow to “get on the front foot” as populist Brexiteer Nigel Farage picks his next target: the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"Leaving the ECHR would deny British people hard won rights, free speech, the Hillsborough inquiry and protections for older people."

The ECHR is fundamental for all of our rights. Asylum seekers have a right to be treated in a dignified and humane manner.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In a letter, BBC Chair Samir Shah argued there remains 'no basis for a defamation case' against the British broadcaster.
BBC ‘determined to fight’ Trump lawsuit over Panorama documentary
In a letter, BBC Chair Samir Shah argued there remains 'no basis for a defamation case' against the British broadcaster.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Labour MPs slam government for ‘chasing Reform’ with ‘brutal’ asylum crackdown

MPs have accused the home secretary for 'performative cruelty'

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
Labour MPs slam government for 'chasing Reform' with 'brutal' asylum crackdown
The government is facing criticism from Labour MPs after home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to overhaul the UK's asylum system.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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After a year of sucking up, the PM can’t even get Donald Trump on the phone as he tries to destroy one of our most important institutions, the BBC.

Was the state visit really worth this?
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite and please remember this - the ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation
Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”

app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Ed Davey is supporting Britain and Democracy. The Tories and Farage are siding with Trump and the enemies of democracy.

The further right on the political spectrum you look, the more you see traitors betraying our country.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM