@JonWorcesterMan
@jonworcesterman.bsky.social
Hi my names Jon, Son, Partner, Step Dad, Grandad, RMHN Nurse, Pro EU, Pro Human Rights, Pro Equality, Green Lib Dem, Worcester Lib Dem you get the picture.
Join me on the Great Escape from X
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Join me on the Great Escape from X
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BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
An F.B.I. Trainee Hung a Pride Flag Near His Desk. He Says He Was Fired for It.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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The Environment Agency must use their powers to crack down on the criminal gangs destroying our precious environment with industrial waste.
Baroness Sheehan
Baroness Sheehan
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Environment Agency must use their powers to crack down on the criminal gangs destroying our precious environment with industrial waste.
Baroness Sheehan
Baroness Sheehan
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We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development.
Thank you. 🙏
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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?
Was the state visit really worth this?
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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?
Was the state visit really worth this?
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Nothing to see here, just a GB News presenter suggesting the BBC bung Donald Trump a few million of license fee payers' money.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Nothing to see here, just a GB News presenter suggesting the BBC bung Donald Trump a few million of license fee payers' money.
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A trip to the pub or fish and chips on a Friday shouldn't be an unaffordable luxury for hard-working people.
Our plans to cut VAT on hospitality and energy bills for households would put £270 back into your pockets. ⬇️
Our plans to cut VAT on hospitality and energy bills for households would put £270 back into your pockets. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A trip to the pub or fish and chips on a Friday shouldn't be an unaffordable luxury for hard-working people.
Our plans to cut VAT on hospitality and energy bills for households would put £270 back into your pockets. ⬇️
Our plans to cut VAT on hospitality and energy bills for households would put £270 back into your pockets. ⬇️
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So they have the two largest parties, then the two smallest! Why aren't the Lib Dems (72 MPs!!) invited??
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So they have the two largest parties, then the two smallest! Why aren't the Lib Dems (72 MPs!!) invited??
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Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...
New: BBC employees in open revolt about Robbie Gibb on all-staff call this morning. BBC chair Samir Shah said attacks on board members are "disrespectful" and shut down talk of a Conservative coup as "fanciful." deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-...
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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Westway (Tandridge) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 42.3% (-0.6)
➡️ RFM: 33.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 15.9% (-13.3)
🌹 LAB: 8.8% (-19.1)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2024.
🔶 LDM: 42.3% (-0.6)
➡️ RFM: 33.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 15.9% (-13.3)
🌹 LAB: 8.8% (-19.1)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2024.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🇺🇸 "As Mr Trump’s popularity sinks amid ongoing cost-of-living concerns and high inflation, the hollowness of Maga pledges to improve blue-collar living standards is a major zone of vulnerability."
https://bit.ly/498hV1U
https://bit.ly/498hV1U
The Guardian view on Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York: the Democrats can build on an uplifting night | Editorial
Editorial: A historic campaign that focused on the theme of affordability can offer wider lessons to a re-energised opposition
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November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🇺🇸 "As Mr Trump’s popularity sinks amid ongoing cost-of-living concerns and high inflation, the hollowness of Maga pledges to improve blue-collar living standards is a major zone of vulnerability."
https://bit.ly/498hV1U
https://bit.ly/498hV1U
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Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU
Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Can one of these ministers explain in what way the UK is a soft touch compared to most European countries who have much more generous benefits? Or why the UK is sixteenth in the list of European asylum claims per head?
Or are they so terrified of the Daily Mail that facts don't matter.
Or are they so terrified of the Daily Mail that facts don't matter.
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Can one of these ministers explain in what way the UK is a soft touch compared to most European countries who have much more generous benefits? Or why the UK is sixteenth in the list of European asylum claims per head?
Or are they so terrified of the Daily Mail that facts don't matter.
Or are they so terrified of the Daily Mail that facts don't matter.
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Lest we forget. Today, we honour the brave who gave everything for our freedom.
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Lest we forget. Today, we honour the brave who gave everything for our freedom.
If anyone has not received their Ballot papers or link - please send email to Returning.officer@libdems.org.uk - urgently
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If anyone has not received their Ballot papers or link - please send email to Returning.officer@libdems.org.uk - urgently
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Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
Attitudes poll also suggests people increasingly believe UK is divided, that ‘culture wars’ exist and life was better in past
www.independent.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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The Tories and Farage ruined the country in 2016 and we are at least 40 billion worse off, less powerful, fewer jobs and like the kid outside the sweetshop with our nose pressed against the window, watching the important decisions made elsewhere. We need to be back in the EU
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Tories and Farage ruined the country in 2016 and we are at least 40 billion worse off, less powerful, fewer jobs and like the kid outside the sweetshop with our nose pressed against the window, watching the important decisions made elsewhere. We need to be back in the EU
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“It feels like Brexit déjà vu, the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence.”
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“It feels like Brexit déjà vu, the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence.”
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
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What is the EHCR (European Convention on Human Rights)?
Here is an excellent explanation by Alison Bennett MP.
Here is an excellent explanation by Alison Bennett MP.
What is the ECHR? Here's an excellent explanation written by @alisonebennett.bsky.social very recently. Strongly recommended prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/L...
Last Wednesday MPs gathered in the House of Commons to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Chamber being reopened following its bombing in WWII.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What is the EHCR (European Convention on Human Rights)?
Here is an excellent explanation by Alison Bennett MP.
Here is an excellent explanation by Alison Bennett MP.
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What is the ECHR? Here's an excellent explanation written by @alisonebennett.bsky.social very recently. Strongly recommended prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/L...
Last Wednesday MPs gathered in the House of Commons to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Chamber being reopened following its bombing in WWII.
prod.cdn.everyaction.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
What is the ECHR? Here's an excellent explanation written by @alisonebennett.bsky.social very recently. Strongly recommended prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/L...
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Disabled people face ‘systemic’ barriers in accessing community equipment, parliamentary inquiry finds
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“...one message came through loud and clear: the system designed to support disabled children and adults is failing them" @marisharay.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social
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“...one message came through loud and clear: the system designed to support disabled children and adults is failing them" @marisharay.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social
Disabled people face ‘systemic’ barriers in accessing community equipment, parliamentary inquiry finds
A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on the government to draw up a national strategy to address the “deeply troubling” and “systemic” barriers that prevent disabled people accessing the…
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November 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Disabled people face ‘systemic’ barriers in accessing community equipment, parliamentary inquiry finds
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“...one message came through loud and clear: the system designed to support disabled children and adults is failing them" @marisharay.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social
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“...one message came through loud and clear: the system designed to support disabled children and adults is failing them" @marisharay.bsky.social @munirawilson.bsky.social
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It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
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The family farm tax was flawed from the start, hurting real farmers while letting big investors off the hook.
In this Autumn Budget, the government must not turn a blind eye and should scrap this damaging and counterproductive tax.
@sarahdykeld.bsky.social
In this Autumn Budget, the government must not turn a blind eye and should scrap this damaging and counterproductive tax.
@sarahdykeld.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The family farm tax was flawed from the start, hurting real farmers while letting big investors off the hook.
In this Autumn Budget, the government must not turn a blind eye and should scrap this damaging and counterproductive tax.
@sarahdykeld.bsky.social
In this Autumn Budget, the government must not turn a blind eye and should scrap this damaging and counterproductive tax.
@sarahdykeld.bsky.social
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