Purple Larley
@purplelarley.bsky.social
Interested in climate change, sustainable economics, equality and fair societies. Passionate about music and family. I remain stubbornly enthusiastic about all life has to offer.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This week Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s Leader in Wales will be sentenced for 8 charges of Russian bribes.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
Here’s Farage calling him an “honest, decent and honourable man”.
Let’s not forget that whilst he was taking the bribes, Farage was making similar pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
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Personally think the interesting thing here is 21% actively wanting their income tax to go up. That's a number that I would have expected to be in single figures. Electorate may actually be more grown up than I had feared ...
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Personally think the interesting thing here is 21% actively wanting their income tax to go up. That's a number that I would have expected to be in single figures. Electorate may actually be more grown up than I had feared ...
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well done, Sam - small music venues are the best but currently struggling to survive.
#livemusic
Well done, Sam - small music venues are the best but currently struggling to survive.
#livemusic
Sam Fender gives £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to small music venues
The singer donates all of his Mercury prize money to the Music Venue Trust to protect grassroots music.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well done, Sam - small music venues are the best but currently struggling to survive.
#livemusic
Well done, Sam - small music venues are the best but currently struggling to survive.
#livemusic
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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Great observation and good thread this. You would lose part of what makes the British Traitors British if the class divisions didn’t play out so sharply *but* the final episode would feel less brutal if they only let rich people play for charities.
Usual rules with reality / constructed TV. The financial security of the subjects is the difference between battery farmed entertainment and free range trash.
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Great observation and good thread this. You would lose part of what makes the British Traitors British if the class divisions didn’t play out so sharply *but* the final episode would feel less brutal if they only let rich people play for charities.
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I honestly wish that cancel culture was real. I want to live in a world where racism is completely taboo and any expression of racism leads to genuine material consequences and social ostracisation
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I honestly wish that cancel culture was real. I want to live in a world where racism is completely taboo and any expression of racism leads to genuine material consequences and social ostracisation
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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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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It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Today, Nigel Farage is proposing a Bill for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.
I will be voting against Farage and his disgusting politics that attack human rights and freedoms.
I will be voting against Farage and his disgusting politics that attack human rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today, Nigel Farage is proposing a Bill for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.
I will be voting against Farage and his disgusting politics that attack human rights and freedoms.
I will be voting against Farage and his disgusting politics that attack human rights and freedoms.
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It's getting hard to keep track of these expulsions, defections, and suspensions...
It’s hard to believe but Reform has expelled another *three* councillors from their #Kent County Council group….for dishonesty and deceptive behaviour.
Totally unfit to lead a major authority.
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/re...
Totally unfit to lead a major authority.
www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/re...
Reform expels three more councillors for ‘dishonest and deceptive’ behaviour
Reform UK has expelled another three county councillors from the party this afternoon after a meeting called by its KCC leader.
www.kentonline.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It's getting hard to keep track of these expulsions, defections, and suspensions...
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"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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The Lib Dems have tabled a censure motion, calling on Parliament to rebuke Sarah Pochin’s racist remarks and for Nigel Farage to withdraw the whip.
Lib Dems urge the Govt & Tories to back the motion, saying "it’s about time the Conservative Party stood up for British values of decency & tolerance.”
Lib Dems urge the Govt & Tories to back the motion, saying "it’s about time the Conservative Party stood up for British values of decency & tolerance.”
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Lib Dems have tabled a censure motion, calling on Parliament to rebuke Sarah Pochin’s racist remarks and for Nigel Farage to withdraw the whip.
Lib Dems urge the Govt & Tories to back the motion, saying "it’s about time the Conservative Party stood up for British values of decency & tolerance.”
Lib Dems urge the Govt & Tories to back the motion, saying "it’s about time the Conservative Party stood up for British values of decency & tolerance.”
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Keir Starmer, "Shocking racism (from Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin) and it's the sort of thing that will tear our country apart"
"And it tells you everything about Reform UK"
"And it tells you everything about Reform UK"
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Keir Starmer, "Shocking racism (from Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin) and it's the sort of thing that will tear our country apart"
"And it tells you everything about Reform UK"
"And it tells you everything about Reform UK"
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Farage is asked about another two of his MEPs, who made the same pro-Russia statements that Nathan Gill has now pled guilty to being bribed to make.
"Opinions are opinions."
Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him.
Hmm. 🤔 ~AA
"Opinions are opinions."
Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him.
Hmm. 🤔 ~AA
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Farage is asked about another two of his MEPs, who made the same pro-Russia statements that Nathan Gill has now pled guilty to being bribed to make.
"Opinions are opinions."
Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him.
Hmm. 🤔 ~AA
"Opinions are opinions."
Farage's defence seems to be that they arrived at those views independently and it has nowt to do with him.
Hmm. 🤔 ~AA
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Honestly, I had been expecting this. But it still makes me feel so deeply sad, for someone like her to be taken advantage of AGAIN, by yet another group of men.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Honestly, I had been expecting this. But it still makes me feel so deeply sad, for someone like her to be taken advantage of AGAIN, by yet another group of men.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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The Farage Factor.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Farage Factor.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...