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#FBPE #FBPR #ProgressiveAlliance #Breturn
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· Feb 16
There should be no left right centre now.
The choice is binary:
Progressive, Liberal Democracy & Human Rights
Vs.
Regressive, Autocracy, Kleptocracy, Theocracy & suppression of Human Rights.
That's the simple choice...there is no fence, no bridge between.
#ProgressiveAlliance ASAP.
The choice is binary:
Progressive, Liberal Democracy & Human Rights
Vs.
Regressive, Autocracy, Kleptocracy, Theocracy & suppression of Human Rights.
That's the simple choice...there is no fence, no bridge between.
#ProgressiveAlliance ASAP.
#ECHR
Our Rights & Protections, from Our Governments, Farage & Tories want to remove & a Labour Govt wants to change.
#Butterflies
Repeal Policing Act
Relinquish Henry VIII Powers
Increase Transparency, Scrutiny & Accountability.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Our Rights & Protections, from Our Governments, Farage & Tories want to remove & a Labour Govt wants to change.
#Butterflies
Repeal Policing Act
Relinquish Henry VIII Powers
Increase Transparency, Scrutiny & Accountability.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#ECHR
Our Rights & Protections, from Our Governments, Farage & Tories want to remove & a Labour Govt wants to change.
#Butterflies
Repeal Policing Act
Relinquish Henry VIII Powers
Increase Transparency, Scrutiny & Accountability.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Our Rights & Protections, from Our Governments, Farage & Tories want to remove & a Labour Govt wants to change.
#Butterflies
Repeal Policing Act
Relinquish Henry VIII Powers
Increase Transparency, Scrutiny & Accountability.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Cicero knew...2,000 years ago...
#Butterflies
#Butterflies
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Cicero knew...2,000 years ago...
#Butterflies
#Butterflies
Can someone please allow the #LibDems a greater national hearing! There's a lot of good stuff they are saying but most of our partisan media ignores them...
Don't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Don't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
GB News broadcasted a package last week on analysis of people with "foreign sounding" names.
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
Peddling unverified and racist statistics on national TV is dangerous and we must call it out.
The Liberal Democrats are calling on Ofcom to investigate and take swift action.
Anna Sabine MP
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Can someone please allow the #LibDems a greater national hearing! There's a lot of good stuff they are saying but most of our partisan media ignores them...
Don't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Don't let Trump's America become Farage's Britain.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
#Butterflies
W/O fundamental Constitutional, Electoral, Referendum reform we may end up with Reform.
Devolution based on Cost Cutting & Control won't re-engage the disillusioned.
Bigger isn't better. Local up is needed more than top down across the Union.
Democracy is messy, inefficient & costly.
W/O fundamental Constitutional, Electoral, Referendum reform we may end up with Reform.
Devolution based on Cost Cutting & Control won't re-engage the disillusioned.
Bigger isn't better. Local up is needed more than top down across the Union.
Democracy is messy, inefficient & costly.
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#Butterflies
W/O fundamental Constitutional, Electoral, Referendum reform we may end up with Reform.
Devolution based on Cost Cutting & Control won't re-engage the disillusioned.
Bigger isn't better. Local up is needed more than top down across the Union.
Democracy is messy, inefficient & costly.
W/O fundamental Constitutional, Electoral, Referendum reform we may end up with Reform.
Devolution based on Cost Cutting & Control won't re-engage the disillusioned.
Bigger isn't better. Local up is needed more than top down across the Union.
Democracy is messy, inefficient & costly.
This⬇️
youtube.com/shorts/00sKG...
#Butterflies
We need
...a publicly funded politically independent BBC.
...informed journalists seeking factual truths & calling out liars BS equally & impartially.
...transparency, scrutiny & accountability across all institutions, organisations & influencers.
youtube.com/shorts/00sKG...
#Butterflies
We need
...a publicly funded politically independent BBC.
...informed journalists seeking factual truths & calling out liars BS equally & impartially.
...transparency, scrutiny & accountability across all institutions, organisations & influencers.
Taking the podium as Keir Starmer, Alastair Campbell delivers a speech on the BBC.
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This⬇️
youtube.com/shorts/00sKG...
#Butterflies
We need
...a publicly funded politically independent BBC.
...informed journalists seeking factual truths & calling out liars BS equally & impartially.
...transparency, scrutiny & accountability across all institutions, organisations & influencers.
youtube.com/shorts/00sKG...
#Butterflies
We need
...a publicly funded politically independent BBC.
...informed journalists seeking factual truths & calling out liars BS equally & impartially.
...transparency, scrutiny & accountability across all institutions, organisations & influencers.
#Butterflies
This is the language we need to fight the Far Right, the wannabe autocrats, the oligarchs, kleptocrats, religious nationalists and any other with authoritarian leanings.
Stop emulating them ... appeasing them is endorsing them.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
This is the language we need to fight the Far Right, the wannabe autocrats, the oligarchs, kleptocrats, religious nationalists and any other with authoritarian leanings.
Stop emulating them ... appeasing them is endorsing them.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
ICE should be cracking down on the cartels, not our communities.
ICE should be deporting gang members, not small business owners.
ICE should be hunting down human traffickers, not moms and babies.
ICE should be deporting gang members, not small business owners.
ICE should be hunting down human traffickers, not moms and babies.
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
#Butterflies
This is the language we need to fight the Far Right, the wannabe autocrats, the oligarchs, kleptocrats, religious nationalists and any other with authoritarian leanings.
Stop emulating them ... appeasing them is endorsing them.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
This is the language we need to fight the Far Right, the wannabe autocrats, the oligarchs, kleptocrats, religious nationalists and any other with authoritarian leanings.
Stop emulating them ... appeasing them is endorsing them.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
#Butterflies
Perhaps it's time for Labour to elect a woman as leader...if so Stella Creasy is my choice.
Assuming Andy Burnham has been blocked from reentering Parliament that is.
Perhaps it's time for Labour to elect a woman as leader...if so Stella Creasy is my choice.
Assuming Andy Burnham has been blocked from reentering Parliament that is.
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#Butterflies
Perhaps it's time for Labour to elect a woman as leader...if so Stella Creasy is my choice.
Assuming Andy Burnham has been blocked from reentering Parliament that is.
Perhaps it's time for Labour to elect a woman as leader...if so Stella Creasy is my choice.
Assuming Andy Burnham has been blocked from reentering Parliament that is.
#BBCPM reporting that more Brits have become anti immigration according to polls.
Is it bloody surprising when so much of the written & social media run by neocon shitehawks & political charlatans have demonised vulnerable groups for decades, pumping out their BS unchallenged by Prog politicians?!
Is it bloody surprising when so much of the written & social media run by neocon shitehawks & political charlatans have demonised vulnerable groups for decades, pumping out their BS unchallenged by Prog politicians?!
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#BBCPM reporting that more Brits have become anti immigration according to polls.
Is it bloody surprising when so much of the written & social media run by neocon shitehawks & political charlatans have demonised vulnerable groups for decades, pumping out their BS unchallenged by Prog politicians?!
Is it bloody surprising when so much of the written & social media run by neocon shitehawks & political charlatans have demonised vulnerable groups for decades, pumping out their BS unchallenged by Prog politicians?!
#Butterflies Who else is rightly pissed off with the ongoing UK direction of travel since the Brexit clusterfuck?
When the hell are we going to put Party Politics aside & unite the more Progressive majority to achieve a better future.
When will we truly #DumpTrump Foil #Farage & Exit #Brexit?
When the hell are we going to put Party Politics aside & unite the more Progressive majority to achieve a better future.
When will we truly #DumpTrump Foil #Farage & Exit #Brexit?
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#Butterflies Who else is rightly pissed off with the ongoing UK direction of travel since the Brexit clusterfuck?
When the hell are we going to put Party Politics aside & unite the more Progressive majority to achieve a better future.
When will we truly #DumpTrump Foil #Farage & Exit #Brexit?
When the hell are we going to put Party Politics aside & unite the more Progressive majority to achieve a better future.
When will we truly #DumpTrump Foil #Farage & Exit #Brexit?
#Butterflies
What the Govt fails to understand is that Brexit, the con based upon the lie of immigration, divided us & continuing to pander to those who hate diversity will not reunite those of us who support it with haters!
Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
What the Govt fails to understand is that Brexit, the con based upon the lie of immigration, divided us & continuing to pander to those who hate diversity will not reunite those of us who support it with haters!
Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#Butterflies
What the Govt fails to understand is that Brexit, the con based upon the lie of immigration, divided us & continuing to pander to those who hate diversity will not reunite those of us who support it with haters!
Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
What the Govt fails to understand is that Brexit, the con based upon the lie of immigration, divided us & continuing to pander to those who hate diversity will not reunite those of us who support it with haters!
Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit
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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.
#Butterflies
Just another one of Trump's & Putin's Stoolies...amazing to think in her youth she was supposed to be a Liberal...
She should stick to cabbage & pork markets.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit...
Just another one of Trump's & Putin's Stoolies...amazing to think in her youth she was supposed to be a Liberal...
She should stick to cabbage & pork markets.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit...
Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#Butterflies
Just another one of Trump's & Putin's Stoolies...amazing to think in her youth she was supposed to be a Liberal...
She should stick to cabbage & pork markets.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit...
Just another one of Trump's & Putin's Stoolies...amazing to think in her youth she was supposed to be a Liberal...
She should stick to cabbage & pork markets.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage Exit #Brexit...
Every day divesting ourselves of Trump's America & regaining our role in Europe seems more appealing.
The #BBC made an editorial error, the DG & CEO News resigned, the Chair apologised, there was no negative impact to #Trump, yet hiss stoolies continue to weaken us in the face of a predatory US.
The #BBC made an editorial error, the DG & CEO News resigned, the Chair apologised, there was no negative impact to #Trump, yet hiss stoolies continue to weaken us in the face of a predatory US.
Nothing to see here, just a GB News presenter suggesting the BBC bung Donald Trump a few million of license fee payers' money.
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Today is the beginning of Trans Awareness Week.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today is the beginning of Trans Awareness Week.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.
youtu.be/PPZG7Q02yLU?...
Great interview & article re the assault on the BBC. I have huge respect for Lewis Goodall.
Ed Davey has suggested the Govt tells #Trump 'Back off'.
I'm less diplomatic & my 4 letter word would retain the last two letters of 'back'.
#Butterflies #DumpTrump Foil #Farage.
Great interview & article re the assault on the BBC. I have huge respect for Lewis Goodall.
Ed Davey has suggested the Govt tells #Trump 'Back off'.
I'm less diplomatic & my 4 letter word would retain the last two letters of 'back'.
#Butterflies #DumpTrump Foil #Farage.
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
youtu.be/PPZG7Q02yLU?...
Great interview & article re the assault on the BBC. I have huge respect for Lewis Goodall.
Ed Davey has suggested the Govt tells #Trump 'Back off'.
I'm less diplomatic & my 4 letter word would retain the last two letters of 'back'.
#Butterflies #DumpTrump Foil #Farage.
Great interview & article re the assault on the BBC. I have huge respect for Lewis Goodall.
Ed Davey has suggested the Govt tells #Trump 'Back off'.
I'm less diplomatic & my 4 letter word would retain the last two letters of 'back'.
#Butterflies #DumpTrump Foil #Farage.
US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s modular reactors www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Not entirely convinced by any nuclear option, esp Sizewell C sited on a subsiding coastline with increasing sea level rise. However re US being disappointed...GOOD!
