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Marged Sosban Fach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇫🇷
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Brexit😢, pro-tactical voting, #FBPPR, #FBPE, #KTTO. Europhile centrist linguist.

Liberal Democrat in Guildford, UK, but non-tribal.

Supporter of Macron/Lecornu, Harris/Walz and Zelensky/Ukraine.

Anti-authoritarian. Pro-social justice & the environment
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Marged Sosban Fach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇫🇷 @margedsfach.bsky.social · Oct 25
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“We want to make Europe as strong as possible and that means not putting up the drawbridge”
Didn’t Brexit detonate that drawbridge?
Great if you want to rebuild it though. Not that great if your red lines mean your pace is glacially slow and has Farage standing by with more explosives.

(Times)
Times Extracts: Closer ties with EU are Britain's biggest prize Ben Clatworthy Whitehall Editor Closer integration with the European Union is the "biggest prize" for Britain, Rachel Reeves has said. The chancellor said closer alignment with the EU "is a political argument Labour can win" and closer ties with the bloc would boost trade and make things easier for businesses and cheaper for consumers. Speaking at the London School of Economics, Reeves said: "The biggest prize is clearly with the EU. The truth is, economic gravity is reality. Almost half of our trade is with the European Union. We trade almost as much with the EU as the whole of the rest of the world combined. There are three big trading blocs in the world -there's the US, there's China and there is Europe. "We want to make Europe as strong as possible, and that means not putting up the drawbridge." Sir Keir Starmer has maintained that rejoining the customs union was a red line, although he is open to closer ties on specific issues, such as food stan-dards, animal welfare and pesticide use. Reeves added she believes that the UK rejoining the EUs Erasmus scheme, which was announced late last year, is "one of the most popular things that we've done as a government". The comments will raise hopes on the soft left of the Labour party, which is feeling emboldened after Starmer was forced to head off a challenge to his premiership on Monday, the leadership plans a change in its stance on the EU. They also mark a shift in Reeves's language on Europe. Last month in Davos, she urged Cabinet ministers to stop floating the idea of a closer union, insisting Britain could not "go back in time". Her comments were seen as aimed at Wes Streeting, the health secretary, who said in December: "The best way for us to get more growth into our economy is a deeper trading relationship with the EU."
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 AM
margedsfach.bsky.social
I should bloody well think so. Dreadful, racist comment from a wealthy man who promoted a destructive Brexit then high-tailed it to a foreign tax haven. Some patriot!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:52 AM
margedsfach.bsky.social
Well this is encouraging from Labour. Now follow it up with action and pronto, please.
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20h
🚨 Brufatto, Director of Policy at Best for Britain:

“This is the most significant intervention from the UK government on the prospect of aligning our service sectors with the EU, going beyond just goods. The Chancellor is right to say that “the biggest prize” is a comprehensive deal with the EU."
Chancellor says “the biggest prize” is a trade deal with the EU
Rachel Reeves is correct to argue a trade deal with the EU is "the biggest prize", as campaigners welcome the Chancellor
www.bestforbritain.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.
February 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has just moved his company address to...Mayfair. As Private Eye notes, nothing says 'man of the people' like it.

(The office appears to belong, through a complex web, to Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm)
Company Name: THORN IN THE SIDE LIMITED Company Number: 07650770 Received for filing in Electronic Format on the: 26/01/2026 XEULR5D6 New Address Details New Address: 49 UPPER BROOK STREET LONDON ENGLAND W1K 2BR The company confirms that the new registered office address is an appropriate address as outlined in section 86(2) of the Companies Act 2006.
February 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath.

Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco, which has been colonised by immigrant tax dodgers.
February 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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seismatters.bsky.social
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One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
margedsfach.bsky.social
A poetic account of a winter birdwatch to start the day.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Birdwatch: Rain, water, wings – a winter’s gift at Cheddar reservoir
Vast flocks of birds return to Somerset and a rare grebe turns an ordinary walk into something special
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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davebrockers.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's easy to miss the good work the Labour government is doing at the moment.

I spent 4 years as a hospital inspector and 5 years in NHS patient experience, so I know this is an important change that will make a massive difference to families of children with cancer.
Families of children with cancer to have travel costs covered
The government sets aside £10 million a year to help families and young people under 24 access cancer treatment.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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elliechowns.bsky.social
The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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theguardian.com
‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities
‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities
Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK
libdemcam.bsky.social Cameron Thomas MP 🔶 @libdemcam.bsky.social · 2d
I am deeply suspicious of parties which court cryptocurrency donations, given the potential for money laundering, by organised criminal gangs and malign foreign governments.

Yesterday in Parliament, I rang the alarm bell at Farage's continuing closeness to wire fraud convict George Cottrell.
February 10, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
(iPaper)
Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.
February 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has just called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

They’ll be suggesting we send kids up chimneys next

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election

Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support.

We are so much better than that.

DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM

youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election - JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 10, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.

Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
ottoenglish.bsky.social Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d
This is pretty menacing.

Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."

When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Reform UK threatens to cut funding for Welsh university after debating society bans party from campus want to go to Bangor University' said nobody ever. Especially if Bangor University is stripped of government funding and student loan facilities by @reformparty_uk Is that "in line with your values,' poppets?
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
margedsfach.bsky.social
And some excellent nature news to end the day!
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers
‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers
Release into Helman Tor reserve marks historical first for keystone species hunted to extinction in UK 400 years ago Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative steps into its new habitat. As it dived into the water with a determined “plop” and began swimming laps, the suspense broke and everyone looked around, grinning. The soggy but momentous occasion marks the first time in English history that beavers have been legally released into a river system, almost one year after the government finally agreed to grant licences for releases. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise
Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise
Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%. Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above the standard 5% cap from April have been accepted by ministers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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bestforbritain.org
Ben Goldsborough MP speaking in a debate on Russian influence on UK politics:

“It seems Reform politicians are comfortable doing the Kremlin’s dirty work for them, regardless of whether they get paid for the privilege or not.”
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
God Farage is a bore. He voted against improving workers’ rights. He doesn’t want us to have control over our lives. He demands that we live within the stifling confines of his stale old prejudices and resentments.
Fewer rights. Less protection. More exploitation.
That’s his plan for the rest of us.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM