anita60.bsky.social
@anita60.bsky.social
Travel, Dr Who and swimming in very cold water are my things..... oh and prosecco
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Nigel Farage let his mask slip today on Bloomberg TV:

▪️Admits the Reform Party's election promises were bogus.
▪️Says he's happy for Elon Musk to secretly run the UK.
▪️And he's happy let Trump run the NHS.
Nigel Farage admits his election promises were bogus!
YouTube video by Femi
youtu.be
January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A new poll on the BBC series 'The Traitors' shows that people are more open to being Traitors if they're right wing - which won't come as a surprise to anyone who watched the last 14 series of 'The Tories'
January 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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OUT NOW! 🌪️ Storming into 2025 with a seven-and-a-half-hour #DoctorWho audio novel: https://bgfn.sh/goodlord.

Written by @mrpaulmorris.bsky.social and read by Jon Culshaw. Producer @dr999.bsky.social, script editor @rolandmooretv.bsky.social, cover @seanlongmore.bsky.social.
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Sewage spills considered illegal by the European Union are getting worse in Britain after Brexit, The i Paper has found
inews.co.uk/news/beaches...
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
inews.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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More #Brexshit "Benefits"
December 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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“4 in 5 UK musicians have lost work because of Brexit”

A shocking insight into how British musicians have suffered in the wake of the country's 2016 referendum to leave the European Union

www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
“4 in 5 UK musicians have lost work because of Brexit”: Unwrapping the legacy of Britain's EU exit on musicians
A shocking insight into how British musicians have suffered in the wake of the country's 2016 referendum to leave the European Union
www.musicradar.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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My thoughts are entirely with Georgia today. I stand with the Georgian people, fighting for their freedom and democracy, determined to avoid subordination to Russia. Slava, Ukraini. Gaumarjos, Sakhartvelo! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Georgia: Thousands protest in Tbilisi after EU bid suspended
Thousands gather in Tbilisi for a second night running, after the government suspended its EU membership bid.
www.bbc.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY

“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation…

The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media”

We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Absolutely spot on front cover from @time.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Interesting read, highlighting the links with the far right, as they say, follow the money.
An excellent thought provoking look by Ross McNally & @sussexbylines.bsky.social at the recent farming IHT protest. Do read.

You may be surprised about who the @nfudc.bsky.social primarily lobby for and who is behind No Farmers, No Food.

sussexbylines.co.uk/business/far...
Land barons reap the rewards of new agrarian populism
Farmers' protests at the budget's IHT proposals raise many questions
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies

While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Drink spiking is to be made a criminal offence under Labour plans to halve violence against women and girls

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/drink-...
Drink Spiking Will Be Made A Criminal Offence Under Labour Bid To Protect Women And Girls
Keir Starmer says the government will "take back our streets" from criminals.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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Reform Party trying to call a general election, just days after one of their MPs was found to have brutally beaten his girlfriend....

They're really out here saying "We need MORE criminals in Parliament!"
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Happy Doctor Who Day!
November 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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🚨 Breaking news 🚨

The government has ordered a review into the use of physician and anaesthesia associates within the NHS, after claims that staff in those roles are being used in place of doctors and that in some circumstances, patients have died or been harmed.
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Labour has proposed a ‘Fair Pay Agreement’ for care workers in the Employment Rights Bill currently passing through Parliament.

Deputy Prime Minister says proposals for a fair pay deal for care staff were the "jewel in the crown" of the Employment Rights Bill👏

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Fair pay for social care staff will help fix crumbling NHS says Angela Rayner
The Deputy Labour Leader said she was "frustrated" by how the care system has been allowed to fragment under the Tories
www.mirror.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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There are 209,000 farms in the UK.

Up to 500 farms with a value over £3 million might be affected by the change to Inheritance Tax.

Even then they'll pay 50% of what everyone else pays.

I don't understand why anyone feels sorry for these people.

#r4today
November 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Beth Rigby, very indignantly "You think Wealthy Landowners need to pay more tax."

Well it is a HELL YES isn't it.

RT if it is.
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Since Nigel Farage has just sided with Russia again, and said “the idea Ukraine is going to win, frankly, is for the birds,” it’s time to re-ask those five questions he’s never asked about his support for Vladimir Putin 1/6

bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never conf...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend.

He had told the media he was jailed for "pushing" his former partner in 2006.

Court records obtained by The Times say the sentence was given because of "the serious nature of the offence”.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend
The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner rocking it at #PMQs 👏
November 20, 2024 at 12:20 PM