#Trump does us no favours.
Not entirely convinced by any nuclear option, esp Sizewell C sited on a subsiding coastline with increasing sea level rise. However re US being disappointed...GOOD!
#Trump does us no favours.
US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors
As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s modular reactors www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Not entirely convinced by any nuclear option, esp Sizewell C sited on a subsiding coastline with increasing sea level rise. However re US being disappointed...GOOD!
#Trump does us no favours.
Not entirely convinced by any nuclear option, esp Sizewell C sited on a subsiding coastline with increasing sea level rise. However re US being disappointed...GOOD!
#Trump does us no favours.
www.politico.eu/article/far-...
Somehow any solution which involves garnering support from the Far Right can't be in the best interests of the majority of citizens ...
Somehow any solution which involves garnering support from the Far Right can't be in the best interests of the majority of citizens ...
Far right cheers as von der Leyen’s party abandons centrist coalition over green rules
It marks a dramatic departure from previous EU norms, where centrist groups refused to collaborate with the far right.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
www.politico.eu/article/far-...
Somehow any solution which involves garnering support from the Far Right can't be in the best interests of the majority of citizens ...
Somehow any solution which involves garnering support from the Far Right can't be in the best interests of the majority of citizens ...
Well #Butterflies good morning...is it safe?
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a tree trunk in the middle of a forest with moss on it .
ALT: a tree trunk in the middle of a forest with moss on it .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#Butterflies it's being reported the skids are being placed under #Starmer. I've long felt his days beyond next Spring were numbered but logic said it should be before if the ship can be turned. However a leadership move without Burnham seems incomprehensible.
If a woman I rather like Stella Creasy!
If a woman I rather like Stella Creasy!
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#Butterflies it's being reported the skids are being placed under #Starmer. I've long felt his days beyond next Spring were numbered but logic said it should be before if the ship can be turned. However a leadership move without Burnham seems incomprehensible.
If a woman I rather like Stella Creasy!
If a woman I rather like Stella Creasy!
Reposted by Rachel5742
So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
1/
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
1/
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know…
Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about who is behind the scenes. B...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
1/
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
1/
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Reposted by Rachel5742
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
My father lost 2 brothers in the war...Trump is a shoddy human being & I look forward to him & those backing him getting their comeuppance.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My father lost 2 brothers in the war...Trump is a shoddy human being & I look forward to him & those backing him getting their comeuppance.
Reposted by Rachel5742
Naive if anyone still thinks our Lib Democracy, Diversity & Commitment to Universal Human Rights isn't under a planned, systemic attack from internal & external bad actors.
The attack on the BBC is an attack on the our ability to shape a future independent of a predatory US.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage
The attack on the BBC is an attack on the our ability to shape a future independent of a predatory US.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Naive if anyone still thinks our Lib Democracy, Diversity & Commitment to Universal Human Rights isn't under a planned, systemic attack from internal & external bad actors.
The attack on the BBC is an attack on the our ability to shape a future independent of a predatory US.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage
The attack on the BBC is an attack on the our ability to shape a future independent of a predatory US.
#DumpTrump Foil #Farage
Reposted by Rachel5742
Made me think of Andrew Marr’s 1996 interview with Chomsky on what journalist’s believe re. their free speech v. the reality of press freedom.
Marr: “How do you know I’m self-censoring?”
Chomsky: “If you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting there.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV85...
Marr: “How do you know I’m self-censoring?”
Chomsky: “If you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting there.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV85...
Noam Chomsky: Literary Censorship | Andrew Marr Interview (1996)
YouTube video by wonkmonk
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Made me think of Andrew Marr’s 1996 interview with Chomsky on what journalist’s believe re. their free speech v. the reality of press freedom.
Marr: “How do you know I’m self-censoring?”
Chomsky: “If you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting there.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV85...
Marr: “How do you know I’m self-censoring?”
Chomsky: “If you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting there.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV85...