@hermothersdaughter.bsky.social
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The Commons is now in Christmas recess until 5th January.
Of the 395 divisions held so far this session, 198 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~50% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Of the 395 divisions held so far this session, 198 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~50% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Commons is now in Christmas recess until 5th January.
Of the 395 divisions held so far this session, 198 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~50% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Of the 395 divisions held so far this session, 198 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~50% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
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How can you not enjoy a podcast that features Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in Welsh and Susan Hall shouting at biscuits.
🆕 National Insecurity Strategy
🌎 Trump's attack on our values
🦘 Australia's social media ban
🍪 Shouting at biscuits
🇻🇦 Popemobile to Hopemobile
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social with @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/40d4...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🌎 Trump's attack on our values
🦘 Australia's social media ban
🍪 Shouting at biscuits
🇻🇦 Popemobile to Hopemobile
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social with @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/40d4...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
National Insecurity Strategy: Trump's attack on European values
open.spotify.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
How can you not enjoy a podcast that features Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in Welsh and Susan Hall shouting at biscuits.
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This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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‘It’s from Daddy.
He says he’s had a bit of a weird time of late.
Apparently he went to a World Cup draw and ended up being presented with some sort of World peace prize…’
He says he’s had a bit of a weird time of late.
Apparently he went to a World Cup draw and ended up being presented with some sort of World peace prize…’
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
‘It’s from Daddy.
He says he’s had a bit of a weird time of late.
Apparently he went to a World Cup draw and ended up being presented with some sort of World peace prize…’
He says he’s had a bit of a weird time of late.
Apparently he went to a World Cup draw and ended up being presented with some sort of World peace prize…’
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Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.
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The new Liz Truss Show, EVERY Friday on GB Noise!
Will Liz trickle down live on air? 😬
Will she show us her pie, or maybe her wet lettuce?
Will Kwasi pop along & boast about his economic growth?
Could there be live fracking on air? 😳
Tune in & find out!
🇬🇧
Will Liz trickle down live on air? 😬
Will she show us her pie, or maybe her wet lettuce?
Will Kwasi pop along & boast about his economic growth?
Could there be live fracking on air? 😳
Tune in & find out!
🇬🇧
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The new Liz Truss Show, EVERY Friday on GB Noise!
Will Liz trickle down live on air? 😬
Will she show us her pie, or maybe her wet lettuce?
Will Kwasi pop along & boast about his economic growth?
Could there be live fracking on air? 😳
Tune in & find out!
🇬🇧
Will Liz trickle down live on air? 😬
Will she show us her pie, or maybe her wet lettuce?
Will Kwasi pop along & boast about his economic growth?
Could there be live fracking on air? 😳
Tune in & find out!
🇬🇧
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2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 28: Capital gains tax (employee-ownership trusts)
The 360 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 10,100,785 voters.
The 162 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,560,377 voters.
No majority = 2,459,592
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 360 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 10,100,785 voters.
The 162 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,560,377 voters.
No majority = 2,459,592
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 28: Capital gains tax (employee-ownership trusts)
The 360 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 10,100,785 voters.
The 162 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,560,377 voters.
No majority = 2,459,592
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 360 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 10,100,785 voters.
The 162 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,560,377 voters.
No majority = 2,459,592
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
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2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 50: Inheritance tax (limiting reliefs etc)
The 321 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,194,520 voters.
The 181 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,556,757 voters.
No majority = 6,362,237
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 321 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,194,520 voters.
The 181 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,556,757 voters.
No majority = 6,362,237
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 50: Inheritance tax (limiting reliefs etc)
The 321 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,194,520 voters.
The 181 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,556,757 voters.
No majority = 6,362,237
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 321 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,194,520 voters.
The 181 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,556,757 voters.
No majority = 6,362,237
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
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2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 64: Rates of alcohol duty
The 349 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 9,877,311 voters.
The 172 MPs voting 'No' represented 13,251,210 voters.
No majority = 3,373,899
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 349 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 9,877,311 voters.
The 172 MPs voting 'No' represented 13,251,210 voters.
No majority = 3,373,899
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 64: Rates of alcohol duty
The 349 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 9,877,311 voters.
The 172 MPs voting 'No' represented 13,251,210 voters.
No majority = 3,373,899
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 349 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 9,877,311 voters.
The 172 MPs voting 'No' represented 13,251,210 voters.
No majority = 3,373,899
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
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2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 9: Basic rate limit and personal allowance 28-29 to 30-31
The 345 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,242,588 voters.
The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,364,932 voters.
No majority = 6,122,344
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 345 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,242,588 voters.
The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,364,932 voters.
No majority = 6,122,344
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
2025-12-02: Budget Resolution No. 9: Basic rate limit and personal allowance 28-29 to 30-31
The 345 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,242,588 voters.
The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,364,932 voters.
No majority = 6,122,344
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
The 345 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 8,242,588 voters.
The 174 MPs voting 'No' represented 14,364,932 voters.
No majority = 6,122,344
But result was Aye because seats don't match votes. See ALT text and 🧵
Robbie 'impartial to my bones' Gibb totally gives himself away...again!
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Robbie 'impartial to my bones' Gibb totally gives himself away...again!
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Well that sums up Gibb’s unsuitability for the job perfectly. And Mason’s
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Well that sums up Gibb’s unsuitability for the job perfectly. And Mason’s
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Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA.
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history'
The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA.
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#wildflowerhour What? What? Primroses?
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#wildflowerhour What? What? Primroses?
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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The Commons is now in recess until 11th November.
Of the 344 divisions held so far this session, 169 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~49% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Of the 344 divisions held so far this session, 169 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~49% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Commons is now in recess until 11th November.
Of the 344 divisions held so far this session, 169 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~49% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Of the 344 divisions held so far this session, 169 would have changed result if seats matched votes. That is, ~49% of the time, opposition MPs represented *more* people but the government won anyway.
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
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LEGO diplomacy beat gunboat diplomacy
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
LEGO diplomacy beat gunboat diplomacy
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
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RIP Prunella Scales 🫶
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
RIP Prunella Scales 🫶
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Wait, so it's not just about immigration numbers?
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wait, so it's not just about immigration numbers?
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'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
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Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning?
Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔
Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning?
Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔
Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔
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I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?